…Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community SH NEWS 19 ADAR5753/MARCH 12, 1993 New AJE Committees Get Mandate For Change AJE consortium and transition panels are empowered to implement major decisions on the future of Jewish education. PHIL JACOBS MANAGING EDITOR todgy, out of touch with the 1990s Jewish child, lethar- gic." That is how Howard Gelberd de- scribed the Agency for Jewish Education that knew well the chi...…
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…DETROIT' THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. cm No. Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Emeritus Philip Slomovitz Managing Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editor Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Staff "'niters ontents March 12, 1993 A DETROIT q Family Abuse Kirhualy Litton Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl Vocal domination is part of the pattern. Contributing Editor 18 Mission Logistics Elle Wiese! Washington Correspondent...…
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…Editor's Notebook Community Views Giving Religion A Bad Name Do We As Jews Wink At Oppressors? GARY ROSENBLATT EDITOR BERL FALBAUM SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Religious fa- naticism is the media topic of the day. After all, in the same week we can read about a man in A Waco, Texas, who claims to be Jesus, en- gaged in a deadly shootout with federal agents, and growing evidence that Islamic fun- damentalists may have been behind the bomb- ...…
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…amity Abuse A Jewish audience learns this week that domination through words is part of, the pattern of abuse. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSISTANT EDITOR THE DETROIT J EWIS H NEWS • 1.7,9'.73. 14 he trouble began at Shabbat lunch. A prominent Detroit physician and his wife had friends over for the meal. As everyone sat down, the physician began opening a bottle of wine. The cork wouldn't come out. "Why don't you try another corkscrew?" his wif...…
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…News Israeli Among Christian Sect Tel Aviv (JTA) — An Israeli is among the members of a religious sect that has been holding a bloody standoff with U.S. federal agents in Waco, Texas. In an interview with Israeli army radio, a woman who would not give her name said her son had first become acquainted with Vernon Howell, the leader of the Branch Davidians, when he visited Israel on a fund- raising and membership drive two or three years ago. ...…
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