…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS CLOSE-UP JUNE 21, 1991 / 9 TAMMUZ 5751 Temple Israel To Offer Shelter PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor M any refer longingly to the synagogue back home or the synagogue where they were raised. Few, however, have ever gone home to a syn- agogue. But that will be the case for one week in July 1992 when Temple Israel becomes the first local synagogue to offer its Walnut Lak...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Home For The Orphan Immigrants LINDA BENSON An increasing number of parents are turning to foreign adoptions. 24 BUSINESS Mega Meged! KIMBERLY LIFTON A Kalamazoo company imports exclusively from Israel. 57 UP FRONT 11 President Bush cites the Holocaust. DETROIT 14 Immigrants speak out on Yeltsin, Leningrad. BACKGROUND 31 Is Lebanon a time bomb? ENTERTAINMENT 61 A courtroom drama is a best seller. LIFE IN I...…
…EDITORIAL Temple Israel's Shelter Temple Israel has gone and accomplished something that the Detroit synagogue community and all of us need to watch with. admiration. The West Bloomfield temple, Michigan's largest congregation, will open its doors for one week in July of 1992 for homeless peo- ple within Oakland County in conjunction with the South Oakland County Shelter. The effort will involve a huge undertaking as Temple Israel feeds, hou...…
…Ten Years Later, The Threat Remains GARY ROSENBLATT Editor Ten years ago this month, in a surprise air raid, Israel bombed and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear re- actor that was scheduled to begin operation later that summer. Prime Minister Menachem Begin defended the action as one of self defense against a sworn enemy of Israel who, with nuclear capabilities, would have had the poten- tial to destroy the Jewish state. "Israel has nothing to apo...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS L_ \ ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn Triest LOCAL COLUMNISTS: Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schwartz ...…
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…Bush Cites Holocaust In Gulf War Decision TOM TUGEND Special to The Jewish News p resident Bush warned this week that neither geography nor military power can guar- antee Israel's security, ad- ding that his Middle East peace initiative would suc- ceed only "if the parties in the region muster the polit- ical will to make it happen." At the same time, however, Mr. Bush pledged that "Israel's survival will be guaranteed," and he em- phasize...…
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…DETROIT Former Emigre Returns Home To Political Tension AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer lien Press tried to con- ceal her anxiety as her train passed the dain- ty, sleepy villages of the Finnish countryside and rolled through the rough heartland of Soviet Russia. Her heart beat uncon- trollably as she waited in her compartment for the Soviet border police and customs officials to come back with her American passport and exit visa, con- vinced s...…
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…N L Aronson, who was unable to attend the meeting. "Our biggest challenge is to look at what kind of services we currently have and how we can tap them to help those in our community affected by the AIDS epidemic. I hope the task force will come to the Federation." Margaret Weiner, assis- tant executive director of the Jewish Family Service, said she'd welcome suggestions from the task force. She also said any Jew is entitled to JFS services...…
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…I CLOSE-UP • W *Orphan Immigrants LINDA BENSON Special to The Jewish News Illustration by Bob Lynch 24 FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1991 here do babies come from? For several Detroit-area families, the age-old question has some exotic new variations these days. Mark Feinberg, 61/2, and his sister Rachel, 1 1/2, of Ann Arbor came from Bogota, Col- umbia. Their parents, Andrew and Isabelle Huron Feinberg, have traveled twice to Bogota, staying the ...…
…An increasing number of Jewish parents are turning to 7-11 • • Photos By Glenn Triest Poragn Adoptions. in Washtenaw County, an area with two major univer- sities and a dispropor- tionately large child- bearing-aged population. A sizable number of babies are born each year to unwed mothers in the United States, almost 800,000 in 1988, according to the United States Census Bureau. But a variety of complex social and cultural changes in Ameri...…
…JFS has 30 couples on the waiting list, and would-be adoptive parents should expect a three-year wait. Jewish alike, have delayed children until the degrees are completed, the dream house is purchased and the job promotions start to materialize. As a result, couples often do not think about starting families in earnest until their thirties, and a significant number of late-starters are finding that they run into fertility problems. By the tim...…
…HOME apply to adopt again as soon as agency regulations permit. T he Kulis' story puts yet another spin on the boundaries of culture, tradition and na- tionality that the overseas adoptions have transversed. Neither Dorothy nor Richard Kulis are Jewish, but Dorothy, of Serbian des- cent, and Richard, of Hungarian-Serbian heritage, have been trailblazers for many Detroit-area Jewish couples who wish to adopt Roma- nian babies. In their 40s, ...…
…"Infertility is almost like a death. You have to mourn the loss before you can move on." —ISABELLE HORON FEINBERG She stayed with the priest's family for seven more weeks. Because of her facility with the language, few people realized that Mrs. Kulis was American. Instead, they usually mistook her prosperous, healthy appearance as Hungarian. She helped out at the orphanage, learned which Romanian officials to bribe to get things done, and at...…
…NEWS Pearls! White House Ceremony Raises Questions Washington (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has questioned the motiva- tion behind a White House ceremony belatedly honor- ing surviving crew members of the USS Liberty, a Naval intelligence ship bombed by Israeli aircraft during the 1967 Six- Day War. Thirty- four American seamen died in that bombing. Israel has always insisted the episode was an accident and the United States offi- cial...…
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…BACKGROUND Artwork from Newsday by Anthony D'Adamo. Copyrights 1991, Newsday. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Time Bomb In Lebanon Israel is increasingly worried about Syria's increasing presence in Lebanon. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent senior official in Jerusalem this week sounded the most ominous warning yet that Lebanon could again become a battlefield if Syria attemp- ts to erode Israel's interests and influence. "W...…
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