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…CONTENTS BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT A Natural Businessman OPINION Hard Edged • Babi Yar: German guilt and Soviet duplicity. • Zionism vs. racism is a false issue. 47 66 11 UP FRONT The nuclear explosion in the Middle East. 14 DETROIT SPORTS • A local doctor helps Ceausescu's orphans. • Sinai closes in on a new president. Right On Course This summer, U-M golfer Erica Zonder added a state championship to her credits. 24 CLOSE-UP ...…
…EDITORIAL Pat On The Back For Federation Last week's Federation annual meeting came complete with its appetizing meal and its bevy of speakers, just like many Federation meetings. But before we yawn and get ready for next year's Federation meeting, let's freeze-frame. This was a truly remarkable year for the Detroit Federation. The words "truly remarkable" don't come cheap anymore. But at last year's Federation an- nual meeting, money was st...…
…OPINION F LEV PARANSKY fifty years have passed since the words "Babi Yar," the name of a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, became known through- out the world. Sept. 29 was the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the Jewish people. On Sept. 21, 1941, after many days of bitter fighting, Soviet troops withdrew from Kiev. On Sept. 24, a powerful explosion destroyed the Con- tinental Hotel, headquarters of the German a...…
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…Nuclear Explosion The quest for an "Islamic bomb" has put the Middle East on the verge of a massive nuclear weapons buildup HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent D r. Danny Leshem, a senior defense ana- lyst at Tel Aviv Uni- versity's Center for Strate- gic Studies, believes that nuclear proliferation in the Middle East is so widespread and dispersed that an Israeli air strike similar to that which destroyed Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981 is n...…
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…DETROIT Neglected Orphans Of Romania Get Help From A Detroit Doctor ALAN HITSKY Associate Editor T he conditions are horrible —hundreds of naked, malnourished Romanian orphans living in their own filth. Since the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu in December 1989, "60 Minutes" and "20/20" have brought tele- vised pictures of the dev- astating conditions for 40,000 Romanian children sentenced to "orphanages." Their crime: ha...…
…the right • ATTITUDE • TIME •PLACE • PRICE Teens Take A Shot At The JET Spotlight AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer C alling all 13-year-old- boys. Calling all 16- year-old girls. The Jewish Ensemble Theater is looking for you. More than 50 boys and girls answered that call. JET held its first set of youth auditions last week for its next production, First Is Supper. There are four teen slots available in Shelley Ber- man's play, a drama abou...…
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…`A RAT IS A PIG IS A DOG IS A BOY' Is Animal Rights a Jewish Issue? N obody is afraid of the big, bad wolf at Linda Gale's home. That's be- cause the concept of the big, bad wolf does not exist there — not in songs, not in storybooks, not in bedtime stories. Instead, the Gale children learn that wolves are graceful animals and loving, protecting parents — much like humans. They learn that rats feel pain and should not be regarded as appropr...…
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…COMMUNITY ADL And HMC Will Host Conference On The Holocaust The Anti-Defamation League, in cooperation with the Holocaust Memorial Cen- ter, will present a conference Oct. 23 at the Jewish Com- munity Center Campus in West Bloomfield. The conference, entitled "Moral Courage During the Holocaust and in a Post- Holocaust World," will ex- amine historical and psychological perspectives. Speaking at the conference will be Dr. Yehudah Nir, ass...…
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