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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS JN Feb. 20, 1998 Vol. CXII No. 26 Up Front 16 Out er About. page 92 Chess Friend Michigan's top-ranked chess player is staking his claim as the best. The World 37 Time To Compromise? Israel's controversial conversion bill bites the dust. What's next? le 73 Profiles In Courage Remembering the Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews from the Holocaust. The Scene The Scene. page 82 82 Intertwining Ideologies Can a wo...…

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…Tip Front Brit. Hold The Milah JULIE WIENER Staff Writer L a blessing for entrance into the covenant, this first ceremony included variations of the seven blessings said at weddings. Some proponents of girls' covenant ceremonies have intro- duced physical acts, such as feet washing and immersion, to parallel the act of circumcision. In the 1970s, one Jewish feminist even sug- gested creating a ritual act of break- ing the girl's hymen. Je...…

…First Steps The Interfaith Connection is generating a flurry of programs and struggling to attract participants. 2/20 1998 10 JULIE WIENER StaffWriter t's Monday night, and the group of 14 people in their 50s and 60s sit in a circle discussing their grandchildren. Only instead of the usual kvelling and snapshot circulating that occur when Jewish grandparents get together, the participants are talking about more serious con- cerns: how to ...…

…THE WORLD'S GREAT VIOLINISTS Above: 8-year-old Monica Finkbiner reads one of the seder questions with help from mom Stephanie. Left: Debbie Wurster, Sheldon Lemptert and their 5-year-old daughter Jackie hold up their cups of wine as Jenny Patterson reads the blessin at a recent Tu B'Shevat seder or interfaith families. school children. A group of six fami- lies began meeting last fall, and this spring Stettner will facilitate two ;groups of...…

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…Photo by Krista Husa. Chess Friend Michigan's top-ranked chess player is staking his claim as the best. LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer en Finegold sits in front of his large, wooden chess board, fingering and adjust- ing the shiny pieces. He wipes off a light film of dust that has covered the board. This board — or any chess board, for that matter — is Finegold's office. Such is the life of the top-ranked chess player in the state and an int...…

…Hastings International Chess Tourna- ment in England, the two married. She is also a USCF life master and two-time participant in the Chess Olympiad. The Finegolds' son is moving in the same direction. At 6 years old, he has won four chess tournaments already. "If he's got the talent for chess, this is the environment to nurture it," Gina said. While the Chicago Open title is one that has eluded Finegold in his illustrious 23-year career, he p...…

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…Taking It To The Bank A father-son business team donates to a ood bank. •s• LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer arkus Rohtbart knows hunger all too well. As a Holocaust sur- vivor, he survived five years in 10 concentration camps. He weighed 80 pounds when he was lib- erated at the age of 18. Rohtbart and his son David, now the chairman and president, respec- tively, of Cattleman's Inc., have donated $26,000 to Gleaners Com- munity Food Bank in D...…

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…■ COLORWORKS STUDIO OF INTERIOR DESIGN • c ial specs. They talk about everything, lose to me," he says. "When I was a kid, I used to study philosophy with a not just books, and Del Valle plays the retired Jesuit. He asked, 'What does it part of yenta well. "Carter Brown mysteries from the take to know what it is to be a `60s almost make my mouth water," Catholic?' And he said, 'You'll never he says during a discussion of mystery know what ...…

…Legislative 271 West Maple Downtown Birmingham 248.258.0212 Glitch Dispute over prisoners' rights stalls state religious freedom legislation. JULIE WIENER Staff Writer t first, it looked like it would pass within a matter of weeks. But more than six months later, the Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) still has not appeared on the floor of the state Senate. The proposed legislation, which aims "to reaffirm the freedom to pr...…

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…K Skin Deep Above: Percussionist Chen Zimbalista raps out a groove. Top right: Zimbalista gath- ered some audience members for an impromptu jam ses- sion. Here, he demonstrates. Right: Tracy Berger, 12, tries out a marimba after Zimbal- ista's show. It was one of 40 instruments the artist brought for his performance. Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista takes his beat-iful show to Temple Beth El. JULIE EDGAR News Editor KRISTA HUSA Ph...…

…• all it rhythm and schmooze. When Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista performs, he gets every- body into the act. At Temple Beth El last Sunday, some people were content to stay in their seats, clapping and tapping; others joined him on stage to try their hands at shakers, cym- bals, marimba and congas and wood blocks. Zimbalista, 30, was in town for the Mid East/West Fest, an intercultural exchange for public school students. He presented...…

…k4. trj 61: This & That NCJW/ goes to Washington; Jews and Arabs prepare for camp. Detroit Jews and Arabs will host a March 1 fund-raiser for Seeds of Peace, a camp in Maine that teaches conflict resolution skills to young Israelis and Arabs from the Middle East. Speakers at the invitation-only event will include U.S. Senators Carl Levin and Spencer Abraham, as well as two recent alumni of the five-year- old program. The visiting alums, 14...…

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…Jewish Education: Vital To Jewish Continuity A creative approach to funding and a burning desire to survive have combined to brighten the forecast for Akiva Hebrew Day School, as reported in last week's Jewish News. But sharply focused objectives, insightful planning and prudent spending must domi- nate decision making if Akiva, and other Jew- ish schools in metro Detroit, are to secure their financial future. Thanks to the Jewish Federation ...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS Will Our Grandchildren View Us The Way We See The Holocaust? F Jewish history of over 2,000 years. or some time, the Jewish There is a story about a Jewish sailor community has been from Palestine in the 1930s who embroiled in discussions arrived in Crete to find a flourishing about Jewish continuity. and lively Jewish community. Return- Studies and surveys have ing to Crete in 1948, he dis- been done nationally and covered ...…

…RISHER'S NOTEBOOK The Tale Of Monica Lewinsky Strikes Close To Home For Us ARTHUR M. HORWITZ Publisher What is it about Monica Lewins that captivates us? By now, we are familiar with her ascension from the obscurity of a White House internship to the focus of an inves- tigation into the behavior of the Presi:- dent of the United States. At stake? Issues of war and peace in the Middle East and the ability of Bill Clinton to lead the most pow...…

…OPINION Pluralism Is A U.S. Export That Israelis Won't Accept DAVID LANDAU Special to The Jewish News IV by is there no Jewish pluralism in Israel, the second largest and soon- to-become the largest Jewish community in the world? The answer that most people give, almost instinctively, is: because of the Orthodox monopoly, exercised through the political process. But that begs the question. Why does Israel have an Orthodox monopoly, enshrine...…

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…by AP/Zoom 77 Time To Compromise? In October; Israeli President Ezer Weizimin and government advisor Bobby Brown shook hands, with Reform rab- bis Asher Hirsch and Joe Vernick looking on, seal- ing establishment of the Ne'eman Commission. ERIC SILVER Israel Correspondent \ T he conversion bill, which threatened to divide Diaspora Jews from. Israel, is dead. An overwhelming majority of Knesset members who first backed it now oppose it. D...…

…•1 ICE ON ICE The World Reform and Conservative representa- tives, Rabbis Uri Regev and Ehud Bandel, insisted on their right to con- duct their own conversions in excep- tional cases where a candidate might not be acceptable to the Orthodox. They would only consider dropping this demand if the chief rabbis met them, thus acknowledging their legiti- macy. The chief rabbis declined, in a communique that pointedly did not identify the "heretic...…

…Missile Debate Al Gore, Bibi Netanyahu quiet Israeli and American Jewish opposition to Russian missiles for Iran. Farralthan To Go To Australia? Sydney UTA) — Louis Farrakhan' applied °t i r u m a r l , e a c . c o r ta c n o d u v visit i r t y s u i s n t enag f°1. visas J ewish community oiieials JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent ill pro-Israel groups back off in their push for tou new sanctions on Russian companies that con...…

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…and their European counterparts, open their books to show how many Holocaust victims were insured and if the companies paid off the claims of survivors." Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) has authored a bill that would bar foreign insurance companies from doing busi- ness in this country unless they fully dis- close their Nazi-era life and property insurance policies. In a more con- troversial move, Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Sen. Arlen Specte...…

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