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MJAC Helps To
Open The Closet
"A new generation of haters has
been brought up and is ready to act,"
Rabbi Marvin Hier of theLos Angeles-
based Simon Wiesenthal Center said
Monday, opening an international
conference in Paris.
Outside the conference, demonstra-
tors protested that a list of 4,000 Web
sites that promote terrorism, hatred or
Holocaust denial excluded radical
Zionist groups.
Demonstrators protested that Israeli
Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky was
invited to the conference, saying he is
opposed to concessions to the
Palestinians.
Oak Park — Michigan Jewish AIDS
Coalition will present the third and
final program of the 2003 ECHO
"Being OUT" series — "Being OUT at
Home: Opening the Closet" — at 7
p.m. Wednesday, May 21, at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park.
Honorary chairs for the 2003 ECHO
series are Gina and Arthur Horwitz.
A panel of Jewish families will share
their personal experiences of having a
family member who is gay or lesbian
and explore the impact "coming out"
may have on family relationships. The
evening format will include a ques-
tion-and-answer period.
Dr. Don Spivak will facilitate the
panel discussion and act as host for
Jerusalem/JTA — A Washington con-
the evening. He is an adult, child and
adolescent psychiatrist and psychoana- cert to mark Israel's 55th birthday has
lyst in private practice in Birmingham. been postponed from next week until
He is also a member of MJAC's board 'December.
Organizers denied speculation that
of directors and ECHO's advisory
cancellation
of the May 19 event was
committee.
due
to
poor
ticket
sales, saying it was
Program sponsors are Congregation
postponed
because
of the sensitive
Shaarey Zedek, Temple Emanu-El,
nature
of
Israeli
Prime
Minister Ariel
Temple Israel,the Jewish Federation of
Sharon's visit to Washington the follow-
Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish
ing day.
Women's Foundation, Between the
The event was to have featured come-
Lines and the Michigan Psychoanalytic
dians
Jerry Seinfeld and Ben Stein and
Foundation.
singers
Tony Bennett, Norah. Jones and
Co-sponsors for the free program
Tovah
Feldshuh.
Organizers had said
are the Jewish Community Council,
President
Bush
and
Sharon might
Affirmations LGBT Community
attend.
Center, ACLU of Michigan and
The new event, slated for Dec. 18, is
Triangle Foundation.
timed as a Chanukah celebration; tick-
ets already sold will be honored for the
new date. Ticket holders also can
request a refund.
Israel Concert
Is Postponed
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Mauthausen Gets
Visitors Center
Vienna/JTA — A visitors center was
dedicated at the former Mauthausen
concentration camp in Austria:
The opening of the center was part
of ceremonies marking the 58th
anniversary of the camp's liberation
from Nazi Germany by U.S. troops.
"It is the task of every generation
today and in the future to recognize"
violence and racism and "fight them at
their very root," said Andreas Khol,
president of the Austrian Parliament.
Anti-Semitism
Rise Alarming
Paris/JTA — Anti-Semitism has
reached its highest level since World
War II, a speaker at an international
conference on the topic said.
B urial Practices
Are Questioned
London/JTA — Britain's chief rabbi is
calling for certain post-mortem proce-
dures to be phased out after it was
revealed that a Jewish man was buried
without his brain, contrary to Jewish
law.
Jonathan Sacks made the cal l after
the publication of the Isaacs Report, a
three-year government study that
reveals that tens of thousands of brains
were removed from British corpses
without the consent of relatives.
The report focused on Cyril Isaacs,
who committed suicide in 1987 and
whose brain was removed for medical
research into mental illness, unbe-
knownst to his family. He had suffered
from depression.