…If Israelis could vote upcoming election for President of the United States, George W. Bush would win in a landslide. -Teleseker Poll for Maariv, Friday, August 6, 2004 Living in Israel has a way of clarifying priorities. Jews for George is a grassroots organization of Michigan Jews, comprised of Republicans, Democrats and Independents, dedicated to securing the Jewish vote in our state for President Bush. We believe the President's recor...…
…Ford's Curse Henry Ford's anti-Semitism fueled Boston Red Sox curse, article says. PETER EPHROSS Jewish Telegraphic Agency S New York DIE ost casual baseball fans know about the "Curse of the Bambino." Nov a sportswriter has written that the curse — which links the Boston Red Sox's failure to win a World Series since 1918 to the sale of slugger Babe Ruth the following year to the New York Yankees — has anti-Semitic origins. The publicati...…
…Leaders Wanted In Jewish life, there is .a lack of candidates to take on crucial leadership roles. RACHEL POMERANCE Jewish Telegraphic Agency and volunteer leaders for North American federations. There also is the Dorot Fellowship, which seeks to promote American Jewish lay leaders by sponsoring young American Jews for a year of Jewish study and community service in Israel. Part two of a series New York wo high-profile executive searches ...…
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…Sarna Wins Book Honor Hate Music Aimed At Kids New York/JTA — Jonathan Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University, was awarded the top prize in the National Jewish Book Awards. Sarna-won for his history of U.S. Jewry American Judaism. The fiction prize has yet to be announced. The awards, given by the Jewish Book Council, will be formally presented Dec. 1 in New York City Minneapolis/JTA — A company with links to h...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Failing Grades On Education Third in a series on the crucial issues that American Jews should consider in the Nov. 2 presidential election. W e Jews love to educate our children. We have a robust system of our own day schools that serve well a rising number of students. In addition, many of us can afford either to live in communities with high-quality public schools...…
…OTHER VIEWS A House Of Outreach Ann Arbor 11 he JN letter to the editor "Filling The Void" (Sept. 17, page 6) asserts that "tradition- al and mainstream Jewish outreach is largely absent from college campus- es," a view that differs from my own experience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The author, Jonathan Shill, notes that he has attended seven different universities, where outreach has usually been con- ducted by "groups that ...…
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…wish famili7N7' Lost And Found After many years of hardship and struggle, a family comes to Judaism — and builds its first sukkah. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor T wo years ago, Yocheved Morgan found something she had been searching for all of her life: Her people. A native of Panama, she came to the United States, alone, as a teen-ager. She spoke almost no English and had no job skills. She knew she was Jewish, but had no idea wha...…
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