…EDITORIAL I The Challenge Of The Budget Resettling Soviet Jews, whether in Israel or Detroit, is an expensive and time- consuming propositiori. Communal leaders are correct in placing it at the top of their fund-raising and service-delivery agendas. The challenge, however, will be how well the Jewish Welfare Federation and its agencies can progress with other impor- tant projects. While enjoying a temporary reprieve, the Home For Aged faces ...…
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…Bob Eubanks Apoligizes To Jewish Community MICHAEL ELKIN Special to The Jewish News T here was a message that Bob Eubanks was calling — and it wasn't to offer a toaster oven chosen especially for me. Eubanks of TV's "Newlywed Game" fame has a newfound notoriety these days thanks to the hit docu- mentary Roger And Me. It is not a fame he welcomes. So, said Eubanks, he would welcome the oppor- tunity to talk directly to the Jewish community,...…
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…I NEWS I If she ever gets sick, it's nice to know there's a Children's Hospital specialist nearby. `Gay' Designation Deleted By Synagogue ELLEN BERNSTEIN Special to The Jewish News Introducing Children's-Oakland Center Children's Hospital of Michigan-Oakland Center is right here in Oakland County at the corner of Lahser and 11 Mile Road in Southfield (just off the Lodge and 1-696). This is not just another clinic. This is customized heal...…
…> Help Asked For Syrian Jews Washington (JTA) — More than 100 members of Con- gress have asked President Bush to act "on behalf of the beleaguered Jewish community in Syria." In a letter written by Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.), the lawmakers implored Bush to make "continued expres- sions of concern" that Syria allow "at least unmarried Jewish women, and hopeful- ly the entire Jewish community, to emigrate." The letter, signed by 122 members o...…
…CLOSE-UP Mark Schlussel is the first observant Jew to become president of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Uno GARY ROSENBLATT Editor 1111 ark Schlussel doesn't fit the mold of Federation presi- dent. He is Orthodox, does not belong to Franklin Hills Country Club, and his an- nual Allied Jewish Cam- paign gift is in five figures rather than six. Yet Schlussel is president of the Jewish Welfare Fed- eration of Detroit and says that fact alon...…
…From his Southfield law office, Mark Schlussel ponders the problems of the Jewish community. tional Service of North America (JESNA), a nation- al organization, for three years and says he is not a subscriber to the gloom-and- doom theory of Jewish edu- cation critics. "I've seen a good deal of seeking among young adults and adults, people looking for Jewish educational enrichment, and that's a very positive sign," notes Schlussel, whose mid-...…
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…BACKGROUND Question. With Many Answers: Why Jews Stay In Germany WINSTON PICKETT Special to The Jewish News F from today's best maternity designers ! riday night. The synagogue pews are amply filled. The women are seated off to the side, or in the balcony. An organ plays; the cantor in- tones "Lecha Dodi," and a nervous anticipation builds as a 13-year-old's bat mitz- vah ceremony begins. JOIN US FORA. Opeciat Trunk Show featuring C...…
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…MOVIES Hollywood Confronts The Holocaust Director Paul Mazursky directs Ron Silver in Enemies, A Love Story. The film is based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel about four Holocaust survivors in New York — a man and the three women he marries. TOM TUGEND Special to The Jewish News S Paul Mazursky directs Margaret Sophie Stein, left, Ron Silver and Anjelica Huston in a confrontational scene in Enemies, A Love Story. Just in time for the ...…
…Willem Dafoe, who plays the Jewish Greek Salamo Arouch in the film Triumph Of The Spirit, hugs the real Arouch, who bo)-Ce-at 'b survive in Nazi concentration camps. On the right is the film's producer, Arnold Koppelson. death camps must be found in the hour-by-hour, day-by- day life (as a matter of fact, the initial working title of the film was Day by Day). Triumph, whose brief Greek scenes were filmed in Haifa and Jaffa, rings least true i...…
…MOVIES Constantin Costa-Gavras has directed the new film, Music Box. In the film, Jessica Lange plays an attorney who defends her father after he has been accused of war crimes against the Jews. unblinking view could allow, Masha to observe: "Some (of the survivors) had become rich in America, had opened factories, hotels, super- markets. The widowers had taken new wives, the widows new husbands . . . Men who had been smugglers in Nazi Germa...…
…Jessica Lange plays an attorney who defends her father (played by Armin Mueller-Stahl), accused of crimes against the Jews, in the upcoming film Music Box. Michael Hooker, right, plays the defendant's son. Not Just Another Holocaust Film' O Despite the similarities, producer Irwin Winkler says his new movie is not based on the controversial trial. ne of Hollywood's most successful in- dependent producers, whose films have won 11 Academy Aw...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY The Haven Continued from Page 2 language in a decree re- quiring that "pogromists and persons inciting to pogroms be outlawed?' Later, in a historic address broadcast to the Russian people, Lenin cried: "Shame on those who for- ment hatred toward the Jews." President Gorbachev, glasnost's great advocate has repeatedly insisted that he draws his inspira- tion from Lenin. He could take a leaf from his men- tor's book by now ...…
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…FOCUS Something Old Something New SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer M arty Feldman took one look at the Jimmy Prentis Mor- ris Jewish Community Center 11 years ago and decided changes had to be made. "It was not a happy look- ing place," Feldman said re- cently while standing in the JPM lobby and remember- ing a room filled with folding chairs instead of the wide, cushioned chairs and sofas which now occupy the space. Feldman, together with fellow...…
…STYLE CADILLAC Dreisbach & Sons The JPM awaits a decision on its future. ably won't happen during the next couple of months," he said. Both Aronson and Green- berg agree the community's top priority must be funding the influx of Soviet Jews into Detroit and Israel, not the JPM improvement plans. "Not only are they coming here, but a lot of Soviet Jews are going to Israel. We will be called upon to foot the bill for this," Greenberg said. "...…
…FOCUS I B'nai Moshe Continued from preceding page officials expect to sign an agreement with the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center to use that facility for services, Roth said. The offer does not include office space so the synagogue plans to rent an office in West Bloomfield. But the fight to provide the synagogue with a new per- manent home in West Bloomfield continues. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Hilda Gage has yet to s...…
…SPORTS Beating Theni At Their Own Game JIM SHEA Special to The Jewish News im Calhoun can get ugly. He'll slap a player upside the psyche, stomp around on his ego, get in his face and under his skin. During a game, when his de- meanor rivals Cujo's, the University of Connecticut coach is a raging stream of consciousness. "Bad lifestyle," he screams in response to a Murray Wil- liams mistake. "Weight training," he spits disgustedly at stren...…
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