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…This section is sponsored by • Congregation Shaarey Zedek of Oakland County • Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit 1111111111111f At Yad Ezra are Director of Development Lea Luger, Knesset member Moshe Kahalon, former Yaz Ezra President Paul Finkel and Director of Operations Elaine Ryke, and Augie Fernandez of Gleaners food bank. Shelli Liebman Dorfman Senior Writer W hat a group of Detroiters saw in Israel a year ago was shocking,...…
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…And they very much work together, said Hilou. "The two poorest areas in Israel are those of religious Jews and the Arab com- munities," she said. Others in the most need are Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, the elderly and veterans. "This is a national problem that requires national solutions;' Hilou said. "The food bank is an umbrella organization that can ensure that food is distributed to all the needy people — Jews and Arabs alike. The pr...…
…THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION of AMERICA Land from page A15 MICHIGAN REGION in Israel has involved children. "A bill was passed that Moshe put on the table for school lunches to be provided;' Poris said. "Now 150,000 children get lunches at school on a daily basis?' And the plan goes beyond just in cooperation with The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus & StandWithUs present CONFRONTING EVIL, Now AND THEN TERRORISM AND NAZISM ...…
…Meaningful Visit Bush's Arab world tour is significant for Israel. Leslie Susser Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem W of embarrassing Arab host countries. Last year, when a Kenyan athlete running for Bahrain won the mara- thon in Tiberias, the Gulf state summarily revoked his Bahraini citizenship for competing in Israel. Last week, though, offered a significant excep- tion to the rule: The Saudi- owned newspaper A-Sharq Al-Awsat ran an a...…
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…This section is sponsored by • Congregation Shaarey Zedek of Oakland County • Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit This Month In 1948 Speed Essential For Zion Solution The following editorial was in a January 1948 issue of the Detroit Jewish News. Statehood came to Israel that May. E nmeshed in a net of international politics, the situation affecting Palestine remains in a complicated state due to the failure of our State Department...…
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…World COMMENTARY Martin Luther King T hough I never marched with the man his followers called Martin, I followed Dr. King's career at fairly close range, first as a student, later as a Washington-based reporter for the for- mer Dow Jones newsweekly, the National Observer. I first met Dr. King 52 years ago, in the spring of 1956. The son and grandson of Protestant ministers in his native Atlanta, he graduated from Crozer Theological Seminar...…
…11110111110, World COMMENTARY King from page A27 gated. There are those who believe that J. Edgar Hoover had him murdered, convinced in his own paranoia that Dr. King was a Communist. Occurring during a period in which the country was increasingly divided over the war in Vietnam, this assassina- tion — preceded by those of President John E Kennedy and Malcolm X, fol- lowed two months later by that of Robert Kennedy — defined the '60s as a ...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JNonline.us . Dry B ones I sfk G N gsu ONCE AGAIN IT'S TIME TO UNLEASH OUR OPTIMISM Editorial Israel's Hunger Factor I srael's biggest and most pressing social problem is hunger — hunger exacerbated by a climate ravaged by Palestinian terror despite the recent economic rebound. The gap between the haves and have-nots is ever present. Soup kitchen lines continue under the radar, especially in...…
…Opinion OTHER VIEWS Ezra Greenberg plants a tree in Israel during the summer of 1998. He's Jack Greenberg's son and Debbie Keith's father's law clerk. He later wanted to honor Debbie's mother and asked that a ring of three trees be planted in the Coretta Scott King forest in Israel. Civil Rights Pioneers' Common Cause Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (Jan. 15) will be celebrated Jan. 21 this year. N of many women are fond of ...…
…WOMEN'S EUROPEAN & AMERICAN DESIGNER Hypocrisy Rules In Saudi Ties New York/JTA K ing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was stunned at the hostile reception he received during a recent visit to London. It seems our British friends are much more attuned than we to the nefarious role the Saudis continue to play in financing and fomenting terror. As Middle East policymakers and experts focus their efforts on Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Palestinians, ...…
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…Spirituality TU B'SHEVAT Jewish Arbor Day Tu b'Shevat: Echoes of new fruits and new beginnings. Elizabeth Applebaum have to visit many a Jewish bakery these days before you'll find carob on sale. Scholars of a kabbalistic bent viewed Tu b'Shevat as a day of great mystical signifi- cance. In the 16th century, the mystics of Tzvat (Safed), Israel, devised a Tu b'Shevat seder (a la Pesach) of multiple courses and foods, including four cups o...…
…iritua On Gossip It is forbidden to insult another individual. Even when the insult is concealed as a witticism, it would cause others to laugh creating embarrassment. THIS WEEKEND AT THE NEW DIA. Friday Night Live!: Museum closes at 5 p.m. No Friday night activities. Saturday: Watch artist Lindsay Satchel) at work—live in the galleries. Target Family Sundays: Storyteller Corinne Stavish shares tales for the New Year. Now on View: Juli...…
…TORAH PORTION iMacs/macbooks/powerbooks/ IP more! God's Love For Creation Shabbat Beshallach: Exodus 13:17-17:16; Judges 4:4-5:31. I t is sometimes difficult to teach Jewish history to young learners. Terrible events have befallen us throughout our long history; it is hard not to dwell on the calamities that our people have experienced. On the other hand, we counter bal- ance the terrible collective memories with the great achievements o...…
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