News Digest

KRISTEN KOMLEN SELECTED

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

Ex-Nazi SS Guard
Faces Life In Prison

Bonn/JTA — A German court convicted
a former Nazi SS guard of beating to
death a Jewish inmate during World War
II and sentenced him to life in prison.
Anton Malloth, who was a guard at
the Theresienstadt transit camp in
Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, also
was found guilty of attempted murder
in the shooting of another prisoner
who hid a cauliflower under his jacket
during forced harvest work in 1943.
"He tortured, humiliated and killed
people because he considered them
subhumans who had no right to live,"
the presiding judge said in
Wednesday's verdict.

10 Commandments
Site In Limbo

Washington/JTA — The U.S. Supreme
Court let stand a lower court ruling
that a six-foot monument inscribed
with the Ten Commandments on pub-
lic property violates the separation -of
church and state.
By refusing to hear the case Tuesday,
the high court turned aside an appeal
filed by officials from Elkhart, Ind.
The high court is letting a U.S. court
in Indiana decide what the city must
do with the monument.

Israel Fest Drops
Work By Wagner

Jerusalem/JTA — The Israel Festival
dropped plans to have a work by anti-
Semitic composer Richard Wagner
performed in July.
The move announced Wednesday
followed a drawn-out controversy over
whether to perform a work by Hitler's
favorite composer in the Jewish state.

C

ongratulations to Kristen Komlen
who was chosen as the Jewish News
"Employee of the Month". As sales
coordinator, Kristen has played an important
role in the efficiency and effectiveness of the
sales department since joining the company
December 29, 1997. Recently Kristen has
filled a critical role in the department by
providing on-going assistance and assuming
additional responsibility.

isfy everyone, especially some Jewish
groups. But he said he believes it
" reflects current knowledge and emo-
tions surrounding the issue."

Yeshiva Lifestyle
May Hurt Bones

New York/JTA — Young fervently
Orthodox Jews may be susceptible to
weaker-than-normal bones as a result
of strict dietary rules and an emphasis
on studying indoors rather than out-
side physical activity, researchers said.
Bone mineral density was found to be
lower than normal in the 50 Brooklyn
youths, aged 15 to 19, who were studied,
said researchers from Maimonides
Medical Center in Brooklyn and Byrd
Regional Hospital in Leesville, La.

Israel To Host
Gay/Lesbian Event

Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's umbrella
organization for homosexual groups
won a bid to host World Pride, a week-
long international gay, lesbian and
bisexual gathering in Tel Aviv in 2004.
It will mark the first time the gay
pride event has been in the Middle East.

Three Educators
Are Honored

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New York/JTA — The director of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion's new education school in
New York, the headmaster of a pluralis-
tic Jewish high school in Boston and the
director of an Israeli dance program in
Albany have been recognized as "out-
standing Jewish educators."
Jo Kay, Rabbi Daniel. Lehmann and
Lorraine Arcus received $20,000 each,
plus $5,000 to spend in the institu-
tions where they work, in the 11th
annual Covenant Awards.

Kristen is one of the reasons that the Detroit
Jewish News is one of Michigan's - and
America's - most admired weekly papers.

Jeffrey and Caren Goldenberg

New York/JTA — Scientific societies
are renaming the jewfish, whose name
some have found offensive, as the
"goliath grouper," according to the
Miami Herald.
The fish — which has inspired such
locales as Jewfish Creek in the Florida
Keys and Jewfish Point in Los Angeles
— is an endangered species.

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Massacre Inscription
Jewfish Gets
Avoids Hard Issue
New Name
Rome/JTA — The inscription for a

new monument to Jews massacred in
the Polish town of Jedwabne in 1941
will stop short of saying outright that
Poles, not Nazi troops, did the killing.
The inscription alludes to the horrors
of neighbors killing neighbors and warns
that hatred should never again "set the
residents of this land against each other."
A Polish official acknowledged that
the text is a compromise that won't sat-

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