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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP SPORTS Star Search 'The Man In The Box ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM A look at some big-name entertainers with a Jewish connection. 22 OPINION Religious McCarthyism chases a popular rabbi. STEVE STEIN Irwin Cohen hawks tickets and baseball lore for the Tigers. 54 UP FRONT 11 Israel's Labor Party has an identity crisis. DETROIT 14 Arabs in Detroit must wait to regain lands. BUSINESS 51 Frederick's of Hollywood built...…
…EDITORIAL Cousins Of Desperation For three days last week, the news reports carried riveting, though tragic details of a disgruntled former postal employee's deadly rage and the defeat of a Nazi's bid for the Louisiana governor's mansion. It's important to recognize that the Jew- ish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit led an effort to obtain co-signatures from across the racial, economic, religious and political spectrum to condemn Da...…
…OPINION A Rabbi Is Targeted By Religious McCarthyism GARY ROSENBLATT Editor Rabbi Shlomo Riskin does not look like a heretic. He is a short, cherubic- faced man in his early 50s who wears a large, knitted kippah and a smile that makes Magic Johnson look downright glum. But the appearance of Rabbi Riskin for a lecture last week stirred a con- troversy that is but a microcosm of a much larger ideological battle taking place daily, in Israel...…
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…UP FRONT Israel's Labor Pains On the eve of the Labor Party convention, serious identity problems have emerged. INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News T he election year in Israel is being in- itiated not by the Likud but by the opposition Labor Party, which is holding the first part of its convention this week. In some ways, the three- day meeting could not have come at a more inopportune time. While surveys have repeatedly shown that ...…
…I UP FRONT Labor Continued from preceding page jected a clause that would make negotiations with the organization possible," wrote another in Ha'aretz. Stung, perhaps, by the harsh reaction in the press, the Laborites plunged into a second round of negotiations and modified their stand on the key issues by removing the explicit prohibition on talks with the PLO, recognizing the "national rights" of the Palestinian inhabitants of the ter- ri...…
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…DETROIT Detroit Arabs Ask State Dept. To Block Israeli Security Move AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer T he fencing off of 375 acres of land on the West Bank last April had nothing to do with building further Jewish set- tlements and everything to do with ensuring the area's safety, Israeli officials stated this week. Not so say 120 Palestinian American families in metro Detroit and in four other U.S. cities. They petitioned the U.S. State Depar...…
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…TEMPLE ISRAEL INVITES THE GREATER DETROIT JEWISH COMMUNITY TO An Evening to Remember Mr. Bainerman, a former economics editor at the Jerusalem Post, took the hardest line during his speech at Oakland Univer- sity. "Don't delude yourselves," he said. "Israelis don't think there ever will be a Palestin- ian state in the West Bank." Mr. Bainerman, who drew mainly on his experience studying economics, con- cluded that even if Palestin- ians can ...…
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…Kevin Kline 0 STAR SEARCH ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor 22 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1991 ne of the leading actresses of the 1930s was a sad child who found happiness in the home of a Jewish couple. She was born Ruby Stevens. When she was 2, her mother died and her father abandoned the family. Ruby, who was not Jewish, was sent to live in various boar- dinghouses, among them the Flat- bush, N.Y., home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohen. "Mr...…
….411151.11111111.0111.1111111,1MIMMIIIIMINOINIIII011.1111110. Robert de Niro, a nice Jewish boy? A look at some surprising entertainers with a Jewish connection, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Business Like This, a German film produced in 1969. She attended the Univer- sity of California at Los Angeles and planned on becoming a veterinarian. Meanwhile, Ms. Benton began appearing in com- mercials and in the TV show "Playboy After Dar...…
…STAR SEARCH 4 Past Imperfect, Ms. Collins recalls her love for her father .as "intense. At nursery school I told the other kids that my father was the tallest and hand- somest man in the world. Handsome he was, with jet- black curly hair which he would slick flat to his head with three layers of Brylcreem, dark-brown flashing eyes and a finely chiseled profile. Tall? Well, hardly. One day I realized to my disappointment that my father was on...…
…Leach in Bristol, England. His father was Jewish; his mother was gentile. Born in 1904, Mr. Grant discovered the theater when he was 13. He soon joined a group of acrobats, then worked as a stilt walker on Coney Island. While in his mid-20s, Mr. Grant began appearing in lead roles on Broadway. In 1932, he signed a five-year contract with Paramount Studios, earning $450 a week. Actress Mae West gave Mr. Grant his big break, casting him in She D...…
…••• ■■ =/. STAR SEARCH ( listed as 1934, 1937 and 1938. Ms. Louise appeared in numerous stage plays and films, including God's Little Acre and The Step- ford Wives, before going on to star from 1964-1967 as the sexy movie star on "Gilligan's Island." She also guest starred on "Kung Fu," "The Love • Boat" and "Mannix." ROSS MARTIN was born Martin Rosenblatt in 1920 in Grodek, Poland, and came to the United States as a child. Though best kn...…
…Fumy, They look, ewish ► - America's homeless. She has written a book, Shar- ing Christmas, which tells the Christmas memories of actors, politicians and others, proceeds of which will benefit the homeless. HARRY REEMS was the leading male por- nography star in the 1970s; his film credits include the infamous Deep Throat. Born Herbert Streicher in New York, Mr. Reems served in the Marines and acted on Broadway before starring in his first ...…
…STAR SEARCH immediate success. By 1979, Billboard listed the band as one of the top 10 rock groups in the country. Mr. Roth wrote lyrics for one of Van Halen's biggest hits, "Jump," released in 1984. Mr. Roth left Van Halen in 1985. His first solo record was "California Girls," the video for which featured plenty of scantily clad beauties at the beach. WINONA RYDER, the Jewish girl who loves nuns in Mermaids, was born Winona (she was named a...…
…his mother remarried when Rod was a child and raised him a Lutheran. Mr. Steiger today identifies as a Christian. Mr. Steiger has appeared in numerous plays and films, playing Jews in both The Pawnbroker and The Chosen. OLIVER STONE, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, is the son of a Jewish father, Louis Stone, and a Catholic mother, Jac- queline Goddet. Born in 1946 in New York, Mr. Stone attended Yale University and won Acad...…
…CLOSE-UP I musical, then won a role on "Mission Impossible." JESSE WHITE, until his recent retirement, was the Maytag repairman who never got any calls. He was born Jesse Weidenfeld in 1919. Mr. White made his first stage appearance in 1934. His films include such classics as Bedtime for George Ohrenstein Graduate Gemologist, Certified Master Watchmaker After 45 years in business, George Olirenstein Jewelers, Ltd. Bonzo, The Ghost in the...…
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…BACKGROUND A Skewed World View Of Middle East History ::: The U.S. Pan Am 103 investigation looks suspiciously like a politically inspired whitewash. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent A s Israel stands on the threshold of direct, substantive talks with its Arab neighbors, international attention will inevitably fix on its "intransigence" and its un- willingness to evacuate ter- ritories conquered in the Six- Day War. There will be power...…
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