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…Contents A 2001 Michigan Press Association Newspaper of the Year vvww.detroitjewishnews.com The 1967 Riots Still Burn In Our Memories • • • S S S S S S S S S S S S S S This Week 20 A Place In The Sun Private donations keep senior adult camp running — but for how long? AppleTree hough I was just a preteen growing up in Dallas in 1967, I remember watch- ing the Detroit riots on television. I knew what it was like, from t...…
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…his eek Washington Watch Pingpong Policy The Bush administration is telling each side in the Middle East what it wants to hear. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T Sharon's reoccupation of parts of the West Bank and its ongoing military offensive against terror targets — but it criticized the July 22 missile attack against a Hamas leader in Gaza, which resulted in 15 civil- ian casualties, as "heavy handed." That prompted a respon...…
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…Cover Story After 35 years, the impact of the 1967 Detroit riots still resonates. The riots cut deeply and memories linger. Individuals — both Jewish and African American — share some of their recollections of this milestone event for Detroit in this first of a periodic series on Jews and their relationship to the city of Detroit and the African American community. —Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor The P lashioint 7/...…
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…Cover Story Remembering The Riots Sam Offen Sam Offen, 80, of West Bloomfield was fishing at his in-laws' cottage on Horseshoe Lake, an hour's ride from Detroit, when his family started waving frantically to him from shore. His partner, Sol Ceresnie, was on the phone. Riots had broken out in Detroit, and he was concerned that their first store, Ceresnie Bros.' and Offen, a furrier concern on Livernois and Outer Drive, was in trouble. Sol wa...…
…Thirty-five years later, Jews join in recalling a time of turmoil for Detroiters. the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said he thought a root cause of the event was disappointed expectations. Congress passed civil-rights legislation in 1964 and, with the election of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Democrat and Kennedy-esque, pro-civil rights liber- al, "there were all kinds of hopes the situation would With the daylight, when the fever and the fire ...…
…Cover Story 17 the neighborhood and we got on very well. Twelfth Street had bakeries, a place that roasted peanuts, all kinds of restaurants and clubs." Hamilton checked on his business twice that fate- ful night. By the second time, "the neighborhood was an inferno." An angry mob was forming. "As I walked away, I heard my plate-glass window break, but I had to keep going," said Hamilton, who now owns Hair ExtraOrdinaire in downtown Detroit. ...…
…CELEBRATING JVS' 60th ANNIVERSARY! SOMERSET COLLECTION Standard Federal sat, sat and wept, as we thought of Zion. "They're miserable because they're in a strange land and they're singing the Lord's song in a strange land," Hood said, explaining the passage. "The people who were left behind in Jerusalem were also miserable, because not only were their families taken away from them, but the skilled-trades people, the intellectuals were also...…
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…• Vigil For Israel Local e orts memorialize Israeli terror victims in public places. RONELLE GRIER Special to the Jewish News Local organizers took the vigil one step further by organizing a photo- graph of community members holding nyone who thinks wars are aloft more than 400 photographs of fought only by soldiers terror victims in a field near the front should know about 9- pond of the Jewish Community month-old Avia Malka, who Center i...…
…Left: Andrea Gonik of West Bloomfield was moved and disturbed by a photo of one of the youngest Israeli terror victims. Opposite page: Community members wander among more than 400 photographs of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks since the intifitda began in September 2000. Information about each victim is on the backs of the photos. Shalhe,mt Tehiya Pass MOVING SALE FINAL DAYS 30 -75% OFF ENTIRE INVENTORY SALE ENDS WHEN THE WALLS ARE B...…
…Peace Proposals Grow With situation looking bleak, a spate of proposals are raised to move forward. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency the Arabic press. The Arabic version would be accompanied by arguments against the continued use of violence. Jerusalem In Solana's vision, Hamas and Islamic Jihad would he old aphorism that things must get • then fall in line and relatively moderate Arab coun- worse before they get better fits today's ...…
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…jn online in advertisers online ) News Digest www.detroitjewishnews.com/advertisers Tel Aviv Bombings Claim New Victim Tel Aviv/JTA — A man died of wounds from the double suicide bombing July 17 in Tel Aviv. The man was identified as Li Ben, 33, a foreign worker from China, according to the Jerusalem Post. His death on Wednesday brought the death toll from the July 17 Palestinian terror attack to four. Death Camp Bronze Undergoes Overha...…
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…Insight Remember When • • `A Right War' From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60- years ago. Bar-Ilan doctoral student tells offenin combat as army reservist. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News A _ voice of optimism and confidence from Israel buoyed the spirits of those attending the Food & Thought luncheon of the Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan University on July 23. Yaron Cohen, a 29-year-old doctoral st...…
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…OTHER VIEWS Beware Of Pro-Israel Evangelicals Editor's Note: These three essays were commissioned and distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. They have been condensed here for space reasons. s Newark ix years ago, the Anti- Defamation League issued a scathing report entitled "The Religious Right: The Assault on Pluralism and Tolerance in America." But in a stunning reversal in May, it ran full-page ads in the New York Times and othe...…
…truth is that today we are witnessing two distinct religious civilizations in conflict: that of elle Koran, allied with the believers in no God, violent- ly challenging the civilization of the Bible, of Christianity and Judaism." If this sounds curiously like the "clash of civilizations" rhetoric post- Sept. 11, it should. Armed by the belief that the "civilized world" is engaged in a battle for the preservation of humanity against Islam, cons...…
…OTHER VIEWS G Good News From Iran Philadelphia old stalwart of the establishment that 1111 ilitant Islam is on the had a part in overthrowing the shah, ascendant almost every- that helped establish the regime's intol- where around the globe erance and that occupied the position of — except in the coun- Friday prayer leader (roughly equivalent try that experienced it longest and to a bishop) in the historic city of knows it best. Isfahan, ju...…
…The Islamic Republic is not near collapse, for the rulers are ready to kill as many Iranians as it takes to keep power. Still, that much of the popula- tion -- and even some of the leader- ship — despises the current authority means that regime change is just a matter of time. • Democracy: By virtue of getting more or less what they wanted in 1979 (i.e., no shah), the Iranian population realized that it had control over, and responsibility ove...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 49 Mazel Toy! 51 Anna Averbach in 1938 with her two daughters. Mrs. Averbach, grandmother ofJeanette Abeles, was liberated from a German concentration camp. atgaVIU , ethieasy ears . Jewish life and Temple Beth Jacob in Hancock was founded in 1912 and has served the Upper Peninsula's Jewish community since. turmoil in the 1930s-40s is focus of MSU exhibits. e SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish Ne...…
…Community Introducing... r. Flagstar IN/K 1 r let Account 1 \1 as baseball legend Hank Greenberg. "The initial idea to bring the Fry exhibit to Lansing came from Jeanette Abeles and members of the cultural committee at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in East Lansing," explains Kenneth Waltzer, professor of history and director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU. "Shaarey Zedek committee members "The exhi...…
…Onstar Standard on Every New 2002 Saab. YOU C 2002 SAAB JVS' 'Detroit Live!' Features Jay Leno The Somerset Collection and Standard Federal Bank will present "Detroit Live!" featuring Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show, on Saturday,- Sept. 14, at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. The one-night benefit performance for JVS is in celebration of its 60th anniversary,. Each year, JVS serves 22,000 people from all walks of life in metropolitan Detroit...…
…Jewish Genealogy Bears Fruit Detroiter and family descendants from Belarus are reunited in Israel after 40 years. SCHELLY TALALAY DARDASHTI Jerusalem Post R uth (Yendick) Vosko, 78, of Farmington and her airline pilot son, Mark Vosko, 50, of Henderson, NV, arrived in Israel March 2 to meet the Beersheva family with whom all contact had been broken since 1938. The excitement on both sides was enormous. With my column in the Jerusalem...…
…Cousins Oleg Pronin and Detroiter Ruth Vosko meet for the first time in Israel. Connections Made Detroit resources, while Stephanie Weiner of San Diego and others offered The coincidences of this research helpful suggestions and information. adventure were compounded: Marc Manson has access to the Detroit Manson had gone to school with Ruth city directories — listing families and Vosko's son, Mark, and knew the fami- addresses — which enable ...…
…PAUL J. 11311.11L110111AINI The Clear Choice for 47th District Court Judge A PARTIAL ENDORSEMENT LIST INCLUDES... JOHN & MARY SIMPSON JOHN W. SIMPSON JR., ESQ. DONNA & ROBERT SIATKIN BILL & JOANNE SMITH • ALAN ACKERMAN, ESQ. JOE & NADIA ALKATEEB DAVID & JUDY AN (SHIN DENNIS ANTISHIN ABE AON KHALIL & MUNA ATASI HON. LAURA C. BARNARD TIM & LAURA &AARON CHARLES & NANCY BATES BARRY & EUN BECKER ALTON BENNETT LOIS BEENOS DAN BLUKERME...…
…Richard Levitt In Running For 45B District Judgeship equally and with courtesy "No one whO leaves the 45B District Court will feel that they have been mis- treated or that they were not given their fair and complete day in court," he said. If elected, Levitt plans to: establish and maintain a standing liaison committee between the court and community groups; impose stiff sentences for repeat offenders to protect the public; and mini- mize new...…
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…Judicial Hopeful Paul Blizman Seeks Farmington-Area Seat Editors Note: Jewish candidates seeking elective office this year are welcome to announce their candidacy in the Jewish News. Paul J. Blizman is running against Jim Brady, Barry Brickner, Sidney Kraizman, Larry Leib, Annette T Raczkowski and Alan Vosko. The primary is Tuesday, Aug. 6 Attorney Paul J. Blizman, running for judge of 47th District Court, recently received an "Outstanding" ...…
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…VOLUNTEERS NEEDED JARC — Sunday, Aug. 4, 12:30-2 p.m., 2-3:30 p.m. Volunteers need- ed to run activities at JARCarnival. Indoor-outdoor event features carni- val games, arts and crafts, moon- bounce, pony rides, trains, live entertainment, raffle prizes, drum- ming circle, snacks, DJ, puppet show and more. Laker Education and Youth Complex, 2075 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Anne Fleming (248) 538-6610, ext. 339. Jewish Home and Aging Ser...…
…Construct a building that can withstand a simulated earthquake. Maneuver freight onto a conveyor belt with an 1 1-foot cargo crane. Design a boat and test its speed. Create a 7-foot tall arch b With so many interactive activities, it's the perfect foundation for a great day! Think it, build it, test it before September 2. Engineer It! was created and is circulated by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon. The exhibit ...…
