THE JEWISH NEWL, SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AUGUST 3, 1990 / 12 AV 5750 Spectacular At Palace Set For Games Opening ALAN HITSKY r Associate Editor ) 1 p lanners of the opening ceremonies for the Jewish Community Centers-North American Maccabi Youth Games hope to fill the Palace of Auburn Hills Aug. 19 for a 90- minute spectacular. "This will be the largest single Jewish community gathering this community has seen" since the forma- tion of the State of Israel in 1948, said Dr. Morton Plot- nick, executive director of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit. Dr. Plotnick and Games Chairman Jay Robinson have planned the program, which will be highlighted by the parade of 2,200 athletes from 53 North American cities and 10 foreign coun- tries, and the Olympic-style torch-lighting ceremony. Free tickets for the Aug. 19 evening program are available at the Maple- Courts Send 2 To The HMC I STEVE HARTZ Staff Writer T wo youths were re- cently sentenced to do public service at the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield because of their participation in unrelated anti-Semitic in- cidents. A 16-year-old Troy girl was ordered by Oakland County Probate Court Referee Gail Warfield to perform 100 hours of community service for spray-painting anti- Semitic graffiti on the alley wall of Wells Freight and Cargo in Birmingham last December. The girl, who will begin work at the Holocaust Memorial Center next week, will also have to write a 25- page research paper on the Holocaust and complete the report by Aug. 30 when she will appear again at an Oak- land County Probate Court hearing. The girl admitted that she assisted her boyfriend, Gar- rick Browning, a recent graduate of Birmingham Seaholm High School, in spray-painting the anti- Semitic slogans. Mr. Brown- ing, 18, worked at Wells Freight and Cargo for two months as a co-op student before he was fired. Browning has been ar- raigned in 48th District Court in Birmingham on one charge of ethnic intimida- tion and one charge of con- spiracy to commit ethnic in- timidation. His preliminary examination has been ad- journed until Aug. 29. An 18-year-old Birm- ingham man, Charles In- chaustegoi, was sentenced to perform 80 hours of com- munity service for malicious destruction of property. He will work at the Holocaust Memorial Center and at least one of the following places: Jewish Vocational Service, Urban League or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mr. Inchaustegoi, a high school drop-out who spray- painted the outside of Birm- ingham Groves High School with racist slurs at about 2 a.m. May 14, 1989, will begin carrying out his sentence in a few weeks. Mr. Inchaustegoi will also have to pay an $80-probation fee. "I've never had an offense Continued on Page 14 Drake and Jimmy Prentis Morris JCCs, at the door, or by sending a stamped, self- addressed envelope to Maple-Drake. But Dr. Plot- nick said the easiest way to obtain tickets is by picking them up at the JCCs. The 1,000 Detroit area families hosting the 2,200 teenage athletes during the Games will automatically receive tickets. The doors of the Palace will open and entertainment will begin at 6:15 p.m. Aug. 19. The program includes Israeli videos and closed- circuit television coverage of the athletes forming up out- side. Campers in the dance village at Camp Maas will present an Israeli dance (6:50 p.m.), and the 112- member Windsor Scarlett Brigade will perform for the crowd (6:55 p.m.) and play during the athletes' parade (7:30 p.m.). Master of ceremonies for the evening will be David Hermelin, who with Palace co-owners Bill Davidson and Robert Sosnick are honorary chairmen of the Games. Hugh Greenberg of Detroit, who for five years has chaired the national Games committee, will declare the Games open following a 20- minute performance by Gemini, Ann Arbor's Slomovitz brothers. The crowd will participate in the closing songs. Each spectator will be given a flashlight to illuminate the darkened Palace. The Jewish community in Ann Arbor is also playing a major behind-the-scenes role at the opening ceremonies. Chuck Newman is in charge of the committee that will organize the athletes into a half-mile-long parade and get them to their Palace seats, using 75-80 volunteers from Ann Arbor and the Detroit Jewish Welfare Fed- eration's Young Adult Divi- sion. Newman has organized medical, security and registration committees for the evening, recruited 63 youngsters and residents of the Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens to act as sign carriers for each delega- Continued on Page 14 KESHERnet, a computer forum for free discussion, links Jews throughout the world.