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…DETROIT =W WI NEWS Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner .detroitjevvishnewscom riday, June 13, 2003 ivan 13, 5763 ol. CXXIII, No. 18 THIS WEEK 12 Cross-Fire More violence threatens road map; bus blast kills at least 16 19 Lieberman's Marathon A few minutes with Sen. Lieberman, a man on the run. Hillel Day School student Rachel Khan, 6, of Bloomfield Hills looks over the Israel books on display. OPINI...…
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…Just Can't Say No EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Romancing Israel n 1999, U.S. journalist Alan Abbey and his wife took their two young children to Israel to attend a nephew's bar mitzvah. He secured a sabbatical from his newspaper job so they could stay for up to six months and absorb all the Jewish state has to offer. Four years later, they still live there. "Something sucked us in," said Abbey, vice president for electronic publishing at the Jerusalem...…
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…1,116 VIFUUII For Openers Teens And Tunes S ometimes all those years of music lessons pay off. For first cousins Alan Posner, 16, of West Bloomfield and Justin Wedes, 17, of Huntington Woods, the payoff is corn- ing early. Combining a love of music with a DON desire to earn some spending money, COHEN they formed Just `Cuz last winter and Special to the the gigs keep rolling in, including mile- Jewish News stone birthday parties, restaurant...…
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…This Week News Digest Campus Group OKs Zionism Hadassah Says No To Abortion Ban New York/JTA — A coalition of Jewish groups on college campuses added "Zionism" to its mission state- ment. As part of its unanimously approved strategic plan for the upcoming aca- demic year, the Israel on Campus Coalition approved the term after Zionist member groups objected to its omission. In addition, Wayne Firestone, ICC director, said the group decided ...…
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…This Week Something Extra rent factor," Neistein said. The many community members who worked with the Alliance and who formed the AJE board are in the process of being realigned as well, Rabbi Isaacs said. Details on their new positions will be announced soon, he said. The new Alliance has 14 employees under the leadership of former Alliance director Harlene Appelman, whose new title is chief Jewish education officer. As the new Alliance dir...…
…This Week Cross-Fire More violence threatens road map; blast kills at least 16 NAOMI SEGAL Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem A fresh round of violence has threatened the • diplomatic progress made at two Middle East summits last week, posing a chal- lenge to the U.S.-backed road map peace role in organizing Sunday's attack in the Gaza Strip that killed four soldiers, and that he is serving as the head of Hamas' military wing. Hamas vo...…
…The Terrorists Staying Put Despite ideological differences, the road map has united three main groups. Detroiters in Israel near bomb site show resolve. GIL SEDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem T his week's coordinated ter- rorist attack in the Gaza Strip that killed four Israeli soldiers represented a bloody demonstration of unity among the three leading Palestinian terrorist groups — Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aksa Martyrs B...…
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…Waiting Game Jewish settlers prepare for the bulldozers. MATTHEW GUTMAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv This is the real war," said Itai Zar, the founder and spiritual leader of Gilad's Farm, a settlement outpost just over the hill from Nablus in the West Bank. It was 4 a.m. on June 10. An orange half moon had dropped behind the Tel Aviv skyline to the west and a dense fog blanketed the hill. The flesh on Zar's cherubic face sagged; It w...…
…their meager possessions — including an ancient air conditioner, a Sony boombox and several dozen books of Talmud and Gemarah — in the tent, knowing that they may well be ground into the earth when the outpost is removed. Asked why he had not removed his possessions in the face of the expected onslaught, Zar said, "We have to believe, and we have to show the kids that we still have hope." Until last week, the settlers' Yesha Council was cautio...…
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…T is eek Insight Remember When... Lieberman's Marathon A few minutes with Sen. Joe Lieberman, a man on the run. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer S en. Joseph Lieberman, D- Conn., is currently running at the head of the pack of candidates vying for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomi- nation. In 2000, he says, he was run- ning a sprint when he entered the national spotlight as Al Gore's running mate. "This time it's a marathon, but it's m...…
…This Week SIGN Fr D INSIGHT Insight from page 19 Palestinians unless we're there. I'd visit myself. I'd talk to leaders myself. I'd leave a high-level emissary. "What [Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon has asked for as the first step is exactly right — a 100-percent effort by the Palestinian leadership to stop the terrorism. Once that happens, the Israelis will and must reciprocate. That should be the point of pressure. The pressure sh...…
…JNOpinion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Pictures Of Inspiration ighteen months ago, Robert Slatkin was moved by the uncertain fate of the photos of 260 young Michigan Jews who gave their lives overseas defending the free- doms we enjoy in America. He took it upon him- self to find the photos a permanent home. More than anyone else in a position of influ- ence, Slatkin, a United Jewish Foundation ...…
…OTHER VIEWS The Meaning Of Cease-Fire Jerusalem ne of the most significant obstacles to be overcome in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is language. The cul- tural, conceptual and language barriers that separate the negotiating partners are greater than their negotiation over land and far more difficult to resolve. The language of negotiations may be English, but each partner in the process thinks in his mother tongue, translates for h...…
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…Bar/Bat Mitzvah Julie Renee Topor will read from the Torah on the occasion of her bat mitzvah Saturday, June 14, at Temple Israel. She is the daughter of Karen and Larry Topor and sister of Jessica and Jennifer. Her excited grandparents are Ardis and Herbert Avey. She is also the grandchild of the late Clara and Harry Topor. An honor student at Orchard Lake • Middle School in West Bloomfield, Julie participated in soccer, gymnastics, dance an...…
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…Guiding b'nai mitzvah-aged congregants toward appropriate synagogue behavior. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter T Couple that with the fact that, in more cases than not, they attend the service unsupervised, having been dropped off at the door by a carpool. The end result is kids who receive reprimands, separations and banishment from the synagogue. "Ultimately, it's not the fault of the kids," said Norman A. Samson, ritual director at Tem...…
…Cover Story "Amazingly, the synagogue is the only setting where we would even think to put our kids with their 75-90 most inti- mate acquaintances without supervi- sion," said Fran Pearlman, director of education at Temple Israel. "You don't send seventh-graders to a dance without supervision. How can we send them to services?" What's Been Tried In some congregations, overseeing of the kids is left to the clergy. It is not unheard of for a ...…
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…aged to sit with them. We almost have to give them permission to do some- thing they are not used to." Adat Shalom's Rabbi Daniel Nevins suggests one parent attend services with each small group of kids. "If every three or four kids had one adult accompany them to synagogue, to sit near them and to be responsible for their behavior, it would help greatly," he said. "But parents should not come to shul as baby sitters," said Rabbi Levy of Tibur...…
…Spirituality CONSERVATIVE ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, 48334, (248) 851- 5100. Rabbis: Daniel Nevins, Herbert Yoskowitz. Cantor Howard Glantz. Rabbi emeritus: Efry Spectre. Cantor emeritus: Larry Vieder. Services: Friday 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m., 9 p.m.; weekdays 7:30 a.m., 6 p.m.; Sunday 8:30 a.m. B'nai mitzvah of Brittany Sundheimer, daughter of Kim and Marlon Sundheimer; Jeffrey Stoller, son of Sheryl and Kenn...…
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…Jewry's Role in Sifirituality Human Affairs PATRONS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS - We speak of them in the same breath: Jewish families which claim places in history and those which gave as they could to human betterment. During the last century, our country has been a major recipient of their largess, and the land of Israel often won their support too. As in the case of Theodore Arison, founder of Carnival Cruises, and his son Mickey, who have since...…
