JCC SUMMER
CAMPS 2001
A camping tradition since 1935
CHECK OUT OUR EXCITING
SUMMER LINE-UP:
Camp JCC
Traditional 4-week camps. Give your child an enriching outdoor camp experi-
ence in a Jewish setting: Wide range of activities, including arts and crafts,
canoeing, R.O.P.E.S. course, nature hikes, petting farm and much more!
New! Teva Trek Outdoor Adventure
(Fifth-Eighth Grade) Four two-week sessions for campers to explore the
great outdoors. Campers will learn the basics of camping, including outdoor
cooking, fire building, setting up tents, canoeing, hiking, orienteering and
wilderness survival.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! NOW MORE OPTIONS!
Imagitivity Camp
"Imagitivity...where imagination and creativity meet!" New this year are:
Museum Madness, Dance Fever, Musical Theatre and new programs from the
Living Science Foundation. Plus these favorites: Second City Kidz Improv,
cooking and clowning.
One-Week Maccabi Pro-Sports Camps
Now with more programs! New this summer: In-line hockey at our profes-
sional-quality InLine Hockey Center, Gold Medal Swimming, girls volleyball.
SESSION DATES:
Session I June 18-July 11 • Session II July 15-Aug. 8
To support our mission of inclusion, the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit enthusiastically welcomes everyone to use our facilities
and participate in our programs. Individual - inclusion assistance is available by
calling Nancie Furgang, special needs director, (248) 661-7737.
Give your child a memorable.summer experience. Let us help-you design a sum-
mer program specially tailored for your child.
For brochure and more information, call the
JCC Summer Camps office, (248) 661-1010.
News Digest
Reno Shul
Attacked Again
Belarus Shul
Firebombed
Los Angeles/JTA — Thirteen months
after five skinheads firebombed
Temple Emanu-El in Reno, the same
synagogue was attacked in the first
hour of the new year.
Police said an arsonist apparently used
a flammable liquid to ignite the fire,
which engulfed the temple's front
entrance and charred the entryway The
flames were discovered Monday at
12:45 a.m. and were quickly extin-
guished.
Police officials, who classified the
attack as a hate crime, had few clues
other than a poor-quality surveillance
photo of the arsonist.
Moscow/JTA — Unidentified
assailants threw two firebombs at a
synagogue in the capital of Belarus.
One of the bombs in the Dec. 27
attack set a curtain on fire, but a
security guard at the Minsk syna-
gogue extinguished the flames and
no serious damage was done.
Expressions of anti-Semitism have
become increasingly frequent in the
former Soviet republic.
Queen Honors
Lubavitch Leader
London/JTA — A Lubavitch rabbi
was honored by Queen Elizabeth in
her New Year's Honors List.
Rabbi Nachman Sudak, the princi-
pal of the Merkas Menachem School
in London, was granted an Order of
the British Empire because of his serv-
ice to young people.
Also honored was filmmaker Steven
Spielberg, who was chosen for a
knighthood.
The 53-year old director, whose
films include Schindler's List and
Saving Private Ryan, will accept the
honor at a Jan. 29 ceremony at the
British Embassy in Washington.
Bush Picks
Jewish Aide
Washington/JTA — A Jew will be
fielding questions from White House
reporters starting later this month.
Ari Fleischer, a campaign
spokesman for George W. Bush, will
be the president-elect's press secretary.
Shoah Efforts
To Continue?
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Washington/JTA — U.S. Deputy
Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat is con-
cerned about what will happen to the
Holocaust restitution efforts he has cham-
pioned for years now that the Clinton
administration is coming to an end.
"It's not an issue that, so far as I know,
is on the radar screen of the incoming
administration," Eizenstat said.
Australian
Official Apologizes
Sydney/JTA — The governor-general
of Australia recently wrote to the
nation's Jewish leaders to express his
"sincere regret" that any member of
the Australian Jewish community has
been subjected to anti-Semitic acts.
Sir William Deane, Queen
Elizabeth's official representative in
Australia, wrote the letter following a
series of attacks on Jewish institu-
tions, including synagogues and the
home of a rabbi.
In his letter, Deane said he wanted
to express "how absolutely abhorrent
every decent Australian finds the
recent attacks on synagogues and
Jewish property."
Orthodox Draft
Exemptions Okayed
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's Knesset
approved a special order extending
by another four months the draft
exemptions granted to Orthodox
yeshiva students, until the matter is
permanently resolved through legisla-
tion.
The measure was approved. with
backing from Likud leader Ariel
Sharon, who seeks Orthodox backing
in his race for the premiership. Prime
Minister Ehud Barak opposed the
measure.
School To Hold
Mock Elections
Jerusalem/JTA — Following an out-
cry from students and educators at
Ramat Gan's Blich High School,
Israel's Education Ministry reversed a
decision to bar the school from hold-
ing mock elections later this month.