…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY DECEMBER 21, 1990 / 4 TEVET 5751 Doctors Form Coalition To Influence Sinai's Future Sinai Hospital of Detroit. 0 KIMBERLY LIFTON and PHIL JACOBS Staff Writers T hey spend their entire careers trying to save lives. And now they are trying to save their hospital. A group of doctors is rally- ing to the aid of the 38-year- old Sinai Hospital, which once afforded Jewis...…
…LOOKING BACK And So It Was A search for Butzel memorial leads to surprises in Detroit history. Editor's note: Due to an er- ror in composition last week, M7: Simons' story is being re- run today in the correct order. LEONARD N. SIMONS Special to The Jewish News S ome new tales, very interesting and sur- prising, have come to light about early Detroit Jewish history. Some go back to the beginning of our local Jewish community around 1850...…
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…RIP FRONT U.S.-Israel Relations Take A Quick Nosedive JAMES D. BESSER and IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News he hot and cold rela- tionship between the United States and Israel cooled again this week, thanks to Israel's move to expel four Palestin- ians and the U.S. decision to support a U.N. Security Council resolution critical of the deportations. In less than a week, the good feelings resulting from the round of meetings bet- ween Pr...…
…EDITORIAL Break-Even Patients Many rumors are circulating about the future of Sinai Hospital. Will it be sold? Closed? Merged? Downsized? All ultimate- ly focus on one issue . . . the hospital is not filling enough beds. On a typical day, ap- proximately half of the hospital's 620 beds are empty. This has produced operating deficits approaching $1 million a month. Filling beds ultimately falls on the shoulders of those physicians who have af...…
…CONTENTS OP CLOSE-UP FINE ARTS Russian Revolution The Conversion Of St. Fred's SUSAN GRANT Soviet emigres are putting a financial burden on Detroit's financially strapped day schools. ADRIEN CHANDLER Jewish artists find salvation in an old PoHo Catholic school. 58 22 DETROIT 14 Dec. 25 has different meaning for Jewish volunteers. BACKGROUND 31 Would Saddam attack Israel to get out of his corner? RELIGION 36 . A recent visit ...…
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…DETROIT Jewish Volunteers Step Forward On Dec. 25 SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer E ach year, Shirlee Mar- shall thinks maybe this will be the last time she makes the trip. She comes back home exhausted, haunted by the faces of the men and women who she knows will never leave the hospital. Then she remembers the pictures hanging on the wall of the Jewish War Veterans office, the faces of the young men who died during World War II and knows that ...…
…Photo by Glenn Triest Cantor Gail Hirschenfang chants as 13 Soviet emigre couples are married under two chupahs on Sunday at Temple Beth El. Soviet law prohibited Jewish wedding ceremonies in the Soviet Union. Soviets in Israel Seek To Market Expertise KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer tacks of papers con- tain scientific know- how brought to Israel directly from the Soviet Union. The proposals number 84. Offered is information to produce a di...…
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…CLOSE-UP USSIAN EVOLUTION Soviet students are putting an added burden on the already financially strapped Jewish schools. ive words. That was the ex- tent of Julia Karasik's English vocabulary when she enrolled in Sally Allen Alex- ander Beth Jacob School For Girls last March. Like many others, Julia knew little about Judaism but heard about Beth Jacob through . Yalena Grinman, a Soviet im- migrant who has been in- strumental in bringing So...…
…Alina Kamensky, 13, helps $55,000 for the seven Soviet students enrolled at the Marina Muratova, 9, work school. That will just about on her Hebrew lesson. cover the cost of English-as-a second-language teachers, Hebrew tutors, additional books and transportation to the school. "It's an incredible amount of money. In this time of economic distress, it is difficult to spend dollars that may not be there," said Dr. Smiley, who is searching for e...…
…are sensitive to the financial problems educators face. In- stead, he and other educators must seek alter- native funding from the community and private do- nations, Rabbi Goldberg said. Still, some educators think the financial strain might have been avoided if plann- ing were better. "There wasn't enough long- term planning or support to do all the work that needs to be done," Dr. Smiley said. He would have liked to see in Detroit a transiti...…
…CLOSE-UP RUSSIAN IEVOUMON 26 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1990 improved, Ms. Levi said. She added that the students often help each other when someone doesn't understand the English translation. Rabbi Freedman said while teachers may have had to make an adjustment for the Soviet students in their classroom, the experi- ence has provided for an unexpected benefit. "It helped the teachers to learn skills they didn't know they had. Nov they can bette...…
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…BACKGROUND HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent A s the Gulf crisis moves toward its final outcome, Israel's military and polit- ical analysts believe there is a high probability that Iraq's President Saddam Hussein may seek to sudden- ly and violently change the terms of the debate by laun- ching a missile strike on Israel. The vituperative anti- Israel rhetoric that con- tinues to emanate from Baghdad — last week's renewed threat to destroy...…
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