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…ARAB AMERICANS ARE AN INCREASINGLY COHESIVE AND POLITICALLY ACTIVE FORCE, MIRRORING THE EARLIER JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. DEBRA ISAACS Jewish Renaissance Media Los Angeles 0 n the day before last month's celebration of Ramadan, the Islamic Cultural Center of Southern California buzzed with the cadences of prayer and the exhortations of lecturers answering ques- tions about the month-long fast. Parents chased their exuberant children or...…
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…This Week Building Cohesion GROWING CLOUT from page 7 Cohen and the National Jewish Democratic Council tussled with the Arab American Political Action Committee in the fall over a videotape called Hope for Peace in Jerusalem. In the video, Israeli sol- diers are falsely depicted storming the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and are accused throughout of killing Arab children. The tape was shown at AAPAC's annual dinner at which U.S. Rep. John Di...…
…MAKING TIMER WAY Sensational headlines obscure the steady economic, political and social gains of local Arab Americans. DIANA LI E BERMAN StaffWriter firlhe Dearborn Arab Ame'rican A community burst into the 1 world's consciousness the first week of October, when television stations and newspapers showed young men at a city hall rally burning the Israeli flag. Left on the cutting room floor were photos of an estimated 5,000 other, mostly...…
…This Week Building Cohesion GROWING CLOUT from page 11 Orange County, Calif., who, like Arash Spencer, "You're not dealing with a foreign group anymore; was helping out at the Los Angeles' Islamic cultural you're dealing with a growing group of Americans." center last month, reflects the politicization of the later-generation Arab Americans. The Terrorism Issue The affable young man, whose Egyptian-born father is the head of the center, sai...…
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…Pledge Of Allegiance AP/Michel Eu ler Israeli rally tells the world: Get your hands off our capital. NAOMI SEGAL and JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem A s U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak race to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal under intense time pressure — Clinton leaves office Jan. 20 and Barak faces elections Feb. 6 — many Jews are balking at the concessions Israel is being ask...…
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…This Week Insight t It 4 &COS Ideas SRO S ifiro a eS Remember When • • The Front Man From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. Ari Ple2scher sees his task as Bush press secretary rooted in Jewish ethics. 199111/11111111111111011111 MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington is rare that the spokesman for a presidential cam- paign defends one of his opponents, but Ari Fleischer ...…
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…JNEditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Learning To Talk 0 ur cover story this week explores the growing sense among this nation's 3.5 million Arab Americans that they are a community with distinct interests and common ties who have earned and deserve political respect. While far from being able to exercise the kind of influence that the Jewish community has been able...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS A Bad Situation Is Getting Worse neighborhoods, the tiny Christian recently returned from a five- community realizes that it can no day visit to Israel. I went as one longer count on the freedoms that of four leaders of an interna- Israel guarantees. tional group of more than 100 As the world has learned Christians who wanted to from the situation in Beth- demonstrate their solidarity lehem (not to mention with Israel. Saudi ...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY The Assault On History New York fairly newfound intensity. Over the many years Jerusalem was in Arab mong the casualties of the hands, no major Arab leader ever saw ongoing Arab uprising fit to even visit her, much less pro- against Israel has been claim her a central spot in something very the collective Arab heart. dear to all cultivated people, Yet much of the press and to cultivated Jews in par- feels compelled to tre...…
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…ents who cannot afford the anti-rejec- tion medicines. Gerald S. Cook Farmington Hills The Solomonic Middle East Rabbi Norman Roman's Torah por- tion ("Lessons From Solomon, Joseph Show Value Of Self-Denial," Dec. 29, page 54) are appropriate given the sit- uation of the two mothers, each claiming that the newborn was hers. King Solomon suggested that the child be physically split because there was no way of proving parenthood. The real mot...…
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…INSIDE: Mazel Toy! . . . page 49 LESLIE ZACK College Intern F or a little girl, Louiza Livschitz of West Bloomfield has made very smart moves in all the right directions. The 9-year-old chess prodi- gy is just as dedicated to chess as Olympic athletes are to their sport. She spends 20 hours a week study- ing strategies and tactics with her father/coach, Leonard Livschitz, who _ was Ukrainian national chess team coach 1985-1989. Now he wo...…
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…Join usl for our Open House Congresswoman Schedules Talk Former 11-term U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder will address the annual CHOICES fund-raising luncheon on behalf of the Jewish Federation Women's Campaign, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Schroeder, from Colorado, co-chaired the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues for 10 years, was the first woman to serve on the Pat Schroeder House Armed Services Committee and was a cha...…
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…BRODY'S Is NOT MOVING! oppownw SAM' Schedule Is Announced Online and off-site courses and programs for young adults and young families are among the new features of SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment). Hosted by the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit, SAJE is open to all adults who wish to enhance their Jewish knowledge. SAJE courses will be conducted in four weekly sessions Feb. 27- March 29, at both JCC loca- tions, a...…
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…I you often feel tired, it could be anemia. Psychiatrist Earns High Honor Gaucher (pronounced "Go-Shay") Disease is the most common genetic disease affecting Jews'of Eastern and Central European descent. One out of every ten carries the Gaucher gene — it is far more prevalent than Tay-Sachs. Dr. Howard H. Goldman, professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a former Detroiter, has received the Surgeon Genera...…
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