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…Contents 0 A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.cletroitjewishnews.com Friday, Feb. 14, 2003 I Adar 12, 5763 Vol. CXXIII, No. 1 • This Week • • • Ann Arbor 16 Best Defense Detroit At "Level Orange" 74 Celluloid Copland • * x 4 4, • * x * s 1) * •••••••••••• Eos' Sheffer brings Copland film music to UMS. 26 Roots Of Hatred Israeli Expert Outlines Causes Of Islamist Anger At Jews, West Food 86 Grill Fri...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Home To All Jews "If you can find that, then I think you have actually hey were in the family car, headed to their home found everything that matters." in Jerusalem from an errand, when Rabbi Daniel When the Gordises arrived in Israel, pre-uprising, they Gordis' 12-year-old son, Avi, asked him if he anticipated a one-year sabbatical from the rabbi's work as would ever board a bus in Israel. "Yes," the rabbi founding dean of...…
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…This Week For Openers Your Trash, My Treasure T here seems to be an instinctive urge within us to collect things. Many obsessions have led to actual museums being built, though not on a grand scale. Many more of these "collections" can be viewed without extensive travel — just let your mouse do the walking through the Internet. There is an actual Banana Museum in Auburn, Wash. It contains some 4,000 items devoted to the "world's perfect fr...…
…7;iets Co News Digest Noffte Cate-6 Auair Owe- Resete-a-ae/off Germany Greets 2nd Female Rabbi Please cjoh( S,ecaguese AT/Na Berlin/JTA — Germany is about to get its second female rabbi. Gesa Shira Ederberg will be installed next month as leader of the small Jewish commu- nity of Weiden, in Bavaria. Rabbi Ederberg, who converted to Judaism several years ago and was instrumental in establishing the egali- tarian congregation now thriving ...…
…/- RINKE CADILLAC 86 Years And Still Delivering fighting back with suicide bombers who, he says, "have scared Americans and Israelis like never before." Dictionary Publisher Alters 'Jew' Entry London/JTA — The publisher of a Scrabble dictionary agreed to alter its definition of "Jew," used as a verb, fol- lowing a complaint by a leading British Jewish group. British Jewry's Board of Deputies welcomed the decision to replace "to cheat or ge...…
…Staff Notebook communities of Michigan and the Central Galilee. The site was chosen by the Ramon family for the full military burial because Col. Ramon spent time there during his military training. — Shelli Liebman Dorfman Astronaut Tribute A Col. Ilan Ramon Personal Connection I n 1999, student Rachel Lachover of West Bloomfield wrote a letter in Hebrew to an Israeli Air Force colonel requesting an auto- graphed picture and letter. L...…
…our tizadttion at our 6t4 annual Se a past YOokkien ig Seder Led by Rabbi Lauren Berkun Musical accompaniment, Lisa Soble Siegmann ■•■ Wednesday, 7 4rzil One in spilit 2, 2003 Once again we will join with the women in our Partnership 2000 region in the Central Galilee of Israel to celebrate Passover Adat Shalom Synagogue 29901 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills Re5istization at 6 p.m. Seder and festive meal at 6:30 p.m. Dietary laws...…
…Best Defense Local Jewish organizations deal with "Level Orange." HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer L ast weekend, when the nation's alert status was raised to "orange," the second highest level, citizens were told an attack was expected. On Saturday, Feb. 8, the FBI contacted Jewish leaders across the nation to tell them Jewish institu- tions and synagogues may be targeted. When that news was made public, Flo Paterni of West Bloomfield began ...…
…themselves as "Babylonian Jews," emphasizing their historical connection to the "Fertile Crescent," a land dominated at different times by peoples including the Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Mongols and Turks. • As Dabby puts it, "We consider ourselves bibli- cal Jews. We go back to the slaves that were brought by Nebuchadnezzer from the destruction of the First Temple." From the seventh century to the 11th century, the region was the center of Wor...…
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…Analysis Diplomatic Front before and failed. Cease-fires in Gaza and the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron failed to hold when the Palestinian Authority declined to confront terrorist groups. Hassan suggests that things will be different this time. Speaking in Nablus last weekend, he said he soon would present a detailed Palestinian proposal for a cease-fire beginning in Ramallah, where Arafat has Sharon also invited Fayyad to his far...…
…Focus On Israel MSU conference offers students training and tools to talk more knowledgeably about the Jewish state. KAREN SCHWARTZ Special to the Jewish News hen Israel is-in the news, 19-year-old Western Michigan University sopho- more Ari Katz knows he's supposed to be the expert in his group of non-Jewish friends, who ask him, "How's it going over there?" And Katz, one of 50 students from universities around the state who attended Michi...…
…Toughing It Out Varied Views Israeli shopkeepers lament drop-off in business amid fear of terror. RACHEL KOHN the businesses of the Mercaz Ha-ir (City Center), particularly those in the Ben Yehuda area, need money more And give dew and rain as a blessing on than they need the rain. the face of the earth, and satis_6 , us out of The Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall your goodness." and the surrounding area has been a shopping and dining attraction...…
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…Washington Watch Red Ink Jewish organizations brace for U.S. budget fallout. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent ewish social service providers are preparing for what one leading activist called a "budget catastrophe" as Congress takes up the Bush administration's $2.23 tril- lion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2004. The proposal includes record deficits, big domestic program cuts and a deck full of budgetary wild cards, including th...…
…7remrainnwtik frK When you want to go farther with your business, one bank agenda is advancing relentlessly — increasingly through internal regulations and guidelines as well as legislation. • This week, it was a new set of Department of Education guidelines that warn school districts they could lose federal funding by improperly bar- ring student prayer or preventing teach- ers from participating in religious activi- ties. The guidelines a...…
…This Week Insight Remember When • Roots Of Hatred From the pages of the Jewish News from this week 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago. Tel Aviv U. expert outlines factors fueling Islamist anger against Israel and the West. 1993 DON COHEN Special to the Jewish. News T Litvak elaborated on this idea saying, "Feeling increasingly humiliated by the West, Moslems were perplexed by this situation and hatred began to develop against the Je...…
…Young adults turn their passion to Jewish and community causes. C ommitment and passion to help others or to defend something you believe in aren't determined by age. In this second install- ment of a periodic series on the new genera- tion of community leaders, we look at four who set their course early and already are making a difference. — Ken Guten Cohen, story development editor 2/14 2003 27 …
…RISING EXPECTATIONS Victor's Avalon bakery inspires the rebuilding of her Detroit neighborhood. SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer Inspired By Jewish Roots The warm, earthy Victor attributes her skills to Jewish family values. "My grandparents were very honest, extremely hard-working and grateful for everything they had," she says. Victor is the granddaughter of the owners of Ben Victor's Department Store on Hastings Street in Detroit's old Je...…
…GETTING TEAT TES' ents and others of the immigrant generation suc- ceed despite overwhelming odds. "My grandfather emigrated from Baden-Baden, Germany, at the turn of the century," he says. "He came to America, like so many immigrants, with little more than a dream. He purchased a used set of encyclopedias, taught himself English and history, opened a floor covering store in Chicago and was a fiercely patriotic American." After his grandfathe...…
…Cover Story PROMISING ACTIVIST Mobilizing Jewish Students R Besides a self-deprecating sense of humor, he has a kind of "Aw, shucks" vocal delivery and a Jimmy Stewart sense of decency, as in "Mr. Dorfman Goes to Washington." He has been to Israel six times, his observance is Orthodox, and his thoughts of Israel are strong, absolute and long-held. "Not one time in our history have the Jewish people lived comfortably in a foreign land witho...…
