…'PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Active Rather Than Ceremonial Role For Herzog W hen he invited Shimon Peres to make another at- tempt to reorganize the func- tioning Israel government, President Chaim Herzog took occasion to renew his hope for electoral reform in his country. With a report that is literal- ly bulging the Knesset files and archives, it is not surpris- ing that there are delays in getting action in assur...…
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…UP FRONT Jewish Organizations Battle Christian Group In Yellow Pages ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T ,Th wo Jewish organiza- tions don't mind if your fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages. They just don't want them to stop next to a mes- sianic (Christian) organiza- tion when searching for a Jewish synagogue. The Jewish Community Council and the Detroit chapter of Jews for Judaism are pressuring Ameritech to change a listing for...…
…EDITORIAL See No Evil In Bush Statements? A number of American Jews are becoming increasingly frustrated with the Bush Ad- ministration's Mideast dealings, and non-dealings. Several weeks ago, Tom Dine, ex- ecutive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), publicly voiced his displeasure with what he perceives as a shift in balance away from Israel in the Administra- tion. The President's criticism of Jew- ish settle...…
…An Open Letter To Nelson Mandela Dear Nelson, I am one of a number of Jews who claim you as a friend. Our friendship started some 35 years ago when I became founding editor of Post, South Africa's first mass circulation tabloid Sunday newspaper for non-whites. At a meeting in my home in Johannesburg (remember?) you arranged for me to get regular confidential briefings about African National Con- gress activities so that I could publish accura...…
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…ATiNist of Gold... ,Ze'ev (Volodya) Rudkiner, a young dental surgeon who came here from Rostov a decade ago with a computer analyst wife and twin babies, predicts: "Not only will the political bargaining power of North Africans suffer, but also the power of the religious par- ties. Jews from the Euro- pean Soviet republics are not religious. I expect my own sister here with her husband and three children in two weeks. My brother-in-law, a gyn...…
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…DETROIT Is Coca-Cola The Real Thing For Passover? ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor I t's the real kosher thing all year, but Coca-Cola is often in the midst of con- troversy at Passover. The Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit lists Pepsi, but not Coke, among items approved kosher for Passover. The Va'ad is not saying that Coke is not kosher for Passover, according to Rabbi Mordecai Wolmark, head of kashrut supervision for t...…
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…Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroig Please join Hillel Day School for its Annual Dinner Wednesday, May 2, 1990 Congregation Shaarey Zedek Honoring Henry and Mala Dorfman Cocktails 6:00 p. Dinner 7:00 p.m: David 1-1014 Sharon Ber Amy Cutler' Eliezer Do Ea Joel Dorfmatic Louis Glazier President Ronald Riback 1st Vice President Howard Tapper Irwin Alterman Fred Blechman Barbra Chaitin Barbara Cook Jenny Dot finan Ellyce Field Bob Fi...…
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…UNBEATABLE CiiilltaiRg -- / PONTIAC Lewin, who has become 'Karmella's close friend and confidante, says the overall effect was cumulative. "The problem was that refuseniks were yesterday's news," she said. "People only wanted to hear good news." But they kept up the pressure — on the Soviets, on the American government and on Jewish organizations — with letters, phone calls, meetings. "The last straw, we heard, was that when [World Jewish ...…
…PSYCHED UPFORTHE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • *NEVVIA.GE* Some local Jews are ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor A black cat named Chosh- ech (darkness) followed the Sky family home one Yom Kippur and stayed. Now, as cats will do, he strolls around the Hunting- ton Woods house like a king. The inside of the house bears a distinctly Art Deco look and is painted a b...…
…esoteric teachings of Jewish mysticism, noting that the two share similar numerical patterns and that kab- balistic ideas are similar to images on Tarot cards. The Torah is filled with references to fortune telling — everything from using a goblet to reading one's liver — and oracles, provided by the Urim and Thummim, ob- jects included in the vestments of the high priest. The Urim and Thummim were acceptable under Jew- ish law, but the Torah ...…
…PSYCHED UP agreed. He said of studying the stars: "It is no science at all, but mere foolery . . . and it behooves us never to engage in it." Despite Maimonides' and biblical warnings, Jews have been as prone as anyone to trying to see into the future. In the Middle Ages, an itchy sole meant an upcoming journey; a candle was lighted each day between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, with an extin- guished flame meaning death before the year's end...…
…PSYCHED UP As a soldier during World War II, Lewis found the an- swers to some of those ques- tions. Numerous times he watched as men marching in front of and behind him were killed; Lewis was always spared. Taken to a German prison camp, he managed to convince the head officer he was not Jewish, escaping death. While at the prison camp, Lewis joined his fellow American soldiers in daily renditions of the song "Come and Get Us, Georgie Patton...…
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…• he saw a flier for a lecture at the Theosophical Society. Stein didn't become a member at first. But he kept coming across Theosophical Society fliers and books. Today, Stein says he is "oriented toward Eastern re- ligions and metaphysics. I'm spiritually humanistic and religious, with a smattering of understanding of the na- ture of what is — and you can put that (is) in quotes — as opposed to what's told." Stein's search for what is has t...…
…ANN ARBOR Minda Hart is shown with some of her merchandise inside Earth Wisdom Music. Below, the store's New Age sign. ler ttib t'I n NkNitsi.** MELLOW AGE An Ann Arbor shop has been on the ground floor of the New Age movement. SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE y Special to The Jewish News ou could say that Minda Hart has been on the cutting edge of mellow. A decade ago she first got in- volved in New Age music before most people ever heard of it....…
…Christmas there were eight pages of New Age Christmas listings," she says. Luckily she has managed to find one tape that does fill the gap a bit. It's called "New Traditions" and it's by Jon Simon, a Detroit native now living in Chevy Chase, Md. Cuts include "Ma'oz Tzur," "Adon Olam" and "Erev Shel Shoshanim." "One of the reasons I like this one is that you can hear the older tradi- mm•"""inimal tional melodies," Hart ex- plains. If customer...…
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…I INSIDE WASHINGTON JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent -- ast Thursday, the Sen- ate passed the State Department supple- mental authorization bill that includes $400 million in loan guarantees for new hous- ing for Soviet emigres in Israel, as well as $70 million to replenish depleted ac- counts for U.S. refugee programs. But last week's Senate vie- tory is only part of the tangled parliamentary story. Still ahead is the critical app...…
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…fundamental has changed in the German character; the Germans pick up this under- tone, and clearly resent the idea of holding today's leaders accountable for yes- terday's inhumanity. The Germans exude a con- fidence that grates on the nerves of the Jewish par- ticipants. In private discus- sions after these sessions, one hears the word "arrogance," a term the Jews are embarrassed to use in public, yet which keeps creeping into their vocabular...…
…The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith In celebration of Israel's 42nd Anniversary and Jewish Solidarity presents THE THIRD ANNUAL Great Israeli Kumsitz (A Community Get-Together) PICNIC ON THE GRASS SUNDAY, MAY 6 12:30-3:30 p.m. Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Maple & Drake Roads / West Bloomfield - • P- -1t.v ... • 5r<-w , • Israeli Sing Along • Bubble Making • Music • Crafts • Giant Birthday Cake • Much Mor...…
…INSIGHT ZE'EV CHAFETS Israel Correspondent T his week, if the pre- sent trend holds, Labor's Shimon Peres will establish a new government. And Yitzhak Shamir, the septuagenarian caretaker who replaced Menachem Begin in 1983, will, in all probability, head off into the political sunset. Despite the fact that he has been prime minister for more than five years, the prospect of his departure is causing little unhappiness, even among his suppo...…
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…David Wachter & Sons presents a Rings of Marriage flight of migratory birds. The Israeli air force was said to have acknowledged that the radiation could af- fect the sensitive electronics systems of advanced air- craft. But Magen of the Com- munications Ministry said experts from three interna- tional organizations have stated unequivocally that no such dangers exist. Accor- ding to Magen, hiking can continue in the area, there will be no e...…
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…COMMUNITY Beth Shalom Director Receives Award JNF Brunch Honors Harrises Ann, Nathan Harris: Outstanding citizens. At a brunch on May 6, Nathan and Ann Harris will be honored by the Jewish Na- tional Fund and receive an "Outstanding Citizens Award." Harris, a survivor of concen- tration camps, was born in Poland and arrived in the United States in 1950. He was in his family bakery business on Michigan Avenue over twenty years, after which ...…
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