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…January 31, 1997 Detroit OPINION Will unity prevail over animosity? 31 A Spot Of Warmth Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper lights up the lives of Jewish and non-Jewish nursing home patients. Hold The Onions Classic Coney Island closes its doors, leaving Detroit again without a full-menu kosher restaurant. The 5 5 Were the Romanovs saved by a Jew? 40 84 Radio Days Jewish Life In My 20s With a little help from our friends, The Jewish News s...…
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…DETROIT) THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CX No. 23 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Lynne Meredith Cohn, Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Correspondents Ina Friedman, Lar...…
…Remembering The Horror JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER T eaching the Holocaust is teaching tolerance, Joshua Hearshen says. For the second year, the Berkley High School senior has spearheaded a Holocaust learn- ing week that began on Wednes- day in the classrooms, corridors and library at the school. "I was sick of being around people who used the word 'fag- got,"' Mr. Hearshen says of the impetus to form the Holocaust Curriculum Committee last y...…
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…Trying Hard Not To Forget A German adolescent ends a year-and-a-half stay with Detroit's Jewish and survivor communities. LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER F alk Daviter cannot remem- tary service. Those who "consci- ber exactly when he first entiously object" can instead do learned of the Holocaust, civil service, providing they write but books about the Shoah an essay explaining why they have lined the shelves of his opted out of the mil...…
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…chapter members have visited the Jewish state, and volunteers met with community shaliach Jeff Kaye to gain additional informa- tion. Mrs. Jacobson hangs maps of Michigan, the United States and Israel around the room, and sets up an exhibit with photographs of the Jewish state's varied ter- rain. One map of Michigan boasts an outline of Israel inside the state's outline, to illustrate ex- actly the small geographic area of the only Middle Ea...…
…Kosher Closing 1 Classic Coney Island is forced to close its doors. PHIL JACOBS EDITOR k; . ■ T hirteen months ago, cars were pulling up to the one vacant restaurant at 10 Mile and Greenfield, send- ing a child from the back seat to see if the door was unlocked and if the rumors about a new kosher restaurant opening were true. On Monday, owner Steve Ra- binowitz saw cars approach the front door again. Only this time they slowly pulled a...…
…The People Speak With A Little Help NEIL RUBIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I have to retire about 20 years early, which means in about 20 years. That's to live long enough to read everything that I keep saving "for when I have time." As visitors to my office know, here's a pile of old Southern Is- aelites threatening to cascade ff the shelf directly above my omputer and into my lap. A tack of faxes sits in a basket on he left of my desk. Jew...…
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…Unity Prevail .: . ':10ver Animosity? Reporter's Notebook Looking At Prejudice 50 Years After The Shoah RABBI STEVEN WEIL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER After reading and hear- branches of the Jewish community only ing some of the invective facilitates suspicion, animosity and anx- which has traveled back iety among us. These suspicions are the fertile soil for and forth in the commu- nity since Rabbi Felkier'...…
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