…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60( SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY New UJA Campaign To Aid Soviet Jews ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor In the beginning there was one — "We Are One," the United Jewish Ap- peal's familiar campaign theme. Now, Detroit area residents may have the opportunity to contribute to a second UJA campaign that agency of- ficials say is unprecedented. And indeed the project, "Passage to Freedom," bears an unfamiliar g...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY The Entire Community An 'Establishment' PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus R emember the self-ridicule about "two Jews, three opinions"; or about a Jew stranded on an island, finding his way to self-support, built two synagogues to be sure he'd have one to differ in with himself? It's OK to pun and to adhere to the boast that Jews are not without humor or self-criticism. That does not rule out realism when there are seriou...…
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…UP FRONT Conference Focuses On Ties Between Jews, Christians In Jewish tradition God is treated ELIZABETH KAPLAN Features Editor t wasn't the ordinary crowd usually found at a temple. The sanctuary was filled with hun- dreds of priests, ministers and Chris- tian leaders. The clergy gathered last week at 'Ibmple Beth El for the 47th annual Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer Institute. The event brings together Catholics, Protestants and Eastern Orth...…
…EDITORIAL Changes In Moscow New and interesting events are occurring in the Soviet Union. Last Sunday, the first official Jewish cultural center opened in Moscow since the 1920s. Speaking at the center's dedication were Edgar Bronfman, president of the. World Jewish Congress, and Nobel laureate_Elie Wiesel. Neither is known for being shy to criticize the Kremlin's treatment of Jews. A few days before the cultural center opened, a Moscow news...…
…I OPINION I CONTENTS > 24 CLOSE-UP Growing Menace LEONARD FINK Neo-Nazi elements seem to be expanding within the teenage skinhead phenomenon. NATIONAL NEWS 36 Parting Thoughts TRUDE FELDMAN On his last day in office, President Ronald Reagan assesses his eight years. EDUCATION 48 The Rabbi's Role > 'Jewish children pose in Izieu, France, shortly before they were murdered by the Nazis: Could I find the strength to talk about it? A...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alan Hitsky NEWS EDITOR: Heidi Press FEATURES EDITOR: Elizabeth Kaplan STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Richard Pearl Mike Rosenbaum CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel ART DIRECTOR Kim Mul...…
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…I LOCAL NEWS YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! Southfield Gets The Last Word STEVEN M. HARTZ Jewish News Intern B oth Southfield high schools battled for the last words at the State Championship Debate lbur- nament Feb. 2-4 at the Novi Hilton. The two schools, Southfield High and Southfield-Lathrup, argued their way past the other 26 schools in the class A division and won the chance to face each other in the final round. Southfield High,...…
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…TIFFANY & CO. Arad: America will come around on the PLO. intifada, said that dealing with the damage to Israel's public image resulting from the uprising has been the single most difficult chal- lenge he has faced. But he strongly denied that the turmoil in the territories has overly damaged relations with the U.S. government. "It did not affect the strong and friendly relations with the administration," he said. "But it does have, in the lo...…
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…CLOSE-UP LEONARD FINK Growing Menace Special to The Jewish News he brawl started in Novem- ber after a meeting to ad- dress racial tensions. Three outsiders, dressed as skinheads, entered Groves High School in Birmingham. They joined other skinheads leaving the meeting. The fight started when the skinheads provoked a black student. The black student was later suspended because of the brawl. Parents were outraged. Richard Lobenthal, regiona...…
…Neo-Nazi elements seem to be expanding within the teenage skinhead phenomenon. And they are coming closer to home for Jews in Oakland County. DASH (Detroit Area Skinheads) was responsible for acts of vandalism here in November on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Jewish establishments were spray-painted with swastikas and windows were smashed. In November 1938, the Nazis burned hundreds of Jewish- owned business and synagogues in Ge...…
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…0 create the climate in which thousands of Jews have sought to emigrate. In an article appearing in the newspaper Soviet Culture, Rogov and Nosenko said a leading anti-Zionist, Vladi- mir Begun, established the tone of government propagan- da by seeking "to sow mistrust toward Soviet Jews!' Traditions and Transitions In Ming Ceramics An Exhibition from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo BBI Letter To Be Retracted O U.S.-PLO Talks 5 Marc...…
…I NEWS 1 Department of Michigan JEWISH WAR VETERANS of the United States of America present their 36th Annual BROTHERHOOD NIGHT Tuesday, February 21, 1989 8:00 p.m. Honored Guest Speakers MITCH ALBOM RABBI IRVING A. SCHNIPPER Award Winning Sports Writer Detroit Free Press Spiritual Leader Beth Abraham Hillel Moses Synagogue DONALD F. FRACASSI RICHARD H. AUSTIN Mayor City of Southfield Secretary of State State of Michigan MODERATO...…
…:LAST CALL! YOU'VE WAITED 'TIL THE END-THIS IS IT! Jews Rating Dips In Greece Athens (JTA) — Greeks gave Israel a slightly higher favorable rating in December 1988 than in the previous March, according to the latest poll conducted by Eurodim, a public opinion research firm. But the image of Jews in general showed a progressive deterioration. According to the poll, 71 percent of the respondents rated Greek Jews "rather bad to very bad," whil...…
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…WINTER SALE gain power in the City Coun- cil. In 1984, for example, about 13,000 Palestinians from East Jerusalem voted for One Jerusalem or its coali- tion partners. Ironically, Kollek "earned worldwide recognition," wrote Chartrand, "for his efforts to promote unity in a city where divisiveness between Arabs and Jews and between reli- gious and secular citizens have always threatened to split the city . . ! Even Kollek expects to end up wit...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS 20300 Civic Center Drive Suite 240 Southfield, MI 48076-4138 OR ES 'E. E BIG SAL Beginning: Saturday, February 18, 1989 ONE 1 ardent supporters are con- vinced that the key to this case is an effort, within the top echelons of the U.S. government, to keep Israel in its place. They portray Caspar Weinberger as "the heavy" here, seeking to balance Israel's power in the Mideast and lessen her value as a strategic partner wit...…
…NATIONAL NEWS Parting Thoughts On his last day in the Oval Office, President Reagan discusses the highlights, and low points, of his eight years in office, with an emphasis on the Mideast. TRUDE B. FELDMAN Washington Correspondent W - - - 11.ngton, D.C. — Ronald Reagan says that the saddest moment of his presidency was in October, 1983, when 241 U.S. Marines and servicemen died in Beirut in a terrorist bombing. He said he hoped they did...…
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…I PURELY COMMENTARY Establishment Continued from Page 2 relations in many parts of the world. The remarkable political and economic support of Israel by the United States is largely attributable to the decades-long mobilization by "the Jewish establishment" of American public opinion. With all the real problems world Jewry faces, I shudder to think of what might happen if the maligned "Jewish establishement" did not exist, and all we had to...…
…COMMUNITY Israel Conference Day On March 12 At U.M. 7, 1913, by 11 Jewish men at New York University. For information about the brunch, contact committee co- chairmen Don Rudick, 855-1917; Steve Bernstein, 851-8888; or Andrew Cohen, 646-2348. Israeli Lawyer Will Speak Raymond Tanter Yosef Olmert The fifth annual Israel Con- ference Day will take place March 12 at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. ICD i...…
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