…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY DECEMBER 28, 1990 / 11 TEVET 5751 Sinai Hospital Boosts In-Patient Tally A one-week upsurge cheers those fighting merger or closure. KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer S inai Hospital this past week filled between 400 and 420 beds each night, a record-breaking fig- ure for the 38-year-old facili- ty that has been losing an average of $1 million a mon- th. In the past few ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY DECEMBER 21, 1990 / 4 TEVET 5751 Doctors Form Coalition To Influence Sinai's Future Sinai Hospital of Detroit. 0 KIMBERLY LIFTON and PHIL JACOBS Staff Writers T hey spend their entire careers trying to save lives. And now they are trying to save their hospital. A group of doctors is rally- ing to the aid of the 38-year- old Sinai Hospital, which once afforded Jewis...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS DECEMBER 14, 1990 / 27 KISLEV 5751 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JWF Cautiously Marks Calendar PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor O n Jan. 15, the world could be at war. On Jan. 19, a dele- gation of professional and lay leadership from the Detroit Jewish Welfare Fed- eration could be in Israel. That is, if there is no war. A trip planned by the Fed- eration to show solidarity and support with Israel a...…
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…lb THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 30, 1990 / 13 KISLEV 5751 Feelings Toward Israel Eroding Among Young KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer A s a student at Hillel Day School, Marc Baker always wanted to be an Israeli soldier and have an Israeli passport. "For the first 20 years of my life, I dreamed about moving there," said Mr. Baker, now 30. "I was con- vinced that all Jews should live there....…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 23, 1990 / 6 KISLEV 5751 5751 Study Backs Enrichment Versus Local Outreach KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer ommunity leaders should develop a strategy to enrich Jewish life for the affiliated population of metropolitan Detroit, according to demographers Dr. Steven Cohen and Dr. Jacob Ukeles. In a report to be released in the coming weeks that is drawn from from De...…
…SECOND CLASS THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY HMC And WS() Produce Holocaust Children's Play ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor A charming children's opera that was per- formed in the There- sienstadt concentration camp will be revived in rnid- December by the Holocaust Memorial Center and Wayne State University. The 45-minute opera Brundibar is a parable on the theme of good and evil. It was written by H...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 9, 1990 / 21 HESHVAN 5751 The Violent Life, Death Of Kahane The militant rabbi's murder in New York has stirred passions of anger and zealotry. Rabbi Meir Kahane, the former Knesset member and Jewish Defense League founder who was assassinated Monday night in New York, was buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday, stirring passions of anger and zealotry in death as he...…
…:11 171 1' c..*) THE SWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Day School Is Struggling For Community Support SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer D r. Margaret Eichner knew when she ac- cepted the job as headmaster at Yavneh Academy, the Reform Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, it would take three to five years to get the school off the ground. She was right. After its first year and an enrollment of 14 students, Yavne...…
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…HI - INWMA 9;9L3 SMAN HSTMAr 00000T !I E JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Building Bridges Across 16 Mile PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor I t seems like there is always some sort of con- struction happening along Walnut Lake Road in West Bloomfield, be it road work or new homes going up. A bridge is also going up. Not made of girders, con- crete and steel, this bridge is made of people — members of Temple...…
…SECOND CLASS THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY OCTOBER 19, 1990 / 30 TISHREI 5751 Special Report — The World Vs. Israel Judging Israel When Times Are Tough PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor W hat happens when Israel's image goes bad? While the community of nations focuses its condemnation on Israel, Detroit's Jewish leaders are wondering out loud what sort of public stance they should be taking. Do the...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS OCTOBER 12, 1990 / 23 TISHREI 5751 Major Donors Open Campaign STAFF REPORT my months after the same contributors gave $13 million to the special Operation Ex- odus campaign for Soviet Jewry, major Jewish donors in Detroit this week pledged a record $9.85 million to the 1991 Allied Jewish Cam- Paign. Sixty of the Jewish com- munity's largest con- tributors attended the ...…
…SECOND CLASS rf'T-EIEJEWISI-INE\ATS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield Two Synagogues Planning Merger ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he memberships of Congregation Shaarey Zedek and Congrega- tion B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield will vote in separate meetings Nov. 1 on merging the two syn- agogues. If the proposal passes, Shaarey Zedek officials plan to spend $1 million on the Wnsi Is...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS 'SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 / 9 TISHREI 5751 War Memories On Yom Kippur PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor Yom Kippur, 2 p.m., Satur- day, October, 6, 1973. Uri Segal was a student at Lawrence Institute of Technology when he heard from classmates and on the radio that Israel had been attacked by Syria and Egypt. Mr. Segal, then 31, was told by the Israeli Consulate in Chicago to st...…
…SECOND CLASS SEVENTY-F1VE CENTS • SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 21, 1990 12 Tishrei 575 May the sound of the shofar open the gates of heaven …
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 / 24 ELUL 5750 Archbishop Seeks Close Jewish-Catholic Ties PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor A t a time when world Catholic and Jewish leaders have come together in condemnation of anti-Semitism, and a time when the head of the Vat- ican's commission on Catholic-Jewish relations called anti-Semitism within Christian thought and prac- tice a reason to do...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SEPTEMBER 7, 1990 / 17 ELUL 5750 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JCC Breaks Ground For Charach Art Wing KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he Jewish Community Center this week broke ground for an $850,000 art wing to be built at the Maple-Drake JCC in the name of the late artist, Janice Charach Epstein. Expected to open this spr- ing, the 7,200-square-foot, three-story art wing will be funded by a $1 m...…
…SECOND CLASS THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS AUGUST 31, 1990 / 10 ELUL 5750 JWF Approves Suburban Site KIMBERLY LIFTON p Staff Writer Tans by the Jewish Welfare Federation to follow its community to the suburbs are sailing smoothly as the board of governors gave overwhelm- ing approval this week to buy 5 V2 acres of land in Farmington Hills for future agency headquarters. No purchase can be made w...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS AUGUST 24, 1990 / 3 ELUL 5750 New Address For Federation? PHIL JACOBS Assistant Editor or 38 years, 163 Madi- son has been the address most synony- mous with the Jewish com- munity's identity and rela- tionship with Detroit. But at an executive com- mittee meeting scheduled Aug. 24, Jewish Welfare Federation President Mark Schlussel was scheduled to Mark Schlussel: F...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY 'SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS 60% Attend Hebrew School ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he percentage of Jew- ish youth in the core areas of Detroit's Jew- ish community attending re- ligious school are higher than recent reports in- dicated. Dr. Steven Cohen, one of two key researchers analyz- ing the results of last fall's telephone interviews with some 1,000 Detroit area Jews, said this week tha...…
…1 THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AUGUST 10, 1990 / 19 AV 5750 Detroit Iraqis Respond To Invasion Of Kuwait KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer oseph Nadhir has been active in the Detroit Chaldean community since leaving Iraq for the United States 30 years ago. Since his immigration, his attitude about relationships with people of other cultural backgrounds has remained consistent. "We feel we are all bro...…
…THE JEWISH NEWL, SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AUGUST 3, 1990 / 12 AV 5750 Spectacular At Palace Set For Games Opening ALAN HITSKY r Associate Editor ) 1 p lanners of the opening ceremonies for the Jewish Community Centers-North American Maccabi Youth Games hope to fill the Palace of Auburn Hills Aug. 19 for a 90- minute spectacular. "This will be the largest single Jewish community gathering this community h...…
…THE JEWISH NEW SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Sinai Not Hurt By Failed Merger KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer S everal of Sinai Hospital's leading physicians and department heads were cautiously optimistic about the hospital's future after Henry Ford Health Care Corp.'s decision to call off merger talks with the finan- cially troubled facility. After nine months of negotiations, the two in- stitutions halted merger t...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS a SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JULY 20, 1990 / 27 TAMMUZ 5750 Shir Shalom To Purchase Land In West Bloomfield SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer I n the next few years, Temple Shir Shalom offi- cials expect to have a new home. Subject to congregation approval, the temple will ,D buy an 8.5-acre parcel at the southeast corner of Orchard Lake and Walnut Lake c- roads in West Bloomfield for $675,000, said R...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS 7 5 0 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY $250,000 Detroit Gift Pays For Soviet Flight KIMBERLY LIFTON C> Staff Writer D etroit became the se- cond U.S. city to sponsor a United Jewish Appeal Freedom Flight last week, bringing 190 Soviet Jews to Israel through a $250,000 gift to Operation Exodus from the estate of the late Ben Teitel. To date, Philadelphia is the only other Jewish com- munity to subsidize a flight, but o...…
…HE JEWISH NE THIS ISSUE 75'P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JULY 6, 1990 / 13 TAMMUZ 5750 U.S., Israel Look To Egypt To Save Peace Process GIL SEDAN Special to The Jewish News co z Mubarak and Bush:influencing Israel? Teens Renovate East-Side Area KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer uliette Palmer, a 15- year-old high school student from Brooklyn, was thinking about taking a guided tour j to Israel this summer. But an advertisement...…
…E 0 8 . 1• ?, 5.;:: I !A! 92_9 2.. N I NV SCION 1.-IS I M:ilfs Of:5000 .I.:4P.:1 V 3 V THIS ISSUE 75(P JUNE 29, 1990 / 6 TAMMUZ 5750 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Mandela's Remarks Raise r Doubts In Many Jews ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM and KIMBERLY LIFTON D orothy Medalie has noticed a certain quietness among U.S. Jewish leaders regarding Nelson Mandela's applause for Cuban, Libyan and Pa- lestinian Liberation Organ- ization leaders....…
…THIS ISSUE 75 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Agencies Tighten Belts For Soviet Resettlement KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer L H ocal Jewish agencies are tightening their belts for the 1990-91 fiscal year which began this month, holding the line on spending to prepare for a projected influx of 700 Soviet Jewish emigres and to settle this past year's 793 new ar- rivals. The cost-cutting measure follows an appeal by the Jewish Welfare Fed...…
…r ROG +7 :LW 'Z :11: >.:1>.-.1 V 3 THIS ISSUE 75cP N I 9 2..9 2.. F.: S 113N I-1S :1: 00000 1: SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JUNE 15, 1990 / 22 SIVAN 5750 Education Task Force Backs Broad Changes SUSAN GRANT and KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writers A a task force set up 2 1/2 years ago will ask the Jewish Welfare Fed- eration to hire a staff consul- tant to map out and imple- ment a revitalization pro- gram for Detroit's formal and ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 75( SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JUNE 8, 1990 / 15 SIVAN 5750 Exodus Fund Passes i st Goal ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he Detroit Jewish community has pledged $17.2 million over the last two months for Operation Exodus, the international campaign ex- pected to raise $420 million to help Israel resettle Soviet Jewish immigrants. The Israelis have projected a budget of $2 billion to resettle Soviet Jew...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 75(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JUNE 1, 1990 / 8 SIVAN 5750 Gym Is Air Conditioned, 4" JPM Pool Still Planned ALAN HITSKY and RICHARD PEARL T he Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Com- munity Center in Oak Park is undergoing $145,000 in renovations this month. At the same time, a proposal to build a swimming pool, an additional locker room and multi-purpose rooms is being scaled down but moving for- ward. The...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 754P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MAY 25, 1990 / 1 SIVAN 5750 U.S. Will Study Holocaust Class ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he Holocaust cur- riculum for high school students that was produced by Detroit's Center for the Study of the Child three years ago is undergoing evaluation for the U.S. Department of Edu- cation. If approved, the cur- riculum will be added to the department's National Dif- fusion...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 75( MAY 18, 1990 / 23 IYAR 5750 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Home For Aged Move Is Approved By State KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer M ichigan Department of Public Health Di- rector Raj Wiener brought a special gift to the Jewish Home for Aged's an- nual meeting on Monday, where she was the scheduled guest speaker. Before the meeting began, Wiener handed a long- awaited, signed certificate of need (CON) fo...…
…T. HE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 75cP SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY =EARINCING iLLNESS AMONG JEWS TO THE OREFRONT MAY 11, 1990 / 16 IYAR 5750 Police Seek Akiva Vandals SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer athrup Village police are searching for three youths who vandalized Akiva Hebrew Day School last weekend and forced the school to close Monday. Classes resumed Tuesday after school employees spent Monday cleaning up the $10,000 in damage. The va...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS MAY 4, 1990 / 9 IYAR 5750 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 75ct ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor M arta Rosenthal and Robert Orley are an- ticipating a record 5,000 walkers Sunday at the annual Solidarity Walk for Israel and Soviet Jewry in West Bloomfield. Based on pre-registration figures of 3,000-3,200, the two walk chairmen expect a record crowd for the 3.2 mile stroll from the Maple-Drake Jewish Community C...…
…HE JEWISH NEWS SECOND CLASS POSTAGE THIS ISSUE 75cP SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY APRIL 27, 1990 / 2 IYAR 5750 U.S. Jews Criticize Israel Over Christian Quarter STAFF REPORT merican Jewish organizations, in a rare display of public criticism of Jerusalem, join- ed the chorus of complaints this week over Israel's covert sponsorship of a Jew- ish settlement in the Chris- tian Quarter of Jerusalem. The American Israel A Public Affai...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 75cP APRIL 20, 1990 / 25 NISAN 5750 Will Labor Replace Peres With Rabin? erusalem (JTA) — The Labor Party seems to have lost confidence in its longtime leader, Shimon Peres, since his at- tempt to establish a new coalition government was thwarted last week by the 11th-hour defections of two ultra-Orthodox Knesset members. Although the prime min- Sen. Dole Turns On Jerusalem ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 75cP West Bloomfield Accepts B'nai Moshe SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer A dmitting they were wrong to deny Con- gregation B'nai Moshe a building permit, West Bloomfield Township trustees last week welcomed plans to build the synagogue on Drake Road. After a short executive session on April 6, trustees approved a special use per- mit to build B'nai Moshe on the condition it raises ...…
…tr 5::0 JS NI -1NN V a.::1 9 2.. 91.F, •IS 11:1 r 00000 I 1.:9.8V3 IA lit it THIS ISSUE 75 1; SIN NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY f -# APRIL 6, 1990 / 11 NISAN 5750 "." / ..."7-;-%;71 -r-** *".\ ' f. .And The Lord Freed Us With A Mighty Hand" For Soviet Jews, a first Passover out of bondage …
…F trE oetr IN Q1JS N I iNNV.7.1 9L922 SMaN HS I Mar T Zt7E OIMVO 00000 T nt.4 iL SH THIS ISSUE 60(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY JNF Cancels Annual Dinner ALAN HITSKY T Associate Editor he Jewish National Fund has cancelled its spring fund-raising campaign and June dinner so that it will not conflict with the Jewish Welfare Federation's Operation Ex- odus drive for Soviet Jewry resettlement in Israel. The cancellation is belie...…
…SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY • • • • and it s to make Pe fL b ationc Cl tic ice done al . rr e manuf. edhfrom ha otlkndestine hn'Ad tchi lAV nib nurse( the erpi; 0 if v tC os .en;;- Tu I xl • Leon Uris describes his recent visit to Moscow and why he feels Jewish life there is doomed. …
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60 0 SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Old Population Estimates Based On Rust Belt Model KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T he Jewish community was shocked last week after preliminary results from the first demo- graphic study in nearly 30 years showed Detroit's Jew- ish population had been grossly underestimated since 1972. "Where did the lower number come from?" re- sponds Don Feldstein, a researcher with the ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 6O Population Study Finds 96,000 Detroit Area Jews Associate Editor R 10 8 4 L ■ ,7 4 Ot7 L.` 8 0 0 1-17 91- 2 OZ8 1 due to economic and neigh- borhood changes. Cohen said he, too, was surprised when he first learned the study revealed that 96,000 Jews lived in the suburban Detroit vicinity. He and Ukeles cross-checked their methods by using four additional demographic tests, which confirmed their resu...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 60s MARCH 2, 1990 / 5 ADAR 5750 Operation Exodus Seeks $16 Million For Israel ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T Mubarak Awad: Non-violence is "to empower people to choose what they want." Awad Pleased With Intifada ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor T wo years ago the man often touted as the Middle East's answer to Mahatma Gandhi was ex- pelled from Israel for allegedly ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY THIS ISSUE 60( Lubavitch Vow To Keep Battling SUSAN GRANT Staff Writer L ubavitch Foundation will not give up on plans to build an edu- cational and religious retreat along West Maple Road in West Bloomfield — despite a vote which they say will make their task more difficult. West Bloomfield Township trustees voted 4-2 on Tues- day to exclude colleges and universities from areas zon- ed...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS THIS ISSUE 60(P SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY Shoah Answer: Social Action ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor S ometimes he can almost smell the burn- ing flesh and see the children tossed alive into the fiery ovens of Auschwitz. And in those moments, Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Green- berg cannot speak of God. He wonders, "What can we say in the face of those chil- dren?" The answer: "The single most religious state- ment...…
