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…Inside: Teacher's Firing Sparks Hillel Debate; Summer Camp Isn't Just For Kids. • Spousal abuse is emerging from the veil of denial in the Jewish community. …

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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS JN Jan. 23, 1998 Vol. CXII No. 22 Up Front 9 Teaching Tumult In the aftermath of a dismissal, rumors are flying at Hillel. Camp 67 Summer Stock The Scene page 106 New programs, lots of summer options for campers of all ages. . AppleTree 93 Tell Us What You Think? Are the Rugrats Jewish? Is Streisand overrated? Do you prefer chopped liver? 102 The 11th Plague Out & About. page 114 Spousal abuse is emerging fr...…

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…union have repudiated the January 13 letter and its recommendation. But union President Malka Littman says the union stands by its letter. "Our membership is united in its support of our union and its decision. We are at this point waiting to hear from the board, and we are very, very hopeful because of the overwhelming support we've received from parents, " she said. Littman would not say how many parents have responded, nor would she provide...…

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…Have you ever asked yourself these questions: "Why is the whole world happy and I am depressed?" "How bad does it get before I hit rock bottom?" "Can I get out of it by myself?" Find out the: Binding Devotion JEWISH SECRETS To Self Improvement Temple Beth El's sisterhood sponsors a volunteer effort to bind books for the visually impaired. "How To Overcome Depression" LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer E very Tuesday, 12 women and one m...…

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…Fir n * The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies is proud to present a series of lectures by Kemal Balcaisic', Assistant Professor, Department of Librarianship, University of Sarajevo The Religious Gulf Grows Now both the Orthodox and secular are guilty of attacking one another in Israel. NECHEMIA MEYERS Special to The Jewish News N "THE SARAJEVO HAGGADAH: THE STORY OF TOLERANCE" AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE _ Wed nesday, Feb. 11, 1998 7...…

…ITICKETS FOR Ay • ■■ • •••• 1., But nowhere is there so much resentment as in the Army. Most of it, to be sure, is unreported, but some- times there is a leak, as occurred after General Amiaz Sagis, Commander of the Army's Technology and Logistics Branch, spoke about the matter to a group of his fellow officers. According to Carmela Menashe, military correspondent of Israel Radio, he ironically suggested that "IDF out- posts in southern L...…

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…American Heart Association. Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke The Most Important Instrument in the Treatment of Stroke A Hot Seat Two seasoned candidates are vying for a position on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. JULIE EDGAR Pews Editor Peter Christiano, a former Southfield city manager; Vince Gregory, a deputy with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department; and Aaron Kelly, a gov- ernment relations liaison for MichCon. The winn...…

…e, 54rirM ; . *"'%; 3' Cuppa Joe • The Gallery Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills attracts a wide range of folks on weekday mornings. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN StaffWriter KRISTA HUSA Photographer 1/23 1998 32 Outside, looking in: breakfast time at the Gallety. Alan S. Kristall and Ronald Koenigsberg discuss business over breakfast at the Gallery. …

…Above: Its not location, at the back and inside a strip mall, that keeps drawing a regular crowd to the Gallery.' Right: David Walsh goes to the Gallery every morning to eat breakfast and read the paper. Below: For the past four years, these retired educators have been meeting for breakfast every Wednesday at the Gallery. (From left) Arthur Plotkin, Lloyd Peterman, Edward Cervenak, Irving Wiener and Marshall Silverman. n any given weekday m...…

…Editorials Family Feud At Hillel Hillel Day School has taken giant steps during its four decades of teaching Jewish children in Detroit. The Conservative Jewish day school prides itself on the quality education — both Jewish and secular — that it imparts to our future Jewish leaders. How unfortunate, then, that negative per- sonnel issues are taking the spotlight away from the positive educational system at the Farmington Hills-based school....…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS Giving To Israel: Not A Political Move become a political activist, using the he reaction of Diaspora pages of the New York Times to ask Jews, including those in the Jews not to contribute unless those United States, to recent receiving funds in Israel pass his lit- political struggles in Israel mus test which includes, yes, support should make every Jew's heart ache. for the Oslo Accords. Upset with political developments Fr...…

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…NOTEBOOR Come to Old Kent • VITALITY from page 35 . Sit back. do, The Jewish News must change and adapt as its audience evolves. That's why listening attentively to what you tell us will always be a staple of how we oper- ate. We may not always agree but we'll always care about what you have to say. People relate best to people, not inanimate objects. A bedrock for us here at the to emotionally connect to you, our readers. We do that thro...…

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…The World ii,,,-, ..: - 1111110111011111L :Ntel TY'i elf Carolina and a member of the event's host committee. Jews, he said, will remain Jews, adding that "I look at myself as an adopted Jew or a righteous gentile." Will these Jews who "remain Jews" become believers in Christ? "I believe so," he said, "once they realize that Christ was the redeemer." This isn't the official position of the National Unity Coalition for Israel, which is run ...…

…with Netanyahu than with his prede- cessors, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, who were driven by a vision that enduring peace was at least a possibility? Netanyahu's turn to the Evangelicals also may exacerbate his problem with middle-of-the-road American Jews, who generally regard the Christian right as adversaries despite their commitment to Israel. The second element of Netanyahu's strategy involved GOP conservatives in Congress. The prime m...…

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