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…MI THE JEWISH NEWS NOV. 8. 1991 A Toast To Jewish. Living Stand Up, Sit Down, Pray: Following The Shabbat Service By IRA J. WISE When I was a little boy, my parents took me to a cousin's bar mitzvah. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't my first worship service, but it was the first time that I tried to follow along in the prayer book. All that Hebrew and all those "upon thy this" and "upon thy that" had me thoroughly confused. It seemed a jumb...…
…Stand Up, Sit Down, Pray! Continued from Page L-1 powerful, generous, merciful, singular and ours. Praising God is also an important way of identifying just to Whom it is we are addressing all of our other kinds of prayers. Petition: Prayers in which we ask God for things like health, peace, understanding and a good year, to name just a few possibilities. Thanksgiving: Prayers in which we say "Thank you, God." God has given us a lot, and the...…
…group event experienced by our biblical ancestors. Back in the days when the Temple was still standing, the Kohanim (priests) made sacrifices three times a day. In those days, sacrificing animals was the way in which the Jewish people tried to climb the mountain — it was their understanding of how you worshiped God. They called their sacrificial rites the Avodah — the service. After the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E., the r...…
…Prayer Posturing: How We Say It By FLO ZIFFER The soft whisper of a woman's prayer as she utters her petition to God ... The fervent swaying of a man as he praises and beseeches God ... A little hand covering the eyes as a young child says the words of the Sh'ma These are some of the images we picture as we think about prayer. Prayer, both in what we say and in how we say it, is a uniquely human phenomenon. It is an expression of our intell...…
…6.st vt, tli00 Keeping A Personal Relationship With God By MARY KORETZ I don't recall the existence of a synagogue in Chelsea, Mass., although I was born and lived dortn until the age of 6. This, chotsh I retain a klor, visual image of the town. At any rate, even if there had been a synagogue, we wouldn't have attended. My father had an bayzer concept of God. He would declare passionately, "Afile if there was a God, I volt nit worship to Him...…
…scvel4 Feeling The ltig Of Great•Grandfather's Tallit By LOIS RUBY "Who's Aunt Rhoda?" "Oh, Judith, you remember. She's Aunt Ellen's husband's sister from Cleveland." "And she's coming to the bar mitzvah?" "Everyone's coming." Of course. You would think my brother Jeff was being crowned King of Israel, Kansas City branch, and I, the mere 10-year-old sister, was only a servant in the castle. "Get me the guest list, will you, Judith," my mothe...…
…Celebrate Shabbat With Healthy Cholent By LESLYE MICHLIN BORDEN Jewish homemakers throughout the world always had to grapple with the dilemma of how to celebrate Shabbat with a hot meal after Saturday synagogue services when they couldn't light a fire to heat the food. Wherever they lived — in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East — they solved this problem by preparing a slow cooking bean- and meat-based dish, called cholent in East...…
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…CONTENTS POLITICS A Question Of Integrity • • NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Oak Park voters are facing personalities, not the policies. ENTERTAINMENT Book Fair '91 PHIL JACOBS Detroit gets ready for its 40th annual Book Fair. 73 DETROIT 14 • U-M students rally against biased ad. • Agencies struggle with welfare cuts. CLOSE-UP 26 Reconstructionists put new wine in old bottles. MIDEAST 36 A glossary of terms for the peace talks. TRAVEL 66...…
…EDITORIAL Increments Of Mist In A Long Peace Process O "A peace which comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace." So wrote Rabbi Levi Ben-Gershon seven cen- turies ago. That message is particularly appropriate today, when Israeli leaders feel that they are being forced by the United States into a peace conference that is biased against them. There is no symmetry in Madrid. Not only in terms of the numbers of Arab dele-...…
…I OPINION A Newspaper Advertisement Is A Serious Responsibility PHIL JACOBS Managing Editor N ext time, let's just take a full-page black swastika and print it on the backside of a news- paper. Then, let's wrap ourselves up in the Ameri- can flag and talk about First Amendment rights. You think that is preposterous? Check out last Thursday's Michigan Daily. They did it. They just used words instead of symbols. In case you didn't get an op...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz MANAGING EDITOR: Phil Jacobs ASSOCIATE . EDITOR: Alan Hitsky ASSISTANT EDITOR: Elizabeth Applebaum STAFF WRITERS: Kimberly Lifton Amy J. Mehler Noam M. M. Neusner CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Elie Wiesel WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: James D. Besser FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Helen Davis PHOTOGRAPHER: Glenn Triest LOCAL COLUMNISTS: Danny Raskin Carla Jean Schwartz BU...…
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…DETROIT Dreisbach & Sons Cadillac Presents • Ex-Detroiter Is Helping Unknowns Get Published KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer ournalist Gary Rivlin covered the Chicago mayor's office long enough to know he could write a book on the late Mayor Harold Washington. So he sent a query letter to Elizabeth Kaplan, a literary agent with Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. of New York, who was in the Detroit area recently to speak at the Detroit Women Write...…
…UP FRONT Israelis And Palestinians Past Point Of No Return For all of their skepticism, both Israelis and Palestinians sense Madrid signals a new era. INA FRIEDMAN Special to The Jewish News I n Israel the concept of a "waiting period" is usually associated with an impending war. The country went through such times twice: for three tense weeks in 1967 and again this past January, during the countdown to the Gulf War. But this week, in an...…
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…DETROIT MICHAEL WEISS Special to The Jewish News Ann Arbor — The Universi- ty of Michigan erupted into controversy last week over the Michigan Daily's publication of a full-page advertisement that claimed the Holocaust never existed. Outraged students pro- tested on Friday both the con- tent of the ad and the Daily's decision to run it. The ad, entitled "The, Holocaust Controversy: The Case for Open Debate" and paid for by Bradley R. Smith ...…
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…THE POWER OF SCUDS ISN'T IN THE BUILDINGS THEY RIP APART BUT IN THE PEOPLE THEY PULL TOGETHER. Is Wolpe A Spiritualist For Modern Times? NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer O nce called a "Yuppie Heschel," David Wolpe is trying to play matchmaker for Jews and God. With his book, The Healer Of Shattered Hearts Every Jew feels each Scud attack on Israel, as if it has been in his or her own backyard. Psychologically, it has. And after the very ...…
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…headquarters in Crown Heights, chanting "Heil Hitler." He said that people who charge him with anti- Semitism cheapen the mean- ing of the word. He also said that he's not convinced that Yankel Rosenbaum, who was stabb- ed by a group of black youths in the first hours of the Crown Heights violence, was killed in revenge. "No one has established that that was a revenge killing," he said. In the aftermath of the Crown Heights violence, the Rev. ...…
…Seek ers SK EPTICS MICHAEL WEISS Special to The Jewish News 26 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1991 …
…0 VER THE LAST 70 YEARS the face of American Judaism has slowly but surely been changing in large part due to the influence of a single great Jewish thinker and the movement he created. ■ And yet, despite the almost universal acceptance of many of its tenets, Reconstructionism — Judaism's fourth denomination — remains a mystery to a majority of American Jews. Although Reconstruction- ism did not officially become a denomination until the lat...…
…(DSeekers A N lE 11:wr of the Sabbath Prayer Book. Relationships between Or- thodox and Reconstruc- tionist Judaism have been shaky ever since. Perhaps the most wide- spread misconception about Reconstructionism is that Reconstructionists don't be- lieve in God. "Frankly, I'm always a lit- tle baffled when I hear that;' says Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, FRCH executive director. "We're extremely invested in ritual; worship is the central part o...…
…tionist rabbis lead sermon- dialogues; they speak for a few minutes on a topic, then 0- open the floor to discussion. What really makes Recon- ► - structionists different is not what goes on in the syna- IN' gogue but the home rituals, -p the extra rituals (like gittim ceremonies and Tu B'Shevat seders), the informality of the services and the decision-making process. hen Kaplan talked about Jewish com- munities, he had in mind the European s...…
…Seekers A N D IE PT ICS T'CHIYAH: A Downtown Jewish Renaissance What makes Reconstructionists different is home rituals. I t's difficult to evaluate the success of Recon- structionism as a denomination because the leaders of the movement re- ject the usual criteria used for measuring success. Size, for example, is not a high priority of the movement. "We're consciously small- er because we place a high premium on informality and intimac...…
…"Our focus is on creating a connected, interacting com- munity where everyone par- ticipates. We could not survive if our members only showed up three days a year." For the most part, services at T'chiyah are much like ser- vices at a Reform or Conser- vative congregation, depen- ding on who leads the service and how it is structured. At the beginning of the Torah service, rather than march with the Ibrah in a pro- cessional, congregants hand ...…
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…MIDEAST Israelis crushed by the dread of what might await them at the . Royal Palace. As the venomous war of words continued, the Israeli message of "cautious op- timism" was clearly design- ed to break down the per- vasive image of hard-line obstructionism. Seasoned professional spokesmen, accustomed to putting the most palatable spin on unpleasant realities, seemed weary and dispirited. "We are not euphoric, but we are not melancholic. We ...…
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…ideal moment for the Arab world to demonstrate that attitudes have changed, that the Arab world is willing to live in peace with Israel and make allowances for Israel's reasonable security needs." President Bush told the conference: "The time has come to put an end to war — the time has come to choose peace." And for those who had missed the point, he added an unmistakable warning: "No one should assume that the opportunity before us to make p...…
…SINCE YOU ASKED. EASY REFERENCE GUIDE GUESTS AT THE TABLE NOAM M.M. NEUSNER and AMY J. MEHLER DIPLOMATIC SPAIN Bilateral: Both U.S. and Soviet representatives want to in- itiate discussion but not par- ticipate. Therefore, they will have an advisory role in the talks. Their combined coop- eration has been crucial to get all the participants to the table. Linkage: U.S. wants to "link" sup- port for loan guarantees to an Israeli halt of ...…
…MIDEAST In case you were wondering, here is an explanation of diplomatic and historical terms that have surfaced at the Madrid peace talks. TERRITORY ON THE the putting together. Will act as go-between if called upon. Has gained the trust of Arabs and Palestinians. Supported linking U.S.-backed loan guarantees with building of Israeli set- tlements. AGENDA George Bush: Will preside over opening of the Mideast Peace Con- ference. Will als...…
…INSIDE WASHINGTON Where our doors are only a short distance from yours. JAMES D. BESSER Washington Correspondent The White House Looks The Other Way I srael supporters were relieved that the ad- ministration, in the in- terests of holding together the peace conference in Madrid, had chosen not to impose sanctions on Israel for allowing the export of sensitive missile technology to South Africa. Nobody — least of all the administration — ...…
