…Celebrating 50 years of growth with the Detroit Jewish Community THE JEWISH NEWS 3 CHESHVAN 57 53/OCTOBER 30, 19 92 Last Jewish JCC? Detroit is the only major community center with a "Jewish only" membership policy. ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR ecause of the threat of a law- suit in Baltimore, Detroit's Jewish Community Cen- ter has been left with a unique sta- tus: It is the only major JCC left in the United States that accepts only Jew...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CII No. S Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Emeritus Philip Slomovitz Managing Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editor Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Elizabeth Applebaum Staff Writers Kimberly Litton Lesley Pearl Contributing Editor Elie Wiesel Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondent Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Local Columnists Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schwartz...…
…Cast Your Ballot This has not been an ordinary election year, and if the polls are at all correct, this coming Tuesday may not be an ordinary Election Day. Record voter registration around the country indicates that Ameri- cans see this election as a watershed event that may well change the direction of the country. And yet, pollsters and pols have been saying for weeks that each can- didate's support is "soft": Voters may be leaning toward a...…
…letters Pollard Stance Is Incorrect fl was disappointed in The Jewish News' editorial (Oct. .' 16) on behalf of a presidential commutation of Jonathan Jay Pollard's sentence of life in prison for espionage. I am particularly offended c-4 the assertion of some who advocate Pollard's release that his crime is mitigated by -,the rationale that he was I seeking to protect Israeli lives. i If this naive argument is carried to its logical conclu...…
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…oun ti 1 All the news that fits__ / Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum Intermarriage 'Terminal' For Jewish Identification h fixed marriages may be "ter- minal" for Jewish iden- tification, particularly in households that incorporate Christian as well as Jewish symbols and prac- .tices, according to a new American Jewish Committee study. "Jewish Identity in Conversionary and Mixed Marriages" was written by Peter Medding of Hebrew University i...…
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…50 YEARS AGO... Campaign Day Includes Big Rally This column will be a week- ly feature during The Jewish News' anniversary year, look- ing at The Jewish News of to- day's date 50 years ago. SY MANELLO Special to The Jewish News T he subject of all atten- tion at this time was the nearing of the Jewish Campaign Day, mark- ing the largest drive in the his- tory of the metropolitan area. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver was scheduled to be the featur...…
…ENDORSED BY: THE SPINAL COLUMN "We throw our support behind Republican Shelley Goodman Taub in this race finding her more articulate and reasoned and as having a more detailed grasp of the issues than her Democratic challenger." tended services in Little Rock, Ms. Ehrman said. The Clinton-Gore cam- paign has held exclusive press conferences for the Jewish media, and a tele- conference across the coun- try for members of the Jew- ish communit...…
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…"I've known Marilyn Kelly for many years as an outstanding educator, lawyer and judge. Her candidacy for the Michigan Supreme Court deserves the vote of every person who believes in firm, fair and equal justice." Senator Carl Levin Veggie Burgers At Conclave ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T here won't be a camp- fire with hot dogs to- night. And you can save those juicy camp burgers for next year. One hundred sixty B'nai B'rith Youth Organiz...…
…In 1992 We Will Make An Important Decision. Let's Consider Which Party Has Really Addressed Our Concerns. Republican Democratic Platform Platform Pledges to maintain Israeli qualitative military advantage against adversaries. Yes Silent Lauds Israel as only democratic ally of U.S. in Middle East. Yes Silent Mentions rescue of Ethiopian Jewry and praises repeal of "Zionism as racism" resolution at UN. Yes Silent Pledges U.S. will op...…
…Thc Jewish Community Center of rictropoittan Dctrolt, Thc Jewish News, Sinai Hospital, The DcRou Tcstamcnteru Foutdation and The Cornmunttu Foundation for Southeastern Michigan prcscnt thc JCC/page 1 Dr. Plotnick and his prede- cessor, Irwin Shaw, say no one has ever filed a lawsuit on the issue against the Detroit JCC. But if economics or philosophies change, Mr. Shaw said, the pol- icy could change. The JCC has a $6 million annual budget,...…
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…The 41st Annual Jewish Book Fair Presents FASCINATING RHYTHM: THE GERSHWINS' AMERICAN JEWISH CONNECTION Rabin Denies Withdrawal Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has angrily denied reports that Israel is holding out to Syria the possibility of full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Mr. Rabin labeled untrue a report that Israeli negotiator Itamar Rabinovich told the Syrians Israel "does not rule out" a full withdrawal from the ...…
…The FOURTH Reich? A first-hand report on neo-Nazi violence in Germany. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent or Jews, the images from a reunified Germany — skin- heads and other right-wing extremists running wild much as Hitler's Brown Shirts did in the early days of the Nazi rise to power — have been like the return of a horrifying dream. Several weeks ago, the restored Jew- ish barracks at the Sachsenhausen con- centration camp near B...…
…4. Desecrated: A Jewish cemetery in Stuttgart after neo-Nazi vandals scrawled swastikas and slogans such as "Jews get out." …
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…Germany's Jews Feel The Growin Strain Photo by E lle n Ber nste in Mr. Kanal spoke at the Jewish cen- ne irony of the current German situation is that ter in downtown Berlin. Oddly, the fa- the 40,000 Jews who live cility looks like a Jewish community in that country have not been targets center in any prosperous American sub- of the current wave of violence — at least urb — except for the banks of security cameras near the front door, and t...…
…tile soil for its populist, xenophobic ide- ology in the economically depressed states of the East as well, Mr. Gohring said — a problem compounded by the fact that few foreigners lived in that part of the country during the decades of com- munist rule. "If we had elections now, the right- wing parties would get a significant number of votes," he said. "They could win as high as 5 or 6 percent. But they do not represent a danger with respect t...…
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