…$1.00 JANUARY 22, 1999/SHEVAT 5, 5759 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • Gift To JCC Lynches Jewish Film Fes MetroHillel Beats Winter Blahs www.detroitjewishnews.com In pendent Courses Ecumenism in Detroit now centers on talk among leaders rather than action by congregants. …
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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 'TN www.detroitjewishnews.com January 22, 1999 Vol. CXIV, No. 22 This Week 8 41. 14 7 24 Coming Attraction $250,000 endowment lets JCC start Jewish Film Festival in spring. Independent Courses Ecumenism in Detroit now centers on talk among leaders. Gore Speaks Up Vice president chides Israel on Wye River accord delays. Community Coming from two cultures Arts & Entertainment page 85 Survivor loses compensation ...…
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…Coming Attract' LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer A $250,000 donation will give Detroit a second shot at holding an annual Jewish Film Festival. If it gets off the ground as planned this May or June, even as a modest two- or three-flick event, it would join 50 other such festivals around the world. Milton Marwil, former owner of Marwil Bookstore Inc. on the campus of Wayne State University, started the endowment for the Lenore Marwil Jewish Fil...…
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…At An Exhibit HARRY KIRSBAUM KRISTA H USA Congregants of a church and a synagogue visit a Detroit museum. shley Kaploe was confused. The 9-year-old from Farmington Hills was staring Sunday at a picture on display at Detroit's Museum of African American History. It showed a sign saying "Rooms for Rent and Sleeping - Colored Only. Daddy, she asked her father, "what does 'colored" .,, mean "It's a bad word we don't use any more," replied her...…
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…Building Israel's Consensus B eyond the peace process, Israel's real debate today is how democracy and Judaism will co-exist. We hope the issue becomes increasingly visible as Israel's national election campaign sharpens in the coming months. Israel urgently needs open talk about the matter, and we need to make our voices heard if Israel truly is our spiritual home. The political parties will be tempted to make foreign relations — the Wye Ri...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS Akiva's A Vital Part Of The Jewish Community within a specific grade, but rather, he best way to understand throughout the entire high school the dynamics of Akiva there is incredible spirit. What people Hebrew Day School is to fail to realize is that we are not only look, as you did ("Akiva: cheering for our school, but rather, we The Roads Ahead" Jan. 1), at the past are cheering for the conti- graduating class, of which I ...…
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…LITTERS to the school's failure. The fact that Akiva has made many upgrades and enhancements to its secular programs was not mentioned. And on and on. Medicine may be necessary for Akiva, which has been, and remains, the only Jewish high school in Detroit for boys and girls. Publishing the wholly negative and slanted story is like a mistakenly high dose of pharma- ceutical: perhaps intended to cure, but foolishly toxic. The Jewish News should...…
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