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…OTHER VIEWS Hope Springs Eternal L who would often challenge my faith in ast week, I received a beautiful the peace process. note from a friend. She wrote, I always said that I have to believe "I am sure the Middle East that peace is possible, as the alternative crisis is excruciatingly painful is unbearable. I thought: "Peace will for all of you. If I am sleepless over it, I come soon. This is just a bad time, but can imagine how all of yo...…
…Are We Safer? ers that the U.S. failure in 1980 Philadelphia "proves the weakness of the United re Americans taking the States." necessary steps to protect Meanwhile, the disaster at Tabas themselves from further has gone down the memory hole for attacks? Americans. But it's Americans (and This question comes to mind on Israelis and other Westerners) who reading a news agency dispatch really should be recalling the incident titled, "Iran Enth...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar Maze! Toy! . . 42 • • • • . 4 4 Blue And White Balloons Hillel and Jewish Academy students celebrate Israel's 54th birthday. DIANA LIEBERMAN Copy Editor/Education Writer KRISTA HUSA Staff" Photographer A t two local Jewish day schools, the April 17 celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day, meant a day off in the spring air. "This year, with the situation in Israel and the con- stant stream of ...…
…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs A HOMELAND IS BORN, THE INGATHERING BEGINS The roots of a new nation grew in the fertile soil tilled by two leaders of destiny. The "dreamer" Theodor Herzl and the "architect" Chaim Weizmann stood hand in hand as Zionist pioneers who helped end the millennia of aimless wandering by a dispossessed people. They shaped a miracle.no less daunting than that of America's founding fathers. THEODOR HERZL 1860-1904)b. Bu...…
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…CLUBS/AFFILIATES Institute for Retired Professional, and Cultural Commission, Congregation Beth Shalom — Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 p.m. Dr. Mark Tessler, Samuel J. • Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, will speak on "The Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: Where We Are and How We Got There." Dessert reception. No charge. Israeli buffet dinner available at 6 p.m. by advance reservations: $12 adult, $6 children ...…
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…Students at Temple Kol Ami take the map challenge. clues • DIANA LIEBERMAN Copy Editor/Education Writer I is only a few steps from Jerusalem to Eilat — when your map of Israel is 460 square feet. On April 22, the seventh-grade class at Temple Kol Ami religious school learned just how small and vul- nerable the state of Israel is with the help of an inflatable map recently purchased by the Agency for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Detro...…
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