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Postmaster: send changes to: Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Southfield, MI 48034. ews Digest: , 11•111111111111111.2, JFS Hosts Zaslow MOM Israel and national news at wvv-wjewish.com part of his plan to disengage unilater- ally from the Palestinians, wants international custodians to take over the buildings and farmland left behind. Palestinians had voiced fear that the settlements would be demol- ished in a scorched-earth pullback akin to the 1982 evacuation of the Yamit bloc in Sinai. _ The United Nations has proposed that .evacuated settlements provide housing for Palestinian refugees in -Gaza. support of terrorism and develop- ment of weapons. - President Bush implemented sev- eral sanctions against Syria, includ- ing a ban on the export of military items and dual-use items that could - be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. Bush .also banned all U.S. exports except for food and medicine, banned flights to and from Syria; and froze assets of some Syrian citizens. The sanctions were part of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, which - passed Congress last year. West Bloomfield — Jeff Zaslow, the reporter who replaced Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun-Times, will bring humor, wit and.Jewish insights to the Jewish Family Service's Reva Stocker Memorial Lecture 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Zaslow is now a senior writer and columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Gina Horwitz chairs the Reva Stocker Memorial Lecture, which New -Research On Victims fotuses on promoting healthy fami lerusaleni/JTA — Children in lies as a way of reducing family vio- Jerusalem who have been -victims of lence and child abuse. The Stocker `Morning After' Sought terrorist attacks stiffer greatly from. :Lecture is a component of the JFS New YOrk/JTA --- The Reform move- Windows Family Violence Prevention post-traumatic stress disorder, new research finds. - ment condemned the government's program, which offers individual, Such children suffer three times the decision to keep the "morning after" - family and group therapy, and a shel- amount of expected post-traumatic pill froth being sold over the count- - ter in cooperation with National stress disorder as children who go er. Council of Jewish Women. through other traumas such as car The Food and Drug The Reva Stocker Memorial Administration announced-last week Lecture is co-sponsored by the Jewish accidents or earthcluakes, according to research by Hadassah Hospital. that it would continue to classify the Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. More than 50 percent of Jerusalem emergency abortion medication There is no charge for the evening. children who were in - attacks reported "Plan B". as a prescription drug, A dessert reception with Zaslow will signs of the _disorder, including fear, - despite the recommendations of an follow his talk. Dietary laws will be anxiety, nightmares, guilt feelings and FDA expert advisory panel to make observed and reservations are emotional:withdrawal. The research it available over the counter. required. will be formally preSented next week "The FDA's- decision to ignore its For information and reservations, own advisory committee's recom- call Marianne Jones, (248) 559-1500. at Hadassah's International Solidarity Conference in- Jerusalem by its mendation and instead yield to pres- author, Esti Galili, who heads sure from groups opposed to ,SCorchecl Earth. In Gaza? HadasSah's.department of child and women's reproductive freedom sig- Jerusalem/JTA — Evacuated Israeli adolescent psychiatry. nals a dangerous intrusion of politics settlements in the Gaza Strip rePort- into science," said Rabbi Marla edly will be left intact. Feldman, director of the Reform Reuters quoted an Israeli official as U.S. Punishes Syria movement's Commission on Social saying that Prime Minister Ariel Action. IR1shington/JTA-- The White House - Sharon, who plans to uproot 17 of imposed sanctions on Syria.for its the 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza as For years we've been building a firm foundation on the commitment to compassionate health care. This commitment now supports the newly-renovated state-of-the-art Crittenton Hospital Medical Center. Our expanded facility allows us to provide services that meet the ever-changing needs of the community, including advanced medical procedures. 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