…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JANUARY 18, 1991 / 3 SHEVAT 5751 Attack Brings Israel Relief INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News J erusalem—Phones began ringing in Israeli homes at 1:30 Thursday morning, as word passed among families and friends that the war in the GuLf had had begun. The streets remained deserted, and no sirens went off. Whoever was steeped in sweet slumber remained that way —...…
…ZERO HOUR Iraq War, Israel's Fate A Test For Liberals PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor Editor's note: These views were expressed before the beginning of hostilities against Iraq last week. iberal Jews are finding the issues of the cur- rent Middle East crisis a test of their own philosphical mettle. As the New Jewish Agen- da's Ken Knoppow will at- test, the issue of a two-state solution is "simple" when compared to the whole issue of linkage ...…
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…Zero Hour Special reports from Jerusalem, Washington, D.C. and Detroit on the situation in the Mideast. 24 BUSINESS Bull's-Eye KIMBERLY LIFTON David Littman's forecasts have made him Detroit's premier economist. 44 OPINION 7 Why aren't Jews more passionate about Judaism? UP FRONT Assassinations may help the more radical PLO terrorists. SPORTS EDUCATION RICHARD PEARL Lotte Geller helps the gifted at Roeper School. Mighty-Mite ...…
…EDITORIAL The Roots Of War In The Persian Gulf It's probably a moot point, now, to point out that Israel has nothing to do with the Persian Gulf conflict. Only two weeks after his troops con- quered Kuwait did Saddam Hussein men- tion Israel, asserting that his takeover is analogous to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Logic and facts faded in the face of the Iraqi leader's repeated verbal attacks on the Jewish state. So what if...…
…OPINION Why Aren't Jews Today Passionate About Judaism? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor A s a little girl, I used to love playing a game called Princess and the Pea. It was, of course, based on the fairy tale of the same name. And in my game, I was always the princess who was so sen- sitive she tossed and turned all night because a pea had been placed under the nu- merous mattresses on which she was sleeping. Twenty-eight years later...…
…OTHER PLAC E At 11 1 /2 and Woodward in Royal Oak. The Four Nevers (A guide to buying furniture) THE JEWISH NEWS ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Susan Grant Kimberly Lifton Richard Pearl CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN COR...…
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…UP FRONT Assassination Of PLO Leaders May Make Group More Radical GIL SEDAN Special to The Jewish News W hoever orchestrated Monday night's assassination in Tunis of two top leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization may have struck a fatal blow at the PLO mainstream and set the stage for radicalization of the Palestinian nationalist movement, experts in Jerusalem here believe. Defense Minister Moshe Arens promptly denied any Israel...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS I Akiva Parents Raising Funds SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A kiva Hebrew Day School parents are gathering together to help ease the school's finan- cial troubles. The Parents' Committee to Save Akiva was to meet Wednesday night for the first time for a brainstorm- ing session, said Michael Tinman, committee chair- man. "We need to find a way to raise a decent amount of money," Mr. Tinman said. Akiva owes Southfield Public Schools...…
…DETROIT Mideast Crisis Brings Concern But Little Tension To School SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer W est Bloomfield High School student P.J. Cherrin, 17, is de- termined not to let events half a world away damage his relationship with his Arab friends. It's not always easy. P.J., a Jew who was in Israel when Kuwait was attacked, be- lieves war with Iraqi Presi- dent Saddam Hussein is a necessity, the only way to drive him out of Kuwait and out o...…
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…President Marta Rosenthal. It will be a mixture of Detroit and Jewish commun- ity leaders, doctors, trustees and administrators. In addition, Betsy Loomus, wife of coalition member Dr. Gerald Loomus, is launching a spouse volunteer support group. "Sinai is a good, viable hospital and we ought to be able to make a success out of it," Dr. Beckman said. "Tomorrow we will bring in a new laser. In two weeks, we will bring in something else to help ...…
…ZERO HOUR Israeli soldiers were on alert. Israel On The Eve Of 'Doomsday' A kind of 'hysterical calm' has gripped the country. INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News erusalem — In Israel the morning of January 1 5 th —"Doomsday," in the local parlance — appeared to be like any other. Parents went off to work and sent their children off to school as usual, even though the headline in Haaretz, the leading morning paper, warned darkly that...…
…ZERFH HOUR Seven Ways To Cope An American Jew who settled in Israel describes his techniques for sanity. STUART SCHOFFMAN Special to The Jewish News erusalem —January 15, 1991. As I write, the War has not yet begun. Since the weekend, the phone has been ringing: lov- ed ones from the Old Coun- try (America) urgently in- quiring as to our welfare. Watching Dan Rather and "Nightline" and "MacNeil- Lehrer," they are under- standably terrifie...…
…ZERO HOUR bags? Is it logical that Syria will attack us? For writers, the urge, under the circumstances, to write Analyses (such as this one) is as unstoppable as the rapid backsliding into Panic. By the time these lines see print, war will likely have broken out, and we may well be huddled in our "sealed room" glued to the radio, my wife and I (and all our fellow Israelis) in gas masks, and my rambunctious son inside a little plastic pup te...…
…ZERO HOUR ©1991 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT BY CARTOONEWS INC... N.Y.C., USA "This fateful shift was undertaken without Con- gressionial consultation or approval and many of us feared the consequences. Congress is now faced with the consequences. The mas- sive show of offensive strength has not forced Suddam Hussein out of Kuwait, and Congress is now asked to support the next step in a policy of escalation which many opposed. Supporters of war a...…
…ZERO HOUR Never A Day Of Peace A brief history of Israel's previous wars. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor S ince its establishment in 1948 and continu- ing to this day, Israel has been a nation under siege. Contemporary adversary Iraq is just one of the many countries which has consistently stood in opposi- tion to Israel's existence and has advocated its destruc- tion. Arab nations including Iraq, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon and Sy...…
…ZER HOUR Q&A Following are responses to several of the most commonly asked questions our readers have called us with: August 1982: the bombing of Beirut. state in an upcoming war. That battle came one year later, when Egypt and Syria led a surprise attack against Israel on Oct. 6, Yom Kippur. In the Golan Heights, 180 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks faced 1,400 Syrian tanks; along the Suez, 80,000 Egyptian soldiers at- tacked 500 Israel...…
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…PROFILE A GOODMANATfFS Alan Goodman, a South African Jew who manned a frontier outpost in Israel and who now is the executive director of the Detroit Jewish Family Service. PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor verlooking the Jor- danian frontier from a lonely kibbutz out- post, a rifle in his hands, Alan Good- man had plenty of time to think about his life. He thought about the black nanny who helped raise him in his South African home. How all hi...…
…part of that time as a field psychologist and gunnery officer in an artillery unit along the northern border in 1975. His future wife, Susan, was an exchange student at Hebrew University. The two were married in Israel and decided to move to New York, where Susan could be nearer her family and Alan could move on with his studies in psychol- ogy and social work. "We gave a significant chunk of our lives to Israel," he said. "But when you are si...…
…At the JFS office: "Our agency should be an integral part of the community?' 36 FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1991 in which he offended no one. An excitement has built up since he's been here. People see changes happening." Mr. Goodman is working on the computerization at JFS, which will reduce the amount of hours case workers spend on paper work. Another change in- volves finances. About 42 percent of the JFS $2.5 million budget comes from the Feder...…
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…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY For the election of the Board of Direcors will take place on Thursday evening, February 14, 1991 at 8:00 P.M. at their building 26640 Green- field Road, Oak Park, Michigan. The following names have been placed in nomination: * * Hillel L. Abrams * George Bass Dr. Henry S. Baum Michael Baum * Norman Blake Harry Burstyn **Meyer I. Cooper Alan H. Dorfman Milton Duchan Merel Ep...…
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…ON CAMPUS CONCERNED ABOUT THE FRAYED U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS? YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ... Join us in Washington for the Ann Arbor Groups Host Speaker The Hillel Foundation and the Michigan Journalism Fellows will host author and environmentalist Peter Mat- thiessen 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Rackham Auditorium. Peter Matthiessen gradu- ated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in...…
…BUSINESS BULL'S EYE' Over the past two decades, David Littman's forecasts have made him Detroit's premier economist. A dart board in his Detroit office is inspirational for David Littmann. 44 FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1991 KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer D avid Littmann doesn't want to be famous. The senior economist for Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit just wants to be right. Yet an accurate track record on predicting the outlook for th...…
…Mr. Littmann says. "Inflation eats into our spending power." The real problem, Mr. Lit- tmann suggests, is that the government cannot control spending. Mr. Littmann routinely re- fers to government bu- reaucrats as "bozos," blam- ing them for implementing policies that boost taxes and hurt the economy. "I see a lot of problems for Michigan and the global market," Mr. Littmann says. "I always assumed taxes would increase, but I never thought Ge...…
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…SPORTS Fulgenzi cruised the neighborhood to find families with children. Ply' s Mighty•Mite From basketball to kids' birthday parties, 10 Mile's Theresa is giving a boost to the Center's phys-ed use. Staff Writer Fulgenzi eresa readily admits that becoming physical ed- ucation director of the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jew- ish Community Center was a bit disconcerting. "I'm an east-sider," said Fulgenzi, who grew up in St. Clair Shores. "I didn...…
…THE KOHENS INVITE YOU TO S EE.. ' Saturday afternoons for members. But some things haven't changed: a group of at- torneys and engineers con- tinue to play basketball at noon on Tuesdays. Fulgenzi, who has added a programming assistant, Michelle Haenick, to help with the increased load, said birthday parties had been offered only on weekdays at certain hours. "But who She's become acquainted with yarmulkes and she's picked up Yiddish terms s...…
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