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…UP FRONT Tel Aviv's Quiet Now But The Traffic Is Hell Tel Aviv (JTA) — Life has returned to a semblance of normalcy in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest city and prime target of Iraqi Scud missiles, at least in the daylight hours. As much as a third of the population fled to safer areas after the first missile struck during the early hours of Jan. 18, earning the epithets of "traitors and deserters" from Mayor Shlomo Lahat. Many residents are retur...…
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…FRONTLINES 1 Why Israel Didn't Have Patriot Missiles Earlier JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent W Real People LARISA 'LORA' BANK OCCUPATION: Bilingual teacher LANGUAGE OF LOVE: Husband Edward, daughters Doris and Rachel EDUCATION: B.A. in Business Management, College of Commerce, Kishinev, U.S.S.R. NICEST SURPRISE ABOUT THE U.S.A.: "People participate in community activities here. They don't have volunteer services like the Cam...…
…PERSIAN GULF CRISIS IV/0 STEPS BACK Palestinian support for Saddam Hussein has sidetracked any impetus for a West Bank state, at least for now HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent he most senior Pales- tinian leader in the Israeli-occupied ter- ritories, Faisal Husseini, hastily summoned the media to his home one night last week to deny that he had described the Iraqi missile at- tacks on Israel as a "blessed thing." The reason for the urgen...…
…PERSIAN GULF CRISIS EIROTHER, It's difficult enough to see your kid brother grow up, especially when he's manning an IDF tank in the Jordan Valley. AMY J. MEHLER Special to The Jewish News D iscipline. Motivation. Integrity. Profession- alism. These are the charac- teristics that mold members of Heyl Shirion, the Israeli Defense Forces' Armored Corps. For the past six months, these ideals have shaped my brother. Robbie, now 20 years old,...…
…PERSIAN GULF CRASIS • How, Lewis Barr, and his family, are fighting the battle on the home front. He's been on ■ - active duty for six months — in Wisconsin. I NN KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer E ach morning, Lewis Barr wakes up about 5:30 to do his stretches and run three miles. Yet during the past six months, Mr. Barr has added a noticeable gesture to his exercise schedule. He stops along his running course to salute the American flag....…
…PERSIAN GULF CRISIS GAS MASKS, NORMALCY Life continues in Israel, with a gas mask at your side and and an ear tuned to the air raid sirens. PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor A rline Gould remem- bers being struck by the sight of young Israeli soldiers with rifles slung over their shoulders during her early trips to Israel. But no amount of TV footage or written words prepared her for the sight of a small child carrying around his gas mask box,...…
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…DETROIT Bias Incidents Decline In Michigan, Up In U.S. ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor R ichard Lobenthal takes no solace in the fact that Michigan last year recorded a major decrease in the number of reports of anti-Semitism. In the three weeks since the beginning of Operation Desert Shield in the Persian Gulf, Mr. Lobenthal's Anti- Defamation League office in Southfield has taken a dozen reports from area Jews who have received bomb threat...…
…► Campaign Sees Greater Non-Jewish Response SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer M ay the Lord bless all of you. I am praying for Israel." That's all the note read. Inside the envelope was a $100 check for the Allied Jewish Campaign. There was no telephone number, just a name and a Southgate address. A few days later, the cam- paign received two checks totaling $200. The note enclosed simply read "to be used for the brave people in Israel." One check...…
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…Syrian Jews See Hope New York (JTA) — The U.S.-Syrian alliance against Iraq, condemned by most Jewish leaders, is being seen as a "window of oppor- tunity" for the emigration of 3,500 Syrian Jews, say Syrian Jewish activists. The New York-based Council for the Rescue of Syrian Jews, an organiza- tion which represents Jews in Syria, has said that although Syrian Jews have the freedom to teach and practice Judaism, they are nevertheless denied ...…
…CLOSE-UP Behind Closed Boors Inside Detroit's most private yeshiva, Darchei Torah. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor F rom a door on the left comes singing. "Hashem! Hashem! Hashem!" cries a chorus of little girls. Their voices are filled with delight. "Terrific!" the teacher calls. "Isn't this a smart class!" Further down on the right, past the student-made posters of children helping the handicapped and visit- . ing with the elderly...…
…P hotos by G len n Triest on the students' reading skills," Mrs. Kahn said. "And it contradicts everything we're trying to give them. We're trying to keep out the very things you see all the time on television — aggressiveness, violence, a lack of respect." Mrs. Kahn concedes that the rule is "unique for the '90s" and said some parents have opted not to send their children to Darchei Torah because of it. Failing to -com- ply with the televisi...…
…El At right, group of Darchei Torah students: "When we speak about their education, we're not just talking about books; we're talking about the kind of people they will be." Below: Principal Sara Menucha Kahn. her wit's end, she'll only say, 'I want to tell you something that's really bothering me, but I'm not going to mention any names.' " Opponents of the school haven't been as subtle. Some members of the Jewish com- munity have been criti...…
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…NEWS Complete Auto Repair a I I Foreign & Domestic Canada Bars Scientist New York (JTA) — A former German scientist linked to Nazi war crimes has been denied entrance to Canada, six years after re- nouncing his U.S. citizen- ship and returning to Ger- many rather than face U.S. Justice Department charges. A decision was announced Jan. 11 in Toronto denying entrance to Arthur Rudolph, 84, a rocket scientist for the U.S. moon exploration p...…
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…COMMUNITY Emergency Campaign For Bonds Reaches The Halfway Point Joseph Shiffelman talks with Dr. Steven Arbit and Dr. Marc Feldman at Sinai Hospital. New Americans Get Sinai Help Editor's note: The lives of thousands of Jews in Detroit are touched each year by the Jewish Welfare Federation and its Allied Jewish Campaign. This is one of a series about people who benefit from Federa- tion agency services. Joseph Shiffelman never drove a ca...…
…SYNAGOGUES House Of 1RACLE S PAULA KIRSCH Special to The Jewish News T he Livonia Jewish Congregation is a synagogue in tran- sition — and some- times turmoil. Two years ago, the board of directors voted not to renew Rabbi Martin Gordon's con- tract. Before the general membership could vote on the issue, Rabbi Gordon procured a pulpit in Texas. The con- gregation was without a religious leader for more than a year. Yet the congregation h...…
…The synagogue that was bypassed by Detroit's Jewish migration has reached a crossroads in its 21•year history. Livonia Jewish Congregation is changing its name and its focus. Its members come from as far as Dearborn and Northville, and its new rabbi is eyeing Ann Arbor. munity orchestra including some of the Russian Jewish immigrants, for example." "Art is a divine pursuit," he says. As a chaplain at Ft. Ben- fling, Ga., he established an an...…
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…111 k Birmingham Temple Plans Events Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham Temple will celebrate the International Federation Sabbath honoring the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews and the International In- stitute for Secular Humanist Judaism 8:30 p.m. Feb. 8. Yehuda Bauer, chairman of the International Federation and the International In- stitute will discuss "Secular Humanistic Judaism: Re- sponding to the Issues." Secu...…
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…NEWS Yuli and Boris Kagarlitsky. TWo Soviet Jews Gamble On Perestroika ROBERT J. LEVY Special to The Jewish News uli Kagarlitsky is a Soviet Jew, whom I ar- ranged to meet, both to learn about Jewish life in Soviet society and to seek in- formation about locating family members in the Moscow area. Yuli gave me memorable directions for my visit to his flat on Red Army Street. He said, "It's very simple. You ex- it your hotel (the Rossiya) ...…
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…Photo by Danie l Rose n PROFILE Raymond Tanter: "Power fascinates me." THE Professor "THE Helm ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor W henever the school bullies chased him, Raymond Tanter ran for safety to the storefront libraries that dotted the west side of Chicago. There, he would read the classics — Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn were favorites — and shake his finger at the big boys when they passed by. Nobody pushes Raymond Tanter ...…
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