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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MAY 24, 1991 / 11 SIVAN 5751 Acculturation Of Emigres Gets High Agency Profile AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer A fter two years of liv- ing in the United States, Gregory Mor- dukhovich, a Soviet Jew from Leningrad, doesn't con- sider himself completely in- tegrated into American society. He's not alone. A recent Council of Jewish Federations conference on the acculturati...…

…Temple Beth El cordially invites you to a the dedication of the sculpture "Tents of Jacob" created for the Temple by Yaacov Agam followed by an Auction of Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestries, Multiples, Agamographs and Serigraphs by Yaacov Agam to benefit the Temple Beth El Brotherhood on Sunday, June 2, 1991 at Temple Beth El 7400 Telegraph Road, Birmingham Sculpture dedication: 6:00 p.m. Preview of auction collection with Yaacov Agam: 6:...…

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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Peace, Arab Style. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Arabs in Detroit speak out about what they believe is necessary for Middle East peace. Page 1 and Close-Up art by Rick Parisi FINE ARTS Local Exposure AARON HALABE A major exhibit of Israeli art has opened at the DIA. 65 24 OPINION • Long-term peace or short-term show? • When Isaiah gets in Isiah's way. DETROIT 14 • A Jewish chaplain for Detroit police. • MSU apologizes for...…

…EDITORIAL Dry Bones We Need More Conferences We applaud the efforts of the Council of Jewish Federations and its professional staff in having enough concern about the resettlement of Soviet Jewish emigres to convene last week in Chicago and discuss the major issues. Our worry is that it is going to take many, many more meetings such as this to implement appropriate policy that will help these new Americans find a place for themselves in thi...…

…OPINION Long Term Peace Or Short-Term Show? PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor B efore we start looking at Secretary of State James Baker's trips to the Middle East in terms of cinematic sequels, "Baker 2, Hafez al-Assad Strikes Back," it's time for this ad- ministration to stop for a moment and take stock of what its goals really are. Is the goal here to bring the Israelis to the peace table with its Arab "neighbors?" Or is the goal here to mak...…

…A savings certificate that gives you somethin big to build on. THE JEWISH NEWS ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Susan Grant Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHE...…

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…UP FRONT I Kuwait Boycott Stand Winks At Jewish Firms The mother of all necessities — economics — has ended Kuwait's strict enforcement of a ban against trade with Israel and Jewish businesses. IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News D oes Kuwait still back the Arab League economic boycott of Israel and Jewish com- panies? Or has the Persian Gulf nation ended its boycott participation to facilitate the rebuilding of its war- shattered econ...…

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…DETROIT Rabbi Nelson Named Detroit's First Jewish Police Chaplain ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor I t isn't every rabbi who knows how to handle a gun, what to say when a family's child is killed by drug dealers, how to comfort a distraught police officer. Rabbi David Nelson is the exception. Rabbi Nelson, of Con- gregation Beth Shalom, re- cently became the first Jew- ish chaplain in the Detroit Police Department. He joins 49 other c...…

…Board of Trustees withdrew the $5,000, including the deductible. "This just proves what it means to be black in America — powerless. Twelve or 13 students were able to take away our funding." Mr. Hyland said he doesn't regard Mr. Farrakhan as an- ti-Semitic. "If someone wants to say Mr. Farrakhan is anti- Jewish, that is their right. But we believe anti- Semitism, by definition, re- fers to blacks. We don't believe it only applies to Eastern ...…

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…their numbers to 400 or 500 families. Adat Reyim also recently built a small facili- ty which will be expanded as the congregation grows, he said. "I'd like to help to bring it to the next step," Rabbi Aft said. He was also worried about possible changes at the Agency for Jewish Edu- cation. "What I was looking for was the best way I can serve the Jewish commun- ity. I feel we will soon be a step removed from the active people in education." H...…

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…LINCOLN SQUARE PLAZA'! 7- Hungarian, Romanian and Portuguese. Part of the cutback in- cludes prime-time evening broadcasts. Now, the broad- casts will come to North America at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The authority said that it is using money saved from the cutbacks to fund a sta- tion for new immigrants in Israel and stations broad- casting programs about re- gional road safety. Mr. Gale, who has listened to outlets from all over the world, incl...…

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…Jim Cohen's EXTERIOR DESIGN CENTERS OF MICHIGAN PRESENTS: SIZZLING SUMMER "It's been feeling like we all work in a vacuum," Mrs. Stettner said. "We need to learn to function like a team so we program more effi- ciently and don't overwhelm our new Americans right away." During the last year, Detroit resettled almost 800 Soviet Jews. From January through April, 140 Soviet immigrants arrived and ap- proximately 60 are expected this month. Detr...…

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…YOU COULD BE A WINNER AT MALTER FURS Jewish emigration. She said the general disintegration of Soviet political society was contributing to the backlog. "We're nowhere close to where we should be," Mrs. Rappaport said. "Only 693 Jews got out of the Soviet Union this month. And from Oct. 1, 1990 to April 30, 1991, 11,085 got out." The U.S. government now allows 40,000 Soviet Jewish immigrants to claim refugee status each year. "There's every i...…

…I CLOSE-UP PEACE, ■ ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor omen cover themselves from top to bottom. -Even young girls wear long sleeves and scarves draped across their hair. It's a question of modesty. "Ya'aleh, ya'aleh," ("Come on, come on") men call one to another down the halls of the Arab Community Center in Dearborn. Displays there show contribu- tions of the Arab people. At the front of the building, on the right, is a map of the M...…

…Local Arabs speak out about what they believe is necessary for Mideast peace. grudges against Jews or Israelis. "I was born and raised with them," he says. "They are human beings." He believes there will be no peace until a Palestinian state is established. "We don't want the whole thing," he insists. "But you can't take half my home, then all my home and not budge. All peoples have a right to freedom, to justice, to a homeland." The former p...…

…"The Arab community is not prepared to make any more compromises, because all that's left to give up are national aspirations or human rights." Ismael Ahmed heart of the Orthodox Jewish community. Osama Siblani is editor of The Arab American News, with offices in downtown Dearborn. Mr. Denha, who came in 1966 to the United States, 'always wanted to be a journalist. Growing up in Iraq, at 9 he started his own newspaper, which he passed out fr...…

…fight the imperialists,' " he says. Thus, the leaders make themselves appear necessary, he says. Who else could fight this horrible enemy? It was the manner in which Israel was established, not its mere existence, that continues to vex Arabs, says Mr. Saati. "It was never, 'Please, we need a homeland.' It was imposed. That started things out wrong and everything follows." Though Mr. Saati harbors no hatred for Israelis, he says it's not a plac...…

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…JHA Plans Continued from Page 1 The JHA's plans to move faced its first setback in 1985, when the state cer- tificate of need board ruled against the Home's original request to move. Ever since, the process has been en- tangled in bureaucratic red tape. A year ago, the Home received the required cer- tificate of need, which would allow construction for all 312 beds, Mr. Budin said. Now, however, the process is being hampered by an ap- peal t...…

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…BACKGROUND 4 Beneath Syria's Slick Mask: Another Saddam? 41/ * Syrian President Hafez al-Assad is stockpiling arms and appears ready to threaten Israel on three sides. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent ersistent tension bet- ween Israel and Syria reached new heights this week when Lebanon and Syria signed a formal treaty of cooperation in Damascus. The decision to ratify the treaty was taken by the Lebanese cabinet last week and has pr...…

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…Complete Auto Repair a I Is The Media Anti-Religious? To help reverse the media's sparse coverage of religion, the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington recently held a one-day symposium on "Religion, Politics and the Press." Among the comments: • "Om- whole culture tries to ignore religion, just as a century ago it tried to ignore sex," said Gary Wills, au- thor of Under God. "There is an open hostility toward re- ligion in the aca...…

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…FOCUS S VIGIL The Jewish community rallies at Temple Emanu-El for area victims of AIDS. AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer r ank Nelson buried his best friend, Terry, two months ago. At Sunday night's AIDS Vigil he said goodbye again. Mr. Nelson, who is Christian, came to Oak Park's Temple Emanu- El for the eighth inter- national AIDS Candlelight Memorial. "It was the most emo- tional event I've ever been to," Mr. Nelson said. "Everyone around m...…

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…m•""mml NEWS Join us for the summer! Iraqi Seeking Asylum Toronto (JTA) — A 27- year-old Baghdad-born man who claims to have been a double agent working for the Iraqi and. Israeli intelligence agencies is seeking political asylum in Canada. Ali Hussein Sumaida, disguised by a wool hat and dark sunglasses, told an immigration panel that he was employed by both the Iraqi secret service, Mukhabarat, and the Israeli Mossad. He also claims, in a...…

…NEWS Imm•mmll When it came to answering charges of being anti-Israel, Peter Jennings gave us a lot more than TIME. After the Gulf War, nearly 300 news organizations requested interviews with the ABC-TV anchorman. Only two succeeded. TIME got a five minute phone interview. The Jewish News got two hours face-to-face. We questioned him about the recurring charges that he is biased against Israel in report- ing on The Mideast. On May 31st, you c...…

…NATIONAL A tale of complexity, and high monetary stakes, regarding Coca-Cola and kashrut supervision today. Things Go Better For Coke With The OU ELLEN BERNSTEIN Special to The Jewish News ne year ago, Coca- Cola wasn't it. At least, in Orthodox circles. At that time the world's largest and most influential kashrut agency, the Orthodox Union (OU), put out the word that it could no longer be certain that Coke was kosher. Thus was born a co...…

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…❑ Garage Solution. Export Law Hits Snag Bonn (JTA) — The German parliament has been unable to agree on a new law that would make it more difficult to export weapons or the technology for manufactur- ing poison gas. Legislation was drafted re- cently in response to Israel's protests over the in- volvement of German com- panies in providing Iraq with the material and know- how for chemical warfare and helping Baghdad im- prove its Scud missil...…

….S:SSzSSSSSS . PROJECT SHEET The Hebrew word sherut means service. Project Sherut provides in-kind goods and services to community service organizations. Each week, we will publish requests for needed items. Persons interested in helping to meet these needs should contact Miriam lmerman at The Jewish Community Council at 962-1880. Also, organizations or groups in need of in-kind services should contact The Jewish Community Council. DISPOSA...…

…COMMUNITY Grosberg Kushner The seventh annual Fund For Reform Judaism Dinner, sponsored by the Metropoli- tan Detroit Federation of Reform Synagogues, will be held June 6 at Temple Beth El. The goal of this fund is to raise money to support educa- tion, youth movements and general support of the Reform Movement at local and na- tional levels. This year's honorees are: Shirley and Nathan Fink, Temple Israel; Claire Grosberg and Ilene and An-...…

…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES AMERICAN-ISRAEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF MICHIGAN invites you to a special evening to honor ORTHODOX: BAIS CHABAD OF BIRMING- HAM/BLOOMFIELD HILLS 646-3010. Rabbi: Moshe Polter. Services: Saturday 10 a.m. BAIS CHABAD OF FARMING- TON HILLS GEORGE HERRERA Director, International Sales MASCO CORPORATION 32000 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills, 855-2910. Rabbi: Chaim Bergstein. Services: Friday sun- down, Saturday 9:30 a.m...…

…Rube. Services: Friday 6 p.m. Saturday 8:45 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of Lauren Michelle Rosman, daughter of Rusty and Stephen Rosman. Prayer for the Country: Dana Stern. Prayer for Israel: Brian Rosman. REFORM: TEMPLE BETH EL 7400 Telegraph Rd., Birmingham, 851-1100. Rabbis: Daniel Polish, Julian I. Cook, Richard C. Hertz. Cantor: Gail P. Hirschenfang. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Torah Study, 9:30 a.m. Friday: Bar Mitzvah of Mark Howard ltskovi...…

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…I NEWS I .)4`) e6.1 . K\ John Long c-7\ , 0 \c• e\ )e / \ Le SPEND A SUPER SUMMER WITH US $1 Million Price-Fixing Fine To Manischewitz The criminal case is over, but a rabbinical court might seek reparations for the Jewish community. RON OSTROFF Editorial Coordinator T The Franklin Summer Tennis Camp DIRECTOR, ARMAND MOLINO ALL AGES/ALL LEVELS/NON-MEMBERS WELCOME Call the Summer Camp Hotline for information and sign-up • Limit...…