Front Lines Jewish Renaissance Media DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com Advertising Sales Publisher/President Arthur M. Horwitz ahorwitz@renmedia.us Sales Director: Keith Farber kfarber@renmedia.us Account Executives: Ann G. Abrams, Jan Haskell, Melissa Litvin, Heidi Martin, Rick Nessel, Dharlene Norris Senior Sales Assistant: Kim Metzger ROUNDUP AJC Humanitarian The American Jewish Committee- Detroit Regional Office in Bloomfield Township will present the Institute of Human Relations Distinguished Leadership Award to Eugene A. Gargaro Jr. at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, at the Townsend Hotel, Birmingham. Gargaro chairs the Detroit Institute of Arts board as well as the Citizens Research Council of Michigan. He led the DIA through a period of transition and transformation, working in tandem with the museum's professional leader- ship to implement a $160 million reno- vation and expansion. Gargaro is a board member of the University of Detroit/Mercy, the Detroit Medical Center and New Detroit. The awards event will feature Jason Isaacson, AJC's director of office and government and international affairs. His talk, on "Building Diplomacy Through Arts and Culture,' will focus on his and his office's work with the Egyptian government to preserve, protect and rehabilitate the historical Jewish community properties in Cairo. Event chairs: Alan E. Schwartz and Nancy Bechek Bluth. The tribute com- mittee: Jane and Richard Manoogian, A. Alfred Taubman, MASCO Corp., Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Mary and Ralph Wilson Jr., Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Comerica, Elaine and Eugene Driker, Jennifer and David Fischer and Meryl Podolsky. For tickets: call (248) 646-7686 or e-mail Detroit@ajc.org . Regular Price Merchandise! (excludes accessories) JUNE 3RD, 4TH, 5TH elleoanza inside orchard mall 6393 orchard lake road • west bloomfield, mi 48322 248.737.266 mon. - friday: 10am-6pm • sat.: 9:30am-5:30pm Covering The Middle East A Conversation with the BBC Answering Israel's Critics The Charge East from the world's leading international In a published interview last week, Osama Hamdan, head of the terror- ist Palestinian Hamas in Lebanon, charged that Israel might be con- sidering a plan to expel millions of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. broadcaster, featuring reporters and editors from the BBC World Service. W--de:---;e•Monday, June 7, 7:00 p.m. (Admission is free) The Arab American National Museum auditorium 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn The Answer All Israeli governments since the early 1990s have, in contrast to Hamdan's charge, accepted the even- tual creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank with Palestinian refugees from outside allowed to move to the new state. 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