…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS $1.00 March 19, 1999/Nisan 2, 5759 dintrft Dragging Dad To The Bar Mitzvah Rolling-Up Their Sleeves In Health Care www.detroitjewishnew..com High Tech ■ Local schools buy hardware, but good software and teacher training are hard to find. …
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…DETROIT JEW= NEWS •IN www.d.etroitjewishnews.com March 19, 1999 Nisan 2, 5759 Vol. CXV, No. 4 DEPARTMENTS 6 Civil War Kids Say. Apple Tree page 73 Palestinian violence in Gaza shows resentment against Arafat. 22 High Tech Education /-- Local Jewish schools buy hardware, but software, training hard to find. Community 33 One Tradition Foreign Research. Living Well page 105 Israeli and Detroit youth compare bar/bat mitzvah plans. M...…
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…Palestinian vs. Palestinian 4,) GIL SEDAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency o Jerusalem po 3/19 1999 6 Detroit Jewish News Violence in Gaza shows resentment ofArafat's regime. review Attar's case. He also ordered the release of all those involved in the protests. Some observers said Arafat had no choice in the matter. "I would regard this as an act of submission," Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Id said in an interview. "Arafat is gi...…
…TEMPLE 511I8 SHALOM BROTHERHOOD and the JeW1511 NEWS Present Flogging Statehood Clinton and Congress have messages for Arafat. agreeing to a date when such a declara- tion would be acceptable. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Instead, most observers predict that Clinton will reiterate U.S. policy that Washington a Palestinian state can only emerge assir Arafat is scheduled to through negotiations with Israel. meet with President Clinton At the s...…
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…HARRY KT RS BAU M StaffWriter 0 n March 23, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will wrap up its 1999 Allied Jewish Campaign, but the people responsible for:where the money is spent will still have three months of work to do. The leaders of the three planning and budgeting divisions of Federation will be huddling around a conference table and crunching numbers to decide how much money will be allo- cated to each Federation agency. ...…
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…Without You, The Suruiuors' Stories Might Neuer Get Told She comes from Przemysl, Poland. She is among the 10% of Polish Jews who survived Nazi Occupation. Now she is in her 80's. Her family's graves are overgrown and crumbling. Her experiences haVe gone untold. Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc., an Ann Arbor non-profit, is working to restore Przemysl's Jewish cemetery and to publish the stories of survivors like her— in Poland, where they...…
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…• Learning To Scroll Torah igh Tech Jewish ligation Lindsay Peisner moves the mouse and Rachel Klein watches closely as the two create a Hebrew crossword puzzle. JULIE WIENER StaffWriter ' t's a Tuesday afternoon, and Noah Krugel looks a little frazzled as he scur- ries from computer to computer. Krugel, the part-time tech- nology coordinator at Congregation Shaarey Zedek's Hebrew school, is working with third graders, each class in for ...…
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…ellgeditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com High Tech Learning C /- omputers can be an excellent teach- ing tool in Jewish education — but only if they're used to supplement, not replace, a strong core curriculum and traditional teaching methods proven to work. Meanwhile, Jewish educators must improve communication with their colleagues in day schools, congregational ...…
…SPECIAL C01111111111TAIIT Director Raises Concerns Over Last Days' Review JAMES MOLL Special to The Jewish News idney Bolkosky's review of The Last Days ("Documen- tary Triumph at DIA," Feb. 19), although overwhelming- ly positive, raises a cautionary red flag for those in the field of Holocaust remembrance and includes an unjust attack upon the tremendously success- ful efforts of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which was...…
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…COMMENTARY WIG WORKS INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR from page 28 standard." In what reality are such horrific images standard? We must avoid the danger of over- exposing ourselves to descriptions and visuals of Holocaust atrocities to the point of desensitization, and not for- get that most of the world has not even heard of Auschwitz. Dr. Bolkosky also includes editorial comment about the Shoah Founda- tion's interviews (calling them the "Spielber...…
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…Passover Events GETTDIG READY THE SHUL PASSOVER FORUM The Shul in West Bloomfield forum for stress-free Passover preparation with candle lighting ceremony 6:15 p.m. Friday, March 19 at 6211 Quaker Hill Dr. Discussion with Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov on Kabbalistic meanings of holiday customs. Shabbat services follow at 7:30. Free. RSVP: (248) 788-7131. KIDS TOUR MATZAH FACTORY The Barbara and Douglas Bloom Matzah Factory public tours 1:15-4:15 p....…
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