…• ▪ DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.detroitjewishnews.com Friday, March 7, 2003 3 Adar II, 5763 Vol. CXXIII, No. 4 Detroit Dollars At Work Ryan Schildcrot, 5, and Connor Michaelson, 4, both of Huntington Woods, head for class at Beth Hayeled in Southfield after morning prayers. ir hen there's a crisis in Israel, a great many Jews in our community open their purse strings, ...…
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…WIN THIS CA R EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK A Beacon Of Hope ENTER JARC's revere "martyrdom in Allah's name," what we call suicide attacks. "We will have to pay a heavy toll in order to achieve peace," Feingold says. "Compromises are always painful and expensive. But until that day, we are all paying a high toll and the children pay the most." Feingold and his wife, Ronit, have three children. "There is a terrible denial in Israeli society of the pric...…
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…In Yoni's 4th grade classroom, 3 miles from the border, terrorism isn't the most immediate enemy. As painful as it is to see Israel under siege, today there are even more serious threats to her survival. Israel's economy has all but collapsed. The poverty rate is now 20%. One out of every four children, almost 500,000 children, now live in poverty. As hard as it is to picture children starving in Israel, this is the reality today. In D...…
…Detroit Dollars At Work HARRY KI RS BAUM StaffWriter he hope last year at this time among Jewish communal leaders was that there wouldn't be a need for another emergency fund-raising campaign for Israel, but things in the Jewish state have only become worse. "The real problem is in the very social fabric of Israeli society," said Robert Aronson, chief executive .officer of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. "The economy is litera...…
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…Detroit Dollars At Work A Place To Belong Extended-day school programming brings hot lunch and enrichment to students in Israel's lower-income neighborhoods. JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News y Hadera With the after-school programming, 62,000 stu- dents, ages 6-12, are in school until 4 p.m., three extra hours each day, for four days out of the usual Israeli six-day school week. During those hours, the children receive extra...…
…Making Life Easier Counting On Us Eshel program allows elderly Israelis to enjoy more security and independence. Jewish Agency seeks diaspora JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News Moshav Bnei Dror t isn't easy growing old when your husband has dementia, your eyesight is worsening and your- pension money varies from month to month. But Bilha Mitrani, 76, isn't the kind of person who lets those minor details bother her. "I'm not a ...…
…Detroit Dollars At Work Financial Sustenance Terror victim fund gives hope to those devastated by violence. JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News Jerusalem B families because of the lower-priced properties. The sons had depended upon Baruch to help them fix up the apartments. Without Baruch, they were looking at overwhelming expenses. To complicate matters, Oded, one of the Darawani's 31-year-old twin sons, and his wife, Anat, h...…
…MAKING LIFE EASIER from page 13 nearby Moshav Herut, and she is visited regularly by Yechiel Yanai, the program's "community father," who racks up some 1,250 miles each month visiting households and acting as a jack-of- all-trades for his elderly clientele. Yanai visits with the members, changes light bulbs, helps make household decisions and, when necessary, puts his elderly charges in touch with Ziva Diamant, a social worker who helps with...…
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…For Openers Kosher Red Hots Hit Campus T here's a new dog in town — and it's kosher. A red and white umbrella reading "Hillel's Kosher Hot Dogs" rolled onto East University in Ann Arbor one Friday in early February, making it the seventh hot- dog stand on the University of Michigan campus. U-M student Matt Holtzman, 25, cur- KAREN rently mans the stand, which is open from SCHWARTZ noon to 2:30 p.m. Special to the "I'm a vegetarian," he said...…
…. 4‘ This Week News Digest Wednesday Blast Deadly Haifa suicide bombing followed many thwarted attacks. NAOMI SEGAL Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem A suicide bus bombing Wednesday, March 5, in Haifa shattered a relative period of calm in Israel and served as a stark reminder. With the United States stepping up military and diplomatic preparations for a possible strike against Iraq, much of Israel was focused this week on when a war...…
…RINKE CADILLAC 86 Years And Still Delivering BREAK ing Palestinian civilians during anti- terror operations in the Gaza Strip. Following the attack, Palestinians said Israeli tanks entered Jenin. Israel Radio reported that troops had arrest- ed a senior Hamas militant in Ramallah. THROUGH 2003 CTS 3-YEAR GM EMPLOYEE LEASE Stk. # 153284 Blast On Board 20 MO. with 52,904 due at signing 3-YEAR GM EMPLOYEE LEASE MO. with 53,535 due at...…
…Staff Notebook Honoring Dr. Gretchko he newest award in West Bloomfield's cele- bration of Michigan Week, May 11-17, hon- ors a man whose life was an inspiration to all those who work with children. Nominations will be accepted through March 24 for the first annual Dr. Seymour Gretchko Youth Advocate Awards, to be presented during the Michigan Week Breakfast, Friday, May 16, 2003. Separate awards will be presented for an individual and an or...…
…On behalf of the birthright israel alumni in Detroit, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and the entire birthright israel partnership... am not sure who to thank for the beauti-Pul tours and the opportunity I had to make interesting new friends; T e Israeli government, the tax payers of Israel, the fililan- I cO cO Ot) - (_> throfists, the local Jewish communities, or the Jews of cif the world who through history fought to sav...…
…Back To Prentis? Family wins court round to retain cancer center's original name. ation received a $15 million donation from Compu- ware Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Karmanos Jr. After Karmanos made the donation, the Michigan eirs of the late philanthropist Meyer L. Cancer Federation agreed to change its name to the Prentis have won a key round in their Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center in memory of three-year legal fig...…
…Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit in 1970 following the death of Meyer Prentis from cancer. The Lithuanian-born Prentis served as treasurer of the General Motors Corporation for 32 years; until recently, he was the highest-ranking Jew in the automobile industry. Prentis, whose last name appears as Prensky until the 1924 GM annual report, joined GM as chief accountant and auditor, rising to comptroller in 1916. He served as tr...…
…Religious Warfare Haredim promise all-out battle against their former hero, Ariel Sharon. Likud's covenant with the haredi parties — first with the Ashekenazi Agudat Yisrael, later adding Shas. The alliance was based on mutual conservatism, "Jewish Jerusalem pride" and antipathy for Labor and its liberal, socialist ways. he "secular revolution" in Israel is still a • Not only has Likud now broken that covenant, but long way off. Orthodox yes...…
…Gift Of Life After 20 years of disease, a kidney transplant has changed Dr. Robin Ehrmann's life. RUTHAN BRODSKY Special to the Jewish News T he outpouring of support was unbelievable for Robin Ehrmann. She needed a kidney transplant to lead a normal life. "It never occurred to me there were so many people willing to do some- thing so completely wonderful by donating a kidney, giving someone else a new lease on life. Patients were volun- ...…
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…Common Ground Israelis, Palestinians keep cooperating on water usage. ELI KINTISCH Jewish Telegraphic Agency commissioner, Uri Shor, said the Palestinians are "not dealing with" sewage problems and pirate wells, both of which could have devastating effects on Israeli water sources. Sharif denied that the Palestinians are drilling any illegal wells and said efforts to improve sewage management are "ongo i ng. " harm both Palestinians and Is...…
…Shoah Parallel? Jewish groups outraged by PETA campaign for animals. JOE BERKOFSKY Jewish Telegraphic Agency A New York City n emaciated death camp sur- vivor stares blankly alongside a gaunt steer. "During the seven years between 1938 and 1945, 12 million people perished in the Holocaust," the image declares. "The same number of animals is killed every 4 hours for food in the U.S. alone." The poster forms the heart of a national campaign ...…
…LENDING I CASH MANAGEMENT I INVESTMENTS I WEALTH PLANNING Puzzler U-M students set Israel forum. "Get the best in brokerage and banking." r ormer Israeli Knesset Speaker and Jewish Agency Chairman Avraham Burg will present the keynote address at the second annual academic Israel conference, "Israel: Piecing Together the Puzzle," Sunday, March 9, at the Michigan League on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. - Billed for the sec...…
…Insight Remember When • • • Israel Advocacy Federation/SAJE event brings Mideast expert, educators for community forum. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News p eople ask me if 2003 is going to be a good year. I say it is going to be a momentous year," David Makovsky said to the 250 people gathered for the "Israel: Ready to Respond" program at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield March 1. "If I was in an airplane, I'd say, 'Put y...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com The Detroit Way s eventh- through 12th-graders in 12 Central Galilee schools and three schools in high-ter- ror areas enjoy a structured, supervised after- school setting, with tutoring and a hot meal, while their parents work. Kids ages 6-15, in areas fraught with dan- geror hardship, are playing basketball and soccer in after-school programs in Netanya and...…
…OTHER VIEWS Israel's Tremendous Needs IC ibbutz Yifat was a meaning- ful venue for our first encounter in the Central Galilee, Detroit Jewry's Partnership 2000 region. Our arrival turned into a joyful reunion with the teens and parents of those who were fortunate enough to have spent three weeks at Michigan-based Tamarack Camps in Ortonville last summer. As in every trip to Israel, our Partnership 2000 Steering Committee came last December ...…
…Iraq War Necessary And Just Pursuing Peace And Justice tion regime in Iraq, for months Philadelphia/JTA waged by Al Qaida, not Iraq. or years if necessary while a wo profound teach- No. This 50-plus-year war has ne cannot answer the totally different American and ings of Jewish tradi- been waged by a loose, shifting question of whether world approach to Iraq, the tion should be guid- collection of states and groups, going to war with Middle ...…
…OTHER VIEWS • s Gl o:set, TIE ONE_ ON! GREENBERG from page 33 S AND AL try LW OEIP4(14 vtiikvf sttors, to AirS krIFTS jeWEl-S) CLDTHIPJb- 123 WEST MAPLE 81tmitybitost44 0 3 . 222 .203. 683540 ver successfully and gain a first strike, the death toll will be staggering. The calculus of risk tilts overwhelmingly toward preemptive action. Jewish tradition values peace as the highest good. It envisions a messianic age in which war will ...…
…Jewry's Role in Human Affairs The Case Against A Palestinian State Haifi Palestinian population earn- he proposal to estab- ings. By declaring war on Israel lish an independent and practicing terrorism, the state of Palestine to Palestine Authority cut off be located alongside most of this income and prac- the kingdom of Jordan and ticed economic suicide. In the the state of Israel continues to meantime, Israel has learned to make headline...…
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…INSIDE: Community Calendar 45 Mazel Toy! 48 Two BBYO youths from Detroit and their director bond with Bulgarians and learn the power of Judaism. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer T hough the eight American BBYO students went on a mis- sion to Bulgaria to bring a sense of Judaism and communi- ty there, they returned with a deeper sense of their own Judaism. "The first time I went to Bulgaria [two years ago], I got an over- whelming sense o...…
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