…Western VVall 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 ...…
…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 Christi-an and 1.7 percent Druze and others. Is...…
…no.0 4 1 N o 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 beginning ...…
…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. people complained that the show was "Zionist propaganda." In commemoration of the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20, "birthday cards" were distributed in Detroit. The Jewish News rersgived one which stated "Happy holocaust." TEN YEARS AGO 20 YEARS...…
…co' 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...…
…t Whic' No ne. Two Branches Of Mizrachi Clan Traced To The East P4 the other in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey). Biographies beginning in the 14th Century can be found in the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Judaica. Elijah Mizrachi (1450-1526) was the greatest rabbinical authority of his time in the Ottoman Empire. It is interesting to note, that he was Mizrachi is a surname of Hebrew origin meaning Easterner or Middle Easterner....…
…Toy Iry w 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. Sunday...…
…E t SA Israel Comes In A Tidy Package For The Silent Duo' By ANN RICKI 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 other's mind...…
…Sadness and Joy Mark Israel Holidays bravely, afraid his friend might pout again. "But I can't figure out why." "What do you think it is?" "Are you sure you want me to tell you?" "Eh," Aleph apologized sheepishly. "I don't know why I get so carried away at times. Of course I want you to tell me." "I think it might be an Israeli flag." "Don't tell me what it looks like!" Aleph thought at once. "I know the flag of Israel has two blue stripes on...…
…The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith In honor of its 75 years of service — and — In celebration of Israel's 40th Anniversary & Jerusalem Day Presents The Great Israeli Kumsitz (A Community Get-Together) PICNIC ON THE GRASS 5 8 pa, Sunday, May 15 at Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Maple & Drake Roads I West Bloomfield FREE! • Storytelling • Music • Giant Birthday Cake • More!! • Balloons • Prizes Featuring: FA...…
…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 rIbrah 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 ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 Remembering _1948 Four Detroiters recall Israel's fight for independence For Henry Remington, life in Austria had become exceedingly Staff Writer dangerous. He remembers a pleasant day when he was drinking coffee at a he Vienna cafes were smoky, sidewalk cafe. He looked around, "and the men were elegant and the I saw red flags with swastikas and pic- women were flashy. It was a tures of Hitler's face everywhere," he life of ric...…
…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 Israel Consulate and a list of Americans honored at the Israel Memorial Forest. Those named, several whom Fingeroot knew, were killed in the War of Independence. Fingeroot knows that he could easi- ly have been one of those listed at the memorial forest, but ignoring his duty to Israel during the war was never an option. "I felt it was something important to do," he says. "Something just pulled ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 OFRA FISHER ed to maintain a regular life. The children attended school when possible because "the education was more im- portant even than water." Fisher left Jerusalem when the family received news that her father had been wounded and was being taken to a hospital in Tel Aviv. The family packed up, taking only several days' worth of clothing, and headed off to Tel Aviv. The journey was an adventure for young Ofra. She and her ...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 A New Religion? Two thinkers disagree on Israel's meaning to American Jews DAVID HOLZEL Staff Writer I srael's existence has changed and challenged American Jews, but in ways no one dreamed of 40 years ago when the state was founded. Ask two American Jewish thinkers what impact Israel has made on Jews in this country and you will get — to borrow from the old joke — a minimum of two answers. Has Israel become the religion of ...…
…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, ...…
…■ :41 44 ir4 ISRAEL AT 40 Going Up The `Ingathering of the Exiles' is taking longer than was expected 40 years ago KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer 11111 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 ml Aviv in an old renovated building on Hayarkon Street f...…
…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 HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent J erusalem — Take immigrants from more than a hundred lands, mix and blend and the result is a Sabra, the native- born Israeli who is named for the cactus fruit — prickly on the out- side, sweet on the inside. A cute oversimplification but sur- prisingly apt. For millions of Jews around the world, the Sabra — tall, handsome, sun- burned, plough in one h...…
…ISRAEL AT 40 An American Jew's Letter To Israel LEONARD FEIN Special to the Jewish News IF 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 ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review 13—NO. 10 2114 Penobscot Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, May 21, 1948 ISRAEL LIVES 34 aillaLiu 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 104 ruIN 4114 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 ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY APRIL 15, 1988 / 28 NISAN 5748 AJCampaign Stages Star-Studded Closing CLOSE-UP ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor The Jewish Welfare Federation held its own Academy Awards Mon- day evening, presenting a "Freddie" to its Women's Division and several humorous song-and-dance routines, and closing out the most successful Allied Jewish Campaign in Detroit's history. "The Academy A...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY `Fifth Column' Re-Emerges As Test And Warning PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus A question that was posed about Arabs in Israel immediately upon the acquisition to sovereignty by the redeemed Jewish state was: Will the Arabs who have chosen to remain in Israel be fully cooperative and loyal to the Jewish state? This question arose repeatedly and there was the frequent suspicion that perhaps there will be betrayals. Then c...…
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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. Gala. Entertainment. Exhibits. Special events. Travel information. May 1 thru 5 at Tel-12 Mall. 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 Detroiters join together to celebrate Israel's 40th...…
…UP FRONT MSU Arab Demonstration Timed For Holocaust Week ELIZABETH KAPLAN Staff Writer ast Lansing — It was no coincidence that a demon- stration, initiated by Palesti- nians and held Monday at Michigan State University, fell the same week as Holocaust Memorial Day. The General Union of Palestinian Students, which sponsored the event, planned it that way. "We're not saying that people should forget the Holocaust," said one demonstrator, wh...…
…EDITORIAL Federated Strength Our front page this week features three stories revolving around the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and Jewish communal life. The Federation on Monday celebrated the closing of the most suc- cessful Allied Jewish Campaign in its history, projecting a record $26 million this year for communal needs at home and overseas. Our Close-Up story features Mandell "Bill" Berman, a long-time leader in the Federation w...…
…I CONTENTS OPINION 24 CLOSE-UP Monitoring The Process ALAN HITSKY Bill Berman has lofty goals for the Jewish community and its federation structure. INSIDE WASHINGTON Religious News Service The Jackson Gap 30 JAMES DAVID BESSER Can Jewish voters bridge the Jesse Jackson gulf? A sculpture at the Dachau concentration camp memorializes the victims of the Holocaust. Responses To The Holocaust: Reject Or Embrace Judaism RABBI SHLOMO RI...…
…Wayne State University CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES* presents SOVIET JEWRY AND THE LIMITS OF GLASNOST Dr. ZVI GITELMAN University of Michigan Politics, History and Memory: The Soviet Treatment of the Holocaust Tuesday, April 19, 1988 • 4 p.m. Wayne State University Manoogian Hall, Greek Room (#179) Gorbachev's Reforms and the Future of Soviet Jewry Thursday. April 28, 1988 • 8 p.m. Congregation Shaarey Zedek 27375 Bell Road, Southfield ...…
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…I CLOSE-UP lYlonitoring The Process Five months after becoming `Mr. Federation,' Bill Berman maintains some lofty goals for the Jews of North America ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor 1111 andell "Bill" Berman's third-floor office overlooks Franklin Road and North- western Highway but the view from the window con- tinuously dissolves — via telephone — to New York, Miami, California and Jerusalem. That afternoon, Jewish Agency Chairman Mendel ...…
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