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…DETROIT JEWISR VIEWS Contents la A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards www.detroitjewishnews.com February 16, 2001 Shevat 23, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 1 Spirituality This Week 58 Cyber Cantor - 10 Logging On MSUs Jewish Studies Program leaping into distance learning. *Tree Opinion 31 Two Courts, Two Balls Israelis and Palestinians - must-re-join the peace path. 65 Presidential Swee...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Beyond The Message ebrew Christians, Jews for Jesus, "messianic Jews" — whatever their label, Jews need to be vigilant of their message. The audacity of proselytizers trying to convert Jews to accepting Jesus as their messiah is grabbing headlines from Detroit to Palm Beach. Well versed in what to say and highly skilled in their approach, these evangelicals especially target teenagers, college students and senior citizens —...…
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…For Openers We'll put all your ducks in a row. Disney Bound Double your usable closet space. ZO2001 SUSAN TAWIL Special to the Jewish News By Goldfein VIT bile most of his friends were freezing, Yonah Pollack, 11, enjoyed a sun-drenched Disney dream vacation in Orlando, Fla. The trip was Yonah's prize for winning the local "Race Against Drugs," a free miniature car race promotion held in the Oak Park Kmart parking lot last summer. He a...…
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…The Israel you don't see on the nightly news. j) c3 O 0 HI Photographed at the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, on February 2, 2001 Visitors gaze in awe at the Dead Sea Scrolls, as usual. Life goes on. And thousands of tourists are arriving every day. Tourists are drawn to the splendor of the Tower of David, as they've always been. But you don't see that on the evening news. Talk to our people and you will sense, as alw...…
…This Week L o ggi ng 0 11 Michigan State's Jewish Studies Program gets ready to leap into distance learning. DIANA LIEBERMAN StafTWriter ro eter McPherson, president of Michigan State University, has one of those sincere, open faces that signals emotions like a lighthouse. And when he talks about the future of MSU's Jewish Studies Program, his face shines with enthusiasm. All the facts and figures associated with the pro- gram are growing...…
…U.S. Green Card Amnesty includes seven part-time teachers. Most, including Weiland, also are members of other academic depart- ments. A capital campaign, led by the MSU Jewish Studies Advisory Board, has raised more than $1.2 million toward a $3.2 million campaign for two endowed chairs in Jewish studies. In addition, two other faculty members are being recruited. "We need at least that many for a full department," Weiland said. Other possibl...…
…This Week New Administrator Shows Knowledge The new administrator of the Sara Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center introduced himself to a portion of the Jewish community in a unique way Feb. 1. He was in action at Congregation Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel, where he so impressed the audience with his com- prehension of Tanach (Bible) that they all but stopped participating in the pro- gram. He also was an audience member. Rabbi Avraham Wineberg wow...…
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…Spiritual Warmup Learn together Jewishly, Rabbi Kushner tells SAJE audience. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter chavurah." He described Rabbi Kushner as an accomplished author, who helped shape the national agenda of personal and institutional spirituality. With a mixture of wisdom and humor, Rabbi Kushner proceeded with the evening's interactive study topic, inter- jecting such tidbits as a condensation of the first two commandments, whic...…
…group that can be fraught with confusion and pressure. "It's the pressure to succeed, plus a need for accept- ance, that makes teens a key target for 'messianic' groups," said Alexis Konigsberg, 16, a student at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, adding that she knows "kids who have been to one o these services and they've gotten letters asking them back. They're kids who I went to Jewish day school with and you'd never expect...…
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…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs MAESTROS OF MUSICAL EVOLUTION Jewish culture has been wedded to music and song since earliest times. Within the great temple of Jerusalem, the psalms were sung by Levites to one of history's oldest forms of musical notation. Many centuries later, cantorial music and the melodies of folk musicians called klezmorim flourished, but were played solely within Jewish communities. This would change. By the 19th Century,...…
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…Despite conventional wisdom, Sharon may be able to forge a stable government. LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent Jerusalem 10 veryone knew the election last week would go well for Ariel Sharon. The advance skepticism concerned the days after. Pre-Election Day consensus wisdom had been that even with a landslide victory under his belt, Sharon would be unable to rule effec- tively. The Knesset was just too fractious. His government would be...…
…This Week Cover Story Return To Barbarism Palestinians step up violence; bus driver kills eight Israelis. the Egged bus company for the past five years ferrying Palestinians to Jerusalem jobs in Israel. Witnesses to the he Palestinians appear attack said the bus stop determined to guarantee was packed with sol- that Ariel Sharon does not diers and civilians wait- enjoy a honeymoon. ing for lifts when the Just as Israeli security officials ...…
…. . v,44 :me t iN S* * Hold The Steak Sharon won't give Arafat concessions while Palestinians violence rages: diplomat. JACOB SCHREIBER Jewish Renaissance Media Atlanta T he genesis of the current Palestinian intifada (upris- ing) was not Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in September, says Meir Rosenne, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. It started in June when the IDF high-tailed it out of Lebanon. In Atlanta la...…
…Tpink Snow Cover Story JOV N CHALLENGE from page 23 Friday, March 2 • 10-6 Saturday, March 3 • 10-5 Receive a 10% Discount meet with residents in Gilo on Election Day, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said there are precedents for changing the image of a hawkish Israeli leader. "When Menachem Begin came in, the same sorts of things were said about him as are being said about Sharon, but he made the peace with Egypt," Olmert notes. The issue of...…
…News Digest Injured Athlete Gets Compensation Sydney/JTA — Australian Jewish lead- ers applauded Israef's decision to pay $4 million in compensation to Sasha Elterman, an Australian athlete seri- ously injured when a bridge collapsed at the opening ceremony of the 1997 Maccabiah Games. Community leaders told JTA it is now likely that Australia will participate in the 16th Maccabiah Games slated for July in Israel, but this is conditional on ...…
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…40111111AMMNSIi. • This Week ilk, A Insight Remember When • • From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. The Mystery of History Scholar Ellen Frankel delights audience with her talk on superstition and symbols from Jewish folk traditions. SHARON LUCKERMAN Editorial Assistant ost Jews have experienced or practiced tradi- tions rooted in superstitions. Your bubbie spits three times "tu, tu, tu" whe...…
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…inion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Two Courts, Two Balls A fter seven years of trying to cooperate on ways to resolve their differences, the Palestinians and the Israelis have each chosen in the last four months to walk on separate paths. Ultimately these paths must join again. In the meantime, each side faces its own challenges, affect- ed naturally by the other's decision, but ulti...…
…OTHER VIEWS A Sharon-Led Israel IV hat does the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister — Israel's fifth in just six years — mean for Israel, for its relations with its neighbors and with the United States, and for us? First, let's begin by reviewing the basic facts of the election. Sharon swept to victory by a 3-2 margin over incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This was by far the largest mar- gin of victory since Israelis began vot- i...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY PRISONERS OF HOPE from page 31 First Union Securities is please to announce that The Gildenberg Investment Group preclude a peace agreement at a later time. Such damaging steps include the expansion of settlements and the building of roads and installations that would render a contiguous Pales- tinian state impossible. Is Ariel Sharon capable of being such a prime minister? I do not know, and I dare say no one does. Acc...…
…SPECIAL CODIMINTART DEAD-END from page 32 o Celebrate resident's D Lincoln Center regardless of budgetary mandates. Rule of law, or rule of factions? Political dissidents advocate elec- tion of Knesset members by districts, making them at long last representa- tive of voters, not parties. Having leg- islators responsible to constituents, not bosses, would increase pressure for effective government — from pol- lution control to regional dip...…
…Community Calendar 46 Mazel Toy! 49 Tidal Me A Winner West Bloomfield High teen wins a top honor in the country's oldest art competition for middle and high school students. SHARON LUCKERMAN Editorial Assistant W Top: Winning art piece, Tidal Me, combines photography and computer graphics. Above: West Bloomfield senior Lesley Serri with her first art awards: covers of the Jewish News. hen Abbott Middle School art teacher Joyce Brods...…
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…Federations Main Event Hosts Pulitzer Winner Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author Bob Woodward will be the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's "Main Event," 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Woodward, assistant managing edi- tor of the Washington Post, has been a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 30 years. He won the Pulitzer in 1973 for his and reporter Carl...…
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