…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CIV No. 19 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Alan Nasky Staff Writers Kimberly Lifton Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl Contributing Editor Elie Wiesel Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer Glenn Triest Local Columnists Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schwartz Business Manager ...…
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…Editor's Notebook Community Views Jewish In America Meets The Challenge Going Cold Turkey With the TV Set LAURENCE !MERMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS ED TOR A friend's daugh- ter, Amy, recent- ly married a "nice Jewish boy." While cer- tainly not an ex- ceptional event, the nay-sayers among us might claim the mar- riage of two Jews a rare occur-- rence, given today's inter- marriage rate and the bride's background. The bride...…
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…LETTERS page 4 programs, and the Reform Movement accepts Jewish pa- trilineal descent as sufficient for Jewish status. The response is inclusion. A new phenomenon is the stereotyping of Jewish women: the Jewish wife as sexually cold and financially demanding, the Jewish mother as overly-pro- tective and overly-pressuring. This has given Jewish men an excuse to marry women of the Christian majority. Romantic love may be the basis for some inte...…
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…Sweet Voice In Training ih! Brad Hyman has a higher calling, which he is already fulfilling. JENNIFER FINER JEWISH NEWS INTERN hen Temple Israel's Cantor Harold Or- bach cannot attend Shabbat services, 21- year-old Brad Hyman often fills in. When Congregation Shir Tikvah needs a song leader for its High Holy Day services, Mr. Hyman isright up there on the bimah. Mr. Hyman, a senior at Michigan State University, is not a professional cantor....…
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…hen her ground, other chapter mem- mother bers put their names on a died 10 waiting list. Each time the years ago, list grew, another Yiddish Emily club was added. Now there Arnold was are a total of five, made up afraid she exclusively of Morgenthau would never members (except for the find someone newest, a couples group). else with "Besides enjoying and lov- whom she could speak Yid- ing Yiddish, our goal is to per- dish. petuate it," Ms. Ar...…
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…Close YIDDISH page 51 40,000 members around the country and strives to foster Jewish identity and partici- pation in Jewish life through Yiddish and Jewish culture and education. "Yiddish was the language spoken by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and it was dying during it's first few years in America because there was this notion, 'How soon can we become Ameri- canized?' " said Chava Lapin- Reich, national director for culture and ed...…
