7 7SA IBWISBNEWS Contents rota MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION TRUST YOUR AFFAIR TO THE FINEST CATERER Winner of six 2004 Society of Professional www.detroitjewishnews.com Friday, July 16, 2004 • Tanunuz 27, 5764 Vol. DOCV; No, 23 Journalists writing and design awards News Watch Food 16 County Vote 44 Ice Cream For You 5 Jewish candidates run for Oakland County Commission. Flavorful frozen treats to cool offJuly. Teen Mission Spirituality 24 Israel Lives! 46 Chai Anniversary Teen Mission 2004 catches the spirit. Rabbi Schorsch defends his view of Conservative movement. Arts & Life Cover Story 31 Music Macher 60 Israeli Shmear Campaign Guitarist Hershel Yatovitz follows a lifelong calling. Israeli cosmetics make it big in the American market. On The Cover: Page design, Kelli Johnson Alefbeecha 11 ..... 17 Ann Arbor AppleTree 27 Business . . . . . . .60 Calendar 14 Candlelighting 9 Community . . . • .58 80 Crossword For Openers Letters Marketplace Mazel Toy' Online Opinion Synagogues Torah Portion COLUMNISTS George Cantor Harry Kirsbaum Danny Raskin Robert Sklar Gail Zimmerman OBITUARIES Bettyemae Bennett Justin Rochkind Paul R. Feiler 9 67 42 5 .32 9 6 53 19 25 51 51 . 89 90 92 Attack A Hoax? Paris/JTA — French authorities suspect that an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a woman and baby near Paris last week was a hoax. Police investigating the July 9 inci- dent, in which a woman claimed six youths scrawled swastikas on her stom- ach, sliced off her clothes and over- turned her baby carriage on a train, said _ there were a number of contradictions in the woman's account. No witnesses have come forward to corroborate her story of the attack, which allegedly occurred on a normally crowded mid-morning suburban train. Also, video surveillance cameras on the platform where the woman claimed her attackers left the train failed to identify the alleged perpetrators. According to police sources, the woman has a history of filing com- plaints, none of which has been pursued by investigators. The attack was widely . condemned in France, with demonstra- tions against anti-Semitism organized in Paris and others scheduled for later this week In an unprecedented action, National Assembly Speaker Jean-Louis Debree suspended a parliamentary debate so legislators could attend one of the rallies. The woman was placed in 48-hour police custody. The police are expected to wrap up their probe of the incident in the next few days. Calls To White House Washington/JTA — Hadassah members tried to call the White House en masse to protest President Bush's policy on . 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About 1,500 members of the women's Zionist organization attempted to call the White House at the same time from the group's convention in Phoenix, but many received busy signals or the calls did not go through. Hadassah is seeking expanded federal funding for stem cell research and wants additional stem cell lines to be available. President Bush allowed for research using existing stem cell lines in 2001, but few of those lines are viable now, and the potential for progress from stem cells has grown. Meanwhile, scientists at the Hadassah Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center in Jerusalem announced that implanting human stem cells into the brains of rats had,alleviated Parkinson's-like symp- toms. Dr. Binyamin Reubinoff said his research is the first to show that human stem cells can replace damaged neurons in an animal, model. Argentina Terror Recalled New York/JTA — An American Jewish Committee delegation will participate in the 10th commemoration of the AMIA center bombing in Argentina. Led by its.president, Robert Goodkind, the AJCommittee delegation will pres- ent a letter to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner stressing that thousands of people around the world are awaiting answers about the massacre. The corn- munity center was bombed , on July 18, 1994, killing 85 and wounding 300. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to condemn the 1994 attack on an Argentine Jewish center and raise concerns about its investigation. The resolution, introduced by Rep. lleana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., calls on the U.S. and Argentine governments to bring those responsible for the bombing in Buenos Aires to justice. The resolu- tion is expected to be voted on in the next few weeks. The July 18, 1994, attack on the AMIA community center killed 85. "It has been 10 years since violent criminals perpetuated this horri- ble crime, and yet no one has been brought to justice," Ros-Lehtinen said. Farmington Hills • Gift Baskets • Sweet Trays „RE v COMPANY DA 2;41 • INIuffins - ,r. • Soups T. T ., c,c. c ° • Cookies Qukh & Healthy Lunches THE ISSUE Reports in the Israeli press charge that diplomats in several European capi- tals are attempting to resuscitate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's image. One need only look at his recent record to challenge this effort. BEHIND THE ISSUE Even though Arafat has been con- fined to his headquarters building in Ramallah for two years, he has har- bored wanted terrorists there, been an apologist for Al Qaida and given speeches advocating violence and the "armed strut le.” Prior to the Iraqi war, he was accused of alerting the Iraqis to American troop movements. 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