…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 75cP APRIL 20, 1990 / 25 NISAN 5750 Will Labor Replace Peres With Rabin? erusalem (JTA) — The Labor Party seems to have lost confidence in its longtime leader, Shimon Peres, since his at- tempt to establish a new coalition government was thwarted last week by the 11th-hour defections of two ultra-Orthodox Knesset members. Although the prime min- Sen. Dole Turns On Jerusalem ...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus When Self-Help Mirage Failed In USSR N o matter how treach- erous the risks for life in poisoned at- mospheres, Jewish com- munities' spiritual com- mitments were always given priority. While threats of pogroms are now being widely spread, cultural centers are being organized in Russia. Their ad- vancement is receiving sup- port from American Jews. Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel has vie...…
…OLDSMOBILES FOR LESS 1990 CUTLASS CALMS COUPE New Route May Open For Vulnerable Soviets New York (JTA) — Though a new transit route for Soviet Jews immigrating to Israel appears to be open- ing up in Finland, Jewish organizations remain con- cerned that the overall flow of immigration is vulnerable to terrorist threats. By the end of last week, the Finnish Consulate in Leningrad already had issued 100 transit visas to Soviet Jews who had se...…
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…UP FRONT KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer D ressed in a freshly pressed blue suit, white shirt and red paisley tie, Charles sits at the table rocking to the rhythm of the music. His eyes are fixed on the piano player. . Seated across the table, Marilyn talks about being Jewish. "I only wish I had a Jewish star," she says. And at a table on the other side of the room, Maureen, sporting her pink, silky par- ty dress and newly manicured fingernai...…
…EDITORIAL To Remember The Holocaust A wareness of the Holocaust is on the increase of late, a positive sign after decades of silence in the 1950s and '60s. In East Berlin, the new parliament last week issued a memorable state- ment, an apology for Nazi crimes corn- mitted during World War II. After 40 years of official denial, the parliament accepted joint responsibility for "the humiliation, expulsion and murder of Jewish men, women and ch...…
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…CLOSE-UP Can You Appreciate Israel If You Haven't Seen Auschwitz? Students pause for reflection at Auschwitz. A growing number of tours for Jewish youngsters are traveling to Poland in search of roots, history and renewal. The barracks at Auschwitz. CARL SCHRAG Special to the Jewish Times W arsaw — It is mid- night at the Holi- day Inn and several dozen American teenagers are sitting in a circle, shar- ing their feelings and im- pressi...…
…Strength in numbers: students and adult chaperones make the trek along the railroad tracks at Auschwitz. groups to Poland for the past three summers. "Until you get to Poland, you can- not understand how impor- tant it is to spread the mes- sage that the Holocaust real- ly happened. When the children come back from Poland, they can say, 'I touched 800,000 pairs of shoes in Maidanek. I saw where it happened.' " In 1984 and 1985, USY joined oth...…
…CLOSE-UP Students receiving a guided tour of the museum at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial, in Jerusalem. participants. In fact, most Israeli groups bring survi- vors, who play a central role in describing events before and during the war. Despite the effort to focus attention on Poland's rich Jewish history, the Holo- caust's sheer enormity makes everything else pale by comparison. Whether a student comes from New York, Montreal, Lo...…
…hillside by four-foot high green met- al fences, are the final resting place of more than 2,500 people. Several of the stu- dents visiting the site said they could relate to the tragedy at Tykocin because they can fathom 2,500 men, women and children. Num- bers like the four million who perished at Auschwitz- Birkenau are simply too massive for them to grasp. While Tykocin may pro- vide the students with a slice of death they can grasp, Oded ...…
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…ple participate in mass murder?" Studying the survivors and listening to their stories reveal that there is only so much to be learned from the victims about the dangers of the perpetrators. If lessons can be learned from the Holocaust, they seem to come from studying the perpetra- tors. They might tell us how to avoid becoming like them. What do we do to reduce in- difference? There are no Nazis knocking on doors. Reducing indifference begins...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON Soviet Jewry Groups Oppose Refugee Bill Washington is often awash with high school students participating in various pro- grams that give them a taste of politics and government. But Rabbi Sidney Schwarz directs a program with a distinctly Jewish twist. Schwarz is the founder and director of the Washington Institute for Jewish Leader- ship and Values. The group's Panim el Panim High School in Washington program at- tempts t...…
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…To all of our friends ... Marshall, played "with easygoing, but wary charm" by Joshua Rifkind, escorts a girl to her sister's wedding in Great Neck on Long Island. The band leader assures everyone that "the place is posh and there's plenty to nosh" and, at one point, Marshall moans, "I feel like I'm trapped inside Philip Roth's cerebellum." "Here, obviously„" says critic O'Connor, "is material as precious to the Jewish community as tales of g...…
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…FOCUS After the revolution, a former Romanian journalist finds that the nation's shrinking, aging Jewish community is still surviving. But there is fear for the future. A first hand account. EVA PEEL Special to The Jewish News A fter spending most of December and January glued to the television set and poring over newspaper ac- counts of the Romanian revolution, that most extraordinary uprising nobody believed could hap- pen, I had to see...…
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…COMMUNITY Annual Solidarity Walk Planned For May 6 Righteous Award To Governor Blanchard Governor James Blanchard will receive the Righteous Gentile Award for his life-long commitment to Remem- brance of the Holocaust and for the state's support of the Holocaust Memorial Center. The award will be presented as Shaarit Haplaytah of Metropolitan Detroit joins Holocaust survivors for the 45th Anniversary after Auschwitz and the 47th com- memora...…
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