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…Marching Toward What? 7 Alumni of the March of the Living are questioning the techniques organizers use and the trips' role in educating-Jewish youth. SHIRA SCHNITZER Special to The Jewish News n 1992, Sarah Guzick traveled with a group of other Jewish teenagers to Poland to see the extermination camps and then to Israel to see the modern state that Holocaust survivors had built. She returned from the two-week March of the Living program ...…
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…Orlee Richman, a 1998 par- ticipant who did have a positive experience on the March, remembers Poland as "dark and gloomy." She cites only . neaa- rive encounters with Polish non-Jews, mostly people throw- ing things and making com- ments. The March relies on a 1950's vision of the creation of Israel only as a response to the events of 1933 to 1945, not as an out- growth of earlier Zionist impulses. By spending one week in Poland and one in Is...…
…THE HERITAGE OF TWO NATIONS A Popular Program Many see the March trip as a Jewish success story. While the cultural climates of their times were decades and hemispheres apart, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and Edna Ferber shared achievements as writers and expositors for their times and places. He, as a lexicographer and philologist, almost single-handedly revived and refreshed an ancient language which became the living tongue of Israel-to-be. She, a...…
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…This at Kosher bakery on horizon; proposal to boost Russian language in Israel; Family Service retains Fink. Vaad Harabonim (Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Metro Detroit) has approved the ingredients to be used at a new kosher bakery to open in Southfield. The Bake Station, owned by Steve Katz, will open where Zeman's Bakery was until August 1997, at the corner of Southfield and 13 Mile roads. "They came to us a good number of weeks ago with...…
…Editorials Letters to the Editor arc updated daily and archived on JN www.detroitjewishnews.com Reaffirming Wye y asser Arafat and the Palestinian National Council don't deserve a 21-gun salute, but were relieved that finally — after far too much cajoling by President Bill Clinton and demands by the Israeli government — they have voted to rid their charter of all its noxious calls for Israel's destruction. The articles they scratched our, ...…
…OPINION The Swiss Banks Have Paid. Who Should Get The Money? JEFF JACOBY Special to The Jewish News I c was a headline ro gladden the heart of any anti-Semite. Sun- day's New York Times, Page 1: "Jewish Groups Fight for Spoils of Swiss Case.' Never mind that the 51.45 billion paid by Swiss banks ro settle Holo- caust-related claims is nor "spoils" but restitution for stolen assets. And never mind that if Jewish groups had not brought the ...…
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…Convicts And Convictions Prisoner issue tops list of Palestinian complaints. GIL SEDAN Special to The Jewish News Jerusalem IV cizing Clinton for equating the chil- dren of Palestinians jailed for murder with the children of Israeli victims of terror. While the prisoner issue is one of several in the war of words that per- petually marks Israeli and Palestinian attempts at peacemaking, for the Palestinian side it is equivalent to Israeli...…
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…Never Too Late A Holocaust survivor celebrates his bar mitzvah in Israel at the age of 71. Zyga Allweiss in Israel and, top, at his bar mitzvah on Mt. Scopus GLORIA GOFF Special to The Jewish News T raditionally, a bar mitzvah is held at age 13, repre- senting passage into adult- hood. _ For Zyga Allweiss, this meaning- ful event took place in October, at age 71, during his most recent trip to Israel. It was the third trip he and his wif...…
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