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…THE JEWISH NEWS Special Report ISRAEL AT 40 F orty is a symbolic number in the Bible, always signal- ling a turning point. From the 40 days and nights of rain of the Great Flood that almost destroyed the world and the 40 days and nights that Moses spent on Mount Sinai writing the Ibrah to the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the desert before a new generation was prepared to enter the Promised Land, the number has.denoted a major event a...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 Remembering 1948 Four Detroiters recall Israel's fight for independence ELIZABETH KAPLAN I Staff Writer he Vienna cafes were smoky, the men were elegant and the women were flashy. It was a life of rich romanticism, ciga- rette holders studded with rhinestones and sparkling chandeliers. But in the late 1930s, the decadence that characterized Vienna began to sputter and crackle, like a movie that melts under the intense heat o...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 When they speak of their lives in Israel, it is with a mixture of sweetness and pain. They do not attempt to gloss over the days of hunger and thirst. They remember the difficulties between Arabs and Jews and the frustrations of not being able to find work. "But you know," Mrs. Remington says, "now when I look back I remember that Israel was a beautiful country. A very beautiful country." A HENRY AND GRETA REMINGTON: Then and n...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 Fingeroot's Victory Medal from the movement in Poland. The two fell in Israel Consulate and a list of Americans love, married and moved to Jerusalem.' honored at the Israel Memorial Forest. They settled, with their first Those named, several whom Fingeroot daughter, Ofra, in a small apartment. knew, were killed in the War of They had just enough money to survive, Independence. so young Ofra was surprised when one Fingeroot knows ...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 In Tel Aviv, Ofra found her father in good spirits. The wound he had sustain- ed was to be the first of many. "But he was one of the lucky ones," Fisher says. "He wasn't killed, thank God:' Their stay in Tel Aviv was suppos- ed to last just a few short days. But while there, Ofra's family learned that a shell had fallen on their Jerusalem home, destroying much of the building. Then a family friend paid for the pur- chase of an ap...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 A New Religion? Two thinkers disagree on Israel's meaning to American Jews us Jewish theology. They're not con- tributing to the development of our in- Staff Writer ner life in any important way?' Neusner triggered an uproar last srael's existence has changed and year by declaring in a Washington Post challenged American Jews, but op-ed piece that there is no reason to in ways no one dreamed of 40 years feel guilty about not li...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 Dream and Reality What does Zionism mean to Jews today. hundreds of thousands of refugees who needed to come. America was demobiliz- ing and they were afraid of anti- Semitism." In the four decades since, most U.S. Jews have "hopped on the bandwagon:' The most fervent of these so-called new Zionists are the inheritors of the old anti-Zionist legacy. Rather than putting their loyalty into question, Israel, by a curious paradox, ...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 Going Up The `Ingathering of the Exiles' is taking longer than was expected 40 years ago KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer IM elvin and Etta Mermell plan to retire in Israel, and they know exactly where they want to live when they get there. The Mermells, who decided to make aliyah after their first visit to Israel 18 years ago, want to make their home in 'Ibl Aviv in an old renovated building on Hayarkon Street facing the Medite...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 A Time To Cry And A Time To Dance HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent J erusalem — It is three years now since a panel of interna- tional jurists assembled in Jerusalem to hear testimony against Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death at Auschwitz. But I doubt if anyone who attended those searing sessions has forgotten the descriptions of the slow descent into a hell beyond human imagining. What we heard there was a child's view of Au...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 Today's Sabra: A Blend Of Contradictions street argot to mean pompous preachiness. On the other hand, however, young Israelis act suspiciously like old- erusalem — Take immigrants fashioned idealistic patriots. They will- from more than a hundred ingly, if not uncomplainingly, pay lands, mix and blend and the among the highest taxes in the world, result is a Sabra, the native- devote much of their youth to the army born Israeli ...…

…ISRAEL AT 40 An American Jew's Letter To Israel LEONARD FEIN Special to the Jewish News F orty years ago, we held our breath as you were born. And then we watched as the rem- nant of Europe's Jewry came home, and the others, those we hardly recognized, the hundreds of thousands from Iraq and Morocco and a dozen other countries so distant from our experience. We saw the photographs of them coming off the boats and planes and falling into t...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review JJ 13—NO. 10 2114 Penobscot Bldg..LPhone WO. 5-1155 of Jewish Events , Detroit 26, Michigan, May 21, 1948 34 43Pit. 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 104 N""17:' relst And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste places and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and . eat the _fruits of them. And I will ...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS APRIL 22, 1988 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 37 …

…ft Yom Haatzmaut An Israeli's Perspective Yefet Ozery is the community shaliach, based at the Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center, and the author of this month's L'Chayim theme — Israel Independence Day. For each edition of L'Chayim, a rabbi, a Jewish educator or other notable from the community will present an overview In Israel, as soon as the sirens marking the end of Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, stop the Independence Day celebration com...…

…Western Wall Symbol of Hope By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus Thanks to the Kotel Maaravi — the Western Wall — an important term has become inerasable in the Yiddish lexicon. Tzetelach is the magic term. It applies to the scraps of paper that have become messages to the Almighty, to families, to ancestors. They are messages of hope as well as of grief, appeals to be remembered and to be comforted. They are stuck between the aged stones o...…

…Israel In Facts And Figures By SIMON GRIVER As Israel celebrates 40 years of independence, the following facts and figures, supplied by the government's Central Bureau of Statistics, reflect four decades of, in the main, healthy growth within the Jewish state. Demography Population: 4,396,270. Of this figure, 82 percent are Jewish, totalling 3,607,700, while 14 percent are Moslems, 2.3 percent Christian and 1.7 percent Druze and others. Isr...…

…ot p aR , 0 No Longer Visitors In Foreign Lands v Each month in this space, L'Chayim will present a Yiddish lesson entitled "Du Redst Yiddish (Do You Speak Yiddish?)" whose aim is to encourage further study of Yiddish. The lesson will include a brief story utilizing the Yiddish words to be studied, a vocabulary list with English translations and a family activity which involves using the new words. Two books which may be helpful for begi...…

…Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora ten, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO The NBC-TV production ■ \ Holocaust aired this month. NBC received 750 phone calls after Sunday's showing of the first of the four-part series. A total of 368 people complained that the show was "Zionist propaganda." In commemoration of the anni...…

…A O Want A Pen Pal? Write Israeli Family One way to learn about Jewish life around the world is to write to a Jewish family in another country. What is daily life like in the pen pal's country? What is Jewish life like? How are the holidays celebrated? To help our readers learn about Jews around the world, L'Chayim is making available addresses of Jewish families in communities abroad. Cost of an international air mail letter is 45 cents per...…

…s liv one ' Two Branches Of Mizrachi Clan Traced To The East Mizrachi is a surname of Hebrew origin meaning Easterner or Middle Easterner. The name was likely adopted in the Land of Israel and referred to a person with origins in Persia or Kurdistan. There were many prominent rabbinical authors who used this surname. One branch of the family lived in Jerusalem and the other in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey). Biographies beginning in the 1...…

…ftt `It AO , ilvw Quiz Bowl Sunday, April 24 The Yediat Yisrael Quiz Bowl, sponsored by the community-wide 40th Anniversary Committee, will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center. For information, call the Jewish Center, 661-1000. Monday, April 25 Orot Haschuna will appear at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Maple/Drake Jewish Center, sponsored by the 40th Anniversary Committee. For details, call the Jewish Center. ...…

…L itt e rSh s4 Israel Comes In A Tidy Package For 'The Silent Duo' By ANN RICK! HURWITZ and SUE HURWITZ As the Hebrew letters and vowels watched from the bulletin board, a young man carried a package into the empty classroom and placed it on the teacher's desk. "That must be Dov, the teacher's cousin from Israel," Ayin told Aleph with his thoughts. "He's a sabra." Since Aleph and Ayin are silent letters, they communicate by reading each ...…

…Sadness and Joy Mark Israel Holidays bravely, afraid his friend might pout again. "But I can't figure out why." "What do you think it is?" "Are you sure you want me to tell you?" "Eh," Aleph apologized sheepishly. "I don't know why I get so carried away at times. Of course I want you to tell me." "I think it might be. an Israeli flag." "Don't tell me what it looks like!" Aleph thought at once. "I know the flag of Israel has two blue stripes o...…

…The Anti•Defamation League of B'nai B'rith In honor of its 75 years of service —and--- In celebration of Israel's 40th Anniversary & Jerusalem Day Presents The Great Israeli Kumsitz (A Community Get Together) PICNIC ON THE GRASS Sunday, May 15 508 pat at Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit Maple & Drake Roads/ West Bloomfield FREE! • Storytelling • Music • Balloons • Prizes • Giant Birthday Cake • More!! Featuring: FAM...…

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…I PURELY COMMENTARY Israel's 40th Continued from Page 2 The texts thus listed also have their appeals to Arabs and Christians. The constant plea for neighborly means of establishing a tranquility in the Mid- dle East are evidenced and emphasiz- ed in them and the Holtzman journal is a human gift to all who strive for peace in defiance of the rifts that keep arising. "Irwin H. "Toby" Holtzman will always be cheered with gratitude for his lit...…

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…week. In an interesting sidelight to the debate, the enacting legislation has been subtitled "The Proxmire Bill," in honor of the retiring Sen. William Proxmire — who has championed the Genocide Convention for most of his Senate career. To date, Proxmire has given more than 3000 Senate speeches on the subject, which must be some kind of record. And Jewish activists who have been following the ponderous progress of the treaty suggest that Sen. ...…

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…BEHIND THE HEADLINES HELP US CELEBRATE OUR Mr. & Mrs. Norman Adelsberg recipients of the Tomchei Torah Award 24th ANNIVERSARY BANQUET AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL John Demjanjuk during his trial last year. How could he start a new life as if Treblinka never existed? Demjanjuk Is Found Guilty Of War Crimes HELEN DAVIS Israel Correspondent Guest Speaker: Yehuda Blum Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations W Sunday, April 24, 19...…

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