…>> ... Next Generation ... For The Rest Of Us! Festivus event offers cool option for Christmas night. ore than 500 young people decided that Christmas Day evening was better spent with friends having fun at a bar rather than out for Chinese food and a movie with family. Tough decision. Fifth Avenue in Royal Oak opened especially for the event, "Festivus! For the Rest of Us," co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Commun...…
…Left: Inside Musmeah Yeshua synagogue, Yangon, Burma. Eight Jewish families keep the legacy alive. Jews in Burma: Ben G. Frank Special to the Jewish News C all me old-fashioned, call me a romantic, but every time I think of Burma (now called Myanmar), I start humming Kipling's imperial British poem: "On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!" The British are lo...…
…Joints of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Contributing Editor Editorial Presbyterian Tightrope Divestment call isn't popular, but it's still a revealing indictment. very time I think the largest Presbyterian The Church has every coalition in America seems ready to mod- erate its overarching hard-line stance I A, iv right to challenge toward Israeli government policy, a troubling new development intervenes. As a result,...…
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…Share The Light Chabad of Commerce marks its 10th anniversary. C habad Jewish Center of Commerce held its "Share the Light" dinner Dec, 11 to cel- ebrate its first decade as a Jewish center in the Commerce/Lakes area. The eve- ning's theme spoke to both the upcoming Chanukah season as well as the main focus of Chabad, which is to welcome and re-enfranchise Jewish people in all parts of the world. The evening in the banquet room of Steinway ...…
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…Not Always "Us" Against "Them" Parshat Shemot: Exodus 1:1-6:1; Isaiah 27:6-28:13; 29:22-29:23. I s there a cultural Jewish inclina- tion to view history in terms of "us vs. them"? Many of us encounter Jewish stories in their most simplified forms, in which the Jews are good and the non-Jews are all enemies. For example, the story of Chanukah is often presented as a conflict between the evil Greeks and the righteous Jews. The real- ity, thou...…
…REMEMBERING WHEN... From the archives of the Detroit Jewish News DETROIT IN THE LIMELIGHT (October 29, 1943) U.S. WELCOMES ARAB ISRAEL DIRECT TALKS - (October 9, 1959) BBYO teens show creativity and skills at competitive regional convention. Photos by Na ta lie Bloom/Ku lanu Our community is being scrutinized by columnists and news services for evidence of racial bigotry and anti-Semitism, as a result of the unhappy experiences we had...…
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…David Cronenberg (director) and Viggo Mortensen, as Sigmund Freud, on the set of A Dangerous Method Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein and Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung U Ea How the brilliant, disturbed Sabina Spielrein influenced Freud and Jung. Naomi Pfefferman Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. I t is the summer of 1912 in A Dangerous Method — a film whose storyline is drawn from real-life events — and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knight...…
…arts & entertainment Mind Games from page 37 "Jung was certainly rather obsessed with that; he wasn't anti-Semitic for his time, but he said things like, `Freudian psychoanalysis only works on Jews, and he did talk about the classic thing that Germans used to talk about: When their ancestors were running around the for- est wearing skins, Jews already had 2,000 years of culture. But at the same time, they felt, the Jews wander — they don't h...…
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