…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MARCH 15, 1991 / 29 ADAR 5751 HMC Will Lose $115,000 In Engler's Budget Trimming KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer M ichigan Gov. John Engler's proposed 1991 - 92 state budget would slash the state's $115,000 contribution from the Holocaust Memorial Center's annual budget of $900,000. The HMC cuts, unveiled last week to the legislature, are part of Mr. Engler's plan to c...…
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…CONTENTS OPINION CLOSEUP Opening The Door JAMES BESSER IRA RIFKIN AMY J. MEHLER Women still face bias in Jewish communal life. 24 A first-hand look sways opinions on land for peace. Our family section is devoted to persons with special needs. center BOOKS Mentchkin Makers Two local women are making their mark on children and literature. 71 SINGLE LIFE Roommates From Hell AMY J. MEHLER A few war stories from the singles' apartm...…
…EDITORIAL The War After The War Starts In Middle East In Israel, the current U.S. diplomatic push in the Mideast is being referred to as "the war after the war." It's not that Israelis are opposed to the prospect of peace with their Arab neighbors. Far from it. It's just that after more than four decades of constant hostility and hatred from the Arab world, they view Secretary of State James Baker's current mission with a healthy dose of ske...…
…OPINION Territory For Peace? Remember Tel Fahar AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer T 2 er-ritory for peace. It never ceases to enrage me. President George Bush thinks Israel should trade territory it seized during Arab-Israeli wars for peace and secure borders. He told America so last Wednesday night. "The time has come to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict," Mr. Bush said before a live, televised joint session of Congress. "By now, it shou...…
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…UP FRONT The French Disconnection: Ethnic Tensions Worry Jews HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T he kosher restaurants along Rue Richer in the Montmartre district of Paris are packed with noisy, cheerful lun- chtime diners. Up and down the street, travel agents advertise bargain flights to Israel and trips to New York to "spend Passover with the Rebbe." The atmosphere is one of exuberant self- confidence. Yet across Paris, in the fashion...…
…YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T•Shirt! Continued from Page 6 of Iraqi poison gas plants to Israel, he was endangering the Reagan Administration's political agenda, not the in- telligence community's sour- ces or methods. He thinks the Israelis would have con- sidered a pre-emptive attack on the Iraqi chemical fac- tories before they became ful- ly operational. It was his decision not to re- main silent about the Iraqi poison gas threat to Isr...…
…A RESOURCE CENTER But serious questions re- main unanswered. America has recently learn- ed there are some nations with whom, like it or not, one cannot deal reasonably. If an Arab state is willing to violate sovereignty, pillage and plunder its Arab neigh- bor, how will they deal with their enemy, the Jew? If a "peace treaty" is mere- ly a smoke screen to negotiate Israel into an insecure posi- tion, while the Arabs bide their time, what is ...…
…Have you heard from one of these people Carol Aaron Marilyn Acker Martin J Adelman Lloyd Jay Adelson Rochelle Adler Jeffrey B Alsen Gail L Alpert Lloyd Alpert Ellen J Alter Peter M Alter Irwin M Alterman Sharon Alterman Susan E Alterman Jolie Altman Karen Amber Gina Andrisani Burton L Ansell Marjory Ansell Michelle Friedman Appel Harlene Appelman Tali Arbel A Robert Arnstein Mindy L Aronovitz David S Aronow Harry B Aronow Robert P Aronson Alb...…
…lately L Melissa Lax David Leader Nathan Leader David Lebenbom Linda Lee Terran Leemis Barry Lefkowitz Harold Lefton Alden M Leib Michael S Leib Richard A Lenter Helen Lemer Leonard H Lerner Lorraine Lerner Louise 1 Leasing Jerry S Lesson Geri Lester Eileen Letvin Alan Levenson Miriam L Leventhal Ruth Levi Anna Levin Debbie Levin Fran Levin Murray B Levin Phillip Levin Randle B Levin Robert Levin Susan Levin Yale Levin Alvin Levine Beatrice ...…
…DETROIT U-M Professor Offers Analysis Of Death Patterns In Intifada ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor A pplying what he called an empirical analysis to death pat- terns in the intifada, a Uni- versity of Michigan- Dearborn professor sug- gested Israeli soldiers have been anything but re- strained in trying to control the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. Speaking last week for the Wayne State University Center for Peace a...…
…Township Commission Rejects Temple Plans SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer • • • • C oncerned about possi- ble parking and traffic problems, the West Bloomfield Planning Commission recommended township officials deny Temple Shir Shalom's plans to build a new facility. Stunned silence greeted the commissioners when they voted 5-3 March 12 against Shir Shalom's pro- posal to build a temple on the southeast corner of Walnut Lake and Orchard Lake r...…
…DETROIT JCCA NATIONWIDE JEWISH SINGLES TRIP JUNE 9-16, 1991 Agal%\ JONAS TENENBAUM'S CLUB MED VACATION PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS It was the first time I'd gone on a Club Med vacation. Talk about a great place to meet people. Nightly entertainment, sports instruction, three full-course meals and the special JCCA sponsored activities enhanced my days in the sun. Your magnificent Club Med Vacation will begin with a phone call to: BON VOYAGE T...…
…DR. MARCIE OLEINICK-GOLDSTEIN DR. KEVIN M. GOLDSTEIN Impact Of War Is Council Topic With the Persian Gulf war still fresh in everyone's memories, the Jewish Com- munity Council is taking up the issue of what now for Israel and the United States? On Thursday, March 21, beginning at 7:45 p.m. at Adat Shalom, speaker Douglas Bloomfield will ad- dress the Jewish Commun- ity Council's Community Assembly on these issues. Mr. Bloomfield is a forme...…
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…CLOSE-UP Closing the Gender Gap JAMES D. BESSER and IRA RIFKIN VW hen Baltimore's Shosha- na Cardin became the first female to head the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations late last year, Jewish women around the country rejoiced in the knowledge that her election had defied the conventional wisdom that only a man could win the coveted post. But despite Mrs. Cardin's pioneering efforts, the general perception is...…
…A minority: Shoshana S. Cardin, first female to chair the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is one of the few women to reach the top of the Jewish communal world. She chats here with Detroit's Mark Schlussel, left, and David Mondry. moving into leadership positions at a much higher rate than did previous ge- nerations." But Ms. Levine, who went on to become chairwoman of the National Jewish Community Relations A...…
…tials, Mr. Rubin concluded, are primarily a function of workplace demographics — meaning de facto discrimination, rather than overt discrimination. "The average male salary is higher be- cause of more men in the top slots (and those positions) haven't turned over," he said. "But in equal positions, there are equal salaries." Ironically, the impact of larger numbers of women entering the Jewish communal field has also worked to slow salary ad- ...…
…Number of Women Serving on Detroit Federation Board Barely Increases AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer SHIRLEY HARRIS LINDA LEE MICHELLE PASSON T he number of Detroit women who serve as officers and board members of the city's Jewish Welfare Federation has barely increased in the last five years. Women occupy 14 of the 99 seats on the JWF board of governors, the Federation's top body of lay leadership. Five years ago, women held 13 of 93 board...…
…Gender Gap Continued from Page 26 The study, conducted by Barry Kosmin, director of the North American Jewish Data Bank, surveyed 92 men and women from 92 of 187 Jewish federations nation- wide. It was updated in 1986 and tracked women's leader- ship from 1975 to 1979. Mr. Kosmin's study also charted the percentage of women as board members and officers, as well as the percentage of women on fed- eration committees. The study found that wome...…
…EVV1SH VOCATIONAL Jacqueline Levine: still After Equality N early two decades after jolting the American Jewish communal world with her well-documented claims of wide-spread gender bias, Jacqueline Levine remains frustrated with what she terms the limited progress women have made in both lay (volunteer) and professional roles. It particularly rankles her, she said, in light of the American Jewish commun- ity's professed progressiveness. "We ...…
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…▪ ▪ • c.• „ - 4' e 0 6 • -*- co c k l ijA 4,6 The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit and The Jewish News present PROJECT CHAMETZ A Community-Wide Effort to Feed the Hungry Passover commemorates the celebration of our deliverance from hardship. In the spirit of the holiday, and its challenge to "Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat," Project Chametz will collect and distribute your parcels of food to the needy thro...…
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…BACKGROUND A PLO Without Arafat? The goal of Israel and the United States — finding an alternative leader for the Palestinians — may be easier said than done. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent y assir Arafat is in the Bush administration dog house for his sup- port of Saddam Hussein, but finding an alternative leader for the PLO may be easier said than done. While Mr. Arafat is detested in most of the Arab world and is now a liability to...…
…DETROIT Own A Piece of History! MICHAEL ZIPSER Rare Coin Investment Specialist Zip's Investment Pick of the Week: 1850 Dahlonega $5 00 Gold Photo by Bo b McKeown Graded AU50. This date is an extreme rarity in grades above extra fine. In his 70 year study, Acres says he has never seen an AU specimen offered at public auction other than the Bell example sold in 1944. This coin is one of the top four ever graded and is being offered at: $...…
…Complete Auto Repair a Foreign & Domestic mony could be as simple as peeling carrots over a gar- bage can and standing over a stove tending to a pot of rice. No one seemed to care who did what or who worked together as long as the meal was ready on time. Olivia Denha, 13, is too young to be part of the Chal- dean youth group, but she begged her sister, Dalia, 15, if she could come to serve the families. "I just wanted to help out," Olivia sa...…
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…Israelis Establish Sabra Hadassah ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor S uzy Abileah was educated at Hadassah Hospital and her daughter, Orit, was born there. Since coming in 1987 to Detroit, Mrs. Abileah has increased her ties to the medical organization. This year, she joined the new Sabra chapter of Hadassah, the first Hadassah chapter of Israelis in the Midwest and the second in the country. The first all-Israeli Hadassah chapter was s...…
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…PROFILE A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN ... C I TNY HALL LINDA WATER Special to The Jewish News B en Rothstein says he is trying to rescind the 19th amendment. That's the one which gave American women the right to vote. But he says it with a chuckle and a twinkle in his eye. After all, he has been married for 40 years to Charlotte Rothstein, Oak Park's mayor. Mrs. Rothstein has been the mayor since 1981, but her path to Oak Park City Hall was not ...…
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…COMMUNITY Detroit Area Jewish Agencies Planning Events For Passover Midrasha-College of Jewish Studies and the synagogue. The Fresh Air Society has created a special Passover greeting card to send to campers who have applied for the coming camping season. The card has been translated Many events are open to the community. Others are geared to specific audiences. into Russian for new Americans who will attend camp this summer. Family-to-Fam...…
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