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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ITN www.d.etroitjewishnews.com March 31, 2000 II Adar 24, 5760 Vol. CXVII, No. 6 DEPARTMENTS The Wal k , We Learn . g Its Leader Rabbi Karmi Gross is headed to a large day school in Los Angeles. 10 Million Dollar Mitzvah Judge Avern Cohn establishes fund to aid Orthodox Jewish education. 47 Leadership Builder Hadassah allows women to help others, strengthening Jewish ties. '4.0.4.kag4 SPWi a tUarbitY 71 Uns...…

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…For Openers Getting To 'Da' Yiddish Limericks N There once was a shadchan* named Lou Who said, "Looks aren't all. That's true. ew Americans who are first-time filers of U.S. Census forms may be confused by the American terminology and apprehensive about revealing too much to the gov- ernment. To remedy this, those taking English as a Second Language class- es at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park were shown two Russian-language video...…

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…This Week Akiva Losing Its Leader DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer R abbi Karmi Gross, principal of Yeshivat Akiva since 1995, will leave in June to become head of Maimonides Academy in Los Angeles. Aside from the advantages of California's climate, Rabbi Gross declined to comment on the reasons for his departure. "I would like to be remembered as somebody who tries to connect to every single student every single day," he said. He and his wif...…

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…with the Shiffman Fund, Federation will match, for constituent schools only, all money received through the Cohn Fund. However, unlike the Cohn Fund, the Shiffman Fund applies to day schools from all streams of Judaism. Schools will be allocated funds based on decisions by the Cohn Advisory Committee, not based on the percentage of students enrolled. Once they receive money from either fund, schools are free to distribute scholarships as they ...…

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…w we : alalliikt Women's American ORT (Organization for Educational Resources and Technological Training) and Hebrew Free Loan Association. With their offices in the Federation Building, AJE staff members will be able to communicate more easily with MIC and Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education, Isaacs said. In its broadest sense, the Alliance sets policy and programming, while the AJE car- ries them out. Isaacs, who has held AJE's top...…

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…THE D presents the Annual Coleman Mopper Memorial Lecture Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism and the Decorative Arts Liebman recounted the bind some Reform congregations have found themselves in upon inviting non- Jewish parents and other relatives for an aliya (call to the Torah) during their offspring's bar or bat mitzvah. "Is the presence of so many non- Jews a good thing, or does it indicate a weakness of the continuity of American Jewry?...…

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…Following The Leader ADL's Abe Foxman looks back at 13 years as agency chief. J.J. GOLDBERG Special to the Jewish News New York N of long after he took over as national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman was asked to fly to Geneva to head off an international cri- sis. It set the tone for what's come since. It was June 1990. Nelson Mandela, newly released after 27 years in a South African prison, was headed to New Yor...…

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…'Phis Week Goodbye, Old Friend After papal visit, a sense offewish-Catholic healing remains. AVI MACHLIS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem F or Jews around the world, even skeptics of Catholic-Jewish rec- onciliation, it was hard not to be moved by two historic moments during Pope John Paul II's pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The first was the sight of the 79-year- old pope staring silently into the eternal flame at the Yad Vashem memori...…

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…Jewish history. The Inquisition, the pogroms and the Holocaust tell them all they need to know-- so the Israeli educational authorities seem to believe — about Christians, Ya'acov Stein, who was a princi- pal and a history teacher for several decades, says, "I have always felt that we weren't giving the kids the kind of background they should have in this sphere. But so little time is allocated to the teaching of history that we can barely get...…

…Black Monday Barak's bad luck is bad news for peace and his government. DAVID LANDAU Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem was Black Monday for Prime • Minister Ehud Barak. His peace policy was reeling following Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's rejection the day before of Barak's peace proposals, which were advanced by no less an advocate than President Bill Clinton. And his coalition was tottering, too, after the attorney general decided ...…

…War apparently burns bright — and he is determined to restore that situation. Assad reportedly spurned Barak's proposal that Syria agree to let Israel hold a narrow strip of land along the eastern shore in return for the el- Hama hot springs, located southeast of the sea, which were clearly part of Palestine under the 1923 British- French demarcation of the border between Palestine and Syria. Assad has maintained throughout the recent years of...…

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…Bill Davidson and David Hermelin know a thing or two about partnership. In business, they've shared some pretty impressive accomplishments. Along the way, the two former presidents of Congregation Shaarey Zedek have also learned a thing or two about Jewish life. For one thing, a Jewish community can be only as strong as its spiritual life. It's why the Jewish Federation and the congregations engage in so many partnership efforts of their ow...…

…This Week Please loin us for brunch as we pay tribute to World Briefs Another Way To Tie The Knot Israel's Conservative Jerusakm/JTA and Reform movements have launched an advertising campaign aimed at attracting more Israeli couples to marry through a non-Orthodox rabbi. The advertising campaign will target Israeli couples seeking an alternative to the state-recognized Orthodox wedding. Since the Orthodox establishment controls marriage in...…

…PRUDENTIAL SECURITIES IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT Steven F. Zatkin Museum Exhibits Nazi-Looted Art New York/JTA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York admitted that it has a Nazi-looted painting in its collection. Museum officials said the Nazis likely looted "Guardroom With the Deliverance of Saint Peter," by the 17th-century Flemish painter David Teniers the Younger, in Vienna in 1938. Iranian Ban Partially Lifted movement should ...…

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…JNEditorials Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com The Kishkas Connection T wo local families that are titans of Jewish philanthropy have teamed up to try to beat one of the communal world's toughest hurdles — revitaliz- ing the synagogue. Their efforts are so innovative they serve as a national model ("Help For Syna- gogue Schools," March 24). Industrialist William Davidson ha...…

…COMMUNITY VIEWS Did The Pope Go Far Enough? ple of the covenant." lipir ho was not moved For all his efforts — which deserve deeply by seeing Pope praise and admiration — segments of John Paul II pray silent- the Jewish community feel, under- ly in Yad Vashem or standably, still "unfulfilled," maintain- stand at the Western Wall, his hand ing "something is missing." trembling, as he touched the As they listened to his sacred stone? words, ho...…

…SPECIAL COMMENTARY What The Pope Said AP Photo/Isaac I-Iarari/GPO/ho Following is the text of Pope John Paul Its speeches at the Bethlehem heliport in the Palestinian Autonomous Territory on March 22 and at the Yad Vashem Holo- caust Memorial in Jerusalem on March 23, as distributed by the Vatican press office. "Your Torment is Before the Eyes of the World" Bethlehem Heliport Dear Chairman Arafat, Your Excellen- cies, Dear Palestinian Fri...…

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…''z, 4",7•'••• OA* Maze! Toy! A;k1`NAW SUZANNE CHESSLER the area's Jewish community. "I relocated from Virginia and was a Hadassah member there," Levine, 33, explains. "The bilk:est difference between the two states is that Michigan has groups split up by age and interest, while Virginia _ groups are strictly geographic. "Part of the focus of Mitzvah is issues that deal with children," Levine says. "Every year, we have a family Chanuka pa...…

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…inai Guild gi9 Greater Detroit Chapter. She's working on events to involve the whole commu- nity. In August, there will be a duck race to raise money for the organization, offer families a new experience and get out the word about Hadassah. "I'm 35 and very Zionistic," says Simko, who affiliated with the Ruach Group and has gone on a mission to Israel. "I met a young Israeli soldier who saved children from an attack on a bus. He was told he ...…

…JCC Honors Mort Plotnick son who walked through that door on a first-name basis." As a member of the initial cabinet of the JCC Maccabi Games, Plotnick was instrumental in moving the games for Jewish teen athletes to internation- al prominence. "For me, it's a question of getting the numbers of kids and adults involved in Jewish activities," Plotnick said. "This has been a wonderful Jewish community in which to work, with terrific infrastruct...…