World Briefs

WORLD BRIEFS

Michigan Region Women's American ORT
Recoamizes our Women of Valor at

Shoah Denier
Imprisoned

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Zurich/JTA —A Swiss court sentenced a
79-year-old man to one year in prison
for denying that the Holocaust occurred.
Gaston-Armand Amaudruz was
found guilty of having violated anti-
racist legislation that was enacted five
years ago.

Thursday, May 18 - Too pm

Adat Shalom Synagogue • 29901 Middlebelt -Farmington Hills

U.S. Aliya
Down From '99

Guest Speaker

MORTON DEAN

ABC News Correspondent

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DANA BURNSTEIN • CINDY FRANKLIN

Patti & Burt Aaron - Helen Allen • Sylvia Amber - Marcia Applebaum - Helen August - Beverly Baker - Arlene
& Bill Barris • Nora Barron • Elaine Beresh • Janet E Abe Berman - Minnie & Sam Berman • Penny Blumenstein
•Marlene & Paul Borman • Gertrude Brainin - Rhea Brody - Dorothy Brown - Sharon Brown - Dana & Gary
Burnstein - Gail Burnstein • Judy & Bernard Cantor - Connie Colman - Miriam Colburn - Karen W. Davidson
•Barbara Dechter - Frances Eisenberg - Judith L. Elson • Sarah Feuereisen - lean Frankel - Dr. Sonya Friedman
•Donna & Sam Frank - Honorable Hilda Gage • Bernice Gershenson - Paula Glazier - Barbara Goldberg - Nancy
Grosfeld - Sharon & Martin Hart - Elaine Hartman - Diane Hauser - Doreen Hermelin • Lillian Shaye Hirsch
•Edith Honismian • Harriet Jacobson • Mildred Jacobson • Betty & D. Dan Kahn • Pauline Kaner • Sally R. Katz
•Sharon & Ernest Klein - Esther Kolovsky - Debbie Levin - Julie Levy - Jennifer Lewis - Rochelle Lieberman
Betsy Madorsky • Sara Manson - Sue Moss • Sally Nosanchuk • Evelyn Noveck • Sally & Graham Orley - Meryl
Podolsky - Audrey Rose - Ruth & Allen Rosenfeld - Bertha & Martin Rubin - Lynn Rubin • Lois & Hershel
Sandberg - Marjorie Shuman Saulson - Diane Scholnick - Marianne S. Schwartz • Miriam E lack Shenkman -
Harriet Sherr - Betty Silverfarb • Susan Sosnick - Sandy & lay Stark - Barbara Stollman - Eunice Stone • Dorothy
& Milton Superstein • Suzanne Tyner • Lois Watts - Barbara Weintraub & Larry Yanitz - Marlyn Weiss • Trudy
Weiss - lean Willens - Beryl Winkelman • Eleanor Thal Wolf - Andi & Larry Wolfe - Helen E Paul Zuckerman

Tel Aviv/JTA—U. S. immigration to
Israel totaled 1,323 in 1999, a 15
percent drop from the previous year,
according to the Jewish Agency for
Israel.
Overall, immigration to Israel rose
38 percent, with 77,921 immigrants
arriving last year.

Web Site's Focus:
Nazi-Looted Art

Berlin/JTA—Germany launched a
Web site to help Holocaust victims
and their heirs find Nazi-looted art.
The site, located at wvvw.lostart.de,
has searchable listings in German and
English, and will eventually add Russian.

Israel Eyes OK
For 'Battery' Hearts

Tel Aviv/JTA—Israeli doctors may
soon receive approval to transplant
artificial hearts into human patients,
the Israeli daily Ma'ariv reported.
According to a doctor at the Rabin
Medical Center, the devices, powered
by a battery that can be charged out-
side the body, have already been
transplanted into pigs.

ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORT OPERATIONS USA

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the Patron Reception with Morton Dean and Women's American ORT
National President Pepi Dunay prior to the program

*lf you have already fulfilled your ORT commitment for 1999-2000, you may remit convert only.

FOR RESERVATIONS & INFORMATION CALL RITA AT WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT 248-723-8860

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Organization for Educational Resources and Technological Training

Canada Let Down
Jews In Shoah
Ottawa/JTA—Canada's prime minis-

ter admitted that his country did not
do enough to save Jewish refugees
during the Holocaust.
"Yes, errors were made in 1940,”
Jean Chretien said during a ceremony
at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial. Canada's policy toward
Jewish immigration during World
War II was summed up at the time by
one Canadian official, who said,
"None is too many."

