…April 26, 1996 OPINION Detroit 8 18 On The Move The 10-year legacy of Chernobyl. 27 Congregation T'chiyah's departure will leave only one synagogue inside Detroit. TELL ME WHY Supremacy Litter Did horses once chow on Passover staple? 38 Racist fliers scattered through Huntington Woods and other suburbs were a tribute to Adolph Hitler. HEALTH COP-1 is arresting multiple sclerosis. Tzipi Mann: Pollard activist. page 48 8 62 TRAV...…
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…Community Views Editor's Notebook Chernobyl Threats Ten Years Later The Lessons Of War, And Of Making Peace BORIS KARASIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR I he accident that took the Three-Mile Island Unit 2 power plant out of service inMarch 1979, less than three months after its commer- cial operation began, was a com- plex one. Many factors, both human and mechanical, con- tributed to its seriousness. People so...…
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…Close Up P o ll ar d ople After 10 years of ups and downs (mostly downs), volunteers working to free Jonathan Pollard are a committed but frustrated lot. LOIS K. SOLOMON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS reason. The word drives Jacob Seidenberg crazy. Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish U.S. Naval Intelligence officer who spied for Israel, did not commit treason, Mr. Seidenberg insists, even though so many critics claim that his espionage amounted to ...…
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