Marta Rosenthal of
Franklin holds her
daughter Rachel as
they watch footage of
the terrorist attacks in
America on a large-screen
television in the lobby of
the Nazareth Renaissance
Hotel on Tuesday.

IsraelNow
Solidarity Mission
participants react
with horror to
American tragedy.

HARRY KI RS BAUM

Stag Writer

Tel Aviv
t was supposed to be a solidarity
mission to Israel. But in a world
gone insane, the Detroit mem-
bers of the IsraelNow Solidarity
Mission have turned from those show-
ing solidarity to those being solaced.
Eating ice cream in a mall at Alonim =,
Junction in the Jezreel Valley Tuesday
during a half-hour stop on a cloudless
day, the 81 mission participants en
route to Migdal HaEmek in the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's Partnership 2000 region
began to hear word of death and
destruction. First in New York City,
then Washington, D.C., then the
Pittsburgh area. Rumors flew, but the
truth was more painful than anything
they could imagine.
Before the trip continued, Larry
Jackier, incoming Federation president,
told both Detroit buses that a big-
screen television would be set up in the
hotel lobby when they arrive so all
could absorb what's
what's going
,,, on. . Then,
he said, the schedule would go on.

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