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…Editor's Letter jarc Israel's Future Dangles A and make a difference. Each pioneer mentors 10 kids a few days a week. Indeed, kids are more apt to look up to young adults not long removed from their formative school years. Sherman has it right: "We cannot afford to have a third sec- tor in Israel. If we're going to be a viable, productive country and compete in the open marketplace, we better have a well- educated population. Israeli kids ...…
…Letters Digest Stand With Israel The auditorium was filled to capacity for the kickoff event of StandWithUs/Michigan on Jan. 29 at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills and I was privileged to be in attendance. The keynote speaker, Michael Wissot, and three local university students told us of the onslaught against Israel and the Jewish people on our campuses, the apathy in our communities and the necessity to learn how to comba...…
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…I I Front Lines NOTEBOOK Where Are They Now? I n Hamlet, Shakespeare has a prince exhort a group of actors to "speak the speech ... trippingly on the tongue ..." And yet, today, we have all but ignored those words that can go trippingly, that sound so lovely or that describe an aspect of our living that has ceased to be. When it comes to furniture, I know what I like and what I do not. I am no expert on styles. (I often fear that I am clo...…
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…N CO V ER Super Welcome The Downtown Synagogue plays Jewish host to Detroit's Super Bowl guests. I Shelli Liebman Dorfman I Staff Writer • s the only full-time Jewish congregation inside the city of Detroit, the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue may have diverse responsibilities; but it also has unique options. "Because we're the only ones around who can do it, we decided to make ourselves the unofficial `Synagogue of the Super Bowl:" said t...…
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…T N of sophomores from West Bloomfield Hig 15, guitar; and Adam Alex Levine, made up ds; keyboar The band Deadbeat, includes Steve Kanter, 15, on Jano Sta ll p ho to by Ang ie h School, ... and Dan Iwrey, 15, on bass and lead vocals; and drummer Eric Busch, 15. er, 16, on guitar ... ► Lively Beat Aspiring teen band Deadbeat records first songs. Sammi Haber Special to the Jewish News ive Jewish guys from West Bloomfield High School ...…
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…To Life! TORAH PORT ON Testing Ourselves Shabbat Bo: Exodus 10:1-13:16; Jeremiah 46:13-28. n interesting question is Similarly here in Exodus, why raised in this week's story would God ask the Hebrews to mark about the final plagues. In their doors when God had already each of the first nine, the households demonstrated that He knew where of the Hebrews were spared. Their they lived? water did not turn to blood; their It seems to me that ...…
…Defending Israel New group seeks to counter pro-Arab propaganda. Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News W here do you stand when it comes to tak- ing action on behalf of Israel? The new Michigan chapter of StandWithUs, an international pro-Israel advocacy and educa- tional organization, hopes you stand with them. The new chapter was launched at a public program,"Anti-Israel Propaganda on Campus," on Jan. 29 at the Holocaust Memorial Center ...…
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…Yesterday Meets Today George Vine of West Bloomfield, who survived Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945, was worried about Iran and the unexpected election of Hamas by the Palestinians. Ahmadinejad "is maximizing the opportunity that he has and using it with so much hatred of the infidels," said Vine, who took part in a candlelighting ceremony. "How this'is going to play itself out concerns me very much!' State Rep. David Law, R- Commerce, presented R...…
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…ArtsFest Tryouts Tryouts for the new JCC Maccabi ArtsFest program will be held Feb. 14-15 at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The program adds an arts com- ponent to the JCC Maccabi Games for Jewish teens ages 13-16 as of July 31, 2006. The ArtsFest will be held in Baltimore Aug. 20-25 and 500 teens are expected from North America, Israel and Russia. ArtsFest will include seven disci- plines: digital video, musical the- ater, i...…
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…Dangerous Democracy Left to right: Hamas win poses dilemma for policy makers. • A Hamas activist holds an election flier with a photo of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem amas' sweeping election victory is forcing all key players to reassess their positions on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and has cre- ated a widespread sense of uncertainty about the future. Israelis, Palestinians and out- ...…
…I World Dangerous from page 33 • Does the Hamas victory mean the end of the movement toward independ- ent Israeli and Palestinian states living side-by-side? Not necessarily. By its very participation in the election, Hamas has been sucked into the two-state para- digm: The Palestinian Parliament holds sway in the West Bank and Gaza Strip but not over all the territory — includ- ing Israel — that Hamas claims as "Palestine." More importantl...…
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