…CDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Answering The Madness T he resilience of Detroit Jewry never ceases to amaze me. As America fell under siege Tuesday, the Detroit Jewish commu- nity quickly mobilized, trying to understand the madness, maintain calm and affirm our unity. The best of who we are resonated — from a 2 p.m. meeting of communal leaders at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township, to a 7:30 p.m. prayer service at Young Israel ...…
…Staff Notebook VAILV A W MAY THE NEW YEAR BRING HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Florence Abel Jeanette Bayer Kate Browner Lauren Bruss Andy & Sharon Collins Dennis P. Dickstein Olena Drobot Irene Eagle Don Eizen Rosalie Fox Iris Goldstein Lillian Hoard Shelly Komer Jackier Ruth Karmel Jeff Katzen Steve Leibhan Esther Liwazer Campaign Trail 7 he only Jewish candidate in the 10-person field finished a strong third in the Southfie...…
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…Marta Rosenthal of Franklin holds her daughter Rachel as they watch footage of the terrorist attacks in America on a large-screen television in the lobby of the Nazareth Renaissance Hotel on Tuesday. IsraelNow Solidarity Mission participants react with horror to American tragedy. HARRY KI RS BAUM Stag Writer Tel Aviv t was supposed to be a solidarity mission to Israel. But in a world gone insane, the Detroit mem- bers of the IsraelNow Soli...…
…Emotional Arrival Detroiters on IsraelNow Mission pay homage to teens killed in disco bombing. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer Tel Aviv A heart-wrenching event awaited the 81 IsraelNow Solidarity Mission partici- pants from Detroit at their first stop after landing in Israel. They paid respects to the 21 Russian youngsters killed by a suicide bomber in front of a Tel Aviv disco on June 1. Amid lunch-time traffic on a windy coastline where sa...…
…Clockwise from top.. Mickey Levin of Farmington Hills holds his daughter Sara as they watch footage of the terrorist attacks. Jodi Weinfeld of Farmington Hills and Linda Goodman of West Bloomfield watch footage of the terrorist attacks. Larry Jackier of Bloomfield Hills speaks to the Detroit group in the lobby of the Nazareth Renaissance Hotel as they watch TV coverage of the American terrorist attacks. MISSION from page 16 "I'll be damn...…
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…A Different Bomb Nahariya suicide bomber was deadly — to Israel's Jewish Arabrelations. DAVID LANDAU Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem D epressed but determined after nearly a year of vio- lent conflict with the Palestinians, Israelis this week suffered a new trauma: A suicide bomber who took three innocent lives at a provincial railway station on Sunday was a fellow citizen. Mohammed Shaker Habeishi, who was born in Acre and lived for...…
…TERROR from page 20 lance is a lesson Israelis have learned the hard way over the decades, he said it will take considerable effort to impress it on the American consciousness. And the Israel experience teaches that the fight against terrorism demands changes to everyday life — changes that will certainly be incon- venient and may run afoul of the per- sonal freedom Americans have come to expect as their birthright. "It means that checks at a...…
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…Please join us for a community-wide Women's Day of Learning Beginning Anew: Awakening Our Jewish Souls Hitting Home featuring Rabbi Debra Orenstein Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner After terror attacks, Detroiters turn to prayer, blood donation and security precautions. Rabbi Debra Orenstein is a popular author and teacher of Judaism, spirituality and gender studies. Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner is a reknowned author and teacher from the Jewish ...…
…"We're all united in our grief, outrage and resolve to see democ- racy and freedom tri- umph over hatred and terror." — Rabbi Daniel Nevins Adat Shalom Synagogue "We must pull together as one peo- ple ro grieve for those we have lost, to care for their loved ones and for the injured and their families ... to protect our nation and our way of life. America must lead the civilized world in a relentless campaign to root out and defeat terrorist...…
…In The Shadow Of Death Hundreds gather at Young Israel of Oak Park in wake of terrorist attack. the office to hear what was going on," she said. "There was an atmosphere of shock, surprise. Everyone was stunned. We all kept asking, 'What happened? What happened?'" Later, she said, she went to the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park, where televisions were on everywhere. Many wanted to pray for the victims. "Everyone was shocked and crying," ...…
…HITTING HOME from page 27 VON NEUMANN UNVEILED - A SPECIAL REPORT together in prayer for the victims and their families. A community-wide prayer service was held at Young Israel of Oak Park Tuesday evening as was a vigil at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the latter attended by some 15,000 participants. (See related stories, pages 28 and 42, respectively.) Rabbis Herbert Yoskowitz and Daniel Nevins of Adat Shalom Synagogue attended ...…
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…Insight Remember When • Interfaith Healing On the evening of the national tragedy, people of various faiths gathered together locally for support and peace. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer L ike nothing else in recent American history, the Tuesday morning terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., united the nation. Various events around metropoli- tan Detroit underscored that need to be together, regardless of reli- gious, c...…
…inion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.cietroitjewishnews.com Hold High The Light B efore, it was there. Now, it is here. And the challenge for America — suddenly aware that it is as tragically vulnerable as Israel to a monstrous ter- rorism — is to stay as true to itself as the Jewish state has. Deciding what to do, America might learn from the tough discipline that Israel has demonstrated in the year since the new int...…
…OTHER VIEWS From Jerusalem, With Solidarity Jerusalem Iff onday, a day after three suicide bombers blew themselves up all over Israel, killing five more innocent Israeli civilians, I sat writ- ing how I longed for America. From my home in Jerusalem, America shone in the distance, a bea- con of stability and safety, its shores so secure and inviting. Can it be that only 24 hours later my birthplace, the city of New York — the place that edu...…
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…zz:Vat itg lAtllittiONW1: • . . 4 1: After the scroll was completed, the crowd danced around the Torah. 2: Rabbi Yaacov Aaron Amzalak and Rabbi Shea Werner, both of Oak Park, finish the last few letters, watched by Mendel Polter, 11, of Oak Park and Mendel Micholovin, 11, of West Bloomfield. 3.. Rabbi Pinchus Schether of Oak Park rejoices after placing the new Torah in the ark at the Jewish Community Center. 4.. Rabbi Moshe Khusid of ...…
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