…75¢ DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWTS 3 SIVAN 5754/MAY 13, 1994 • aside Rabbis Respond To Sex Study Dr. Jeffries Defends Visits Here LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER ALTERNATIVE IA:OW.410 ongregation Shaarey Zedek Rabbi William Gershon was livid when he opened his April 29 edition of the Forward, a national Jewish news- paper published in New York City. Between headlines like "NAACP Faces Decline, Jewish Allies Warning," and "Afternoon in Gaza Uncove...…
…750 DETROIT THE SWISH NEW 26 AV 5753/AUGUST 13, 1993 CLOSE U Goy. Engler 'Iffy' On School Vouchers The Jewish community is torn over the state funding battle for private and public schools. KIMBERLY LIFTON AND JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITERS ecause of "political re- alities" in Michigan, Gov. John Engler said he will not promote state-funded vouchers for students to attend public or private schools. But if the first-term governor had his ...…
…750 Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JEWISH NEWS 1 7 CHESHVAN 5753/NOVEMBER 13, 1992 Borman Hall Reprieve The Federal government gives JHA a brief extension to comply with health codes. POLITICS enate Minyan ne-tenth of the Senate uld form a Jan inyan. age 45 BOOK FAIR h e Liberator black battalion helped e survivors of Dachau. ge 101 KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER he Jewish Home For Aged, facing...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MARCH 13, 1992 / 8 ADAR 2 5752 Detroiters Recall The Life Of Israeli Leader M. Begin AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer E zekiel Leikin came to Palestine in 1943 soon after Tel Aviv came under curfew. A building had been blasted by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the underground guerrilla force that battled the British in the final years of the Palestine Mandate. Mr. Leikin was part o...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS CLOSE-U P _ _Aisisidienk„ DECEMBER 13, 1991 / 6 TEVET 5752 Soviet Disunion Worries Emigres AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer I t's fallen like a deck of frayed playing cards, but Moisey Grinshpun isn't sorry. He said the rot had set in long before leaders of three Slavic republics poked their fingers into the house of cards once called the Soviet Union. Mr. Grinshpun, from...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS CLOSE-UP SEPTEMBER 13, 1991 / 5 TISHREI 5752 Levin Confident On Guarantees ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor S en. Carl Levin of Michigan this week labeled "morally wrong" President George Bush's proposal to delay a Congressional vote on Israel's request for $10 billion in U.S. loan guar- antees, and said he is con- vinced the majority of the Senate supports his ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS 7 5 0 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY $250,000 Detroit Gift Pays For Soviet Flight KIMBERLY LIFTON C> Staff Writer D etroit became the se- cond U.S. city to sponsor a United Jewish Appeal Freedom Flight last week, bringing 190 Soviet Jews to Israel through a $250,000 gift to Operation Exodus from the estate of the late Ben Teitel. To date, Philadelphia is the only other Jewish com- munity to subsidize a flight, but o...…
…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 ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60( SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY OCTOBER 13, 1989 / 14 TISHREI 5750 JWF Population Study Calls Begin Next Week ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor Members of the Detroit Jewish community have a chance to win the lottery in the coming weeks — one chance in 60 to be part of the Jewish Welfare Federation's $265,000 popu- lation study. For the 1,000 participants who will be selected at random in the next four weeks...…
…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...…
…SCI NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE ar MAY 13, 1988 / 26 IYAR 5748 Peres To Make Detroit Stop In the United States for a week-long visit, Israel's foreign minister appears to be drumming up support from prominent American Jews and administration officials ELIZABETH KAPLAN Staff Writer / Fashion-ation for women and men.... 82 Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who arrived this week in the United States, was sche...…
…r .11 THIS ISSUE 60 1 P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 13, 1987 / 21 CHESHVAN 5748 Miss America 1945 Still Stands Tall LILA ORBACH Special to The Jewish News caudal or no scandal, Bess Myerson is still Miss America, 1945. The more than 1,000 people who flocked to the Jewish Book Fair Mon- day to hear Myerson plug her new book, Miss America, 1945; Bess Myer- son's Own Story, didn't seem the least bit disappointed that the f...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS MARCH 13, 1987 / 12 ADAR 5747 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 60c Pollard's Life, U.S. Ties Are Threatened Convicted spy receives death threats in wake of his sentencing, while Israel-U.S. relations feel the strain WOLF BLITZER Special to The Jewish News Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard has been moved to a federal prison in Springfield, Missouri, for his own protection. Pollard was moved from the federal p...…
…T E JEWISH NEWTS THIS ISSUE 60c SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY FEBRUARY 13, 1987 / 14 SHEVAT 5747 Team Effort Evacuated 78 Patients At Prentis Manor Staff and rescue workers turned a near-tragedy on Sunday into an adventure for 91 Jewish Home For Aged residents ALAN HITSKY high winds were affecting the outside power line and electrical service in the facility. When it fell, electricity Two evacuation plans, fire de- from the line ar...…
…THIS ISSUE 50c SERVING TROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JUNE 13, 1986 / 6 SIVAN 5746 rea d •%, A* • .‘AviatitOkt. …
…Vt■ Igniting The Spirit Star Of India Page 27 Page 52 THE JE SI-I 1\1 \ THIS ISSUE 50c SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY Pollard Price-Tag? $531 Million In Aid BY WOLF BLITZER Special to The Jewish News Washington — Democratic Sen- ator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has withdrawn his proposed $531 million amendment to cut the prevailing interest rates on outstanding U.S. military loans to Israel from 12 per- cent to five pe...…
…THIS ISSUE 50 4 E JEWS SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY THE KLAU LIBRAR Y CINCIIVNA SEP 17 1985 …
…• t. • i06.4.11 6.. ..... . . I .... ' OtE 100 1.16RATI CAtItlI VA Greenberg gets All-Star Game honor 8 Judge upholds suit against former Nazi 18 , Resettled Russian Jew aids Olympic hopefuls 80 Witness to Argenti • § speaks out 20 SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY- e selects r Israel s veep Special to The Jewish News Enthusiasm was engendered at g;inoon Thursday, on a national scale, with the announcement by Wa...…
…r ) Furor over Canada's PLO invitation 10 ADL's 'Jewish Life' exhibits open in Detroit 14 15 Passover prices: who should we blame for the high costs? - 20 The classroom is her domain 2 5 E JEWISH NEW 40c PER COPY SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY APRIL 13, 1984 …
…Detroit Will Host U.S. Youth Maccabia in August Metropolitan Detroit has been selected by the Maccabi World Union Executive to host the 1984 United States Maccabi Youth Games. The games will be held Aug. 19-26 at the main Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, under the auspices of the Detroit Sports for Israel Committee. Jay Robinson, chairman of the games, has reported that athletes will come from all over the United States and the wor...…
…Chosenness in the Symbolic Spirit of Jewish Ethical, Historic Interpretations Shavuot Essay by Dr. Greenberg on Back Page HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events SHAVUOT Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Copyright (_e) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 11 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This-Issue 35c May 13, 1983 Israel Sees Lebanon Accord as Approach...…
…Special Israel Emergency Fund Merged With 1983 AJCampaign; Early Appeals Launched by the General and Women's Divisions MARVIN GOLDMAN To the Ramparts Fortifying the Synagogues Re-Emergence of the Prejudiced in Current Lebanese Crisis Commentary, Page 2 DAVID MONDRY For the first time in Metropolitan Detroit Jewry's philanthropic activities, which assumed a national leadership role since the early 1930s, annual solicitations will commence...…
…Sen. Javits the First of 30 Speakers at 30th Book Fair More than 50 Metropolitan Detroit Jewish organizations, including many of the local congregations, their sisterhoods, men's clubs and other affiliated groups, are co-sponsoring with the Jewish Community Center the annual Jewish Book Fair. Marking the 30th anniversary of the Book Fairs, 30 prominent authors have been enlisted as participating speakers in the 10 days of events scheduled to ...…
…nr); Plus Evolution in Jewish Tradition Creation Judge Irving Perluss of the California Superior Court, sitting in Sacramento, could be regarded as having been Solomonic in his decision in a case which was likened to the 192eScopes Case (branded as the Monkey Trial). The judge's ruling averted a conflict. His verdict stated that the teaching of science, with emphasis on evolution, does not affect the rights of religious fundamentalists. The ...…
…Pioneer Rebecca Gratz in Hall of Fame BERKELEY, Calif. — On March 4, the occasion of her 200th birthday, Rebecca Gratz will join a dozen other famous men and women who have been honored by the Jewish-American Hall of Fame at the Magnes Museum. Past inductees are Judah Magnes, Albert Einstein, Louis Brandeis, George Gershwin, Haym Salomon, Herbert H. Lehman, Gershom Seixas, Henrietta Szold, Touro Synagogue, Golda Meir, Levi Strauss and Jonas S...…
…The Technion Develops 4-Key Hebrew Typewriter Threatening Pressures on Israel and the Increasing Terrorism Editorials, Page 4 HAIFA — A new style typewriter that can be operated in connection with complicated engineering systems has been de- veloped at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. The new Hebrew-language typewriter helps reduce "one of the major constraints on the incorporation of computer elements in a wide-range of engin...…
…An End to Statute of Limitatio-ns, 'Making Punishment of Nazis a Human Duty - Editorials, Page 4 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Gisi Fleischmann, Martyred Heroine Who Rescued Many Victims of Nazism Conclusion of Joan Campion's Tribute, Page 64 VOL. LXXV, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c _ July 13, 1979. cuttling Israel for Energy' Ian Shunned at Cam...…
…Closing_April 26 AJC-IEF to End With Rally, Final Telethon The Basic Facts Explaining The Price of Peace' Between Egypt and Israel - Workers in all divisions of the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund are busy contacting prospective con- tributors in anticipation of the Campaign closing April 26. Division chairmen will report on their workers' progess at a report meeting Sunday at the Jewish Community Center. The meeting, t...…
…The Nobel Prize in Literature for the Shtetl Mysticist Today a Laureate, Tomorrow a Yiddish Writer Again' By BEN GALLOB ISAAC B. SINGER NEW YORK (JTA) — Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature last Thursday, the first Yiddish writer to win this award. The announcement was made in Stockholm. Singer accepted the $165,000 award modeStly. He rejected questions as to which of his many novels and short stories were ...…
…When Children's Hatreds Stem From Gun-Toting A Mistake in Judgment The Kissinger View: Optimistic Predictions on Middle Eas Deliberations THE JEWISH NEWS A WeekIN Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jeicish Events Editorial, Page 4 VOL. LXXII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile. Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per-Year: This Issue 30c January 13, 1978 Weizman Convenes Cairo Talks in a Middle East 'War for Peace' . New Settlement...…
…100th Anniversary of Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda,' Historic Novel that Predicted Israel's Rebirth "What is needed is the leaven—what is needed is the seed community be lit! Let the reason of Israel disclose itself in a of fire. The heritage of Israel is beating in the pulses of millions; great outward deed, and let there be another great migration, it lives in their veins as a power without understanding, like the another choosing of Israel to be...…
…Peking Refuses Israel Assistance for Quake Victims Israel Magen David Adom's Struggle for International Recognition Retains American Red Cross Support Commentary Page 2 )L. LXIX, No, 23 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The People's Republic of China has returned to Israel a cable sent by Premier Yitzhak Rabin in which he expressed the government's sorrow at the loss of life in last week's earthquakes. The cable was returned to Israel at the beginning of ...…
…Aliya LaRegel Lifts Israel Noted Historian Honored The eminent American Jewish archivist, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, is being honored by the U.S. Jewish community for a life-time of historical and archival research on the occasion of his 80th birthday. His many contributions to Jewish historical scholarship includes a lengthy list of volumes on a multitude of Jewish topics. The eminent archivist's role in American Jewry, along with another in a se...…
…Several Distinguished Americans Condemn UNESCO's Anti-Israel Resolutions as `Cultural Genocide' Speculative Obstructions in Middle East Media Actions . . . Faith as Inevitable Jewish Defensive THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary Page 2 Editorials Page 4 VOL. LXVII, No. 14 UNESCO's anti-Israel position has been branded by a group of distinguished American writers and entertainers as a "cultural holocaust." In a letter published in the New York Ti...…
…Logo Symbolizes Federation, 'ELM Anniversaries This symbol is the logo for the celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and the 75th year of the United Jewish Charities. The symbol will be used extensively by the joint anniversary committee throughout the year-long celebration. Plans for anniversaries detailed in story on Page 8. HE JEWISH NEWS ,Slurs on Jewry in Distortions, Exaggerations...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review [1 41t of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper VOL. LXVI. N Ogeb' 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Rosh Hashana 5735 ;1"5v, 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year ; This Issue 30' A Happy New Year to Detroit, Michigan, Border Cities and World Jewish Communities September 13, 1974 1110 11111:: liZ111,41 …
…`Moral Victory in Lost Suit Over Dictionary's Abuse of the Term 'Jew' An Urgent Plea For Retention of Memory of the Holocaust Commentary . Page 2 LONDON (JTA) — The four-year-old legal fight by a Manchester 'businessman to have the Oxford English Dictionary drop what he considered derogatory definitions of the word "Jew" has been lost. But a moral victory was won when Robert Burchfield, editor of the dictionary, said the 1975 supplement wou...…
…Humanitarian THE JEWISH NEWS Aspects of Historic Festival of Freedom A Weekly Review Editorials Page 4 Passover Greetings to Jewish Communities of Jewish Events Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Vol. LXI I I. No. 5 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c arotret iTintriz 4414T "t‘"tr *In r"..rin T ee 11 ILLUMINATED HAGGADAH / NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1450 7-to*...…
…i e ,ut to matte iment ioviet !ctive on in zberg 'con. it to rican rship najor loviet inues eking • Jewish Welfare Federation Annual Report in Special 12-Page Section in This Issue of The Jewish News Jewish Welfare Federation's functions in all areas of Jewish life, on the local scene, nationally and in behalf of overseas causes, are summarized in the special 12-page section in this issue. The record of the Fred M. Butzel Award winner ...…
…National Organizations' Stand Against Parochiaid Challenged by Orthodox AJCongress Pleads With Nixon for USSR Yiddish Broadcasts (Story on Page 6) `Buy Israel Products' Gets Spurt in ;DOD's Food and Fashion Fair (Story on Page 5) (Story on Page 8) Lutheran Atonement for Founder's Bigotries God-Idea Defined by Our Notables Commentary Page 2 Vol. LIX, No. af• . 44P7 THE JEWISH NEWS Michigan Weekly Review of Jewish News Drug Danger: ...…
…32-Nation UN Draft Calls for Hijacking Action UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—A 32-nation draft resolution condemning "all acts of aerial hijacking or other interference with civil air travel" was introduced Friday in the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly which met for the first time since Oct. 13, when consideration of it began. Among the nations cosponsoring the draft are Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Iran,...…
…Plans Formulated for Official Campaign Opening March 25 ( Samuel Haber Facts, Fiction, Arab Resort to Fantasy: A Direction Toward Realities Commentary Samuel Haber, 'executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, will be the guest speaker at the official onening of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund March 25 at a dinner meeting at the Jewish Center. A reception will be held at 6:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 7. H...…
…Retarded Look With Hope to Jewish Community Brotherhood ... A Repeat Performance Who Really Is a Jew? Atrophied Education Editorials Page 4 Vol. LVI, No. 22 The retarded have long been a silent minority in the midst of the Jewish commun- ity. Little by little, advances have come—largely through a successful program at the Jewish Center—but much remains to be done. How the parents of the retarded are cop- ing with their problems and the n...…
…Au Assimilationist's :Jewish Attitudes: James P. Warburg's Views on UJA, Israel "There is so little left of the more prominent Jewish families in Jewish ranks in America! The vanishing Jews are not diminishing Jewish ranks and are not contributing to an end to Jewry. But we could benefit so much from them ... and their progeny could benefit so much from us."—From the comments on the views of the late James P. Warburg, in the exchange of his ...…
…No End to Challenges to Jewish Courage This Hanuka Editorial Page 4 Commentary Page 2 Vol LIV, No. 13 THE JEWISH NEWS DE TROI T A Weekly Review MICHIGAN of Jewish Events Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ° 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—December 13, 1968 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Wolicicty cre e t in g s 729 …
…X19.000,000 Gift Finances Medical Center at Brandeis WALTHAM, Mass.—The largest single gift in the 20-year history of Brandeis University, $19,000,000 in cash and securities, was announced this week in a joint statement by Lewis S. Rosenstiel, retiring chairman of the board of Schenley Industries, New York, and Dr. Abram L. Sachar, retiring president of Brandeis. The grant is to be used for a new medical sciences research center, to be staffe...…
…Emma Schaver First Detroit Woman to Receive Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award,Nov. 7 Emma and Golda Emma Schaver, chairman of the Women's Division of the Detroit Israel Bond Organization, will be the first Detroiter to receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. will be made by Golda Meir, At a dinner in Mrs. Schaver's honor, on Nov. 7, at Cobo Hall, the presentation - formei Israel foreign minister and presently the directing head ...…
…Rabbi Adler's Essays to Be Published Posthumously; Yahrzeit Memorial Service at Shaarey Zedek Feb. 28 A collection of Rabbi Morris Adler's essays, excerpts from speeches and sermons and the texts of his messages to his congrega- tion, Shaarey Zedek, will be pub- lished posthumously, in time for the observance of the first Yahrzeit University of Michigan's Sesquicentennial Vol. L, by Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel of the Jewish Theological Se...…
…'Large Measure of Agreement' Reached in Bonn Talks (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) . BONN — A "large measure" of agreement has been reached on a West G-erthan program of economic aid to Israel for 1966 and the pact was to be signed Thursday, State Secretary Gunther von Hase, the government press spokesman, announced at a press conference Wednesday. He said the--agreement covered only the current year and that new negotiations ...…
…Two New Pictorial Features ... ' JD Start frith This Issue Two new features, dealing with historical and biblical facts, are being in- troduced in this issue and will appear periodically during the coming months. The illustrated cartoons are being offered by special arrangement with au- thors, illustrators and publishers of two noteworthy books. The first in the series of illustrated cartoons from "Our Living Prayer Book — Creative Exer- ci...…
