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A filter for Web hate;
luring the young to
town; eyeing the
legislators.

In an effort to combat hate groups on
the Internet, the Anti-Defamation
League has released the ADL Hate-
Filter, which would allow users to not
only filter out hate sites, but provide a
link to information about anti-Semit-
ic, racist and extremist groups.
Designed as a gatekeeper, the filter
screens out those URL addresses that,
in the ADL's judgment, advocate big-
otry, and hatred towards Jews and
other groups.
When ADL HateFilter blocks
access to a site, parents can visit ADL's
Web site with their children, then
unblock a site to look at it together.
Hundreds of people have seen the
Michigan ADL's program that points
to sites bigots use to target youth.
"The reaction borders on shock,"
said Don Cohen, Michigan ADL

director. "Our focus has always been
on education, not legislation. It is a
high-tech answer to high-tech hate.
The ADL HateFilter can be down-
loaded free for seven days from the
ADL Web site ar www.adl.org . The
program costs $29.95 for the first
three months, then $29.95 for each
following year.

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Anticipating a hip, younger crowd,
the Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit has placed ads
in the Metro Times and the Royal Oak
Mirror for its next "Town Hall Meet-
ing" in an attempt to reach out to
Jewish residents who live in not-so-
Jewish areas of metropolitan Detroit.
Although the agenda remains the
same, Jewish Community Council
and Jewish Federation of Metropoli-
tan Detroit representatives tailor their
presentations to each audience.
The first Town Hall Meeting, cater-
ing to a more established audience,
was held in the Commerce Lakes area
in September with DMC Huron Val-
ley Sinai Hospital as co-host. Fliers
were placed in neighborhood com-
mercial areas. About 15 Lakes area
residents attended.
The quality of the conversations,
rather than the number of partici-
pants, is the true measure of success,
said David Gad-Harf, the Council's
executive director, noting Royal Oak is
a "completely different" demographic
area. "We anticipate the audience will
be a.larger number of young adults."

Hillel of Metro Detroit, as well as
the Young Adult Division and the
community outreach arm of Federa-
tion, will figure prominently at the
meeting, he said.
Town Hall Meetings are planned in
Troy/Rochester Hills, Grosse Pointe
and Plymouth/Canton.
The Royal Oak meeting, hosted by
Congregation T'Chiyah, is scheduled
for Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at
the Royal Oak Women's Club, 404 S.
Pleasant. For further information, call
the Council office, (248) 642-5393.

In an effort to keep the Jewish corn-
munity connected with government,
the Jewish Community Council is
looking for volunteers to meet with
the newest crop of 65 state legislators
two to three times a year.
The only experience needed to be a
"key contact" is "merely to have an
interest in politics and be comfortable
as a contact between the Jewish com-
munity and elected officials," said
Allan Gale, the Council's assistant
director.
The eight freshman legislators in
Oakland County will be matched first.
Issues discussed by key contacts are
separation of church and state; reli-
gious freedom legislation; problems
with the elderly and chronically men-
tally or physically ill; Russian immi-
grants, and those being forced into
managed care programs.
To volunteer, call the Council
office, (248) 642-5393.

Marking
100 Tears Of
Detroit Jewry

In 1923 David B. Brown ran
Dave's Cut Rate, in front of
the streetcar stop at Milwau-
kee and Chene in Detroit. The
store selling men's working
clothes was his first venture
into the retail business. Shown
behind the counter, and
alongside the 29-cent bow ties,
is Dave Brown, the father of
Bernard Brown of Franklin.

Photo courtesy of Bernard Brown.

Remember
When •

From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

1988

Vandals strike Jewish sites in South-
field during the anniversary of
Kristallnacht. Glass is smashed in
doors at the Jewish Vocational Ser-
vice; rocks are thrown the United
Hebrew Schools building and a red
swastika is painted on a wall of Star
Delicatessen on 12 Mile.

1978

Officials of a major American Ortho-
dox rabbinical organization maintain
that the conversion of black basket-
ball player Aulcie Perry, a member of
the Maccabi team in Israel, by a
Brooklyn rabbi was invalid.
A poll by the Jewish Daily Forward
says more American Jews don't retire
to Israel because they don't speak
Hebrew, don't want to leave their
families, and are concerned about
Israeli bureaucracy and wars.

The first Arab newspaper to be pub-
lished in east Jerusalem since the
June 1967 war runs into trouble
when a member of the Knesset
objects to an editorial calling for an
end to Israeli occupation of the West
Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.
The Livonia Jewish Congregation
receives a large Star of David for
the facade of the building.

051WW44.1WilifiMPMfir".H
In reaction to recent synagogue
bombings, columnist Drew Pearson
announces the formation of a
group called "Americans Against
Bombs of Bigotry." Co-chairs
named are Edmund Brown of Cali-
fornia and Charles Taft of Ohio.
Members will include evangelist
Billy Graham and U.S. Sen. John
Kennedy of Massachusetts.

1948

A 30-minute sound and color docu-
mentary film will be released by the
national women's religious Zionist
group, Mizrachi Women's Organiza-
tion of America. Upon Their Own
Soil, depicts the arrival of two Jew-
ish orphans from displaced persons'
camps in Europe . and Cyprus.

11/20

1998

Detroit Jewish News

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