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…SECOND CLASS THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY OCTOBER 19, 1990 / 30 TISHREI 5751 Special Report — The World Vs. Israel Judging Israel When Times Are Tough PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor W hat happens when Israel's image goes bad? While the community of nations focuses its condemnation on Israel, Detroit's Jewish leaders are wondering out loud what sort of public stance they should be taking. Do the...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 111•11 ■ 1111111 ■ 1111.1111 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Dartmouth And Hitler U reification of the two Germanies does not erase anxieties over memories that remain in mankind's records. The de- mand pledges that anything approaching the accumulated guilt will never be repeated and that the very image of it will be accompanied by con- demnation of even the minutest approach to Nazism. The very thought of the possibi...…
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…UP FRONT JFS Offers Assistance To Defecting Soviet Skaters RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer D etroit's Jewish com- munity is offering help to Irina Kort- chach and Andrei Torossian, the Soviet ice skaters who sought political asylum after their show closed last weekend at the Palace of Auburn Hills. "We can offer to set up meetings with a reset- tlement counselor and will be more than happy to ad- vise them of all the services we have available...…
…EDITORIAL Israel, Wrong And Wronged fitz PResiDepr.., IN YOUR 5Fea1 R) h WED *trials, siR, YoU ihipty CRSX(sesrA LiAIKA6E Between) -THE Gulf cRisis AND Mt PALEsTiNiAta ISSUE? - Part of the responsibility of a Jewish newspaper is to criticize Israel when she is wrong and to defend her when she is wronged. But what are we to say when she is both? Certainly. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is correct in pointing out the hypocrisy of the United ...…
…OPINION CONTENTS Battling Anti-Semitism: Hard-Line Approach BERL FALBAUM e as a people have never come to grips with what it takes to successfully fight anti-Semitism. To make an impact, we must develop high-profile political activism at the risk of adopting tactics which are foreign to the Jewish personality. Throughout the years, in the efforts we have made, we have never created what I call an awareness that those who practice anti-Semi...…
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…DETROIT United Way Torch Drive Gives Back To The Community ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor D etroit's Jewish com- munity is often asked to contribute to chari- table causes. The annual United Way Torch Drive not only asks for money, it gives back to the Jewish commun- ity. Five Jewish agencies in the Detroit area receive a total of nearly $2 million from the United Way of Southeastern Michigan. And the United Way has a number of prominent Je...…
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…of pride, sorrow and a twinge of fear. Part of me • is cheering on Yitzhak Shamir for pro- claiming to the world that Israel refuses to cooperate with hypocrisy. But a more pragmatic part of me worries about the repercussions of such bravado, particularly with an administration in Washington that is not fond of Mr. Shamir to begin with. I want to be able to defend Israel's every action. I want Israel to be always noble and moral and thoughtful...…
…NEWS I Ye4A4/4 114/vZ011/Pal e.0 U.S. Jews Cheer Jailing Of Soviet Anti-Semite LET'S MEET Find out about academic opportunities in New York, Jewish Studies options, student life, Joint Israel Programs and financial aid. at 7:30pm at the Young Israel of Southfield 27705 Lahser (btwn 11&12 Mile Rd.) Southfield, MI • We look forward to meeting with you personally next week. Please RSVP to Rabbi Mark Cohen, Regional Director of NCSY at (313...…
…NEWS 1"'"°•21wwwww" THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA Metropolitan Detroit District INVITES YOU TO Gas Masks Distributed, Confusing Some Israelis THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED MUSICAL EVENT OF THE FALL SEASON PLAN NOW TO ATTEND: Sunday, November 4, 1990, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Temple Auditorium FABULOUS STAR-STUDDED SHOW YEHORAM GAON, World-Acclaimed Actor, Singer Israel's foremost pop musical artist, Yehoram Gaon played the lead in "Kazablan...…
…THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER Remember Zachor invites the community to attend its SIXTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER Sunday Evening, the Twenty-Eighth of October A Tribute to the Danish Rescuers GOV. JAMES J. BLANCHARD Honorary Dinner Chairman HIRAM A. DORFMAN Dinner Chairman Internationally renowned Nazi hunter Presentation of the Righteousness Award to BEATE KLARSFELD HIS EXCELLENCY PETER DYVIG His Excellency Peter Dyvig Ambassador of Den...…
…CLOSE-UP Since the turn of the century, several Jewish-owned businesses have remained alive and well. III KIMBERLY LIPTON Staff Writer 26 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1990 I n the year 1900, Michigan's Jewish community — estimated at 9,000 — was growing. Already in place in Detroit, where a majority of the Jews lived, were 18 Jewish organizations, including four congregations; a funeral home; a day school; the Jewish Ladies' Sewing Society...…
…1885 Max Jacob Collects Used Bottles, Sells To Local Breweries Max Jacob put his sons to work when they were young boys. He ran his small bot- tle distribution company, founded as the M. Jacob Co. in 1885, from a yard behind his home on East Columbia, allowing the children to grow up with the business. At 5 a.m. on every morning but Shabbat, the eldest of his six sons — Gustave, William, Ben and Sam — got up, davened, and went out to the st...…
…COAT tAPPoN, THIRD ANNUAL Above: Employees of Reliable Coat and Apron Supply, later changed to Reliable Linen, model their product. Standing in the middle of the men holding the sign is company founder, Reuben Sandler. Family Legacies 28 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1990 "Max never forgot where he came from," grandson Marty Jacob says. Now 105 years old and the oldest con- tainer business in the country, M. Jacob and Sons has grown from a one-ma...…
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…Right: In 1960, Marshall Loewenstein looks on as his father, Max, nephew of the company's founder, Louis, holds his son, Mark. Family Legacies 30 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1990 The business was retail. Everything was fresh, and merchants came to the market regularly to get their food sup- plies. Even in the Depression, the busi- ness remained afloat. "People had to eat," Marshall Loewens- tein says. "When the food business goes bad, we know the...…
…With an elaborate history, including brothers competing with one another, a store fire forcing them to temporarily work for the competition and a major fi- nancial constraint during the Great Depression, the Knoppows have managed to keep their family name on what has become a profitable enterprise. Today a chain of 12 wallpaper and window treatment stores in metropolitan Detroit, the business is run by Simon's grandson, Jerry and his wife, Sha...…
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…WORLD vs. ISRAEL THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER DANCE of the FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION MICHIGAN BRANCH AND THE HANOAR CHAFFER "These events will sub- side," he said, "and I think the long-term focus on Iraq and Kuwait will again take hold." Like Mr. Gad-Harf, Sen. Levin said that he has not heard severe criticism of Israel from the American Jewish community over the most recent incidents. He did add, however, that it is appropr...…
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…WORLD vs. ISRAEL HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent I srael was this week brac- ed for one of the most serious diplomatic crises in its 42-year history after the cabinet unani- mously resolved to withhold cooperation from a UN in- vestigative mission which is being dispatched by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. The three-man mission, led by the UN Deputy Secre- tary-General Jean-Clause Aimee, will investigate the circumstances sur...…
…SPECIAL REPORT Confusion Mars First Reports Of Killings Several accounts have been published, agreeing that neither side had planned to do battle. A map of Jerusalem's Old City. The Temple Mount disturbance began when Arabs began pelting rocks down on Jews praying at the Western Wall. 42 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1990 HELEN DAVIS AND ARTHUR MAGIDA s the world awaits the outcome of the stalemate over Is- rael's refusal to cooperate with a Unit...…
…WORLD vs. ISRAEL WASHINGTON: The Safety Net Unravels As U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf shifts, the Bush administration's perceived concern for Israel is further reduced, JAMES D. BESSER AND IRA RIFKIN A Jewish woman is led away from the Western Wall during an assault of rocks from Palestinians. ammunition, including bursts of automatic fire from their Galils (Israeli- made assault rifles). (Jerusalem police chief Shar) Ayalon, however, ...…
…SPECIAL REPORT Saudi guardsmen simulate an attack at a training center in Saudi Arabia. any of the key players." Equally clear, at least from the Israeli and Ameri- can Jewish perspectives, were the importance of two other factors. The first is Jerusalem's central place in Jewish thinking. "Jerusalem is always a highly emotional issue for the Jewish community," said Jess Hordes, Washing- ton director for the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai ...…
…WORLD vs. ISRAEL Ir U.S. Gulf Role Prompts Some Second Guessing American public support for the continued presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia appears to be wavering, IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News T he broad domestic support for the United States mili- tary build-up in the Persian Gulf showed indicat- tions of weakening this week. One sign of that was a Washington Post-ABC opi- nion poll released Tuesday that turned up a shar...…
…SPECIAL REPORT Waiting For Saddam The paranoia of an American in Jerusalem, STUART SCHOFFMAN Special to The Jewish News Israel's side, has been energized by the Persian Gulf crisis and is more united and strengthened than ever before. • Israel's government is the most right-wing in her histo- ry, willing and at times eager to defy pressure from the UN, and the U.S. When all of these factors come together, as they have in recent days, the ...…
…WORLD vs. ISRAEL sher; they are Iraqi Jews and know all too well, Malka often reminds us, what the Arabs are capable of; Malka's father was murdered by an Arab neighbor with a hammer during Nazi-inspired Ali riots in Baghdad in 1941, in full view of his wife. Malka was about three and has no memory, not even a photo, of her father. Z., our contractor, a re- ligious Zionist who lives in Gush Etzion (regarded as one of the ideologically moderat...…
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