…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY 'SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS 60% Attend Hebrew School ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he percentage of Jew- ish youth in the core areas of Detroit's Jew- ish community attending re- ligious school are higher than recent reports in- dicated. Dr. Steven Cohen, one of two key researchers analyz- ing the results of last fall's telephone interviews with some 1,000 Detroit area Jews, said this week tha...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Assuring The Dignity Of Jewish Loyalties M illenia of humilia- tions, centuries of persecutions, endless falsifications of Jewish lifestyles that are the very source of our people's ex- istence have all become the experiences shared with the nations whose tolerance was endured through the ages. There was always much to test Jewry as long as there was faithful resistance to the accumulated...…
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…OPINION I CONTENTS Saddam's Unquestioned Supporter Arafat BERL FALBAUM I n the millions of words which have been written about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, one major develop- ment in the Middle East seems to have escaped the notice of the media: The posi- tion of the PLO. Yassir Arafat, the darling of the media who has been postured as a man who wants nothing but peade, has align- ed himelf with Saddam Hus- sein, a man the entire media has ...…
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…Renewed Respect For Israel In the wake of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Jewish state is looking better and better to Congress and the Bush administration. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent A s U.S. forces took up defensive positions in Saudi Arabia last week, this is the way things shook out in Washington: Yassir Arafat and the PLO were the big losers, Israel was the big win- ner and U.S. participation in the Middle East peace pro...…
…111 ■ , remittances from Palestinians living in Kuwait any more." The combination of events — Iraq's treacherous invasion of Kuwait, and Mr. Arafat's growing affinity for the Iraqi strong marl — also strengthens Israel's traditional demand for solid assurances from her Arab neighbors before making concessions in the peace process. "In the past, the administration tended to focus more on Arafat's words than on the PLO's deeds," said an offic...…
…CLOSE-UP King Fand of Saudi Arabia and other members of the Saudi delegation at last week's Arab summit in Cairo. UPI Photo 24 protect our own interests on Arab soil," said Dan Mariaschin, director of interna- tional and public affairs for B'nai B'rith. "But when it's all over, will they come back and say, 'you have to do something for us now?' And will that result in more pressure on Israel to get the peace process moving?" Mr. Mariaschin...…
…troops will leave behind when they evacuate the country. The Syrian Connection And there are concerns about changes in the U.S. relationship with Syria. Syria's president Hafaz al-Assad remains Saddam Hussein's strongest opponent within the Arab world. Already, there are strong signs of an administration move to strengthen relations with the Damascus government. Last week, the administration an- nounced that Assistant Secretary of State for ...…
…CLOSE-UP War of IVerves SPECIAL. REPORT T el Aviv — The current crisis in the Persian Gulf has yet to touch Israel directly, but people here are following it with emotions that range from trepidation to vindication. The trepidation stems from transpar- ent Iraqi threats to attack Israel should hostilities break out, and from the fact that the Iraqi army has chemical weap- ons and, in the Iraq-Iran war, demon- strated a willingness to use t...…
…The Worst Scenario: War With Israel s Israel the next target for Saddam Hussein? Some analysts believe that whether or not he wins his showdown with the United States over Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Iraqi leader will seek a confrontation with Israel. According to this theory, if Saddam Hussein wins his Persian Gulf gamble, he will emerge as the leader of the Arab world and seek a Holy War with the Jewish state. And if he is forced to back d...…
…CLOSE-UP Warof Nerves SPECIAL REPORT Portrait Of A Hit Man Iraq's Saddam Hussein climbed to power over the bodies of men he killed personally or ordered executed. His style as a head of state is no less ruthless. IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News 28 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1990 Center of the conflict: While many in the Arab world praised Saddam Hussein, this London protestor hangs an effigy of the Iraqi president during a protest near ...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY Assuring Dignity Continued from Page 2 missible but obligatory that it express its reserva- tion by turning to the heads of the State, the political bodies, or the media in Israel. What I cannot accept, and disgustedly reject, is the phenomenon of Jewish leaders turning to non- Israeli media in order to voice criticism of Israel's policies. It sometimes seems that we are quickly forgetting the history of the rise of Israel...…
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