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…Mideast In Limbo After Despite discouragement on both sides, some say a deal is still doable but just barely. • A Palestinian girl in Gaza City on Monday passes a Hamas wall painting of the Koran, with a hand grenade, symbolizing Islamic resistance. The words on the wall read "martyr brigade." LARRY DERFNER Special to the Jewish News 9it anyone who gave the Oslo ccord at least a fighting chance, it is deeply disillu- sioning — and for ...…
…Specializing in Alzheimer s and the Physically Frail kind of Israeli interpretation before," he notes. Shikaki says Arafat will not compro- mise on the Temple Mount, which the Arabs call Haram al-Sharif; he must have full sovereignty, again, chiefly out of fear that if he agreed to share sover- eignty, Israel would stake its claim of sovereignty in a way that would impinge on the Palestinians' claim. This is why a compromise suggested for the...…
…This Week Mideast In Limbo Talks And Terror Barak, Arafat agree to more talks despite new incidents of violence. NAOMI SEGAL Jewish Telegraphic Agency p resident Bill Clinton's 11th- hour efforts to salvage the peace process have a small spark of hope still burning. The White House announced Wednesday that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat had given his condition- al approval to Clinton's proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace acco...…
…Arafat's Fatah faction was gunned down near his West Bank home, and z Palestinian militia leaders promised to avenge his death. Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where the Kahane family was taken, said Binyamin and Talia Kahane were hit by bullets, and their children were injured when their car flipped over into a ditch. Like his father, Binyamin Kahane was militantly anti-Arab. Brooklyn-born Meir Kahane found- ed the Jewish Defense Leag...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: wvvw.detroitjewishnews.com New Year's Predictions IVIV atching on television last Sunday as the crowds celebrated the new year in New York City's Times Square, we got to thinking about how we as Jews fit into this exuberant society and particularly how we coped with the year 2000. Yes, we know, Dec. 31 does not mark the end of the Jewish year — we already had that mom...…
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…SPECIAL COMMENTARY -:`Arwatareini00010410, 741111 2.2%0411 01 01 0 In Search Of Mercy House said Clinton would not be Philadelphia granting clemency to Pollard. It is now n the last weeks of the Clinton 15 years since Pollard leapt into the presidency, a number of prison nightmares of American Jewry when inmates and a few ex-cons got a he committed espionage on nice holiday present: behalf of the State of Israel. executive clemency from th...…
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…Community MASTERS OF THE HEALING ARTS Hard At Work AUGUST von WASSERMANN (1866-1925) BELA SCHICK (1877-1967) . SAMUEL LEVINE (1891-1966) Since ancient times, religious practice was almost inseparable from medical ' practice. The healing ministrations of God were the domain of our early priests and then of rabbi-physicians during the long Talmudic period. It was written in Hebrew texts that "The skill of a physician shall lift up his hea...…
…Community Deutsch donation creates Zippori pavilion with fifth-century mosaic. A richly ornamented fifth-centu- ry synagogue mosaic in Israel's Central Galilee is the center- piece of a new pavilion whose construction was made possible by the family of Detroiters Bernice and Alfred Deutsch. The pavilion, in the Zippori National Park, was opened at a dedication cere- mony honoring the Deutsch family, which co-sponsored the construction with ...…
…Clockwise from to left: Gabrielle Faintich, 5, of West Bloomfield, shows off her balloon. "Lotsa Dots" puts on a new face for Kyla Klein, 4, of Walled Lake. Horn-blowing family is Ericka Beletskiy of West Bloomfield with son Jordan, 1, and Andy Beletskiy with son Noah, 2. Temple Israel throws early New Year's Eve party for all generations. Ashley Ellentuck, 4, of West Bloomfield twirls in delight. LESLIE ZACK College Intern T trig 1/...…
…4:1 SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN StaffWriter l A caravan of cars, trucks and vans it up the streets Dec. 24, each with a menorah tied atop. Traveling from the Oak Park Jewish Community Center to West Bloomfield and back, the parade marked a dual-cele- bration. It honored Chanukah, and the 50 vehicles each represented one year since the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson took leadership of the Chabad movement. "The love he embodied within us i...…
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…Lecture. Focus Is Archaelolg-y The Jewish Community Center of Metropolixan -Detroit will present another•lecture in its "Digging Up the Torah: The Impact of Biblical Archaeology on Modern Judaism" series 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the JCC in West Bloomfield. The speaker will be Dr. Arthur Zannoni, freelance writer, Christian scholar and consultant in biblical studies and Christian-Jewish rela- tions. His topic will be "Archaeology and Scr...…
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