…Israel's Gross Domestic Product What's behind the surge of Israel's GDP to $100 billion? The global success of Israeli high-tech industry. Who's behind that historic surge? The graduates of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who generate nearly a third of the GDP. Technion graduates make up most of Israel's scientists and engineers. And the entrepreneurs behind its 2,000 start-up companies. - THE FUTURE OF A SECURE AND ECONOMICA...…
…This Week LOOKING FORWARD Redefining Reform from page 16 Ties To Beth El 1VI any of our syna- All photos courtci;y of Rabbi Leo M. FranOiniArdlives Above: Sarah and Isaac Cozens, founders of the BetEl Society. Below: Rabbi Daniel Syme Baptist Church in Detroit. Together they hive held holiday services and prograrriMing, including special appearances by civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, ABC News Chief Congressional,Analyst Cok...…
…The imposing sanctuary at the current. Temple Beth El. taken to outside venues for Jewish learning and experiences. With an eye to the coming year, Rabbi Syme says a primary emphasis is the Reach For Hope program, established with a grant from the Jewish Fund. The purpose is to fight youth suicide. Its goal, he says, is "to bring together the entire Jewish community, starting with the parents and teachers, in training ses- sions designed to e...…
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…This Week Bench Battle Two Jews are among five candidates on the Aug. 8 primary ballot. DIANA LIEBERMAN St4ff Writer Ill ive candidates will appear on the Aug. 8 primary bal- lot for a single seat on Oakland County's Circuit Court bench. Two of them are mem- bers of the. Jewish community. Both Paul J. Fischer and Randall S. "Randy" Miller say they are running for the six-year position on their own merits, rather than campaigning against a...…
…Not To Be tten .I.N.s.,....,K,k.........i.,,,,,,......A•ic....a.,..4..,,,,,......................, 0 ,-• ••••,,x,x,x,, r,r,n,,,,,,x,,,,,,, .... S• -, • ",,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,, .•-•-•,,,-••••,--• SUNDAY, MAY 11 Photos by Bill Hansen 1 - 4 PM Grounds of Temple Emanu-Er, 141450 \Ai. Ten Mile, Oak Park featuring Israeli 6118 dances and son gs performed by THE %AAR ENSEMBLE fROM KIEV and S RON COHN This is your chance to "visit" the m...…
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…This Week Pause To Remember WPArif ,_ •Ary ogp:4, .arieRlab JAWRIMUKtilleiln7 .3teRVISSVMS.11;4% . W. M . \ T. Local community commemorates fallen Israeli soldiers. STORY on page 26 Top left: Rabbi Karmi Gross, principal of Yeshivat Akiva, places a flower on the memorial. - Top right: Mark Myers, community shaliach, sings "Hatikva." Left-: Flowers and wreaths at the memorial to the Israeli war dead 5/12 2000 24 …
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…LOOKING FOR ASSISTED LIVING? Global Good Religion's role is to aid the world, interfaith forum told. arly in his career, Rabbi David Nelson of Congregation Beth Shalom looked to Rabbi Everett Gendler as a mentor. On April 30, more than 30 years later, Rabbi Nelson renewed their friendship at an interfaith symposium at Beth Shalom. Rabbi Gendler offered advice to Rabbi Nelson when the latter graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in...…
…his retirement to aid the exiles? "We're working with the Tibetan community because we're Jews," he said. "Our community knows exile and oppression." Said Rabbi Nelson of his former mentor, "Rabbi Gendler talked about retirement as an opportunity to redi- rect one's energies. I think that that's something people should consider. He's in his early 70s and he has a lot more to contribute." In his address, Ayoub spoke of the diversity among peopl...…
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…This Wee .01 . 1 47,'S Conscience Of The Left Deal to give money to Shas leaves Meretz Par twisting in the winds of peace. RNS photo by Joanna Pinnco LARRY DERFNER Special to the Jewish News Jerusalem sa Kasher, a professor of ethics at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading thinkers on the Israeli left, called it a "true dilem- ma." "On the one hand, there has to be as much sup- port for the peace process as possible. On the other ...…
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…Jews For Jesus Logo Protested Toronto/JTA — The Canadian Jewish Congress is fighting a governmental decision that allows an international Jews for Jesus group with churches in Toronto and Montreal to use a menora as a copyright-protected logo. The Canadian Jewish Congress said it is "offensive, scandalous and immoral" for Chosen People Ministries to use the menora as its emblem. Israel Remembers Its War Dead Jerusalem/JTA — Ceremonies were ...…
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…This Week Insight Ideas & Issues A Stronger Identi Israeli journalist extols the virtues of a day-school education. ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor Jewish education is a defining part of living Jewishly. And a day-school education is the ultimate learning experience. So said an Israeli journalist and American yeshiva graduate in address- ing a group of local day-school support- ers on May 4. Author, screenwriter and teacher, Stuart Schoffman, ass...…
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…Remembering For The Future I East Lansing t is 55 years after the end of World War II and the defeat of Nazi Germany. It is 55 years after the liberation of the camps. Although news of the Nazi destruction of the Jews was available during the war — the Allies issued a public declaration in December 1942 — the newsreels at liberation [were what] first made the news real and imprinted the horror on the American mind. The world today is differe...…
…•I, AE.CPTW, VP.::s.reZ.'.., . ..& 6,7" • SPECIAL COMMENTARY The Baby And The Bathwater Jerusalem Of the many fascinating paradoxes of srael's 52nd birthday, its first of Zionism, this is the saddest. This, and. the new millennium, came and not denominational issues, is what went this week. And it's as fine world Jewry ought to be most con- an occasion as any to muse on cerned about. The religious pluralism the State of the Jews. questio...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY What's Jewish About Mother's Day? T ings. As you choose the rituals that you will enact this Mother's Day — flowers, he. American holiday of dinner, phone call, card — consider the Mother's Day began in the ways in which you can deepen the cele- late- 49th century. Some say bration through these reflections: it began in Michigan, oth- 1. Meditate or reflect for a moment on ers in West Virginia. In both states, each of the...…
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…RINKE CADILLAC 83 Years Enai Moshe Names Honorees . Congregation B'nai Moshe will acknowledge Peter and Shirlye Helman as this year's Jewish Theological Seminary honorees at a JTS Shabbat, Saturday, May 13. JTS will present the t Shin Award to the Helmans at the annual Peter and Shirlye Heiman dinner Tuesday, May 30, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Peter Heiman retired after a career as owner of Ardmore Building Company, a commercial home constru...…
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…Community Here's To sm. The Jewish National Fund has appointed three Michigan people to its new board of directors to serve two-year terms. The regional designates are Selma Zeiger of Bloomfield Hills and Michael Langnas and Neal F. Zalenko, both of Southfield. IT WILL MAKE YOU SUPREMELY PROUD OF THAT PERSON YOU S EVERY TIME YOU LOOWIN THE MIRR There is no better reflection of your desire to make great things possible than a gift to the...…
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