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COMPILED BY STEVE STEIN

Tourism: Symbol of Peace

Help For Rwanda And
Elderly Jews

rants totaling $95,000 to
support emergency pro-
grams in Rwanda and
the former Soviet Union have
been announced by MAZON: A
Jewish Response to Hunger.
In Rwanda, a $35,000 MA-
ZON grant to the Los Angeles-
based International Medical
Corps will fund medical and nu-
tritional needs at a hospital in
Kibungo.
In cooperation with the Amer-
ican Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, MAZON granted
$60,000 to provide food packages
for approximately 6,600 impov-
erished elderly Jews in the for-
mer Soviet Union. A typical
package will contain staples like

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n the wake of a public outcry, newspaper, which came out a
an Australian Arabic news- month after the controversial ar-
paper has been closed after ticle.
Mr. Tadros claimed the arti-
publishing an article claiming
that Jews practice ritual murder. cle was "erroneously and unin-
Morris Tadros, publisher of tentionally" published after it
The Arab Editor, printed a front- was received from a newspaper
page apology to the Jewish corn- in the Persian Gulf state of Abu
munity in the last issue of the Dhabi.

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Stop Whining And
Start Eating

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sugar, flour, kasha, rice, tea, oil
and canned fish.

Article Causes Arabic
Paper's Downfall

even best-selling Jewish Mama Leah's Jewish Kitchen,
cookbooks, with a retail val- Susan Friedland's The Passover
ue of more than $150, will go Table, Ivy Overstate and Melin-
to the 12 winners of the Carmel da Strauss' New Kosher Cuisine
Wine Cookbook Sweepstakes for All Seasons, Helen Nash's He-
len Nash's Kosher Kitchen, Leah
contest.
The books include Joan Leonard's Classic Jewish Cook-
Nathan's Jewish Cooking in ery, and Debra Wasserman's
America, Leah Loeb Fisher's Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cook-
book.
Sweepstakes
coupons are
available at re-
tail stores where
Cannel prod-
ucts are sold.
They also are
attached to
Carmel mail-in
rebate coupons.
Contest entries
must be post-
Six of the seven Jewish cookbooks up for grabs in a Carmel marked no lat-
er than Oct. 15.
Wine contest.

istory does repeat itself. Fif- the Washington Declaration on
teen years ago, just after July 25.
AJCongress' first trip to Jor-
the signing of the Camp
David accords, the American dan is scheduled for Aug. 28-31.
Jewish Congress brought the first Additional tours are set for Oct.
American Jewish tourists from 16-19, Oct. 30-Nov. 2 and Nov.
Israel to Egypt.
On Aug. 28,
the first tour
group of Jewish
Americans to vis-
it Jordan under
the auspices of
an American
Jewish organiza-
tion will cross the
Jordan River's
Allenby-King
Hussein Bridge
from Israel.
"We're proud
to be organizing Tour buses like this one will soon be headed to Jordan.
the first Ameri-
can Jewish tour group to Jordan 20-23.
Travelers will be based in the
because nothing is more symbol-
ic of peace than tourism," said AJ- Jordanian capital of Amman.
Congress President David Kahn. Among the scheduled activities
Trips to Jordan had been list- are side trips to the archeological
ed in AJCongress' 1994 World- sites ofJerash and Madaba. The
wide Tour Catalogue, but none cost for the 4-day/3-night tour, in-
had gotten off the ground until cluding luxury hotels, is $695
King Hussein and Israel Prime from Jerusalem.
Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed

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bur star Joseph
Kibur
ih named the Athlete of
..00 the Year at Simon
Fraser University in Van-
couver.
Mr. Kibur, an Ethiopian
Jew, won three gold medals
in the 1993 Maccabi Games
in Israel and he earned a gold
and a silver in the 1993
Canada Games.

`Nothing
Just
Happens'

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he spectacular light
show caused by the
Shoemaker-Levy 9
cornet fragments which clob-
bered Jupiter last month was
foretold in the Zohar, a 13th-
century Jewish mystical text. •
That's the opinion of the In-
ternational Campaign To Bring
Moshiach, which is headed by
Rabbi Shmuel Butman. Ac-
cording to a Jewish Telegraphic
Agency (JTA) report, Rabbi
Butman, chairman of the cam-
paign and a member of the
Lubavitch Chasidic sect, said
what happened on Jupiter co-
incides with the arrival of the
messianic era.
Rabbi Butman said the Zo-
har predicts that in messianic
times, the world will witness a
"great fiery plume" streaking
through space, striking a large
planet "three times daily" and
sending out "great flashes of
light in all directions."
A leader of the campaign to
anoint the late Rabbi Men-
achem Mendel Schneerson as
the Messiah, Rabbi Butman
says he thinks redemption is
near.
"You cannot dismiss some-
thing happening in the world
and say, 'Well, it just hap-
pened,' " Rabbi Butman said.
"Nothing just happens."

SWITCH TO 810 ON 8-10

1E) on't look now,
but Southeast-
ern Michigan's
new 810 telephone area
code will become official
on 8-10, next Wednes-
day. On that day, callers
from outside the 810
zone must dial 1-810 to
reach a number. Calls
from the 810 area to the
redrawn 313 zone must
begin with 1-313.
Telephones in Oak-
land, Macomb, Genesee,
Lapeer, St. Clair and
Sanilac counties are in
the new 810 area code
along with small sec-
tions of Saginaw, Shi-
awassee and Livingston
counties.
The new 313 area in-
cludes Wayne, Washte-
naw and Monroe Meet the Phoneheads.
counties along with
small sections of Jackson
1947 that Southeastern Michi-
and Lenawee counties.
gan has gained a new area code.
Ameritech announced the new
In an effort to increase aware-
810 code last December. It was ness of the 810 code, Ameritech
needed because the area was is sending Phonehead characters
running out of telephone num- to malls and other high-traffic lo-
bers. More than three million cations. They will hand out lit-
new numbers were created by erature and scratch-off game
the 810 code, enough to last for cards which can be redeemed for
an estimated 15 to 20 years.
prizes.
This is the first time since

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