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FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2004
SWAN 29, 5764 • VoL. CXXV No. 19
NEWS WATCH
17 Detroit Basketball!
Jewish fans celebrate
Pistons' NBA triumph.
ARTS & LIFE
COVER STORY
SPIRITUALITY
33 Let There Be MusicFest!
Weeklong festival celebrating
diverse Jewish music begins Sunday
25 Saying Goodbye
Helping children learn
to deal with death.
50 Tallis, Tefillin, Telescopes
Minyan gazes heavenward
to witness Venus, sun converge.
THE SCENE
MAZEL • TOVI
31 Single In The Holy City
Oak Park native finds herself
"married" in Jerusalem.
56 Really Cookin'
Zack Sklar turns his passion
into award-winning vocation.
On The Cover: Art, Barbara Hranilovich
Page design, Kelli Johnson
Alefbet'cha
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AppleTree . . . ... 25
B'nai Mitzvah
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Business
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Calendar
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Candlelighting
Community
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Crossword
Engagements
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Food
For Openers
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COLUMNISTS
George Cantor
Harry Kirsbaum
Danny Raskin
Robert Sklar
Gail Zimmerman
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Letters
Marketplace
New Arrivals
Online
Opinion . . . . .
Synagogues
Torah Portion
Weddings
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OBITUARIES
Mae Weine
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In Last Call,
Columnist Harry
Kirsbaum discusses play-by-
play and the Pistons:
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Camp Guard Deported
New York/JTA— A U.S. judge ruled
that a former German concentration
camp guard could be deported.
The judge ruled that Jakiw Palij
could be deported to his native
Ukraine based on his service as a
guard at the Trawniki forced-labor
camp and because he concealed that
service when he applied to immigrate
to the United States in 1949.
Palij, 80, has been living in New
York City. The case against Palij was
brought by the Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations.
French Vandalism, Violence
Paris/JTA —A painting by Jewish
children at a concentration camp in
southern France was vandalized.
A historian visiting the camp at
Rivesaltes, near the Spanish border,
discovered that the painting, a depic-
tion of country life produced by child
inmates in 1942, had been hacked
with a chisel. Local officials and
Jewish leaders gathered at the site in a
special ceremony of remembrance.
Meanwhile, an American yeshivah
student was attacked and beaten near
Paris. Ya'acov Flint was treated for
light injuries after he was attacked
outside a railway station in a Paris
suburb.
Pollard Wins Chance
New York/JTA -- A U.S. appeals court
is giving Jonathan Pollard a chance to
appeal his life sentence.
An American Jew convicted for sell-
ing U.S. intelligence secrets to Israel,
Pollard will be allowed to present his
case to a three-judge panel later this
year. The panel will not decide
whether Pollard's sentence was too
harsh, but only if Pollard can take the
next step in his legal fight.
It also could grant a request from
Pollard's lawyers to see partly classified
documents used in his 1987 sentenc-
ing.
`Under God' Remains
Washington/JTA -- The Supreme
Court narrowly ruled that the words
"under God" can remain in the Pledge
of Allegiance.
The court ruled that the plaintiff in
a case challenging the pledge's consti-
tutionality in his daughter's school did
not have standing because he was not
her legal guardian, and therefore the
Court of Appeals ruling against the
pledge was reversed.
Opponents of the phrase are likely
to bring new cases against it.
Rabbi At Reagan Funeral
Washington/JTA -- Rabbi Harold
Kushner participated in the funeral of
former President Reagan.
The author of When Bad Things
Happen to Good People, Kushner read
from the Book of Isaiah at
Washington National Cathedral dur-
ing the funeral for the nation's 40th
president. The funeral attracted all of
the living U.S. presidents as well as
countless past and present world lead-
ers. Reagan died June 5 at age 93 after
a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Anne Frank Memorialized
Amsterdam/JTA -- Anne Frank was
remembered on what would have
been her 75th birthday.
The Anne Frank House in
Amsterdam is hosting a new exhibit of
70 photographs of the young Frank,
who hid from the Nazis for 25
months until her family was discov-
ered. Her diary became a symbol of
the Holocaust.
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 MedicalCenter.
Our expanded facility allows
us to provide services that meet
the ever-changing needs of the
community, including advance_
medical procedures.
CTittenton's health care
essionals have the too
eect ed to offer tile highest
ity care. It makes out staff
more efficient and offers o
doctors more time to spen d
with their patients.
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ass health care facility..?
Israel Insight
THE ISSUE
Several Washington insiders recent-
ly have charged that the Bush
administration's pro-Israel policy is
hurting America's broader goals in
the Arab Middle East. A close look
at the regimes in the region proves
the shallowness of this hypothesis.
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The despots running each Arab
country deny their countrymen
democracy, give only lip service to
social, political and economic
reforms, and maintain educational
systems that teach no tolerance or
modernity. They are not unified on
regional issues, save one — the use
of Israel as a scapegoat for their
domestic problems.
— Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit
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