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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP End Of The Maze ALAN HITSKY UHS and the Conservative synagogues face big changes. Cover illustration by Nip Rogers. 24 BUSINESS Risky Business RUTH LITTMANN Mike Nash is betting on the success of Mr. B's. 54 EDUCATION Yavneh At Two OPINION A personal note . and an apology. 11 UP FRONT Israeli electioneering already heating up. 14 DETROIT • Curriculum battle at Beth Yehudah. • Nazi propaganda films pirated i...…
…EDITORIAL Education And Attitudes United Hebrew Schools has been a fix- ture in the Detroit Jewish community for 72 years. But as our Close-Up article on Page 24 points out, that may be changing. The agency was created to upgrade cur- riculum, enhance teaching standards and effect an economy of scale for educating the thousands of Detroit area Jewish youngsters who attended afternoon Heb- rew schools. Over the years, thousands of Detroiters ...…
…71, LETTERS Where's Proof On Jennings? Your article concerning the alleged anti-Israel, pro-Arab biases of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings reads like a college freshman's homework assignment for Journalism 101. While writer Arthur Magida clearly would like to indict the veteran journalist as a dangerous national voice, he actually gives the reader every reason to see Jen- nings as a consummate pro- fessional. The man is certainly not biased;...…
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…Don't Look Now, But The Election Has Begun NECHEMIA MEYERS Special to The Jewish News S ome observers believe that the national elec- tions scheduled for November 1992 will be ad- vanced to April of next year. The politicians, in any case, are acting as if the campaign has already begun. The bill for more generous government mortgages is a case in point. It was recently put forward by Yaacov Shamai of the Likud, Eli Dayan of Labor and Ron ...…
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…DETROIT Yeshiva's Board Resigns After Curriculum Change Staff Writer y eshivah Beth Yehudah's decision last week to cut back 30 minutes from secular studies each day next year and add 30 minutes to Judaic studies has resulted in the resignation of the Or- thodox boys' school's board of directors. David Wayntraub, who had been a member of the board, said the majority of the 11 members resented the fact that they were present- ed with the pr...…
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…NEWS PLO Transcript Exposed As Hoax A Classic for Now and Future Time. Washington (JTA) — Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf s spokesman has dismissed - as a "hoax" a Palestine Liberation Organ- ization transcript that quotes him as saying U.S. forces fought Iraq "for Israel." The transcript, which has the four-star general making disparaging comments about Saudi Arabia's role in the war, was obtained by Hassan Abu Rahman, direc- tor of the Ar...…
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…40. 111401111110011101:4PIPOONINIMINNIWNIPINW END OF THE MAZE? 0 fra Fisher has been waiting four years for an answer. She may have another year to wait. Superintendent of the Agency for Jewish Educa- tion and its United Hebrew Schools elementary branches, Mrs. Fisher is waiting for the Jewish Welfare Federation's blue-ribbon task force on Jewish education. Under the guidance of two different com- mittees over the last four years, Federati...…
…isapi uueo sol oqd ibo split between Akiva, Hillel and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, with no support for other Or- thodox programs, the non- UHS Conservative schools or any of the burgeoning Reform temple schools. (The new Yavneh Academy Reform day school received a three-year, $140,000 start- up grant from the Max M. Fisher Foundation of United Jewish Charities, the en- dowment arm of Federation.) "The demographics of the. 1980s and early 1990s in-...…
…DETROIT JEWISH SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS First figure in each category is for '89-'90 school year. Second figure is for '90-'91. ENROLLMENT TOTALS SCHOOLS 2500 ORTHODOX = 500 students 2000 1500 1000 500 0 90 91 Nursery 2500 90 91 K-8 CONSERVATIVE 90 91 9-12 = 500 students 2000 1500 1000 500 0 90 91 Nursery 90 91 K-8 2500 2000 i been asked for its input. The commission is also meeting with Detroit's rabbis and cantors, lay...…
…Above: Rabbi Jerry Godfrey works with Eric Nicholson. Left: Teacher Avia Silverman listens to Jessica Gales. TUITION COMPARISON The figures are for 1990-91 six-hour-per-week Con- servative programs. Figures for the synagogues are non-member rates: $620* UHS Beth Abraham Hillel Moses $635 Beth Shalom $660 Shaarey Zedek $800 *UHS has raised its rates for 1991-92 to $720 tin J. Berman. "If the syn- agogue had to take over the school we...…
…having the schools more closely tied to the syn- agogues," he says, "but rais- ing dues to pay for it is almost self-defeating." Rabbi Berman sees a deeper problem. He believes that Conservative parents have not been prepared to give their children even a minimalist Jewish edu- cation. "Six hours is not enough," he says. "What can you give kids in six hours of instruc- tion a week? The saying is, `A mile wide and an inch deep.' "Forty or 50 ye...…
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…Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) Union every month, the Soviet government's per- formance in the realm of emigration should be rewarded regardless of the fine print in the new law, they argue. But Mr. Schumer is evaluating what steps — if any — Congress can take to convince the Soviets to change the law. Optical Plus OF MICHIGAN SOUTHFIELD OFFICE! Legislators See Nazi Videos Several legislators and their staffs played video games on Capitol Hi...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY Truman, Clifford, Marshall In Israel' s Genesis PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus C lark Clifford had many roles in nation- al affairs with inter- national involvements commencing with his ad- visory position to President Harry S. Truman down the line to his involvement in the Vietnam occurrences under President Lyndon B. Johnson. In his memoir en- titled Counsel to the Presi- dent, he covered the major events involving o...…
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