…Agenda For Schools Education Minister Yossi Sarid, Israel's liberal hard. mainstay, pushes his vision Jerusalem F or Israel Education Minister Yossi Sarid — long a back- bone of Israel's political left wing — Israel's schools are where the action is at these days. Speaking earlier this month to fel- low education ministers and other del- egates from over 180 countries, he called for a "core curriculum based on peace" in Middle East schools...…
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…Because we always make time for you. The Pragmatist Stephen Dweck Ehud Barak, in his U.S. speeches, emphasizes the need to move forward. IN PERSON 10 to 4 HOWARD LOVY Jewish Telegraphic Agency Designer Jewelry New York (JTA) he British News airport worker who Analysis slammed his truck into a plane making a refu- eling stop could not have realized that he was punctuating a point for the aircraft's important passenger. Ehud Barak finall...…
…World Briefs — from Yasser Arafat's wife on down — he will not allow it to paralyze the peace process. He said that, unlike his predeces- sor, Binyamin Netanyahu, he will not first insist that his neighbors become "Jeffersonian democracies" before Israel can make peace with them. It was a theme he echoed in a taped video presentation to the Jewish delegates in Atlanta. "Today to be pro-Israel is to be pro-peace," he said via satellite after t...…
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…This Week Insight Profile A Place Of Their Own DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer I Detroit Women's Forum celebrates 25 years. n 1974, diversity was a radi- cal new idea and women's liberation was still a source of jokes for the Tonight Show. But a group of Detroit women felt otherwise. Under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee, they united to form a "thinking women's network." Members came from various eth- nic, religious and polit...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn Giving Thanks he Detroit Jewish community has much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend. Richly diverse and at least 96,000 strong, we're a model for North American Jewry in many ways: • Religious pluralism. While inter-stream disharmony infects spiritual life in Israel, Detroit Jews are busy bringing the streams together in learning...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY Making Renaissance Real are inspired by a Judaism that gives Washington, D.C. texture to the concept of "a light new term is taking hold in unto the nations," that makes them the lexicon of Jewish life: partners in kindling a global reawak- renaissance. The United ening of values. They want a cele- Jewish Communities, bratory Jewishness. They want to whose General Assembly met last "do" Jewish things. week in Atlanta, has ...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY The Meaning Of Jewish Renaissance ! Atlanta exploration of how to bind Ameri- here was a sort of informal can Jewry and Israel together in the years to come. poll conducted among the delegates who gathered in The session on social services, the Atlanta last week for the worst attended, drew just over 300 annual assembly of America's Jewish people, for a dispirited discussion of welfare federations. how to keep American J...…
…<6- '3' YOU'RE INVITED! COMMENTARY 9th Annual Holiday Walk-Through Saturday, December 4, 1999 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. RENAISSANCE FROM PAGE 39 Taste delicious delights from 8 of Metro Detroit's top pastry chefs, stationed. throughout Bloomfield Plaza stores with a sampling of their wares and a free recipe card! 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Forte's Ralph Maccioce at L'uomo Vogue Rattlesnake Club's Melissa Weiss at Concourse Card 1 Hour Photo Golden M...…
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…LETTERS LETTERS FROM PAGE 39 Destructive Hatred Comes From Within WHO: Lauren Schanes, Future Student, Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit, Class of 2004 AGE: 13 ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT: Member of the JAMD steering committee (involved with academic planning & initiatives for the school) jamd INTERESTS: Vacationing, volleyball, tennis, shopping IN HER OWN WORDS: "I'm thrilled to be one of the first students to attend the Jewish Academy. My par...…
…,k1..••`**--, • s r. Sally Allan Alexander Beth Jacob seniors before the local convention in Oak Park. Top row: Sara Feiga Gliksberg and Leah Mondroe, both of Oak Park; Tikva Feigelman and Naomi Gotlib, both of Southfield; and Sara Kaplan of Oak Park. Second row: Jennifer Stern, Shoshana Kuper-man, Sara Frayda Gasner, Tzipporah Pirutinsky and Esther Se mar, all of Oak Park. Third row: Chana Gittel Rothstein, Adele Jundef, Dennie Nachlas, Br...…
…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs LIONIZING LITERARY LUMINARIES France has produced fine Jewish writers who vaulted to international fame, among whom is part-Jewish Romain Gary, author of the widely translated best-seller The Roots of Heaven. Andre Maurois was lauded for his novels, essays and criticism. The Last of the Just, a towering tale of the Holocaust's havoc by Andre Schwarz-Bart, won the prestigious Goncourt prize. Before them came Mar...…
…HEARTH CRAFT FIREPLACE GLASS DOORS K•: , Teens To Help In Program For Needy The Michigan/Israel Connection of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is calling for teens who have par- ticipated in Federation-sponsored Israel programs to help sort toys and food for the needy from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 21, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township. The program, Come Back/Give Back, provides opportunities for teen...…
…A Gift That Keeps On Giving AIPAC Hosts Sen. Lieberman Young Leaders To Gather The Young Adult Division of the Jewish Young adults, ages 25-45, are invit- Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and ed to attend Washington 12, the the Detroit Committee of the American annual United Jewish Communities Israel Public Affairs Committee will host National Young Leadership an evening with Sen. Joseph Lieberman Conference, March 19-21. (D-Conn.), 5:30 ...…
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…BEAT THE Temple Hosts Rabbi Hoffman Temple Kol Ami's annual Scholar-in- Residence Shabbat, in honor of founding Rabbi Emeritus Ernst J. Conrad, will host Dr. Joel Hoffman, an expert in translation and ancient Hebrew. Dr. Hoffman's faculty appoint- ments include Brandeis University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He serves as Hebrew consultant to several publishing houses and is chief translator for the seri...…
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…Calendar Calendar Listings are updated regularly on JN Online: w-w-vv.detroitjewishnews.com SHABBAT SHALOM ! SHIR SHALOM DINNER Candle-lighting and Chanuka family dinner 6:30 Friday, Dec. 3 followed by Shabbat services at 7:30. $9 adults/$5.92 children/free under 5. RSVP: (248) 737-8700. CITANURA YAD EZRA CHANUKA GIFTS For a donation of $18, client families receive a package that includes latkes, a Chanuka menora, candles, dreidels and tr...…
…CZ of your TIME, ENERGY and SKILLS MASADA, HENRIETTA SZOLD Hadassah luncheon noon Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Carol Rosenberg of Jewish Home and Aging Services will speak on "From Generation to Generation, Preserving Family Memories." Charge. Information: Bess Haron (248) 353-1348. JWV AUXILIARY MEETING Jewish War Veterans meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30 at the Memorial Home, 16990 W. 12 M...…
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…DISCUSSION ON ADDICTION Temple Israel presents distinguished panel on "Addictions to the Internet, Drugs and Alcohol, Gambling, Shopping, Etc." lead by Jerry Stanecki 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2. Free and open to the community. Kari K. Provizer (248) 661-5700. WAYNE STATE LECTURE The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies presents Bar-Ilan University's Dan Statman on "Whose Land Is It Anyway? First Reflections in Jewish Literature About the Righ...…
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…Spirituality MJAC holds its annual healing service. Fogelman hopes for 150 partici- pants in the ser- vice, which fol- lows a one-hour religious pro- gram compiled by the Women's League for Conservative Judaism. It will include the SHELLI DORFMAN StaffWriter U nfortunately, too many in our community find HIV and AIDS too close too home," says Dr. Burton Fogelman, president of the Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition (MJAC). Since MJAC's incept...…
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…Spirituality SINGLES EXTENSION GROUP of TEMPLE ISRAEL Invites Jewish Singles 50 and Over to Join Us For CHANUKA. PARTY and DANCE THE SHUL-LUBAVITCH Sunday, December 12th, 6:30 p.m. 6211 Quaker Hill Drive, West Bloomfield 48322; (248) 788-7131. Rabbi: Kasriel Shemtov. TEMPLE ISRAEL, 5725 Walnut Lake Road YOUNG ISRAEL OF OAK PARK at 15140 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 967-3655. Rabbi: Steven Weil. President: Ruvi Singal; Gabb...…
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