…, N,AZIWIer THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP Diddle Cl They've got a mortgage, a car payment, kids in college and a declining standard of living. Page 26 ALSO INSIDE GTE' GUIDE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • NOVEMBER 15, 1991 / 8 KISLEV 5752 Rabbis Form Committee To Help Save The Yeshiva AMY J. MEHLER and PHIL JACOBS y eshiva Beth Yehudah in the past few weeks has weathered a boar...…
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…41114011.11110111001111 CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Middle Class Struggle PHIL JACOBS They've got a mortgage, car payments, kids in college and a declining standard of living. 26 GIFT GUIDE Judaic gifts, treasures and other ideas for Chanukah. center Louisiana Jews prepare to flee a Duke victory. 14 DETROIT • Two events recall Nazi Kristallnacht. ENTERTAINMENT • School uniforms on Akiva agenda. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM She made her mark as a c...…
…EDITORIAL I Chicken Wire And Chewing Gum For months now, rumors have been exchanged with such fervor in Oak Park and Southfield concerning the financial stability of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, that many are being taken as the truth. There have been rumors about teachers' paychecks bouncing at the bank, rumors that the school could be bankrupt and close on a day's notice. Boards of directors have been replaced, and no one wants to discuss the rea...…
…OPINION Honors And Honesty L_LJ1=111'S w Whom we choose to honor says something about us. LEONARD FEIN Special to The Jewish News A t the biennial conven- tion of • the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, one even- ing's program was devoted to a free-wheeling discussion of Jewish ethical dilemmas. The program was moderated by Fred Friendly, and followed the format of his much-praised panel discus- sions on public television: Friend...…
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…DETROIT Night of Broken Glass Recalled As 'The Beginning Of Genocide' ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor T he memorial ceremony began with the reading of a prom- ise, "God who guards you will not slumber." On the wall in the sanctuary hung pictures of the dead: men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. This past Sunday, hun- dreds of area residents met at Young Israel of Southfield to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Kr...…
…THE MOST TIMELY EVENT OF THIS SEASON Akiva Board OKs School Uniforms AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer N o matter what the ar- biters of children's back-to-school fash- ion concoct next fall, students at Akiva Hebrew Day School will likely be wearing new polyester uniforms. The board of directors at Akiva voted 13-9 on Nov. 5 to require uniforms next fall. The cost is expected to be $35-50 per uniform. Dr. Harvey Lefkowitz, a board member and pa...…
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…CLOSE-UP Class truggle PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor r- ill hey've got a mortgage payment for a four-bedroom house on a cul-de-sac. Their car has automatic door locks and cruise control. Their oldest child is a sophomore in college. Their gold card is maxed out, and suddenly they find themselves sinking in a sea of bills. Sound like it's not happening to anyone familiar? Social workers say we won't have to look far to find someone we know w...…
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…DETROIT Yeshiva Continued from Page 1 "The Yeshiva is a complicated business organization. This yeshiva is facing new problems we haven't faced in the past:' Rabbi E.B. Bunny Freedman The Yeshiva's Sally Allan Alexander Beth Jacob School in Oak Park. Rabbi E.B. Bunny Freedman: Almost resigned from the Yeshiva. 30 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991 rangements and an advance of $50,000 in Federation allocations for the fiscal year 1991-92. The Fe...…
…"Basically, we have a big problem at the Yeshiva. The problem is finances." Rabbi Nachman Kahn Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's Joseph Tannenbaum School for Boys in Southfield. doesn't haven't enough solid reserves for tough times like we're going through now. "We've faced some real problems concerning finan- cial obligations and some real differences of opinion in the approach of educational goals," he said. "If we've learned anything from this, it'...…
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…BACKGROUND Settlements The Focus Of Mideast Peace Talks Washington and Israel appear headed for a showdown over the issue of new Jewish towns on land claimed by Palestinians. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent W ashington and Jerusalem are on course for a major showdown over Jewish set- tlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip following this month's Middle East peace conference in Madrid. Hanan Ashrawi, the soph- isticated and articul...…
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…immimml NEWS I ed with the inaction of governments "might yet provide Nazi war criminals with immunity from pros- ecution." The "continuing depriva- tion of rights of Syrian Jews" was another subject raised at the meeting, chief- ly by Canadian Irwin Cotler, a professor of law at McGill University. Mr. Cotler, who serves as counsel to the association, denounced "the acts 6f reprisal" against Syrian Jews, especially those at- tempting to exerc...…
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…•"°1 SYNAGOGUES I HUNGRY??? SO ARE OTHERS! Make Sandwiches for the Hungry Beth El Men Host Activities Certified financial planner Audrey Pearl will speak at the Temple Beth El Brother- hood breakfast 9:30 a.m. Nov. 24. Her speech is entitled "It's Never Too Early." Audrey Pearl is president of Pearl and Mack Advisory Corp. The first woman to achieve the designation of certified financial planner from the State of Michigan, she has been in...…
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