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…CONTENTS CLOSE-U P FINE ARTS The Power And The Glory Designing Woman PHIL JACOBS AMY J. MEHLER LESLEY PEARL ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Making sense of the hostage crisis and the proposed peace conference. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Her love of sculpture has remained constant. 75 OPINION • Drawing the line on Jewish issues. • The chutzpah of Alan Dershowitz. UP FRONT 11 Returning to Israel after 14 years. DETROIT 28 14 . Flying to freedom in ...…
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…OPINION GARY ROSENBLATT Editor If just about anyone other Ze'ev than Chafets, an Is- raeli and re- spected jour- had , nalist, written two re- cent columns in the Jerusalem Report attacking "ultra-Orthodox Jews," editors of American Jewish newspapers say they would not have published them. As it was, a number of editors who receive the columns from the English- language Israeli weekly decided not to run the Chafets pieces because they felt ...…
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…UP FRONT After 14 Years, A Mg To Israel Says Commitment, Connection NANCY HANDELMAN Special to The Jewish News F ourteen years is too long to be away from Israel. I remembered the golden glow of Jerusalem and the glorious coastline in Tel Aviv and the beauty of Haifa. I knew Israel had changed a lot during the years I had been away. I came to Israel in July as one of the 1,803 delegates to the National Hadassah Con- vention, the largest d...…
…(UP FRONT After 14 Years Continued from preceding page Because this wasn't my first trip to Israel, I had a notion of where certain things are in the city. That first view from my hotel room set the stage for this connection to click. I had a balcony facing the Knesset; further down the road I could see the Israel Museum and the Shrine of the Book. That's what I could see, and what I felt was peace and safety as I said bbker toy, "'good mor...…
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…DETROIT Soviet Jews Tell Of Flights To Freedom AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer W hen Roman Tounkel woke to the soothing strains of Bach and Prokofiev in his Leningrad apartment last week, his first conscious thought was, "My God, someone important must have died." "Russian radio doesn't play that kind of music so early in the morning unless someone is dead or dying," said Mr. Tounkel, 37, who is now in Oak Park visiting family. Mr. Tounkel tho...…
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…We've Got You Covered Goldberg, or our former undersecretary of state, Eugene Rostow. Admittedly, 242 is very loosely for- mulated. But, what 242 lacks in specificity, it more than makes up for in ambiguity. For example, 242 doesn't begin to tell us who were the aggressors in the Six-Day War and who was the victim of aggression. It muddies up the whole question of interna- tional borders and armistice lines. And, it makes no distinction betwe...…
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…OPINION Chafets Continued from Page 7 secular Jewish views in such shameful tones?" After publishing a number of letters attacking Mr. Chafets and the news- paper, the Cleveland Jewish News defended its position with a statement on its Letters page asserting that "the goal of a free press is to air a wide range of view- points which stimulate discussion and, occasionally, controversy." The statement said the newspaper regretted that some re...…
…ATTENTION ALL TEENAGERS 10TH TO 12TH GRADE •- p. DO YOU CARE ABOUT .. . 1—* • • distinguishing between the tolerant and unabashedly Zionist Orthodoxy of, say, Yeshiva University and the narrower Orthodoxy of the haredim, who oppose a Zionist state. Whether or not the Chafets articles shed light on such differences, or simp- ly added heat to the long- burning dispute over the place, and shadings, of Or- thodoxy in Israel, is still an ope...…
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…I NEWS MR. MECH Complete Auto Repair a Foreign & Domestic Brawl Erupts At Center Jerusalem (JTA) — A fierce brawl between Ethio- pian and Soviet immigrants broke out last week at a Jerusalem absorption center. Four Soviet olim were hospitalized for minor injuries. Jewish Agency officials in- sisted racism played no part in the fracas. But Israeli au- thorities are questioning the wisdom of housing immi- grants from widely disparate ethnic...…
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…I NEWS Olim Settle North Israel Tel Aviv (JTA) — Nearly a third of the immigrants who have come to Israel since 1989 have settled in the nor- thern part of the country, reversing a demographic trend that had troubled Israelis for years. According to a report in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, 108,500 olim, mostly from the Soviet Union, were ab- sorbed in the northern re- gion. They represent 31.2 percent of the 347,500 who arrived since mass ali...…
…CLOSE-UP THE POWER AND THE G1011)1 Making sense of the hostage crisis and the proposed peace conference. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde He's bright, ambitious, private and likes flashy cars. Syria's Hafez al-Assad also is a key player in any Middle East negotiations. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor T o one observer, Hafez al-Assad is a modern-day Mr. Hyde: ruthless, crafty, a man who cannot be trusted. To another, he is the kind- ...…
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