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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS JN www.detroitjewishnews.com February 12, 1999 Shevat 26, 5759 Vol. CXIV, No. 25 Meet The Rabbi Arts 6. Entertainment page 86 DEPARTMENTS 6 A Child Of Abraham King Hussein had an instinct for people, for politics and for peace. Local, international coverage: pages 6- 1 8. Community 31 The Cook Book „ Documentary keepsake traces roots of the Cook family tree. its tertainment 72 At The Movies Anniversaries . ......…

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…Farewell To A King Hussein, dead at 63, had an instinct for people, for politics and for peace. MITCHELL DANOW Jewish Telegraphic Agency ing Hussein bin Talal was a political survivor. And he used his survival skills to ,ofinie, as he will perhaps. § -red, a champion of m. , who'd:fed last wee at 63 of cancer after 46 years on the Hashemite throne, was more liberal than any other Arab ruler — particu- larly in his attitude toward Israel. ...…

…I The S Necktie Seeds of Pedce leader recalls Hussein's encouragement. JOEL JACOB Special to The Jewish News T this has been accomplished: local Jews and Arabs are now active in raising funds for the camp, as well as initiating other projects to strengthen Arab- Jewish relations. The 1997 dinner at which I met King Hussein and Queen Noor included a fundraising auction, for which the king wenty years before he grabbed headlines for his ...…

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…Farewell To A King Remembering King Hussein Arnold Michlin, co-founder of the American Arab and Jewish Friends, co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Trialog "It [the funeral] was absolute drama of the highest order, unbe- lievable that Assad would come --- Shamir, Netanyahu, Peres, Sharon -- it was an unbelievable parade of people who you would not expect to find at the same time. Now it's a terrible thing to say, but he could do more i...…

…STORY TELLERS OF AND FOR THESE TIMES The works of two celebrated authors resound with tales of the shtetl, narratives of communal European life harboring misfortune and joy, and stories of Jews' generational unfolding in America. Both are also literary historians who resurrect a buoyant, sensual and endangered society, since extinguished. Singer and Malamud, while sometimes writing from different moral perspectives, came together in their symp...…

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…Farewell To A King O -0 U 0 C) _0 0 0 ERIC SILVER Israel Correspondent between, Israelis knew that this was a warm" peace from a former enemy. Praise fOr the Arab ruler came from throughout Israel. Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who visited Hussein in the Mayo Clinic in Milwaukee six months ago, celebrated him this week as "a hero of heroes." The Jewish sages, he explained, defined a hero of heroes as "he who makes his enemy into his be...…

…—m Business calls. Make sure you have meetings, with Hussein often coming dressed casually to exchange ideas with the ambassador. Only at times of dis- agreement with Israel did Hussein summon Shamir to his official office for a formal meeting. "Above all, I was impressed by his sincerity and human charm," recalled Shamir, a noted Middle East historian. Israelis also feel warmth for the king because even when he was at war with Israel, he s...…

…Farewell To A King CHILD OF ABRAHAM from page 6 Ruhama Cohen holds her newborn daughter at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Sunday, after naming the child Nzrden, Hebrew for Jordan, in honor of King Hussein. Ruhama and Shimon Cohens daughter Keren was among seven school children shot to death while on a class trip to Nahariya, a small stn:p of land on the Jordan River by a crazed Jordanian soldier in 1997. The King visited the Cohens and kn...…

…Temple Emanu-El of Oak Park, Michigan Invites the Metro-Detroit Jewish Community to $tRWribntti "tat: 1:NnZiC Pk$SSCW*0 *X .*. 0:4'00" 9:,:k V■ A '• " •:. x ,,, : , `. 1.'• ■ ••‘,M*K.O.E:¢k:5••• *btosiovologoowAmzko. WiD021:5 ,A1*~$:•14,WW •: JNkeef.totayx.1,40X 5,ev • "",4 ..12,4** ,•-•• , • ••; `Partner In Peace' "We were very sad about the death of King Hussein," said Zivit Shamir, a former Israeli now living in Bloomfield H...…

…Farewell To A King Textbook Monarch In West Bloomfield's Middle East class, the king is the subject. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer T o the students in a new class at West Bloomfield High School, King Hussein was a lot more than a name to misspell on a current events quiz. He shone bright in their memory as an advocate for peace and a monarch with a personal touch. "When I was in Israel last year," said Eve Posen, "there was always talk about ...…

…no. (eee/ cC2 4 0ed Humanists Oust Rabbi First Pair Birmingham Temple dismisses a visiting rabbi after she is ordained by a Chassidic rabbi. LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer tacie Fine, a visiting rabbi at the Birmingham Temple, his- torically a haven for inclusion, has been released for, as she characterized it, "being too religious." Fine had been in the Farmington Hills temple's rabbinical program on schedule for ordination as a Humanistic...…

…emm s k is k L..* German Fund Advances MATTHEW DORF a Jewish. Telegraphic Agency Washington erman companies and Jewish officials took a step this week toward creating a fund that could top $1 bil- lion to compensate Holocaust sur- vivors used as forced laborers during World War II. The Jewish officials, representing an umbrel- la group responsible for negotiating Holocaust- era claims with a• Germany, accepted in principle" a German pro...…

…0 speeches by Israel's consul general for the Midwest, Tziporah Rimon, as well as former Michigan Governor James Blanchard. A small pro peace caucus; "Beautiful" Oscar nod; drug "lifer" stays free. Thirty-five people turned out last Sunday for the Pro-Israel Pro-Peace Caucus at the Michigan Democratic Party's convention. The newly formed caucus works to get "pro-Israel" Democratic candidates elected at all levels of government. But with wid...…

…itorials Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn King Hussein's Legacy Ic ing Hussein bin Talal of Jordan exemplified the Jewish value of teshuva, a turning for the good. He did not do so as a champion of Zion. He did so as an Arab nationalist con- vinced that inevitabilities, such as Jews and Arabs living side-by-side, must be embraced for their possibilities, not their inherent tensio...…

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…711111111 COMMUNITY VIEWS We Are A Remarkable People! projects and were being taught by a pro- fessional art teacher. There is a sense of here is an old woman in St. pride that gives new Petersburg, Russia, who meaning to the words lives on the fourth floor of . from genera- dor l'dor, a rundown, crumbling tion to generation. apartment building. This same concern Twenty years ago, she broke her for the future, and the hip. Because there is n...…

…PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK •• A 'Guard Dog' For The Jewish Community /-- vision, cable television, satellite televi- Ilir ith the spotlight on Pres- sion and the World Wide Web. ident Bill Clinton's trial, "Watch dog" or wolf pack? senators have become In Ben Franklin's day, the historians in an effort to process of writing, editing, printing understand the intent of the Constitu- and disseminating Poor Richard's tion's framers. What did they Alm...…

…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Remembering A Special Friend PHIL JACOBS Contributing Editor A hen The Wave Auto-Spa began advertising in The Jewish News, it wanted to test response with a coupon. The result? A whopping 1,000 coupon-driven car washes.* If you are interested in results, remember that in a recent 3-month period, the typical Jewish News subscriber purchased nearly 3 products as a result of seeing it advertised in The Jewish News.** . D...…

…It's a great time to change! COMMUNITY VIEWS REBUILDING from page 24 4 . 500/ 0 MONEY MARKET 7- ish culture, eager to learn and practice Judaism. Today, there are 23,000 Jewish youngsters in the former Soviet Union who are studying in some form of Jew- ish school. While the younger Jews are embracing their new identities, the elderly and impoverished older genera- tion has little or no real grasp of what Judaism means. Eighty percent of ...…

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…Tennis Swimming Gymnastics one of those moments in time where - the community was given an opportu- nity to be one. A private joke. Steve had private jokes with so many. We talked all the time about "signing the papers." We liked each other's children, and we were going to "sign papers" to match them since about the time they were 10. Before we moved to Baltimore, Steve's words to me were, "Don't for- get, you signed an agreement." Were he ...…

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…/ ap41000mfoomommor Community Calendar page 39 Maze' Toy! page 45 Meyer and Fannie Cook, Jerry Cook's fraternal grandparents in 1927. The Cook Book Documentary keepsake traces the roots of the Cook family tree. navy duty in 1944. Jerry Cook is off to his father Oscar in the ont row. The Cook family sees Oscar Cook of the little boy in the arms SUZANNE CHESSLER Special To The Jewish News E laine Cook Epstein is not one to go bac...…

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…Students Raise Money While Adults Give Blood The day's big winner was the American Heart Association, recipients of both types of donations, as Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit held hile the adults donated "Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart." blood on Sunday, their Ceil Ginger, Hillel physical education children were collecting teacher, said sponsors made donations contributions for heart on behalf of students participating in disease an...…

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