…AUCTION AT utors to American political candidates, where donors often seek access as well as influence, most contributors to Israeli candidates are American Jews passionately interested in the future direction of the Jewish state. Fund-raising sources predict that by the time Israeli voters go to the polls millions of dollars will be funneled to Israel through legal contributions to movements such as Americans for Peace Now, which hopes to ra...…
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…World Digest Wye Period Ends Amid Bickering Jerusalem (JTA) — The period for implementing the Wye agreement ended with Israel and the Palestinian Authority blaming each other for fail- ing to live up to the accord. Under the terms of the agreement, Israel was to have withdrawn from an additional 13 percent of the West Bank by late January in exchange for specific Palestinian steps to improve security. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyah...…
…ic li VOLKSWAGEN Drivers Wanted d 1999 Jetta A Shortcut For Shas The Sephardic Orthodox party has found a way around college requirements for top ministers. NECHEMIA MEYERS Special to The Jewish News \ Rehovot, Israel hoever forms the next gov- ernment, Shas will almost certainly be a part of it. Shas, led by Haredi Sephardic Jews, grows from election to election. It won six seats in the 1992 elections, 10 in the 1996 elections and is ...…
…This Helping with intermarriage; Falwell says he's sorry; Levin is hopeful. Intermarriage may be the end of the world to some Jews, but it doesn't have to be, according to Secular Humanists. To make that point, the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Farmington Hills has set up a new Intermarriage Department. The goal, it says, is to encourage the Jewish partner to remain connected or to reconnect to the Jewish communit...…
…Letters to the Editor are updated daily and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com \/jik Firm Base For Jewish Studies Iff / - ichigan State University's plan to create a substantial program in Jewish studies is a welcome ini- dative, firmly grounded in an exciting area of scholarship. But the announced reasons for the program and the initial steps toward it could slow its development. The plan seems to be on intellectually very f...…
…COMMUNITY VIEWS African Americans in Detroit History In 1833, and again in 1847, white n commenting on the impor- Detroit abolitionists gave safe harbor tance of history, legendary to black families that had escaped slav- Supreme Court Justice Oliver ery in Kentucky. This defiance of Ken- Wendell Holmes remarked, tucky's extradition efforts nearly led to "Historic communication with the war between Michigan and past is not only a duty, it is...…
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