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…Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.detroitjewishnews.com Friday, June 20, 2003 Sivan 20, 5763 Vol. CXXIII, No. 19 THIS WEEK FOOD 18 Poverty Jumps HEALTH 81 Summer Specials 86 Deadly Effect Quick appetizers take advantage of longer days. U-M grad watches SAPS change lift in Shanghai. Jewish poor in New York doubles in 10 years. OPINION 27 Improving The Legacy Later generations altered Henry F...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOIC Solving The Riddle Ann Arbor Were that step taken, Elyakin shudders to think what would eal Elyakin wonders if he has become one of the follow. I do, too. It's not unrealistic to think the next step haters because he regrets Israel didn't take out would incorporate the rest of Eretz Yisraeb the Land of Israel, Hamas leader Abdel al-Aziz Rantissi in a Gaza City into a greater Palestine. military strike on June 8. Elyakin k...…
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…For Openers Joining The Tour eha A vid cyclist Ely Tama of Farmington Hills and his wife, Andrea. thought it would be great some day to be present for the famous Tour de France bicyle race. For the past seven years, Tama, 56, has been the top individual fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society- SHARON Michigan Chapter annual MS 150 bike LUC KERMAN tour. In 2000, he was inducted into the Staff Writer organization's hall of fam...…
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…RINKE CiDILLAC 86 Years And Still Delivering BREAK In "Commanding Respect" (June 13, page 44), Norman A. Samson was incorrectly identified as ritual director at Temple Israel. Samson is Temple Israel's Ritual Committee chairman. In "Girls And Guys ..." (June 13), the photo caption on page 75 incorrectly spelled the name of Noam Dovas. In "We Were There" (June 6, page 12), World War II veteran Harold Finegood said he celebrated a Passover ...…
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…we ek a• Still Puzzling Jews have always been part of Ford Motor Company, despite founder's anti-Semitism. BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News 0 ne hundred years after its founding, and following a whirlwind of publicity and hoopla surrounding its Centennial observance, Ford Motor Company remains a powerful worldwide industrial force, and its famous founder remains an enigma to the Jewish community. The company, incorporated June 16,...…
…dealings with companies operated by Jews?" In his book Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (Public Affairs), Jewish author Neil Baldwin theorizes that Ford developed a hatred for Jews while studying McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, which contained Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, relating the antics of Shylock, the Jewish money-lender. Rabbi Leo Franklin of Temple Beth El, one of sev- eral Jews with whom Ford carried on puzzl...…
…This Week `Shalom Street' Ford Motor Company Fund's $2 million gift to ICC is designed for children. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer fficially, it's called the Center for Exploration and Discovery, under the umbrella of the Henry and Jeanette Weinberg Judaic Enriclunent Center in the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building on the Eugene & Maricia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield -- but the kids will call it "Shalom Street." The 4,5...…
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…This Week • Most poor Jewish homes — 96,000 — were in New York City. William Rapfogel, chief executive officer of New York's Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, said perhaps even more than one- third of New York Jews may qualify as poor, because many more people have lost their jobs in the eco- nomic fallout following the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001. "There was a lot of skepticism" when the council said 145,000 New York Jews qualify for gove...…
…Just Can't Say NO tion. Horowitz, the director of the 1992 report, objected to how the newer study tracked down Jews, among other issues. While she asked people in random calls what their religious affiliation was, the new study asked a more direct question: "Do you con- sider yourself to be Jewish or non-Jewish?" That could dissuade some marginal Jews from answering truthfully, she said. Shortly after the panel first convened in 2001, Andrew...…
…Stranger Than Fictio Former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers reminisces. HARRY KIRS BAUM StaffWriter D ee Dee Myers refers to her introduction into the world of presidential politics as "the trifecta on how not to go to Washington." President Bill Clinton's former press secretary was the youngest, the first woman and a Californian. The Washington press corps treat- ed her with a double standard — every story written about her include...…
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…Washington Watch Tax-Cut Clergy Conservative rabbis lobby on Capitol Hill against more tax cuts. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent 1.1 or months, most Jewish organizations — including some with a huge institu- tional stake in the debate — have ducked the issue of tax cuts as the Republican Congress and the Bush administration make sweeping-changes in the nation's spending priorities. But this week, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), rep...…
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…• This Week Insight Remember When • From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. Born To Fly New book tells the story of Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut. knocked out a crucial nuclear reactor in Iraq. To avoid being detected, they flew in a tight formation, so that Iraqi radar would mistake the eight planes for one commercial aircraft. Ramon volunteered to pilot the final plane in the f...…
…-A A JNOpinion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Improving The Legacy Dry Bones etroit's Henry Ford was an industrial pio- death — Ford turned the company neer — a homespun yet complicated man over to his 28-year-old grandson, wiuu who elevated tinkering to an art form. Henry Ford II, who had just DIGNMRiES„ 4-14PPOQ IF His ingenuity brought the Model T, the returned from the Navy. rto ttA, LtNe U...…
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