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…Helping Rusty help Noah. page 16 www.detroitjewishnews.com January 8, 1999 Vol. CXIV, No. 20 This Week 9 22 Assessing The Schools Jewish education has little evaluation, but that may change. COVER STORY Welcome To Palestine Is Palestine on its way? Can Jews adjust to what that means? AppleTree 57 When We Were Young A look at the childhoods of famous Jewish personalities. DEPARTMENTS Bar/Bat Mitzvah . .47 Births 46 Calendar 44 Commun...…

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…/Welcome I To Palestine The Campus Consensus Jewish and Palestinian students at the University of Michigan favor formal statehood. consume Israel," said Roth, a 20 year- old business administration major Special to The Jewish News from Cincinnati. Roth added that she thinks the Ann Arbor Israelis really want peace, more than ewish student leaders at the anything else, and yet all I've heard University of Michigan say from the Palestinians i...…

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