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A program of the ECHO Project

EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY THROUGH OUTREACH

The entire community is invited to explore everyday issues facing our
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender friends and family

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Moderator: LILA LAZARUS, WDIV-TV

An Interactive Program of:
•Reflections: Feelings on growing up gay in Jewish Detroit
•Dealing with insensitive comments
•Gay couples as parents
•Coming out to parents: The Communication Process

Community Resources • Refreshments
Sign Language Interpreter: James Mitchell

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government agency, oversees the creation
of official Hebrew words to describe the
flood of new ideas. Much as English
speakers have done in borrowing roots
from Latin and Greek, the academy
looks into Hebrew to find root words,
and then uses the structure of the lan-
guage to coin a new word. However,
notes Fine, the academy's stancinrds are
sometimes ignored. "In fact," he says, "itc: \
is chic to use Hebraicized foreign words,
preferably English ones, over perfectly
good Hebrew ones."
Hebrew's problems today are primari-
ly technical, says Kraus. "Hebrew is a
virtual nightmare for the printer, and
with computers it is a virtual virtual
nightmare," he notes puckishly. "Since
Hebrew is written right to left, it can
require typing in Hebrew backwards
and can render the wrap-around feature
exceedingly problematic."
There have been proposals to solve
these problems, including Romanizing
Hebrew, but they haven't caught on.
The computer, however, might also
prove a salvation. "Extensive technology
has been developed for Hebrew word-
processing and accessing Hebrew sites
on the Internet," says Kraus.
That will add yet another chapter to
the book of this enduring, and ever-
changing, language. ❑

Israel: 1948
To Present

1948—The War of
Independence; the Jewish
Quarter of the Old City of
Jerusalem falls to Jordan's Arab
Legion
1967—Six-Day War; Jerusalem
reunited
1973—Yom Kippur War
1977—Anwar Sadat travels to
Jerusalem
1978—Camp David Accords
1979—Israel-Egypt peace treaty
1991—Gulf War leads to
Madrid Peace Conference
1993—Israel-PLO Declaration
of Principles
1994—Israel-PLO peace treaty
1995—Israel-PLO Interim
Agreement; assassination of
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
1997—Israel-PLO Hebron
Protocol
Source: Kidsnet 1997