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…Business Outlook F GEORGE DILA Special to the Jewish News - or Arthur M. Horwitz, publisher of the Detroit Jewish News, getting an evening phone call from the alarm com- pany for the newspaper's Southfield office was not out of the ordinary. He'd had these calls before, and none of them had proved to be too serious. . So when Horwitz got such a call as he and his wife were headed out to dinner on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 27, he wasn't o...…
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…!"14foromaimmeliow Independent retailers shake of ~ winter's chill; greet new season with optimism. ED NAKFO OR Special to the Jewish News A lre0413' S:131V711:: SVOS s if the challenges facing an independent mer- chant last year weren't enough: encroaching "big boxes" and hungry chain stores at every turn, uncooperative weather, ho-hum fash- ions, fickle consumers, a once buoyant economy taking on water fast, early markdowns, and the c...…
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…Setting the Record Straight on Middle East History The Detroit Free Press, on March 13, published a full page of so-called his- tory of the Middle East conflict. The page included maps, timelines, biogra- phies of Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and many other "facts." Regrettably this "history" was terribly flawed, inaccurate, and distorted; indeed, it was offensive to Israel, supporters of Israel—...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones We Can't Let Up rvialcAis 1,. s American Jews, we need to provide mul- tidimensional — and unconditional — support to Israel, our beloved homeland. We need to give of ourselves — includ- ing time, effort and money — as we stand with Israelis, spiritually if not literally, during these dark days in the war-torn Middle East. Since the Passover Massacre, when...…
…OTHER VIEWS We Can't Let Up elpless. Hopeless. Agony. Despair. These emotions rage through my body as I sit home and watch CNN (Cable News Network), seeing the results of a suicide bomber blowing himself up at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel. "Why is this night different from all others?" the youngest member of that seder would have asked. Unfortunately, it's not different. Almost every day, there is a terrorist attack killing Israeli ci...…
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