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A Shoah Remembrance

OAKLAND COUNTY — Amid the
observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day, on April 11, Oakland
County officials remembered the

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The European in African Art, 1500—Present

April 18—August 8,

2010

Portuguese sailors landed on the shores of West Africa more

than soo years ago. Strangers at first, Europeans became

trading partners, settlers, and eventually colonizers. African

artists recorded every stage of these changing relationships,

and now you can experience this fascinating history—for the

first time—through African eyes.

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Holocaust and encouraged the public to
learn about its history.
County commissioners Shelley
Goodman Taub and Marcia Gershenson
recently presented a special proclamation
to Stephen Goldman, executive director of
the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman
Family Campus in Oakland County.
The proclamation was on behalf of
the 25-member Oakland County Board
of Commissioners. The ceremony took
place at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills.

Jerusalem Day
NEW YORK — Yom Yerushalayim
(Jerusalem Day), the 28th day of Iyar (this
year, May 12), celebrated the liberation of
the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967.
From 1948 until 1967, Israelis — Jews,
Christians and Muslims — were denied
access to their holy sites, which were under
Jordanian occupation. Synagogues were
destroyed. Jewish tombstones were dese-
crated and used to build roads and latrines.
Today, all holy sites are not only open to
all religions, but also properly maintained.
People of all faiths flock to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Day is a day of rejoicing, not
only for Israelis, but also for Jews across
the world. But for Jerusalemites, every day
is Jerusalem Day, and especially for those
who remember the anguish of gazing
yearningly from afar at the ancient walls,
of seeing cypress trees that hid even the
sight of the Western Wall.
The children of Israel, and especially
of Jerusalem and its surroundings, dance
through the streets and into the Old City on
this special day.

Terrorist Faces Death

MUMBAI (JTA) — An Indian court sen-

tenced the surviving gunman in the 2008
Mumbai terror attack to death by hanging.
Ajmal Kasab, 23, sobbed into his hand
after the sentence was pronounced May 6.
Kasab was the only one of 10 Pakistani
terrorists taken alive after the series of
attacks that left 166 people dead, including
six at the Mumbai Chabad house.
He was found guilty on May 3 of murder,
conspiracy and waging war against India.
Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Yediot
Achronot reported that Moishe Holtzberg,
3, son of tortured and slain Mumbai
Chabad emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka
Holtzberg, was being offered a monthly sti-
pend and other assistance from the Indian
government. Moishe is presently receiving
money from the Israeli government as a
victim of a terror attack.

Peace Talks Progress
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The first round of
indirect peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinians has been completed, the U.S.
State Department announced.
State Department spokesman Philip
Crowley said that the first round of so-
called proximity talks mediated by the U.S.
was "serious and wide-ranging:'
Israel had agreed not to build in the ultra-
Orthodox eastern Jerusalem neighborhood
of Ramat Shlomo for the next two years and
the Palestinian leadership promised to work
against incitement, Crowley said.
The construction plans in Ramat Shlomo,
announced in March during a visit to Israel
by Vice President Joe Biden, are in the early
stages. Construction likely would not have
begun in any case for at least two years.
The peace talks began Sunday a
day after the Palestine Liberation
Organization executive committee
approved talks for four months, the first
peace talks between the Israelis and
Palestinians in 18 months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu welcomed the RA.'s decision to
begin talks. He said the talks were taking
place without preconditions, as the Israelis
had insisted on during the past year, and
that they must "quickly lead to direct
talks."
"Peace cannot be made from a distance
or by remote control, especially given that
we and the Palestinians are neighbors,"
Netanyahu said.
The Obama administration reportedly
told P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas that it
would not present a U.S. peace plan until
the two sides begin direct peace talks.
U.S. Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell
met Sunday with Abbas before returning
after a week in which he met twice each
with Netanyahu and Abbas. Mitchell plans
to return to the region in 10 days.

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
Iranian president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad last week called Israel
a militaristic state imposed on the
Middle East by "the West."

The Answer
Ahmadinejad's remarks continue his
regime's anti-Israel propaganda, this
time denying the Jewish people's right
to a nation-state and the resources to
defend itself.

— Allan Gale, Jewish Community Relations

Council of Metropolitan Detroit

°Jewish Renaissance Media • May13,2010