…HE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 8, 1991 / 1 KISLEV 5752 Activism Vs. Spirituality? NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer B y all accounts, the University of Mich- igan's Jewish corn- munity reacted swiftly when an anti-Semitic advertise- ment appeared in the Oct. 24 issue of the student news- paper. Within 24 hours, a rally attracted 300 students to condemn the ad, which de- nied that the Nazi Ho...…
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…CONTENTS OPINION CLOSE-UP Soldier's Tale NOAM M.M. NEUSNER A Plymouth auctioneer makes an extraordinary find: Holocaust remains. 26 tiefr* Our monthly family section looks at Jewish prayer. center 7 Why the Middle East talks will succeed. DETROIT 14 • When Three Stars attracts hundreds. • Election results in northwest suburbs. MIDEAST 31 First steps are over in the peace process. ENTERTAINMENT 71 Detroiter hits big time on ...…
…EDITORIAL Book Fair 1991 When an event has proven its success over many years, the tendency is to take it for granted. A level of expectation is cre- ated — we almost know in advance that something is going to be good for the com- munity. In this case, we're talking about the Jew- ish community and its 40th annual edition of Jewish Book Fair. This is an event that is planned almost as soon as the previous one ends. Book Fair professional sta...…
…OPINION Why Peace Will Come HIRSH GOODMAN T fr I. his conference is going to work. We all have too much to lose if it doesn't. It is going to work because we have Yitzhak Shamir at the helm and not Shimon Peres. Labor will support any movement toward accommodation; the Likud, if it were in opposi- tion, would oppose it. It is going to work because the Palestinians in the ter- ritories have no option. Their situation is desperate. If anyt...…
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…DETROIT AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer T he night air was raw and biting. The wind, making snapping, whizzing noises, rushed past hurrying crowds of people. But all that didn't matter inside the warm Cranbrook Institute of Science. Every- Jeffrey Devries lifts his son, David, 2, to get a better view. one's attention was drawn to the sound of Havdalah, the Hebrew prayer marking the end of Shabbat. Almost 1,000 Jewish families trekked to Bloom...…
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…I DETROIT I This year Jewish Book Month won't be like any other book month. This year, the "Book Review for the People of the Book,"- is coining to Detriot. N Jewish Sports Hall Inducts New Members A ■ 11111111 ■ 111 STAFF REPORT T he Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame held its seventh an- nual dinner Monday at Con- gregation Shaarey Zedek to honor three new inductees and to raise money for its annual Hall of Fame Games. The new induc...…
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…I CLOSE-UP I Soicliers Tale A Plymouth auctioneer makes an extraordinary find: the remains of Holocaust victims, NOAM M.M. NEUSNER T SEEMED, AT FIRST, LIKE A ROUTINE job. II A family called Joe Carli, asking him to buy the estate of a long-dead stepfather. They had to move out of a condominium within a week, and they had to get rid of everything. ■ Mr. Carli, a Plymouth auction- eer, gets these calls all the time. Although he feared he wou...…
…towns and cities, the Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany. The Germans built their feared V-2 rockets in Nor- dhausen and protected their factories from Allied observation and air raids in a vast network of tunnels. The tunnels had been dug by Hitler's vic- tims: political prisoners, Jews and others. The official history of Sgt. Miller's unit, The Five By Five, describes what the Americans saw in Nord- hausen: "On 12 April the Timber- wol...…
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…CE One Price One Price He gave the items to Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig at the Holocaust Center, who now has to decide whether the bones must be buried. Rabbi Rosenzveig would not even touch the Nazi flag. When he held the jar of bones, his hand shook. "I was quite stunned," he recalled. "He (Mr. Carli) came to me. He felt it was time to put the jar into the place where it should be. He felt that something had to be done." "Something had to be...…
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…MIDEAST Israeli officials and the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation face each other at peace talks. First Steps Toward Peace Israel is hopeful about progress in talks with the Jordanians and the Palestinians, but Syria is another matter. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T he Middle East peace conference ended in Madrid with many of the political and psychological barriers bet- ween Israel and its Arab neighbors still firmly in place. Bu...…
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…Complete Auto Repair a Foreign & Domestic JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he Palestinians scored highest; Israel did very well and Syria was a failure in the battle for image and public relations at the Madrid conference, according to several experts. "The Palestinians probably advanced their cause more than anybody — in part be- cause they had the furthest to go," said Stuart Eizenstat, an adviser to the president in the Carte...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY_I' TIME FOR MICKEY! Harmonize Historiography Respect For Dissent PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus W ayn.e State Univer- sity press con- tributes significant- ly to our annual Jewish Book Fair as a literary fes- tival by providing on its very first day a new volume on Detroit Jewish history. There is importance in the release of the volume Har- Suggested Retail $75.00 The Walt Disney Co. mony and Dissonance: Voice of ...…
…In the Bolkosky compila- tions are the analyses of the anti-Semitic occurrences af- fecting our history. The definitive approaches make his study one not only of local interest but a part of the national treatment of prejudices. After all, the Ford-Coughlin leaderships were in our midst. The expose of the extent of anti-Semitism in Detroit shows how the Ford apology for his hatreds was not adhered to; anti-Semitic advertisements gained pro- mi...…
…• Please Join Us for the Yeshiva Gedolah 1991 Annual Event Honoring Robert Harris Orley The Scroll of Honor will be presented to Robert Harris Orley for his personal commitment to Torah study and to the advancement of Jewish education. Monday, November 18, 1991 7:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center Maple/Drake Campus Special Guest Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Uziel Milevsky former Chief Rabbi of Mexico currently Dean of Ohr Somayach/ Tanenbaum College, To...…
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…stallations in their basements, all the more remarkable considering the shortage of water in the area. We find ritual baths as well as luxurious bathrooms paved with exquisite mosaics. This preoccupation with Jewish requirement for ritual purity, combined with the presence of more sybaritic bathrooms, lead scholars to believe that the mansions belong to the high priests of the Temple. This belief is reinforced by the proximity of the quarter t...…
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