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lant applause. And Merin, who was
applauded for his heroic work in
Haiti, received an emotional standing
ovation buttressed by palpable Jewish
pride in Israel.
Merin spoke about the Israeli mis-
sion in Haiti, and said that despite
their very best efforts, the Israeli
medical team was but "a drop in the
ocean," able to treat only a fraction of
the 300,000 Haitians injured.
Crowe took the stage next to intro-
duce Howard and Grazer with a speech
he had "spent most of the day writing,"
according to his post on Twitter.
"What is at the core of the
American dream," Crowe said, "is
tolerance and humanity. In [Howard
and Grazer's] work, you see tolerance
and humanity are very important to
them, and when you meet them you
realize their kindness as men."
Howard and Grazer delivered ten-
der and personal remarks about what
the award meant to them.
Howard, who is not Jewish, recalled
a time early in his career on the set
of Happy Days when director Jerry
Paris noticed him pacing nervously.
Howard told Paris he was indeed feel-
ing jittery.
"Cute," Howard remembered Paris
saying. WASPy on the outside, total
Jew on the inside!"
Howard said that Paris, who died
in 1986, often would say to him, "It's
never too late — we can still bar
mitzvah you!"
"Well, Jerry, this is not quite the

bar mitzvah you dreamed of, but it's
pretty remarkable," he said to heaps
of laughter.
Howard spoke eloquently about the
importance of American leadership
in promoting cultural diversity and
"the human yearning for unity"
The Museum of Tolerance, he said,
"is a living reminder that silent wit-
nesses to tyranny and injustice are
tacit supporters."
Before the crowd spilled out of the
ballroom and into the valet line, Leno
singled out one audience member,
University of California- Berkeley
student-body president Will Smelko,
who recently risked his own popular-
ity to veto a fashionable divest-from-
Israel bill that had been passed by the
student senate.
"Will, you are that next mayor in
France," Leno said.
A woman who identified herself
as a Holocaust survivor approached
Smelko on the way out and said,
"People like you saved my life."
So why did a 22-year-old non-
Jewish student leader go against the
grain for the Jewish state?
"It was a very one-sided attack on
Israel:' Smelko said of the bill.
On the surface it seemed to make
some sense, he said, but a closer look
indicated a more spurious agenda.
"The bill was being used for the
political de-legitimizing of the State
of Israel," Smelko said. "Something
told me the way they used the bill
was morally wrong."

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With the advent of Datalink
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Chai Flyers is a group of about
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