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…July 8, 1994 14 15 Detroit COMMENT Bump On A Pickle Aharon Appelfeld, Katerina. page 84 A new books-on-tape series boosts newcomers' education. The King will be crowned for Progressive Judaism. Michigan's trade team for Israel holds its inaugural meeting. Sigmund Freud's ode to a Grecian urn. 26 28 Almost Opening Day 29 Two businessmen put dieting into the supermarkets. ABOUT BOOKS Conversion, captivity and 10 little rabbis. 84 ...…
…Nsm Sensitivity Is Still A Real Issue In Our Community It seems that were still a community that has dif- ficulty facing our most "touchy" issues. As it turns out, these are the ones we need to be staring down with urgency. An esteemed president of one of this nation's largest Jewish federations once admonished a reporter from a Jewish newspa- per: "There are maybe five Jewish homeless peo- ple in this entire city, and you found them and wro...…
…m Community Views Jewish Education: If NotNow, When? As Jews, We Found A Common Ground RABBI WILLIAM GERSHON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS ED TOR The story is told of two Russians walking along a very steep and dangerous cliff. All of a sudden, one of them falls off and begins tumbling down. In despair, his companion cries out, "Yaakov, are you OK?" "Yes, I'm OK," he responds. "Any broken bones, Yaakov?" "No, no broken bones." '...…
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…1995 LUMINA & MONTE CARLO Special Pre-Announcement SAVINGS! 1995 MONTE CARLO Z34 CUTBACKS page 8 But Alan Goodman, executive di- rector of both agencies, fears ma- jor problems. His agencies have 150 active cases and another 50 occasional contacts with immigrants who have been here longer than a year. JFS requested two Russian- speaking workers to deal with these cases, but the $22,000 pro- vides for only one worker. "I am concerned abou...…
…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CV No. 18 Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum Alan Nasky Staff Writers Jennifer Finer Ruth Littmann Lesley Pearl Steve Stein Contributing Editor Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner . Photographer Glenn Triest Local Columnists Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schw...…
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…Dreams Of Di What's a nice Jewish boy doing making L! eyes at Princess Diana? o Lu Lu 42 PETER LEFCOURT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS "W e waited out the rain at a pub in Northampton, getting sodden from the beer, thinking about her. "What do you think she's really like? There's this innocence about her, don't you think?" "Innocence? Rubbish. That woman has the survival instincts of a barracuda. Look what she did to Charles. The poor man...…
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