…THIS ISSUE 60P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JANUARY 6, 1989 / 29 TEVET 5749 Peres Takes Heat For Devaluing Shekel Jerusalem (JTA) — Finance Minister Shimon Peres has come under criticism, less than a week after he took office, for the decision-making pro- cess that led to the surprise nearly 8 percent devaluation of the shekel Tuesday. Israel's central bank stopped sell- ing foreign currency on Saturday, in an effort to stem panic, a...…
…I PURELY COMMENTARY] United Jerusalem And Mayor Kollek PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus C onfronting challenges as seri- ous as the current, it is impor- tant for Israel's government of- ficials and world Jewry's spokespeople to be as calm and as rational and as self- controlled as possible. Losing tempers could be dangerous to the situation. Fortunately, a unity government in Israel eliminates the threats of fanaticism that have caused s...…
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…TAY-SACHS CAN'T KILL YOU BUT IT'S DEADLY FOR YOUR CHILD . . . OR GRANDCHILD Tay-Sachs. For the unaware, it means little. For those with a Tay-Sachs child, it means helplessness, pain, suffering and — in- evitably — death. There is no cure for this dreaded genetic disease, which afflicts Ashkenazi Jews 10 times as frequently as the general popula- tion. But a simple test can help prevent its occurrence. Whether you're male or female, please p...…
…UP FRONT Revisionist In Attendance As Holocaust Prof. Speaks RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer A Efim Moshinsky sells his book, Raoul Wallenberg Is Alive, at the International Jerusalem Conference of Children of Holocaust Survivors. Moshinsky says he was the Soviet agent who arrested Wallenberg in Budapest in 1945 after Wallenberg rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Seventeen JCC Staffers On Learning Trip To Israel and about, sometimes i...…
…EDITORIAL Telling Loss His stories were legendary, as were stories about him. And even though illness had slowed University of Michigan Dean Emeritus William "Bill" Haber in recent years, his smiling presence and acumen in the local and international Jewish scene will be sorely missed. He was a rare breed, a brilliant academician who was equally at home in the world of scholarship and the world of practicality. Dr. Haber symbolized the World...…
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…LETTERS I Continued from Page 6 rogated to themselves the right to define who is a Jew by declaring contrary to 2,000 years of previous Jewish prac- tice that children born of Jewish fathers and gentile mothers are Jews. These Reform rabbis (The Central Conference of American Rabbis) do not believe in the authority of Halachah — Jewish religious law as defined by the Torah and Talmud — and were therefore under no compul- sion to issue their...…
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…I NEWS I Devaluation Continued from Page 1 Shimon Peres: Taking the heat. handle the Palestine uprising. And Education Minister Yitzhak Navon said he would vote against Peres' economic program because it would mean severe cutbacks for the school system, saying "the in- tention-is to abolish free high schooling — hOwever they try to dress it up. The devaluation was the idea of Michael Bruno, gover- nor of the Bank of Israel which has long a...…
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…CLOSE-UP Preventing A Killer The Jewish community plans a frontal assault on the deadly Tay-Sachs disease. ADRIEN CHANDLER Special to The Jewish News A ost people have heard of it before — Tay-Sachs disease — a rare, incurable, fatal genetic disorder most com- monly assocaited with Jews of Eastern European or Ashskenazi descent. It's a disease that, in essence, suf- focates- an afflicted child's nervous system, choking its senses to deat...…
…Of the last 100 people tested at Sinai, Dr. Cash says, three turned up as car- riers, bearing out the statistics. The chances of a Jewish Tay-Sachs child being born is 100 times greater than in the general population or among Sephardi Jews. But the experts say Robin Gold and Dr. Ralph Cash. these are statistical probabilities — just numbers. In reality, the genetic one-in-3600 chance of a Tay-Sachs birth can't be totally predicted by number...…
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…NEWS EXM Jury Selected In JDL Trial Los Angeles (JTA) — A jury was selected this week in the trial of an American-Israeli couple and a Los Angeles real estate broker who stand ac- cused of mailing a disguised bomb device to a local com- puter firm eight years ago that killed a secretary at the firm. The three defendants are all former members of the Jewish Defense League. Defendant Robert Steven Manning, 36, is a resident of the West Bank s...…
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…I NEWS I APATHY and ASSIMILATION may be the FINAL SOLUTION Thousands Rally For PLO Talks but it is sure to be the ml Aviv — (JTA) Thousands of Israelis turned out for a Peace Now rally in a heavy downpour late last weekend, urging the government to talk to the Palestine Libera- tion Organization. The crowd, huddling under umbrellas in Malchei Yisrael Square, outside the City Hall, was almost as large as the ex- pected turnout in good wea...…
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…• 14 •C> 47 • t:7 ♦ • 0 a 0 Announcing .. The Bruce Weiss New Year's Jewelry Sale! Some Small Articles Can Make Big News CARL ALPERT Special to The Jewish News I t's the little items at the bottom of the page, or buried away where few people read them, that often make the real news from Israel. In recent months, for example: They Don't Thy Around — Tilton Toys, an Israeli com- pany, signed a contract to sell toys to one of the ...…
…SPORTS Winging It Former Compuware Junior hockey star Justin Duberman is now a promising freshman at the University of North Dakota. MIKE ROSENBAUM Sports Writer Mike Rosenbaum A fter living in metropoli- tan Chicago, New York and Detroit during the past five years, Justin Duberman has settled his traveling hockey show in Grand Forks, N.D. Duberman, a Highland Park, Ill. native, starred with Detroit Corn- puware's Junior A team the past...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY United Jerusalem Continued from Page 2 They could and should be im- plemented independently of political developments elsewhere, and without waiting to see what will be the future of the West Bank and Gaza. The future of Jerusalem is to remain united and the capital of Israel, under the overall sovereignty of Israel. There is, however, room for functional division of authority, for internal autonomy of each community and f...…
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…LIGHTSIDE Happy (Gasp) New Year! ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News I ast Saturday at mid- night, nothing happened and everything did hap- pen. In the vast cosmos, as the planets move on their unvary- ing orbits around the sun, there was no blaring of trumpets or salutes of cannon to congratulate the earth on completing, once again, its yearly travel about our star. But here on earth, a collec- tive shout greeted 1989, emanating ...…
…What if 1988 didn't end? ❑ December, 1988 would be the longest month in history. ❑ Ronald Reagan would remain president forever. ❑ Spring would never come. ❑ There would never be another. World Series, Superbowl, Miss America contest or Academy Awards presentation on TV. ❑ We'd all stay the same age. ❑ The Soviets would never pull their troops out of Afghanistan. How many new years will there be in 1989? lb° many . In 1989, these years wi...…
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