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18 Saving The Earth

THE SCENE
37 Selecting A Gym

Washtenaw County JCC
embraces Tu b'Shevat.

The right place can make
a major difference.

COVER STORY
24 Prime-Time Poker

ARTS & LIFE
39 Visit From Friends

Jews ante up, from Vegas to
the house next door.

Israeli orchestra makes an
extended stop in Ann Arbor.

SPECIAL REPORT
32 Gaza Plan

FOOD
57 Manna From Heaven

Sharon seeks help of Egypt, U.S.
to prevent disaster after Gaza.

Small changes will make the
difference this Passover.

On The Cover: Photography, Angie Baan
Page design, Kelli Johnson

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Anniversaries
AppleTree
B'nai Mitzvah
Calendar
Candlelighting
Community
Crossword
Engagements
For Openers

COLUMNISTS
Robert Sklar
George Cantor
Gail Zimmerman
Danny Raskin
Harry Kirsbaum

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Letters
Marketplace
Mazel Tovl
New Arrivals
Opinion
Spirituality
Synagogues
Torah Portion
Weddings

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OBITUARIES
Dr. William Ross

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In Last Call Columnist Harry
Kirsbaum tries to bluff like his
poker-playing dad: page 75

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Kerry To. Get Shoah Records

Prague/JTA — Sen. John Kerry, D-
Mass., will be given records about his
relatives who were killed during the
Holocaust. The presumptive
Democratic nominee learned recently
that his paternal grandmother's
brother and sister, both Jewish, were
killed by the Nazis.
During a visit to New York, the
chairman of Prague's Jewish commu-
nity, Tomas Jelinek, presented the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
with copies of the original transport
lists for Otto and Jenny Loewe.
Jelinek said he had decided to track
down the records in Prague after
learning from U.S. media reports
about Kerry's Jewish roots.

Operation Safe Bus

New York/JTA — A U.S.-based
interfaith group will provide Israel
with security equipment for public
buses.
Responding to the threat of sui-
cide bombings on Israeli public
buses, the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews will outfit
1,000 security guards with explosives
detectors and other equipment,
including baggage-screening devices.
The $7.2 million project will cover
Israel's 6,000 public buses, and indi-
vidual donors can "secure a seat" for
$24:

Abu Abbas Dies

Jerusalem/JTA — Mohammed "Abu"
Abbas, the mastermind behind the
hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise

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ship, has died at 55.
U.S. officials confirmed the death
from natural causes of Abbas, whose
Palestine Liberation Front engineered
the 1985 hijacking during which ter-
rorists shot Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-
year-old Jewish man in a wheelchair,
then dumped him into the ocean as
his wife watched.
Abbas, who was captured by U.S.
forces in April 2003, later called the
killing a "mistake," though he
claimed Klinghoffer was "provoking"
other passengers.
Though Abbas was said to have
renounced terrorism, he told the
Palestinian newspaper Al Quds in
1998 that the "struggle between us

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Jerusalem/JTA — A major terrorist
attack planned against Purim revelers
in Jerusalem- Was foiled.
According to the Shin Bet securi-
ty service, a raid on a Palestinian ter-
ror cell in Ramallah prevented a sui-
cide bombing in Israel's capital.
Further details were not immedi-
ately available, but the reported
arrests allowed Israel to lower a high
alert in Jerusalem that had caused
massive traffic jams as incoming cars
were searched by police.

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