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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 1

…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60c SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MAY 22, 1987 / 23 IYAR 5747 The Rise And Fall Of Shimon Peres On the verge of his greatest political triumph, Israel's Foreign Minister has suffered perhaps his worst defeat HELEN DAVIS Special to The Jewish News Jerusalem — At the very time that Gary Hart was admitting that his campaign to become president of the United States had been fatally flawed, serious questions ...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 2

…PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Shipler's Pulitzer Prize: Patrilineal Curiosity It is a month-old news item: that the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction was awarded to New York Times' former Israel correspondent David K. Shipler for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirit in a Promised Land, a NYTimes Press publication. This is a book that created much dispute. For many Jews and Israelis it was agonizing. Perhaps Arabs felt the same way. One way...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 3

…• • - GORNBEINO SAVE ON VIDEO TRANSFER VHS or BETA 8MM - SUPER 8 - 16MM - SLIDES OF OUR LOW PRICE 10% OFF WITH THIS AD Increasing Terror Expected Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israeli newspapers quoted senior military sources May 8, who predicted an escalation of at- tacks and attempted hostage-taking by terrorist groups operating in Lebanon. According to the sources, a group known as the Salvation Front will try to seize hos- tages for bargaining ...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 4

…ROUND UP HMC Leak Litigants Meet The parties to the Hoalocaust Memorial Center law suit met Tuesday and agreed to continue consultations in an effort to "reach an amicable solution," according to a joint statement issued by the litigants. United Jewish Charities, an arm of Federation, filed suit in Oakland County Circuit Court April 23 to force HMC's ar- chitect, Siegal/TI uomaala Asso- ciates, and its builder, Cronk and Tocco, Inc., to repa...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 5

…UP FRONT Supporters Of Sinai Employee Threaten Boycott Of Hospital ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor The reduction in hours of one of 150 employees laid off or reduced to part-time status by Sinai Hospital of Detroit may cost the hospital some of its Jewish clientele. Members of the Orthodox Jewish community circulated a second peti- tion this week on behalf of Eli Apt, a 17-year employee of Sinai who held kosher supervision and pastoral care d...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 6

…EDITORIAL Calling For Peace We would like to propose a unique Mideast peace conference — one that would bring together for civil discussions parties that have been obstinate and intractable in the past. We may be naive but we think such talks are possible and could have beneficial results for all concerned. No, we are not talking about bringing the Israelis, Arabs, Americans and Soviets to Geneva. We are talking about bringing together the f...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 7

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 8

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 9

…50,000 BUICK BUYERS CAN'T BE WRONG! For over 18 years, Mary Tamaroff has been selling Buicks from his Tamaroff Buick dealership on Telegraph and 12 Mile. That in itself is not unusual. But the fact that Tamaroff Buick has sold nearly 50,000 new Buicks . . . is! 50,000 Buicks! That means 50,000 Tamaroff customers. 50,000 people . .. each with their own reason why they bought their Buick from Tamaroff. It might have been Tamaroff's super-servic...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 10

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 11

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 12

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 13

…- NIBBLES & NUTS Our hats are off to DADS* and GRADS *Father's Day is June 21 Gift Baskets & Trays for all occasions Senate, Weicker is the dean of his party's New England delegations. He led the fight against abolishing the Small Business Administration. He challenged the Reagan Administration to ensure annual increases in fun- ding for the National Institute of Health and was instrumen- tal in the appropriation of more money for AIDS re...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 14

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 15

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 16

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 17

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 18

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 19

…/912 /987 HADASSAH HEADLINES Sheila Bass, Editor Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah, 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield 48033, 357-2920 or 683-5030 HONOR THY FATHER 75 AND STILL FLYING HIGH!!! FATHER'S DAY - June 21 Chairman of the Day, NANCY GLASS, invites you and your friends to come — join our fun- filled afternoon, Tuesday, June 2, 11:30 a.m. at TEMPLE CALENDAR -1 r Give him the gift of a lifetime - make him an HADASSAH Su...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 20

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 21

…OBITUARIES Ruth Braun Ruth Kaplan Braun, a staff nurse on the (Flint) Hurley Hospital Pediatric Psychiatry Unit which she helped create, died May 2 at age 59. A native of Flint, where she resided at the time of her death, Mrs. Braun was a graduate of Flint Central High School and of Chicago's Mt. Sinai School of Nursing. She served as board president of the Genessee County Chapter of Planned Parenthood for two consecu- tive terms, was a life...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 22

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 23

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 24

…Easy Does GARY ROSENBLATT Editor With his low-key, folksy style, Marty Kraar has managed to take control of the helm of the Federation here seemingly effortlessly. And that's a testament to his hard work and good sense A t the recent closing meeting of the record- breaking Allied Jewish Campaign, co-chair- man Paul D. Borman paid tribute to Marty Kraar, who has been executive vice president of the Federation since September, by noting tha...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 25

…Glenn Triest Marty Kraar's style has eased him into the community. opinions; or creating a process himself. Citing an example, he notes that in formulating a strategic plan for Federation, his responsibility is to help formulate the issues, not make the decisions. Reflecting Kraar's sincere belief that "there is only one Jewish com- munity," he has brought the ex- ecutives of the dozen or so agencies that fall under the Federation um- brella...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 26

…1̀"\P 1 1) The Holocaust Memorial Center Invites the Community to the Dedication of the Easy Does It Benard L. Maas Garden of the Righteous Sunday, May 31, 1987 1 p.m. Continued from preceding page 6602 West Maple Road (Maple and Drake Roads) West Bloomfield Bais Chabad Torah Center of Congregation Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield Invites you to "An Evening with Dr. Abraham J. Twerski" World renowned Chassidic Philosopher and Psychiatris...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 27

…DON MASSEY CADILLAC WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS Tuition Initiative Raises Furor Jerusalem (JTA) — A cabinet decision Sunday to establish a two-tier tuition system at the universities threw Israel into a broiling new controversy this week and created another area of conflict between Labor and Likud. The cabinet voted 12-11 in favor of an annual fee of $1,050 for veterans of the Is- rael Defense Force and $1,500 for all other students. The vo...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 28

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 29

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 30

…PURELY COMMENTARY Shipler's Pulitzer Continued from Page 2 most distinguished American Jews. This is where the patrilineal angle, proposed by Reform Jewish leaders, plays a role. Ac- tually, Pulitzer was not' a Jew. His father was Jewish and his mother was a Roman Catholic. There is no record of Jewish af- filiations by Pulitzer. And there is no record of denial either. Yet, there is a sense of glory claiming him for our distinction. He was...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 31

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 32

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 33

…Now at Lincoln Center! Next to A&P EXPERIENCED WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIR E & R Watch Repair All Work Guaranteed WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Peres, Shultz. Discuss Mideast Peace Parley New York (JTA) — Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Secretary of State George Shultz met for 90 minutes here last weekend, apparent- ly to discuss an international conference for Middle East peace. But neither man comment- ed on that issue when they emerged from their...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 34

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 35

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 36

…You get more for your vote when you vote ZOA. AT THE SYNAGOGUES The Zionist Organization of America • • • • • • • • Religious Pluralism Effective Public Action A Strong and Secure Israel Youth Programs U.S.-Israel Friendship Jewish Rights and Self-Respect Education Against Anti-Zionism Fight Against Anti-Semitism Vote ZOA for Jewish Unity # 3 The Zionist Organization of America The Platform for All American Zionists The Sixty-Eighth ...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 37

…DO YOU WANT SOMETHING FOR YOUR MONEY? CALL A TISKET A TASKET OUR BASKETS ARE FULLER AND PRETTIER IT'S A BASKET ABOVE THE REST! Judaism Has Two Contradictory Functions RABBI IRWIN GRONER Special to The Jewish News R eligion, it has been pointed out, has two, almost contradictory functions in our lives. On the one hand, it should comfort us when we are disturbed; on the other, it should disturb us when we are comfortable. Any student of ...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 38

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 39

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 40

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 41

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 42

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 43

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 44

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 45

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May 22, 1987 • Page Image 46

…M B Jerusalem's bomb squad, the most experienced in the world, hits the street up to 100 times a week. Its sappers are on the front lines of terror in the Holy City. s, SW E AT 8t TE A RS EDWIN BLACK - Special to The Jewish News F or an instant, there is no street, no crowd behind police barriers, no world, not even a sense of time. There is only Yoni and a large plastic yellow bag atop an illegaly parked BWM in the middle of downtown J...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 47

…shouting to the 24-year-old sapper, "Kol hakovod, Kol hakovod," Hebrew for "All glory to you." As usual, Yoni pretends not to hear. He was only doing his job — a job that he and several dozen other sappers anonymously perform about 100 times each week — sometimes as often as 30 times a day. This is Jerusalem, where bomb threats are as common as paper bags and forgot- ten briefcases. Only one percent of them are "real bombs" and a mere fraction...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 48

…of these is in Jerusalem where the squad has become one of the few in the world that not only responds to threats, but patrols around the clock, searching the possible bombs in garbage cans, empty buses, and suspiciously parked cars. Every day begins in the Old City. An old Ottoman era police station known as Kishle serves as the Squad's headquarters. In their regular uniforms, form-fitting dark blue T-shirts, grey-green army pants and rubber-...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 49

…"Is the street clear?" a sapper colleague yells. "Get them all back." The police push everyone back even further. Silence. Suddenly, a blast booms through the street. make them — and not to make it personal." Indeed, when Israel recruits sappers, it specifically screens out people who want "to make it personal. There's no room here for a man trying to prove something, or trying to be macho," explains an official in squad management. "Our sa...…

May 22, 1987 • Page Image 50

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