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…In Yoni's 4th grade classroom, 3 miles from the border, terrorism isn't the most immediate enemy. As painful as it is to see Israel under siege, today there are even more serious threats to her survival. Israel's economy has all but collapsed. The poverty rate is now 20%. One out of every four children, almost 500,000 children, now live in poverty. As hard as it is to picture children starving in Israel, this is the reality today. In D...…
…Detroit Dollars At Work HARRY KI RS BAUM StaffWriter he hope last year at this time among Jewish communal leaders was that there wouldn't be a need for another emergency fund-raising campaign for Israel, but things in the Jewish state have only become worse. "The real problem is in the very social fabric of Israeli society," said Robert Aronson, chief executive .officer of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. "The economy is litera...…
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…Detroit Dollars At Work A Place To Belong Extended-day school programming brings hot lunch and enrichment to students in Israel's lower-income neighborhoods. JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News y Hadera With the after-school programming, 62,000 stu- dents, ages 6-12, are in school until 4 p.m., three extra hours each day, for four days out of the usual Israeli six-day school week. During those hours, the children receive extra...…
…Making Life Easier Counting On Us Eshel program allows elderly Israelis to enjoy more security and independence. Jewish Agency seeks diaspora JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News Moshav Bnei Dror t isn't easy growing old when your husband has dementia, your eyesight is worsening and your- pension money varies from month to month. But Bilha Mitrani, 76, isn't the kind of person who lets those minor details bother her. "I'm not a ...…
…Detroit Dollars At Work Financial Sustenance Terror victim fund gives hope to those devastated by violence. JESSICA STEINBERG Exclusive to the Jewish News Jerusalem B families because of the lower-priced properties. The sons had depended upon Baruch to help them fix up the apartments. Without Baruch, they were looking at overwhelming expenses. To complicate matters, Oded, one of the Darawani's 31-year-old twin sons, and his wife, Anat, h...…
…MAKING LIFE EASIER from page 13 nearby Moshav Herut, and she is visited regularly by Yechiel Yanai, the program's "community father," who racks up some 1,250 miles each month visiting households and acting as a jack-of- all-trades for his elderly clientele. Yanai visits with the members, changes light bulbs, helps make household decisions and, when necessary, puts his elderly charges in touch with Ziva Diamant, a social worker who helps with...…
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…. 4‘ This Week News Digest Wednesday Blast Deadly Haifa suicide bombing followed many thwarted attacks. NAOMI SEGAL Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem A suicide bus bombing Wednesday, March 5, in Haifa shattered a relative period of calm in Israel and served as a stark reminder. With the United States stepping up military and diplomatic preparations for a possible strike against Iraq, much of Israel was focused this week on when a war...…
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…Religious Warfare Haredim promise all-out battle against their former hero, Ariel Sharon. Likud's covenant with the haredi parties — first with the Ashekenazi Agudat Yisrael, later adding Shas. The alliance was based on mutual conservatism, "Jewish Jerusalem pride" and antipathy for Labor and its liberal, socialist ways. he "secular revolution" in Israel is still a • Not only has Likud now broken that covenant, but long way off. Orthodox yes...…
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…Common Ground Israelis, Palestinians keep cooperating on water usage. ELI KINTISCH Jewish Telegraphic Agency commissioner, Uri Shor, said the Palestinians are "not dealing with" sewage problems and pirate wells, both of which could have devastating effects on Israeli water sources. Sharif denied that the Palestinians are drilling any illegal wells and said efforts to improve sewage management are "ongo i ng. " harm both Palestinians and Is...…
…Shoah Parallel? Jewish groups outraged by PETA campaign for animals. JOE BERKOFSKY Jewish Telegraphic Agency A New York City n emaciated death camp sur- vivor stares blankly alongside a gaunt steer. "During the seven years between 1938 and 1945, 12 million people perished in the Holocaust," the image declares. "The same number of animals is killed every 4 hours for food in the U.S. alone." The poster forms the heart of a national campaign ...…
…LENDING I CASH MANAGEMENT I INVESTMENTS I WEALTH PLANNING Puzzler U-M students set Israel forum. "Get the best in brokerage and banking." r ormer Israeli Knesset Speaker and Jewish Agency Chairman Avraham Burg will present the keynote address at the second annual academic Israel conference, "Israel: Piecing Together the Puzzle," Sunday, March 9, at the Michigan League on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. - Billed for the sec...…
…Insight Remember When • • • Israel Advocacy Federation/SAJE event brings Mideast expert, educators for community forum. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News p eople ask me if 2003 is going to be a good year. I say it is going to be a momentous year," David Makovsky said to the 250 people gathered for the "Israel: Ready to Respond" program at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield March 1. "If I was in an airplane, I'd say, 'Put y...…
…Opinion Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com The Detroit Way s eventh- through 12th-graders in 12 Central Galilee schools and three schools in high-ter- ror areas enjoy a structured, supervised after- school setting, with tutoring and a hot meal, while their parents work. Kids ages 6-15, in areas fraught with dan- geror hardship, are playing basketball and soccer in after-school programs in Netanya and...…
…OTHER VIEWS Israel's Tremendous Needs IC ibbutz Yifat was a meaning- ful venue for our first encounter in the Central Galilee, Detroit Jewry's Partnership 2000 region. Our arrival turned into a joyful reunion with the teens and parents of those who were fortunate enough to have spent three weeks at Michigan-based Tamarack Camps in Ortonville last summer. As in every trip to Israel, our Partnership 2000 Steering Committee came last December ...…
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