…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.detroitjewishnews.com Friday, May 2, 2003 Nisan 30, 5763 Vol. CXXIII, No. 12 COMMUNITY 9. 29 Open-Hearted Heroes DEPARTMENTS Senior volunteers win "Eight Over 80" honors. 1948 veterans fight a final battle 55 years later — for historical truth. Alefbet'cha 9 Anniversaries . .44 AppleTree 85 B'nai Mitzvah . • • .39 Calendar 37 Candlelighting...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Exposing The Horror S am Offen talks not from notes but from the heart about the inhumanity he endured in the darkest days of the Holocaust. The Birmingham furrier and Krakow native is now 81. The bounce in his step is gone, but he's spry enough to speak often, and graphically, about the horrors he somehow survived a long time ago. Today, Offen lives in West Bloomfield with his wife, Hyla. They have two children. He and I ...…
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…For Openers Why Is This Birth Different? Wilson said. "I guess you should always listen to your mother hen Ann Arbor residents Joey I because that night at 1 a.m. we were off to the hospital: Jessica, and Jessica Wilson discovered her mom (Judy Kirzner of Carmel, N.Y.), me, the chicken and their baby was due the day the kugel." after Passover ended, they real- At 8:19 Tuesday morning, April 22, Simeon Isaac Wilson was ized the possibility of...…
…Tb s Week News Digest %.egreni otreel ofcliksicHoomfield New Crown Heights Defense Presented Assisted Living from S3,500 per month New York/JTA — The man facing a retrial in the 1991 Crown Heights riots admitted that he killed an Orthodox Jew. However, Lemrick Nelson says he was drunk when he stabbed yeshivah stu- _ dent Yankel Rosenbaum, and wasn't motivated by anti-Semitism. The retrial is for violating Rosenbaum's civil rights; Nelson...…
…ITS *le, / Week ADL Defends Rod Paige New York/JTA — The Anti- Defamation League is defending Education Secretary Rod Paige, saying the secretary was misquoted when he said he prefers Christian values in schools. The national director of the ADL, Abraham Foxman, said, "It's clear that the secretary's words were not only taken out of context, they were changed to ignite a controversy." Foxman also said the Baptist Press reporter who authored...…
…Staff Notebook Under Attack British citizen carries out latest suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. News Service Reports- he man who carried out the suicide bombing that killed three people and wounded 60 at 1 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, at a Tel Aviv beach- front pub was a British citizen. Another terrorist whose explosives did not detonate also was British, the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz reported the next day. Omar Khan Shard, 27, escaped from the c...…
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…This Week `Not On Our Watch' Holocaust service stresses remembering so the slaughter won't happen again. at the hands of the Nazis, even though he had been offered the opportunity to escape to safety. Special to the Jewish News "Janus Korchek walked without fear," said Gorman. "He believed you had to nurture chil- ore than 400 people demonstrated dren with love and kindness." their vows to remember the Six Dr. Charles Silow, president of CH...…
…SARS Deaths Toronto Jewish couple succumb to respiratory disease. Toronto Lastman, a member of Toronto's he outbreak of SARS Pride of Israel Synagogue, also told (severe acute respiratory reporters, "I have never been so angry syndrome) roiling Toronto in my whole life. If it's safe to live in has claimed an elderly Toronto, it's safe to come to Toronto." Jewish couple among its victims. Meanwhile, Israel took steps of its The husband, Jose...…
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…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs marriages are taking place, he said. Furthermore, none of the decennial population surveys have shown an intermarriage rate lower than 33 per- cent since the mid-1960s. Golin's report maintains that even a conservative estimate of 40 percent means that four intermarriages creating four intermarried households are being created for every six Jewish marriages, which lead to three in-married homes. At 50 percent th...…
…Washington Watch On The Road Again Quartet's "road map" has Jewish leaders concerned. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he Bush administration this week tried to reassure anxious Jewish leaders about one aspect of the impending "road map" for Palestinian statehood: who will be in the driver's seat. The effort to publish and imple- ment the plan, created by the Mideast "Quartet," could go into overdrive after the decision by the ...…
…411 encouraging partisanship in church- es, are renewing their push for the "Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act" which would legal- ize those activities. The measure, introduced by Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., and co-spon- sored by Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, would amend the 1986 tax code to permit churches, synagogues and mosques to engage directly in political campaigns without jeopardiz- ing their tax-exempt status. The bi...…
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…T is Week Insight Remembering Commemoration marks 60th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. erected on the site of the ghetto. And in the 1950s, the Israeli govern- ment designated the 27th of Nisan, a date that was about halfway through the Ghetto Uprising, as Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day. "The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first time in occupied Europe that civilians put up armed resistance against Nazi occupiers," says Mar...…
…Affording the best is not the Question... finding the best is... REMEMBERING from page 22 more than 300,000 Jews made up about one-third of the city's popula- tion. The Nazis forced more than 500,000 Jews into the cramped ghetto in Warsaw's old Jewish quarter. At least 3 million Polish Jews, includ- ing almost all of Warsaw's Jewish popu- lation, were killed in the Holocaust. 'As a child in Warsaw, I grew up knowing that to be a Jew meant to...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Responding To Anti-Zionism n the second night of Passover, while Jews were saying "Next Year in Jerusalem," the ayne State University Student Council approved a resolution designed to demonize and de-legitimize the State of Israel and its supporters. The resolution calls for the university to divest from all companies and funds that do business in Israel. T...…
…OTHER VIEWS Jewish Agency Plays Crucial Role vir hat if you had no hope? tion to Israel and absorption of new What if you had no immigrants into its general popula- future? What if you tion. Since its inception, JAFI has knew that each day you facilitated the immigration and would awake in a place that rejected absorption of almost 3 million Jews you for whom you are? What if, as a to Israel Jew, you were isolated in a country Many may thin...…
…An Iraqi Strongman Philadelphia housands of Iraqi Shiites chanted "No to America, No to Saddam, Yes to Islam" a few days ago during pilgrim- age rites at the holy city of Karbala. Increasing numbers of Iraqis appear to agree with these sentiments. There are ominous implications for the coalition forces: • Gratitude for liberation usually has a short shelf life, and Iraq will be no exception. Asa middle-aged factory manager put it, "Thank you,...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 37 Mazel Toy! 39 OPEN-HEARTED HEROES Senior adult volunteers win "Eight Over 80" hall offame honors. 33 BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News fight men and women with diverse back- grounds and interests, but who are all devot- ed to charity work and volunteerism are this year's honorees in the Jewish Apartments & Services Eight Over 80 program. They will be inducted into the Senior Adult Hall of Fame Sund...…
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…THE PUBLIC Is INVITED To HEAR Israel's Leading Activist Attorney Walter M Stark Viewers of WDIV-TV in Detroit might have seen Stark, 83, deliver the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag recently — a proud moment for a man who fled Nazi Germany as a youngster with his family, then became a successful busi- nessman while devoting much of his time to charity and community service. "My dad could have spent much more time devoted to his ...…
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…Upcoming Events in Metro Detroit Rabbi Sherwin Wine, Congregations; Neil Michaels, Women's Groups; Morton Klein, Clubs & Affiliates; Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Lunch and Learn. YOM HAZIKARON Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit — Monday, May 5, 7:30 p.m. An officer from the Israel Defense Forces will represent the military in a memorial ceremony. Adat Shalom Synagogue. (248) 642-4260. YOM HAATZMAUT Flint Jewish Community — Sunday, May 4, ...…
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…INSIDE Synagogue List 50 Torah Portion 52 Pops concert introduces Temple Israel's newest cantorial soloist and his future wife — to the community. DIANA LIEBERMAN A New Direction StaffWriter/Copy Editor Life has been a whirlwind for the Toronto-born Michaels ever since he first met with Rabbi Loss last year. At the time, he was seeking a rabbi to officiate at his wedding to Garza, a Troy native. A new career was not even on his radar...…
…Weituality Temple Israel Sisterhood Presents ART FAIR 2003 LOVE AND HARMONY from page 45 Outstanding works of Art and Merchandise from the USA & Israel Sunday & Monday, May 4th & 5th 10 a.m. to 4p.m. at Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Rd. W. Bloomfield • 248.661.5700 Lunch available at our Temple Avenue Café LEGACY JEWELRY is a proud to Support Temple Israel Sisterhood by donating 10% of every purchase made at LEGACY JEWELRY from May ...…
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