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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS COVER STORY i c ov Page 6 A 2000 winner of Michigan Press Association and American Jewish Press Association awards S Vol. CXVIII, No. 20 This Week 16 Defending Har HaBayit American Jews on offensive to halt Temple Mount "surrender." 20 Owning Up Orthodox Union pledges change after sexual abuse report. Editorials 31 Barak's Balagan Should lame-ducks direct Israel's peace initiatives? Community 35 Mutual Respe...…
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…`She Deserved The Chance' DAVID SACHS ner that individual might choose." Sheri earned a doctorate in instruc- Copy Editor tional technology from Wayne State t services Dec. 24 for his University and was an active volunteer wife, Sheri Devries' hus- at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan band Jeff thanked the Detroit in Farmington Hills. She many family members who began a babysitting class at Hillel, had offered to join him as a lung helped in...…
…Defending Har IlaBayit American Jews launch offensive to halt Temple Mount 'Surrender" sovereignty." At the same time, Israeli officials stress an Jewish Telegraphic Agency agreement would ensure Jewish links to the site and access to New York the subterranean levels where overeignty over the Temple Mount is the remains of the Temple are apparently so explosive to the Arab believed to be located. world that the question may have tor- "We wil...…
…Great deals like this won't be around forever. peace camp by including the mantra of Jerusalem as "the eternal and undi- vided capital." Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference, denied there was any political intent to the statement, and said it does not pre- clude Israel from doing anything" dur- ing the negotiations. Signatories of the ad said they hoped to send a stroll , message to Barak. "I don't think Israel has to h...…
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…Owning Up Orthodox Union pledges change amid report on sexual abuse scandal. movement's youth group, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth. The commission, headed by New York Richard Joel, the president of Hillel: he umbrella organization The Foundation for Jewish Campus for nearly 1,000 Life, was appointed this summer fol- American Orthodox syna- lowing a series of articles that gogues is promising appeared in the New York Jewish chang...…
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…Photo by Brian Hendler/JTA TALKS AIM FOR PACT THAT ISRAEL AND PALESTINIANS MAY YET REJECT. DAVID LANDAU Jewish Telegraphic Agency . ill the Israeli people approve the peace agree- ment now apparently evolving between their prime minister, Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat? The impact of the envisioned changes, not only on the lives of Jerusalemites but on all Israelis, are so vast and unprecedented that the tool...…
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…The Tough Guy Ariel Sharon hopes Palestinian violence will swing Israeli voters to the right. AVI MACH LIS Jewish Telegraphic Agency Herzliya, Israel riel Sharon was in his ele- ment. Surrounded by gener- als, senior members of Israel's intelligence commu- nity, strategic analysts and supporters of his Likud Party, Sharon arrived in Herzliya last week to address a confer- ence on Israel's security agenda. Just a few days before, Sharon had ...…
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