…Editor's Letter Ask Financial Crisis Attorney Ken Gross about... A Jewish Israel B y 2014, a Jewish-Arab demographic parity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea will be the precursor for an Arab majority. So claims the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). As questionable as that source is, Israeli demographers and politicians fearful of the Jewish state's future cite it in arguing that giving up the West Bank will...…
…Letters 2011 Lecture Series Presented by OAKLAND UNIVERSITY'S Student Life Lecture Board in connection wil h the Vitality Seminar Series THOMAS FRIEDMAN A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Thomas Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America," was a New York Times best-seller. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011 7 p.m....…
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…Roundup JRMTM Jewish Renaissance Media DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS,com Advertising Sales Recognize Palestinian State At The GOP Helm JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Paraguay joined Robert Schostak, a Bloomfield Township- several Latin and South American states based real estate developer and Jewish in recognizing a Palestinian state. community activist, is the new chairman The country's Ministry of Foreign of the Republican Party in Michigan. A...…
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…Special Report URBAN LIFESTYLE / ON THE COVER Destination Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News lot of reasons:' said Dan Gilbert, Quicken Loans founder and chairman. "We just can't have all of our kids being educated at the University of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State University, subsi- dized by Michigan state tax dollars, and then have them go and create wealth in other cities. We just can't have it anymore. We've got to do...…
…First stop: Creating a Jewish hub in the city. ining what it means to live in a major American city." Bush is also on the board of directors of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the only traditional Conservative syna- gogue remaining within Detroit's city limits. A few years ago, the historic four- story building on Griswold was nearly forced to close because of financial problems. Now, it's a growing a center of Jewish life in the city "Wo...…
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…The Law Firm Of Support Federation And Stretch To Help T he Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Women's Department is host- ing its third annual Stretch to Help event on Sunday, Feb. 6. Women of all ages and abilities are invited to participate in this communitywide fitness and wellness event to raise funds for Federation's 2011 Annual Campaign. Illana Greenberg, event co-chair, said, "Stretch to Help is an opportu- nity to reach Jewi...…
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…Aiming Higher Wayne State's new provost embraces Detroit. Francine Wunder Special to the Jewish News R onald T. Brown was something of a rebel growing up in his native Atlanta. Prodded by traditional Jewish parents to pursue medicine or law, Brown opted instead to attend graduate school and become a psychologist. "I didn't have tattoos or really long hair," he joked,"but I guess studying psychology was my way of separating from my parents....…
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…World NEWS S Detroiters Worry Don Cohen Special to the Jewish News L Without it, the Second Palestinian intifada (2000 2005), the Second Lebanon War (2006) and the Gaza War (2008-2009) could easily have triggered wider regional hostilities. But in each case, in the teeth of region- wide popular sentiment against Israel, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ada- mantly rejected calls to commit Egyptian soldiers to the fray. On the contrary, ...…
…World A Day in the Life of a Fleischman Resident NEWS AN Southern Frontier from page 21 Live With Us! Out Trips strategy against the radical forces led by Iran, Israelis found it baffling that President Obama turned his back on the embattled Egyptian leader so quickly. Pundits argued that Obama's stance sent a deeply disconcerting message to America's moderate allies across the region, from Saudi Arabia to Morocco, that they, too, might ...…
…4 Hit Or Miss? State of Union speech missed some Jewish priorities. Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington p resident Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Jan. 25 was as notable for what it excluded as what made it in. Obama abjured the traditional check- list and delivered a speech centered on a grand theme, American renewal, after an election that left government splin- tered, with a Democratic White House and Senate a...…
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…FEBRUARY 2011 VOLUME 02 ISSUE 02 CONTENTS FEATURES 20 Married in Motown Forget an exotic beach locale for your special day; the city in your backyard has the hottest places to party. Reporting by Lynne Konstantin 22 J Who's In The Garden with Adam?* RED TIRE I•1 magazine Judaism's division over the concept of "gay marriage." Reporting by Robin Schwartz *It ain't Eve. 24 I Marriage in the Age of Divorce How couples slog through th...…
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…In the Garden with Adam and Steve By Robin Schwartz omehow they just knew. The kids in Joe Kort's class at Oak Park High School seemed to see right through him — and they were brutal. The year was 1979 and Joe, then 15, was the eldest of two children growing up in a Reform Jewish household where the word "gay" was never uttered. He was very much "in the closet," careful to avoid the openly gay students at his school who were seen as "misfits...…
…Gay Rights: Where Do We Stand? "We felt this step made sense," IN Editor Robert Sklar said at the time. "The gay and lesbian community is not asking us to do anything differ- ently or more; they just want to be treated like any other. If we're really going to be the mirror of the Jewish community, we have to reflect what's going on. To ignore it seems wrong." Detroit, not known for its pro- gressive social stance on much, was actually years...…
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