News Digest (51-reel ofcliksicHoo4e1c1 Assisted Living from 3,500 per month C%14( Y dce &?Vce ( 64.1 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 Orchard Lake Rd. South of Lone Pine Rd. West Bloomfield, Michigan 248.683.1010 2003 BUICK CENTURY Stk. # 171089 $16,144* * Pwc windows, pwr. seats & more. ROFF TANIARC3FF AUTOMOTIVE FAMILY 'plus tax, title, plates and destination. Must own or lease a non-GM vehicle. All rebates to dealer. Sale ends 05/19/03. CHARLIE WARSHAW TaMaRCIFF B U I C K 248-353-1300 www.tamaroff.com Since 1986 28585 Telegraph South of 12 Mile • Southfield STEVEN TARNOW, C.R. PREFERRED BUILDING CO. (248) 626-5603 Fax 248-932-0950 Residential & Commercial Remodeling Building Quality Into Every Project With Unmatched Personal Service. 5/16 2003 12 NA R Featuring Andersen Windows Licensed & Insured 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.