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The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
Julius Chajes Concert Series presents:

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chair for the Greater Detroit In-
terfaith Round Table, a non-prof-
it organization that works to
strengthen religious and racial un-
derstanding and respect. Mr. May
has been a member of the Na-
tional Executive Committee of the
National Conference (formerly the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews) since 1992. The Round
Table is the local chapter of the
National Conference. Mr. May is
president of his own firm, May and
May, P.C., Southfield.

GERALD COOK, SHARON
HART, and RABBI EFRY
SPECTRE of Adat Shalom Con-

gregation have been elected to
serve as members of the board of
directors of the Masorti Founda-
tion for Conservative Judaism in
Israel and SUSIE GRAHAM and
DOREEN HERMELIN to its
Council of Trustees.
Compiled by Seymour Monello

JDC Sets Up
Journalism Prize

Jerusalem (JTA) — A new jour-
nalism award has been estab-
lished in memory of Boris Smolar,
a former editor in chief of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Announcing the establishment
of the award in Israel, the Amer-
ican Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee said the award fulfills
the wish of Mr. Smolar to con-
tinue to build closer Israel-Dias-
pora relations.
Mr. Smolar served as JTA ed-
itor from 1924 to 1967.
The first Boris Smolar Prize on
Israel-Diaspora Relations will be
awarded next month for the best
feature or news story on the sub-
ject of Israel-Diaspora relations
to have been published or broad-
cast in Israel during 1996.
The award carries a cash prize
of $2,500, which is funded by a
bequest made especially for this
purpose in Mr. Smolar's will.
The deadline for submissions
is March 31. All queries should
be addressed to the JDC office in
Israel at P.O. Box 3489,
Jerusalem, Israel 91034.

Palestinian
Offices
Ordered Closed

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel has
added more fuel for Palestinian
anger with the announcement that
four Palestinian offices in eastern
Jerusalem must be closed because
of their alleged connections to the
Palestinian Authority.

The order, given by Prime Min-
ister Binyamin Netanyahu,
comes amid heightened Pales-
tinian criticism over an Israeli de-
cision to build a new Jewish
neighborhood at Har Homa in
southeastern Jerusalem.
Issuing the closure order, Mr.
Netanyahu echoed previous Is-
raeli leaders by maintaining that
the Palestinian Authority has no
right to operate in Jerusalem.
He defended the Har Homa de-
cision by stating that Israel has
the full right to build anywhere
within Jerusalem's municipal
boundaries.
The closure order came at the
recommendation of an anti-terror
team, which said the institutions
were linked to the Palestinian Au-
thority.
One of the places was a map-
ping office, which Israel had or-
dered closed last August.
The Palestinian Authority
agreed at the time to close the of-
fice and move it to Abu Dis, an
Arab neighborhood outside of
Jerusalem.
But the office reopened a month
later in Orient House, the Pales-
tinian Authority's de facto head-
quarters in eastern Jerusalem.
Along with issuing the closure
order, Mr. Netanyahu instructed
Public Security Minister Avigdor
Kahalani to immediately keep
Palestinian security forces from
operating in the eastern half of
the city.
The Palestinian preventive se-
curity forces, operating under the
command of Jibril Rajoub, have
been actively policing and gath-
ering intelligence among eastern
Jerusalem's Arab population.
Visiting German Foreign Min-
ister Klaus Kinkel criticized the
timing of the closure order, say-
ing that it exacerbated existing -
tensions.
The United States also criti-
cized the Israeli move against the
Palestinian offices.

Business Center
Comes To Gaza

Jerusalem (JTA) — A ground-
breaking ceremony for the Gaza
Strip's first business center took
place north of Gaza City.
The business center, which will
include a luxury Marriott hotel
and 150,000 square feet of office
space, will be dedicated to U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown, who was killed in a plane
crash last year.
Mr. Brown, who believed that
peace and economic growth go
hand in hand, said during one of
his trips to the Middle East, 'This
facility will signify that Gaza is
open for business."
The $100 million project is ex-
pected to employ 2,000 workers
during the construction phase
and will create up to 4,000 jobs
once it is completed.

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Sunday,
Sunday, March 16, 1997 • 4 p.m.

Jewish Community Center Maple/Drake Building • West Bloomfield
JCC Members-$10 • Non-members-$15

For information or to purchase tickets, please call (810) 661-7649.

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
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