…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60r SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JANUARY 13, 1989 / 7 SHEVAT 5749 The Key To Peace: Impose Democracy Challenging assumptions that an Arab Palestinian entity would present a danger to Israel, a noted scholar proposes following the model that worked with Japan. REUVEN KIMELMAN Special to The Jewish News Confusion about the nature of democracy has seriously befuddled the political discussion about Israel b...…
…I PURELY COMMENTARY Is There An Oasis In The Desert Of Hatred PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus M onths of endless rock throwing that compels young soldiers in Israel's army of defense to resist and to repel the violence raise the compelling question: Is there an oasis anywhere in that entire violence-ridden area? Is there hope for resistence from the Arab citizens of Israel who share so many benefits with the Israelis, even if there have ...…
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…LUP FRONT' Lubavitch Classes In Homes After $250,000 Blaze KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he Farmington Hills-based Lubavitch Center's elemen- tary school is temporarily holding classes for its 100 students in teachers' homes in the aftermath of a fire last Sunday that officials said gutted two offices and caused at least $250,000 in damage. Rabbi Yitschak Kagan, director of the Michigan Lubavitch Foundation, said a space heater apparentl...…
…EDITORIAL I A Simple Test Tay-Sachs disease is rare, but it is devastating. As our Close-Up story on Page 22 points out, only seven high- risk couples have been identified in Detroit since Tay-Sachs screen- ings began in the early 1970s. Yet our story explains that having a Tay-Sachs baby is a tragedy of enormous proportions. Tay-Sachs guarantees the death of an af- flicted child by the age of 4 or 5. It also is a heartwrenching family burde...…
…CONTEN S OPINION 22 CLOSE-UP Tay-Sachs Ordeal ADRIEN CHANDLER Several Detroiters have endured the agony of bearing a doomed child. 26 BEHIND THE HEADLINES Sinai's Quints With Jewish diversity, "Who. Is A Jew" will remain an issue. A Quieter Who Is A Jew' Issue Puts Our Rabbis To The Test GARY ROSENBLATT 0 ne could almost hear the sigh of relief from the majority of Ameri- can Jews when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announc...…
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…relations and disseminating the message that "at all costs, the PLO is not a partner to negotiations," he said. Despite this declaration that Israel will stay the course, events of the last month have caused a change in Israeli perceptions, Wall said. He expressed confidence that the new government will restore an Israeli concensus that will allow American Jews to more comfortably support Israel. American Jews may feel caught between their gov...…
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…CLOSE-UP Tay, Sachs ordeal ADRIEN CHANDLER Special to the Jewish News • A ndrea was a beautiful baby — happy, smiling, with a sweet face, porcelain skin and large soft eyes fringed with long, dark lashes. Her mother says she was the kind of in- fant who woke up pleasant and hard- ly ever cried. "She was almost too good to be true;' says Thresa Yerman of Livonia. Terri knows what kind of tragic irony that statement holds, because her daug...…
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…I NEWS 1 dustrialists complained it fails to reverse economic stagnation. Most observers agreed that the public will_ be paying more for considerably less of the services and entitlements to which Israelis have become accustomed. The chief criticism is that the government again took the easy way out. It opted for new taxes and fees on the public, instead of drastic spen- ding cuts to make up a 1.14 billion shekel ($700 million) revenue shortf...…
…BEHIND THE HEADLINES Sinai's Quints Hours of planning and practice preceded last week's smooth delivery of the Wilson quintuplets. ARTHUR M. HORWITZ Associate Publisher A crisp, white sheet sepa- rates Mary Jo Wilson's tired gaze from the tangle of limbs and life about to emerge from her clamped, gaping uterus. Like magicians pulling rabbits from a top hat, the latex-gloved hands of Dr. Alan Goldsmith and Dr. Michael Salesin disappear in...…
…about the type of pregnancy she was going to have." The possibility of selectively reducing the number of embryos to enhance the odds of survival for those remaining was discussed. The Wilsons elected not to do so, according to Dr. Goldsmith. Initially, Dr. Salesin and Dr. Goldsmith could do little. "Our treatment really began at 13 weeks," Dr. Goldsmith said. "She was given the usual precautions, such as not having intercourse and getting as ...…
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…I ANALYSIS I Y FUR SALE Democracy Continued from Page 21 cumulation of a military force sufficient to undermine its own democratically elected governments in order to op- press its own population. Having its security guaran- teed by Israel and possibly by Jordan, the need for more than internal police powers is obviated. How else could the type of military coup d'etat la Syria, Iraq and Libya of re- cent times by prevented? Democracies are...…
…I INSIDE WASHINGTON Nothing held back .. . We want your business NOW! 2 Key State Department Posts Are Filled By Israel Supporters JAMES D. BESSER Special to The Jewish News . p resident-elect George Bush put an end to speculation about possible jobs for Dennis Ross, the former National Security Council stafferm on the same day that Lawrence S. Eagle- burger won the second-in- command post at the State Department. Ross's appointment as d...…
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…I PURELY COMMENTARY Peace Oasis? Continued from Page 2 practically terminated by the violence of the intifada. It should be indicated that Benvenisti has advocated cessation of establishing new settlements in Samaria and Judea, that he urged con- cessions to the Arabs and even sup- ported some negotiations with the PLO. His article is a confessional. It shows how Jews like him who have lived with the Arabs for decades and created what they ...…
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…EDUCATION An Apple For The Teacher Nira Lev brings personal energy and excitement for Israel into her classes. HEIDI PRESS News Editor N ira Lev is a teacher to whom you bring an apple, or a Valentine or a Chanukah present. She's the kind of teacher you said you wanted to grow up and be like when you became a teacher. And her interest in her students goes well beyond enter- ing grades in a gradebook. "If you don't come (to class) she cal...…
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…LIFE IN ISRAEL Is Israel Winning The Battle But Losing The Long War? ROY ISACOWITZ Special to the Jewish News erusalem — In Novem- ber 1987, on the eve of the Arab League sum- mit in Jordan, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yassir Arafat sent envoys to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, urging mass street demonstrations by the Palestinians under Israeli oc- cupation. His call went unheeded. Almost a year to the day later, on Nov. 15, ...…
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