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…Cover Story TWO-WAY BRIDGE Nazareth Ilk: District capital of the Galilee. Population has doubled to 50,000 since 1991. As an Israeli devel- opment town, the 48-year-old city is covered by the Investment Encouragement Law, which attracts new businesses to the industrial zones and commercial centers. The local Absorption Center, with 400 young immigrants, is the largest in northern Israel. Migdal HaEmek: Founded in 1953 between the mountain...…
…"If your youth don't want this connection with Israel," he added, "we will get lost as a people." Bitan came to Michigan twice in the mid-1990s, once as part of a Central Galilee P2K delegation. The second time was with 25 Central Galileans who studied for three weeks at Michigan State University to learn how to work together at the grassroots level back in Israel. The visit was Aronson's idea and the Kellogg Foundation helped fiu-id it. "When...…
…P2I1 Cover Story TWO-WAY BRIDGE from page 33 Gabi Landau, an Israel delegate to the P2K Steering Committee and managing director for the Valleys Tourist Board of the Emek Yizreal (Jezreel Valley) Regional Council, has no problem with a Detroit concentration. "I'm not saying not to do things in Israel," she said. "I'm saying the focus should be more on Detroit as part of our strategic plan. I think it's our job; and we have means and ways to...…
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…Iraqi Ballots Some Iraqi Israelis go to Jordan to cast their votes. Jewish state, where optimism at the fall of Saddam Hussein has been replaced with unease at seeing Iraq descend into sectarian fighting and jihadi ter- rorism. "It may have been too early for us to have declared the Eastern Front pacified," said a senior Israeli official on condition of anonymity, refer- ring to earlier assessments that with a peace deal in place with Jordan...…
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…World Mission Accomplished B'nai B'rith trip aids the Jews of Cuba. BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News ith the many political trouble spots and disaster areas around the world, Cuba seems to be below the international radar screen. But the country's Jewish population of 1,500 has been getting plenty of attention from B'nai B'rith. The international Jewish service organization, through its Great Lakes Region, sponsored another Cuban J...…
…Digest ( 1 3 4 51g AnTm 1 111 11 11 SENIOR LIVING RESIDENCES AJC Offers Tsunami Aid The Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish Committee has reached out to south Asian religious and ethnic organizations in Metro Detroit to help organize tsunami fund-raising events and to offer expressions of solidarity. On Thursday, Feb. 17, the Council of Asian Pacific Americans and the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn will host a benefit, raising fun...…
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…Artrageous! Happenings For college age through 30-something. Send information to ahitsky@thejevvish.news.com Benefit uplifts community's cultural life. METRO HILLEL T he American Center building in Southfield was transformed into an artists' mecca Saturday night, Jan. 29. The Fanclub Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization striving to promote a vibrant cultural life in metro Detroit, presented the fund-raiser Artrageous 2005. Partygoe...…
…L Piano Unlimited Peter Nero, America's ultimate crossover performer, leads the DSO in a celebration of Gershwin. tigious Tchaikovsky piano competi- tion. At the same time, with the blessings of his piano teachers, Constance Keene and Abraham Chasens at New York's Juilliard School of Music, he branched out into jazz, then pops. "They told me, 'You can do what we can't do,"' Nero remembers. At the time, his name was Bernard Nierow, and he pe...…
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…FASHION At left: Some of the ornate detail from a completed, handmade beaded bag. Opposite page: Just some of the raw materials needed for a purse project. Below: Laurie Winston shows off some of the creations at Bead Works. MODERN BEADS P t Pcv-trt-?#-- vw-4.1, w. - fett ooking for a more contemporary beaded bag? Franklin-native Julie Binder creates beau- ' tifully-beaded designs she manufactures in China and sells around the Unite...…
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