…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY FEBRUARY 3, 1989 / 28 SHEVAT 5749 THIS ISSUE 60c Are Jews Losing Their Clout? Jews' lack of influence in the 1988 elections, growing competition by other minorities for power and the instablity caused by the intifada are all factors in a potentially critical situation. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent Was 1988 the year Jewish politi- cal power in the United States began to wane?...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY Ecumenism: The Wiesel-Rittner Leadership PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus E cumenism is the symbol for religious cooperation and respect for the faithful of all denominations. When the National Conference of Christians and Jews was organized six decades ago, the week of Washington's birthday was designated for the annual good will observance. There was a special need at the time to decry racial discrimination, to create ...…
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…I UP FRONT Schreibers Launch Fifth Jews For Judaism Group KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer R onnie Schreiber borrows words from singer Shlomo Carlebach to explain his pas- sion for countering missionary activists: "The problem facing us today is not that there are Jews for Jesus for Rev. Moonie. The problem is that there are so many sweet, holy Yid- delehs who are Jews for nothing." Schreiber and his wife, Batya, are committed to educating th...…
…EDITORIAL Quiet Heroes Our community honors its dedicated, hard-working and charitable members in many ways. There are often testimonial din- ners, special concerts, keynote addresses, plaque presentations and monument unveilings. While these honorees are usually deserving, a quiet, nearly invisible group of mitzvah people are carrying out unusual and extraordinary acts of human kindness. The Jewish News sought to find them and bring their g...…
…T OPINION CONTENTS 25 CLOSE-UP Leaving A Legacy KATIE DEUTCH ELSILA Joseph Eisenberg has only one more year as head of the Windsor Jewish community. EDUCATION Scholar Aims To Clarify Misperceptions Of History Each marriage can lead to a gain or a loss for the Jewish people. The Debate On Intermarriage: Dilemma For Every Caring Rabbi DANIEL POLISH I recently read in these pages (Jan. 6) an article by David Frazer that addresses its...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS SUPER VALUES FROM YOUR AUTHORIZED SEIKO DEALER Israel Trip Has Seats Available JCCouncil RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer S ome seats are still available for the De- troit Jewish Com- munity Council's Solidarity Trip to Israel March 2-9, ac- cording to David Gad-Harf, Council executive director. Almost 80 Detroiters have signed up for the $999-per- person trip, "but we have room for more," said Gad- Harf, adding that the deadline ...…
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…CLOSE-UP Joe Eisenberg, the Community Centre and Peretz Apartments. I he Windsor Jewish Com- munity Council is embark- ing on a mission it hasn't had in 31 years. The coun- cil's executive director, Joseph Eisenberg, has announced plans to retire by June 1990. True, he isn't exactly leaving the organization in the lurch, but the council may need that long to find the unique in- dividual who will succeed Eisenberg. Eisenberg and his family m...…
…I CLOSE-UP h11.111.1 Legacy Continued from preceding page wherever it was, would con- tinue to grow and survive." On the theory that survival depends on unity, Eisenberg devoted much of his early Windsor efforts towards help- ing to unite the Jewish community. When the Jewish Com- munity Council opened the Centre on Jan. 2, 1959, it pro- vided a communal address where all were comfortable. "I think we got that philosophy across," says Eise...…
…FOR SENIORS I Seniors To Get Tax Filing Aid The senior adult depart- ment of the Jimmy Prentis Morris building of the Jewish Community Center will offer income tax filing assistance on Feb. 25. Representatives from the American Associa- tion for Retired Persons will be available in the JPM assembly hall between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. For appointments, call the JPM, 967-4030. The Music Lovers' Hour, a music appreciation group has a new meeting day...…
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…ATTENTION delegations which have been in the two countries for the last 18 months. Although vague about re- ported direct flights between the Soviet Union and Israel, Dubinin said his government supported the principle of "free choice" for all Soviet emigrants — Jews and non-Jews. "All the people who desire to leave, who have received a visa, are absolutely free to buy a ticket to any direction," he said. "They have complete freedom to go to ...…
…[MEDIA MONITOR Arafat's 'Air Show' Tries To Boost Image GARY ROSENBLATT Editor assir Arafat is clearly on a media blitz to en- hance his image in the United States. First he granted Time magazine more than eight hours for an inter- view and made the cover of the Dec. 26 issue, posing coy- ly with smiling face on fold- ed hands. Now comes a revealing portrait of Arafat's frenetic daily life in the February issue of Vanity Fair by T.D. Allma...…
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…THE UNDERCAR PRO CERTIFIED MECHANICS Jerusalem's Biggest Inn Optimistic About Future CARL ALBERT Special to The Jewish News E very tourist who comes to Israel spends time in this capital ci- ty. There were occasions when the flood of visitors was so great that even the thousands of hotel rooms were insuffi- cient to accommodate them all, and latecomers had to be housed outside the city and even as far as Tel Aviv. It seemed there was nee...…
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…SALE STARTS: Friday, February 3, 1989 thru Saturday, February 11, 1989 severe measures "suit reality and provide an appropriate response to the rioting," it in- sisted that one "cannot pity the rioters." Palestinian protestors, said Ma'ariv editors, "and mainly the parents of the younger ones, know that whoever throws stones or Molotov cocktails at IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers, or at- tacks a Jew, is in danger of be- ing shot, beaten...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY Ecumenism Continued from Page 2 faned, in which the future will not be accompanied by anguish:' It is a compelling con- viction challenging him — and us — to take human history seriously. Dr. Carol Rittner, revered in the designation given her as a "Righteous Gentile," has earned esteem in her Catholic way. The mutual respect is summarized in this response by Wiesel to Rittner's first question, "What does it mean to be a J...…
…ADL Considering Action For U-M 'Insensitivity' RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer T he Michigan director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said his office is looking into taking action against the University of Michigan over its seem- ing lack of interest in handling anti- Semitism on the Ann Arbor campus. "We express deep and grave con- cern at the insensitivity and passivi- ty of the U-M administration in ad- dressing these concerns,...…
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…Congregation Shir Tikvah and the Jewish Community Center present from New York Arthur Strimling in ALL THAT OUR EYES HAVE WITNESSED turer and researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, researcher at Tel Aviv University and at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He has writ- ten several publications and has been honored with many fellowships and awards. He is the associate editor of Bar-Ilan Studies on Eastern European Jewry and t...…
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