…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Shoah Answer: Social Action ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor S ometimes he can almost smell the burn- ing flesh and see the children tossed alive into the fiery ovens of Auschwitz. And in those moments, Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Green- berg cannot speak of God. He wonders, "What can we say in the face of those chil- dren?" The answer: "The single most religious state- ment...…
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…LUP FRONT I Soviet Couple Ties the Knot To Celebrate Valentine's Day SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer U Michael and Tanya Fingerman Men's Clubs Told To Push For Justice ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor S ocial justice must be a major ingredient on the Jewish communal agenda if the United States is to continue to be a haven for Jews. Speaking to the 57th an- nual Intercongregational Men's Club dinner last week at Temple Israel, Rabbi David Saper...…
…EDITORIAL I The Challenge Of The Budget Resettling Soviet Jews, whether in Israel or Detroit, is an expensive and time- consuming propositiori. Communal leaders are correct in placing it at the top of their fund-raising and service-delivery agendas. The challenge, however, will be how well the Jewish Welfare Federation and its agencies can progress with other impor- tant projects. While enjoying a temporary reprieve, the Home For Aged faces ...…
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…CLOSE-UP Mark Schlussel is the first observant Jew to become president of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Uno GARY ROSENBLATT Editor 1111 ark Schlussel doesn't fit the mold of Federation presi- dent. He is Orthodox, does not belong to Franklin Hills Country Club, and his an- nual Allied Jewish Cam- paign gift is in five figures rather than six. Yet Schlussel is president of the Jewish Welfare Fed- eration of Detroit and says that fact alon...…
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…MOVIES Hollywood Confronts The Holocaust Director Paul Mazursky directs Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story. The film is based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel about four Holocaust survivors in New York — a man and the three women he marries. TOM TUGEND Special to The Jewish News S Paul Mazursky directs Margaret Sophie Stein, left, Ron Silver and Anjelica Huston in a confrontational scene in Enemies, A Love Story. Just in time for the ...…
…Willem Dafoe, who plays the Jewish Greek Salamo Arouch in the film Triumph Of The Spirit, hugs the real Arouch, who bo)-Ce-at 'b survive in Nazi concentration camps. On the right is the film's producer, Arnold Koppelson. death camps must be found in the hour-by-hour, day-by- day life (as a matter of fact, the initial working title of the film was Day by Day). Triumph, whose brief Greek scenes were filmed in Haifa and Jaffa, rings least true i...…
…MOVIES Constantin Costa-Gavras has directed the new film, Music Box. In the film, Jessica Lange plays an attorney who defends her father after he has been accused of war crimes against the Jews. unblinking view could allow, Masha to observe: "Some (of the survivors) had become rich in America, had opened factories, hotels, super- markets. The widowers had taken new wives, the widows new husbands . . . Men who had been smugglers in Nazi Germa...…
…Jessica Lange plays an attorney who defends her father (played by Armin Mueller-Stahl), accused of crimes against the Jews, in the upcoming film Music Box. Michael Hooker, right, plays the defendant's son. Not Just Another Holocaust Film' O Despite the similarities, producer Irwin Winkler says his new movie is not based on the controversial trial. ne of Hollywood's most successful in- dependent producers, whose films have won 11 Academy Aw...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY The Haven Continued from Page 2 language in a decree re- quiring that "pogromists and persons inciting to pogroms be outlawed?' Later, in a historic address broadcast to the Russian people, Lenin cried: "Shame on those who for- ment hatred toward the Jews." President Gorbachev, glasnost's great advocate has repeatedly insisted that he draws his inspira- tion from Lenin. He could take a leaf from his men- tor's book by now ...…
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…FOCUS Something Old Something New SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer M arty Feldman took one look at the Jimmy Prentis Mor- ris Jewish Community Center 11 years ago and decided changes had to be made. "It was not a happy look- ing place," Feldman said re- cently while standing in the JPM lobby and remember- ing a room filled with folding chairs instead of the wide, cushioned chairs and sofas which now occupy the space. Feldman, together with fellow...…
