…CONTENTS OPINION CLOSE-UP Soldier's Tale NOAM M.M. NEUSNER A Plymouth auctioneer makes an extraordinary find: Holocaust remains. 26 tiefr* Our monthly family section looks at Jewish prayer. center 7 Why the Middle East talks will succeed. DETROIT 14 • When Three Stars attracts hundreds. • Election results in northwest suburbs. MIDEAST 31 First steps are over in the peace process. ENTERTAINMENT 71 Detroiter hits big time on ...…
…EDITORIAL Book Fair 1991 When an event has proven its success over many years, the tendency is to take it for granted. A level of expectation is cre- ated — we almost know in advance that something is going to be good for the com- munity. In this case, we're talking about the Jew- ish community and its 40th annual edition of Jewish Book Fair. This is an event that is planned almost as soon as the previous one ends. Book Fair professional sta...…
…OPINION Why Peace Will Come HIRSH GOODMAN T fr I. his conference is going to work. We all have too much to lose if it doesn't. It is going to work because we have Yitzhak Shamir at the helm and not Shimon Peres. Labor will support any movement toward accommodation; the Likud, if it were in opposi- tion, would oppose it. It is going to work because the Palestinians in the ter- ritories have no option. Their situation is desperate. If anyt...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS • •,,, .,••■•• • 7.•,. 38" x 5 1 " Acrylic on canvas Kinship ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler Noam M. M. Neusner CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn T...…
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…UP FRONT The Anita Hill Syndrome In The Jewish World Sexual harassment is a factor among Jewish organizations. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent his story began during the recent Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings, when millions of Americans were forced to confront their own behavior in the workplace — and their own victimization. The graphic charges of sexual harassment against the nominee by Anita Hill unleashed an...…
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…DETROIT AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer T he night air was raw and biting. The wind, making snapping, whizzing noises, rushed past hurrying crowds of people. But all that didn't matter inside the warm Cranbrook Institute of Science. Every- Jeffrey Devries lifts his son, David, 2, to get a better view. one's attention was drawn to the sound of Havdalah, the Hebrew prayer marking the end of Shabbat. Almost 1,000 Jewish families trekked to Bloom...…
…You and your guest are invited to attend the Midwest premier showing of Champagne DiamondsTM The Brilliant Light of Australia from the Argyle Diamond Mine. Southfield Voters Stay The Course NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer I n an off-year election, Southfield's voters opted to stay home rather than brave the freezing weather. Only 20 percent of the city's 51,942 registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday's election. In an election with abo...…
…I DETROIT I This year Jewish Book Month won't be like any other book month. This year, the "Book Review for the People of the Book,"- is coining to Detriot. N Jewish Sports Hall Inducts New Members A ■ 11111111 ■ 111 STAFF REPORT T he Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame held its seventh an- nual dinner Monday at Con- gregation Shaarey Zedek to honor three new inductees and to raise money for its annual Hall of Fame Games. The new induc...…
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…I CLOSE-UP I Soicliers Tale A Plymouth auctioneer makes an extraordinary find: the remains of Holocaust victims, NOAM M.M. NEUSNER T SEEMED, AT FIRST, LIKE A ROUTINE job. II A family called Joe Carli, asking him to buy the estate of a long-dead stepfather. They had to move out of a condominium within a week, and they had to get rid of everything. ■ Mr. Carli, a Plymouth auction- eer, gets these calls all the time. Although he feared he wou...…
…towns and cities, the Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany. The Germans built their feared V-2 rockets in Nor- dhausen and protected their factories from Allied observation and air raids in a vast network of tunnels. The tunnels had been dug by Hitler's vic- tims: political prisoners, Jews and others. The official history of Sgt. Miller's unit, The Five By Five, describes what the Americans saw in Nord- hausen: "On 12 April the Timber- wol...…
…rubble of German cities and neighbors stateside who hadn't written. He re- ferred only once to "souvenirs" he would be bringing home. It is unclear whether he was speaking about the bones. W hen Paul Miller came home, he was carrying some extra baggage. True, he took from Europe the bones fo the dead. He also took home the pain of seeing a concentration camp. Dr. Emanuel Tanay knows all about trauma. The Detroit psychiatrist is a survivor of...…
…CE One Price One Price He gave the items to Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig at the Holocaust Center, who now has to decide whether the bones must be buried. Rabbi Rosenzveig would not even touch the Nazi flag. When he held the jar of bones, his hand shook. "I was quite stunned," he recalled. "He (Mr. Carli) came to me. He felt it was time to put the jar into the place where it should be. He felt that something had to be done." "Something had to be...…
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…MIDEAST Israeli officials and the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation face each other at peace talks. First Steps Toward Peace Israel is hopeful about progress in talks with the Jordanians and the Palestinians, but Syria is another matter. HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent T he Middle East peace conference ended in Madrid with many of the political and psychological barriers bet- ween Israel and its Arab neighbors still firmly in place. Bu...…
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…Complete Auto Repair a Foreign & Domestic JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he Palestinians scored highest; Israel did very well and Syria was a failure in the battle for image and public relations at the Madrid conference, according to several experts. "The Palestinians probably advanced their cause more than anybody — in part be- cause they had the furthest to go," said Stuart Eizenstat, an adviser to the president in the Carte...…
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…Israel Aid Is Threatened JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent ewish leaders are deep- ly concerned that Washington's $3 billion aid for Israel, which has become an almost automatic annual affair, could be jeopardized by the sinking economy. Pro-Israel organizations are developing strategies for dealing with that possibility, especially in light of last week's vote in the House on the foreign aid authorization bill. In theory, it was a s...…
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…•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Reform Judaism, but rather show the true meaning of the name "Reform." "Reform believes in change," Rabbi Polish said. "Once Jews were Reform be- cause they needed it to help them be Americans. Now the question is, how can we live Jewish lives?" The sense of Reform's direction will come, in part, out of reliance on Reform Halach...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY_I' TIME FOR MICKEY! Harmonize Historiography Respect For Dissent PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus W ayn.e State Univer- sity press con- tributes significant- ly to our annual Jewish Book Fair as a literary fes- tival by providing on its very first day a new volume on Detroit Jewish history. There is importance in the release of the volume Har- Suggested Retail $75.00 The Walt Disney Co. mony and Dissonance: Voice of ...…
…In the Bolkosky compila- tions are the analyses of the anti-Semitic occurrences af- fecting our history. The definitive approaches make his study one not only of local interest but a part of the national treatment of prejudices. After all, the Ford-Coughlin leaderships were in our midst. The expose of the extent of anti-Semitism in Detroit shows how the Ford apology for his hatreds was not adhered to; anti-Semitic advertisements gained pro- mi...…
…• Please Join Us for the Yeshiva Gedolah 1991 Annual Event Honoring Robert Harris Orley The Scroll of Honor will be presented to Robert Harris Orley for his personal commitment to Torah study and to the advancement of Jewish education. Monday, November 18, 1991 7:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center Maple/Drake Campus Special Guest Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Uziel Milevsky former Chief Rabbi of Mexico currently Dean of Ohr Somayach/ Tanenbaum College, To...…
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…-- ISRAEL TRAVEL -- I Are all airlines the same? A Variety Of Travel Programs Are Available Information about many Israel travel, study and volunteer programs in Israel is available through the Israel Desk of the Jewish Federation. Directed by Sivan Maas, the community shlicha, the office provides a variety of locally and nationally sponsored op- portunities for people of all ages. In addition to many tours, non-traditional oppor- tunit...…
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…stallations in their basements, all the more remarkable considering the shortage of water in the area. We find ritual baths as well as luxurious bathrooms paved with exquisite mosaics. This preoccupation with Jewish requirement for ritual purity, combined with the presence of more sybaritic bathrooms, lead scholars to believe that the mansions belong to the high priests of the Temple. This belief is reinforced by the proximity of the quarter t...…
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…Honoring Chairman of the Board and President Perry Drug Stores, Inc. Featuring ABC News Commentator Tuesday, November 19, 1991 The Westin Hotel - Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan Dietary Laws Black Tie Optional David Handleman 6:00 p.m. Couvert $200 GENERAL CHAIRMEN Robert S. (Steve) Miller, Jr. Jerome L. Schostak GENERAL CO-CHAIRMEN Dr. Arthur L. Johnson Hon. Damon J. Keith Ad Journal Chairman Alan Harvith Ralph N. Woronoff...…
…COMMUNITY JNF Honors Ypsi's Brian Campbell Congressman Howard Wolpe, D-Mich., will address a recruitment meeting for the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Cabinets' Eighth National Washington Con- ference 6 p.m. Nov. 11 at Thm- ple Beth El. A seventh-term member of the U.S. House of Represen- tatives, Mr. Wolpe is chair- man of both the bipartisan Northeast-Midwest Congres- sional Coalition and the Democratic Caucus Task Force on the Env...…
…SYNAGOGUE SERVICES I' C.H.A.I.M. (Children of Holocaust-survivors Association in Michigan) presents their Annual Fundraising Event "TRIUMPH OF THE JEWISH SPIRIT" honoring Holocaust Survivors of Metro Detroit: SHAARIT HAPLAYTAH and the ALBERT EINSTEIN CHAPTER AND LODGE OF B'NAI B'RITH at a Premier Screening of Starring Jason Robards "**** A BITTERSWEET STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP —John Anderson, NEWSDAY IN A WORLD GOING MAD!" "A FILM YOU WI...…
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…TORAH PORTION Torah Generations Are Matriarchal Saturday, November 9, 1991 8:30 p.m. — 12:30 a.m. DANIEL F. POLISH CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM Special to The Jewish News 14601 WEST LINCOLN OAK PARK, MICHIGAN T An exciting trip for 2 to Las Vegas will be raffled off at this event. Trip courtesy of Hamilton, Miller, Hudson & Fayne Travel Corporation CRAPS *Cash admission of $6.00 includes $3.00 in chips $500.00 per person limit on winni...…
