…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP When Baseball Cures The Blues PHIL JACOBS Opening Day brings the joys of summer. 26 EDUCATION The Shell Game NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Is Jewish education just a guessing game? 49 11 UP FRONT Israel's young voters are growing up angry. 14 DETROIT • Looking at 1942 through The Jewish News. • Businesses receive rambling hate letter. 41 COMMUNITY • Community trip to Israel is planned. • T'Chiyah considering services in ...…
…EDITORIAL B'nai B'rith Youth: A Shared Investment This Saturday night at Shaarey Zedek, the Michigan Region of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) will hold a first-ever reunion. Reunions, anniversaries and other organizational simchas are commonplace to the point where we almost take them for granted, especially in a large, active Jew- ish community such as this one. But BBYO is an organization that we have to view with a different l...…
…LETTERS LZA Opposes JCCouncil Changes a hallmark of his leadership. The Labor Zionist Alliance Council of Metropolitan Detroit is opposed to the following constitutional amendments proposed by the Jewish Community Council for consideration at its April 7 Delegate Assembly: 1. "Delegate status should be restricted to organiza- tional presidents!' There is no such restriction at present. The constitution now pro- vides for one organizational ...…
…AMMIMIMMII ■ MIIP THE Join the Detroit Sephardic Community as we celebrate the first Sephardic Shabbaton in our 75 year history ! JEWISH NEWS April 10 - 12, 1992 Led by Rabbi Solomon Maimon Seattle, Washington ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler Noam ...…
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…Other Guy Continued from Page 6 G ALLERY OF TYLE („a),Azv4 SPRING FASHION VIGNETTES Saturday, April 4, 1992 —1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Stroll through Laurel Park Place and experience the latest spring fashions _ presented in a series of unique and entertaining exhibits. JAZZ IN THE PARK CONCERT SERIES Sunday, April 5, 1992 — 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Featuring Jazz Pianist Bess Bonnier and see the latest spring fashions from Laurel Park Place store...…
…UP FRONT Growing Up Angry Young Israeli voters, on the Right and the Left, share a strong dislike of Arabs. INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News oung voters express a full range of views about the upcoming national elections. Some are animated, some could care less about discussing poli- tics. But the one topic they talk about eagerly is their feelings about Arabs: fear, disdain and- enormous resentment that they vent in the strongest ...…
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…DETROIT PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor B y week number two, The Jewish News vas already the talk of Detroit in and out of the Jewish commu- nity. Editorials welcoming the new publication were written in both the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Times. Letters of welcome and support came in from all over the community. Again, using red print and three-deck headlines, the second edition led with a story about the U.S. Department of Justice prosec...…
…"YOUR MICHIGAN SAAB CONNECTION" the Jewish poisoners," the means of producing instant or delayed deaths among non-Jews worldwide. "With this pamphlet in your hands, My Non Jewish (sic) Friends and by copying it and disseminating it further you will bring about a four- thousand-year delayed justice," the 20-page letter reads. In a previous letter, Mrs. Mokry said that "the Jewish gang, infuriated over our escape from communism decided by sly,...…
…DETROIT I High School Yearbook '92 The Jewish News will honor the area's brightest Jewish high school seniors in our annual "yearbook" in May. Area high school prin- cipals have been asked to distribute our form to their five Jewish students with the highest grade point average (minimum 3.6 required). If you feel you qualify but have not been con- tacted, please check with your principal. Deadline for submission to The Jewish News is April ...…
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…NEWS I U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? However, there have been no official statements from Kuwait abandoning the boycott." The boycott is observed in varying degrees by the 20 members of the League of Arab States, whose Central Boycott Office in Syria de- veloped the boycott policy. Only one of the 20 Arab League countries, Egypt, trades directly with Israel. Of the other 19 countries, eight do business with com- panies that ...…
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…CLOSE-UP When Baseball Cures The Blues PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor I t's a sickness that af- fects rising numbers of the population. Yet no national studies have been started, and Detroit's Jewish Family Service has yet to gather an encounter group. It's a sickness known as BSAD or Baseball Season Affective Disorder. It happens some 15 to 30 minutes after the third out of the last game of the World Series. Its more obvious symp- toms incl...…
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…BACKGROUND David Levy's Complaint Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy says he is stepping down, a move that could hurt the chances of the Likud Party that nurtured him. DOUGLAS DAVIS Foreign Correspondent I n the tough old Fifties, an unskilled, unemployed, 19-year- old immigrant to Israel from Morocco, newly married with one child, was contemptuously turned away when he sought a laboring job at his local employment office in Beit She'an...…
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…doubts about this ad- ministration's basic com- mitment to Israel, this an- swers their concerns in a for- thright manner," said Mat- thew Brooks, executive di- rector of the National Jew- ish Coalition, a group of Jewish Republicans. But others took a dimmer view of the president's sincerity. "On Sept. 12, when the president was banging on his podium and turning red in the face over the influence of the Jews, he knew exactly what he was sayin...…
…INSIDE WASHINGTON 1""m". Temple Israel and the American-Israel Education Institute Professor Alan Dershowitz "Daring To Be Jewish In America" Sunday, April 12,1992, 5:30 pm at Temple Israel Recognized as one of America's foremost defenders of civil liberties, and described as one of the top lawyers of last resort, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz will expound on the challenges facing Jews today. In his recent best seller "Chutzpah" h...…
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…POLITICS Jewish Family Service gratefully acknowledges the following generous contributions to the Family Violence Prevention Endowment Fund. - Harold Berry - The Berry Foundation - Warren and Margot Coville - DeRoy Testamentary Foundation - Forbes Family Jewish Votes Could Make Or Break Clinton - Himmel Foundation JAMES BESSER Washington Correspondent - Irving and Barbara Nusbaum - Hughes and Sheila Potiker Foundation pvq JEWISH FA...…
…Mr. Brown's announced choice as a running mate — did not play a significant role in Connecticut, where the former California gover- nor split the Jewish vote with Gov. Clinton, according to exit poll data. Some analysts suggest that Mr. Brown could con- tinue to do well with Jewish voters in New York — an apparent contradiction that may be explained by the angry, frustrated mood of the electorate. Jewish voters may simply be lashing out at wha...…
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…COMMUNITY Michigan Miracle Mission To Israel Planned For 1993 SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to The Jewish News T o expand its com- munity outreach pro- gram, Detroit-based Congregation T'Chiyah is considering a proposal to con- duct one Sabbath service each month at a suburban location. The Reconstructionist group has met in Greektown since 1976, generally at St. Mary's Community Center. However, members have held quarterly services and specia...…
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…EDUCATION NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer E 2 veryone — or virtually everyone — sings the virtues of a good Jew- ish education. Trouble is, few agree on what that means. In Detroit's Jewish community, a good Jewish education can be a two-hour-a-week ex- perience in interactive drama, crafts and "user- friendly" Jewish history. Or, it can be an intense study of Jewish legal minutiae, Hebrew and ritual obser- vance. The problem of standards ...…
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…Photos by Glenn Triest I SPORTS Speedster Adam Farber is surrounded by young BBA teammates. Adam Farber makes .bigger, older kids think they're going in slow motion. RICHARD PEARL Special to The Jewish News /N dam Farber can't help it if he makes older, bigger kids cough up the chlo- rine, rub their eyes and say, "But Mom, he's only 8!" Just look what happened when Adam entered a trio of recent swimming meets: • In mid-March at Livonia,...…
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