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…DOER Nutritionally Speaking PROFIL French, Africans all converge there and follow the rituals. I did meet people who returned to write a thank you and put that in a crack. "What's so moving is that everyone comes with a belief — and that carries a lot of positive energy that you sense when you're close to the Wall." ELANAIZR, City: Rochester Kudos: To God's Ear In her spare time, Dr. Elana Izraeli, the West Bloomfield school district ESL...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK • jaw The Meaning Of Maccabi I t was early summer 1994 and we were cycling along a scenic Oakland County route. Suddenly, my cycling companion, Jay Robinson, said it was time to turn back: He had Maccabi business to tend to. The JCC Maccabi Youth Games for Jewish teens would be held in Cleveland that summer. Jay's love for sports and faith in kids won him a national following on the Maccabi circuit. He was the guiding fo...…
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…The Fresh Air Society and Tamarack Camps reported the murder of an Israeli by a lieutenant in the Palestinian Preventive Security Police. Arming the "good cops" to control the "bad cops" is futility when dealing with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's brigades, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et al. Harold Berry Southfield ORT Hails Olympian I was thrilled by windsurfer Gal Fridman's triumph in bringing home Israel's first Olympic gold medal ("Israe...…
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…Bombings Jolt Israel Ending 6-month lull, bombers murder at least 16 people on Beersheva buses. DINA KRAFT Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tel Aviv T Some of the Israeli victims from Beersheva bombings. Photos from Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Web site. hick clouds of smoke billowing around two bombed buses in Beersheva symbolized how the sense of calm that had settled over Israel this spring and summer could end in a sin- Tamara Dibra...…
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…Tales From The `Blogosphere' How Jewish Web diarists are helping to change public discourse. AMY KELLER Jewish Renaissance Media I is shortly before noon on a Wednesday and liberal blogger Eric Alterman — now off dead- line, if there is such a thing in the blogging business — is feasting on sable and lox at his beach house while chatting via cell phone with a reporter. "You caught me at my most Jewish," the author-teacher-journal- ist jokes...…
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…Spy Charge Allegations against Defense official Larry Franklin roil Washington, shake pro-Israel lobby. MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington llegations that a Pentagon official passed documents to Israel through a pro-Israel lobbying group have shaken Washington and drawn intense attention to the close relation- ship between the Bush administration and the Jewish state. . Reports surfaced Aug. 27 that a Defense Department ...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Saying 'Yes' To Settlements T he Bush administration is making a tactical mistake in signaling Israel to go ahead with building 1,000 new homes and apartments within existing West Bank settlements. There is no doubt that natural growth requires the living spaces for families of existing settlers and little doubt that the units should eventually get built. But with mu...…
…OTHER VIEWS Stealth Evangelism Baltimore he Jewish communities of metro Detroit and Ann Arbor will soon be subjected to a new attack by an old foe. From today through Sept. 24, missionaries from the Jews for Jesus organization will descend upon the area as part of their "Behold Your God" campaign. This five-year initiative, targeting cities outside of Israel with Jewish populations of 25,000 or more, will spend more than $22 million to convi...…
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…L The Road To 'Camelot' U-M alumna in Fisher Theatre role follows in footsteps of greatness. SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News A ndrea Rae's debut engagement at Carnegie Hall turned into an identity-altering experience. Appearing in 1999 under her birth name, Andrea Markowicz, she entered the building, announced her name and was told there was a special dressing room and extravagant provisions awaiting her. The person at the do...…
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