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…1,1411111111112111111111MOMMIIIIIIIIMINIMINIFf THE JEWISH NEWS thi) This Week's Top Stories Not Alone Bias Incidents Drop In Michigan And U.S. Like Detroit's, a handful of other JCCs struggle for their vitality. JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER But Anti-Defamation League officials are hesitant to call the decline the beginning of a trend. I ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR nti-Semitic crimes in Michigan and across the United States dropped dr...…

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…< Proceeding With Caution With ADIN Recent Report ADL Michigan Region Director Richard Loben- The Anti-Defamation League is correct in its de- thal is correct in his assessment that one year of cision to view the results of its 1995 audit of decreased figures doesn't necessarily mean we're crimes of anti-Semitism with caution. Perhaps the biggest mistake we as Jews can looking at a trend. Yes, it's a start, but there's still a long, long way...…

…Community Views Editor's Notebook Now Is The Time For Healing To Begin Don't Let Numbers Hide The Stories BERL FALBAUM SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Israel desperately tions throughout the country needs a leader — were anything but diplomatic, to from the Left or say the least.) Right — one who The point is the Left and the possesses the nec- Right both have their extremists essary political who are not reluctant to engage courage to unite i...…

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…DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CVIII No. 26 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Ruth Littmann, David Zeman Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Smith Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Corres...…

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…FEBRUARY 23, 1996 Chava Alberstein Performs Concert Israel's first lady of song, Chava person at the door. Valet park- Alberstein, will sing melodies of ing will be available passion, poetry and hope at 7:30 For ticket information, call the p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, (810) Royal Oak Music Theatre. 546-9878; or the Jewish Feder- The community-wide concert ation's Michigan/Israel Connec- is sponsored by the Jewish...…

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…WHEN YOU INVEST YOU'RE BEGINNING A PROCESS THAT WILL INVOLVE SEVERAL STEPS. BUT NONE ARE BIGGER THAN THE ONE YOU TAKE TO MEET: Jerome Padorr. Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday Rabbi's Tish 9:45 a.m., services 11 a.m. Friday: Bar Mitzvah of Jonathan Cohen, son of Mary and Eli Cohen. Rabbi Schwartz will speak. Saturday: Bar Mitzvah of Eric Elbaz, son of Carol and Max Elbaz. Rabbi Moskowitz will speak. CONGREGATION SHIR TIKVAH 3633 W. Big Beav...…

…- A YOUNG GIRL'S IMMUNE SYSTEM WAS REACTIVATED WITH A DROP OF HER OWN BLOOD THAT HAD BEEN STORED SINCE BIRTH. Today's Synagogue Draws Us Close To God RABBI IRWIN GRONER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ASSAH TODAY, THANKS TO YO T 0 TOMORROW. A YOUNG GIRL HADASSAH HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF HEALING, RESEARCH, TEACHING AND YOUTH RESCUE IN ISRAEL. WITH YOUR BEQUEST, HADASSAH-HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM WILL ALWA...…

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…Close Oa rbara Story ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR A mother, a beloved daughter, and the struggle to survive. 111 sually the trees here are straight, steady, unyielding. They stand huddled together by a lake, blanketed with snow. Their thin branches stretch up, heavenward, in a graceful gesture, as if reaching. Sometimes, though, the quiet outside is broken as the wind pushes through. That's when the tops of the trees begin to tremb...…

…Barbara Mellen with a photo of her daughter, Jennifer: "I knew right away, this is what I had been waiting for." my life than when I was pregnant," she says. Jennifer Lynn was born June 9, 1972. "I knew right away, this is what I had been waiting for," Mrs. Mellen says. Jennifer was an easygoing baby. Like her mother, she was a night owl. She liked to stay up late, then sleep until 11 a.m. As Jennifer grew, Barbara watched her daughter become...…

…Close II; BARBARA'S STORY page 33 Next she decided on law school. She might become a judge. But then Jennifer died, unexpectedly, on Aug. 26, 1991, and everything stopped. I t has been cold for a king time now, a winter that chills to the very heart. Barbara Mellen sits in her living room, not far from the large glass win- dow. Outside, a quilt of snow, dark leaves and bits of fallen bark covers the back yard. Zachary is taking his afterno...…

…us N /-• "My pain is unfortunate," Mrs. learned not to cling to everything Jennifer ever touched. She has Mellen says. But it's bearable. Two years after Jennifer's kept certain pajamas (and sleeps death, the Mellens' son, Zachary, in some of Jennifer's favorite T- who bears a remarkable resem- shirts). She has stuffed animals blance to the sister he will nev- and her daughter's prom dress. er know, was born. "It was so But much of the rest...…

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…Somerset Cleaners Environmentally Safe Patagonia (we practice safe dry cleaning) The Absorption Ministry pro- gram, coming on the heels of last month's violent confrontation be- tween thousands of Ethiopian im- migrants and Jerusalem police, will attempt to sensitize Israelis to the needs of various immigrant populations. The first segment, slated to be- gin in March, will take place in communities with a sizable num- ber of Ethiopians and ...…

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…"The university was right to conclude that such activity con- stitutes inappropriate use of public resources," he said. Germany, where Holocaust denial is a punishable crime, had sought to block access to In- ternet sites posting messages that promote racial hatred. The move was aimed at preventing Mr. Zundel from propagating his message that the Holocaust is a hoax. "It is our hope that other schools will follow the example set by the Univers...…

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…hend why those numbers are not considered when calculating the Jewish vote. More importantly, the fact that Mario Cuomo, the quintessential liberal, lost 37 per- cent of the Jewish vote to Mr. Pataki, and that New York At- torney General Bob Abrams, a liberal Jew, lost 41 percent of the Jewish vote to Mr. D'Amato, shows that Jews are hardly wed- ded to the Democratic Party. Similarly, California Gov. Pete Wilson received 41 percent of the Jewi...…

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…UCLA Receives Large Bequest Los Angeles (JTA) — A Polish- born Jewish woman, who worked as a librarian for 32 years, has left an unexpected bequest of $592,000 to the University of Cal- ifornia at Los Angeles for Holo- caust and Jewish studies. Antonina Babb, who died in 1994 at the age of 75, designated UCLA's chairman in Holocaust Studies as the beneficiary of her estate, consisting largely of her house in Santa Monica, Calif. The gift will...…

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