…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Darkness To Light SPORTS Survival Game KIMBERLY LIFTON ADRIEN CHANDLER If it's a racquet, The Holocaust Center's volunteer guides educate a new generation. Leonard Karpeles has swung it for 55 years. 22 45 OPINION 'I Told You So' makes Israel's case. DETROIT 14 • Some Jewish views of Valentine's Day. • Teaching Judaism in the Soviet Union. EDUCATION 41 Local educators have new tools at their disposal. REV...…
…EDITORIAL Budget Cuts And Robert Steinberg News from Lansing and Governor Engler is not very promising concern- ing budget cuts that will have a very real affect on the services provided by the organized Jewish community. State budget slashing promises to have a very real affect on the ability of local agencies to help Jews in need. At a time when national Jewish leaders are calling for increased giving to help settle a million Soviet Jews i...…
…The 'I Told You So' View Makes Israel's Case GARY ROSENBLATT Editor George Bush and James Ba- ker are busy men, but I hope they'll consider what I call the I Told You So analysis of the Gulf war, a basic primer for assessing vital lessons already learned. Virtually all of these im- portant lessons originated with arguments Jerusalem has been making to Wash- ington for years, but many of them, it seems, had fallen on deaf ears. Hence the I T...…
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…UP FRONT San Francisco Charged With Encouraging Hate GARTH WOLKOFF Special to The Jewish News R ecent actions by San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, Police Chief Willis Casey and the Board of Supervisors have fostered an environment that could lead to anti-Semitism, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has charged. The designation of the city as a sanctuary for conscien- tious objectors gives greater freedom to express anti- Semitism wit...…
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…a -1C 7 ^c 54'oec2y Monday Evening, March 4, 11, 18, 25 ONE AND ONE-HALF HOUR CLASS — 7:20-8:50 p.m. Temple Israel's Center for Lifelong Learning Monday Evening, March 4, 11, 18, 25 FIRST HOUR: 7:20-8:10 p.m. will explore the major political and social issues facing American Jews today. Special emphasis will be given to Israel and the Middle East. Current Events From A Jewish Perspective Learn how to make traditional Passover foods inc...…
…DETROIT Kishinev Yeshiva: Love Of Torah And Spaghetti For Breakfast ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor A 5-year-old, chubby cheeked boy wan- dered through the front door of the Kishinev yeshiva. "Can you teach me Heb- rew?" he asked the Ameri- can rabbi standing before him. "I want to go to Israel." The boy was typical of other Soviet Jews with whom Rabbi Yoel Sperka met during his two-month stay at the Kishinev yeshiva. Eager to learn ...…
…(ley ce‘'• explains the association with lovers as the survival of a pagan ritual in which men chose their partners from a box filled with the names of young women. Today, the widespread distribution of valentines br- ings happiness not only to senders and recipients, but also to members of the greeting card companies, noted Rabbi Lane Steinger of Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. "As far as Christian holi- days go, Valentine's Day has become fai...…
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…• r Complete Auto Repair a MR. MECH AUTO SERVICE CENTER Foreign & Domestic Metropolitan Detroit, the seminar provided factual in- formation on Israel and up- to-date information on events in Israel from Ofra Ben Yakov, a diplomat at the Israeli consulate in Chicago. Educators also received advice on how to help children cope with the psychological effects of war. "We need to open the line of communication so we can deal with all our anxie...…
…April 1991 SMTWTFS 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 1 12 13 14 15 16 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 M a y CIRCLE THESE s DATES M 1991 F S 3 4 T W 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 T 2 5 6 12 13 19 20 26 27 28 29 30 31 HILLEL for DAY SCHOOL - Wednesday Evening, April 10th - - Wednesday Evening, May 1st - , W410,74,Ms, Former assistant secretary a Public Affairs and form_ st ate deports Joe Stamell's Dynamic Wearitiaster 851.3883 FOREIGN...…
…LOCAL NEWS 1 Adat Shalom Purim Party With sale pices this great, even amateurs can save big. Adat Shalom Synagogue will hold its annual fund- raiser, Purim Party Plus, 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the synagogue. "Let There Be Light" is the theme of Purim Party Plus VIII, which will raise funds to improve the lighting in the synagogue's main sanctuary. Cantor Simon Spiro, will be the featured entertainer in a cabaret performance. Cantor Spiro is popula...…
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…Israelis Laugh At War Humor Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's involvement in the Persian Gulf war as a non-combatant target has given rise to a sort of gallows humor. Although the latest jokes are just variations of gags many say have been around for generations, the enter- prising Jerusalem Post published its first anthology of war jokes Feb. 11. Some samples: A Jew, a Moslem and a Christian rush to the roof to watch a Scud missile attack. The Jew l...…
…The Holocaust Center's volunteer guides are educating a new generation. …
…DARKNESS TO um, ADRIEN CHANDLER Special to The Jewish News El or Mark Lively's world history class, Holocaust was hardly more than some words printed on the pages of a text- book. As part of the class unit on World War I, the students studied the rise of Nazism and the attempts to systematically destroy an entire group of people. This was a horrible story describing long- ago atrocities so remote and unfathomable, and so unlike their mode...…
…Darkness Continued from preceding page Most of the students emerged at the end of the tour wearing stunned, uncomfortable expressions on their faces. Sheila Faulkner, 16, says she gained some insight. "I unders- tand a lot better. It's terrible." Michelle Vergiell, 17, didn't realize the extent of persecution. "I learned that a lot of them (Jews) were persecuted more than what most people would think. A la of peo- ple don't know what actuall...…
…Seventh grader Bashar Shaw (center) listens to stories about the Holocaust. young and old alike. She feels a sense of obligation to the six million Jews who died. "Hitler wasn't successful. We're still here. I feel that Jewish people risked their lives for their religion. This is just my way of do- ing something for all those people." Ethel Goldenberg, 64, is one who surviv- ed the horrors of the concentration camps. She has two reasons for b...…
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…1140141410 Executive Vice President Robert Aronson. "We have three immutable forces: Operation Exodus, local and state cuts. Because of this, there is • a boom in service needs. We must examine and re-allocate our resources. "Whether we are in a bad or good economy, I believe we are not reaching our potential for total con- tributors," he said. "We've been too reliant on too few people. "We established our fun- ding priorities," Mr. Aron- son...…
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…I BACKGROUND Hussein: Hoping To Turn Defeat Into Victory The Iraqi dictator appears to have played his political cards well and is gaining stature as the hero of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Foreign Correspondent A s President Bush ponders the date for committing ground forces to drive the well- entrenched Iraqis out of Kuwait — what Iraq's Pres- ident Saddam Hussein has termed "the mother of all battles" — it is clear that the decision w...…
…( Immimmummulm" Hussein Giant In-Store Continued from preceding page WAREHOUSE SALE! w. Financing Available! No Payments Until August!* BACKGROUND warned bluntly, "there will be no Jordanian Air Force." The position of the Jorda- nian monarch, already seri- ously eroded by the upsurge in radicalism which has gripped his kingdom since the start of the Gulf crisis, might indeed become untenable. Israel's entry into the war is likely to ...…
…em•• ■ ••1 NEWS 'Secret' Jews Rejoin Fold New York (JTA) — The Jewish community in the Portuguese town of Belmonte has returned to the Jewish fold after 500 years of underground exis- tence, helped by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, according to Jack Spitzer, chairman of the foundation's board of trustees. Although their Judaism was submerged in order to survive the Inquisition, the Jews of Belmonte never- theless secretly conduc...…
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…NEW! THE JEWISH NEWS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY Not Just Whistling Dixie Whether or not Baghdad- based CNN reporter Peter Arnett is transmitting Iraqi war propaganda as some critics have charged is, for a brief moment, perhaps less of a mystery than a phrase the correspondent used in Newsweek to refer to 'Israel. In a telephone interview with Newsweek senior writer Jonathan Alter, Mr. Arnett said that his most recent assignment has be...…
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…COMMUNITY Keshet, an organization of Jewish parents with han- dicapped children, will hold its first Detroit chapter meeting 7:30 p.m. Mar. 6 in the Friedman Room at the Agency for Jewish Education. The speaker will be Sara Bland, executive director of the Chicago-based Keshet organization. Keshet is based on the belief that every Jewish child should be able to participate as fully as possible in the mainstream of Jewish life, regardless of d...…
…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit I-- 6600 W. Maple • W. Bloomfield Let Us Entertain You Saturday, February 16th 8:30 p.m. ‘.1+ C.) l 0 The Music of Leonard Bernstein to Andrew Lloyd Webber and more . . . t9 tZ: 0 0 fit /NV 'AN EVENING ON BROADWAY" 6 0 Co-sponsored by: Julius Chajes Music Fund Concert Series „, 0 • 0 0 0 I 0 0 Admission $12.50 Advanced Reservations For further inform...…
…Bat Mitzvah of Lauren Jaye Maddin, daughter of Nancy and Stephen Grand, Richard and Sharon Maddin. Friday Rabbi Polish will speak on - Talking to Your Children About Today's News." Friday Creative Alternative Service at 8 p.m. in the youth room. Saturday: Tot Shabbat. BETH ISAAC 2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 675-0355. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m. TEMPLE BETH JACOB 79 Elizabeth Lake Rd., Pontiac, 332-3212. Rabbi: Richard A. Weiss, Rabbi Emeritus. ...…
…TORAH PORTION DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA invites everyone to attend THE 38th ANNUAL BROTHERHOOD NIGHT PROGRAM Wednesday, February 20, 1991 8:00 p.m. JWV MEMORIAL HOME 16990 W. Twelve Mile, Southfield RABBI IRWIN GRONER Special to The Jewish News T Guest Speakers, JOHN FREEMAN, Department Commander Catholic War Veterans ARTHUR L. JOHNSON, President, Detroit Branch NAACP RABBI MARTIN J. B...…
…m1 SYNAGOGUES I FOR GULF WAR UPDATES, WHY WATCH CENSORED NEWS NETWORKS? HEAR THE ACTION ON YOUR SHORTWAVE RADIO & SCANNER. Rabbi Gordon Lecture Series At Oak Woods The Young Israel of Oak- Woods will hold its annual Rabbi James I. Gordon lec- ture 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at the synagogue. The speaker will be Rabbi Macy Gordon of Jerusalem, director of the Council of Young Israel Rabbis in Israel, and of "Just One Life," a social welfare project dir...…
…Community-Wide Shalach Manot THE GREAT PURIM PARCEL PROJECT Sunday, February 24, 1991 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1 I Drop off your parcels at these locations: • Agency for Jewish Education 12 Mile Road east of Lahser • Fresh Air Society Maple/Drake J.C.C. • Jewish Community Center JPM Building, Oak Park Here's What To Do : Decorate many pretty plates. Include some fruit (dried or fresh), nuts, wrapped KOSHER candy, or small packages of Elite w...…
…Photos by Glenn Triest EDUCATION Hebrew block letter machine. Teachers' Aide Resoume Center gives local educators new tools for their classrooms. SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer W hen Channa Green- field and Flo Ziffer needed new ideas and materials for their Akiva Hebrew Day School classrooms, they turned to the Agency For Jewish Edu- cation Resource Center for assistance. After her trip to the center, Mrs. Greenfield returned to her first g...…
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…SPORTS Game of URVIVAL 80-year-old Leonard Karpeles has been coaching tennis, squash and racquetball for 55 years. KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he first time Leonard Karpeles saw a tennis match, he was a bit confused. It was 1933; he was 22. He had been playing football at a field which abutted some courts and watched intently as the players volleyed the ball for nearly four hours before completing a game. "It intrigued me," he says. ...…
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…NEWS Paris Magazine Told To Recant Paris (JTA) — An extreme right-wing magazine has been ordered to publish a statement denouncing racism and anti-Semitism after a Paris court found it had maligned the Jewish community and placed it in jeopardy. The magazine, Sock of the Month, published a banner headline on its front cover asking "Have The Jews Pushed Us Into The (Gulf) War?" Judge Huguette Le Foyer de Costil ruled that although the publica...…
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…Final Clearance At it fell on hard times years later. By then, the descen- dants of the early German Jews had moved beyond East Baltimore and their former synagogue was slated for demolition so a parking lot could be built. But with the help of con- cerned citizens, a fund-raising campaign was launched, and the Jewish Historical Society purchased and restored the synagogue. "So we're very proud of this building," says Mr. Cohen, who's been l...…
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