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…ti •k, • wakk ' \ a; Zzf Compensation For Survivors: A Critical Issue To Be Learned We write this editorial almost two months ahead of the event. Chances are we'll repeat it in the weeks ahead. On Sunday, May 18, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Michigan's Holo- caust survivors and their loved ones will have an opportunity to learn how to cut through the red tape to collect almost any form of compensation or restitution...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook Getting Down To 'Jewish' Basics By 'Hanging Out,' We Might Become Friends STACIE FINE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR My class is on the final leg of the rabbinics portion of our seminary training this year. We are wrestling with contemporary thinkers' concep- tions of Judaism, Jewish history and culture. Many of the writers seem to try to boil things down to "the essence of Judaism. They m...…
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…FRIENDS page 31 \= Th get Jews to stop calling one an- other names, to stop questioning the validity of another Jew's Jew- ishness. It's got to be: reach out, not push away. This spring, Detroit will be sending some 60 of its Jewish kids — some of them are Ortho- dox, some are Conservative and some are Reform — to Poland and to Israel to visit the ovens of Auschwitz and then recover their senses in the cradle of our ne- shamas. And last week...…
…MARCH 21, 1997 4 11" Mr. Leikin Addresses PNAI PNAI (Parents of North American Israelis) will present Ezekiel Leikin, speaking on "A Century of Zionism, 1897- 1997: Progress and Problems," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at the Max Fisher Building. Mr. Leikin lived in Palestine from 1936 until his World War II army service. He returned to the United States af- ter the war and held a professional leadership role with the Detroit ZOA until 1981....…
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