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…Holiday Services For Hearing Impaired JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER I he rabbis at Temple Israel don't know how many peo- ple in this community com- municate through sign language. But when a Chicago resident from the Hebrew Seminary for the Deaf suggested providing an interpreter for the hearing im- paired during Rosh Hashanah services, Temple Israel thought it was a good idea. The temple is inviting mem- bers and any non-members who utilize...…
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…The Future I Despite black-Jewish vitriol and some hesitation toward a Middle East peace, 5754 may have been a seminal year. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS nternationally, 5754 was a year bracketed by cautiously optimistic handshakes, riven by vestigial and long-simmering distrust and blood- ied by the sort of terror that is, by now, almost inescapably linked with the Middle East or with long-dis- tance spinoffs to event...…
…5754 Pivoting Toward The Future Ci) w Cf) LLJ CC LL, C:21 LLI 60 League battled with the Christian Right. A convicted spy for Israel, Jonathan Pol- lard, remained in jail when President Clinton refused to commute his sentence. With the Senate's confirmation of Stephen Breyer's appointment, two Jews sat on the Supreme Court for the first time since 1938. And fractured black-Jewish relations dominated headlines that threatened to permanen...…
…All this occurred against a backdrop of the strong possi- bility of Jews again struggling with who they are as a people and as individuals. The prob- ability of the stilling of guns and the stilling of passions in the Middle East meant that Jews had to start sifting through their multi-layered, sometimes conflicted but al- ways indelible allegiance to Is- rael and determine how a decline in crises in the Jewish state — with its freeing of Jew-...…
…5754 Pivoting Toward The Future was killed in his car just outside Hebron, Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza blocked intersections with rocks and burning tires, stoned Palestinians and torched their property, dashed with Israeli police and shot at several Pales- tinians driving in their cars in the heart of Samaria. Amid this new phenomenon — a "Jewish intifada" — Zvi Katzover, head of the Kiryat Arba Local Council, ad- vised on Israe...…
…with Jordan's king signing accords with Israel in Washington, bombs in London destroyed part of Israel's embassy and others blasted the offices of several other Israel-related organizations. Fifteen people, in toto, were injured. But the White House signing was not deterred. Nor was Mr. Rabin's enthusiasm dimmed. "The entire State of Israel," he told the king, "is shaking your hand." Black-Jewish Wars J and then from April to May. And despi...…
…5754 Pivoting Toward The Future protested that his presence signaled that the NAACP's executive director, Ben- jamin Chavis, was steering the organi- zation in a radical, separatist direction. And protests outside the summit led by two Jews who ordinarily disagree — Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun maga- zine, and Rabbi Avi Weiss, president of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns — sig- naled (once again) that the Jewish com- munity suffers from...…
…Religious Squabbling D ivisions between blacks and Jews were almost equaled by those within the Jewish faith itself. On June 12, the leader of the Lubavitch Chasidic move- ment, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died at the age of 92. The rebbe had built Lubavitch from a small band virtually decimated by the Holo- caust to a powerful-satellite connected world organization of 200,000 followers. His influence extended well beyond that number, ...…
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…Mar I Var AIWA V trampling the Star of David above the grave of the State of Is- rael — explains his economic dilemma under the new admin- istration. Israel work permits for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have gradually in- creased to 25,000, following the closure of the territories after the acts of terrorism more than a year ago. Though nowhere near the high of 120,000, many work permits go unused since Israelis are increasingly r...…
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…GAZA page 67 to be a Palestinian agency for processing contributions under its own control. Otherwise, Mr. Arafat has argued, his adminis- tration — which already is lim- ited by Israel's prerogative to decide who enters and leaves its territory — would be little more than a puppet of the donor states when it came to the key issue of local development. For months the two sides held firm to their positions while the economic and psychological ...…
