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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Contents Winner of eight 2003 Michigan Press Association writing, design and advertising awards vvww.cletroitjewishnews.com ot A P J44, 4,: e ; iliPA MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Friday, Dec. 12, 2003 Kislev 17, 5764 Vol. CXX1V, No. 18 • AJ A • AFff assoc`*' APP1 T Itt't 43 Stand Up And Sing Temple Israel childrens choir ready to sing for Chanukah. O Randee Shapiro, 9, of Farmington Hills joins Alana Petsch...…

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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 ...…

…LETTERS 1\ eVdiet porrerfe, r j cla ettleers ttedi tsatBrteelvaitty e tios ea o r tcicoluesraignelieLJeettweftlaxivirViteewtss. gW eneertea se ll yrvareethitemriitgehdt ttoo one letter per 4-6 week period, space permitting. Letters must contain the name, address and title of the writer, and a daytime telephone number. Original copies must be hand signed. Mail to the Jewish News at 29200 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax...…

…Happy Chanukah! Frozen, 12 to 14 lb., Limit 1Plea se Empire Kosher Turkey 9 4 lb. bag California Navel Oranges lb. 97 ea. save at least 1.00 ea Fresh sliced daily Best Kosher Corned Beef lb. save 2.00 lb. 750 ml. btl. Baron Hen.zog White Zinfandel 15 oz. pkg. Tabatchnick Soups sonimairwaidawlia- Almaimigem Elite or Manischewitz Chocolate Coins 3 100 for Milk or Chocolate, .62 oz. pkg. Potato or Vegetable Chanukah Candl...…

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…AU SEASE ••■ Approximately 1 out of every 450 within the Ashkenazi Jewish population has Gaucher disease The symptoms become apparent at any age and they include: EASY BRUISING AND BLEEDING • BONE PAIN FATIGUE • EASILY FRACTURED BONES DELAYED GROWTH • ENLARGED SPLEEN AND LIVER The consequences of this disorder can be debilitating. For more information on Gaucher disease, treatment, and testing. contact your doctor or please call and as...…

…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 ...…

…MICHIGAN FRIENDS OFTHE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES It's Chanukah as. lets have a C ome celebrate with the IDF MUSICAL ENSEMBLE THURSDAY * DECEMBER 18th 2003 5:30 p.m. PROGRAM * 6:15 p.m. DINNER CONGRLGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK Try your luck at the Stuff your puriim at the GELT THROWING CONTEST Try your luck at the 1)RELEOEL, SPINNING CONTEST EATING CONTEST 1st PRIZE awarded please consider becoming a.... sOUTHFIELD I MI 2nd PRIZE 41 3rd...…

…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...…

…Must NOT STAND ALONE f Emergency. "3-40.4.• Palestinian terror has dealt a devastating blow to israers citizens, our brethren. Spiraling defense costs, loss of tourism, unemployment and stalled economic rowth have created a crisis. !lister Sharon has appealed for funds for vital infrastructure Your purchase of an Israel Bond keeps Israel strong and sends a message to the people of Israel that we stand with them... now and always. VEST IN ...…

…RS Increase Jewish elderly may pay more for drugs under new Medicare law. MATTHEW E. BERGER Peivate Sector Some Jewish policy analysts fear that Jewish Telegraphic Agency the prescription drug provisions in private insurance programs will be Washington he law that was supposed to dropped or downgraded for retirees ease the burden of prescrip- because of the availability of the tion drug costs for the eld- optional Medicare program. erly m...…

…This Week Rx from page 25 Another 15 percent live in households that earn between $15,000 and $25,000. People on Medicaid will have to begin paying a small co-payment, and poor Jews who do not apply for Medicaid may have to deplete their assets to receive increased benefits, Goldberg said. "The low income portions of the bill are better than we feared, but nowhere near as good as we hoped," she said. Harvey Tillipman, executive direc- tor of...…

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…This Week Insight Ig,nin Fotrire The Wright Stuff Worlds first Jewish pilot is little remembered as the centennial of powered flight nears. ROBERT THUM Dayton Jewish Observer From the pages of the Jewish News this week 10, 20, 30,40, 50 and 60 years ago. mompownimmin Israel and the Vatican are on the verge of establishing diplomatic rela- tions, marking a historic turning point between Catholics and the Jewish state. 19833empalloosso...…

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…The miracle lasted eight days. With a Hillel Day School education, it can last forever. rya Just as a person lights one candle from another and the original flame is not diminished, so too, we are never lessened when we pass on our internal "flame" to another person. Numbers, Rabbah 1 3:1 9 HILLEL DAY SCHOOL To learn more about the miraculous things happening at our school, or to attend our Open House on Wednesday, January 28th at 7 pm, ...…

…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...…

…OTHER VIEWS STEINHARDT from page 39 TIMELESS CRAFTSMANSHJP philanthropists, federations, the State of Israel — acting in unison to secure the Jewish future. Birthright Israel should be viewed by each federation as not merely a national initiative, but also a local Jewish identity-building program. Gathered today are some of the world's most devoted Jewish lay- leaders and professionals. If we now return home without significant changes, are...…

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…Stand Up And Sing Temple Israel children's choir, with more than 100 boys and girls, gets ready to sing for Chanukah. Clockwise from far right: Kathy Lowenthal directs the choir. Jake Levy, 9, of Bloomfield Hills adds his voice to the chorus. Alex Chudler, 11, of Bloomfield Hills belts out a song. Chase Basch, 10, of West Bloomfield sings from the heart. hen you're anywhere between 10 and 14 years old, some things are too embarrassing to ev...…

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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 54 Maze! Toy! 56 From Russia, Director cites growth and broader services as Washtenaw IFS marks 10th anniversary. KAREN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News Ann Arbor W hen Anya Abramzon came to Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County as an intern in 1994, she was a University of Michigan social work master's stu- dent. JFS was a small program just starting out, but Abramzon saw its potential. Now, Abram...…

…C omm u nit y WITH LOVE from page 47 Top: Washtenaw JFS director Anya Abramson confers with co-workers David Cohen and Cindy Frey. Above: ESL teacher Barbara Schrier works with students. address their various needs." Abramzon, 33, said program development, reflected in a budget expansion from $35,000 to almost $400,000 since 1997, allows JFS to better serve the community, with staff developing and implementing a variety of needed programs. ...…

…GIVE A GIFT, GET A GIFT. Making Music Israeli teen musicians share talents with Ann Arbor day school students. Ann Arbor T eenage musicians from the Ann Arbor-Detroit Partnership 2000 Region in Israel's Central Galilee spent time with students at the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor. The young adults participated in the Excellence In Music Project Dec. 2 sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. This program offers excepti...…

…C ommu ni ty What can one gift do? Here's Tom Link Wachter, of David Wachter & Sons Jewelers in Birmingham, was a guest on the TV cable program Global. Connections. He discussed new designs, winning compe- titions and "Linkatures": pre- cious metal caricatures, dia- monds, pearls and other col- ored .tones in the Ultimate Expressions collection. Don Was, formerly of Oak Park, was honored with a Heineken Ampt/ASCAP Recognition Award for con...…