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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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…40111111011111 111111110111011111101. ...emmomprommer . EXPANS of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "It's important to take this preliminary step — but we have every reason to believe that it is a priority with this administration." But other Jewish activists predicted that the study would stretch out over years. "You can bet they're consulting with our allies in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states," said an official wi...…
…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...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Between Love And Hate question of what legacy that father Amsterdam, Holland left to us, over that we will do almost was standing facing East in the anything. nondenominational room of Out of my right eye, I saw this worship at the Amsterdam air- man praying next to me as a member port, on a layover on the way of a people who wants to destroy me back to Israel after a monthlong visit and my country Israel. Out of my left t...…
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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 ...…
…Upcoming Events in Metro Detroit Wednesday, February 5, 2001 8:00 pm Home of Rabbi & Mrs. Joseph Nusbaum SHABBAT SHALOM Congregation Shomrey Emunah — Friday-Saturday, Jan. 26-27. Shabbat, Parshat Va'eria, with guest speaker Rabbi Yigal Tsaidi. )neg Shabbat, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m. at home of Martin and Sarah Kornblum, 17538 Goldwin, Southfield. Congregation Beth Ahm — Saturday, Jan. 27, following Shabbat services. Lunch and learn with Rabbi Char...…
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….44 ter, Rachel The. Sharing in their happi- ness are proud grandparents Alene and Bob Farber of West Bloomfield and Joane and Erwin Arkin of Waterford. Thrilled great-grandparents are Esther Farber of West Bloomfield and Hen lietta and Sydney Levine of West Bloomfield. Rachel Zoe is named in lov- ing memory of her paternal uncle Richard Arkin and her maternal great- grandmuther Zelda Lofinan. Nov. 12 Lori (Aaronson) and Dean Nowicki of Wixo...…
…Community JOIN US FOR CHOICES 2001 Maze! Toy! As we present ... Pat Schroeder Wash., and papa J. Roy and bubbie Ellie Thomas Glass of Winnetka, Calif. Hannah is named in loving memory of maternal great-grandfather Harry Thomas of Southfield. FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN FROM COLORADO Oct. 5 WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN & EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Kitty and Michael Shecter of Farmington Hills are ecstatic to announce the birth of their daughter, Adina Michelle...…
…The Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit is seeldng Initial Proposals by grant seekers. Initial Proposals for project grants related to Jewish women's and/or girls' issues will be due no later than March 1, 2001. Maximum grant size is $10,000. For instructions and additional information, please call Helen Katz or Rosann Barak at the Jewish Women's Foundation, (248) 642-4260, ext. 206. To learn about the Jewish Women's Foundation...…
