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…op EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Touring The 'Hood In Lovely Crown Heights burly synagogue, where boys and men eryl Epstein has big dreams. from age 2 to 100 davened. I stayed As founder, president and operator of the Hassidic Dis- on the main level, where a clutch of girls and women listened to a lecture covery Welcome Center, his on Talmud and others davened above aim is to bring the world to Crown the fray downstairs in the sanctuary. Heights, Brookl...…
…OPINION A Memorial Tribute To Rabbi Gorrelick week, 52 weeks a year. He was, uite a few years ago, I wrote indeed, one of our true minyanaires. an article about the minyan Only the day before he moved from for the synagogue newspa- 10 Mile Road to the Fleischman per. It began: Home in West Bloomfield, he stood "It's a Tuesday morning, on our chapel bimah, taking his Levi 7 o'clock to be precise ... but it could aliyah with the usual pride an...…
…LETTERS HOT TOPIC presented by Coverage In Question I recently flew in from Pasadena to visit my parents in Florida. They have their Jewish News forwarded and it was sec- ond nature for me to pick up the Jan. 30 issue and catch up with news from the community back in Detroit. I had commented to my mother how frustrating it was to live in greater Los Angeles and for there not to be anything comparable to the JN — a paper connecting and info...…
…OPINION Some Israeli Yeshivot Have Tried To Heal The Rifts . .$1101100 cent of the company grade officers in front-line units are religiously observant. These religious young men, tragically, constitute a high proportion of the "The book and the casualties resulting from Syria's Hafez el- Assad's proxy war against Israel in sword came down from southern Lebanon. Recently, the chief of staff of the heaven intertwined." IDF, General Amnon Li...…
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…No War, No Peace Jerusalem (JTA) --- Hundreds of Palestinians marched through a r efugee camp in the Gaza Strip ing on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to launch missiles on Tel Aviv. The Palestinian Authority imposed a ban on pro-Iraqi demonstrations, but the ban has been widely ignored. A similar demonstration organized by Pales tinian Authority Chairman Yassir Arafat's own Al Fatah faction was held in the West Bank town of Hebron. There is a l...…
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…Now, Back To The Peace Talks U.N. Secrete?), General Kofi Anan and Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz talk to reporters in Ba . , h- The Clinton administration may call a "timeout." JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent T he Clinton administration and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at odds over how to break the logjam in the negotiations with the Palestinians, are getting set for a new burst of activ- ity — ...…
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…Yeshiva Friends Host Reception The first annual reception of Detroit Friends of Yeshivat Sha'alvim will be held 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the home of Elana and Max Berlin. The guest speaker will be Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center in New York. Repre- senting the yeshiva will be Rabbi Mallen Galinsky, dean, and Men- achem Bar-Shalom, director of development. Dr. David Ungar, an alumnus of Sha'alvim, will be master o...…
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