…September 6, 1996 Detroit OPINION Israel's government and U.S. Jewry. 25 Cross-Border Ball The friendships are as important as the games at the Jewish Men's International Softball Tournament. TELL ME WHY No Spam, Plenty Of Rest Jewish connection to a fine show. 32 A local group raises funds for a center in Ashkelon to help active duty soldiers in the IDF. HEALTH Fat substitutes crowd the market. Why we work. page 54 Washington Ne...…
…YAACOV D. SCHOLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Above: Al Mudryk keeps his eye on the ball for Detroit Weberman. T H E D E TR O I T J E WI S H N E W S Right: Harold Grossbart prepares to fire to second base. Border oes winning your own tour- nament make you a bad host? Hopefully the Cana- dian visitors didn't feel that way. For the third time in 18 years, Detroit hosted the Jewish Men's Internation- al Softball Tournament over Labor Day week...…
…r a The friendships are as important as the games at the Jewish Men's International. PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT • i*Okr. 40: i max • • Center: Bruce Weberman is safe at third as the throw gets past Stephen Fields of Toronto. Above: After a home run, Todd Kaluzny is hugged by his cousin Randi Schaefer and gets a high-five from a teammate. the Canadian strike zone is defined by a mat placed over home plate. Any ball landing on the mat is...…
…4111 11.1111111.111111.111111.111111.1111. 111111W A Rabbi's Return S , •' •••• Congregation Shaarey Zedek welcomes back a good friend to serve as interim rabbi while it searches for a permanent associate. JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER abbi Moshe Tutnauer put America, east Africa, Portugal on his tie after closing a file and the former Yugoslavia. Last on the personal computer year, they returned to Sarajevo in his new office. Now the to hel...…
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…THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CX No. 2 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Staff Writers Julie Edgar, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editor Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman, Larry ...…
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…• PREIVIIIUM ing to Turkmenistan, I said, `What? Is this a country?' " To find information about her destination, Ms. Perish was forced to surf the Internet. She located a Turkmenistan home page and contacted people who had been there. She found that weather conditions are extreme: frigid in the winter, sweltering in the summer. The languages are Russian and Turman (she speaks neither), and the food is so bland she was advised to bring her o...…
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…An exploration of Judaism leads Jeff Maza to an Orthodox lifestyle. JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER A t one time, Jeff Maza was content selling mortgages, living in Waterford and spend- ing free time on his speedboat. Still, something was missing from his life, a void he felt only religion could fill. "I've always been involved in doing something Jewish," Mr. Maza said. "I wanted more for my future and my family, when I have one. It's also bec...…
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…Why We Would a Messianic payday make you toil harder? ADAM KATZ-STONE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS n Jewish tradition, work begins in the worst of ways: with the cataclysmic sin that gets us all expelled from Eden. Two quick nibbles of forbidden fruit, and the net result: "Accursed be the soil because of you; with suffering shall you get your food from it ... with sweat on your brow shall you eat your bread ..." (Gen. 3:17-19). oy. To put it...…
…r The Reality Of The World As Rabbi Everett Ackerman, of the Orthodox Montefiore-Woodmoor He- brew Congregation in Baltimore County, Md., explains, the prepon- derance of Talmudic opinion is that it is "better to work, and not have to rely solely on God's will for suste- nance. But a person should work the minimum possible, and try to incor- porate Torah into their working lives." Rabbi Ackerman, 45, admits that working "the minimum possible...…
…Why We Work efforts. These scholars were, in general, men of a fairly practical turn of mind, and they saw that "in the reality of the world, it is vitally necessary that people work," explains Rabbi Michael Broyde. The Or- thodox rabbi, a professor of law at Emory University in Atlanta, says that in the view of the Talmud, "the notion that 'I will study and others will support me' is for most people not a good idea, both for practical and et...…
…Making Work Holy requiring, among other things, that busi- OK, sure. We'll complete the divine act of ness be conducted with honor and integri- ty; that people treat each other with creation by going to work every day. kindness and dignity; that workers be pro- But, uh ... could you be a bit more spe- tected; that health and welfare be safe- cific? (Heading down the beltway this guarded; that profits be shared with those morning, listening to...…
…Why We Work Personal Perspectives o understand the role work plays in the lives of contemporary Jews, The JEWISH NEWS spoke to people here, and in the cities where we have sister publications: Baltimore, Vancouver, Palm Beach. Everyone we spoke to had a story to tell — each felt that work filled a profound place in their lives, whether positive or neg- ative. Each, too, spoke of a desire to "do something for others" — to take part in work ...…
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