…Left: Udi Kapan at Masada Above: Udi Kapan,, with friends and fellow med ical student-volunteers at the Sea of Galilee. In the summer 1991, Udi Kapen, now Dr. Ehud Kapen, a third-year resi- dent in pediatrics at Children's Hospital, participated in a volunteer pro- gram for medical students, says his mother, Rachel Kapen of West Bloom- field. During the trip he visited Yam Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) and Masada. Above: Hy Shenkman of Wat...…
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…At The Fork In The Road Jews changed their world forever by taking destiny into their own hands. Now what? as well. In 1948, there were 600,000 Jews there; today the number is 4.8 mil- lion, an eight-fold increase in 50 years. Economically the story is similar. In t the recently concluded 1998, Israel's Gross Domestic Product is annual March conference of $96 billion with exports of more than the Israel Democracy $30 billion. Institute, Ehud...…
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…Close • ssionate Rise Of A British soldier moves "illegals" to a detention camp. O RABBI DAVID GEFFEN Special to The Jewish News I n 1890, Nathan Birnbaum coined the term "Zionism" in his journal "Self Emancipation." Seven years later, the phrase was adopted by the Zionist movement at its First Congress (1897), but the idea is as old as Jewish history itself. Wherever they lived throughout the ages, Jews never accepted their existence i...…
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…Through all the Tears, Struggle and Joy, We Proudly Salute Israel's 50th Birthday Prime Ministers DAVID BEN-GURION (1886-1973) The look A slightly sour Yoda with a startling half-halo of hair. The life: Born David Green in Plontz, Poland, then part of Rus- sia. Became involved in the Zionist movement while still in his teens. He adopted the name "Ben-Gurion" — "son of lion cub" in Hebrew — while working as a journal- ist in Jerusalem. (Lat...…
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…We Salute the State of Israel on its 50th Anniversary Close U PRIME MINISTERS from page 103 took over for the next four years, each becoming the other's foreign minister. Under the Shamir government, Israel took a hard line against Palestinian uprisings and promoted West Bank set- dement by Jews. Shamir maintained Israeli leadership after a 1990 vote of no confidence, but Likud lost the 1992 elections and he was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin....…
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…Memories Of Israel Young adults have different stories but a similar bond to the Jewish state. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Scene Editor Jodi Berger hiked from the Mediterranean to the Kineret, in fields o Israeli wildflow- ers. This was taken in Hai in April 1996 Digging, up archaeological ruins: Nancy Singer, Sandy Rockind and Jon Berlin. For Jennifer Mattler and Rachel Morse, Israel was a place of family bonding. plane attler steps off the Jen...…
…Leah Gella Tol-win f living in From 2 1/2 years of brio s tears to g erusalem, one memory J Leah Gella's eyes: "I miss this so much. The only thing that stands out in my mind in Israel, being there, living there, loving there, davening there, is there's no better place to be proud to no question be a Jew. Because there's And about who we are as a people. uestion then of course, there's no q about who you are as a person." Terri (Rosen) Trepec...…
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…A Portrait Of Israel A semester in Tel Aviv sparked a love of Hebrew and a sense of belonging. Julie Wiener, on the wall of Jerusalem's Old City. 'JULIE WIENER Staff Writer he whole country of Israel, which I had imagined as a pile of rocks and ruins, was surprisingly alive and sensu- al even when it was ugly: the intensity of the sun, the smells, the crowds, the -poise, the pushing, the yelling, the piercing beeps that herald the hourly K...…
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…efements and a mixed population of Arabs and Jews. The colors of blue and yellow relate to this area.' , Geva, who is active with groups in favor of the peace process, also has done a series based on the kaffiyeh, the Arab head covering which has been a symbol of the Palestinian strug- l ee against occupation. "I try to refer to the fluctuation of the kaffiyeh image throughout the rears, between the rigid aspects and the softer ones," says Gev...…
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…• - - • \yarmulke made him an Israeli settler. An Israeli boy, watching a segment with a Palestinian in headdress, was certain he was seeing a terrorist. With time out for explanations and time for interaction, the significance of the head coverings was understood and fears allayed. "The whole idea is to teach them to look past the symbols they might fear that there are other people O in that d see they can learn from and be friends with,"...…
…At The Movies A struggling Israeli film industry. ALAN ABRAMS Special to the Jewish News lthough movies and Jews are often intertwined in people's minds, that has- n't been the case in Israel. In 50 years of state- hood, the Israeli film industry has produced fewer than 400 films, said film historian Amy Kronish, curator of Israeli and Jewish film at the Israel Film Archive/Jerusalem Cine- matheque and author of a book on Israeli film- maki...…
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…On The Bookshelf A roundup of new books commemorating Israel's 50th anniversary. GAIL ZIMMERMAN Arts and Entertainment Editor A th frac' ht4;i4,0(1 ... ::"71*. MO 5/1 1998 126 Testament: At the Creation of the State of Israel By Aaron Levin with an introduction by Shimon Peres; Artisan; $35. American photojournalist Aaron Levin interviewed 80 extraordinary men and women — the famous and not-so-famous — who struggled to bring the Stat...…
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…MEntertainment LINDA BACHRACK Special to The Jewish News T State There are no easy definitions of Israeli art. t was simply a marriage of sit- says Lila Silverman. ' an her husband, Gilbert, avid contemporary art ectors, were in the midst of rnov- " incomparable Fluxus art allation to a newly renovated ce at the Parker Webb Building in etroit. "One night, during the move, we tertained James Snyder in our ome and an idea was born," says ...…
…• says Israeli-born artist Efrat Baler of New York. "People like Marc Chagall and Ben Shahn were Jewish artists who \;- used Jewish themes but painted in the style wherever they lived at the time. "Because Israel has many influences from the United States and Europe, today many Israeli artists use many conventions of the avant-garde," she says. "But most, though influenced by current trends, can't completely get away from the hills of Jerusal...…
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