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…UP FRONT Takeover Of MCA By Japanese Raises Arab Boycott Questions ALIZA MARCUS Special to The Jewish News T C-3 C7, he takeover of the Hollywood entertain- ment conglomerate MCA by a Japanese com- pany has raised questions about Japanese compliance with the Arab-led boycott of Israel, and the extent to which compliance may decline with Japan's grow- ing role in American busi- nesses. A leading Jewish organ- ization has charged that Mat...…
…Ending An Era With today's Purely Commentary column on Page 2, The Jewish News and the American Jewish community is seeing the public conclusion of a proud record of award-winning scholarship on world Jewry and Israel. Philip Slomovitz, who turns 94 next week, has chosen to end a seven decade tradition. Despite continuing good health, Mr. Slomovitz has decided that his weekly column, which has appeared in The Jewish News since he founded this...…
…CONTENTS (2) CLOSE-UP SPORTS DETROIT ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM A look at some of Israel's hidden treasures. HOWARD ROSS These martial artists have cornered the market on Jewish black belts. 24 67 • A yeshiva student gets the post office stamp of approval. • A weekend garage sale will help a young man with leukemia. The Yellow Door To Paradise Karate Kosher-Style 14 COMMENT 20 There was much to learn on the streets outside the CJF Gene...…
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…z DETROIT Yeshivah Student Seas Victory In Stamp Designing Contest ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor omething fishy was going on at the post of- fice, and a certain Yeshiva Beth Yehudah stu- dent was determined to be a part of it. The something fishy was a contest to mark the annual Stamp Collecting Month. Students in grades 1-6 were invited to draw a poster of sea animals, the theme of a new postage stamp, for the Southfield post offi...…
…The holiday gift * has received in donations from a fund established by Rabbi Martin Berman at Congregation Beth Achim. Among the items up for sale are clothes, crafts, records, books, furniture, videos and household items. The garage sale will also feature a bake sale, an ar- tist, psychic readers, enter- tainment and a raffle. Among the raffle prizes are a leather jacket signed by the cast of ABC's "Full House," a jacket featuring "The Simp...…
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…1991 Allied Jewish Campaign December 2, 1990 When a volunteer calls, say yes! Help your brothers and sisters at home, in Israel and overseas. Sharon Hart Ronald H. Riback Super Sunday Chairmen 163 Madison Avenue • Detroit, MI 48226-2180 (313)965-3939 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 23 …
…eemingly in the middle of no- where stands a yellow door. Looking like the entrance one might find on any home, the door sits outside, with barbed wire on either side and heavy, pale stones in front. And behind — a garden of Jerusalem, with flowers of exquisite red, fresh orange and royal blue. Like this mustard- colored door, which overlooks the Old City, Israel is surrounded on all sides by miles of fierce barbed wire, separating the country...…
…It isn't war or grandiose ideals, but a series of small miracles that define daily life in Israel. mikvah. One former residence reveals an in- tricate ceiling pattern, reconstructed with the use of a computer. A haunting discovery on exhibit is the ashes of a home burned by the Romans. When found, it contained the charred hand and arm of a woman reaching to escape to the top of the stairs. Archaeologists, using the works of Josephus Flavius, ...…
…CLOSE-UP Now under construction at Yad Vashem: stones bearing the names of Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. 26 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1990 of-a-kind treasure: perfume made from an ancient for- mula. The perfume, called Abishag in honor of the young woman who kept King David company in his last years, carries a rich, woody flavor. Its formula is based on a blend of herbs mentioned in the Bible, and creators promise "it is probab...…
…soul's only living testa- ment. There is also a handmade Monopoly set from Theriesenstadt, not with street names like Park Place and Broadway but Zeughaus, Dresdner and Genie, drawings of a castle and a picture of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The exhibit also includes a poem by an unknown girl in bunk L410. Written in 1943, the poem reads: Peaceful twilight, only you know, About the tears fallen in your wake, Tears from my eyes that long t...…
…CLOSE-UP great scholar Maimonides, the Rambam. Solemn visitors regularly come to the tomb, which they rev- erently kiss and at which they leave donations. Continuing north, one reaches Safed, birthplace of Jewish mysticism and home to synagogues that seem to have escaped the passage of time. One shul's ark bears old designs of purple, green and gold showing fish, flowers and grapes. Tzedakah boxes are everywhere. In a Sephardi synagogue, Abuh...…
…AN OPEN LETTER TO ISRAEL'S FAMILY We have just returned from the UJA Young Leadership "Morasha" (Heritage) Mission to Poland and Israel. We journeyed from the chilled grays of Poland and unspeakable sorrow of Auschwitz and Majdanek to the shimmering vitality and irrepressible pride of Israel. We were enlightened; we were uplifted and we were transformed. The approaching lights of Tel Aviv and touchdown at Ben-Gurion Airport erased any intell...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON JAMES D. BESSER Wash ington Correspondent OU Speaker Shies Away From Arms Sale Stand I n case anybody needed a measure of the difficulty awaiting pro-Israel ac- tivists who want to block the upcoming $14 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) provided a striking illustra- tion. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Union of Or- thodox Hebrew Congrega- tions of America, Mr. Hunter — who is counte...…
…NOTEBOOK I My Dinner With Adin GARY ROSENBLATT Editor November and December are filled with excitement at Crosswinds Mall. A preview of coming events. ANTIQUE SHOW HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA November 29th - December 2nd Come browse amidst treasures from yesteryear Beautiful gifts for the holidays HOLIDAY FIESTA FANTASY December 7th from 7 p.m. until the Margaritas run out! Gala Mexican Fiesta to benefit The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Aut...…
…He emphasized that the prophet was an ad hoc leader, solving a crisis or impasse by taking bold ac- tion for a short period of time. But the potential for misuse of such power by a false prophet was great. "Does anyone fill the role of the prophet today?" the rab- bi asked. During dinner (kosher) there was much cross-table discussion by such promi- nent Washingtonians as Senators Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Joseph Lieber- man (D-Conn.), Rep. ...…
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…themselves." The writer also disagreed with the critics who called Seeing Double too balanced. He said the pro- duction deals more with what the Palestinians need, only touching upon in a minor way how the Israelis feel. The play has been per- formed all over the United States and in Israel. In its closing scene, an Israeli and Palestinian flag are crossed in a sign of friendship. The Palestinian flag was not permitted to be used in Israel, wh...…
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…FITNESS SPECIAL AGES 60 and UP thropists doing their own approach," he said. "We need a coordinated plan." This plan, Mr. White said, needs to take advantage of the strengths of the Soviet olim, and to show how to overcome their shortcom- ings. Also, it needs to make corporate executives aware of Israel's strengths and must have extensive private- sector involvement, leading to the creation of a public/private economic de- velopment corporat...…
…PEOPLE WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PHILIP ROTH? The new generation of American Jewish writers is more accepting of being Jewish than its predecessors, but is much less famous. Steve Stern: "Living in the South, it never occurred to me I had a tradition on which I could fall back." ontrary to rumor, reports of the death of American Jewish writing are pre- mature. Jews are still writing stories and novels with Jewish themes or inspi- rations, but t...…
…Michael Chabon: Judaism "doesn't feel like a burden." marginality. Yet, the range of younger Jewish writers is tremen- dous. Someone like Allegra Good- man is totally steeped in tradition. On the other hand, for someone like Michael Chabon, Judaism is a lingering shadow. "Only those writers steeped in Judaism will survive," warned Mr. Solataroff. "Judaism is not the sub- ject it used to be when anti- Semitism was so rampant, espe- cially now ...…
…sure how I Jewishly identify myself now, but I still have ties with Ortho- doxy through my family. But I am not concerned with my Jewishness. I take it for granted." Michael Chabon, author of the best-seller, The Mysteries of Pitts- burgh, is "comfortable enough [with Judaism] that it doesn't chafe me. It doesn't feel like a burden. But I have a feeling that were I to attempt to practice it more, it may make me uncomfortable. To be a good prac...…
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