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A video of the Middle East crisis that
is making the rounds to elected offi-
cials, media outlets and the public is
full of inaccuracies, said Donald
Cohen, director of the Anti-
Defamation League's Michigan office.
The five-minute video created by
the Dearborn-based Arab American
Political Action Committee includes
the voiceover of a Palestinian child.
The young child says Likud leader
Ariel Sharon "stormed into" the Al-
Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and told
worshippers "he was taking their
mosque from them... then the Israeli
soldiers started shooting at the people
who were praying to God."
The AAPAC video claims that when
Palestinian children said the Israelis
could not have their mosque and start-
ed throwing stones, Israeli soldiers
started shooting at the children and
killing them.
Cohen said numerous other inciteful
elements of the video include passing
off footage more than a decade old as
current.
The video ends with a request to
send contributions to AAPAC, a polit-
ical action committee that distributes
funds to local political campaigns.
"While I can understand and accept
differences of interpretation concern-
ing the past month's conflict between
Israelis and Palestinians, the AAPAC
video is full of lies and inflames pas-
sions through either ignorance or will-
ful distortion," Cohen said. "No
major news service has reported the
events as recounted in the video."
According to the Oakland Press,
Abed Hammoud, AAPAC president,
said the ADL is disputing insignificant
details concerning the sequence of
events. He agreed that Israeli soldiers
did not enter the Mosque, but film
footage proves they shot at Muslim
worshippers.
"They're nitpicking," he said. "I'm
shocked at the (ADL reaction). The
video is graphic, but it's reality
"The video has no invitation or
incitement for anyone to do any-
thing," he said. "It is tape of actual
events in the Middle East."
— Harry Kirsbaum
Family Program
Focus: Education
Five local religious schools and two
agencies are participating in a new
family education program of
Federation's Alliance for Jewish
Education.
They are Congregation Beth Ahm,
Congregation B'nai Moshe, Temple
Shir Shalom, Congregation Shir
Tikvah and Temple Israel, the Fresh
Air Society and the Sarah and Irving
Pitt Child Development Center at the
West Bloomfield Jewish Community
Center.
The JCC educator also will spend
time at the JCC Building in Oak Park,
said Margo Weitzer, JCC assistant
executive director.
Each family educator works with
participants to devise intergenerational
Jewish culture programs. Families are
encouraged to continue celebrating
and learning together at home.
Each participating institution has
one family educator, all under the
supervision of Lisa Soble Siegmann,
director of Jewish Experiences For
Families, a program of the Alliance.
The institutions are paying half their
family educator's salary.
"They [the family educators] all like
the idea of working with multiple
ages, and each sees the potential of the
program," said Harlene Appelman,
Alliance director.
Family education was one of the
programs recommended by the
Alliance's Strategic Plan released earlier
this year.
— Diana Lieberman
Kosher Service
At Hospital
Providence Hospital in Southfield has
upgraded its kosher meal service in
recent weeks in response to requests
from patients and doctors.
Kosher meal requests have risen
from about three per day, before Sinai
Hospital of Detroit merged with
Grace Hospital last year, to 10 per day,
according to Providence Clinical
Nutrition Manager Regina Gondoly.
She believes requests will continue to
increase with the new service.
Individually wrapped meals are
being prepared off-site by Mon
Cuisine in New York and Sperber's
Kosher Catering in West Bloomfield.
Mon Cuisine is supervised by the
Orthodox Union and Sperber's is
supervised by the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit.
• There are five Mon Cuisine kosher
frozen dinner choices at lunch time
and five frozen choices from Sperber's
at dinner.
Breakfast options are two hot cere-