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The JN SourceBook, an annual com-
prehensive guide to Jewish living in
metropolitan Detroit, earned an hon-
orable mention in the Best Special
Section category. SourceBook is pro-
duced byJewish News staff members
Story Development Editor Keri Guten
Cohen, Copy Desk Assistant Bobbi
Charnas and Style Magazine Art
Director Deborah Schultz.
The Traverse-City based SNA repre-

he
News took three
national awards in the annual
competition of the Suburban
Newspapers of America (SNA).
Gail Zimmerman, Arts & .
Entertainment editor, took third place
for Best Entertainment-Lifestyle
Section_ in the paper's
circulation class.
Zimmerman has been
editing the award-win-
ning section since .
1997. Under her lead-
ership, the section has
won three SNA awards,
placing among the top
three arts and entertain-
ment sections in the
country each time the •
Award winners Deborah Schultz, Keri Guten Cohen,
section has been
entered in this competi- Gail Zimmerman and Sharon Luckerman.
tion. Graphic Artist
sents about 2,000 North American
Alex Lumelsky designed this year's
suburban daily and weekly newspa-
award-winning package.
pers.
Staff Writer Sharon Luckerman
The Detroit Jewish News, owned by
placed third in the Best In-Depth .
Jewish Renaissance Media, has a circu-
Reporting category for her cover story,
lation of 17,000 and compered with
"Just Jewish," on Jews in metropolitan
non-daily newspapers with circula-
Detroit who are not affiliated with
synagogues or Jewish organizations but tions between 12,001-24,000.
— Keri Guten Cohen
have found their own Jewish identity.

Evaluating Danger
s it more dangerous in the United

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States or in Israel?
Conventional wisdom — and
the U. S. State Department — tells us
that Israel is too dangerous to visit.
But Edward Kaplan, the William N.
and Marie A. Beach Professor of
Management Sciences at Yale
University, strongly disagrees.
By using readily available statistics,
Kaplan figures that the death risk in
any given week is 65 percent higher in
the United States than in Israel.
He presented his arguments in an
article in the Jan. 8 edition of the
Jerusalem Post. The figures do not
reflect the increase in terrorism in
recent weeks.
According to the Israel Defense
Forces, 120 Israelis lost their lives to
terrorists in "Israel proper" from the
beginning of the current Palestinian
intit;ida (uprising) until the end of
December. That figure, he writes,
works out to an annual risk of death
from terrorism of 16 in one million.

In comparison, 73 per one million
Israelis lost their lives in automobile
accidents during that same time period.
Kaplan also points out the annual
personal risk of death from a motor
vehicle accident in. the United States is
145 per million.
"Let's put this in an even more
direct perspective," Kaplan writes.
"My recent visit to Israel was one
week in duration. Since I did not
enter the West Bank or Gaza, my
combined probability of dying from
either terrorism or a car crash on this
visit equaled 1.7 in one million.
"Had I followed the State
Department's guidance and canceled
my visit to Israel, I would have
enjoyed a 2.8 in one million chance of
being killed in a motor vehicle acci,
dent at home."
Kaplan's article fails to mention,
however, that the figures for the
United States factor in the entire coun-
try, including areas where violence is
almost unheard-of, while random vio-
lence can occur anywhere in Israel.
— Diana Lieberman