DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 4r* MPTOrill MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Winner of eight 2003 MPA writing, WWW.DETROITJEWISHNEW S.COM FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2004 SWAN 15, 5764 • VOL. 00CV No. • design and advertising awards COVER STORY FOOD 16 Too Close To Home 49 All Fired Up! Bay City and its Jews rally against purveyors of hate. Barbecue season returns to Michigan. NEWS WATCH SPIRITUALITY 19 School Elections 54 Services Under The Sky Rosenberg contests appointee Wallach for one of three Farmington school seats. Shir Shalom members bring prayer to Relay for Life. Aid's & LIFE 35. Moveable Feast COMM UNITY Great Lakes Chamber Fest makes Detroit a summer destination. Ethiopian-Israeli children's aid workers strengthen Detroit ties. Alefbet'cha Ann Arbor AppleTree B'nai Mitzvah Business Calendar Candlelighting Crossword Engagements For Openers 12 23 31 61 52 13 9 90 65 9 17 • Letters Marketplace New Arrivals Obituaries Online Opinion Synagogues The Scene Torah Portion Weddings 6 73 61 94 25 29 58 33 58 66 68 Mission From Netanya On The Cover: Cantor Daniel Gale and Pastor Kim Lewis at Temple Israeh Bay City Photography Angie Baan • Page design, Kelli Johnson COLUMNISTS , George Cantor Harry Kirsbaum Danny Raskin Robert Sklar Gail Zimmerman 9 72 46 5 ...36 In Last Cag Columnist Harry Kirsbaum wonders who's in charge on the terror front: page 72 The Detroit Jewish News (LISPS 275-520) is published every Friday with additional supplements in January, March, May, August, September, November and December at 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Southfield, Michigan. Periodical Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and additional mailing offices. Postmaster send changes to: Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Southfield, MI 48034. News Dige st: More Israel and national news at vvwvv.jevvish.com L.A. Lawsuit OK Prewar Books Reprinted Los Angeles/JTA — Three U.S. fami- lies whose children were shot by a white supremacist can sue the makers of the weapons used. The ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was greeted with relief by the three families, whose children were shot during the 1999 attack on a Jewish community center, and by the moth-, er of mailman Joseph Ileto, who was slain by the same gunman in a sepa- rate attack. The suit grew out of the Aug. 10, 1999 attack by Buford Furrow Jr. at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in suburban Los Angeles, which left three children, one teenag- er and one adult wounded. New York/JTA — Some 700 books from prewar Eastern European Jewry have been reprinted, thanks to the National Yiddish Book Center. The books depict daily Jewish life before the Holocaust through maps, illustrations, photos and Yiddish and Hebrew text. Many contain lists of townspeople murdered by the Nazis. The books are available online at vvvvvv.yiddishbookcenterorg/yizkor- books Saudis Close Charities Washington/JTA — Saudi Arabia is consolidating its international chari- ties into a government-supervised commission in order to cut links to terrorism. Adel Al-Jubeir, a foreign affairs adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, said in Washington that his country's largest charity, Al- Haramainm Islamic Foundation, will be dissolved. American Jewish grdups have been pushing Saudi Arabia to cut its links to charities that help fund terrorist organizations that target Israel, and the Bush administration has been concerned about the financing of Al- Qaida from Saudi Arabia. The new Saudi commission will be subject to strict government over- sight. Center for Public Policy, islannin P g a second humanitarian and cultural mission to Cuba Nov. 11-19. The cost is $2,600 per person, double occupancy, which includes a $500 tax deductible donation to the B'nai B'rith Jewish Project for the Jewish Cuban Community, roundtrip airfare between Miami and Havana, ground transportation and hotel accommodations. For information, call B'nai B'rith, (248) 646-3100. French Comic Exonerated Paris/JTA — A French comedian who performed a sketch dressed as a fer- vently Orthodox Jew making a Nazi salute was not guilty of racial incite- ment, a Paris court said. Dieudonn, M'Bala M'Bala had not attempted to represent all Jews, the court found May 27, but rather "uniquely, a certain category of peo- ple in the expression of their political views." The case had been brought by a number of Jewish and anti-racist organizations after Dieudonn per- formed the sketch on live television in November 2003. The groups said they would appeal. 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