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…THE JEWISH NEWS 13 FRONT This Week's Top Stories Liwo Rabbis To Leave BAHIV's A. Irving Schnipper and Emanu-El's Lane Steinger will leave their pulpits June 30. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR 1 LTh .$101, I-70 rg ACCO.VSTR-1.- 1170,!: • First The Palace, Now The Temple PHIL JACOBS EDITOR D Visitors will be able to learn etroit philanthropist William Davidson, one of about the Second Temple period the first American man- with diagram...…

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…April 12, 1996 Detroit OPINION Song Of Freedom Political anti-Semitism and the Republicans. 19 To begin the seder, the women at Beth Shalom asked questions of four daughters, not sons. TELL ME WHY Israel's native sons have ancient history. The Gay Debate Detroit-area Reform rabbis have a mixed reaction to vote on gay/lesbian commitments. 24 HEALTH Bari Beckett strives for Intentional Health. 55 TRAVEL 0 45 82 74 76 Eternal S...…

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…f Freedom hy was this seder different than all other seders? To begin with, this one spoke of the four daughters, not the four sons. Four questions were asked as well, ad- dressed to the Jew- ish foremothers. And the Ten Plagues con- , sidered such issues as environmental con- cerns, hatred of homosexuals, home- lessness and war. Early this week, several hundred women joined at Congregation Beth Shalom for the synagogue's first seder for wome...…

…G-Ii\.A\ND RE,OPENING OF S O 1LT 'I' IX IF I E., IL MP SOMERSET CLEANERS 40 MINUTE CLEANERS Two Times The Size For Better Service All Work Done On Premises Reform Rabbis Push Gay Marriage Issue DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER recent vote by a national over same-sex unions, giving the Reform rabbinical group issue limited religious signifi- in support of civil mar- cance. "I'm not sure there was riages for lesbians and a reason for such a reso...…

…12 Months Same as Cash* which represents the nation's Conservative movement, has not spoken on the issue of civil mar- riage, but has come out against rabbis officiating at same-sex cer- emonies. The Reconstructionist and Humanistic branches of Judaism have performed so-called "com- mitment ceremonies" for years. "I'm totally in favor of the res- olution," said Rabbi Sherwin Wine, of the Birmingham Tem- ple. Rabbi Wine, a Humanist who has per...…

…GAY MARRIAGE page 9 Jewish Life Moves In The Fast Lane. dox or Conservative rabbis come out against masturbation?" In 1972, he said, when the first woman was ordained as a rabbi, the "Orthodox rabbis went berserk. Conservative rabbis con- demned it. "Now, 40-50 percent of (the Re- form) Hebrew Union College is women." Rabbi Albert Lewis of Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids agreed that some aspects of old Jewish law — including proscriptions aga...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIX No. 7 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Ruth Littmann, David Zeman Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedm...…

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…• to Auschwitz, has been published in Italy, France, Holland and Germany. Mr. Worrell said he has tried to bring in speakers of national and international repute since the luncheon series began in 1984. Last year, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke to a sold-out crowd, joining others before her, like Jimmy Carter and Betty Ford. He was also able to coax Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, commissioner general, Palestinian Independent Commis...…

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…ERSAVER WEEK A Rabbi's Words Cause Divisiveness AMEBRAND THIS COUPON! ANY OF THE FOLLOWING QU DRESS, BUSINESS, & CASUAL SH NEIL RUBIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS D on't you hate it when the frisbee calls the kippah round? Last week, a lead- ing Reform rabbi did just that. And if his remarks go un- challenged by non-Orthodox Jews, the Jewish unity pledged four months ago will become a crude joke. Orthodoxy suffers from "tri- umphalism," de...…

…Ucgg PRUENT ARAFAT, 3uT i 1 Rate AlitatiftAiNiriG air VE, FoRGE WE'RE MitiS11) DOWN RiCrre • • AN • -... nil MAI 1t) ill \MILE VEY rrg A La Mon Fait i3E ¶ RioltRI-14N1 Ma RIME! 44*T, Like A Mighty Stream: Remembering The Holocaust Last week, Jews around the world took part in Germans blindly followed the orders of their Nazi the Passover seder, a time in which we annual- leaders during World War II. The Holocaust, he ly exalt the virtu...…

…Editor's Notebook Heightening Our Awareness To Burning Of Black Churches A Crippler Returns To Politics PHIL JACOBS EDITOR SHERWIN T. WINE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Last month, when the Hamas suicide bombers dominat- ed the thoughts and concerns of most Jews, the phones were ring.- ing, the fax ma- chines were whirring and the E-Mail was crowded with relat- ed discussion. It was a busy time to be in our Jewish News editor- ial office. Am...…

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…I Jewish Community Center ILi Maple/Drake (810) 661-1000 6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield 48322 Adult & Family Activities: The Metro-Detroit Chapter of *Stars of David and the JCC present Family Fun Day: Sunday, April 21 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. This event will take place in the Rosenberg Recreation Corn- plex in the Maple/Drake building. The afternoon will consist of structured activities with JCC Sports & Fitness professionals. • Organiz...…

…Join our community in observance of EXAMPLE page 18 Remembrance Day for Israel's War Fallen JERUSALEM Yom HaZikaron 1996 II1M71 t11" L 7"rflf `7 `7 L2ri'- ) Monday, April 22 7 p.m. Jewish Community Center Maple/Drake Building *Commemoration of the reunification of Jerusalem: Audio-visual presentation by Project Discovery students and Jerusalem's Boyer High School •Candle-lighting ceremony by youth groups •Order of the day, given by Col....…

…APRIL 12, 1996 Yosef Goell Calendar Talks On lsrae Women's Division Re-Nominates Klein /-) Linda Z. Klein has been re-nominated as president of the Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for 1996 and 1997. The WomerPs division will make all appointments for its upcoming year at the 50th anniversary celebra- tion at the Maple-Drake Jewish Community Cen- ter. Other nominations in- clude Roz Blanck, joining Nancy Gl...…

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…BUY A CASE OF FOOD TO HELP FEED THE JEWISH HUNGRY. RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION T' CHIYAH 1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit, 393- 0303; 963-5021. President:Alan Schenk. Services: Saturday 10 a.m. Services will be led by the Pinchuk-Hor- witz family. CONSERVATIVE ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, 851- 5100. Senior rabbi: Efry Spectre; Rab- bi: Daniel Nevins. Cantor: Howard Glantz. Cantor emeritus: Larry Vieder...…

…Aish HaTorah presents: AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION • An exploration into the inner dimensions of reality with RABBI MICHAEL BERGER FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (810) 737-0400 Thursday, May 2, '96 8:00-9:30Pm at Barnes & Noble 6800 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield THE CULTURAL COMMISSION OF CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID proudly presents PROFESSOR XU XIN Director of The Center For Judaic Studies, Nanjing University, People's Rep...…

…CORNERING CANCER Yom HaShoah to commemorate the Holocaust. The program will include the viewing of the Acad- emy Award winning film Geno- cide, a documentary on the Holocaust created by the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Ange- les. A short program will follow the movie. The community is in- vited. The program will take place at the Young Israel of Southfield, 27705 Lahser Rd.; at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 15. For infor- mation, contact Phil ...…

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…..„, COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLE &k.. Food For Thought t's lots of chocolate — could that possibly be anything but delicious? This week, members of The Jewish News took a bite out of a new candy bar. I i cholov Yisrael), certified by Rabbis A. and M. Soloveichick and Rabbi N. Bialik of New York Streit's Milk Choco- late Raisin Cashew Breakup — kosher for Passover, dairy (not "This is very good. The nuts are crunchy, the raisins are ch...…

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…E terra JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER PHIL JACOBS EDITOR uick! Name five current Detroit Tigers. OK, name two. Tuesday, you know, was opening day down at the cor- ner of Michigan and Trumbull. In recent memory, there have been reasons to look forward to a raw, cold April day in the spring. Who can argue with 1984 and 1968 and even other banner years? For old-timers, though, for those who can remember counting the days until spring training wa...…

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…Close Up Right: Opening day with the Detroit Tigers. Below: Irwin Cohen Bottom: The Tigers' opening day lineup in 1940 included: Barney McCosky, Bruce Campbell, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Rudy York, Pinky Higgins, Dick Bartell, Birdie Tebbetts and Bobo Newsom. and Jewish pride, and I don't think Jewish players today have that." Detroit resident Harriet Berg remem- bers as a young teen-ager waiting on the steps of Congregation Sh...…

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