…Redefining Reform TEMPLE BETH EL CHECK OUT OUR PRICES ON OMNIA LEATHER AND CARTER UPHOLSTERY AND PAY No SALES TAx UNTIL MAY 15TH! from page 12 Two years into his rabbinate at the temple, Rabbi Glazer founded the Institute on Judaism, an annual semi- nar to educate the non-Jewish religious community about Judaism. The 58th Institute was held earlier this year. But war was what occupied most Beth El members' thoughts in the 1940s. More than ...…
…What country comes closest to Silicon Valley in developing high- tech start-up companies? Israel. The driving force behind that achievement? Graduates of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, a world-class university celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Technion graduates make up most of Israel's scientists and engineers. And of the entrepreneurs behind its many successful companies on the U.S. stock exchanges. For six dec...…
…Week CONGRATOTE TEMPLE BETH EL You Sfactent's success wtf) cm act II) Ae ewish leers Cup & Govn ',Special / Sectioni )'\1 Redefining Reform from page 14 influence of the secular society, were raised. During this period, Gail Hirschenfang, Beth El's first profession- al cantor, was hired, changing the ambi- ence of worship services. Cantor Stephen Dubov took over from her in 1996. He has expanded the musical life at Beth El, especially ...…
…STATE OF ISRAEL BONDS CONGRATULATES Michigan National which will receive the ISRAEL BONDS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY AWARD in recognition of outstanding support of Israel's economic growth Presented at a GALA DINNER Launching Our 50th Anniversary Celebration Guest of Honor H.E. Ehud Barak Prime Minister of Israel SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 2000 NEW YORK HILTON, NEW YORK CITY For information and reservations, please call 248-352-6555 or 888-...…
…This Week — Not Borders Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres speaks of the future in the Middle East. HARRY KI RS BAU M StaffWriter T he future of the Middle East lies not in land and borders, but in economics, communications and human beings, said former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to a crowd of 500 gathered at Wayne State University in Detroit. "The Middle East was united by prophets, divided by kings, and it stands a chance to ...…
…6 MONTH CD really start revealing his strategic plans. It was just interesting to hear the perspective of somebody who has so much experience in politics and the peace process,” . David Goldman, 18 "I found' it cornpktely insptrmg to se him. e I'm going to Israel this I summer, and thought it was incredible to meet someone who's been involved in the peace process. I-1 es so I honest and candid about it," , I what his views were. Jr was a...…
…Week „Mt re vt,• SUNDAY, MAY 21 1 - 4 PA Grounds of Temple Emanu-Er, 14450 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park Featurin g Israeli folk dances and son gs pert-ormed by Second deadly shooting spree in Pittsburgh in two months spurs calls for increased gun control and hate crimes laws. THE StIAGIAR ENSEMBLE fROM KIEV VpigNi Nt: and PETER EPHROSS Jewish Telegraphic Agency RON ail#1 This is your chance to "visit" the major cities of Israel. Enjoy ...…
…ic Baumhammers, his arraignrnen : In a search of his house, police found what has been described as a manifesto of his Free Market Party, which advo- cates the rights of European Americans and denounces immigration from the Third World. Baumhammers' manifesto is appar- ently linked to a philosophy known as the Third Position, an ideology of revo- lution and racial separation that is attracting right-wing and left-wing extremists. Baumhamme...…
…This Week Uphill All The Way Wisconsin's Feingold seeks a national death penalty moratorium. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent Jewish senator is leading the push for a nationwide mora- torium on executions until studies about how capital punishment is applied are completed. And he is getting strong backing from some Jewish groups. Last week, Sen. Russ Feingold (D- Wis.) introduced the National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2000, w...…
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…k his Week THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO JEWISH LIVING IN Mideast Terror Is Decreasing The State Department cites a drop, but says Syria and Iran still sponsor violence. SHARON SAMBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington he number of terrorist attacks in 1999 went up in every region of the world except the Middle East, where the number of attacks decreased from 31 to 25. The primary locus of terrorism is now in South Asia, particularly in Afgh...…
…RINKE CADILLAC crack down on terrorism. The report praised the Palestinian Authority's efforts in counterterrorism, noting that the Palestinians' security forces pre-empted several terrorist attacks and sought to develop leads about Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad activity. While this progress is to be recog- nized, there are deficits in the Palestinians' counterterrorism program, mainly the inability to uproot the financing and recruitme...…
…This Week io Tears Behind Bars A pilot recalls his ordeal as a Jew accused of spying in Iran. EVELINA SHMUKLER Special to the Jewish News Swainsboro, Ga. mong the 300 pictures David Rabhan sketched and painted during his 10 years in prison in Iran, there is one of Iranian justice. It is the traditional picture of a woman, Justice, holding a scale. On one side sits the defendant; on the other, the prosecutor's finger tips the scale over. J...…
…elebrate With Us. EIGHT over EIGHTY TODAY'S REAL HEROES The Seventh Annual Installation into the Jewish Apartments & Services (JAS) Senior Adult Jewish Hall of Fame Join us as we recognize eight special senior adults for their years of community volunteerism and dedication. Event proceeds will provide food subsidies for low income senior adult residents. Sunday, May 7, 2000 11:00 a.m. - Brunch Noon - Induction Ceremony Jules Doneson Li...…
…This Week Guilty Or Coerced? The confession of an Iranian Jew sparks many new concerns. reportedly also admitted to being trained and paid by the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. After the hearing, the authorities assailed him for New York carrying out this work for "the love of ranian hard-liners are showing Israel" — and for the money. no signs of backing down in the Israel, for its part, steadfastly denied trial of 13 Iranian Jew...…
…vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "Without him, there's no case," said Hoenlein, who has been closely moni- toring developments taking place in Iran. "Getting him to confess was cru- cial." Tefileen has not yet been sentenced, though state television said he had asked for clemency. 36 Months, 36,000 Miles $1,000 Down. $1,559.12 Due at Signing No Predictions Hearings for the remaining 12 we...…
…This Week "Behold how good it is for brothers and sis- ters to dwell together in peace." — Psalm 133:1 ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor peaking from the Temple Shir Shalom bima on behalf of the Archdiocese of Detroit, Cardinal Adam Maida sought forgiveness for the Roman Catholic Church's failure to defend the rights of Jews, especially in the Holocaust. For the first time from a Jewish pulpit, the 70-year-old cardinal directly related that he is "a m...…
…Reaction to Cardinal Maida's remarks: • Don Cohen, execu- tive director, Anti- Defamation League/Michigan Region: "Cardinal Maida gave the clearest expression of regret and apology for anti- semitism that I have heard from a Church Don Cohen leader. He spoke from his heart, reaching out to the Detroit Jewish community, con- demning antisemitism and expressing particular regret for Catholic antisemitism in the Detroit area. While issues and ind...…
…This Week Alleged Nazi Found U.S. Department of Justice accuses another Sterling Heights man of having a Nazi past. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer 0 ne month after deporting one convicted Nazi from Sterling Heights to Austria, the U.S. Department of Justice has set its sights on another man residing in the same city. The Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations filed a com- The Yeshivat Akiva Children's Choir came to sing. pla...…
…his Week .44 4e, •10, No Lawyers Needed Help with Holocaust era insurance claim forms available at no charge from Jewish Family Service. T HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer hey've suffered enough. When local Holocaust survivors faced the latest round of applying for com- pensation in March — this time for claims on unpaid insurance policies from World War II — Jewish Family Service in Southfield trained volun- teers to help them for free. As ...…
…This Week ERIC SILVER Moderate Voices Israel Correspondent Ehud Olmert, the Likud mayor of Jerusalem, also distanced himself from the call to arms. During last year's national elections, Olmert appeared in Labor television spots announcing that Jerusalem was safe in Barak's hands. Now he is not so sure, and is campaigning against the handing over of Abu Dis and other suburban Arab villages, which he fears will prove the thin end of a Pales...…
…This Week Insight n. Remember When 46,,,,,AAM4:144kM4M044%:4:,. Count Us In Finishing touches are being put on a long-awaited population study. JULIE WIENER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Sponsored by the United Jewish Communities, the new national fund- raising and social service umbrella New York organization, the approximately $5 f you get a phone call in the million study plans to survey 5,000 next few months from a U.S. Jews, more than...…
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…itorials 4. 4 Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com L Weekend To Remember • Rabbi Daniel Nevins was ast weekend underscored installed as senior rabbi of Adat Detroit Jewry's rich Shalom Synagogue. Speaking for diversity. many, the Jewish Federation's It began on erev Shab- Robert Aronson sajd, "Danny has bat at Temple Shir Shalom. Speak- left his mark well beyond the ing on b...…
…C0111111111FIT VIEWS When Freedom And Hate Collide to ban this book and boycott Ama- he Protocols of the Learned for selling it, under the aus- zon.com Elders of Zion is one of the pices that, by selling it, the company most intense pieces of hate endorses its content. But on the Web literature ever produced. site where one can find the book, the It was written, printed and circulat- bookseller says, "Please note ed by the Czarist Secret tha...…
…SPECIAL COMMENTARY The Warsaw That I Knew A GUSTAV BERENHOLZ Special to the Jewish News Greg SHOES Orchard Mall • Orchard Lake Rd., N. of Maple • W. Bloomfield 851-5566 Staff photo by Krista Husa Aril 19, 57 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began. The moral impact of that heroic uprising was enormous and universal. In remem- bering that event, I wish to share with you some memories of the Warsaw that I knew. I was born and raised ...…
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…• \ •;a 4.' 1*, k4V-010' ;1 , • • A',; • . • DAVID SACHS Staff Writer he Cass Corridor, just north of downtown Detroit, is the forsaken sort of place that the late folksinger Phil Ochs had in mind with his early-1960s lyrics, "There, but for fortune, go you or I." But there are those who have forsaken fortune for social action. Professional people, for example, committing a few hours a week or perhaps every working moment — trying to...…
…Commu n ity Army will honor the Dickmans with the "Others Award," its second highest honor, before an expected 800 people at its annual civic dinner in Detroit's Renaissance Center. Dual Purpose the clinic, part-time interns — mostly law students from the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University — interview clients and do case management. Interns are allowed to rep- resent clients in court as long as attorney Dickman is presen...…
…YOM H AZ I !‹A RO N 2000 1 11,71i1 Christian-Jewish Relations Is Topic Professor David Weinberg of Wayne State University will speak on "From Suspicion to Tolerance — Christian- Jewish Relations in the 21st Century," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11, at the Jewish Community Center in Oak Park. The lecture is part of the series offered by the Jewish Community David Weinberg Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studi...…
…Community •AVA::::, "Eight Over Eighty" ceremonies to be held May 7. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter T Mf• At. a • • gis a at ME Et • w • lannir r As iy vs 21 se at Si Eight new superstars will be named to the Senior Adult Jewish Hall of Fame. / 1 21; 5/5 2000 44 hey are today's real heroes — men and women who, after years of devotion to career and family, con- tinue to make the world a better place through their volunteer effo...…
…Jules Doneson Nobody forced Jules Doneson to join the Hagana, the main Jewish resistance group during the British mandate of Palestine, or to remain in Israel to fight in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. Yet Doneson's love of his people was so great that he voluntari- ly put his life in danger more than once to help assure the founding of the Jewish state. In nominating him Jules Doneson to the Senior Adult Jewish Hall of Fame, his five ...…
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…WE INVITE COMPARISON Accommodations at Regent Street Assisted Living begin at $3265 per month. This includes: • Private room with private bath, step-in shower and refrigerator New York-based newspaper, the being," says Cantor David Gutman of Forward which they read and discuss in Congregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia. Yiddish and English. Adds Cantor Sidney Resnick of Temple The goal of the weekly'meeting, Beth El in Windsor, "She has a youth...…
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…Women's Campaign Meeting Slated Doreen Hermelin, wife of former U.S. ambassador to Norway David Hermelin, will speak on "North by Northwest: An Adventure in Norway" at the Jewish Federation Women's Campaign and Education Department annual meeting 9:30 a.m.-noon Wednesday, May 24, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Election and installation of the new board of directors and officers will also take place. Nominees are: Paula Gla...…
…SZ Names JTS Honorees Metro Detroit's Jewish Assisted Living Community Congregation Shaarey Zedek will honor Shaarey Zedek members serving on Dr. Alden and Lorraine Leib, their the local JTS board are Beverly Baker, Jewish Theological Seminary honorees, Debbie Balkin, Michael Balkin, Jenny Doifinan, Leonard at a JTS Shabbat on Baron, Mandell Berman, Saturday, May 5. Dr. Leib is president of Susan Bernstein, David Periodontic Associates, Bron...…
…111111111* THE ALL NEW 2001 FORESTER ,1tzl • 12W aa‘azi 0.7d18 L im JCC Hosts Yuval Rabin In honor of Israel Independence Day May 10, the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit will host an inter- view with Yuval Rabin 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Rabin is chairman Yuval Rabin of the Israeli grass- roots social move- ment Dor Shalom (Generation of Peace) and the only son of the ...…
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…y 6e Lag b'Omer Concert At Shaarey Zedek The 2000 Peter and Clara Weisberg - The Voice of Akiva concert will take place 8 p.m. Monday, May 22, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The musi- cal celebration of the holiday of Lag b'omer, includes songs of Jewish survival, corn- mitment and the struggle for religious freedom. The concert includes a perfor- Cantor Cohen mance by Kol Zimrah, the Jewish Community Singers of Chicago, direct- ed by Canto...…
…• Community ieve join/ un &Vita/ THE CHILDREN OF ALYN HOSPITAL AS WE HONOR Book Of Life Signing Event More than 100 endowment fund donors and 50-year contributors to the Jewish Federation's Annual Campaign will be honored at a Book of Life signing event from 4:30-6 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township. Each of the honorees has related his or her family memories in the book, which was crea...…
…Patricia Averbuch, RN Linda Belkin, RN, BSN Nancy R. Berman, MSN, RN, CS Debbie Bernstein, RN, MBA Randee Bloom, RN, MBA Suzy S. Darmon, RN Rhonda Dean, RN, Audrey Demak, R Cindy DiskinSN„\., Fern Cami4iirdelst6, RN n, RN Debra A. . ' fisher, RN, BSN Professor Speaking At Mifgash Professor Michael Harris will be the guest speaker at the monthly Mifgash event for Hebrew speakers at the Agency for Jewish Education Lifelong Learning program for...…
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…Women To Focus On Weapons Control Three days before many of its members join the Million Mom March in Washington, Women's Action for New Directions will hold its 13th annual Mothers Peace Day Award breakfast. The WAND breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 11, at the Community House in Birmingham, 380 S. Bates. Keynote speaker Kathryn Bowers, WAND national presi- dent and a Tennessee lawmaker, will speak on Abolition 2000, a worldwide m...…
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…Calendar Calendar Listings are updated regularly on JN Online: www.detroitjewishnews.com SIIABBAT SHALOM ! ONEG SHABBAT AND BOOK REVIEW Sholem Aleichem Institute holds annu- al book review of Nathan Englander's For the Relief of Unbearable Urges lead by Ruth Waldfogel and Dave Moskowitz at Oneg Shabbat 8 p.m. Friday, May 12, at Southfield offices of the National Council for Jewish Women. Open to the community. (248) 352-6852. REKINDLING ...…
…FRATERNITY ALUMNI MEET The Gamma Kappa Chi Alumni lunch 12:30 p.m. Thursdays, through May at Berkley's Sila's Restaurant and Pizzeria. Jerry Efros (248) 547-8167 and Norm Steel (248) 569-0082. SENIORS STORY'I'ELLER AT BETH AIM Corrine Stavish prsents amusing and seri- ous stories at breakfast meeting 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 7. $3 members/$3.50 others. (248) 851-6880. KLEZMER FUSION BAND The Shaarey Zedek seniors celebrate Bess & Erwin Kornwi...…
…Professionals throw party at the Detroit Opera House with culinary treats, wine and cocktails, music by Blackman/Arnold and the World Jazz band, a silent action and a "Dream Date" live auction 6:30-10 p.m. Thursday, May 18. $35 advance/$45 at door. RSVP: (313) 237-3407. EDUCATION Orchard Lake Road, just North of Maple Leart THE ART OF GLASS The Center for New Thinking, director Rabbi Sherwin T Wine, presents Ferdinand Hampson, founder and...…
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