…DETROIT JEWLSR NEWS ontents A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards N www.detroitjewishnews.com May 18, 2001 Iyar 25, 5761 Vol. CXIX, No. 14 This Week AppleTree 22 The Voice Of What? 65 JerusaleMania! The Conference of Presidents faces tough questions about its reach. Opinion New name, walk and Culture Shuk for Sunday's community event. Arts & Entertainment 35 Revitalizing 74 Dou...…
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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK LETTERS Letters are posted and archived on JN Online: vv-ww.detroitjewishnews.com Showing That We Care IV e're Detroiters, but Israel is our homeland. So we must keep it in our prayers. The tiny nation is that important to us, although it's half a world away. That is why 1,200 of us came together for a rally last Octo- ber to say we stood with the land of our forebears, despite the turmoil and tragedy in the Mideast. Tha...…
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…For Openers Bantam Of The Opera now © 2001 BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News By Goldfein I is almost midnight and 7-year-old Aaron Folbe should be in bed. Instead he's prancing around the stage of the Detroit Opera House, performing in the Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT) production of Verdi's Falstaff The Huntington Woods youngster is making his show business debut — for three minutes — as a supernumerary (a theater extra with a non-s...…
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…Staff Notebook Long-Lying Vandalism No Dig V locally coordinated six-week archeological excavation in Israel that college students can attend for credit has been canceled due to lack of interest — not increased Mideast vio- lence — according to staff members. The University of Michigan-Zippori archeological excavation combines tour- ing Israel with studying ancient and modern history, working on an archeo- logical dig and living on a kibbu...…
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…ALAN ABRAMS Special to the Jewish News A Jewish Army engineer from Southfield, who during a six-year period faced multiple investigations that he spied for Israel, is suing the Army, claiming that anti-Semitism motivated the discredited accusations against him. David Tenenbaum, an Orthod: x Jew employed at the Army's Tank Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) headquar- ters in Warren, was never charged with espi- onage. But the widely re...…
…Cover Story TARGETED? from page 15 covery process in his U.S District Court case. He received documents from the Department of Defense through at least June 2000. His brief claims, "Even key Army officials who played primary roles in the underlying events of this case have admitted that Tenenbaum's being an Orthodox Jew was a driving factor in accusing him of espionage" (arguing deposition testimony of Special Agent Steve Twynham of the 902n...…
…knew there was a good chance that agents would search his house. In the middle of Shabbat lunch, seven or eight federal agents descended upon his home, according to his appellate brief and an interview with Tenenbaum. Harassment? In an interview, Tenenbaum said the lead FBI agent told him, "I have no idea what a doing here." But the agents came in and turned his house "upside down." He said his daughter, who was then 5, still is troubled by ...…
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…The Voice Of What? Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations prepare to elect a new head amid questions about whether it still speaks for most American Jews. THE CONFERENCE To become a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations an organization must be at least five years old, have democratically elected officers and members of the board, have a professional staff, be committed to the...…
…Introducing... who donates a minimum of $1 mil- lion a year to Jewish causes, says that politicians no longer accept the con- ference's consensus as the bottom line for Jewish opinion. "I think political figures are more tuned into what's actually happening, and they're aware that the conference does not speak with a voice that represents the Jewish people," he says. But Kenneth Bialkin, former chair- man of the conference, and chairman of th...…
…Photo by AP/Lefteris Picarakis CITIZENS OF A SORT Israeli Arabs louder than ever in commemoration of "catastrophe." GIL SEDAN A Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem t noon Tuesday, life among Israel's 1 mil- lion Arab citizens came to a standstill. For the first time in the history of the state, Arabs in Israel stood up for a moment of silence — commemorating Al Nakba — Arabic for "the catastrophe," which is what Palestinians call the 19...…
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…News Digest Ukraine Jews To Make Aliyah Kiev/JTA A small Jewish commu- nity of 50 people recently discovered in southwestern Ukraine by the Jewish Agency for Israel is preparing to move to Israel. Residents of the village of Konetspol, about 150 miles north of Odessa, were discovered after several Jews from the village approached a Jewish Agency representative, express- ing an interest in learning Hebrew and moving to the Jewish state. Cana...…
…News Digest NEWS DIGEST from page 31 Klucrb' er who died last year. Several stones reportedly were destroyed, and the cemetery's walls were defaced with anti-Semitic slo- gans, swastikas and an image of a gal- lows with a Star of David hanging from it. New Programs Aid German Rabbis Berlin/JTA — The College for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Germany, plans to start a multidenominational rab- binical studies program in the fall. Another prev...…
…This Week Insight Remember When • • • Beyond The Neighborhood From the pages of the Jewish News for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 1991 Irnai B'rith president warns of a new campaign against Israel and Jews. ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T hat Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood was not news to Detroiters last week. But B'nai B'rith International President Richard Heideman sum- marized a litany of attacks on the Jewish...…
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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com Revitalizing The Conference N ext week, the 54-member Confer- ence of Presidents of Major Amer- ican Jewish Organizations will meet to elect its chairman for the next two years, most likely New York publisher and real estate tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman. It would be healthy for the confer- ence if it also were to vote to create a task force to study its own future and ...…
…OTHER VIEWS American Jewry's Indifference Jerusalem T he failure of Israeli advoca- cy is only one of the many reasons for Israel's lessened world stature. No less sig- nificant is the loss of Israel's most powerful source of support: the Amer- ican Jewish community. Within American Jewry, there is both a rapidly diminishing identifica- tion with Israel and a complete break- down of the old consensus about just what is good for Israel. The...…
…No Moral Equivalence Philadelphia he death of a child can never be accepted with equanimity. When such an event occurs, there is no greater tragedy for both the family and society as a whole. Each life is precious. Grief over such a loss is unbearable and immeasurable. But when we look at recent deaths in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinians, it would be a. mis- take, as many in the media have done, to merely add up the deaths ...…
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…DIANA LIEBERMAN Staff Writer New York City long day of learning began at 5 a.m. April 29 for 167 Detroit- area preschool teach- ers and administrators. They toured Ellis Island and the nearby Museum of Jewish Heritage, I-calming, tired but invigorated, that same night. Each had completed the first year of the two-year Jewish Early Education Enhancement Project, known as JEEEP. A program funded by the Hermelin-Davidson Center for Congregation ...…
…Dina Schtull-Leber, head of the Judaic staff at Tamarack Camps. Subjects ranged from the Jewish view of angels to life cycles and holidays. "She is so knowledgeable," says Beth El teacher Jan Emmer of Farmington Hills. "She doesn't lecture. It's more like a conversa- tion. "We'd better be getting something out of it, to be there at 7:30 in the morning," adds co-worker Maxine Harwin of West Bloomfield. The unit on angels was highly informative ...…
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…Communit Here's To Jessica. Hersh, a 12-year-old seventh- grade student at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield, received the honor of Miss Junior Dance of Michigan runner-up 2001 at the Kids Artistic Review National Dance Competition. She Jessica Hersh danced in eight dances and was rec- ognized for her lyrical solo "December Dream." She is on the competition team at American Dance Academy. Eric Coleman, D-Southfield, Oak Park, Royal Oa...…
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