…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS FEBRUARY 28, 1992 / 24 ADAR 5752 Public Insight, Politics Worry Pro-Choice Clergy NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer F or local pro-choice clergy, these are difficult times. The Supreme Court ap- pears ready to rethink, even overturn, its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Last May, the Michigan Senate passed a law requiring a waiting period for abortions. O...…
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…Congratulations to David B. Hermelin our newly elected Chairman of the Board, State of Israel Bonds. • • • • With Your Guidance, We Look Forward to Another Record Year for Israel Bonds. Yitzhak Modai Finance Minister State of Israel Ambassador Meir Rosenne President and CEO State of Israel Bonds Michael Siegal National Campaign Chairman Jerome Soble Detroit General Chairman Hers hell Wais Detroit Executive Director Development Corporat...…
…CONTENTS The Late Blooming Of A.M. Rosenthal ARTHUR J. MAGIDA The former NYTimes editor has become an advocate of Israel as a columnist. 26 SPORTS 7 Fighting For Jewish Pride OPINION ERIC ROZENMAN A Miami man vividly remembers boxing as a Jew in pre-war Germany. • An institute looks to the future. 53 ENTERTAINMENT Father Knows Best MELINDA GREENBERG Michael Gross of 'Family Ties' is playing Dad again, this time in a new film on th...…
…EDITORIAL Desperate Penny We don't need a rocket scientist to tell us that these are not easy times. Certainly, the thousands of General Motors auto workers can describe what it's like to wat- ch an invested, "secure" career dissipate with a single announcement. Sudden and unexpected unemployment is hardly the property of the auto industry. Many of us know people who have been hurt by this terrible recession. Yes, we can help. But we don't h...…
…OPINION Mardi Gras Of 1992: Bigots Take A Bashing JOSEPH COHEN T here's one thing you can say about living in New Orleans: It's never dull. This is a cake and circus town, charmingly reckless over the declining state of its health, taking credit because the cash is long since gone, partying from weekend to weekend, with all of its madcap revelry culminating in Carnival, bill- ed hereabouts as "The Greatest Free Show on Earth!' The Mardi Gr...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? 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...…
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…UP FRONT Held Hostage Baker's ultimatum makes it clear that Israel's > request for U.S. loan guarantees has fallen hostage to White House political needs. drive Israel back to its pre- a way that have played havoc with the assistance 1967 borders. JAMES D. BESSER AND "Every time we are ready desperately needed by Israel HELEN DAVIS to negotiate there is a to settle tens of thousands of change in the conditions set new immigrants, most of ec...…
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…A • Hostage Continued from Page 11 building settlements if it wants the guarantees. "Rabin's ascension means that from the Bush ad- ministration's standpoint, they are not going to reward Shamir with anything before the Israeli elections [scheduled for June]," said Stuart Eizenstat, former domestic affairs adviser to President Jimmie Carter and a longtime Jewish ac- tivist. "That means that the ad- ministration will take a much tougher posi...…
…DETROIT Loss Of Skillman Funds Risks Family Service Program AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer W hen the Skillman Foundation grant runs out in January 1993, so do vital components of the Child Abuse Preven- tion program at the Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit. Also at risk is the effort to establish a kosher shelter for battered women and their families. The Skillman grant, $1.2 million for five years, is the largest single grant JFS...…
…AJC Survey Shows Growing Hawkishness NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer T he most recent survey of American Jews paints a community growingly hawkish when it comes to Israel. Still, the report's authors say, Ameri- can Jews would respond positively to an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. The American Jewish Committee report, which was finished last September and released earlier this month, was directed by demographer Steven Cohen of Queens' Coll...…
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…The Late Blooming Of A.M. Rosenthal ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News .M. Rosenthal has astonished himself. Six years after retiring as executive editor of the New York nmes, the most powerful pa- per in the country, and becoming a columnist, he has discovered something about himself that he never knew, something he never sus- pected: He has a deep, passionate, and wholly partisan interest in the State of Israel and in being Jewis...…
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…The Late Blooming Of A.M. Rosenthal Snippets Of Rosenthal In the six years AM. Rosenthal has been writing his column, his 750 allotted words have become more feisty and idiosyncratic. Some recent examples: On My Mind A. NI. ROSENTIIAL The Clinton Couple —Jan. 28, 1992 (written after the mainstream press was reporting a supermarket tabloid's allegations about Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs) The Clinton couple of Arkansas presented ...…
…that didn't come out when he was editor. He knew the paper had to be even-hand- ed and that it would be a joke if its news coverage was... [as pro-Israel as] his col- umn. "This intensity about Israel was al- ways there. And when I would speak to him about my be- ing shomer Shabbos [Shabbat observant], he took an interest in it that surprised me. There was always this Jewish soft spot in Abe Rosenthal." For the six months in 1976 that Mr. Gold...…
…The Late Blooming Of A.M. Rosenthal journalism in the form of the so-called New Jour- sors fretted about the appearance of Jewish "clan- nalism, which sought to supplant traditional ob- nishness." Yet, there were almost always Jews on the upper jectivity with more personal reportage. rungs of the paper's management. Abe Rosenthal Editor Rosenthal fought all efforts to dilute the just turned out to be the most successful of them. Times' object...…
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