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…imiratiriErinerwrirmi - ur ill VW •Wail&MW11 At 90, Max Fisher retnains at the cente of the ever-shifting tides of power. …

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….11/2W17.11 811/2WO July 24, 1998 Vol. OCIII No. 22 Up Front. page 14 The Scene. page 72 10 Case Closed Court dismisses former Akiva teacher's lawsuit. 65 Havdallah The quiet ceremony separating the holy from the ordinary 70 Big-Shouldered Adventure The Windy City's whistle lures young people from Detroit. Business 114 Community 44 Editorials 29 Marketplace 117 Maze! Toy! 49 Obituaries 142 Remember When 26 Synagogues 58 This & That 2...…

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…Lrorupeuer Breakdowns, Breakthroughs In Jewish History ?11 41 1 1 111 1i his arrival in the United States, he As for near misses, flow about these n spite of what our friends say, reconstructed most of his material for famous mistakes in the world of and in spite of what our ene- from memory. His one mistake, science. mies say, Jews are not all suc- E=mc3, caused him to miss the Nobel * The marriage of Dr. Oscar Weis- cessful. In fact, some...…

…AND THE GARDEN As American Friends of The Hebrew University we view the University as a Garden of Wisdom, a place that seeks to discover the wisdom of the sciences and the arts, the humanities and the law. Medicine is paramount here. So is agriculture. So are Judaic studies. That wisdom, over the past 75 years, has strengthened Jerusalem, Israel, peace and people in the Middle East. It touches the lives of Jewish communities around the...…

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…Honcho Pro Tern JULIE WIENER Staff- Writer With a fresh face, a tidy desk and a bevy of admirers, Judah Isaacs tackles problems at the Agency for Jewish Education. udah Isaacs did not exactly walk into an easy job when he became interim director of the Agency for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Detroit a few weeks ago. The agency is reeling from the loss of key employees over the past year, and last week it received a sharply crit- NIRIM i...…

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…r Tke JET WISti NEWS ift,aws Nmt- \fay_ ofu) (-- Kitcryv 1998,999/5759 dtton Case Closed w, SOUrq 1 Jewish Living In )\1"•:00 Court dismisses teacher's lawsuit against Akiva Hebrew Day School. an effort to force a resignation and was in violation of his full tenure, which Codish had been granted in 1993 and which calls for a severance t was probably the only time the package. Under Akiva's tenure policy, nuances of Jewish theology have ...…

…Orthodox. Codish, who also defines himself as centrist Orthodox, is a founding • member of Congregation Or Chadash in Oak Park and favors a less rigid interpretation of Jewish texts than Gross and many others in the Orthodox community. Codish was not in court on July 15, but Cohen defined ceptrist Orthodoxy for Mester as belief that "while you have to adhere to Torah ... you can par- ticipate in regular, secular pursuits ... and not run afoul ...…

…When Thanks Are Due A Detroit lawyer wants to honor Poles who protect Jewish synagogues and cemeteries. and most upscale restaurants serve a dish translated as 'Jewish carp,' basi- Stag Writer cally gefilte fish," he said. "The professional discipline needed Jewish lawyer from Detroit to explain the Jewish-Polish relation- hopes to make an annual ship is not history or anthropology, event out of honoring Poles but maybe psychiatry," he said...…

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…A Journey Through Time A Teen Mission participant lolls through history by boat and on foot. CARYN ROMAN Special to the Jewish News magine you're floating peaceful- ly down a quiet river. You and your friend paddle clear of rocks and bushes with relative ease, enjoying the leisurely ride. Suddenly, you spot pirates in front of you (okay, it's only your madrechim, but they're still dangerous). A splashing war ensues and you're thrown overboa...…

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…CARYN ROMAN Special to The Jewish News S creams erupt from the Mdapelim (illegal immi- grants) as they attempt to run from the surrounding British Army forces. Soldiers and Jews scramble blindly in the dark as each group tries to outwit the other. As British soldiers lead the illegals to jail, Palmach forces suddenly rush to the scene, adding to the confusion and releasing many of the prisoners. Above the commotion, a single shot rings out....…

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…FATHERS OF THE SILVER SCREEN In no leading American industry can one find more Jewish influence than in motion pictures. A chronicler of its history has aptly written: "...Jewish immigrants came from the shtetls and ghettos out to Hollywood. In this magical place that had no relationship to any reality they had ever seen before in their lives--or that anyone else had ever seen--they decided to create their idea of an eastern aristocracy: the ...…

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…201 ish your Maccabi athelete, C) Gender coach and team good luck with an ad in the Detroit Jewish News Equality Maccabi. Games A Reform movement proposal sparks debate on what it is to be a Jew. Special Section. ISSUE DATE: August 14, 1998 AD DEADLINE July 29, 1998 LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer SIZES/PRICES 4.8" x 2" = $45 4.8" x 3" = $65 4.8" x 4" = $85 4.8" x 5" = $100 T OW GOLDEN! he Reform movement has always considered the...…

…CO ME IN AND SEE expect the proposed change to widen the rift between the Reform and other movements. "This part in the process of Jewish identity more accurately reflects the needs of our community," he said. Stahl agreed: "It was done more for our benefit than inter-group rela- tions." Until 1983, the Reform movement had no official policy on children of mixed marriages. A resolution to use the term "patrilineal descent" was adopted that ye...…

…ott\ mgek ***' The Little Shul That Could Shomrey Emunah of Southfield is trying to keep pace with the growing Orthodox community around it. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Special to the Jewish News I t's a hot Shabbat morning, and people are streaming into a tiny building on Southfield Road, north of 10 Mile. Young moth- ers pushing baby strollers wait for the light to change to cross to the west side of the wide thoroughfare, then scurry across to...…

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…In Their Element IFS's Coville Apartments have carved a niche of their own. Ida Erstein enjoys her visitor. Artist Minnie Silver Rose Hershman pets Maxie. A mid the dozens of Minnie Silver paintings on the wall of her Southfield apartment is one of three rock and roll musicians jumping on stage. "I saw them on television and decided it might make a good paint- ing," said the artist. Silver is happily back in her paint- ing groove. Last y...…

…LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer KRISTA HUSA Photographer Minnie Silver examines one of her paintings. Minnie Silver stands in front of her latest masterpiece. Tired from all the attention, April takes a nap. scheduled, including movies, trips to Kensington Metropark and picnics, but Bayer says the yearly trip the Fisher Theater is the most fun. The group went to see The King and I and twice went for The Fiddler on the Roof "They've love the ...…

…This ZOA building is sold; scholarship fund grows. An African-American church has pur- chased the Southfield building occu- pied by the Zionist Organization of America for some 30 years. "We had attempted to sell it to var- ious Jewish organizations, but for one reason or another they weren't inter- ested or didn't have the funds," said ZOA-Metro Detroit Chapter Presi- dent Jerome Kaufman. The ZOA bought the Zionist Cul- tural Center at 1845...…

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…\\s, vki • orials Jews Worldwide Indebted To Max Fisher's Humanitarianism "We are all trustees of our Jewish heritage . . . with an obligation to cherish it, improve it and guard its future. " — Detroiter Max Fisher of Detroit following the 1967 riots, becoming a leader in American Jewry's top communal agen- cies (United Jewish Appeal, Council of Jewish Federations and the Jewish Agency for Israel). His Jewish communal work gave him acce...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS In Whose Hands Will Memory Of The Holocaust Rest? Schoenfeld has chosen some of the abriel Schoenfeld, a senior most egregious examples of misappro- editor of Commentary in his priation of the Holocaust. Based on June edition article those, he assaults the idea of special pro- "Auschwitz and the Profes- grams for the study of the Holocaust, sors," might have posed some signifi- specifically, the new Ph.D. program at cant and ...…

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…War Hero Iiikind Acquitted Of 13ribery New York (JTA) --- New York State Assemblyman DCA" Hikind was acquitted of accepting bribes from officials of the Council of Jewish Organizations of Boro Park, a. neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. But in the same trial, a federal court convicted Rabbi Etimelech Naiman of bribing Hildncl by pay- ing yeshiva tuition for the assem- blyman's children and also for pay- ing a Paris hotel bill after the Hikind fa...…

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…''...'N'A.SWEAUNKaaattkl...V&VitiaMMS:S:Maidlsitat&TRINaMMtn." •31Badt : to forget horrors like the Holocaust, or to redefine them as aberrations and strip from memory facts that are too disturbing to deal with. In fact, the Jewish Holocaust wasn't an aberration, but a predictable conse- quence of centuries of anti-Semitism. Weiss' fear that future generations will look at the Holocaust and not realize that fact is not unfounded. But Lerman a...…

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…What you want. What you need. were among its leading players. For them, it underpinned the Jewish claim to roots in the disputed land. Another ex-general, Rehavam Ze'evi, said, "The archaeologists' struggle is the struggle of all of us. This is our histo- ry:, Secular Israelis fear that surrender to religious pressure on graves will be a first step on the road to theocracy "If it's archaeology now," protested Yael Dayan, an opposition Labor...…

…The World The Citizenship Quest Involves Red Tape DANIEL KURTZMAN Special to The Jewish News Oak Park's Kalmina Dashevskaya should have become a citizen of the United States well over a year ago . She waited five years for the right to apply, passed her citizenship test in April of 1997, but has not yet been sworn in because the Immigration and Naturalization Service has failed to com- plete her requisite criminal background check. For the ...…

…THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE adjudication officers, authorizing more overtime and speeding up the number of interviews. "We are committed to doing what- ever it takes to fix the naturalization system," the spokeswoman said. A proposal is also pending to raise the fees applicants pay from $95 to $225. The INS believes the extra funds can help chip away at the backlog. -Jewish groups, for their part, have put together their own set of recom- me...…

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…point out that NJDC's political action committee gave Docking $9,150, that strategy is no better than the anti- Semitic calls. "This is the worst kind of gutter politics,".said Matt Brooks, executive director of the National Jewish Coalition. As Democrats and Republicans con- tinue to bicker over what's fair play in an election season, most agree that future Jewish candidates are likely to face similar tactics unless those responsible are expo...…

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…at • aeue .easons I-Ireplace SUMMER CLEARANCE JPM ICC Activities Set \_n The Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center will hold Cafe Europa Detroit at 12:45 p.m. Monday, July 27. Donations will be accepted. "Fabs" Kaldobsky will lead a dis- cussion of world famous composers and their music at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 28. There is no charge. A sing-a-long will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, July 30, with Geri Green, a songwriter and recording ar...…

…Community Klein, Alter Chair Campaign CAIMEILID & MAUES TUNE SUM Thurs., July 30th — Fri., July 31st, 1998 Thursday 12:00-8:00 Friday 10:00-5:00 Inside Orchard Mall Orchard Lake Road North of Maple 248-626-0886 Beth Abraham Hillel Moses (248) 932-3766 Beth Achim (248) 357-2910 B'nai Moshe (248) 788-0950 Jewish Community Center (248) 661-5151 r Ask about our Preventative Mainten 7/24 1998 46 Detroit Jewish News Don Be A /...…

…..,01M.M1 1`411111MTIMIMMIMIIIIMOI 23, at the Birmingham Temple. She is retiring as president of the organization after 17 years of service. The celebration will include a petite buffet and program. For information, call the SAI office, (248) 352-6852. Israeli Humor Last Of Series "Israeli Humor" will be the subject of Rabbi Aaron Bergman's Latte and Learning session 10-11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at Borders Books & Music, 30995 Orchard Lake R...…

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…Puttering Around /—' .-4 01-; • • „ Above: Stanley Friedman, second from right, and his family gather after their miniature golf game in Boulder last year. Left:: The invitation for one of the past events. Right: Stanley Friedman celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday. A Bloomfield Hills resident heads to the miniature golf course for another birthday celebration. LONNY GOLDSMITH SitciffWriter 0 n Stanley Friedman's 80th birthday, he...…

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