…I CONTENTS Jewish Education In Crisis. Who Cares? DR. JONATHAN WOOCHER Despite its protestations, the Jewish community has not come to grips with the basic problem. A leading educator offers some solutions. 9 Apples And Honey KIMBERLY LIFTON Jack Peitz says running the Franklin Cider Mill is just a hobby. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM For Joel Letvin, caring for bees is a honey of a job. Year In Review GARY ROSENBLATT Soviet Jewry, intifada, Who...…
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…UP FRONT Federation's Successes, Goals Listed By Dr. Giles At Meeting ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor r. Conrad Giles left office with a flourish Tuesday evening, delineating some of the Jewish Welfare Federation's accomplishments during his three-year term as president and listing some goals yet to be achieved. Speaking at the Federa- tion's annual meeting at Adat Shalom Synagogue, Dr. Giles listed the following achievements: • Federation h...…
…EDITORIAL A Glass Half Full w ith the setting of the sun this evening comes Rosh Hashanah, that holiday of both completion and beginn- ing. On the new year, we pause. We look at ourselves and at the other descendants of Adam. We look in wonder and concern and hope at the world we have helped to create. And we think of the year that lies ahead and of the vast possibilities within it. For the Jewish people, the year now ending has been one of...…
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…I UP FRONT Federation Continued from Page 12 Fisher spoke briefly at the meeting, paying tribute to individuals and the com- munity and introducing Yehuda Baros, mayor of Detroit's Project Renewal sister city, Yavne, Israel. Tillie Brandwine was presented with the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Community Service. Former Butzel winner Edythe Jackier praised Brandwine's nearly 50 years of service to Fed- eration, National Cou...…
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…ROSH HASHANAH Franklin Cider Mill owner Jack Peltz says running the historic landmark is a hobby. KIMBERLY LIFTON 111 Staff Writer rown bags stained with grease from spicy, warm donuts are evenly placed atop an old wooden table at the Franklin Cider Mill. In the background is the keen aroma of freshly pressed apples and a kaleidoscope of the changing autumn leaves. The scent, which lingers for miles, signals the arrival of fall. The water...…
…ROSH HASHANAH West Bloomfield resident Joel Letvin says caring for his bees is a honey of a job. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Features Editor hey start slowly. The guards, standing outside the entrance to the com- munal home, begin to twitch their legs. Heeding the call, others send messages to those inside. They emit a high-pitched buzzing as they work frantically to communicate their message: the home is on fire. A moment later, they are every- w...…
…YOU'RE COVERED With Our T-Shirt! ROSH HASHANAH Apples Continued from Page 24 Jack Peitz inspects bottles of apple cider at the Franklin Cider Mill. Farmington Township. The closest congregation to the still unpopulated northwest suburb was Temple Emanu- El. They joined the temple and sent their two children to Sunday school there. They are still members of the temple. When Peitz, 67, purchased the cider mill 26 years ago for "a retirement...…
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…this week continued to point out that Arafat has not yet formally applied for a visa. As a result, no decision on whether to grant him one has yet been made. But they conceded private- ly that the administration has been quietly and in- directly encouraging Arafat not to come to the United Nations at this time. The Americans clearly want to avoid what they call a major policy dilemma over the en- tire visa issue right now. For the time being, ...…
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…HIGH HOLY DAYS • 4 4 .1 -• '11 Worshipers symbolically cast their sins into the water as they pray on the seashore at Tel Aviv. Soul Searching As we approach the High Holy Days, a leading scholar explains the history and concept of a spiritual reckoning, individually and collectively. ADIN STEINSALTZ A lthough the term "soul-searching" is relatively new — it dates only from the Middle Ages — the concept of a spiritual reckoning is a...…
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…YEAR IN REVIEW GARY ROSENBLATT Editor jubilant Arafat in Geneva. The ongoing intifada in Israel. Carmelite nuns at Auschwitz. A Who Is A Jew crisis in Israel and America. Secretary of State Baker cautioning Jerusalem against plans for a Greater Israel. American leaders castigating Israel for endangering American hostages by abducting a Hezbollah sheik from Lebanon. Anti-Semitism on the rise_ around the world. The Jewish calendar year 5749 w...…
…YEAR IN REVIEW 5749 YEAR IN REVIEW MIDEAST THE INTIFADA dragged on, becoming a way of life in Israel, draining the economy and dividing Israelis over the government and army's role in protecting the populace and quelling the violence. Resourceful settlers used screens to protect their autos from rock-throwers. ANGER AND ANXIETY increased in Israel as a result of the violence of the intifada, as some settlers blamed the army for failing to p...…
…YEAR IN REVIEW 5749 YEAR IN REVIEW RABBI MOSHE LEVINGER, leader of the Gush Emunim settlers movement in Israel, went on trial this summer, charged in the shooting death of an Arab man. ISRAEL LAUNCHED her first satellite, Ofek-1, in October. DOZENS OF ARMENIAN VICTIMS of last winter's earthquake were operated on and treated with artificial limbs in Israel before being flown home. It was one of the Jewish state's rare public relations coups...…
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…YEAR IN REVIEW 5749 YEAR IN REVIEW A MEZUZAH IN MOSCOW was dedicated at the opening of Moscow's first government-recognized Jewish community center in February, a symbol of change in the USSR for Soviet Jews. RR AND MANS de COL TERRORIST FRENCH JEWS protested the-first official visit of PLO leader Yassir Arafat in May. L WOMEN PRAYING AT THE WESTERN WALL became an issue of religious controversy in Israel. At times, the women were harrassed...…
…YEAR IN REVIEW 5749 YEAR IN REVIEW ISSUES LT. COL. WILLIAM HIGGINS, 44, was purportedly hanged by his pro-Iranian captors in Lebanon in retaliation for Israel's abduction of a Moslem sheik. But American experts concluded that Higgins was most likely killed before the Israeli abduction. ISRAEL'S ABDUCTION of Shi'ite Moslem Sheik Obeid from his apartment in Lebanon sparked an international controversy over terrorism and hostages. Some Americ...…
