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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with disabilities be fully included in community life. When Small Means Big jr ust as agricultural advances allowed Israel to bloom his direction of a 1996 defensive strike that killed two yoUng during the early years following statehood in 1948, Dearborn brothers by mistake in South Lebanon. new technology with a 21st-century flair should lift Peres is a former defense, foreign and finance minister. the Jewish state to ...…
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…For Openers Take Note Of These Brothers IC ids spending time online or even The boys' father, Leonard Zucker, said, "The business was having their own Web site may created so the children could learn the value of work, money be a sign of the times. But for and responsibility." While most of the money they make is placed in a savings three boys, ages 11 and younger, to have their own business to publicize account, their mother said, "Some is...…
…— HE. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS contemporary art from the DaimlerChrysler collection Ell When You Wish Upon A Store I GEORGE CANTOR Reality Check t occurred to me recently that over my entire newspaper career I have been writing about the decline of my home- town. That is pretty depressing. Even in 1963, when I started working at the Free Press, Detroit was perceived nation- ally as a city in decline. So nothing would make me happier ...…
…News Digest ■ 11 11 111 11 Bush Suspends Embassy Move Washington/JTA — President Bush again suspended moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Invoking a waiver that cites national security reasons, Bush again resisted complying with the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which mandated that the U.S. Embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel's capital city. Presidents have vinvoked waivers every six months since the law was pas...…
…• HAPPY CHANUKAH TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS! Dog ittameg Ptioudfg Austuicea Touchdowns For Allah Oh, Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel Los Angeles/JTA — The names of some teams in a Muslim football tournament in California are causing controversy. Jewish leaders are protesting after some of the teams in the Jan. 4 tour- nament chose names such as Intifada, Soldiers of Allah and Mujahadeen, or Holy Warrior. "A lot of the kids on our team are from Palest...…
…Something Extra SS Guard Awaits Word If Johann Leprich gets his wish, he'll be deported to Germany. Leprich, 77, of Clinton Township served as an armed guard at Mauthausen, a Nazi Germany concentration camp during World War II. He has been under arrest since July when he was found hiding in a secret compartment beneath the base- ment staircase in his home. Leprich, born in Romania, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1952 and was...…
…True Friend Of Israel Making Connections Sen. Simon: "He came with a Jewish heart and an understanding of Jewish pain." MASTTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency On Tuesday, Jewish community offi- cials in Washington and Illinois remem- bered Simon as a strong friend of Israel who was closely aligned with Jews on domestic policy as well. Tom Dine, former executive director of AIPAC, had dinner with Simon sev- eral months ago. The retired...…
…End Of An Era MJAC ceases operations; Jewish Family Service will take over some of its programs. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter A Jig 12/12 2003 16 fter more than 12 years as a Michigan nonprofit organization, the Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition (MJAC) closes its books Dec. 31. Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit will consider integrating selected MJAC programs into its social service offerings, said JFS president Terran Leemis ...…
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…This Week Planting Future Seeds of Peace Michigan Gala honors Shimon Peres. DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer S himon Peres, former prime minister of Israel, is not known as an especially devout man. However, when he spoke to support- ers of the international coexistence organization Seeds of Peace in Dearborn on Dec. 8, he called on a biblical passage to express his deepest feelings. "The one who plants seeds with tears will harvest with jo...…
…Signs Of Protest For the first time in its three-year history, Seeds of Peace Gala attracts protesters. "They have every right to protest," said Joanne Faycurry of Bloomfield Hills, co-chair of the Seeds of Peace Gala. "We grieve with the family of the deceased children. This has been going on for 50 years, and nobody can absolve themselves of guilt on both sides. "I would urge everybody in the community to work together toward a day when no...…
…This Weeg mployees who reported for work Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, at the Arab American News found evi- dence that someone had tried to destroy their office, located on Chase Road in Dearborn. "Police said it was a homemade fire- bomb," said Osama Siblani, the news- paper's publisher. "Apparently, it broke a half-foot or a foot outside the door. There was no damage inside the build- ing. You can see damage on the con- crete outside the door, m...…
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…Analysis Unilateral Upheaval Olmert's proposal roils Likud and changes Israel's national agenda. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem n a single passionate interview recently, Israel's deputy prime minister, Ehud Olmert, managed to do what most politicians only dream about: recast a nation's political and diplomatic agenda. Although Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been talking vaguely about "unilateral steps" vis-a-vis the Pa...…
…Around The Jewish World Of God And Country For some cadets at West Point, Jewish life is shelter in a storm. PETER EPHROSS Jewish Telegraphic Agency West Point, N.Y. here's a joke at the U.S. Military Academy that 50 percent of the first graduat- ing class was Jewish — and that it's been downhill for Jews ever since. The joke is true, at least on the face of it: Simon Magruder Levy was indeed half of West Point's two-person graduat- ing c...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Special Kaye e would never say it, but Jeff Kaye is a basic needs like towels, insulin and food. hero. At great personal risk, he went to a They also lacked Jewish ritual objects country that he had never been to and like siddurim and tefillin. helped people he had never met. Into that hellhole, Kaye brought com- The secret sojourns were to post-Saddam Iraq. And passi...…
…OTHER VIEWS Finding The Right Balance Cambridge, Mass. hile events in Iraq domi- nate American political discourse, the Israeli government is undertak- ing an extraordinary construction project. Although coalitions opposed to this project exist in the United States, West Bank and Israel, attention and scrutiny seem hardly commensu- rate to the enormity of the construc- tion. Like almost every issue related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...…
…Shifting Priorities, Saving Our Future Editor's note: The following is excerpted from an address by Michael Steinhardt to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly in Jerusalem on Nov. 9. I n almost all countries of the diaspora, the non-Orthodox community is at best stagnant; in many places, in decline. The decline, alas, happens almost imperceptibly, and thus eludes atten- tion and concern. Yet the cumulative erosion has gravely weak...…
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