…• CONGRATULATIONS TO THE JEWISH NEWS ON THEIR 50th ANNIVERSARY. MAZEL TOVI Havel The Jewish News and D anny Raskin And so it is with a great deal of pride that Gary and Jack Cockran wish them only the best on their 50th Anniversaries. Beau jacks first center building • suite '115 26955 northwestern highway southfield, michigan 48034 phone: 313 262-1560 Food & Spirits • 60:4 0 00 Friendship .. . For over 25 years, we have cherished...…
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…How Very Proud We Are . . To Congratulate The Jewish News and Danny Raskin On Their 50th Anniversaries. It Is With Much Pride That We Have Linked Our Name With There's Throughout The Many Years. he Staff of Bellissima'i Wishes The Jewish News Our Congratulations On Its 50th Anniversary THE TREADMILL FOR EVERY FITNESS LEVEL. Stephan Becharas' 6638 Telegraph Road at Maple • Bloomfield Plaza • 851.0313 CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY ANNIV...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE 1942-1992 50 Clockwise, beginning at the top right: The shipping department prepares the papers; Joe Taylor double- checks; Ben Reiss watches the press; Cindy Gnatek prepares the page negatives; John Raines mixes the ink; plate-maker Jeff Davies. MARCH 27, 1992 179 …
…Advertiser Index Adat Shalom 60 Norman Allan 114 American Exercise 177 American Gourmet 142 American-Israel Chamber 168 American Protective Alarm 40 Andiamo 92 Arbor Drug 74 Audette Cadillac 138 Bar-Ilan 170 Beau Jack's 175 Beckwith Evans 122 Belle Tire 70 Bellini 176 Bellissima Salon 177 Benetton 124 Beth Abraham Hillel Moses 132, 60 Beth Achim 102, 60 Beth Shalom 60 Birmingham Temple 60 Bloomfield Optical 166 Blue Sky Inside Back Cover B'n...…
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…MARCH 27, 1992 111110 THE JEWISH NEWS A Toast To Jewish Living #io Jews And The Encounter With The New World By JUDITH LAIKIN ELKIN What attitude should Jews take toward the Columbus Quincentenary? As Americans we never used to pay much attention to Columbus Day. Few of us noticed when Congress detached it from October 12 — the actual date when Columbus' lookout spied land — and allowed it to float between the closest Friday or Monday. B...…
…Concert At Temple Israel Celebrates Spanish Jewry For Cantor Harold Orbach, it began with a return to the city of his birth. Invited last fall by the German government to sing in concert, the cantor was contacted by the non- Jewish historian of the Jewish community in Dusseldorf, where he was born. She brought to his attention a concert originally sung in 1921 which featured a song cycle based on the great Spanish poet Yehuda Halevi, composed...…
…Sephardim Bring Tapestry Of Culture, Art, Heritage Continued from Page L-1 gather only as much as they could carry and flee for their lives.And so, the Jews left centuries of history and tradition to make lives in strange new worlds. Many found themselves in the countries of northern Africa — Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The Turkish government welcomed thousands of Jews. Others made new homes in France, Italy, Bulgaria, Albania...…
…c Pesach, Sephardic Style sier ,im) ce" By LISSA HURWITZ The annual seder is a familiar friend, with the same traditional foods my mother and her mother before her prepared year after year — charoset, gefilte fish, matzah ball soup, and the hard boiled egg in salt water that presented the biggest challenge of the seder . . . holding it still enough to cut into. I assumed as I was growing up that every Jew in the world had a seder just like ...…
…Nachmanides, Abarbanel: Giants Of Sephardic Jewry By RABBI ALON TOLWIN Jews have lived on the Iberian Peninsula since before the destruction of the Second Temple (100 BCE) and have produced some of the greatest leaders the Jewish nation has known. Probably the greatest name associated with that area is the Rambam, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides). The Rambam was born in Cordoba but fled at the time of his bar mitzvah with his family in th...…
…Books On Sephardic Jewry Fiction Butchers and Bakers, Rabbis and Kings by Jacqueline Greene. Kar-Ben, 1984. Based on a little- known historical tale about the Jews of 12th century Tudela, Spain, who devise a plot to convince the King to allow the Jews to live in peace. Ages 5-10. The Answered Prayer and Other Yemenite Folktales by Sharlya Gold and Mishael Maswari Caspi, the Jewish Publication Society, 1990. Twelve traditional tales from the...…
…Plots and Players: the Lopez Conspiracy by Pamela Meinikoff. Bedrick, 1989. Three Jewish children, exiled from Portugal, confront anti-Semitism in Elizabethan England. Ages 12-15. The Family y Aguilar by Marcus Lehmann. Feldheim, 1983. A story of Jewish heroism during the Spanish Inquisition. Ages 13 and up. Non-Fiction Maimonides' Ladder of Tzedakah The Jews of New Amsterdam by Eva Deutsch Costabel. Atheneum, 1988. A beautifully illustrat...…
…The RAMBAM: 'There Never Arose A Person As Great' The acronym RAMBAM is an abbreviation for the Hebrew letters which stand for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon who was known as the leading Jewish personality in the twelfth century Moslem world. He is remembered as a Talmudist, a halachist, a philosopher scientist, a physician, a theologian, an advisor. Most important, his contemporaries said of him: "From Moshe (Rabaynu) to Moshe (Maimonides), there ne...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY MARCH 20, 1992 / 15 ADAR 2 5752 Food Stamp Policy Shift Angers Elderly Emigres Staff Writer ike the majority of Soviet Jewish immi- grants who live in senior housing, Tilya Polskaya, 73, anxiously awaits the monthly arrival of two envelopes: A $436 government subsidy and a $28 book of food stamps. Because of a policy change at the Jewish Family Ser- vice, Mrs. Polskaya...…
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…CLOSE-UP BUSINESS Jewish Myth Information The Ultimate Recycling ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM SUSAN KNOPPOW Detroit's estate sale industry is booming. Debunking the most popular misconceptions about Judaism. 22 58 7 OPINION Federation must heal itself to heal community. 14 DETROIT • WSU Hillel regroups after budget cutting. • Memorial service for Menachem Begin. • Hyman Adler recalled as a master cantor. 29 BACKGROUND Israel accuses ...…
…I EDITORIAL If It's Garbage, Keep It Shande. A sin, something that makes one shake his head in sad puzzlement. It's a shande to talk about this great miracle of essentially evacuating thousands upon thousands of Russian Jews and then see what they see here in Detroit. We go around beating our chests about this wonderful job we've done, bringing these emigres here and putting them up in apartments. But few of us see just how empty these apart...…
…OPINION Federation Must Heal Itself Before It Can Heal Community JERRY KNOPPOW T he March 13 article, "Federation Retools Annual C amp aign ," closes with, "We are looking for the long-term fix." The "fix" is there; the question is whether Federation is willing to fix itself. No matter how many study committees, task forces and . missions are conducted, it still does not address the issues of a dramatically larger Jewish community (nearly ...…
…THE JEWISH NEWS U.S. economy down? American workers suffering? 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 C...…
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…UP FRONT B'nai B'rith Discloses Additional Cutbacks The nation's oldest Jewish communal organization hopes to survive by streamlining its operation. JAMES D. BESSER Om Washington Correspondent T IP l'' he budget ax has fallen again at B'nai B'rith International's Rhode Island Avenue head- quarters in Washington. But early indications are that the new cuts — neces- sitated by a staggering ac- cumulated budget deficit and declining memb...…
…DETROIT Mourners Attend Service For Menachem Begin STAFF REPORT S imon Cieck, president of Detroit's Jabotin- sky Society, came Sunday to pay his last respects to former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. So did Steve Goldin, past president of the society and recipient of a Jabotinsky medal of honor. Services were held for Mr. Begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Zionist Cultural Center in Southfield. Nearly 100 Detroiters attended. "I knew ...…
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…DETROIT Detroit Hillel Regroups After $40,000 Budget Cut Technological University and Oakland Community College — will continue to exist. Hillel Board President Kurt Singer said half of the $40,000 that was cut out of the budget will be recap- tured through fund raising. Another quarter, he said, will be covered by budget cuts. NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer T wo months after being told that its national funding had been cut to zero, the...…
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…Rasputin, Lenin, Gorby: Their Story In 90 Minutes ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO The Jewish News To: The Jewish News 27676 Franklin Road Southfield, MI 48034 Please send a year's gift subscription to: NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP FOR state occasion FROM L 1 year - $31 — 2 years - $56 — Out of State $41 — Foreign - $62 Enclosed $ SINAI HOSPITAL would like to announce the opening of the Center for Eye D...…
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…CLOSE-UP Jewish Myth Information Debunking some of the most popular misconceptions about Judaism. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Assistant Editor Jews are buried standing up straight. W hat a ghoulish site. Mourners gathered around a coffin as it is placed feet first in the ground. Not only ghoulish, but completely false, according to Rabbi Lane Steinger of Temple Emanu-El. "It is simply not true," he said. Rabbi Steinger believes this misconcept...…
…Myths Continued from preceding page Ceremonies like weddings and funerals may be performed only by a rabbi. J Kosher food is organic or healthier. ould it be that kosher are obligated C c to pass rigorous physical exams before they are slaughtered? Must they be able to lift barbells, jog a mile, swim 10 laps? "There are many misperceptions about kashrut," Rabbi Lane Ste- inger of Temple Emanu-El said. "One of the most common is that the d...…
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