…SECOND CLASS 1 9 4 2 *. Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community 1 9 9 2 THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS MAY 8, 1992 / 5 IYAR 5752 New Max Fisher Building Dedicated By Federation PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor ast winter, Federation executive vice presi- dent Robert Aronson was looking at 6735 Tele- graph Road as a building with potential, and he wondered what interna- tional community leader Max Fisher would ...…
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…invites you to help celebrate 75 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Gala Dinner • Sunday, May 31, 1992 Hyatt Regency Hotel Dearborn 5:30 p.m. Cocktails 6:30 p.m. Dinner Dietary Laws Couvert: $100 Keynote Speaker: RABBI MARVIN TOKAYER Author of The Fugi Plan Honoring Past Presidents and Board Members Dinner Committee: Hillel Abrams Milton Duchan Sy Finkelstein Rabbi E. B. Friedman Harold Greenspan Dr. Jeffrey Golde...…
…FINE ARTS ALAN HITSKY Conservative congregations are battling for survival. AMY J. MEHLER Rodney King, the riots and the lessons. A German soldier's visit to Warsaw Ghetto. DETROIT 24 68 A J.E.F.F. theater group meshes teens. Erosion Of Faith? Birthday Trip In Hell 6 7 11 EDITORIAL OPINION UP FRONT CLOSE-UP 14 33 BACKGROUND Will multi-lateral talks move the peace process? 36 POLITICS The faces keep changing in some local ra...…
…I EDITORIAL 4 Strength From Differences While the world seemed to be coming apart at the seams last week, it created an environment in which the good was overlooked in favor of the sensational. In this case, the sensational was more often sinister. In West Bloomfield on Sunday night, however, the facts of the world for four short hours did not count in much the same way. This was the meeting of the American Arabic and Jewish Friends of Met...…
…OPINION A Civics Lesson From Simi Valley ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor H oward Falls unwit- tingly gave a civics lesson to his classmates last Thursday. One of the few black students at Birmingham Seaholm High School, Mr. Falls told fellow tenors at a high school concert, "I guess you can beat me up tonight. Nobody will care." That's the lesson one black student learned from a jury in Simi Valley, Calif. April 30 was erev Yom Hashoah — Hol...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn Triest LOCAL COLUMNISTS: Join Franklin for the summer and enjoy ...…
…CELEBRATE ISRAEL! 44 Years of Statehood • 25 Years of a Reunited Jerusalem BRING THE FAMILY! BRING YOUR FRIENDS! WALK FOR ISRAEL May 10 Israel Independence Day At& WE WALK AS ONE REGISTRATION: 10:45 a.m. WALK: 11:30 a.m. Jewish Community Campus Maple/Drake Roads, West Bloomfield The first 3,600 walkers to register will receive commemorative hats. AFTER THE WALK SATURDAY, MAY 9 ISRAEL STREET FAIR •Entertainment -Arts and crafts CA...…
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…DETROIT Soviet, American Teens Perform Original Play AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer C orinne Stavish re- members exactly when the American and Russian teens in her Jewish theater group became as one. "It happened the day I came for rehearsal and saw only one Russian teen," Ms. Stavish said. "I made the mistake of asking him if he was the only one there. I meant among the Russian performers, but he didn't see it that way. He saw himself as par...…
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…The new home of B'nai Moshe, on Drake Road in West Bloomfield, is scheduled to open next month. onservative Judaism calls itself evolu- tionary Judaism — changing within the confines of Halachah (Jewish law). In the Detroit area, the face of Conservative Jewry is changing —fighting to re- tain its base of committed, observant Jews while battl- ing the inroads of Reform and Orthodoxy. The move- ment here is also fighting the costs of maintaini...…
…do we have? I didn't become Conservative to build up Or- thodox and Reform." t Beth Achim, Rabbi Martin Berman is facing a more im- mediate issue — sur- vival. The congregation has dropped from 600 families to 470 in the last four years. Merger discussions with B'nai Moshe, B'nai David, Shaarey Zedek and others have led to two votes by the congregation in the last two years to go it alone, in Southfield. "Now," the rabbi says, "the people with...…
…the last few years, lost mena- /-bers. From a peak of 750 families in the 1960s, it hit a low of 300 families last year. But President Michael Grand believes the tran- sition period, and the absence of a rabbi for the last 18 months, has made the congregation stronger: members stepped forward to lead services, fund-raise for the new building and reac- tivate synagogue affiliates. The proposed merger with / `-Beth Achim, which was overwhelmingl...…
…Rabbi Spectre points to programming and education as the denominator for Adat Shalom. Its United Hebrew Schools branch is the largest in the_ system with nearly 600 students, and its nurs- ery school has been a magnet for young Jewish families seeking synagogue affiliation. The rabbi admits that "location has not hurt us, but some people go great distances — passing other synagogues — to bring their children here . . . We have some three-times...…
…B'nai David Continued from Page 27 its affiliates to have a mechitza (separation of men and women during services). Children and Hebrew school may be the key to the future for B'nai David and the Conservative syn- agogues. "We expected to be part of the United Hebrew Schools system," Mr. Blumenberg said. "Now we'll have to get together with the Conser- vative congregations and reinvent UHS. We can't do it alone." "We are very concerned about...…
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…H LOCAL NEWS I U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? F 4 Haar Memorial Program Set The Sholem Aleichem Insti- t ute will present the 25th An- 'nual Moishe Haar Memorial Program 3:30 p.m. May 17 in the LaMed Auditorium of the \-,United Hebrew School build- / ing at 21550 West 12 Mile ' Road in Southfield. There will be no admission charge. 3 C Moishe Haar was the direc- tor and principal of Sholem Aleichem Institute and its \ sch...…
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…BACKGROUND The Side Show Moves To Center Stage Mideast observers are hopeful that the non-political multilateral talks make kick-start the peace process. DOUGLAS DAVIS Foreign Correspondent W hile the six-month- old Arab-Israeli bilateral talks are still stuck at first base, there is hope that the new round of non-political multilateral talks which open in no fewer than five capital cities this month, starting in Washing- ton and Ottawa ...…
…DETROIT CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 1 2 MEMBERSHIP TUITION FREE Membership affiliation with Congregation Shaarey Zedek brings involvement and participation. Kindergarten thru Fifth Grades provided tuition free to children of Members. TAKE TWO STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer: Dress for success. Saving Valentino And Other True Tales ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor Weekday afternoon classes Hillel...…
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…POLITICALLY SPEAKING 1-•-• HILLEL DAY SCHOOL is honored to pay tribute to Rosalyn & Rudolph 5"1 Shulman at the Annual Dinner on May 27, 1992 at Adat Shalom Synagogue and to announce the establishment of the: RUDOLPH SHULMAN 51 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TRIDUTE FUND Wolpe Continued from preceding page his idea, but he hasn't said no to a gubernatorial race. "I intend to remain in- volved in public life," he said. "I intend to stay in Michigan. ...…
…mmmmi'ml NEWS I Sponsor Some Sunshine! by joining our camp send a kid to program Life Terms For Murderers Jerusalem (JTA) — Four Israeli Arabs who admitted hacking to death three soldiers in their sleep in February were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nazareth District Court in a brief session last week. The defendants, who showed no remorse, said they were serving Islam in a holy war against the in- fidels. Their attorney said the ...…
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…1 NEWS I Plant Your Roots in the Land! Celebrate Israel's Independence Day! Jews Are Evacuated From Sarajevo Rome (JTA) — More than 300 Jews have been safely evacuated during the past three weeks from Sarajevo, capital of the embattled re- public of Bosnia- Herzegovina. They were brought to Belgrade, the Yugoslav capi- tal, on two airlifts, according to Srdjan Matic, executive vice president of the Croa- tian Jewish community, who spoke t...…
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…COMMUNITY AJCommittee To Honor Saul and Marjorie Saulson The American Jewish Com- mittee, Detroit Chapter will present its Cyrus Adler Dis- tinguished Jewish Communi- ty Service Award to Saul and Marjorie Saulson 7 p.m. May 17 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The Saulsons will be recognized for their contribu- tions to the Jewish communi- ty, to interfaith relations and to the civic community. Doug Ross, former Michigan state senator and dire...…
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…TORAH PORTION Commemorating both the glory and the pain of our Spanish Jewish ancestors Adat Shalom Synagogue Torah Encourages Constructive Criticism invites the community to be our guests at a musical experience featuring playwright and raconteur Dan Almagor and Israel's "First Lady of the Musical Theater," Rivka Raz RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT Special to The Jewish News C in "Sepharad 1992" Sunday, May 17 7:30 p.m. cepharad 1992 is de...…
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…SPORTS He's No Pinhead Marshall Holman has bowled them over in a storied career that has spanned 18 years. MELINDA GREENBERG Special to The Jewish News M arshall Hol- man can't rat- tle off his latest statis- tics. He doesn't know the exact amount of money he has earned. He hardly ever reads the articles written about him. All he cares about is doing "his job" — throwing a 16-pound ball at just the right angle and knocking down 10 wooden...…
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…ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM I Assistant Editor he little wooden man has been boozing it up. Now he's alone, in. a dark cellar. Pop! Out of a barrel jumps a ghostly figure. Zap! From around the corner comes the devil. Zing! It's a spooky old skeleton in the doorway. But maybe moralizing machines aren't your style. So what about the kindly old grandmother who dispenses fortunes like "You are an impulsive person, given to exclaim in ecstasy if things ...…
