…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.corn The Statehood Nonsense 1p the right to succeed to the power that Yasser Arafat is rapidly losing as chairman of the Palestinian Authority. In the claims that Islamic Jihad and Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine make for "credit" for terror strikes, it is easy to see the faces of feudal warlords trying to impress the masses with their capacit...…
…OTHER VIEWS Israel Has Captured My Heart people are getting shot by the Palestinians." Wednesday, and I am Despite these warnings, I sitting on the terrace came anyway. The last time of my hotel room in I was here was in December Eilat, Israel. A stiff breeze is 1972 for my bar mitzvah. I blowing past me as I look was told that the country is out toward Jordan over the much different now: Red Sea. Lights flicker in vibrant and cosmopolitan, ...…
…Why All Americans Should Celebrate Chanukah At CLAL — The National Jewish New York City Center for Learning and Leadership — n the nights of Chanukah, we gathered a team of rabbis and Dec. 9-16, Jews around the scholars from different streams of country will remember a lit- Judaism to create specific ways in de pitcher of olive oil. In which Jews can dedicate each night of particular, we will recall a moment Chanukah to an act of heroism. We ...…
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…INSIDE: A Loving";Tome Alyn Hospital pays tribute to those who understand caring for children. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer or David and Ilene Techner, being honored by the Detroit Friends of Alyn Hospital also meant honoring David's longtime friend Debbie Groner, who died last March. A special tribute was accepted by Rabbi Irwin and Leypsa Groner, in memory of their daughter who died this year from myositis ossificans progressiva. ...…
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…unity Hot And Ileimish Schlock Rock keeps the faith with a syncopated beat. D on't expect to hear. "Nava Nagilah" or "I Have A Little Dreidel" at a concert by Schlock Rock. Instead, the Israeli-based group performs original Jewish rock songs, along with its own arrangements of American oldies. No more "Under the Boardwalk" — with leader Lenny Solomon at the keyboard, you're dancing to "Under the Chuppah." Another remade classic is "Born in...…
…YAK B'YAD 41111 HAND IN HAND MTH ISRAEL Yad B' Yad — Hand in Hand with Israel is a program of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) providing grants to Israeli grassroots organizations that focus on literacy, educational development and enrichment programs for at-risk and disadvantaged children and families. This year, Yad B'Yad has awarded grants to twenty-one organizations that work with the needy populations of all ethnic and reli...…
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…Who will keep the flame burning bright? JCC Outing Shows Photos The Jewish Community Center in Oak Park will host a trip to the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at the JCC in West Bloomfield to see "Portraits of Honor: Detroit's Holocaust Survivors." The documentary exhibit by psy- chologist Charles Silow, featuring por- traits and stories of 250 survivors, will be seen Wednesday, Dec. 12. The tour of the exhibit is free; the transportation co...…
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…ELIZABETH APPI.F.BAUM AppleTree Editor hanukah gives us a fairly simple scenario of good guys — the Hasmoneans, lead by Judah Maccabee — and bad guys — the Greco-Syrians, headed by Antiochus. Jewish children who attend day school, afternoon or Sunday school get a pretty complete picture of Judah Maccabee and his heroic father and brothers, but all that most of us seem to know about Antiochus is the evil he imposed on the Jews. (Many can't ev...…
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…PORTRAIT from page 71 his empire the Greek culture, includ- ing its religion. To that end, he pub- licly identified with the Greek god, Zeus. That was the beginning of his trouble with the Jews. Antiochus meddled in internal Jewish affairs. He replaced the High Priest with Jason, a kohen, who strong- ly identified with Hellenistic (Greek) culture. Jason immediately set up a Greek gymnasium where athletes exercised in the nude. Later, Jason w...…
…0 L Jr 1ST PLACE Emily Rosberg Age 4 West Bloomfield Beth Hayeled Meet The Artists The Jewish News Chanukah Art Contest artists and the community are invited to an opening reception and exhibit of the winning entries and some of the other 440 entries 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at Park Wesr Gallery on Northwestern Highway in Southfield. The four contest winners will be awarded their prizes, courtesy of Target Stores, and refreshments will be...…
…• P41 Morgan Greenberg Age 6 West Bloomfield Temple Israel Natalie Bloom Age 6 West Bloomfield Hillel Day School Samantha Zwick Age 7 Smithfield Yeshivat Akiva I K US...readg...get get...Calor! AN octibp, i C ta \ Q., Haw() k-vt*3 o'F tx> peS aid lopswAvor* Jamie Fishman Age 10 Bloomfield Hills Hillel Day School Sarah Levin Age 11 Oak Park Beth Jacob Rebecca Gleit Age 10 Troy Shir Tikvah 12/7 2001 77 …
…I Festival of Lights F David Brystowski Age 6 Oak Park Yeshivat Akiva Madeline Corson Age 9 Farmington Hills B'nai Moshe Chana Finerman Age 10 Rochester Hills Shir Tikvah Elana Greenbaum Age 5 Southfield Yeshivat Akiva Laura Katsnelson Age 9 West Bloomfield Hillel Day School 1 Joel Greenspan Age 6 Millburn, N.J. Chaff Center 12/7 2001 78 Maxwell Granitz Age 5 West Bloomfield …
…Festival Jamie Gildenberg Age 8 West Bloomfield Hillel Day School David Lehmann Age 11 West Bloomfield Yeshivat Akiva Jenna Shapiro Age 6 Farmington Hills Shaarey Zedek a Lights Sloane Wolf Age 11 West Bloomfield Temple Israel ge t.. .C&a. r4 I Sarah Lea Kornbleuth Age 8 Oak Park Beth Jacob Zev Newman Age 9 Southfield Yeshivat Akiva Sarah Gordon Thomas Age 10 Birmingham Temple Emanu-El 12/7 2001 79 …
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