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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 ...…
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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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…COMMUNITY VIEWS Ordinary And Extraordinary ROBERT J. DEUTSCH Special to The Jewish. News I n honor of his 85th birthday, Alfred Deutsch has been selected as an honoree for the Jewish Theological Seminary dinner. This is not unusual for my father, who has received numerous honors and awards during a lifetime of leadership in the Detroit Jewish com- munity. In the 50-plus years since the end of World War II, my father has served as a role mo...…
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