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…JIN JEW/EINEM www.detroitjewishnews.com January 15, 1999 Vol. CXIV, No. 21 Rainy clays and fun clays... at camp. page 58 This Week 12 150 for a family dinner page 10 Enough, Already Two weeks of snow slows some Jewish communal services. 23 The Security Question Israel grapples with free speech after death threat mars campaign. Camp 55 Resisting Cyberia Camps are staying away from the technological revolution — for now B u si n es...…

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…Enougli Already E 7-- LONNY GOLDSMITH and HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writers IN ost communal agencies say - they held their own as metro Detroit was repeated- ly blanketed with snow over the past two weeks, but some services, such as deliv- eries to shut-ins and grave digging, had to bow to the elements at least a bit. All five day schools either shut down for one or more days, opened late or sent students home early. "Meals on Wheels could- n'...…

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…And Morris Benjamin taco Rebecca And JULIE WIENER Staff Writer The Levin Family club, 200 strong, celebrates its 50th year. 1/15 1999 10 Detroit Jewish News ith membership dues, bylaws and monthly meetings run according to Roberts Rules of Order, the Levin family is a bit more organized than your typical multi- generational brood. That's because the Levins are not ,_/ just a family, but a club, and have been so for 50 years now, a mil...…

…Business calls. family) and the roads blanketed with snow. And they were noisy. \---"We're all hams in one way or /another," says Seymour Zate. "We don't take things too seriously." The Levins are descendants of three brothers and a sister from the town of Ruzan, in Poland. In 1905, 16-year- old Morris Yellen (the surname was changed to Levin at Ellis Island) set off for America, escaping draft in the Polish army. Morris found his way to ,LJe...…

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…COHN - HADDOW CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY AND BORDERS FARMINGTON HILLS presents a lecture at Borders by Dr. Elizabeth Heineman Associate Professor, Department of History, Bowling Green State University "The Transformation of Anne Frank: From Doomed Diarist to Symbol of Hope" As Anne Frank has been trans- formed from one teenaged girl into a universal symbol of the Holocaust, she has taken on a wide variety of mean...…

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…Persistent Differences Religious pluralism battle erupts anew in Israel. AVI MACHLIS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem E xactly one year ago, a committee headed by former Israeli Finance Minister Ya'acov Ne'eman was putting the finish- ing touches on what was billed as a historic compromise over the conversion crisis in Israel. It aimed to usher in a new era of dialogue between Orthodoxy and the liberal streams of Judaism and to start a...…

…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs failure to agree on a constitution has \ left persistent ambiguities. Israel's Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to Jews, has his- torically been the source of the prob- lem. The law was amended in 1970 to define a Jew, for the purpose of receiv- ing citizenship, as "one born of a Jewish mother or who has converted." Since then, groups representing the haredi, or "fervent," side of Orthodoxy \-1-i...…

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…• • . • .... . Washington Watch Fighting celemency for Pollard JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent he Jonathan Pollard contro- versy came to a high boil this week — again — as the White House collected comments from a host of federal agencies as part of President Bill Clinton's promised reevaluation of the case for commutation. Most of that input was negative — much of it vehement, according to reports here. In anticipation of a pos...…

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…Differing Views Of Zionism Y KIRSBAUM Writer he vote to excise the destruc- tion of Israel from the Palestinian Charter in front of President Clinton was a arade, and part of the on Israel should not ie any additional terri- ry to the Palestinians part of the Wye reement, said Jerome • ufman, president of nist Organization of nerica-Metro Detroit District. Not so, replied Kenneth Knoppow, ong-time peace activist and local liai- n to the Ame...…

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…H DAVID LANDAU Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem s Israel plunges into an election campaign, the country is struggling to find the right balance between being a boisterous democracy and a :,-society still trau- matized by the 1995 assassina- tion of Yitzhak Rabin. Within days after campaigning began, a debate welled up over the - acceptable limits of public discourse as Israelis react — sometimes with barely disguised rancor — to the ca...…

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…itorials Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Making The Grade E very Allied Jewish Campaign donor should care about the learning benchmarks that a new umbrella group says it will propose for local day and supplemental schools. Jewish education, especially during the highly impressionable adolescent and teen years, is the keystone to Jewish continuity. Students, parents and the genera...…

…AIWA COMMINTART The Entire Detroit Jewish Community Should Be Proud Of Akiva's Accomplishments MICHAEL N. GREENBAUM Special to The Jewish News ulie Wiener's article about Akiva Hebrew Day School ("Akiva: The Roads Ahead" Jan. 1) is sadly misleading, ignoring that the best way to measure the success of an organization is by its "product" — in Akiva's case, its graduates. Academically, Akiva graduates are consistently represented on the list ...…

…serve COMMENTARY _A Public Forum Is The Right Place To Discuss The State Of Akiva ISAAC LAKRITZ Special to The Jewish News 7 he Jewish News has provided a great service to our commu- nity by its perceptive article about Akiva Hebrew Day School ("Akiva: The Roads Ahead" Jan. 1) Akiva is one of a number of institu- tions that provide direct service to the Detroit Jewish community. Too often, /D such organizations are insulated from the acco...…

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…"sicinz" vho are they to evaluate Akiva's cur- riculum and graduates? - Helene Lefkowitz Shira Schreiber Akiva Hebrew Day School Lathrup Village Graduates Do Well Hillel Day School parents, we are walled by your hatchet job on Yeshi- tva Akiva ("Akiva: The Roads Ahead" Ian. 1). We have many friends who are Akiva families and have seen their chil- dren grow up and graduate from Akiva. All of these graduates have suc- cessfully made their tr...…

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…Community Calendar Families... a I ■ Zinderman. (248) 851-5100. Monday, Jan. 18 European Coffee House for Holocaust survivors and their families, 12:45-2 p.m. Entertainment: members of Lira, Larisa Matusova, Ida Kogan and Rivka Latinskaya, sings "Songs of Our Memories," accompanied by pianist Lyudmila Lebedintseva. Sponsors: DMC/Sinai Hospital and the Jewish Community Center. Donations accepted. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Thursday, Jan. 21...…

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…Bar/Bat. Mitzvah James Boyle and the late Nona and Max Goldberg. Mitzvah projects include his ongoing work with a developmentally dis- abled seven-year-old boy through the Friendship Circle, volunteering at the Temple Israel library and donating to the Birmingham Autistic Program. Attending Derby Middle School in Birmingham, Michael is a mem- ber of the Birmingham Lacrosse League. He enjoys all outdoor activi- ties, especially snowboarding, c...…

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