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…Jewry's Role in We ek Human Health Anti-Israel Petition Circulating At U.N. The cause of the dread disease pellagra, afflicting many southeastern Americans around the turn of the century, baffled investigators. Symptoms included acute gastric upset, painful skin lesions and mental aberrations, all too often leading to death. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a U.S. Public Health Service physician born in Hungary, linked its onset to diet defi...…
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…T is Week Staff Notebook Neither Rain Nor Snow JARC party-goers brave storm to celebrate Chanukah. SHARON LUCKERMAN StaffWriter is ven a snowstorm couldn't derail one of JARC's biggest events of the year — its annual Chanukah dinner-dance at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park. Snow was falling Dec. 2, and by evening it had become the worst weather of the season so far. Joyce Holmes, director of JARC's Shetzer Independent Living Servi...…
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…This Week To Reach Out Or Not? Jewish organizations' support of PBS documentary on Muhammad heartens some, riles others in the Jewish community. HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer he Detroit Jewish community's latest out- reach to the local Arab community has stirred both support and outrage. On Dec. 16, about 100 members of the Jewish community attended a private interfaith screening of the upcoming PBS documentary, Muhammad: Legacy of a Proph...…
…Making His Case Attorney Alan Dershowitz says worldwide attention encourages terrorism. HARRY KIRS BAUM Staff Writer 1p art lecture, part book report, part summa- tion — the Dec. 12 presentation by Alan Dershowitz brought the noted Harvard law professor far from the American courtrooms' and classrooms where he forged his career and into the arena of international politics. Using insights gained while researching his most recent book, Why ...…
…Election Scandal Likud sees lead wilt as inquiry mounts into alleged vote buying. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem U lies" having funded campaigns of Cabinet ministers and Knesset members, and of "current or past crimi- nals" who had hosted senior ministers at their homes for lunch or dinner. If the reports are true, would some of the Likud's representatives in the Knesset or in the Cabinet be beholden to their benefacto...…
…Lifeblood Technion's water-purification institute gets Detroiters' support. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News Middle East is very dependent oil adequate water supplies," said Stephen Grand of Bloomfield Hills, explaining why he and his wife, Nancy, chose to support the Institute. "There is a need to do a large amount of testing and research to conserve, desali- nate and recycle water, and the Technion is compe- tently accomplishing that...…
…Washington Watch In The Running? President Bush's executive order expanding "charitable choice" pro- grams in the federal government rep- resent a virtual declaration of war for Jewish groups that oppose plans to provide government funds to reli- gious human service providers. top White House priorities. Lieberman But the executive action,.which was the leading Democratic promoter bypasses a Congress that failed to of the resolution authoriz...…
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