…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP AUGUST 2, 1991 / 22 AV 5751 Fishers Leave Fresh Air, AJE KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer F resh Air Society Ex- ecutive Director Sam Fisher and his wife, Agency for Jewish Edu- cation Executive Vice Presi- dent Ofra Fisher, are resign- ing from their agencies and moving to Washington, D.C. Mr. Fisher, 56, will become international director for the B'nai B'rith...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP FOCUS OPINION Is Yeridah A Dirty Word? The News Goes Audio AMY J. MEHLER Local Israelis explain why they left Israel and what keeps them from going back. SCOTT GREENBERG Visually impaired get Jewish News on tape. Israeli consul optimistic about peace conference. 54 DETROIT 24 What happened to that relaxing weekend? 11 UP FRONT 14 • Rabbis get tangled in Oak Park politics. • Leukemia patient needs funds, lette...…
…EDITORIAL A Singer Stilled Isaac Bashevis Singer's life was a tribute to the possibilities of imagination, the pleasures of fiction, the joys of Yiddish and the broad. and enriching contours of Jewish culture and life, both in America and east- ern Europe. Although Mr. Singer's craft was steeped in Jewish myth and mysticism and was placed in Polish shtetls and the boroughs and apartments of New York Jews, it transcended time and place and th...…
…OPINION The Lost Weekend The leisure of the weekend has gone down the black hole of drudgery. Our task is to regain it. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News B eginning Friday mor- nings and on 'til the evening, the fre- quently heard buzzword — or, rather, buzz letters — are "TGIF," "Thank God It's Friday." . For most people, this is not a reference to the corning of the Shabbat and the oppor- tunity to keep it holy. With a large ...…
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…UP FRONT Midwest Consul General: Israel Closer To Talks AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer itzhak Shamir's government is close to agreeing to Secre- tary of State James A. Baker's proposal for a peace conference, said Israeli Midwest Consul General .Yitschak Ben-Gad at a Detroit press conference this week. The peace talks, to be jointly sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union, call for a single open- ing session to be followed by direc...…
…DETROIT YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T•Shirt! Funds Are Dwindling For Leukemia Patient KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer A trust fund set up to defray the cost of cancer treatment for Jonathan Cohen is rapidly depleting, and his family doesn't know if they will have sufficient funds to pay bills. Mr. Cohen, 20, of Southfield, who was diag- nosed with leukemia in December 1989, underwent a bone marrow transplant at Harper Hospital in Detroit o...…
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…DETROIT Temple Won't Re-Open Yavneh Fund Will Repair Damaged Torah Scrolls AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer ne chipped crown or faded letter can render a sefer Torah pasul, unusable. Since mistakes like these are usually discovered on Shabbat, ba'al korim, Torah readers, are required to stop laning, roll up the Torah and place it aside. The Torah is taken to a sofer, a scribe, who assesses the damage and fixes it. Often, all that's needed is a ...…
…King Of Comedy Returns To Detroit LESLEY PEARL Jewish News Intern T he incidents which make Alan King mad are the same events he finds funny. "It's like when someone loses his money in a pay phone and starts pounding on it. It's maddening. But it's so stupid that it's funny," the actor-comedian said this week. Mr. King will bring his humor of everyday life to Pine Knob Aug. 7. "My show is about my life," Mr. King said. "I talk about my par...…
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…Illustration by Bob Lync h Local Israelis explain why they left Israel and what keeps them from going back. 0 …
…71, AW5g, :0-45 26 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991 two years is considered a yored. "That just means that when they come back they'll have extra z'chuyot, or rights, as a returnee, or toshav chozer," she said. "Hundreds of Israelis are studying or working abroad. No one has ever conducted a study to de- termine how many left permanently and how many are abroad tem- porarily." Shaul Lilach, who super- vises 20 community shlichim across the United S...…
…• II 01 • 01` • • • Israeli government didn't do something to alleviate their situation. "At last, they were all given an apartment in Katamon," Mr. Natan said. Mrs. Natan, born in Long Island, N.Y., moved to Israel when she was 12. Her mother, a widow, decided to make aliyah to be closer to one of her chil- dren already studying in Israel. Mrs. Natan met her future husband at his bar mitzvah. They dated for about seven years before th...…
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…ISRAEL Israeli construction at a fever pitch. For All The Debate, Settlements Increase With more than 100,000 Jews living in the territories, is "land-for-peace" a viable formula? INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News r ime was, in the 1950s and early 1960s, that the popular symbol of Israel was a spunky-looking sabra in sandals and silly cloth hat. An eye patch was added after the Six-Day War to honor the victory or- chestrated by Mo...…
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…PLAN ON THE BEST IN LANDSCAPING Delegation Visits Ethiopia New York (JTA) - Two months after the successful completion of Operation Solomon, the secret airlift that brought over 14,000 E- thiopian Jews to Israel, a few thousand Jews remain in the isolated northern re- gion of the country. The Jews are mainly located in the Kwara region, in the western part of Gon- dar province, which previously was home to most of the country's Jews, said of...…
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…PROFILE The Man Whose Tales Hover Over Us Isaac Bashevis Singer, who died last week, left a bountiful legacy of literature combining. the Old and New World. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News C reation was no acci- dent," Isaac Bashevis Singer once said. "God had an intention to breathe life • into the world and to make His masterpiece — so it is written in the Bi- ble." For Isaac Bashevis Singer, who died last Thursday of a str...…
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…THE DIET WITH DIGNITY Ministry Official Quits Jerusalem (JTA) — Interior Minister Arye Deri received a second jolt this week, when the director general of his ministry, Dov Kehat, suddenly announced his resignation. The first blow fell with the release of a report by State Comptroller Miriam Ben- Porat excoriating the Interior Ministry for han- ding out huge sums of government money to re- ligious institutions affiliated with Mr. Deri's Shas...…
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…BACKGROUND HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent I sraeli leaders were this week engaged in an exer- cise of diplomatic brinkmanship as the Middle East peace process dominated the agenda of the Bush-Gorbachev summit in Moscow. Amid reports that Secre- tary of State James Baker would return to Israel after the summit in a further at- tempt to break the pro- cedural impasse, there were suggestions that Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would simply ...…
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