Front Lines ROUNDUP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT The Jewish Community Center annual meeting will take place Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building on the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield. Roundup from page 10 The following have been nominated: BOARD OF DIRECTORS However, the network's attempt to quietly bury the issue without even publicly addressing it indicates that Comedy Central knows very well that it has erred." Comedy Central has not returned calls to JTA. FIRST THREE-YEAR TERM, ENDING 2013 liana Glazier, Shari Kaufman, Alan Kessler, Eric Lumberg, Bassie Shemtov, Leslie Pappas Ungar SECOND THREE-YEAR TERM, ENDING 2013 Sheryl Wolberg THIRD THREE-YEAR TERM, ENDING 2013 Miriam Bergman OFFICERS 2010-2011 President: Mark Davidoff Chair, Executive Committee: Todd Sachse Vice Presidents: Florine Mark, Brian Siegel, Nathan Upfal, Carol Weintraub Fogel Treasurer: Howard lwrey • Secretary: Miriam Bergman Executive Committee Members at Large: Douglas Bloom, Jill Menuck, Ted Wagner 2010 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Todd Sachse, Chair Miriam Bergman, Barbara Bloom, Susie Citrin, Randie Levin, Sue Pappas, Margo Pernick, Scott Small, Jeremy Wolfe Other persons may be nominated for the board of directors by petition, signed by at least 35 voting members, and filed with the secretary of the Jewish Community Center at least 15 days before the meeting. Only one person may be nominated in each petition. The nominee must consent to the nomination. lit Ta 4•1 THE CENTER in Jewish Federation WE'RE PART OF THE TEAM 1597940 JN Community Forum Featured Blogger: Development Cooperation WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Israel and the Organization of American States signed a memorandum of under- standing consolidating decades of development cooperation. The agreement signed on May 17 at OAS headquarters in Washington pledges to advance existing collabora- tion on education, environment, eco- nomic and social development, pov- erty, gender equity, disaster prevention and relief, agriculture, security and combating terrorism, and crisis man- agement, according to a news release. Israel has operated in the OAS sphere since at least 1972, when it was granted permanent observer status, and offers a number of fellow- ships and training programs for Latin Americans. "We attach great importance to this special agreement, which reflects Israel's vision of sharing responsibil- ity with the nations of the world in confronting the global challenges that we face said Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren, who signed the memo- DETROIT JEWISH NEWS iN Meet Levi Stein Read his latest blog at: http://thejewishnews.com/community Levi Stein blogs about his thoughts, events, international travels and experiences. 1567300 12 May 27 • 2010 iN Palestinian Boycott Begins JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Palestinian Authority has launched a boycott against products manufactured in West Bank Jewish settlements. The official boycott against 500 specific products began on May 18. A list of products that the Palestinian Authority has ordered to be boycotted will be sent to West Bank Palestinian homes in the coming weeks, according to reports. Any Palestinian merchant caught dealing in the banned products faces fines and jail time. "This is an act of hostility with all intents and purposes on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its leaders, and it must be answered immediately and decisively just like any other act of hospitality," the Yesha Council settlers organization said in a statement. "This is a clear violation of the Paris Protocol which regulates the economic relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israel must use the Palestinian Authority's funds in its possession to compensate the boycotted factories." randum with Jose Miguel Insulza, the OAS secretary-general. Israel especially wants to expand cooperation in combating terrorist financing, seen as a growing problem because of the increased influence in parts of Latin America of Hezbollah and Iran. Joint Intern Program WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A Jewish and a Palestinian-American group are run- ning a joint intern program. Under the program, Americans for Peace Now will host a Palestinian this summer and the American Task Force for Palestine will host an Israeli student. "This initiative is a profound expres- sion of the solid common ground that Jewish Americans and Arab Americans share in our joint struggle to promote Middle East peace," APN President Debra DeLee said in a joint release Monday with the American Task Force for Palestine. Both groups advocate for a two-state solution. The program is run under the auspices of New Story Leadership, a Washington-based group that brings together Israelis and Palestinians younger than 30 to learn more about the other's narrative. The interns will work with other interns already hosted by the two groups. Answering Israel's Critics The Charge Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji last week criticized the U.S. admin- istration's "one-sided" support of Israel and its "double standard" of ignoring Israel's stockpile of nuclear weapons. The Answer Although Ganji is a human rights advocate, he embraces a "blame- Israel" view. He should know that the U.S. is an honest broker in Mideast peace negotiations, and that Israel's nuclear capability, if it exists, is a deterrent established after many attacks by its Arab neighbors. — Allan Gale Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit Jewish Renaissance Media, May 27, 2010