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42 A Rockin' Success
Annual meeting looks at
lift after the renovations.
MusicalAnd-raiser yields
large crowd, substantial gift.
APPLETREE
21 Song Of Life
47 Rejoicing, Reminiscing
A memorable book describes
beauty in heart of madness.
Beth Shalom marks 50th,
with a Jubilee Celebration.
COVER STORY
27 Getting The Reading Bug
MAZEL Toy!
52 Saluting A Hero
Satisfy that itch
to read a good book.
State-wide recognition
for an eighth grader's speech.
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Page design, Kelli Johnson
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News Digest:
Bay City Fire Suspicious
Bay City — The store near Bay City
that served as a pulpit for the anti- -
Semitic Christian Identity pastor James
P. Wickstrom was gutted in a suspi-
cious fire just before 2 a.m. on June 21.
Marquiss Quality Furniture in
Hampton Township sustained damage
to the.front of the one-story building,
and three offices in the back sustained
water and smoke damage, according to
the Bay City Times. No one was
injured.
"The State Police fire marshals are
looking at the particulars," Special
Agent Walter Reynolds of the local FBI
office, who was part of the initial inves-
tigation, told the Detroit Jewish News.
"We have to wait for the fire marshals
to determine how it was started and
that will give us direction."
According to a June 22 Times story,
an accelerant-sniffing dog discovered
numerous spots around the front door,
but it was too early to tell if the fire
was intentional.
Wickstrom would not reply to the
Jewish News, but he did tell the Times
that the fire was an attempt to deny
freedom of religion, assembly and
speech, adding, "Terrorism is alive and
well in Bay County, isn't it?"
Cantor Daniel Gale of Bay City's
Temple Israel told the Jewish News that
the congregation has been in contact
with local law enforcement, which has
increased drive-by patrols at the syna-
gogue.
Temple Israel, located 1 1/2 miles
from the furniture store, was the sub-
ject of a Jewish News cover story, "Too
Close To Home," on June 4.
"On a practical level, today we are a
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bit more watchful than we were yester-
day," said Cantor Gale. "We would
never wish to be hateful or generally
wish ill on others. We do hope that
those who have chosen to be our ene-
mies might be turned from their path
and pursue a better path of respect and
righ teousness."
— Harry Kirsbaum, sta f f writer
Rebbe's Death Marked
New York/JTA —Thousands gathered
in New York City to mark the 10th
anniversary of the Lubavitcher rebbe's
death.
Some waited for hours to enter the
Queens cemetery where Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson is
buried. Rabbi Schneerson is credited
with turning Chabad-Lubavitch into
one of the most prominent public faces
of Judaism worldwide.
synagogue caretaker bury a large box
near the synagogue shortly after the
Nazi invasion of Poland.
Charitable Giving Is Up
New York/JTA — Americans' charitable
giving to public-society benefit groups,
including Jewish federations, increased
by 2.3 percent in 2003, an annual sur-
vey found.
Overall, donations from Americans
increased by 0.6 percent in 2003,
according to the Giving USA survey.
Giving to religious organizations
increased by 2 percent last year. These
groups, which received $87 billion,
took in the largest share of donations.
Donations to international affairs
organizations increased by 12.1 per-
cent, but foundation giving decreased
by 4.7 percent.
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health care.
This commitment now supports
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Israel, Kurds Spying?
Auschwitz Treasure Found
Rome/JTA — Archaeologists unearthed
a trove of Jewish ritual objects buried
since the Holocaust near the former
Auschwitz death camp.
The items, including ceremonial
candlesticks and Chanukah menorahs,
were found during an excavation of the
foundations of the destroyed Great
Synagogue in Oswiecim, the town in
southern Poland near which the camp
was built. The synagogue was burned
to the ground in 1939 after Nazi forces
invaded Poland.
Funded by Polish and Israeli sources
and the Claims Conference, and filmed
for Israeli television, the dig got under
way May 31. The only clue where to
dig had been the account of an elderly
Holocaust survivor who had seen the
Ankara/JTA — Turkey cautiously
accepted Israel's denial of a report that
it is training Kurdish separatists.
"Israel has told us it is not true,"
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
told reporters, referring to a report in
the New Yorker magazine that said
Mossad agents have been operating
among Kurds in northern Iraq to spy
on Iran and Syria.
Ankara fears separatism among
Kurds in Turkey could be strengthened
by the mobilization of their country-
men in Iraq. "Everyone knows Turkey's
sensitivities on this issue," Gul said. "I
hope our trust is not in vain."
An Israeli official in Washington and
a Kurdish leader both denied the New
Yorker report.
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