…Inside : Changing Times In The Legal Profession / No Stereotypes In Nursing 75¢ DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 19 ELUL 5754/AUGUST 26, 1994 Applied Knowledge After returning from CAJE, educators are ready to set new ideas into motion. JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER he nearly 80 local educators who attended last week's Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE).conference will put their new ideas into action next week as students th...…
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…August 26, 1994 14 Detroit COMMENT Good Defense Survivors' testimony — no simple answers. 5 A Piston's pointers on basketball and life. TELL ME WHY 15 Buying Power Health 32 The helping profession. page 32 Huge garage sale benefits the Alzheimer's Association. 49 30 ISRAEL The CAJE delegation. page 1 Rabin finds the stock market very taxing. 74 No Stereotypes Jewish nurses pursue a career of caring. ALTERNATIVES Societal ...…
…Preparing Ourselves For The Big Day The big day is just about here. Next week, Jewish children throughout the area will return to school. There's nothing quite like that first morning, up early, with a fresh box of pencils and a sharp outfit, a backpack and tremendous hope for a year of learning and new experiences. Education is wondrous to watch. A young mind makes a fragile start with learning the ABCs, then seemingly overnight takes on phy...…
…Community Views Editor's Notebook Survivor Testimonies Require Understanding Hearing A Dissenting Opinion On 'Peace' SIDNEY BOLKOSKY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR Last month, the ful and informed listeners and in- University of terlocutors, those who would en- Michigan-Dear- gage in some sort of dialogue with born hosted a re- survivors. And immedi- ception introduc- ately we encounter ing its program for resistance, diff...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CV No. 25 Don't Pay Full Price! Don't Wait for a Sale! Associate Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum Alan Nasky Staff Writers Jennifer Finer Ruth Littmann Steve Stein Contributing Editor Elie Wiese! Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman Larry Derfner Photographer Glenn Triest Local Columnists Danny ...…
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…ue Of Defense STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER T HE D ETRO I T J EWIS H N E WS A Pistons guard gives JCC youth pointers on basketbal I and life. 14 hey worked on their jump shots and their de- fensive techniques. They went head-to-head with their instructors, and they enthusiasti- cally answered trivia questions in an attempt to win trading-card sheets. They had replicas of jerseys worn by bas- ketball stars Chris Webber, Shaquille O'Neal, Michae...…
…Buying Power Garage sale benefits Alzheimer's Association. RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER Top: Sophie Sulkes, Millie Weiss and Tonya Corbett help fight Alzheimer's. Above Middle: Wayne Adams pedals in place. Above: Sophie Sulkes, Millie Weiss and Tonya Corbett help fight Alzheimer's. Right: Robert Kraus weighs his options. R obert Kraus weighed his options and decided on a 50-cent scale. Others shuffled through shoes, eyed books and tr...…
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…ucational director of Ivriah, the religious school for Congregation Beth Israel and Temple Beth El in Flint. "We don't have any way of communicating between a large number of teachers. CAJE allows us to connect with other educators and with those who live in other small Jewish com- munities. A lot of what goes on in Detroit is not applicable to us. Some things we can replicate on a smaller level, but we don't have the financial resources or th...…
…qe-r INVOLVED 1N L1FC1 The "Singing" Congregation Our Unique Family Education Program Are Peace Process Supporters Invisible? Old habits of being pro-Israel are giving foes of Rabin's master plan the upper hand in Washington. JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT A LlFe Friendship Circles for All Ages A Commitment to Tradition Join OUR Family This New geaR Congregation Rnai Moshe Rabbi Elliot Pachren 788-0600 Canton Louis ...…
…the top of its agenda. "The groups solely committed to the peace process have been distracted by projects on other fronts." Project Nishma, for example, has focused heavily on "public diplomacy" — efforts to develop a growing nexus of economic and personal relationships between American Jews and Arabs de- signed to facilitate the peace process. Americans for Peace Now (APN) has been heavily involved in promoting investment funds to help Palest...…
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…PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST TH E DETRO I T JE WIS H NE WS Patient Katherine Scantlebury and RNs Kristan Rodwell and Cindy Diskin at Sinai Hospital. 32 Obstacles and rewards fill the days of Jewish nurses in metro Detroit. JIM PFEIFER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS 1 derful hospital. I loved every minute there." Although she's retired, Ms. Kramer still does volunteer work. She splits her time between the Jewish Infor- mation Service and clinics s...…
…Job flexibility is one of the nursing profession's strongest drawing cards. Ms. Belkin works one day a week at Sinai Hospital in a "float pool." She fills a staff need wherever there is a shortage. This allows her to at- tend to her duties with Hadassah and her family, and gives her time to return to college for her bachelor's in nursing degree. Thirty-two year-old Cindy Diskin of Farmington Hills keeps a different schedule. A Hadassah Nurses ...…
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…OT SHOT 01 I Ai %TM' Dr. Robert Sokol, dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, has been selected by the Institute of Medicine to serve on the National Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). The study has been ini- tiated at the request of the U.S. Congress to evaluate research and treatment of FAS and other alcohol-related birth defects. In addition, Dr. Sokol has been list- ed as one of The Best Doctors In America, ...…
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…"Kinder, listen to your grandpa. Eventually, the fatty corned beef and the schmalz herring will turn against you." Of the many things we teach our children each day, lessons about good health are among the most important. And the thinking these days is that you can't begin too early to guide the little ones into healthful habits which can help them have long, active lives. At Sinai, we know quite a bit about teaching. Since 1953, young doctor...…
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…Horse Sense Amateur jockey opens the first British brokerage in Israel. NEIL COHEN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS S teven Astaire comes from a risk-taking family. His father, Jarvis, is a famous promoter, best known for staging major boxing bouts such as the Tyson-Bruno fight. Mr. Astaire is one of Britain's only two Jewish amateur jockeys — which, at age 42, makes him even more unusual. But Mr. Astaire has made it by taking risks that weren't...…
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