…DETROIT zzaninz NEWS Different voice. This & That page 27 131) /4 2:212 :jj ij aiLY www.detroitjewishnews.com April 9, 1999 Nisan 23, 5759 Vol. CXV, No. 7 Outside Hitler's Grasp Bulgarian Jewry survived the Nazis because king, commoners stood united. DEPARTMENTS ApploTree 87 Bar/Bat Mitzvah 50 Births 50 Calendar 45 Carla Schwartz .... 98 Crossword 81 CyberSpot ..... 65 Danny Raskin ........84 Editorials 29 Engagements 52 Marketplace 1...…
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…Hope Beth Shalom seder gives Russian immigrants a place to rediscover Judaism. AMY MINDELL Special to The Jewish News BILL HANSEN Photographer Directly above, Lenny Newman of Huntington Woods explains the meaning of wine in the seder ceremony. Clockwise from top.. Genrikh Shif of Oak Park, right, was the translator. Yuriy Mushkin poured wine for Rakhil Mayina, left, and Raisa Cherkasova, all of Oak Park. Rabbi David Nelson welcomed the ...…
…OLDSMOBILE SAR B KIR 1999 ALERO GX 9-3 3 DOOR SPORTAGE CONVERTIBLE FIYU NDAI 1999 KIA 4x4 . -rm•t•mee••••.- many their troubled passage from the former Soviet Union. They have escaped from bondage themselves," said Joanna Berger, a long-time Beth Shalom member and co-chair of the New American Committee. "Many of these people haven't had seders since they were 5 years old, and their memories of Passover are of sneaking into syna- gogue...…
…Memories That Never Die C ockwise; f.o top right: , aftiniLozven eig, truth A/Arks-Bolton and Sam Seltzer. Pho tos by Krista H , m xtt -4* a 0 :wee kw ;M a a Pa :a n Zik?e, a it b; a re M 14: Preparing for Yom HaShoah next week, Detroit survivors reflect on Passover, an Israeli survivor brings a war criminal to justice and a Bulgarian author explains (Pages 22-24) how his country's Jews evaded Hitler. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer...…
…Jewry's Role in Human Health THEY HELPED CONQUER DISEASE Martin Lowenberg "With us it was genocide." Deported to Riga, Latvia, in 1941 from Germany, Martin Lowenberg lost his parents and twin brothers in Auschwitz. Passover brings back specific mem- ories, he said. Working 92-hour shifts while loading ships in Kaiserwald, Latvian concentration camp, he relates easily to slavery in Egypt before him, and the recent persecu- tion in Kosovo. "...…
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…Thwarting The Eihrer Outside littler's Grasp Bulgarian Jewry survived the Nazis because the king and the commoners stood united. MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR Special to The Jewish News n March 9, 1943, long trains of boxcars surreptitiously moved into the railway sta- tions of several Bulgarian cities. At midnight they were supposed to pick up 8,000 Bulgarian Jews, a first shipment to the death camp of Treblinka. The remaining 42,000 were to follow ...…
…I lived through this story as a little boy. Now, with the opening of eastern Europe to the west, the last living actors in that incredible drama have granted me interviews on the topic, enabling the pieces of this dramatic story to be woven together. Territory's Price At the beginning of World War II, 50,000 Jews called Bulgaria home. Two decades earlier, at the end of World War I, the kingdom had lost Macedonia to Yugoslavia, in the west; T...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: wvvw.d.etroitjewishnews.com Company For Passover IN FOCUS victims like no other horror in human history. e always are ready for a couple of The issue here is not the numbers but the will- extra guests at our Passover seder, ingness of some to inflict agony on others but this year the visitors whom because they have a different culture or reli- we had not expected num...…
…TOM BAUM COMMENTARY Reflecting On The Holocaust hunger through graft, greed, payoffs ather than searching for and reciprocal deals. To him, surviving lessons of the Holocaust in in Auschwitz meant taking what one anticipation of Yom could whenever the opportunity arose. HaShoah on Tuesday, April Daniel avoids any hopeful 13 (Nisan 27), I would prefer prediction; he averts blithe to reflect on its implications and buoyant prophecies. — a more...…
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