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Settlement Freeze Unlikely
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and a top aide
suggested that a compromise with the
Palestinians on a settlement freeze is not in
the offing.
Netanyahu, along with
top adviser Ron Dermer
and Israel's U.S. ambas-
sador, Michael Oren,
spoke Monday afternoon
on a conference call
with members of the
Benjamin
Conference of Presidents
Netanyahu
of Major American
Jewish Organizations.
JTA reviewed the call with a number of
participants.
Netanyahu did not directly address the
moratorium during the call, but said he is
sticking with the talks although he is not
satisfied with Palestinian efforts and "I very
much hope President Abbas will have the
same attitude."
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas has said that for him to
stay in the recently renewed peace talks,
Netanyahu must extend the partial building
freeze in the settlements that he imposed in
December and which lapses Sept. 26.
President Obama and U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pressed
Netanyahu to extend the freeze, but some
of Netanyahu's coalition partners have sug-
gested they would bolt the government in
the event of an extension.
The talks started without preconditions,
Netanyahu said, "and we can't reintroduce
them five minutes after talks begin."
Dermer specifically addressed the mora-
torium and said, "We might have to agree
to disagree" with the Palestinians "for a few
months."
Netanyahu also said that the Palestinians
must consider a long-term Israeli presence
in the Jordan Valley. Israel would not accept
a formula whereby foreign troops kept the
peace on the West Bank's eastern front.
Oren and Dermer said relations with
Turkey have not improved since a crisis
erupted on May 31, when an Israeli raid on
a Turkish-flagged aid ship aiming to breach
Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip resulted
in the deaths of nine Turks, including a
Turkish American.
Campus Anti-Semitism
WEST BLOOMFIELD -- Guest speaker
Kenneth Marcus, the Virgina-based direc-
tor of the Initiative on Anti-Semitism at the
Institute for Jewish & Community Research,
will address the Zionist Organization of
America-Michigan Region at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, at Temple Shir Shalom, 3999
Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield.
He served as staff director at the U.S.
Opera Ball
Patrons join with next generation
of theater's supporters.
Julie Marx and Jaimee Wine
Thank you to over 200 totally
MOT General Director David DiChiera with Gretchen and Ethan Davidson
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retchen and Ethan Davidson
of Bloomfield Hills are general
chairs of the Michigan Opera
Theatre's 24th annual Opera Ball on
Saturday, Oct. 2.
Entitled "Ballo Dell' Opera," the ball
celebrates MOT's 40th season by hon-
oring all previous ball chairs, while
also welcoming the next generation
of opera supporters. The 2010 Opera
Ball will be held at 6 p.m. at the
Detroit Opera House (1526 Broadway,
Detroit).
The black-tie gala is MOT's largest
annual fundraiser. Revenue is used
to support the company's main-stage
productions as well as educational
programs and community outreach
throughout the state and beyond. The
2010 fundraising goal is $350,000.
In 2009, a series of balls raised
$295,000.
In addition to commemorating
MOT's 40th anniversary, the Opera
Ball will honor the ball chairs of its
23 previous opera balls. Included
in this group are 10 prominent
Jewish women: Marcia Applebaum,
Lois Cohn, Shelly Cooper, Rosanne
Duncan, Barbara Frankel, Dr.
Marjorie Fisher, Aviva Friedman,
Doreen Hermelin, Effie Weinberg,
Mary Lou Zieve and Lil Edeljan.
All Opera Ball guests will enjoy
cocktails together, followed by a
seated dinner for benefactors while
next-generation supporters enjoy a
strolling dinner on the box level. After
dinner, all guests will join together
for dessert and dancing on the main
floor.
Reservations for the dinner are
$500 per person; tickets to the next
generation supper are $150. All
tickets include valet parking along
with dinner and entertainment.
Celebration sponsorships are avail-
able. Contact Heather Hamilton
at (313) 237-3425 or hhamilton@
motopera.org.
Commission on Civil
Rights. Appointed by the
president, Marcus served
as the Civil Rights
Commission's chief
executive officer and
received the first Justice
and Ethics Award for
Outstanding Work in the
Marcus
Field of Civil Rights.
The program is co-
sponsored by Temple
Shir Shalom. Admission is free.
Reservations are required by Monday,
Oct. 5. Send an e-mail message to admin@
mizoa.org or call (248) 282-0088.
Bookstock Collection Day
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Drive
through and drop off donations of used
books, books on tape, records, video, CDs
and DVDs 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday Oct. 3,
at Bloomfield Plaza, Maple and Telegraph,
Bloomfield Township.
Tax receipts will be provided.
The items donated during Colassal
Collection Day will be sold at the Bookstock
11 used book and media sale.
Volunteer for sorting at Bloomfield Plaza
10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Wednesday, Oct.6-
April 13.
For information, call (248) 645-7840, ext.
365, or visit www.bookstock.info.
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