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NEWS WATCH
18 Defining Hatred
39 Jewish Film Festival
Putting anti-Semitism, anti-
Zionism in historical perspective.
Thirty-four movies are offered
in four venues.
SPECIAL REPORT
SPIRITUALITY
ARTS & LIFE
22 It's A Miracle!
59 Creating The Sizzle
Detroit mission-goers
hit the ground running.
Aish Detroit moves to bigger
offices in ,Southfield.
APPLETREE
COMMUNITY
33 Ready, Set ... Go?
78 Never Forget!
How to know when your
child is ready for day camp.
Community events recall
the victims of the Holocaust.
On The Cover: Getting off the plane at Ben-Gurion Airport
are Bob and Rita Lichtman of Farmington Hills.
Photograph; Debbie Hill • Page design, Kelli Johnson
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Anniversaries
B'nai Mitzvah
Calendar
Candlelighting
Crossword
Engagements
Food
For Openers
COLUMNISTS
George Cantor
Harry Kirsbaum
Sy Manello
Danny Raskin
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News Watch
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OBITUARIES
Sylvia Perlman
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In Last Gag Columnist Harry
Kirsbaum discusses Rantissi's
request: page 81
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News Digest:
Fine In Murder Investigation
Prague/JTA — A Jewish filmmaker
was fined $1,500 by Czech police for
obstructing an investigation into the
death of a U.S. Jewish official in the
1960s.
Martin Smok recently approached
the police to present a fresh lead into
the death of Charles Jordan, an
American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee official whose body was
found floating in the Vltava River in
Prague in 1967. Smok's evidence,
based on a new witness who came for-
ward recently after his documentary
on Jordan was aired on Czech televi- -
sion, suggested an Arab link to Jordan's
death.
Police said Smok was fined because
he refused to reveal the source of his
information. Police intend to close the
Jordan case for lack of evidence.
`Crown Heights' Controversy
New York/JTA — A fringe politician
took out a full-page ad in the New
York Times to defend a play some say
blames Jews for the 1991 Crown
Heights riots.
Lenora Fulani denied that the play,
called Crown Heights, is anti-Semitic
and says she is a bridge builder who
wants to bring blacks and Jews togeth-
er.
Earlier this year, the New York Sun
reported that Crown Heights, by Dan
Friedman and Fred Newman, distorts
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the events that led to the 1991 riots
and the murder of a Jewish student
during those riots.
Money For Iraqi Jews
Paris/JTA — Jews who fled Iraq in the
1950s reportedly will receive payments
on their insurance policies. AXA, a
French insurance firm that had a
Baghdad subsidiary, will pay $130,000
in compensation to three refugees now
living in Israel for their old policies on
assets abandoned in Iraq.
If paid, the compensation would be
the first for any of the 800,000 Jews
who fled Arab lands.
Saudi Sentenced In Killing
New York/JTA — A U.S. court sen-
tenced a student from Saudi Arabia to
60 years in jail for killing his Jewish
friend.
The sentencing in Houston was a
plea bargain. Mohammed Ali Alayed,
23, apologized for the August 2003
killing of Ariel Sellouk but did not
explain why he did it. Sellouk's father
told the court that he hopes someone
slits Alayed's throat in prison.
Kosher Only For Killers?
New York/JTA — Virginia allegedly
transferred a Jewish prisoner to maxi-
mum-security facilities in order to
accommodate her request for kosher
meals.
Mitzi Ann Hamilton, serving five
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state for sexual discrimination because
it placed her at a maximum-security
facility alongside violent criminals.
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Jerusalem/JTA — An Israeli company
is creating bobble-head dolls of famous
Israeli personalities.
Rosh-Gadol, the company that
makes the caricature-type toys, origi-
nally conceived of the Ariel Sharon
prototype during the 2003 Israeli elec-
tion. An expanded repertoire of hand-
made and painted ceramic dolls is set
to include other prime ministers, war
heroes and Zionist visionaries. The
dolls come with biographies.
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Kerry Remembers Shoah
Washington/JTA — Sen. John Kerry
recalled the loss of his own relatives in
the Holocaust to mark Yom HaShoah.
"This year, with the knowledge that
a great aunt and great uncle perished
at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, Yom
HaShoah has new personal meaning to
me as my entire family is drawn closer
still to the survivors who have become
witnesses for us all," the Massachusetts
senator and presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee said in a cam-
paign statement.
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