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It's Torture!
ater dripping on one's fore-
head, one slow drop at .a time.
1111 Being shut in an Iran Maiden.
Having one's limbs strapped to the Rack.
No, I'm not going to regale you with
tales left over from Edgar Allen Poe. All
of the above are forms of torture used
from early days of "civilization." Not all
torture directly impacts the body, but it's
torture nonetheless. For your considera-
tion:
• The squealing of chalk on a black-
board. I must admit to having'used this
as a management device in my teaching
days. Now, however, white boards and
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• Reverberations of "music" felt
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Defending Zionism
every 10 minutes, especially
through the roadway and closed
when they destroy any mood
car windows from those sharing
that may have been created by
the road. And is it any wonder
the TV movie.
that our young people do not
• Having to be seated near a
hear as well as they might?
child in a restaurant whose par-
• A co-worker's chair badly in
ent is completely oblivious to
need of a spray to rid itself of the
the repeated, whiny, "Mom,
squeak.
Mom, Mom!"
• Traveling through an
Sy M anello
• Bearing Witness to an abuse
Orlando, Fla., park ride and
Edit ori al
of
the latest body piercing fad.
never being able to shake the
Assi stant
Can't
a statement be made with
sounds of "It's a small world
mutilation
of the person?
after all."
And
we-thought
the
Iron
Maiden was
--Sitting in blistering heat while stuck
cruel?
in road construction zones. This "trap"
• The ringing of the phone at dinner-
does not bode well in frigid temperatures
time.
We know full well that there is a
either.
telemarketer's pitch waiting to be
• Being bombarded by inane TV ads
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CAMERA, the Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America, has published a detailed rebuttal to Imam
Mohammad Ali Elihai's commentary that ran in the Detroit News on
Nov. 5 ("Place Anti-Israel Remarks In Context"). The rebuttal
debunks and deconstructs what the imam, of the Islamic House of
Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, presented as fact in defending the
keynote address at the "World Without Zionism" conference delivered
by President Moumoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Iranian president called for the Jewish state, "this stain of dis-
grace to "vanish from the center of the Islamic world."
"Unfortunately, Imam Elahi's column is laced with outright false-
hoods and unsubstantiated accusations and even tries to justify the
Iranian president's words by comparing it to a passage from•the
American Declaration of Independence!" writes CAMER.Ns Steve
Stotsky.
Stotsky's enlightening response appears on the front page of
CAMERAs Web site, www.CAMERA.org . The link to the response is:
www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=28a_outlet=1698a_article •
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— Robert A. Sklar, editor
unleashed.
• The cracking of knuckles, especially
from someone near you at a concert.
• The sour notes at a violin recital. This
torture, however, is to be endured with a
smiling face; after all, your kid is a bud-
ding genius, no?
•You are about to sneeze; it is building.
Just before the big "Katchoo," someone
says, "Bless you:' The sneeze deflates.
• Trying to sleep in a room with an
insomniac hamster in a squeaky wheel.
The worst torture is possibly to hear a
really corny joke. For instance:
Teacher: Who in our babysitters class
can tell me the best way to drive a baby
buggy?
Student: Tickle its feet. I I
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When Mayville'Community
Schools teacher Debbie Rohlfs
bought a book about the
Tennessee 6 million paper clip
project for her sick father, she
mentioned it to her 8th grade
Holocaust class.
• The students took it on as
their own project, asking their
parents for paper clips from
work, writing letters to busi-
nesses and organizations
around the country. •
Wendy Werner, 13, and Mitch
A letter even found its way
into the office of New York gov- Dingus, 13, of Mayville
ernor George Pataki, who sent
some paperclips from his desk, and an official proclamation
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thanking the students for their thoughtfulness. • .
So far, the students have collected over 148,000 paper clips, and
on Nov. 23, about 50 students presented the clips and the procla-
mation to Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, founder and executive iiirec-
tor of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills.
"We're trying to teach tolerance Rohlfs said. Teaching cultural
diversity was important in their small commu-
nity located in Michigan's thumb region.
The school has made about four trips to the
Center, but this in the first visit to the new
HMC, she said.
Rabbi Rosenzveig as surprised and delighted
at the gift.
The history.of the Holocaust, "finally pene-
trates people that we never expected.to be
affected by it."
This project is the beginning, he said. .
Rosenzveig would like other schools to add to
the paper clip exhibit located in the Auschwitz
exhibit.
—Keri Guten Cohen,
story =development editor
nurnEr 'cha Don't Know
Which African country whose population is over
90 percent Muslim has full diplomatic relations
with Israel?
Goldfein
lebaues :Jamsuv
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Alica Beckrow, 13, Cayla Austin, 13, and Megan
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Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer
Johnson, 14, all of Mayville
December 8 • 2005
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