…THE JEWISH NEWS 'SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 / 9 TISHREI 5751 War Memories On Yom Kippur PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor Yom Kippur, 2 p.m., Satur- day, October, 6, 1973. Uri Segal was a student at Lawrence Institute of Technology when he heard from classmates and on the radio that Israel had been attacked by Syria and Egypt. Mr. Segal, then 31, was told by the Israeli Consulate in Chicago to st...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 0 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Ellis Island And Castle Garden I mmigrants built Amer- ica. The many millions of them who came here from all corners of the globe brought with them their cultures and their religious backgrounds. They were the very essence of the industrial age into which they were ab- sorbed and which they kept nourishing. That's the great signifi- cance that came with them. The many millions who pass...…
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…UP FRONT This Unbee-lievable Sukkot Find Is A Real Sting Operation ELLEN BERNSTEIN Special to The Jewish News T he buzz going around this holiday season is that you (yes, you!) can have a "bee-free" sukkah. Yellow jackets — the scourge of Jewish families who dine beneath a sukkah's leafy boughs — can be eradicated, according to the marketer of a new trap for wasps and bees. Simply hang it outside a sukkah and it will suck up flying insect...…
…EDITORIAL Investing In Israel The High Holidays are the time when Israel Bonds makes its appeal in syn- agogues throughout Michigan. If there was ever any doubt about the importance of buying a Bond to invest in the State of Israel, a glance at the headlines of the dai- ly newspaper underscores the crises faced by the Jewish state. Saddam Hussein is threatening war, and Israel must be prepared. Soviet Jews are streaming into Israel in record...…
…OPINION CONTENTS Is Judaism Becoming A Pricey Showplace? STEWART WEISS A question has been bothering me for some time now, and it is especially appropriate to consider it at this time of year, when we take a spiri- tual accounting of our priorities: Is it becoming too expensive to be Jewish? From designer wedding ketubot to leather challah- covers to state-of-the-art Ninja Turtle kippot, we ought to stop and ask, "Is Judaism pricing itsel...…
…CARL LEVIN, BILL SCHUETTE -And ISRAEL Senator Carl Levin agrees with the Bush-Baker "peace" plan calling for Israel t return to the pre- 1967 lines. Mr. Levin led his fellow Senators in urging Israel to surrender land in exchange for a piece of paper. I Pre-1967 lines not legal borders as the State Department falsely claims. They were the cease-fire armistice lines where the 1948 Arab invasion to destroy the Jewish state I was stopped. Jewi...…
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…I LETTERS Continued from Page 6 that the activists who de- mand 40, 50 or more miles per gallon are also the same people who make a big fuss about how terrible it is that so many are killed in automobile accidents every year. If the need to conserve fuel is that pressing, we should let the price of gasoline rise to whatever it will, or even levy a special tax on the same. Some people may choose to cope with the increased cost of gasoline by ...…
…mill• ■■ •• ■ 11 DETROIT Seven reasons to shop House of Watchbands. B'nai B'rith, JFS Plan Program On Child Abuse SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer I t's a topic rarely discuss- ed in the Jewish com- munity or any commun- ity. But the silence surroun- ding the sexual abuse of children is about to be broken. B'nai B'rith Women and Jewish Family Service plan a joint program at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Temple Beth El to discuss incest and sexual abuse w...…
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…DETROIT thing if the Arabs ever decided to attack on Yom Kippur. The country, she remembers saying, was shut down. It would be almost too perfect a time. It was a thought that for several hours was too easy to forget. The week before, the Goldsteins were walking carefree through the streets of Tel Aviv. They took in a Charlie Chaplin movie, The Goldsteins in Israel in 1973. Modern Times, and they were enjoying their lives in Israel. Mr. Gol...…
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…▪ THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA Metropolitan Detroit District Sherman Shapiro Anne Gonte Silver CELEBRATION CHAIRS • Philip Slomovitz Max Fisher Hon. Avern Cohn Louis Berry Harold Berry Irwin and Bethea Green HONORARY CHAIRS JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS AWARD RECIPIENTS INVITES YOU TO Irving Laker HONORARY CELEBRATON CHAIR • Menachem Glaser Dr. Jerome Kaufman Marion Leib Max Sosin Dr. Lester Zeff EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE MOST EAGERLY A...…
…I DETROIT ewish Community Council Campus Issues Survey The Task Force on College-Related Issues is dedicated to helping Jewish students cope with the rising tide of anti- Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda on Michigan's college campuses. We would greatly appreciate your taking a few minutes to complete this questionnaire, so that we may have input into the issues our Jewish students are facing. When complete, please mail to: Campus Issues...…
…WHY JEVIBO MORTGAGE CLIENTS PREFER CH waiting for pro-Palestinian groups to make statements and then waste time answer- ing them, Jewish groups should set the agenda by stressing the positives about Israel. To help combat the in- crease of anti-Semitism on campus, the Jewish Com- munity Council formed a task force on college-related issues last spring. After talking to students, parents, and educators, the task force plans to send fliers to c...…
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…• • We sense a Presence that we cannot name; we intuit a Name that we cannot speak. Study and Torah are one traditional path in Jewish spirituality. 24 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 …
…Li • Li Whispering In God's Ear In Jewish spirituality, man lets God in wherever he can: through the intellect, the heart, and deeds. During these Days of Awe, we climb our personal Sinai and search for who we are and who we can be. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News hese, the Days of Awe, are a time of turning toward God and toward one's self. We ponder who we are in relation to ourself, to our community, to our God. We consider...…
…Joy at God's presence: One doorway to the divine. • The mystery of our lives pulls us toward the elusive place where God encounters man and man encounters himself. 26 Rabbi Heschel said, "I felt my legs were praying." No one form of spirituality dominates in Judaism because no one type of person dominates in Judaism. The religion has had the wisdom to recognize that Jews are as patterned as the world in which they live. Some prefer the inne...…
…n ot Thank You from the Lubavitch Foundation For Your Support of Our 1990 Annual Dinner Paul S. Magy, Dinner Chairman Emma Lazaroff - Schaver And thanks to our honorees for their leadership role in establishing the Synagogue Campus of Living Judaism Miriam and Jack Shenkman Vivian and Dr. George A. Dean Phyllis and Martin Abel BENEFACTORS: Norman Allan, Dr. George A. Dean, Emma Lazaroff-Schaver, Jack Shenkman. PAST CHAIRMEN: Norman ...…
…Jewish spirituality and aesthetics • Without a balance between self, family and com- munity, spirit- uality can become a self- indulgence. 28 — enjoying the world only by accepting Judaism's entire writ- ten and oral traditions. Reform and Con- servative Judaism's more critical stance toward these, he stated, suggests they have more diluted forms of spirituality than does Orthodoxy. Rabbi Goldberger and Laurence Kushner, a Reform rabbi in...…
…given us. Spirituality and aesthetics — enjoying the world — are closely linked. Jewish spirituality means sanctifying the every day. Its a way to appreciate the world moment-to-moment." "Other religions," said Prof. Katz, "especially Christianity and Hinduism, tend to devalue this world. Judaism's emphasis is how to be in this world. That's a big difference." Judaism's awareness of the world can be illustrated by the blessings that are said u...…
…• Blessings said upon seeing a rainbow, a shooting star, or blossoming trees help bring an experience into con- sciousness, into a context that is both personal and divine. A chavurah group follows Judaism's "inner terrain." 20 FRIDAY SFPTFMRFR 2R 199f1 …
…Li • LI • LI • LI • Getting From Here 'lb There Spiritual wisdom can only be gained through hard work, say the rabbis. The first step is to acquire the necessary `vocabulary.' IRA RIFKIN Special to the Jewish News ttempting to connect with life's transcendent quality is difficult enough. Attempting the quest without a road map is near impossible. It's like trying to cross a desert by relying on the ever-shifting sand for direction. The in...…
…Rabbi Omer-Man, director of spiritual outreach for the Los Angeles Hillel Coun- cil and a nationally known writer and lec- turer. But reasons why are almost beside the point. Simply put, placing blame is not a sign of chasidut, or saintliness in a Jew- ish sense. So regardless of the cause, if, as Rabbi Zaiman said, "vocabulary struc- tures how you think," then the first task for those desiring spiritual fulfillment within Judaism is to relear...…
…Finding God In Unusual Places or some, spirituality is not defined by traditional belief in God or worship. Miriam Jerris, for one, believes that faith in God can be entirely divorced from spirituality. Her spirituality is rooted in the world around her, as well as the one she feels. "Can a humanist, an atheist, have a spiritual experience? Absolutely!" said Ms. Jerris, executive director of the 2,000-member Society for Humanistic Judaism bas...…
…I HOLIDAYS Adat Shalom Synagogue cordiolly invites you to attend A Congregational Tribute Dinner honoring - CANTOR LARRY VIEDER The Curious Case Of Kol Nidrei BERNARD S. RASKAS Special to The Jewish News K for thirty years of devoted service to the congregation Sunday, October 21 Adat Shalom Synagogue Cocktail Reception 5:30 p.m. Dinner 6:30 p.m. Followed by Guest Speaker, Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum Executive Vice President of the...…
…`When the plane touched down at Ben Gurion Airport, we were Russians. Histadrut helped turn us into Israelis.' That's what one Soviet immigrant told us a year after arriving in Israel. Histadrut is the General Federation of Labor in Israel — and much more. For more than 70 years, we've been transforming im- migrants into Israelis. Now we're doing the same for the 10,000 or more Soviet Jews who arrive in Israel each month. Histadrut operates...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent S ome people just can't get enough of political life. Consider Ken Rudin. By day, Mr. Rudin is Capitol Hill producer for ABC News, with responsibility for coverage of the House of Representatives. But by night, Mr. Rudin is proprietor of one of the largest political campaign button collections in exis- tence. And according to Mr. Rudin, changes in the use of campaign buttons shed s...…
…MEDIA MONITOR I MONDAY, SIFTIMAIll 14, 1990 / D.uN.IOr 2 /At ,o4., Khrushchev to Rosen I PAMYAT USES IT TO SEND DEATH THREATS TO SOVIET JEWS. YOU CAN USE IT TO SAVE THEM. The call in the night wakes Mikhail Rosenfeld in Moscow. When he picks up the telephone, a voice says, "Kikes, s your turn. You're at the top of the list.' This was the opening of Newsweek's recent cover story, titled "The Long Shadow: New Fears of Anti-Semitism." Dur...…
…What Khruschev said may not be a smoking gun, but it's pretty close." "How you play a story depends on its competition for that day," said Mr. Cola- suonno, "but we never had any doubt that this was a natural story for us." Until quite recently, the Post had traditionally had a high Jewish readership. This was usually attributed to the high number of Jews in New York and their agreement with the paper's liberal editorial policies. Compared wit...…
…MEDIA MONITOR Messiah Continued from preceding page Journal — work 17 hours a day. Several Lubavitch told the Journal reporter that the rebbe may actually be the Messiah. But the day after one Lubavitch administrator told the paper's correspon- dent about this possibility, he called asking that this speculation not be publish- ed. "If I read it myself," he said, "I'd say, 'Come on, give me a break.' " Post Columnist Assails Bush for 'Has...…
…wimmimmmi NEWS DON'T SLEEP ON THIS ONE! They're Going Fast!!!! SAVE AT LEAST time in Israeli jails for previous terrorist activities, had been freed '.in a 1985 prisoner exchange. The captured leader of the assault was identified as 20- year-old Ahmed Khalil al- Wazir, from a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. Abul Abbas said he planned the attack to avenge the killing of seven Palestin- ian day laborers by a former Israeli soldier near Ri...…
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…BACKGROUND HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T he beginning of knowledge in attemp- ting to divine the next steps in the Gulf crisis is an appreciation of the fact that future developments are almost entirely unpredic- table. Military, political and diplomatic scenarios are as numerous — and as fanciful — as the human imagina- tion is capable of contriving. Amid the constantly shif- ting sands, however, there is one rock of absolute certai...…
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…KOSINS common interest: an urgent need to fill the power vacu- um that will inevitably exist in some future Jorda- nian/Palestinian state. Israel has already burnt its fingers on the Palestinian issue and will not want an intrusive role in any new Pa- lestinian state that may rise on the ashes of the Hashemite kingdom. Equal- ly, however, it will not want another Lebanon on its longest and most vulnerable border. For these reasons, it may wel...…
…ELECT I ON ELECT I ON Financin The Vot Andrea Fischer shows her Republican allegiances. KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer Republican Andrea Fischer and Democrat Larry Deitch are behind-the-scenes fund-raisers for their respective political parties. Larry Deitch talks politics on the phone from his Southfield law office. 46 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 L any Deitch has fond memories of a 1979 dinner at the White House during the Jimmy Carte...…
…This is part of a series of stories related to the Nov. 6 election. A year later, Craig Fuller, At age 21, she was travel- Mr. Bush's chief of staff, con- ing throughout the world as tacted Ms. Fischer, offering an advance planner for a job as Mr. Bush's George Bush, then vice pres- scheduler. She later return- ident. In that role, she ar- , ed to the law firm, then ranged motorcades, served became counsel to the as a liaison to the com- unde...…
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…COMMUNITY Two Detroit Cantors Vote To Admit Women RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer D etroit's two members of the Cantors Assembly executive council, Cantors Chaim Na- jman and Larry Vieder, voted with the majority re- cently to admit women to the professional association of Conservative cantors. The vote, 29-1 with two abstentions, was taken dur- ing the council's Aug. 30 meeting, but was not made public for two weeks in order to notify assembl...…
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