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…COVER STORY Page 6 El A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards Making The Connection IV On The Cover Clockwise from top left: Howard Rosen of West Bloomfield joins children from the Partnership 2000 region in dance at the farewell party in Nazareth Ilit. Shel Sonkin shakes hands with a senior at the Say Yom Senior Day Camp Center in the Jezreel Valley while Southfield Rabbi Joseph Krakoff ...…
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…This Week Cover Story Making The Connection Michigan Unity Mission's empathetic support and personal connections buoy Israelis in troubled times. KERI GUTEN COHEN Story Development Editor DEBBIE HILL Photographer A Jerusalem Federation mission to Israel always has a purpose: Maybe it's to familiarize first- timers with Israel so they'll be more involved back home, maybe it's to solicit funds from established donors or maybe it's to gro...…
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…Cover Story MAKING A CONNECTION from page 6 Clockwise from top left: Helen Husid of West Bloomfield watches an Ethiopian student painting at the Kesharim Program in Netanya. Peter Alter, right, speaks to students at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Kesharim Program in Netanya while Aaron Martin listens. Both are from West Bloomfield. Rabbi Alon Tolwin of Aish Ha Torah talks with Dr. Deborah Segal at the Emek Hospital. r ...…
…SAVE THE DA TE Sunda y, April 22 dent of Southfield-based Hospice of Michigan and one of three non-Jews on the trip. On their own, the trio visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built in 1149 at the site of the Crucifixion. People-to-People Connection The heart of this brief mission was the connection made between mis- sion participants and Israelis they encountered. Each of five buses visited at least two schools. At the Rambam School...…
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…for our Open House wisdom Gunman Gets Life Los Angeles white supremacist has pleaded guilty to seriously wounding five people in a shooting rampage at a local Jewish community center and murdering a Filipino American mail carrier in 1999. In a deal with prosecutors, Buford 0. Furrow Jr., 39, is to receive a mandatory life prison sentence, but as a result of Wednesday's plea, he will be spared a possible death sentence. Federal prosecutors a...…
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…This Week Crossing A Divide Jewish groups split on proposed expansion of "charitable choice." ERIC L. ROZENMAN Jewish Renaissance Media Washington resident George W. Bush has promised a substantial expansion of a new approach to delivering social services — "charitable choice" — under which faith-based organizations can bid against secular agencies for government money to provide the assistance. The prospect for expansion, which will requi...…
…sectarian affiliation does not make an impediment to receiving government funds for secular social services." How Far To Go For Diament, charitable choice after 1996 merely leveled the playing field. Religious social service providers `are no longer discriminat- ed against solely because they're faith-based ... Before welfare reform, separate corporate entities had to be set up — Catholic Charities, United Jewish Appeal — legal fictions with...…
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…9/64 a- Wm) cCoXiss Undiplomatic Behavior Israeli consul general in Atlanta may be recalled over Iraqi friend. While no suggestion has been made that classified information fell into the wrong hands, ministry sources said a full investigation has not yet been concluded. Atlanta In a Jan. 16 interview with the he Israeli consul general for Atlanta Jewish Times, Jacob Rosen, a the Southeast region of the 52-year-old career diplomat who was ...…
…RINKE CADILLAC "The Power of & The Fusion of Design and Technology" The Israeli press has reported suspi- cions that two, and perhaps three, Iraqi men lived with the Rosens at var- ious times. Apparently, the Iraqis were refugees who fled to Jordan during the Gulf War and the Rosens befriended them during their posting in Jordan. Last year, the Iraqis gained entry into the United States as political refugees and moved to Nashville, Tenn., ac...…
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…in 2001. businesses react? cal The Detroit Jewish News will take an in-depth look at the economic Mr Uprooting Wasn't Deliberate projections for local auto dealers, suppliers, builders, the food industry, jewelers, retail and more in Business NAOMI SEGAL Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem he Jewish National. Fund-Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael did not deliberately uproot trees planted by tourists in Jerusalem, according to a retired judge w...…
…14601 West Lincoln Road Oak Park, Michigan 48231 (248) 542-1792 Fax: (248) 543-1793 `Policy Of Appeasement' Former Israeli diplomat blasts Barak and peace talks run amok. Rabbi Chaim Moshe Bergstein Rabbi Moshe Poker M.A. Director Assistant Principal DAVID SACHS Copy Editor R "Educate the child according to his way, so that even when he is old he will not budge from it" (Proverbs 22:6) In his West Bloomfield speech, however, Aumann ...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Dry Bones Choices For Charity G et ready to learn a new term — "charitable choice" — and to decide how you feel about it. The term is shorthand for a five- year-old change in the rules governing which private and religious agencies can receive feder- al money for a variety of social service pro- grams. Under "charitable choice," many more ...…
….0* COMMUNITY VIEWS On God And Country U.S. Supreme Court, whose court ne hopes, admittedly some- ruled that use of a publicly financed what pessimistically, that microphone — yes, a publicly the inauguration ceremonies financed microphone — is unconsti- might help us put an end to tutional, yet hold the Bible to swear in the ongoing discussion and argument the two most powerful men over voluntary prayer in the in the world? What's more, pu...…
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…The day the water disappeared in Israel. Ronald S. Lauder, JNF president, reports on a situation with such dire consequences, that the security of Israel is at risk and the well-being of every Israeli citizen in peril. The day, the experts project, will come sometime in 2015. Some say it will be sooner. On that day, there will be no more fresh water in the cities to drink or to bathe in. No more recycled water for agriculture. Industry will ...…
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