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…SAY IT WITH TREES Israel And Vietnam Sign Economic Pact Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Israeli flag flew from a hotel in Hanoi last week as Israeli and Vietnamese officials signed their first economic cooperation agreement. The accord could be the prelude to full diplomatic re- lations between the two countries, according to Sever Plotzker, a correspondent for the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot. He believes an Israeli Embassy will open in Hanoi as earl...…
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…CONGREGATION DUI DAVID CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WEEKEND APRIL 30, 1992 MAY 3, 1992 • • Ibs Yee Gil-ie 0,eyseration Thursday, April 30 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2 9:00 a.m. CANTORIAL CONCERT & AFTERGLOW SOCIAL SHABBAT SERVICES DEDICATED TO CHILDREN & GENERATION FAMILIES Friday, May 1 6:00 p.m. Sunday, May 3 5:30 p.m. (Sanctuary) DINNER AND DANCING (Rotenberg Hall) SHABBAT FAMILY DINNER Hosted by the Young Leadership CEREMONY HONORING PA...…
…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP SPORTS End Of An Era Pumped Over Pecs KIMBERLY LIFTON Jewish grocers check out of the local business. AMY J. MEHLER Adam Schlecter has dreams of becoming Mr. U.S.A. 26 58 11 UP FRONT David Levy shows how to wield political power. 14 DETROIT • Community Council changes its delegates. • JARC re-finances with a vengeance. 33 BACKGROUND Pervasive reports of torture in territories bother Israelis. 41 HOLIDAY Pa...…
…EDITORIAL The Passover Of Memory Passover may be the ultimate Jewish holiday of hope — hope for a world that will be redeemed by a combination of human works and divine will. When the Jewish people were trapped after fleeing Egypt, with the Red Sea in front of them and the pursuing Egyptian army behind them, they were told by God that it was time for them to take action. And only when a brave few stepped into the waters of the sea did God ac...…
…NOTEBOOK The Fifth Question GARY ROSENBLATT Editor Tonight, as we turn our atten- tion to the Four Questions, we should think about our re- sponse to a Fifth Question, uni- que to our generation: why be Jewish? Our ability to provide a meaningful answer could de- termine whether Judaism will survive in 21st-century America. One of the great strengths of American Jewry is its observance of the Passover seder. More than with any other ritual...…
…THE Even if all of us were wise, all of us people of understanding, all of us learned in Torah, it would still be our obligation to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. -- The Haggadah Passover As we retell the story of the Exodus, the epic journey of our people continues. For at no time in our history has there been a more dramatic movement of Jewish refugees out of oppression and into freedom. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz ...…
…Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit cordially invites you to attend Our Annual Dinner Rosalyn and Rudolph 17"1 Shulman Wednesday, May 27, 1992 Adat Shalom Synagogue honoring Rabbi Efry Spectre Robert I. Schostak Honorary Dinner Chairmen Carla Schwartz Dinner Chair Rosalyn and Rudolph 51 Shulman Cocktails 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7• 00 p m Couvert: $150.00 per person For Reservations call - 851-6950 Cantor Larry Vieder Florine Mark R...…
…I LETTERS I -11 7- C=1 Designer Eyewear Show! Continued from Page 6 immediate requirements of the victimized Soviet Jews. Some have described the cur- rent American approach as one of pursuing an "immoral linkage" between West Bank settlements and humani- tarian aid. Certainly basic humani- tarian concerns should out- weigh every other considera- tion now, as they should have during World War II. Dr. Lary R. Berkower Southfield *50 OFF...…
…UP FRONT You Don't Have To Love Levy To Respect Him Several weeks ago, David Levy was being buried by political pundits. Today, he is a double winner. ZE'EV CHAFETS E Special to The Jewish News Leven years ago, while in the process of put- ting together his se- cond government, Menachem Begin promised two jobs to David Levy. Mr. Levy had served in Mr. Begin's first administration as a youngish junior min- ister, and in the 1981 elec- tio...…
…UP FRONT Levy Continued from preceding page TRADITION. Isn't there one more worth carrying on? Friday night. The end of the week. The beginning of Shabbat. A time to relax, reflect and renew. And as much a part of this tradition as the candles and the challah was knowing the weekly Jewish News had also arrived. It brought news about the community, the nation and the world. Today, that tradition hasn't changed. In fact, it's gotten better....…
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…DETROIT FIFTY YEARS , AGO w,As\\-s, „ JCCouncil Redefines Delegates, Halves Number Of Assemblies NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer News. Socici published by a Charles E. Coughlin, spiritual leader of t Shrine of Th Flower. The publicatio which printed virulently anti-Semitic material, drew condemnations across the nation at time from both and Jew. The Jewish News printed an excerpt from Social Justice and even criticized Jews who were apa...…
…our house needs to be cleaned. gible for a formal American medical training program. "It's the same for any physician from a loreign country, excluding Canada," said Dr. Robert E. Bloom, internist and director of a new externship program for Soviet Jewish doctors at Sinai Hospital. "We can't help them pass the exams or get their papers in order, but we can expedite their train- ing once they've proved their eligibility." Because of a special ...…
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…the congregation's downtown headquarters. Mr. Hansell added that finding new membership in the suburbs was a result of having "exhausted our potential pool of members" among Detroit's Jews. "We think there is interest out there, but we will just have to see," he said. Some suburban residents, he said, may have been intimidated by the drive downtown. "Now, they'll have a chance to see what we're all about." ❑ Hadassah Hosts Judith Viorst The...…
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…I NEWS I The American Friends of the Hebrew University Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and The Jewish News present ISRAEL NOW: Contemporary Issues and Answers Sunday, May 3, 1992, 7:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarey Zedek--Adler Hall Bell Road at 11 Mile, Southfield a forum including EITAN YEFENOF Professor, Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiti...…
…U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? Dutch Nazi Says He's Sorry Amsterdam (JTA) — One of Holland's most wanted Nazi collaborators, who may soon be extradited to stand trial here for war crimes, was interviewed by Dutch television last week from Argentina, where he found refuge 43 years ago. Jan Olij, whom a Dutch court sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison, said he was sorry for what he had done and begged forgiveness. He sub...…
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…No Other Michigan Hospital Offers You These Services. In remembrance of the liberation of Egypt, unleavened bread products are served during Passover. The story of the Exodus is relived at the Seder through the reading of the Haggadah. Wine is available for your toasts to each of the four levelsof redemption. Traditional foods and practices are an important part of Jewish life. They're also an important part of life at Sinai. That's why we...…
…CLOSE-UP KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer I t isn't the matzah Jim Hiller remembers best when he thinks of Pass- overs of his childhood. It's the wine. He hated it. "I remember taking sip after sip of that horrible, syrupy, sweet wine," said Mr. Hiller, whose father, Sidney, founded the first Shopping Center Market on Michigan Avenue in Detroit in 1945. Because of Mr. Hiller's strong dislike of the tradi- tional Passover wine, he makes sure Sh...…
…CLOSE U P Shopping Center President Jim Hiller goes over some paperwork with a company manager, Victor lagnemma. supermarket industry began," he said. "Today that has dwindled. The big business is corporate. It is not too ethnic." Mr. Litwak said the grocery business grew with the rest of the corporate world. Large corporations can buy more supplies of food, making it easier to provide lower prices to the consumer. A small mom- and-pop shop ...…
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…mi•mml NEWS I Artist Wins Japanese prize Sydney, Australia (JTA) — A Brooklyn-born artist who is president of Tokyo's Jew- ish Community Center has become the first non- Japanese to win the prestigious Mombudaijin- sho award for excellence in art. Frederick Harris, 60, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that his selection in- dicated a "wonderful accep- tance by the Japanese com- munity.' He is the only foreign member of the Suiboku-Kai, an ...…
…THE B WAY HIT MUSICAL COMES TO METRO. DETROIT! 1 HUMDINGER! 1 LIKE A GLASS OF COLD SELTZER, 'THOSE WERE THE DAYS,' BRINGS SPARKLE TO THE EYE AND A TICKLE TO THE THROAT. IT'S IN YIDDISH AND ENGLISH, PRAalCALLY SELF-TRANSLATING EFFUSION OF SONG AND DANCE. New York Times A MUSICAL MITZVAH ! "WHAT FUN! I LOVED, QUITE EXTRAVAGANTLY, 'THOSE WERE THE DAYS: AS THOSE OLD-TIME BREAD ADVERTISEMENTS USED TO PUT —Clive Barnes, New York Post IT, 'YOU ...…
…I Torture In The Territories LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent O ne doesn't -want to believe that Israel's domestic intelligence agency, known as the Shin Bet, is torturing Palestinian prisoners. One doesn't want to believe that prisoners are tied up in excruciating posi- tions for hours, beaten and kicked on every part of their bodies, choked, kept awake for days on end, traumatiz- ed, at times crippled, in some cases killed. One wants ...…
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…INSIDE WASHINGTON I Biden Frustrates Jewish Activists JAMES DAVID BESSER Washington Correspondent J ewish activists are ex- asperated over the slow progress of the Religious Freedom Restora- tion Act, the legislation that would overturn the Supreme Court decision in the so- called Peyote case. The bill was introduced in the House last year. The problem is in the Senate. Repeatedly, Jewish groups, which have made the bill their top domest...…
…Soviet Jewry Fight Continues In Washington, some issues just refuse to go away. When there was a Soviet Union, the Morrison- Lautenberg amendment was on the lips of every Soviet Jewry activist here. The amendment, passed in 1989, restored the automatic presumption that Soviet Jews — and other groups, including some Vietnamese — were refugees. That was important because Immigra- tion and Naturalization Ser- vice (INS) officers were rejec- ting...…
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…NEWS 1 IN CELEBRATION OF ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND \ Or t3 2. • Actress Makes Black Refuge Johannesburg (JTA) — Ac- tress Helen Heldenmuth, a prominent figure among South African Jewish wo- men, has turned her home in the upscale suburb of Glenhazel into a refuge for black children fleeing violence in the nearby black township of Alexandra. According to some witnesses, Alexandra has c...…
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…HOLIDAYS Why Is This Night Different? Some answers to offbeat questions about Passover. Compiled from staff reports by Kimberly Lifton. y ou can keep your ants, but you'd better get rid of that pet food. As we ask the Four Ques- tions after sundown tonight, think of the questions that inundate our local rabbis this time of year. They are abundant, and some are odd, but these are the questions our rabbis get asked. Why is your question di...…
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