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…Special Report Modern-day Dizengoff Center Tel Aviv At 100 Brick by brick, the city on the dunes grew to international fame. W hen a few dozen families gathered April 11, 1909, on the sand dunes of the beach outside Jaffa to allocate land for a new settlement, they took the first critical step toward establishing what is today Israel's commercial and cultural capital. These families — Tel Aviv's first — couldn't decide how to assign the p...…
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…I Special Report HILL OF SPRING Tel Aviv from page All A Native Daughter Local woman recalls the "little Tel Aviv" of her childhood. Rachel Kapen Special to the Jewish News n 1910, when the first families moved into their new homes in the new settlement by the sea, the name was changed to Tel Aviv, hill of spring, This was the Hebrew version of Aitneuland, Binyamin Zeev Herzl's famous book in which he underlined his idea of a Jewish st...…
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…MAGEN DAVI] ADOM IN ISRAEI Heroes Of Warsaw Sta ff p ho tos by Ang ie Baan Ghetto uprising recalled in song, poetry and prose. kMERV,:tV.1 RED :OGEN PDVID Dorothy Benyas of West Bloomfield leads the group in song. T he Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring held its 66th annual Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration Sunday, April 19, at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. This tribute to Jewish resistance to Nazi tyranny included readings, m...…
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…Durban II Debacle Photo by Dan ie lla Za lcmd n /Whi lme d la Commons Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad hate speech. Some hecklers did not even wait for him to open his mouth. French Jewish students wearing multicolored clown wigs and red plastic clown noses shouted out "racist" as Ahmadinejad stood up to speak. Protesters at the event held placards reading: "This is a circus. A racist cannot fight racism:' and repeatedly inter- rupted the ...…
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…Opinion Dry Bones Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Editorial Countering Campus Hatred T here's a fine line between free speech and incitement. Just ask Jewish students on campuses any- where in America: The bar has been raised amid growing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tensions stirred by pro-Palestinian agitators. Jewish organizations ranging from the Anti-Defamation League and StandWithUs to the Simon Wiesenthal Cente...…
…Opinion OTHER VIEWS What Will Our Grandchildren Say? New York/ITA I n January, the Jewish Agency for Israel renovated some 300 bomb shelters in the south of Israel. With the increased range of rockets from Gaza hitting Ashdod and Beersheva — the first time these cities came under rocket attack since the 1948 War of Independence — it was time for some renovation. Visiting these refurbished bomb shel- ters or watching kids as they practice ...…
…4- Arts & Entertainment JEWISH FILM FES IVAL From Here To Entertainment The JCC's Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival brings the whole Jewish world to Metro Detroit. But first comes the adventure of just getting the films here in time. Elizabeth Applebaum Special to the Jewish News I t was the first year of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival, and director David Magidson was eager to show Women of the Wall, the story of a group of wo...…
…Arts & F,ntertainment JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL What To See, What To See! If you can't see every film festival offering, here are a few you won't want to miss. Elizabeth Applebaum Special to the Jewish News F ilm Festival Director David Magidson, along with Betty Pernick, the film festival chair- man, and Eric Lumberg, the festival's co- chairman, offer 11 recommendations in honor of the event's 11th year. The Purple Gang recommended by Da...…
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…N S Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival T he Jewish Community Center of Washtenaw County, in association with the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the Michigan Theater, show- cases 15 films over five days at the Michigan Theater on East Liberty Sunday-Thursday, May 3-7. Ann Arbor JCC Jewish Film Festival chairs are Levana Aronson, Roberta Tankanow and Norman Miller. The festival will kick off with a free family-friendly pre-op...…
…Majoring In Laughs Eugene Mirman opens for comedy- folk duo Flight of the Conchords at Fox Theatre. • ,*or1d" " lour Ivou •10(i0tA \oin Pleose ICAO : tronJorrn countries to explore uisine their an c Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News S tandup comedian Eugene Mirman plans on hav- ing one Detroit joke for his upcoming Motown appearance — but only one. He prefers to bring laughs to audiences with humor that's more personal. "My...…
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…Arts & Entertainment THE BEST OF EVERYTHING An Old Friend Shoeshine stand brings back memories of the Fort Shelby. T here it stood, as regal as ever ... One third of the stand that kept men and women's footwear in immaculate condition as it displayed the sign, "World's Greatest Shoe Shine." Formerly downstairs in the basement by the barber shop and beauty salon and now serving two people at a time instead of six, it has been elevated to a...…
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