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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP Echoes Of The Big Bang! DAVID HOLZEL The shock of Inquisition is still reverberating. FEELING GOOD Fitness tips for the New Year. center 30 7 OPINION More than diplomacy separates Israel, U.S. 11 UP FRONT Jewish vigilantes getting rabbis' help. 14 DETROIT • Oz come home ... to Michigan? • Detroit connection for Jews of Odessa. • A closer look at David Duke. 35 BACKGROUND Peace talks continue, with concern ...…

…EDITORIAL Jewish Southfield's Future For the past three editions The Jewish News has taken an inside out look at Southfield and the role the Jewish com- munity has played and hopefully will play in it. It didn't take a rocket scientist to under- stand a great deal of the information that we learned. There are those who have commented they could have told us what we learned without our writing a single word. Some readers told us that by writi...…

…OPINION On Different Wavelengths GARY ROSENBLATT Editor The rains in Jerusalem two weeks ago were heavy and con- stant. But when I complained to a cab driver on King George Street that I was cold and soaked, he berated me for my insensitivity. Didn't I know that Israel desperately need- ed rain? He was right, of course. Like Jews around the world, I add a phrase to the daily prayers during the winter months for the wind to blow and the rai...…

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…LETTERS Extra Holiday Seating Continued from Page 6 pretation of U.N. Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 as signifying une- quivocally "land for peace!' It is no secret that the American Jewish Congress has long been at odds with the policies of the Likud government and has been rebuked by Prime Minister Shamir for its chronic forays into "high-level diplomacy," such as its "high profile" mis- sion to Jordan's King Hussein. This fact ...…

…UP FRONT West Bank Vigilantes INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News irst prize for the sharpest contrast of the week goes to the peace talks in Washington versus the situation on the ground in the West Bank. While Israelis and Pales- tinians were ensconced on that famous "couch in the corridor" at the State Department, wrangling endlessly but at least civilly over modalities, back home the conflict between their peoples escalated sharply...…

…UP FRONT Vigilantes Continued from preceding page TRADITION. Isn't there one more worth carrying on? Friday night. The end of the week. The beginning of Shabbat. A time to relax, reflect and renew. And as much a part of this tradition as the candles and the challah was knowing the weekly Jewish News had also arrived. It brought news about the community, the nation and the world. Today, that tradition hasn't changed. In fact, it's gotten b...…

…Do You Know Mitzvah People In Our Midst? "That man deserves the highest honors who does not ask for them, but performs worthy deeds." Rae Ann Sharfman "Rae is constantly giving of herself to help others. I can call her up at 12:30 at night and say I have a question, or need to know something about a Soviet Jewish family, and she's always there for me. It's never a bother. All her work is truly from the heart." — Judy Granader From Chuck Pe...…

…DETROIT Fans Discover The World Of Oz At A Convention In Michigan ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor D ear Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tinman: I can't wait to see you again! I look forward to December all year because I know that's when I'll be reunited with my Oz friends. I packed my bags last night — just a few things: some dresses and a sweater, gifts for the Munchkins and my ruby slippers. Now all I have to do is find room for the ...…

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…Complete Auto Repair a MR. MECH Foreign & Domestic While shunned by the Democratic party, Mr. Duke received about 23,000 votes from Louisiana during the primary. In 1989, Mr. Duke turned that core support — plus a voter backlash against outsiders trying to sway votes against him — into an election victory for state representative. Three months after the victory, Mr. Duke spoke to the anti-Semitic Populist Party's meeting in Chicago, telling...…

…Community Plans Anniversary Events The Jewish community will commemorate the 500th an- niversary of the expulsion of approximately 400,000 Jews from Spain in 1492, with Sephard '92, educational and cultural events about the Sephardic Jews. There will be a community- wide music program March 31 at Temple Israel. The con- cert will feature an original work, commissioned by six Jewish communities across the country. Other events will be a Sephar...…

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…NEWS ISRAEL ADVOCACY CENTER Zionist Organization of America Metro Detroit District THE PEACE PROCESS CONTINUES. BUT DO THE ARABS EXPECT THE UNITED STATES TO "DELIVER" ISRAEL? President Bush said: "Peace will only come as a result of direct negotia- tions. Peace cannot be imposed from the outside." But are the actions of the Administration consistent with the words of the President? — The United States ignored Israel's request to hold the...…

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…DETROIT GM Layoffs Continued from Page 1 Layoffs at GM will affect the entire region. for Manufacturer's National Bank. Mr. Littmann predicted that repair and automobile upkeep businesses will do well, and said related large- ticket durable goods and ap- pliances will continue to sell. "It will be a much more difficult time growing and reabsorbing employment," Mr. Littmann said. "There will be continued caution in retailing and no new net ...…

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…Good Buy 1991 Hello 1992 Repeal Aids Relationship New York (JTA) — The repeal of the U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism "demonstrates that relations between the United States and Israel are friendly," Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy said last week, a day after meeting with President Bush in Washington. Mr. Levy told the Con- ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that conclu- sion of the peace talks in Was...…

…I CLOSE-UP I ECHOES of the BIG BANG! Jews were expelled from Spain 500 years ago. The shock waves still reverberate. Special to The Jewish News Illustrations by Tim Lee testament to the sor- row of exile lies at the base of the Statue of Liberty. It tells of the har- bor where tempest-tossed refugees could find solace, the harbor that would welcome the unwanted, the persecuted, the tormented. Emma Lazarus, a Sephardi, may have had her fa...…

…can Jews know little about. And new thinking among scholars is reevaluating the effects wrought by the events of 1492. Jews Move East priest who witnessed the expulsion de- scribed it this way: "In the first week of July, the Jews took the hardship of the road upon themselves and left the lands of their birth . . . And they went along the roads and through the fields with great travail and misfortune, some falling, others rising, some dying,...…

…heritage who lived in Safed dur- ing the 1500s. (Ashkenazim are Jews from Central and Eastern Europe.) Ha'ari taught that the vessels containing the divine light at the beginning of creation had shat- tered. Sparks of divine light became mixed with evil as they fell to earth. The mystics saw their task as gathering the sparks back to their source, which would bring on the messianic age and end the exile. They called this process tikkun olam, r...…

…Journey Of The Conversos ir he first Jews who migrated to the Neth- erlands in the early 1500s, then ruled by Spain, were conversos, Jews who had bowed to the dic- tates of Ferdinand and Isabella and, with varying degrees of fidelity, adopted Catholicism. The Christians referred to the conver- sos by the pejorative term "Mar- ranos." When the Netherlands became free of Spain in the 1600s, conver- sos began streaming into Amster- dam. Once th...…

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…BACKGROUND Artwork from the Los Angeles Times by Catherine Kanner. Copyrighte 1991. Catherine Kanner. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate. The Cup Is Half Full The peace talks have not collapsed, but Syria remains a major source of concern. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T • he Middle East peace talks, which adjourn- ed in Washington last week, have not achieved any dramatic breakthrough, but nor have they collapsed. That in ...…

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…INSIDE WASHINGTON I 3tiot Afteteitme hos 4t4ty TREMENDOUS SELECTION OF LEATHER FURNITURE GOP Jews Urged To Help Israel Get U.S. Loan OK JAMES D. BESSER Washington. Correspondent I srael's Deputy Foreign Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was a whirl- wind of activity as the Mid- dle East peace talks yielded to an uneasy recess in Wash- ington last week. In addition to an endless round of TV and newspaper interviews, the dynamic Israeli leader ...…

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…SOUTHFIELD: AT RISK? What is the final destination for Detroit's Jewish community? THE FUTURE F KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer ounded in Detroit in 1944, Rose AZA's move- ment into the suburbs mirrors a curious trend. In recent years, teen-age boys affiliated with the B'nai B'rith Youth Organ- ization started leaving Rose, based in Southfield, as their parents began moving fur- ther northwest — many to Farmington Hills and West Bloomfiel...…

…SOUTHFIELD: cohesive. Now it is more diffused." Now the community is predominantly American born with different needs than their immigrant ancestors. "Historically, people live in a core city because they need them badly," said demographer Patricia Becker, who worked with sociologists Dr. Steven Cohen and Dr. Jacob Ukeles to conduct the Jewish Fed- eration's population study that identified 96,000 Jews in metropolitan Detroit, with the most —...…

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…N EWS 1 Wife Of MIA Visits Iranians United Nations (JTA) — The wife of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad emerged from a meeting here with the outgoing U.N. secretary- general saying she is confi- dent he is doing all he can to bring home her husband. Tami Arad said the U.N. chief, Javier Perez de Cuellar, told her he "believes my husband is alive and that he will make a very large effort for his release." Earlier in the week, Mrs. Arad had cr...…

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…VOICE OF THE VAAD QUESTION: Faygo Beverage Co. recently decided to "go Kosher" under the VAAD with the OU (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations) symbol. What ingredients in soda pose a kashruth question? And what about other brands of soda? 1. R. — Oak Pork William Gershon, Cantors: Chaim Najman, Sidney Rube. Services: Monday and Thursday 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 7:45 a.m., Sunday 8:30 a.m., Friday 5 p.m., Saturday 8:45 a.m...…

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…people? Why did Pharoah make things worse? You have done nothing to help Your people." God said to Moses, "Now you will begin to see what I will do to Pharoah. He will be forced to let them go." In this week's Torah portion we find what happened to the Jewish people. The heighten- ed level of spirituality and Jewish identity of Jacob's descendants were lost. They assimilated. The fledgling Jewish society found itself trying to survive within P...…

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