…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Education Unit Meets, Teachers Ponder Future NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer I t has been a long and winding road. And there are still a few more twists and turns. The Jewish Federation's Jewish Education Planning Committee, chaired by Dr. Conrad Giles, took two years to come up with suggestions for making the community's main education agency more effective. But even ...…
…SEE WI" WE'VE 'C3, \-\C> 4 /E'RE, GO\ n March 27, 1942 a dream became a reality. And on March 27, 1992 that reality will become a fantasy. Because on this day The Jewish News will present its 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book to all of our loyal subscribers. So keep your eyes and your heart open to the memories The Jewish News will reveal. And keep your mind open to the possibilities of the future we foresee... THE JEWISH NEWS 2 FRIDA...…
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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP OPINION Does Judaism Speak To The Heart? 7 • Political sound bites and Election '92. • Criticism vs. mean-spiritedness. HAROLD SCHULWEIS We emphasize outreach, but Inreach' comes first. UP FRONT 28 11 Religious freedom bill faces obstacles. 1, • • DETROIT 14 • Detroit remembers Nazi murders in Minsk. • Local boxing judge's anti-Semitism is deep. • Lubavitch win OK from West Bloomfield. BACKGROUND 35 $10 bi...…
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…OPINION 'Sound Bites' Leave No Time To Choose LEONARD FEIN W hat have I in corn- mon with the coven of candidates for the presidential nominations? The most obvious similarity is that, like most of them, no one will ever play "Hail to the Chief' for me. The less obvious but the more pointed (perhaps even poignant) is that, like them, I have fallen victim to the culture of the sound bite. (Which began, I think, as "sound byte." But never mi...…
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…UP FRONT Religious Freedom Bill Facing Obstacles JAMES BESSER was ington Correspondent W hen legislators sink their teeth into the Senate version of the Religious Freedom Res- toration Act sometime this spring, it will mark a new phase in what has become the most concerted Jewish effort on behalf of a piece of domestic legislation in re- cent memory. The bill, which was in- troduced in the House last year by Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., a...…
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…UP FRONT I PICTURE YOURSELF Freedom Act Continued from Page 11 a broad coalition of religious and civil liberties groups quickly formed around the Religious Freedom Restora- tion Act. But that coalition — which included representatives of numerous other religious groups, as well as Jews from across the spectrum — was endangered last year, when representatives of the Catholic Church brought up the abortion question. The Catholics were con-...…
…DETROIT Detroit Ceremony Remembers Purim Massacre In Minsk AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer L ubov Kirnarskaya was 18 when her parents were forced from their home in the Minsk ghetto, taken to a large pit and shot to death. Mrs. Kirnaskaya and her brother; Yaakov, survived. They were hidden in a village outside Minsk, in a narrow basement at the home of one of Mrs. Kir- naskaya's girlfriends. When they couldn't hide any longer, they ran off and...…
…OLDSMOBILES SAABS FOR LESS FOR LESS Boxing Judge Has Anti-Semitic Record NOAM M.M. NEJSNER Staff Writer ohn Moriarty, also known as John Reich, is a boxing judge and has a neo-Nazi past. Mr. Moriarty, 37, was scheduled to serve as a box- ing judge last week at the Palace of Auburn Hills. When the chairman of Mich- igan's Athletic Board of Control, Dr. Stuart Kirschenbaum, threatened to boycott the event, Mr. Moriarty volunteered not to wor...…
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…have to draw upon to respond to the loss of job, the loss of parent or spouse or child, or our own mortality? Who am I as Jew, behind the locked doors, drawn drapes, with my family? What songs do I sing, what is my poetry? What stories do I tell? What convictions do I own? For public institutions, the problems, targets, and agenda are public and outer- directed. Out there young people are caught up in Eastern and Christian cults; out there mix...…
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…BACKGROUND : 47; 445%-:.r) :—:7.2717Z; -,•/1 ut.i.rr..!Azritt INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News T he next time Secretary of State James Baker uses his testimony before Congress to send a message of prime impor- tance to Israelis, perhaps he should consult Israel's weatherman and political calendar first. For the Middle East was in the throes of a major storm again last week, and with whole chunks of Israel cut off by flooding or sn...…
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…COMMUNITY U-M Hillel Sponsoring Holocaust Conference Israel Independence Day Chairmen Are Appointed Lakritz Barbara Cook will chair the Jewish Community's week- long Israel Independence Day celebration in May. The celebration will mark Israel's 44th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. A past president of Adat Shalom Synagogue, Mrs. Cook is a member of the boards of the Women's Divi- sion of the Jewish Fe...…
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