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…2 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS PURELY COMMENTARY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Israel's 'Centrality' Claim Is Now Being Brutally Tested In the past decade, at least, emphasis in dealing with Israel when American identification was most notably pleaded for, was the centrality of the Jewish State. It has been treated with great respect. Centrality became a rallying call. The fact that such appeals were most usually re- sorted to in fun...…
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…4 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS THE JEWISH NEWS Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. Editorial and Sales offices at 20300 Civic Center Dr., Suite 240, Southfield, Michigan 48076-4138 Telephone (313) 354-6060 PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt CONSULTANT: Carmi M. Slomovitz ART DIRECTOR:...…
…5 THE JEWISH NEWS CONTENTS 10 Legislative Attitudes 36 IPO For JWF 60th 37 Neighborhood Boss Named 40 Shavuot: Reminder Of Faith 52 Danny Raskin 70 Engagement Announcements 86 The 'Politics Of Charity' For That Special Person on Father's Day 20% OFF ALL tarns Super Special THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM MENS SHOP kVood•ard and Maple Birmingham 642-1965 by Marek Halter Kercheval, in the Village Grosse Pointe 884-0701 Retail $19.95 FRUIT & GIFT...…
…6 Friday, June 13, 1986 n. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS :R and G RANDDADS FOR """ NEW. MEMBERSHIP Or4$ c) PLUS 0 " op A■ t10 c,c ,S\-\" NEWS For those who want the finest custom furniture at... NIN v AFFORDABLE PRICES 3 FREE RENTALS PLUS 1 VIDEO PLUS BLANK TAPE Nie DNS The simplest cube to the most intricate wall unit built to your specifications by meticulous craftsmen. )1( Selections for every room in your home or office in fine woods, ...…
…7 DESIGNS IN DECORATOR LAMINATES NOW . . . at your service ( "All that the name implies." ._ Service received $10,000 for its project in Sri Lanka which will channel money and Israeli agricultural expertise into an in- digenous self-help group already existing in the small, poverty ridden island just south of India. Seva (Hebrew for satisfaction from eating) will receive $1,250 to purchase basic food items for the opening of its second h...…
…8 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS OPAAA!!! JOIN THE FUN • • And help raise funds for MARTIN KROHNER Candidate for the Open Seat on the Oakland Circuit Bench • Greek Buffet! • Wine! • Fun! Thursday, June 19, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aldingbrooke Club House -W. Bloomfield (Entrance Off of Drake Rd. between Maple & Walnut Lk. Rd.) HOST COMMITTEE Mr. & Mrs. Peter Weisberg Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Weisberg Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Weisberg Mr. & M...…
…9 mumemmaih. KLEENEX TISSUES 70' ble decision from the U.S. courts on our extradition request for Demjanjuk. Now that the days since that decision have turned into weeks and now that I have heard it straight from the horse's mouth, the Justice Ministry's current policy is all too painfully clear. The policy is back to what it has been, with rare exception, since the creation of the state. Bluntly put, the policy is to avoid and delay havin...…
…10 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Come Visit LOCAL NEWS NISSAN for the best deals & largest selection L Stuart Germansky Jacqueline Holzman Fincher 28200 W. 8 Mile 471-5353 (2 Miles West of Telegraph 1 Mile East of Middlebelt Sales, Service & Parts Handcrafted leather ItalianSandals with sued cushioned sole in your choice of style. Size 7-13. Sen. Gilbert DiNello tour: the Holocaust Memorial Center. Sale Ends Tuesda...…
…11 NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: swer questions. Faxon, however, bristled at the explanation. "The presentation was made to the Department of Management and Budget, not to the legisla- ture. A la of .those things they accept because the DMB put it into the bill. They are applying a standard to one group that they are not applying to other groups. Why scrutinize one line that has the name 'Jewish' in it, and not scrutinize others?" A state appropria...…
…12 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS AL'S SAVES YOU MONEY! CUSTOM WALL MIRROR SPECIALISTS BEVELED MIRROR BIFOLD DOORS Reg. ESTABLISHED 1920 64 YEARS SERVING METRO DETROIT NOW $9988 '175" SAVE $75.62 FRAMED MIRRORS ON DISPLAY SOUTHFIELD: 24777 Telegraph 363-2500 Other locations: Wayne and Lincoln Park Continued from preceding page TUB ENCLOSURE • Chrome or gold frames • Clear, bronze or textured glass • custom units...…
…13 NEWS CBI Keeping Israel Beautiful Baskets from A-Z; camp, graduation, new babies, happy birthday, welcome and so sorry. BY LILI EYLON Gift Baskets & Trays Our Specialty Jerusalem — At an army camp somewhere in Israel, dignitaries and guests gather on the mani- cured lawn for a ceremony award- ing prizes to the neatest, most beautiful military base. In a Jerusalem school auditorium, youngsters give a musical per- formance about cleanli...…
…14 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY' S PROMISE* Forever Free Spreading liberty throughout the world is not an easy chore. Yet, The Lady has done it with dignity, modesty and a silent language that all people hear. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Editor of This Special Section he stands in New York harbor, just beyond where the waters stop being the Atlantic. At that point, they are still salty enough not to be fresh and frigid en...…
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…16 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* The Voices of Liberty C Four Detroit area residents' reminisce about their journey to America and their first glimpse of the Statue. • VICTORIA DIAZ Special to The Jewish News en Press remembers his fear that he would not pass the physical examination. Lillian Lichtenstein remembers being stranded by a forgetful relative. Gretl . Frank remembers the empty, cavernous r...…
…17 *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* Sisters Lillian Lichtenstein and Bessie Lopatin recall Ellis Island. native Ukraine had begun two years earlier — stayed for almost two months. While on Ellis Island, the children, whose father had been shot by Cossacks in the Ukraine and whose mother, soon after, had died in the world-wide flu epidemic of 1919, were given three meals a day and slept in a large, dormitory-like building with other detainees. But they w...…
…18 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* f. Gretl Frank has dark memories of Ellis Island and the Nazis. clean," says Quen. Shortly after their mother's death, the children, terrorized by the Cossacks, fled their Ukrainian home. Between walking and getting an occasional ride on horse-drawn wagons, they eventually reached the Bessarabian border. There, they bribed a boatman with some of their mother's gold jewe...…
…19 *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* carrying a passport which would expire in six months' time. She never intended to return to Germany. After a 13-day passage, she reached New York. As she disembarked, a customs official, checking her passport, asked how long she intended to stay in the U.S. "I don't know why I did, but I made the mistake of saying 'a year,' " recalls Frank, now 72. She was whisked off the ship, told to climb aboard a small boat,, dispa...…
….20 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY PROMISE* Entry into the arm was made by climbing a 54-rung ladder. Visitors were barred from the arm in 1917. Officially, the arm was closed because it accomodate only 12 tourists at a time and congestion had become a problem. But rumors flew that the arm had been weakened by a huge explosion the year before. Set off by German saboteurs on Jersey City docks less than half a mile aw...…
…1,'/.1'.1 !.1,A 1 13 T.Ari L 7 3)..1 •c 21 k *LIBER P R O M I S E * During its first 20 years, the U.S. Bureau of Lighthouses administered the Statue. But Miss Liberty never functioned well as a lighthouse: The lights in her torch were too dim to warn ships of danger. Custody of the Statue was transferred to the U.S. War - Department in 1902 and, eventually, to the Interior Department. As originally constructed, the Statue's head wa...…
…22 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY ost people who know Emma Lazarus' name think of her as the woman who wrote the lines enscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Those who know she was a -jew seldom realize she was a Zionist in the 1880s and an outspoken defender of her people everywhere. Her story — and its subsequent suppression — affords a fascinating glimpse of the interest that Ralph Waldo Emerson's generat...…
…23 *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* O dragging out their lives in the horrors of Siberia. Emma Lazarus sat gazing at all this.'' A few months later, Emma was at a soiree at the home of The Century's publisher when the first copies of the April issue arrived from the printer. It included not only an article. by Emma about Benjamin Disraeli, but a defense of Russia's anti-Semitic pogroms written by a Russian gentile, Madame Rogozin. Rogozin's article was ...…
…Amosammummaxpoimmmommmememmesemmw 24 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISHNEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* York. He and his wife lived in a milieu where any enemy could be dismissed as a Jew. In 1916, John Humphreys Johnston — like a number of American ex- patriates — became a British citizen as a way of protesting American neutrality in the Great War. Neither he nor his wife ever returned to America. Now, Anne was cut off from the two traditi...…
…) , 111 - :I 1'1 1 *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* Scenes from Ellis Island in 1900s. Clockwise from top: Side-paddler ferryboats depositing newly arrived im- migrants on island; orphans whose mothers had been 441, 6 killed in a massacre in Russia; main dining room. …
…26 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* The Fate of Ellis Island A conference center, an ethnic Williamsburg or a fence splitting the island in two? Those are the options for the Golden Door. ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News . hirty-two years after it was closed to new immigrants, the future of Ellis Island is still undecided, the debate over its future is bitter and the public, caught between ba...…
…27 *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* Iacocca: Favors "ethnic Williamsburg" over "tax shelters." Photo by Jon Abbott for Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc, Feuding Interior Secretary Don Hodel and Chrysler chief Lee Iacocca agree that the Great Hall should be restored. The Hall is currently shrouded in scaffolding. The Times opted for yet a third plan that has been floating around the Interior Department; the ominous- sounding "Fence" plan....…
…28 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS *LIBERTY'S PROMISE* n July 4th weekend — dubbed "Liberty Week-end '86" — up to 13 million revelers are expected to attend perhaps the biggest party ever held in New York, a city justly famous for its fetes. A State of Michigan party, at the Roostertail on Monday, with all proceeds going toward Statue of Liberty restoration, will kick off Detroit's celebration of the Statue's 100th birthday. G...…
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…32 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Honor Thy Father UNBEATABLE DEAL See LARRY KAPLAN NEWS Saudi Arms Sale Passes By Slim Margin New Cars — Trucks Used Cars — Leasing man THE UNBEATABLE DEALER (313) 355-1000 (313) 355-6414 28111 Telegraph Rd. & 1-696 Across from Tel-12 Mall GRAND OPENING NEW LOCATION 32250 8 MILE ROAD 477-6800 You don't have to be a rich man to give your Father the best. Give him a custom-made gift...…
…33 • arfifl DRAPERIES a CO. Custom Designs ' Drapes the sale, sent a message to the Saudis that the U.S. expected more from their friendship than it has been receiving. Cranston also noted that the sale, which includes 1,666 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and 100 Harpoon air-to-sea missiles at a cost of $267 million, is 90 percent less than the Saudis reportedly wanted in January. He said this was not because the President, just before h...…
…34 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS PURELY COMMENTARY Israel's `Centrality' Continued from Page 2 Shamir's question was highly re- vealing of his generation's belief that the Diaspora does not really count and that Jewish life outside Israel is not authentic. After all, for the founding fathers of Israel, so many of whom came out of the ghettos of Eastern Europe, it is difficult to accept that American pluralism and toleranc...…
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…36 Friday, June 13, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS LOCAL NEWS Israel Philharmonic To Mark JWF 60th NEXT Thursday, Friday, Saturday June 19-21 LUGGAGE OUTLET STORE 3116 W. 12 Mile 545-7393 (Between Greenfield & Coolidge) INSIDE/OUTSIDE SALE OUTSIDE - Tremendous Sidewalk Sale: Handbags - Wallets - Business Cases - Tote Bags - Small Leather Goods - Unique Gifts ALL AT SUPER SIDEWALK SALE PRICES INSIDE - Warehouse Clearance Sale We've...…
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…38 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 13, 1986 Father's Day Special There's never been a programmed SLR like this one! To our family and all our friends for all their good wishes, cards and contribu- tions but especially for your prayers during Marcia's recent illness. AT A BARGAIN PRICE! The more sophisticated 35mm SLR for effortless picture-taking! Advanced high capacity computer electronics are the se- cret of this one-of-a-kind ca...…
…39 OBSERVATIONS WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA The Torment Of Elie Wiesel BY CARL ALPERT Special to The Jewish News 1/ New York — Because sound recordings for the blind have proven helpful to sighted youngsters with learning dis- abilities, the Jewish Braille In- stitute is making its library of thousands of "talking books" on Jewish topics available to learn- ing disabled children in Jewish day schools and synagogue reli- gious school programs....…
…40 Friday, June 13, 1986 IS YOUR THEN GO TO THE THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS GOING TO SUMMER CAMP? SUMMER CAMP SPECIALIST S TORAH PORTION Shavuot Is A Reminder Of Faith, Understanding in the WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA 6690 Orchard Lake Road West Bloomfield, Michigan BY RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT Special to The Jewish News 851-6232" Boys' and Young Men's Wear Official Camp Outfitters For C WE HAVE THE 'KNOWLEDGE AND THE RIGHT SUPPLIES TO SEND ...…
…41 NEWS ADL Report Lists Bias In Argentina New York — A sharp increase in "the tempo and scope" of anti-Semitic activities in Argen- tina has been reported by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. According to the latest issue of the agency's Latin American Report, a major theme of the Argentine anti-Semites is that "Jews represent a threat to the nation's sovereignty and that the Radical Party, led by President Raul Alfonsin, is in- ...…
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…47 CAPITOL REPORT WOLF BLITZER Hussein Offers New Ideas On Peace Process Revival Jordan's King Hussein has presented some new ideas to President Ronald Reagan on re- viving the Arab-Israeli peace process, a senior Administration official said. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, told reporters at a White House briefing last Monday that the U.S. would now "study" Hus- sein's proposals which were of- fered during a one-hou...…
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