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…April 18 • 2019 65 jn continued on page 66 ELI GRINBLATT, 91, of West Bloomfield, died April 11, 2019. He was a loving grandfather, uncle, cousin and friend. Mr. Grinblatt is survived by his children, Mark, Arnie and Natalie. He was the beloved husband of the late Edie Grinblatt. Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society or to the National Multiple Sclerosi...…
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…68 April 18 • 2019 jn JONATHAN PALEY WOLMAN, 68, of Franklin, died April 15, 2019. He served as editor and publisher of the Detroit News since 2007. Mr. Wolman is survived by his wife of 40 years, Deborah Eve Lamm; chil- dren, Jacob Wolman, Emma Wolman and Ian Irvine, and Sophie Wolman; sisters and brothers-in-law, Natalie Wolman and David Fulker, and Ruth and Bruce Henderson; brother and sis- ter-in-law, Lewis and Eletise Wolman...…
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…views commentary Israel Engagement: On the Way to Life and Peace L onging for Israel permeated the Jewish world for two millennia — longing for sovereignty, to walk in the spiritual footsteps of ancestors, to fulfill Dr. Stephen the unique religious Hazan Arnoff commandments of the Contributing Writer Eretz Yisrael or simply to call the Promised Land home. With the miraculous emergence of a powerful, independent, Jewish and democratic Isra...…
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…essay Overriding Obstacle Palestinians stymie their statehood bid by delegitimizing Israel. T he vaunted two-state solu- tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hinges on a joint willingness to negotiate, compromise Robert Sklar and truly change. Contributing Editor Desirable as that solution is, it will remain a pipedream without a con- current shift in attitude and action by both sides. A new dynamic could derive from coexistence and en...…
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…jews in the d continued from page 24 sonal bias against Israel that is their choice; but if that bias will regularly seep into their professorial duties, the university needs to give full disclo- sure right in the course catalog. That way, a student wishing to study in Israel will think twice before taking their class or approaching them for a letter of recommendation, she added. “Getting a letter of recommenda- tion from a professor in a un...…
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