…T E JEWISH NE S SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP No lager On the fringe They have advanced academic degrees, high paying jobs, Hebrew school and a "good Jewish background." Now they have Jesus. Page 24 JULY 5, 1991 / 23 TAMMUZ 5751 Beth Achim, B'nai Moshe Boards Approve Merger ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor he boards of Con- gregation Beth Achim and.. Congregation B'nai Moshe voted over- whelmingly June 2...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP ENTERTAINMENT No Longer On The Fringe A Comic Couple PHIL JACOBS They have good Jewish backgrounds, and Jesus. RITA CHARLESTON Stiller and Meara have a 37-year association. 24 61 UP FRONT 11 Appreciating America on the 4th of July. DETROIT 14 • Federation allocates hold-the-line funding. • Laid-off GM workers find community jobs. BACKGROUND 33 Iraq remains an enemy with which Israel contends. COMMENTARY 38 ...…
…EDITORIAL Future Of Southfield After Beth Achim Beth Achim's possible merger with B'nai Moshe and possible move to West Bloom- field is not only significant for the con- gregations it involves, but it could also carry with it an impact of major propor- tions for Southfield's Jewish community. Indeed, demographic studies have al- ready indicated that some young profes- sional Jewish families are at least con- sidering an exodus from the city....…
…the Israeli government and their peace policies. The only agenda that all the Jews all over the world should have is how to help Israel with the staggering cost of absorbing not only the Ethiopian im- migrants, but also the Rus- sian immigrants who are ar- riving by the thousands. I would highly recommend all the agendas to collect as much money as possible from their members. That is what Israel needs now — more financial support than ever be...…
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…/ UP FRONT Early Detroit Jewish Emigres Proud Of America And Freedom KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer B enjamin Halpern was 30-years-old and a successful bookkeeper when he fled Lithuania to come to America in 1928. His was a life of relative freedom. Yet it wasn't enough. Across the borders in Russia, "people were starving and dying as slaves." "We would hear stories, terrible stories, about condi- tions there and how the revolution had gon...…
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…I NEWS Israel Sets Pace On S. Africa > ;-= Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel will follow its own timetable with respect to normalizing relations with South Africa as that country dismantles the structures of apartheid, it was reported by the Israeli daily Ha'aretz. Israel plans to gradually lift sanctions, but will visibly coordinate its policies with the United States on that matter, said Ha'aretz, which added that the deci- sions will be made by ...…
…CLOSE-UP They have advanced academic degrees, high paying jobs, Hebrew school and a "good Jewish background." Now they have Jesus. different sort of spirituality is in this room. It's a hot, extremely humid Satur- day morning. The kind of humidity that soaks the small of your back and makes it uncomfortable to sit, stand, or do anything. None of the 40 wor- shipers seems to care, however, in the close, dim- ly lit chapel of the Nor- thwester...…
…PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST .7.1111.111,71 41111 111 A Jewish "believer" in prayer. Ronnie Schreiber ques- tions the spirituality in the room. But he knows Jews are in there, and what is even more bothersome for the director of the Detroit office of Jews for Judaism, a national counter- missionary organization, is that something attracted and keeps them there. For some Messianic Jews, it might have been a lack of Je...…
…-400101111,11111000110440iiiiiNiftidrOW No Longer On the Fringe 1111• ■••■■ •111P Wirdbia ■ Words to songs are projected by an overhead projector while congregants sway back and forth, arms in the air. tions much like they are used to, where they can identify their love of Christ with other Jews. Some Messianic congregations have their own Torahs, syna- gogues and classrooms. But many, like Shema Yisrael, congregate in church halls. What o...…
…Loren Jacobs delivers his Sabbath sermon. regular. At age 35 and intermarried, she is a new believer in Jesus. She is a court reporter and her hus- band is an attorney. They own a comfortable home on Grosse Ile. She grew up in an unobservant household in Oak Park, and she added that her mother, who was in her house during this interview, preferred to stay in the kitchen because of embarrassment. Indeed, many Messianic Jews say that it would h...…
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