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…I UP FRONT Rosensaft Hopes Arafat Talks Will Pave Peace Path ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor M MK Shevah Weiss (Labor) rests on his copy of the Israeli budget during Knesset debate. Israeli Adviser Predicts Negotiations With The PLO the areas with dense Arab popula- tions and few Jewish settlers. "It will become obvious that the KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer I srael will include the Palestine Liberation Organization in peace negotia...…

…EDITORIAL Sharansky For U.N. There has been much discussion this past week as to whether his proposed appointment as Israel's ambassador to the United Na- tions would be a brilliant diplomatic maneuver or a foolish public relations stunt. Both sides agree that Sharansky has proven, since his release from the Soviet Union three years ago this weekend, that he is a man of intelligence, dignity and charm. But those criticial of the appointment ...…

…CONTENTS OPINION 14 FRONTLINES Righteous Advocate RICHARD PEARL Southfield Rev. James Lyons will tour the U.S. on behalf of Israel. 24 CLOSE-UP Indivisible As Night ELIZABETH KAPLAN It was a long journey before Julius Lester's Jewish conversion. 46 KIDS Kiddie Care LISA JACKNOW ELLIAS Jewish parents have limited options when it comes to toddler day care. 52 SPORTS Ancient Warriors Mendel Kaplan addresses Detroit comm unal lead...…

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…I CLOSE-UP I Inctivisth e Night The son of a Methodist minister, Julius Lester journeyed through Black Power politics and Catholic mysticism before his conversion to Judaism. At last, his mind and soul are one. 1■ 1111MIMMIMINNE ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor 24 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989 …

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…"smear campaign" against more traditional Orthodox Jews, claimed an article in a recent issue of The Jewish Observer, the national magazine of the Agudath Israel of America movement. In "The Media's Anti- Orthodox Campaign," author Mechachem Lubinsky traced: • The "venomous outpour- ing of vitriol from the media when it seemed that Israel's Likud Party was about to ce- ment an alliance with right- wing Orthodox parties; and, • Newspaper ads ag...…

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…r NEWS U.S. Mediates Taba Dispute Jerusalem (JTA) — The United States is trying to defuse a potentially ugly situation arising between Egypt and Israel in their dispute over Taba. Abraham Sofaer, the U.S. State Department's legal ad- viser who has been serving as a mediator, arrived in Cairo last week with the latest Israeli proposals. His arrival follows two ver- bal attacks on Israel by Egyp- tian President Hosni Mubarak over the Taba iss...…

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…I PURELY COMMENTARY Call Me 'Dated' Continued from Page 2 ten. She wrote many poems of deep Jewish interest. Lee A White had a special role. We respected his insistence that the "A" be without a period. He conducted classes at the University of Michigan School of Journalism and the Jewish Center and was sort of an historian. The daughter of Lee A White, Virginia White, had an interesting career for several years with the Jewish Welfare Fede...…

…LAST CALL! YOU'VE WAITED TILL THE END-THIS IS IT SAVE UP TO 70% the United Nations and in multiple other capacities she not only enthused the hun- dreds of audiences she reach- ed out to in this country, in pre-Israel Palestine and in Israel, and in Canada and European countries. She was a -.guide in actions towards reborn Jewish Nationhood. In the Golda of Ralph G. Martin there are the roman- tics. She was married to Mor- ris Meyerson who ...…

…I PURELY COMMENTARY I Ben-Gurion Continued from preceding page 1 , And the Beat Goes On Save to Your Heart's Content This Valentine's Day. BRUCE M. WEISS JEWELERS 12 Mile just east of Northwestern author of the more than 900-page biography entitled Ben-Gurion — The Burning Ground, 1886-1948. It is the story of his life leading up to the founding of Israel. As the title suggests they were "bur- ning years." They were the numerous eras o...…

…COMMUNITY U-M Tennis Ace Dan Goldberg Named To U.S. Maccabia Squad University of Michigan ten- nis ace Dan Goldberg will be a member of the U.S. team at this summer's 13th World Maccabiah Games. Goldberg, of Avon, Ct., is a senior at U-M. Seven American teams have already been selected for the international competi- tion. Team tryouts are conti- nuing across the U.S.,one of 38 countries which will com- bine to send over 4,000 athletes to the...…

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…!SYNAGOGUES I MIDRASHA•COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES A Divison of United Hebrew Schools and 4 AMERICAN WOMEN OF BAR ILA) DIVERSITY present Jewish Communities In Crisis Many sociologists suggest that the world Jewish community is dramatically decreasing in numbers. Assimilation, persecution and declining birth rates are a few of the reasons for this demographic phenomenon. This series will examine important Jewish communities which are facin...…

…I NEWS 1 The Jewish Community Center and Nancy Gurwin Productions CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM present board of the Jewish Frontier, the Labor Zionist journal, since its founding in 1934. She was its editor in chief from 1948 until the mid-1970s. Menahem Rosensaft, presi- dent of the Labor Zionist Alliance, called Syrkin "one of the towering intellectual influences not only of the Labor Zionist movement but of the Zionist movement as a whole."...…

…KIDS Kiddie Care Jewish working parents have limited options when it comes to day care for infants and toddlers. LISA JACKNOW ELLIAS Special to The Jewish News 46 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989 …

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…SPORTS Ancient Warriors Middle-aged B'nai B'rith hoopsters show the young upstarts how basketball is played. MIKE ROSENBAUM Sports Writer I n the tradition of Detroit ath- letic heroes such as Gordie Howe, Al Kaline and Darrell Evans, who were all strong players well into, in sports terms, old age, a local B'nai B'rith basketball team has outshone younger rivals throughout the '80s. The Detroit I team has won the B'nai B'rith A league r...…

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