…1""Ait.L7r - THIS ISSUE 60c SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JULY 17, 1987 / 20 TAMMUZ 5747 Demjanjuk Mal Takes A Twist Accused concentration camp guard's firing of his American attorney publicizes defense team differences and ruffles the proceedings HELEN DAVIS Special to The Jewish News DELICATE BALANCE A local teen strives for '88 Jerusalem — Mark O'Connor, the attorney from Buffalo, New York who is absolutely convinced that Jo...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY All-Jewish Task: Overcome Undemocratic Extremism PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus An undemocratic extremism, rooted in ultra-Orthodoxy, has been in evidence for some time in Israel. Now there are some bent upon imposing their will upon the rest of society with a fanaticism that bars access to a free press, that would impose their type of fundamentalism upon the entire nation. It is because they are able to garner about a ...…
…Lill S11111111 1 NEWS I Secret Meeting In Kenya Tel Aviv (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Shamir met secretly with Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi during a stopover on the way to Togo, Maariv reported June 23. Moi promised he would con- sider establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel in the near future, but also outlined preconditions. Shamir's entourage stayed on the plane during the 90-minute "refuelling stop," and was told the Premier h...…
…Ah, Fall. From city hip to country casual, find the best of the season in The Jewish News' show-stopping fall fashion magazine, IN STYLE, published the week of August 24. IN STYLE caresses you in fur, dresses you in the latest fashions here and abroad, then takes you behind the scenes at a glamorous New York fashion show. What's IN STYLE for fall? Variety! Look for warm colors, fur-trimmed accessories, co- coon coats and opaque stockings. W...…
…UP FRONT Top Leadership Assignments Given For 1988 AJCampaign Alterman, Dr. Mark Diem, James M. August, Janet Levine, Stuart E. Hertzberg and Dr. Maurice S. Opperer. Burton, this year's agency Cam- paign chairman, will work with board members of Federation's member agencies to get them involved in the fund-raising process. Mondry will oversee Operation Upgrade, aimed at increasing previous gifts, and Rosenfeld and Slatkin will supervise the ...…
…EDITORIAL Determining A Jew The Israeli Knesset vote last week rejecting any changes in the wording of the Law of Return was an excellent example of why the Knesset should not be empowered to make such decisions. By a 62-53 vote, the Knesset rejected a bill aimed at redefining the official Israeli position on Who Is A Jew in a way that would have effectively denied the legitimacy of Reform and Conservative Judaism. As currently written, the ...…
…CONTENTS OPINION I-- 24 CLOSE-UP Now And Forever DAN ACOSTA Joining a national trend, Detroit's Jewish cemeteries are becoming more business oriented in an effort to cut costs while improving their look and services. Candidates' High Marks 32 MORRIS AMITAY Pro-Israel supporters like the Presidential hopefuls, but Jesse Jackson is given low grades. 38 SPORTS Delicate Balance MIKE ROSENBAUM Kurt Waldheim peers at Israel during his ...…
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…emu° 1 NEWS 1 1 GLuGlAisGLingetie swiroweor 87 Private Group To Buy L.A. 'Jewish Journal' New York (JTA) — A private group of Los Angeles Jewish community and business leaders will replace the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles as primary lender to Los Angeles Jewish Publica- tions Inc., the publisher of The Jewish Journal, an indepen- dent Jewish newspaper week- ly there. The purchase averts the sale of the paper, a heavily...…
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…CLOSE-UP Now And Forever Detroit's Jewish cemeteries are becoming big business DAN ACOSTA Special to The Jewish News he street is gone. And forgotten. But the monu- ments remain at the Champlain Street Ceme- tery, the oldest existing Jewish burial ground in Michigan, adjacent to Elmwood Cemetery about two miles east of downtown Detroit. Its upright stones are large, chipped and tilted — their surfaces pitted from more than a century of st...…
…An idyllic scene at Clover Hill. reason why that shouldn't double in six years. That's conservative. Generally speaking, the manage- ment of a cemetery is more business- like in the for-profit, non-sectarian sector. The Jewish cemeteries in the Detroit area (there are more than a dozen) operate under a variety of ap- proaches — as a private enterprise, as part of a benevolent society, some as an extension of a synagogue or frater- nal organiz...…
…I CLOSE-UP Machines aid in labor-intensive maintenance. mark the graves that will be planted with summer flowers. Moments later a pickup truck delivers a 15-foot-long trailer loaded with trays and trays of begonias, dus- ty miller and alts. In just a few, frenetic days more -than 180,000 plants will go into the ground, enough for about 6,000 graves. The summer flower fee is $36 annually, or a one- time payment of $750 for perpetual care. "Th...…
…Poletown's Beth Olem A novel partnership saved one of Detroit's oldest Jewish cemeteries NATHAN D. RUBENSTEIN Special to The Jewish News aside of the two 15-foot- high steel fences sur- rounding the $750 million General Motors Poletown plant in Detroit and Hamtramck lies the 2.6 acre Beth Olem Cemetery. In earlier times it was called the Smith Street Cemetery. Poletown's long line of sand-colored buildings, resembling a modern-day for- tre...…
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…I IN BRIEF I NOW . . . at your service SONNY BRASS Jewish Information Service "All North Testifies On U.S., Israeli Objectives Washington (JTA) — Lt. Col. Oliver North said last week that while Israel and the United States may have had some different objectives in the Iranian initiative, there was a "basic fundamen- tal agreement" on the need to open contacts with the more moderate elements in Iran. "I believe that there was sufficient c...…
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…Low- ever new wage contracts were about to be negotiated. Histadrut leaders said negotiations began three months ago with no progress made. The trade union federa- tion is seeking higher pay, especially for public em- ployees at the lowest end of the wage scale. Histadrut said the government refused to consider demands for an across-the board agreement and to negotiate separately with individual unions. lowes Although the strike af- fected...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY The Constitution And Our Liberties Continued from Page 2 munities of free citizens, and in- itiated us into the grand mass of legislative mechanism. By exam- ple you have taught us to endure the ravages of war with manly fortitude, and to enjoy the bless- ings of peace with reverence to the Deity, and benignity and love to our fellow-creatures .. . Levi Sheftal, President in behalf of the Hebrew-Congregation To the Hebrew-...…
…Happy 47th Anniversary NEWS t••••' Israel Expects UN To Open War Crimes Files United Nations (JTA) — Israeli diplomats here said last Monday that they expect all of the former members of the United Nations War Crimes Commission will sup- port Israel's request for open- ing to the public the UN files on Nazi war criminals. Only six countries out of the 17-member Commission still oppose the opening of the files. They are Britain, Canada, Czec...…
…I SPORTS Delicate Balance Gymnast Dana Dobransky sets her sights on the 1988 Olympics MIKE ROSENBAUM Special to The Jewish News At age 13, Dana Dobransky was the gymnastics champion at the all- around world Maccabiah Games. At 14, she attained Elite Class status, the highest ranking in world gym- nastics. This year, at 15, she placed sixth in the U.S. Classic gymnastics competition, and tenth at the Golden Sands event in Varna, Bulgaria, ...…
…Says Dana: "I like to express myself through my movements." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 39 …
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…I NSIGHT JAMES DAVID BESSER Special to The Jewish News here is an uncomfortably fine line be- tween being a visionary and being a kook. Visionaries see things in entire- ly new ways. So do a lot of people who populate strange cults and groups on the far fringes of politics. Genuinely revolu- tionary ideas are far outnumbered by ones that are naive or worse; the problem is picking out the wheat from the chaff. These truths define the world o...…
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…INSIGHT I Planting The Seeds Continued from preceding page terrorism, about questions like who should represent the Palestinians. The question about what happened in 1948—why were there so many refugees—comes up at just about every workshop." Lame deftly skips around the question of whether enrollment tends to be self- selecting in a way that favors those who are already somewhat disposed to more open communication. Although he men- tions a...…
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