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…THIS ISSUE 60(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY DECEMBER 2, 1988 / 23 KISLEV 5749 …

…PURELY COMMENTARY Freedom Front: Diaspora To The Rescue PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus I srael's very serious problems, im- posed by the enemy that is now rallying additional support, keep causing tensions that demand amassed defensive means. It is a continuation of an aggravated struggle that began even before Israel's statehood. It is difficult to become accustomed to, yet it demands unified action by all Jews everywhere. This menace ...…

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…Diaspora Effort On Law • Of Return Will Continue ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor C ouncil of Jewish Federations President Mandell Berman of Detroit said Tuesday that Disapora leaders were successful in impressing Israel Prime Minister Yit- zhak Shamir with their concern over changing Israel's Law of Return. Ber- man spoke from New York in a telephone conference call with presidents of nine large federations around the United States. The propo...…

…EDITORIAL Not Forgetting December 6 marks the first anniversary of one of the proudest moments in the long struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry — the historic national rally in Washington attended by several hundred thousand American Jews. Despite the improvements of glasnost, emigration is still a mere trickle compared to a decade ago, when several hundred thousand Jews were able to leave the Soviet Union. There are still large numbers of ref...…

…CONTENTS OPINION 14 FRONTLI N ES Communal Legacy ELIZABETH KAPLAN Detroit gave much to Leonard Schwartz, and he was able to give something back. 24 CLOSE-UP The Last White Liberals JONATHAN KAUFMAN The Ebsteins fought the right fights, but ultimately moved to the suburbs. 51 BUSINESS Jack Built MIKE ROSENBAUM Supermarket maven Marvin Biltis takes the helm at Farmer Jack. center Shamir meets with religious leaders to discuss "Who...…

…STATEMENT FROM THE JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION The Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit reaffirms its position that the unity of the Jewish People — K'lal Yisrael — must be preserved and that no issue can be allowed to endanger that unity. THE JEWISH NEWS Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. PUBLISHER: Our concern grows out of an issue — the definition of who is a Jew that has taken on politica...…

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…111 fires at the winter solstice when the sun is farthest from the equator. However, no mat- ter what their origin, the Chanukah lights are a most fitting symbol of the festival's real message. They represent the Temple candelabrum which Judah and his followers had rekindled as a symbol of rededication. wrought by God at this season, and that the lights are not to be used for any utilitarian purpose — "they are only to be seen." Even though ...…

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…w magine yourself with a smile of your own because you stayed within your budget while making all those holiday dreams come true. very good living. And Leonard said, 'But I can pick up a camera and do that: For him, that was not art because he wasn't expressing himself?' Encouraged by friends and driven by his own passion for art, Schwartz enrolled at the Arts and Crafts School in Detroit and later majored in philosophy and art at Wayne Stat...…

…(UP FRONT Law Of Return Continued from Page 5 Jewish federations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Metro West (New Jersey suburbs of New York), Montreal and ibronto flew to Israel. Federation executives from Detroit, Baltimore, Pitt- sburgh, Cleveland and Atlan- ta will meet with CJF ex- ecutive Carmi Schwartz in New York on Thursday to plan additional strategies. One proposal would send a mass mission to Israel in December or January if the religio...…

…apper's . . the secret to gift giving success. • 0 *. have many members who sup- port Lubavitch unknowingly. People don't realize there are differences. "This can be so divisive," he said. "This is no time to withdraw our support for Israel. It is no time for anyone to divide our hearts or our loyalties — that would be the greatest triumph for the PLO." Rabbi Polish of Beth El shared his distress with his congregation in his sermon Friday ...…

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…I CLOSE-UP In Chicago, Bernie and Roz Ebstein fought all the right fights and marched in all the right demonstrations. In the end, they joined their friends who had fled blacks moving into their neighborhood. A book excerpt. The Last White Liberals N ationally, in the late 1960s, Jews remained loyal to the New Deal dreams of the Demo- cratic Party. In the 1968 presi- dential election, they gave 81 percent of their vote to Hubert Humphrey. ...…

…hood known as Merionette Manor, on Chi- cago's Far South Side — a white, middle- class neighborhood of bungalow tract homes -about 40 percent Catholic, 40 per- cent Jewish, and 20 percent Protestant. They could walk to their temple and to the Jewish Community Center. They had lived there for seven years. The year before the King march, the first black family had moved in to Merionette Manor. The Eb- steins had watched with distaste as an all- ...…

…CLOSE-UP 'Blacks And Jews Can Work Together But Not On Everything' When Jonathan Kaufman was grow- ing up in New York's Upper West Side, he assumed the entire world was similar to what he saw on the streets around him: A "jumble of people" — blacks, Jews, orientals, hispanics. Now 32; Kaufman has grown wiser, the Upper West Side has largely been taken over by yuppies and the black-Jewish alliance that the New York "jumble" symbolized has bee...…

…Cable T.V. Advertising Is Not Out of Your Reach seen anything like it," King said. "I've been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I have never seen — even in Mississippi and Alabama — mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I've seen in Chicago." F ollowing the Marquette Park march, civil rights groups an- nounced other marches in all-white neighborhoods. Bernie decided to join a march planned for the Bogan neighbo...…

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…FORA BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR THE HOLIDAYS • sold. David's best friend, Greg Levitan, had moved away. The two had made a pact: They would be in the same homeroom for eighth grade. When David found out the 0.. Levitans had moved away he was furious, not at the black families moving in but at all the whites who were leaving. He was also beginning to resent his parents' in- sistence on staying in Merionette Manor. With the temple and Jewish Community...…

…NEWS With New Enhanced 9.1-1: Before 9.1.1: 1 - Hello? You've gotta help me! There's a fire .. . Mitterand Recognizes Palestinain Rights "Help! Fire!" A my house is on fire! My address? Ah . . . 2549 Westpark Drive. Yes .. . 2549 Westpark . . . in Troy. It's behind the high school . . . look, you've got to hurry! This is an emergency! My family . . . everything we own . . . Please . . . there isn't much time . . . Please hurry . . . PLEA...…

…11.4Yesm. Jvw4.4644 ISRAEL TRAVEL FAIR '89 Thursday, December 8, 1988 8:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center West Bloomfield 0 Win a FREE TRIP to Israel! (Must be present to win) 7;1'2 George Cantor, media personality F \IN2 David Hermelin, Emcee extraordinaire Exciting announcement about a ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EVENT! Whet your appetite for a trip to Israel with 7■1 2 \ ISRAELI MUSIC K\ ,2 DOOR PRIZES ISRAELI FOOD ISRAELI WINE TASTING ...…

…I NEWS I Best Wishes for a Israel And U.N. Dispute Checks At Border Happy Chanukah THE GORNBEIN FAMILY AND STAFF Carl and Myra Gornbein Mark Gornbein • Fay Fries Norman and Sharon Gornbein Arline Allen • Arthur Greenwald Frankie Fish • Lillian DeRoven re GORNBEINO 357-1056 SUITE 110 -FIDELITY BANK BLDG. 24901 NORTHWESTERN HWY. SOUTHFIELD JEWELERS HOURS: MON.-FRI. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. • SAT. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. END YOUR ROOFING PROBLEMS TH...…

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…powerful member of the Bush administration, had ade- quately explained his refusal to sign a gubernatorial state- ment condemning the United Nation's "Zionism as racism" proclamation. "People had apprehensions going in," said Ted Ellenoff, president of the American Jewish Committee." But Sununu was very forthcom- ing on 'Zionism as racism! He said he believes it should be removed from the books of the United Nations. The ques- tioning was shar...…

…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES 1-• DAVID OPPENHEIM FAMILY TEACHERS' INSTITUTE Cordially invites you to attend A City-Wide Teachers Conference Guest Lecturer: Mrs. Dinghy Sharp Well known educator with 40 years of experience; Founder, Michigan Teachers' Hall of Fame; Con- sultant to Farmington Schools; Noted Lecturer. Topic: "Understanding the Unique Learning Style of All Children" Sunday, December 4, 1988 1:00 p.m.-Luncheon 1:45 p.m.-Lecture JEWI...…

…TORAH PORTION The Cultural Commission of Congregation Shaarey Zedek takes great pride in announcing lb Are We 'Duly Present To Those Needing Care? RABBI IRWIN GRONER Special to The Jewish News he biblical story of Joseph, which traces the meteoric career of a slave boy who ascends from the depths of the pit to the ■ throne of a monarch, is one of the most stirring successes ever told. Yet even greater ► , than his outward achieve- ments...…

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…MIDEAST The PLO Has Gained On The Opinion Front HELEN DAVIS Special to The Jewish News The 0 E3erbery • S sEag g it erdone Inte ar erf-Ht:1PB riors • The Restaurant • Children's • e-oniputerlend Bookshop Piece • Oon's athryn Jewelers • • Post Diane's Salon • • M.B. 1114ackenzie's • Plobert Mann Linder • The Pura • Mire Paper Play and lde • Rear place Ends Roland Optics Roslyin's • Intimate Apparel Sendilar • Tennis Plus •• Slad...…

…• GORNBEINO JEWELERS image of Israeli Goliaths against Palestinian Davids. It will not inspire Diaspora Jewry and rally Israel's most loyal allies to its side. — It will not win the political admiration or economic sup- port of the incoming Amer- ican administration. It will not bolster Israel's moderate Arab neighbors and transform its enemies' swords into ploughshares. Nor will it cool the rising tide of international impa- tience with an...…

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…!NEWS I Palestine National Council in Algiers, and described P.L.O. statements supposedly recognizing Israel and re- nouncing terrorism as entire- ly insufficient. Quayle also said he regard- ed any comparisons of the Palestinian intifada, or upris- ing, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with the civil rights struggle in the United States or the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa as "entirely inappropriate," ac- cording to Abram. Accordin...…

…PURELY COMMENTARY Brutal Realities Continued from Page 2 U.N. resolution 242, which en- dorses secure and recognized boundaries for "every state in the area." The PLO began with its standard misrepresentation of 242. It involves the missing definite article. The resolution calls for withdrawal of Israel "from ter- ritory occupied" in 1967. The absence of "the" before the word "territory" expresses U.S. and Israeli insistence that 242 does ...…

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…CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID IS NOW IN WEST BLOOMFIELD! Congregation B'nai David is very proud to announce the OPENING of our new SUNDAY SCHOOL in West Bloom- field, located at the MAPLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (15 Mile Between Halsted/Haggarty). The School is OPEN to MEMBERS and NON-MEMBERS of the community. Initial Session for our K-1 program is JANUARY 8, 1989, and on Sundays for the remainder of the school year. . For ENROLLMENT information, CONT...…

…I EDUCATION I "Large, warm, generous.... Living Room Continued from preceding page Readers who like to level over the proud parade practice and observance. "Here we found a path (on which) we can all walk together," Rabbi Cohn said. Rabbi Aft added, "It brings the Reconstructionist, Or- thodox and Conservative viewpoints together. It shows we have more in common and less that separates us." The Family Living Room gives Cohn "the opportuni...…

…Excerpts from a Statement by Rabbi Aron Soloveichik, 11123188 Rosh Yeshiva — Yeshiva University, N.Y. The recent elections in Israel have given the Likud party and the religious parties a vote of con- fidence to amend the Law of Return to recognize only conversions to Judaism done according to Halacha — Jewish low. I was shocked to learn today of the Rabbinical Council of America's statement "supporting removal of this issue from the politica...…

…I ANN ARBOR An Israeli Woman Sees Divided Future JUDITH L. ABRAMS Special to The Jewish News I Shirley Stern. Sinai 110.. ittal Physician Reti.),Ta4 A nice hot bowl of chicken soup can often make you feel better. But sometimes you need more. Sometimes you need expert medical advice. Then it's time to turn to the medical experts at Sinai Hospital. We have specialists who can help with everything that's got you krechtzing, from the minor ...…