…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 75cP West Bloomfield Accepts B'nai Moshe SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A dmitting they were wrong to deny Con- gregation B'nai Moshe a building permit, West Bloomfield Township trustees last week welcomed plans to build the synagogue on Drake Road. After a short executive session on April 6, trustees approved a special use per- mit to build B'nai Moshe on the condition it raises ...…
…'PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Active Rather Than Ceremonial Role For Herzog W hen he invited Shimon Peres to make another at- tempt to reorganize the func- tioning Israel government, President Chaim Herzog took occasion to renew his hope for electoral reform in his country. With a report that is literal- ly bulging the Knesset files and archives, it is not surpris- ing that there are delays in getting action in assur...…
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…UP FRONT Jewish Organizations Battle Christian Group In Yellow Pages ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T ,Th wo Jewish organiza- tions don't mind if your fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages. They just don't want them to stop next to a mes- sianic (Christian) organiza- tion when searching for a Jewish synagogue. The Jewish Community Council and the Detroit chapter of Jews for Judaism are pressuring Ameritech to change a listing for...…
…EDITORIAL See No Evil In Bush Statements? A number of American Jews are becoming increasingly frustrated with the Bush Ad- ministration's Mideast dealings, and non-dealings. Several weeks ago, Tom Dine, ex- ecutive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), publicly voiced his displeasure with what he perceives as a shift in balance away from Israel in the Administra- tion. The President's criticism of Jew- ish settle...…
…An Open Letter To Nelson Mandela Dear Nelson, I am one of a number of Jews who claim you as a friend. Our friendship started some 35 years ago when I became founding editor of Post, South Africa's first mass circulation tabloid Sunday newspaper for non-whites. At a meeting in my home in Johannesburg (remember?) you arranged for me to get regular confidential briefings about African National Con- gress activities so that I could publish accura...…
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…ATiNist of Gold... ,Ze'ev (Volodya) Rudkiner, a young dental surgeon who came here from Rostov a decade ago with a computer analyst wife and twin babies, predicts: "Not only will the political bargaining power of North Africans suffer, but also the power of the religious par- ties. Jews from the Euro- pean Soviet republics are not religious. I expect my own sister here with her husband and three children in two weeks. My brother-in-law, a gyn...…
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…DETROIT Is Coca-Cola The Real Thing For Passover? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor I t's the real kosher thing all year, but Coca-Cola is often in the midst of con- troversy at Passover. The Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit lists Pepsi, but not Coke, among items approved kosher for Passover. The Va'ad is not saying that Coke is not kosher for Passover, according to Rabbi Mordecai Wolmark, head of kashrut supervision for t...…
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…PSYCHED UPFORTHE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • *NEVVIA.GE* Some local Jews are ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor A black cat named Chosh- ech (darkness) followed the Sky family home one Yom Kippur and stayed. Now, as cats will do, he strolls around the Hunting- ton Woods house like a king. The inside of the house bears a distinctly Art Deco look and is painted a b...…
…esoteric teachings of Jewish mysticism, noting that the two share similar numerical patterns and that kab- balistic ideas are similar to images on Tarot cards. The Torah is filled with references to fortune telling — everything from using a goblet to reading one's liver — and oracles, provided by the Urim and Thummim, ob- jects included in the vestments of the high priest. The Urim and Thummim were acceptable under Jew- ish law, but the Torah ...…
…PSYCHED UP agreed. He said of studying the stars: "It is no science at all, but mere foolery . . . and it behooves us never to engage in it." Despite Maimonides' and biblical warnings, Jews have been as prone as anyone to trying to see into the future. In the Middle Ages, an itchy sole meant an upcoming journey; a candle was lighted each day between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, with an extin- guished flame meaning death before the year's end...…
…PSYCHED UP As a soldier during World War II, Lewis found the an- swers to some of those ques- tions. Numerous times he watched as men marching in front of and behind him were killed; Lewis was always spared. Taken to a German prison camp, he managed to convince the head officer he was not Jewish, escaping death. While at the prison camp, Lewis joined his fellow American soldiers in daily renditions of the song "Come and Get Us, Georgie Patton...…
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…ANN ARBOR Minda Hart is shown with some of her merchandise inside Earth Wisdom Music. Below, the store's New Age sign. ler ttib t'I n NkNitsi.** MELLOW AGE An Ann Arbor shop has been on the ground floor of the New Age movement. SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE y Special to The Jewish News ou could say that Minda Hart has been on the cutting edge of mellow. A decade ago she first got in- volved in New Age music before most people ever heard of it....…
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…I INSIDE WASHINGTON JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent -- ast Thursday, the Sen- ate passed the State Department supple- mental authorization bill that includes $400 million in loan guarantees for new hous- ing for Soviet emigres in Israel, as well as $70 million to replenish depleted ac- counts for U.S. refugee programs. But last week's Senate vie- tory is only part of the tangled parliamentary story. Still ahead is the critical app...…
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…INSIGHT ZE'EV CHAFETS Israel Correspondent T his week, if the pre- sent trend holds, Labor's Shimon Peres will establish a new government. And Yitzhak Shamir, the septuagenarian caretaker who replaced Menachem Begin in 1983, will, in all probability, head off into the political sunset. Despite the fact that he has been prime minister for more than five years, the prospect of his departure is causing little unhappiness, even among his suppo...…
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