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I'm left wondering, did these people get back together, why is this on the ground, why is this ripped up? Each find is a kind of riddle, and sometimes I end up just laying in bed wondering about these people, trying to figure out what their story is exactly." He said he feels the Jewish values he was raised with and the community that encouraged him in his creative endeavors are important to where he is today. "I think the Jewish people who influ- enced me when I was young — teachers, family, relatives, neighbors — those were people who valued very highly things like racial and gender equality, diversity, education and arts," Rothbart said. 'And so when I think about my interest in people of all kinds and also having a strong compassion for people who are struggling — those aren't exclusively Jewish traits, but I connect them to my Jewish identity." Jason Bitner, 29, of Chicago, is co- publisher of Found Magazine. "What we've been able to do is set up a network of like-minded people to go out and scour the streets and the alley- ways and scan or send in submissions to us," he said. "It's not our content, it's everybody else's, whether they know they're participating in it or not. All we're doing is just putting it out for other people to see." Bitner, who is currently working on a Found audio CD to be released in October, also emphasized that the pur- pose of the magazine is to share insight and experience, not to invade people's privacy or hurt them in any way. . "The thing that we're really trying to get across is that we're not trying to poke fun at people and we're not laughing at the subjects or the authors, we're just bearing witness to all of the humanity that's kind of blowing around in the trash by our feet," he said. Upcoming plans for the magazine include individually hand decorating the covers of the next edition, which will be released this fall and feature a feiv hun- dred finds. Rothbart, who also writes short sto- ries, is currently on tour for his new book, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. The book is published by 2l Balloons, a publishing company Rothbart started. He is also working on a documentary film about a young boy in inner-city Washington, D.C. He also works for National Public Radio's This American Life. "I think it's a great lesson that can be learned and continually relearned, that we're all human and we all have the same struggles, and I feel like if the mag- azine can teach that, I will have done some small piece of good," he said. ❑ For information about submit- ting found items to the maga- zine or to obtain copies of the magazine, check the Web site: wvvw.foundmagazine.com JWV To Visit VA Hospital The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America-Department of Michigan and Ladies Auxiliary will kick off the program year with a picnic lunch for 300 patients at the Battle Creek Veterans Administration Hospital Sunday, July 27. Commander Harmon Tron and President Elaine Klein will co-lead. The bus leaves from the new JWV offices, 24901 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, at 8 a.m. New JWV officers are: Milton Klein, senior vice commander; Sandy Pliskow, junior vice commander; Jerry Schlussel, quartermaster; Jonathan Hyams, judge advocate; Irving Marshall, national executive board; Tom Tannis, chaplain. Robert Feldman was awarded the Norman Berkley Award and Mary Revich the Jack Schwartz Award for outstanding veteran work during the year. New officers for the auxiliary are Shirley Schlussel and Helen Pliskow, co-senior presidents; Myra Gross and Sandy Feldman, co-junior vice presidents; Corrine Cohn, treasurer; Faye Glosser, recording secretary; Belle Letzer, corresponding secre- tary; Bernice Wilson, patriotic instructress; Frieda Samoss, conductress; Ann Green, guard; Dorothy Goldberg, parliamentarian; Martha Hauptman,-chaplain.