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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS JN www.detroitjewishnews.com February 12, 1999 Shevat 26, 5759 Vol. CXIV, No. 25 Meet The Rabbi Arts 6. Entertainment page 86 DEPARTMENTS 6 A Child Of Abraham King Hussein had an instinct for people, for politics and for peace. Local, international coverage: pages 6- 1 8. Community 31 The Cook Book „ Documentary keepsake traces roots of the Cook family tree. its tertainment 72 At The Movies Anniversaries . ......…
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…Farewell To A King Hussein, dead at 63, had an instinct for people, for politics and for peace. MITCHELL DANOW Jewish Telegraphic Agency ing Hussein bin Talal was a political survivor. And he used his survival skills to ,ofinie, as he will perhaps. § -red, a champion of m. , who'd:fed last wee at 63 of cancer after 46 years on the Hashemite throne, was more liberal than any other Arab ruler — particu- larly in his attitude toward Israel. ...…
…I The S Necktie Seeds of Pedce leader recalls Hussein's encouragement. JOEL JACOB Special to The Jewish News T this has been accomplished: local Jews and Arabs are now active in raising funds for the camp, as well as initiating other projects to strengthen Arab- Jewish relations. The 1997 dinner at which I met King Hussein and Queen Noor included a fundraising auction, for which the king wenty years before he grabbed headlines for his ...…
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…Farewell To A King Remembering King Hussein Arnold Michlin, co-founder of the American Arab and Jewish Friends, co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Trialog "It [the funeral] was absolute drama of the highest order, unbe- lievable that Assad would come --- Shamir, Netanyahu, Peres, Sharon -- it was an unbelievable parade of people who you would not expect to find at the same time. Now it's a terrible thing to say, but he could do more i...…
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…Farewell To A King O -0 U 0 C) _0 0 0 ERIC SILVER Israel Correspondent between, Israelis knew that this was a warm" peace from a former enemy. Praise fOr the Arab ruler came from throughout Israel. Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who visited Hussein in the Mayo Clinic in Milwaukee six months ago, celebrated him this week as "a hero of heroes." The Jewish sages, he explained, defined a hero of heroes as "he who makes his enemy into his be...…
…—m Business calls. Make sure you have meetings, with Hussein often coming dressed casually to exchange ideas with the ambassador. Only at times of dis- agreement with Israel did Hussein summon Shamir to his official office for a formal meeting. "Above all, I was impressed by his sincerity and human charm," recalled Shamir, a noted Middle East historian. Israelis also feel warmth for the king because even when he was at war with Israel, he s...…
…Farewell To A King CHILD OF ABRAHAM from page 6 Ruhama Cohen holds her newborn daughter at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Sunday, after naming the child Nzrden, Hebrew for Jordan, in honor of King Hussein. Ruhama and Shimon Cohens daughter Keren was among seven school children shot to death while on a class trip to Nahariya, a small stn:p of land on the Jordan River by a crazed Jordanian soldier in 1997. The King visited the Cohens and kn...…
…Temple Emanu-El of Oak Park, Michigan Invites the Metro-Detroit Jewish Community to $tRWribntti "tat: 1:NnZiC Pk$SSCW*0 *X .*. 0:4'00" 9:,:k V■ A '• " •:. x ,,, : , `. 1.'• ■ ••‘,M*K.O.E:¢k:5••• *btosiovologoowAmzko. WiD021:5 ,A1*~$:•14,WW •: JNkeef.totayx.1,40X 5,ev • "",4 ..12,4** ,•-•• , • ••; `Partner In Peace' "We were very sad about the death of King Hussein," said Zivit Shamir, a former Israeli now living in Bloomfield H...…
…Farewell To A King Textbook Monarch In West Bloomfield's Middle East class, the king is the subject. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer T o the students in a new class at West Bloomfield High School, King Hussein was a lot more than a name to misspell on a current events quiz. He shone bright in their memory as an advocate for peace and a monarch with a personal touch. "When I was in Israel last year," said Eve Posen, "there was always talk about ...…
…no. (eee/ cC2 4 0ed Humanists Oust Rabbi First Pair Birmingham Temple dismisses a visiting rabbi after she is ordained by a Chassidic rabbi. LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer tacie Fine, a visiting rabbi at the Birmingham Temple, his- torically a haven for inclusion, has been released for, as she characterized it, "being too religious." Fine had been in the Farmington Hills temple's rabbinical program on schedule for ordination as a Humanistic...…
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…0 speeches by Israel's consul general for the Midwest, Tziporah Rimon, as well as former Michigan Governor James Blanchard. A small pro peace caucus; "Beautiful" Oscar nod; drug "lifer" stays free. Thirty-five people turned out last Sunday for the Pro-Israel Pro-Peace Caucus at the Michigan Democratic Party's convention. The newly formed caucus works to get "pro-Israel" Democratic candidates elected at all levels of government. But with wid...…
…itorials Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn King Hussein's Legacy Ic ing Hussein bin Talal of Jordan exemplified the Jewish value of teshuva, a turning for the good. He did not do so as a champion of Zion. He did so as an Arab nationalist con- vinced that inevitabilities, such as Jews and Arabs living side-by-side, must be embraced for their possibilities, not their inherent tensio...…
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