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…The Family of the Late MARY EKUS The Family of the Late Announces the unveil- ing of a monument in her memory 11:00 a.m. Sunday, May 8 at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Gordon will of- ficiate. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Announces the unveil- ing of a monument in his memory 10:30 a.m. Sun- day, May 1st at Hebrew Memorial Park. Rabbi Arm will officiate. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. In Loving Memory Of te +°1...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60¢ SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY APRIL 22, 1988 / 5 IYAR 5748 …
…PURELY COMMENTARY To Israel On Her 40th: With Heads High And In Faith PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus W ith heads high, faithfully, we participate in the hearty greeting to Israel on her 40th birthday. Forty years are like a mere "watch in the night" for a people tested by many experiences, often so menacing that there was endlessnesss to the de- mand for courage. It is the faith that ac- companied the obstacles that made courage both a...…
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…Join in the celebration of Israel's 40th anniversary. Inbal Dance Theatre Israel's National Folk Dance Company in their 35th year. Music Hall. April 17 only 8 p.m. Israel Trade & Travel Gala. Entertainment. Exhibits. Special events. Travel information. May 1 thru 5 at Tel-12 Mall. Evening with Jeane Kirkpatrick Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations speaks at Shaarey Zedek on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. 57 organizations and thou- sands of ...…
…UP FRONT HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent erusalem — At 1:15 last Satur- day morning, two rented Volks- wagen mini-buses and a Peugeot 305 sedan pulled up outside a luxury villa in the exclusive nor- thern suburbs of Tunis. The occupants quickly emerged and divided into two groups. The first—a hit-team of seven men and one woman headed for the house, while the second—consisting of 20 men— took up covering positions on the grounds. The hit t...…
…EDITORIAL A Bittersweet Birthday On Saturday, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Abu Jihad was murdered in Tunis. If Israel was the executioner, was it an ap- propiate action? Will Abu Jihad's demise enhance the security of Israel and the Jewish people? Will it contribute to a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict? On Monday, in a statement that took 12 hours to read, an Israeli court found John Demjanjuk guilty of atrocities during th...…
…CONTENTS I OPINION FRONTLINES State Commemoration 18 ELIZABETH KAPLAN Michigan leaders and survivors memorialize the Six Million. 25 ISRAEL AT 40 A special look at Israel today and historically, through the eyes of Detroiters, U.S. leaders and Israelis. Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa in May 1948. Forty years later, Israel is still a nation besieged by problems. Israel At 40 And Beyond Facing Reality Peace At Long Last RONALD ARON...…
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…Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ed for a year. The last to light candles were Manya Feldman and Nate Garfinkel. Garfinkel liv- ed for more than five years in labor and death camps; he also survived a death march. Feldman, her parents and five sisters and brothers lived with two families in two rooms in the ghetto until 1942. That year, her mother and two sisters were led to prepared graves and shot. Together with her father, sister a...…
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…COME CELEBRATE Israel's 40th Anniversary at Gallery Yakir Sunday, April 24, 12 noon-5 p.m• "Three Generations of Israeli Art" A haron Bezalel Considering contact lenses? You've heard how they improve vision, and you know they improve your looks. Have you seen your options? • Tinted soft contacts • Gas permeable lenses • Bifocal lenses • Extended wear contacts • Astigmatism correcting contacts sculpture Farideh oil Gabi Klasmer oil Benj...…
…I LOCAL NEWS I VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for ISRAEL TRADE WEEK YOU PICK THE DAY(S) AND THE TIME May 1 - May 5 Tel•12 Mall - Southfield SUNDAY '12-5 P.M. MONDAY-THURSDAY 9:45 A.M. - 1:45 P.M. 1:45 PM. - 5:45 P.M. 5:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. (4) If interested contact the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce of Michigan at (313) 661-1948 by April 26, 1988 In Celebration of Israel's 40th Anniversary B'nai B'rith / B'nai B'rith Women "Gala invite you ...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS Special Report ISRAEL AT 40 F orty is a symbolic number in the Bible, always signal- ling a turning point. From the 40 days and nights of rain of the Great Flood that almost destroyed the world and the 40 days and nights that Moses spent on Mount Sinai writing the Ibrah to the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the desert before a new generation was prepared to enter the Promised Land, the number has.denoted a major event a...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Remembering 1948 Four Detroiters recall Israel's fight for independence ELIZABETH KAPLAN I Staff Writer he Vienna cafes were smoky, the men were elegant and the women were flashy. It was a life of rich romanticism, ciga- rette holders studded with rhinestones and sparkling chandeliers. But in the late 1930s, the decadence that characterized Vienna began to sputter and crackle, like a movie that melts under the intense heat o...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 When they speak of their lives in Israel, it is with a mixture of sweetness and pain. They do not attempt to gloss over the days of hunger and thirst. They remember the difficulties between Arabs and Jews and the frustrations of not being able to find work. "But you know," Mrs. Remington says, "now when I look back I remember that Israel was a beautiful country. A very beautiful country." A HENRY AND GRETA REMINGTON: Then and n...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Fingeroot's Victory Medal from the movement in Poland. The two fell in Israel Consulate and a list of Americans love, married and moved to Jerusalem.' honored at the Israel Memorial Forest. They settled, with their first Those named, several whom Fingeroot daughter, Ofra, in a small apartment. knew, were killed in the War of They had just enough money to survive, Independence. so young Ofra was surprised when one Fingeroot knows ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 In Tel Aviv, Ofra found her father in good spirits. The wound he had sustain- ed was to be the first of many. "But he was one of the lucky ones," Fisher says. "He wasn't killed, thank God:' Their stay in Tel Aviv was suppos- ed to last just a few short days. But while there, Ofra's family learned that a shell had fallen on their Jerusalem home, destroying much of the building. Then a family friend paid for the pur- chase of an ap...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 A New Religion? Two thinkers disagree on Israel's meaning to American Jews us Jewish theology. They're not con- tributing to the development of our in- Staff Writer ner life in any important way?' Neusner triggered an uproar last srael's existence has changed and year by declaring in a Washington Post challenged American Jews, but op-ed piece that there is no reason to in ways no one dreamed of 40 years feel guilty about not li...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Dream and Reality What does Zionism mean to Jews today. hundreds of thousands of refugees who needed to come. America was demobiliz- ing and they were afraid of anti- Semitism." In the four decades since, most U.S. Jews have "hopped on the bandwagon:' The most fervent of these so-called new Zionists are the inheritors of the old anti-Zionist legacy. Rather than putting their loyalty into question, Israel, by a curious paradox, ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Going Up The `Ingathering of the Exiles' is taking longer than was expected 40 years ago KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer IM elvin and Etta Mermell plan to retire in Israel, and they know exactly where they want to live when they get there. The Mermells, who decided to make aliyah after their first visit to Israel 18 years ago, want to make their home in 'Ibl Aviv in an old renovated building on Hayarkon Street facing the Medite...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 A Time To Cry And A Time To Dance HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent J erusalem — It is three years now since a panel of interna- tional jurists assembled in Jerusalem to hear testimony against Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death at Auschwitz. But I doubt if anyone who attended those searing sessions has forgotten the descriptions of the slow descent into a hell beyond human imagining. What we heard there was a child's view of Au...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Today's Sabra: A Blend Of Contradictions street argot to mean pompous preachiness. On the other hand, however, young Israelis act suspiciously like old- erusalem — Take immigrants fashioned idealistic patriots. They will- from more than a hundred ingly, if not uncomplainingly, pay lands, mix and blend and the among the highest taxes in the world, result is a Sabra, the native- devote much of their youth to the army born Israeli ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 An American Jew's Letter To Israel LEONARD FEIN Special to the Jewish News F orty years ago, we held our breath as you were born. And then we watched as the rem- nant of Europe's Jewry came home, and the others, those we hardly recognized, the hundreds of thousands from Iraq and Morocco and a dozen other countries so distant from our experience. We saw the photographs of them coming off the boats and planes and falling into t...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review JJ 13—NO. 10 2114 Penobscot Bldg..LPhone WO. 5-1155 of Jewish Events , Detroit 26, Michigan, May 21, 1948 34 43Pit. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 104 N""17:' relst And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste places and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and . eat the _fruits of them. And I will ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS APRIL 22, 1988 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 37 …
…ft Yom Haatzmaut An Israeli's Perspective Yefet Ozery is the community shaliach, based at the Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center, and the author of this month's L'Chayim theme — Israel Independence Day. For each edition of L'Chayim, a rabbi, a Jewish educator or other notable from the community will present an overview In Israel, as soon as the sirens marking the end of Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, stop the Independence Day celebration com...…
…Western Wall Symbol of Hope By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Thanks to the Kotel Maaravi — the Western Wall — an important term has become inerasable in the Yiddish lexicon. Tzetelach is the magic term. It applies to the scraps of paper that have become messages to the Almighty, to families, to ancestors. They are messages of hope as well as of grief, appeals to be remembered and to be comforted. They are stuck between the aged stones o...…
…Israel In Facts And Figures By SIMON GRIVER As Israel celebrates 40 years of independence, the following facts and figures, supplied by the government's Central Bureau of Statistics, reflect four decades of, in the main, healthy growth within the Jewish state. Demography Population: 4,396,270. Of this figure, 82 percent are Jewish, totalling 3,607,700, while 14 percent are Moslems, 2.3 percent Christian and 1.7 percent Druze and others. Isr...…
…ot p aR , 0 No Longer Visitors In Foreign Lands v Each month in this space, L'Chayim will present a Yiddish lesson entitled "Du Redst Yiddish (Do You Speak Yiddish?)" whose aim is to encourage further study of Yiddish. The lesson will include a brief story utilizing the Yiddish words to be studied, a vocabulary list with English translations and a family activity which involves using the new words. Two books which may be helpful for begi...…
…Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora ten, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO The NBC-TV production ■ \ Holocaust aired this month. NBC received 750 phone calls after Sunday's showing of the first of the four-part series. A total of 368 people complained that the show was "Zionist propaganda." In commemoration of the anni...…
…A O Want A Pen Pal? Write Israeli Family One way to learn about Jewish life around the world is to write to a Jewish family in another country. What is daily life like in the pen pal's country? What is Jewish life like? How are the holidays celebrated? To help our readers learn about Jews around the world, L'Chayim is making available addresses of Jewish families in communities abroad. Cost of an international air mail letter is 45 cents per...…
…s liv one ' Two Branches Of Mizrachi Clan Traced To The East Mizrachi is a surname of Hebrew origin meaning Easterner or Middle Easterner. The name was likely adopted in the Land of Israel and referred to a person with origins in Persia or Kurdistan. There were many prominent rabbinical authors who used this surname. One branch of the family lived in Jerusalem and the other in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey). Biographies beginning in the 1...…
…ftt `It AO , ilvw Quiz Bowl Sunday, April 24 The Yediat Yisrael Quiz Bowl, sponsored by the community-wide 40th Anniversary Committee, will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center. For information, call the Jewish Center, 661-1000. Monday, April 25 Orot Haschuna will appear at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Maple/Drake Jewish Center, sponsored by the 40th Anniversary Committee. For details, call the Jewish Center. ...…
…L itt e rSh s4 Israel Comes In A Tidy Package For 'The Silent Duo' By ANN RICK! HURWITZ and SUE HURWITZ As the Hebrew letters and vowels watched from the bulletin board, a young man carried a package into the empty classroom and placed it on the teacher's desk. "That must be Dov, the teacher's cousin from Israel," Ayin told Aleph with his thoughts. "He's a sabra." Since Aleph and Ayin are silent letters, they communicate by reading each ...…
