…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP The Search Continues STEVE DRYDEN After 10 years, the OSI is still prosecuting Nazis, and being criticized. ENTERTAINMENT On The Bridge! Alpha Omega impressed the public and fellow dentists with their "Ships Ahoy" show. 53 20 11 UP FRONT The abortion fray in Israel is joined by a number of U.S. organizations. 14 DETROIT • JCC is seeking donors to expand 10 Mile Center. • Rabbis to host prayers for Israel. 27 ...…
…EDITORIAL A Trying Year Ahead Predictions are traditional for New Year editorials. While we will not hazard a guess as to whether or not there will be a Mideast war in the new year, we can say with unfortunate certainty that 1991 will be a most trying year for Israel. First, every year is difficult for Israel. Since the day Israel declared statehood in 1948, the Arab world has been committed to her destruction. Unfortunately, with the notabl...…
…OPINION First You Blink PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor T hree white men in their 20s are standing behind a Jew wearing a kippah in a crowded Oak Park grocery store. They are all waiting in the bottle return line. They were in it together, bags, bottles and all. Then one of the young men decides to say in a conversa- tional voice to his friend, "Of all the lines in this store, you had to pick one behind a mother f Jew." You blink the first ti...…
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…UP FRONT Israel Abortion Fray Joined By U.S. Groups IRA RIFKIN Special to The Jewish News M ore than a dozen pro- choice American Jewish organiza- tions have become involved in yet another issue that divides Israel's secular Jew- ish majority from its re- ligious minority — the ques- tion of abortion. Led by the National Coun- cil of Jewish Women, the groups have signed a joint statement opposing an Israeli government-backed bill that wou...…
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…UP FRONT Announcing the Opening Of Our New Location Abortion Continued from Page 11 question of abortion clearly takes a restrictive view." The "overwhelming" majority of abortions per- formed in Israel, and the United States, he said, "would not be sanctioned by Halacha (traditional Jewish law)." The Agudath Israel movement worldwide, he said, "opposes abortion as a fundamental right of women — precisely because of the Halacha." In Israel...…
…DETROIT JCC Is Seeking Donors For Expansion Of JPM RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer D onors are being sought for the propos- ed expansion and upgrading of the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center. "We are talking with potential donors," said Dr. Morton Plotnick, JCC executive director on Monday. But, he added, he didn't expect to have any more information regarding the project or its funding un- til the end of January. Plans for the exp...…
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…CLOSE-UP Still Searching For Nazis After 10 years, a Justice Department unit is still prosecuting Nazi criminals, and being criticized for allegedly defaming certain communities. STEVE DRYDEN Special to The Jewish. News 20 FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1991 _/\ …
…en years ago, the Justice Department yielded to pressure from members of Congress and the American Jewish community and created the Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Its mission was to seek out and pro- secute Nazi war criminals living in the United States. How has OSI fared in its first decade? Supporters say it has pursued its mission with vigor, while detractors, many of them emigres from Baltic na- tions, say it has defamed their com...…
…THE SEARCH things. They are cutting corners because they know Congress won't touch them." OSI has come under particularly strong criticism from emigre groups for its procedures and tactics in the case of John Demjanjuk, the Ukrainian im- migrant and retired Cleveland auto worker con- victed in Israel of operating gas ovens at Treblinka. Although he refuses to discuss the Demjanjuk case in detail, Mr. Sher rejects the emigre group's charges, ...…
…THEE Demjanjuk Case C ontroversy about Soviet-supplied evidence and OSI's methods has also swirled around the case of John Demjanjuk, the Ukrainian im- migrant and retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being a sadistic guard at Treblinka. He was deported to Israel in 1986, found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence currently is under appeal. Critics of OSI say that evidence exonerating Mr. Demjanjuk was withheld from his defense by...…
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