January 24, 2003

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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Contents A 2002 Michigan Press Association General Excellence winner www.detroitjewishnews.com Friday, Jan. 24, 2003 Shevat 21, 5763 Vol. 00M, No. 24 This Week 17 Kids Together Pitt Center mainstreaming needs funding renewal. 31 Strong Support Lawmakers sign letter commending Israel. Arts Entertainment 73 'Hebrew Hammer' Baaaad-est Chasid in town in first 7fewsploitation" film. Food 91 Super Chilis Opinion ...…

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…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Legacy,Worth Remembering "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.''' — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I sign that God has not forsaken the United States of America. God has sent him to us. His presence is the hope of America. His mission is sacred, his leadership of supreme importance to every one...…

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…For Openers Motivated To Serve Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak. ewly elected State Rep. Andy While he spent time providing constituent service for Meisner, D-Huntington Levin, he "realized that working in government was a Woods, visited Yeshivat Akiva way to help people," he said. in Southfield last week to Meisner reviewed the branches of government, various speak to students about his own Jewish committees of Congress and the role of legisl...…

….17j, •fit • foot otes News Digest Israeli Police On Election Day Alert Richard and Barry Welcome You to Their New Store SKECHERS STEVIES REACTION • STEVE MADDEN NEW BALANCE MERRELL ADIDAS BASS REEBOK ROCKET DOG COMING SOON: SHOE BE DOO AND MORE MINIBEL Jerusalem/JTA — Israeli police believe Palestinians may try to carry out terror attacks on Israel's Election Day next week. Police Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishky said that some 30,...…

…RINKE CADILLAC 85 Years And Still Delivering BREAK Neulander's three siblings took turns describing him as a cold, narcissistic, selfish killer of a loving and caring person, according to Court TV. Two of Neulander's adult children, in letters read aloud in the packed courtroom, said they wanted nothing to do with the man they described as "evil" and "maniacal." • Sharpton Enters Presidential Race Washington/JTA — Civil rights leader the R...…

…This Week Staff Notebook Wrapped In Tefillin hey may be called the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs (FJMC), but their World Wide Wrap project encourages women's participation as well. The Sunday, Jan. 26 program, to take place at all metropolitan Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint and Traverse City Conservative syna- gogues during morning services, will offer instruction in wearing tefillin. In most synagogues, the program is sponsored and run by me...…

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…Left to right: Inclusion assistant Dana Quell-Clough reads with Ben Fink, 4, of Waterford. Drake Kondrat, 4, of Birmingham explores the Pitt Center's toy truck collection with inclusion counselor Lorraina Norman. Keeping 'Kids All Together' Pitt .Center _program for mainstreaming preschoolers with special needs awaits grant renewal. N DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter/Copy Editor • ancie Furgang will be watching the mail diligently over the...…

…This Week Analysis Experience Wins But Israelis are looking to what comes after Election Day on Jan. 28. LESLIE SUSSER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jerusalem T replace him with Binyamin Netanyahu, who is seen as more hawkish. But there is a rival theory on the left. Despite the fact that the campaign has been short on sub- stance, left-wing pundits see the new peace talk from the Sharon camp as a late pitch to voters. The aim, these skept...…

…Red Star Rising Israel's Russian voters are swinging to the mainstream. MATTHEW GUTMAN Jewish Telegraphic Agency N Tel Aviv . atan Sharansky pioneered the concept of an Israeli political party catering to Russian immigrants, but when he appeared at a campaign event in Tel Aviv this week it was to court a new audience. The number of Russian voters interested in an immigrant party has dwindled so much that Sharansky's Yisrael Ba'Aliyah is ...…

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…come out much more strongly against Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With the fate of the Jewish settlements in the balance, the extremists feel duty-bound to take action to establish facts on the ground, even at the cost of disobeying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government, which is expected to win the elections. The fervor of the extremist _ wing, which has established illegal outposts throughout the West Bank and has cla...…

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…sophomore from Huntington Woods, said working as part of a leadership team whose members represented so many different voices was definitely a positive experience, and he looks for- ward to working with MSA again. Although the forum involved both Jewish students and Muslim students, Sussman said no conflict arose between organizers over of Israel, an issue frequently addressed on campus. "Organizing a conference where you have 800 people is a ...…

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…Libya And U.N. It was a shock even for pro-Israel activists who have long been skeptical about the seriousness of the United Nations role as peacemaker and human rights advocate. Despite strong U.S. pressure, the U.N. Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on Monday elected the Libyan U.N. ambassador as its new chair. Only three countries voted against Libya in the secret ballot, with 17 states abstaining. Washington sources say "no" votes were cast...…

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…Week Insight Remember When • • • Strong Support Many local lawmakers sign JCCouncil letter commending Israeli democracy. DON COHEN Special to the Jewish News A t the same time Israelis go to the polls on Tuesday, Jan. 28, more than 25 Michigan elected officials will publicly enter a vote for Israeli democracy, security and peace. U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow and five U.S. representatives head the list of signatories to a l...…

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…Editorials are posted and archived on JN Online: wvvw.detroitjewishnews.com Syrian Ties Misguided ayne State University's new scientific and cultural agreement with Syria's Damascus University, though well meaning, is unsettling. WSU President Dr. Irvin Reid hopes to tap the strengths of American democracy "to advance peace and understanding" with the Middle East university, a noble goal. But the state-run university is an arm of a repressiv...…

…OTHER, VIEWS Ensuring Israel's Survival New YorkCity uring this past winter break from rabbinical school, I had the opportunity to meet some new friends. I befriended Yisrael, an architect from Tel Aviv, at the Dead Sea, where my wife and I spent a couple of days at the end of our vacation in Israel. Yisrael shared his story with me over a traditional Israeli breakfast. While fighting for Israel, he was hit with a bullet. It was a direct sho...…

…The War's Most Agonizing Issue Philadelphia he day after 9-11, Texas police arrested two Indian Muslim men riding a train and carrying about $5,000 in cash, black hair dye, and box cut- ters like those used to hijack four planes just one day earlier. The police held the pair initially on immigration charges (their U.S. visas had expired); when further inquiry turned up credit card fraud, that kept them longer in detention. But law enforcement...…

…rea or • OTHER VIEWS eman 1 When it came to reconfiguring the V V interior of their Huntington Woods home, Brian and Julie Unatin were more than impressed by the transformation. "Gittleman turned our house into a home," said Julie. "They totally changed the flow by opening it up for relaxing and entertaining. It came out beautifully." And during construction, Gittleman stayed on schedule and budget without disrupting the household. "The j...…

…illrir ---- As Israel Awaits An Iraq War that certain large public parks have already been earmarked as sraelis, like people every- emergency cemeteries in case where, have their eyes of large numbers of casualties. fixed on that yet- 8. But we have other con- unknown date when the cerns as well. Will Sharon and U.S. will attack Iraq. the Likud really win the Jan. But for Israel there are far- 28 election, as forecast? Will reaching implicat...…

…INSIDE: Community Calendar 46 Mazel Toy! 48 Moving Forward The Jewish News returns to Southfield energized, just one year afier fire. 2 Members of the creative department, Cathy Ciccone, Kelli Johnson, Steve Bloch and Natalya Lemberskaya, discuss layout of the paper in the conference room of the new Jewish News o ice. JN 1/24 2003 38 SHARON LUCKERMAN Staff Writer T he staff knows the drill. It's the newspa- per's second move in...…

…Surviving And Thriving Though not an experience anyone wants to repeat, Horwitz found that the fire, which fire investigators traced to an electrical malfunction in the computer room, became an impetus to move the paper forward, rather than holding it back. "The fire enabled all of us to recog- nize and understand our core purpose of publishing a newspaper every week that links a very diverse community," Horwitz says. "It allowed managers and...…

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…JEWISH ACADEMY of Metropolitan Detroit Israeli Scholar At MSU Hillel Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, an Israeli edu- cator and scholar of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, will be scholar-in-residence at MSU Hillel Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 3-5. Rabbi Ben David will teach 75- to 90-minute day and evening classes and interactive experiential workshops on subjects, including a "Spiritual Check- Up," "Finding One's Inner Voice,"...…

…Cfpri Nigla Eight Over Eighty Nominations Sought Jewish Apartments and Services is seek- ing nominations for the Eight Over Eighty event, which will honor eight senior adults over the age of 80 who have made a positive impact on our community through volunteerism, community service and their ongoing commitment to helping people. These seniors will be remembered in a JAS Senior Adult Hall of Fame. In addition, this program raises money for th...…

…Fifth Third Equity Flexlinesm Co-chairs for the event are Harriett Rosen and David Gans. The evening's proceeds support the JHAS in its com- mitment to serve older Jewish adults throughout the community. For infor- mation, call JHAS, (248) 661-2999. Mothers, Daughters To Have Night Out The Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah and the Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition will present "Getting Our Adolescents to Learn About Sexuality," a mother and ...…

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…Community Calendar Upcoming Events in Metro Detroit g Candlesticks, Shabbat Shalom; Rabbi Amy Bolton, Women's Groups; St. John's Armenian Church, Seniors; Postville by Stephen B. Bloom, West Bloomfield JCC. SHABBAT SHALOM Congregation B'nai Moshe — Saturday, Jan. 25, 10-10:45 a.m. Torah portion of the week Shabbat study group with Barry Levine meets every Shabbat. (248) 788-0600. INTERFAITH Christ Church Cranbrook -- Saturday, Jan. 25, 7...…

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