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Sunday, May 1, 2011 7:00 p.m.
25 LIVE!
Silver Anniversary Concert in honor of
RABBI NORMAN T. ROMAN
RABBI NORMAN T ROMAN
Twenty-five Years with Temple Kol Ami
Thirty-six Years in the Rabbinate
TEMPLE KOL AMI presents...
Craig Taubman & Josh Nelson
in concert
May 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
at the new
BERMAN CENTER FOR
THE PERFORMING ARTS
Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS
Adults: $25 in advance, $36 at the door
Students: $18 in advance, $25 at the door
To purchase tickets,
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April 21 . 2011
Roundup from page 6
Clean Up Israel
Founder Accused
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – The
Australian founder of a movement to
clean up Israel has denied allegations
that he illegally dumped hazardous
waste material.
Phillip Foxman accused the
New South Wales Department of
Environment of conducting a "witch
hunt" against him, according to a report
in the Sun Herald newspaper in Sydney.
A local council south of Sydney has
taken civil action against Foxman for
allegedly dumping more than 25,000
tons of material.
Foxman was in Israel three weeks ago,
helping to organize 100,000 volunteers
for this year's Clean Up Israel day on
March 29.
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Israeli Aid Delegation
To Japan Returns Home
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense
Forces' aid team in Japan returned to Israel
last week, leaving medical equipment
behind for local doctors to use.
The delegation took 62 tons of medical
supplies and 18 tons of humanitarian aid to
the city of Minami-Sanriko, hard hit by the
earthquake and tsunami that devastated
Japan in March.
In its more than two weeks in Japan,
the team of 50 doctors, communications
specialists and search-and-rescue experts
established a medical clinic and cared for
220 patients.
The team left behind the majority of
the medical equipment, including X-ray
machinery and lab equipment.
IDF Ordering
More Iron Domes
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
military is ordering four more Iron
Dome missile defense systems, which
successfully deployed during recent
rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces said that
it would order the batteries from
the Israel-based Rafael Advanced
Defense Systems at a cost of up to
$80 million each. The units report-
edly will be delivered in a year-and-
a-half.
Funding for the new defense bat-
teries, which intercepted all of the
rockets in its coverage area in recent
Gaza terrorist activity, is slated to
come from an extra security aid allo-
cation from the United States.
Man Who Threatened
Rep. Cantor Gets 2 Years
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A man who
threatened to kill Rep. Eric Cantor, speaking
of his "final Yom Kippur," was sentenced to
two years in prison.
Prosecutors said that
Norman LeBoon, 33, of
Philadelphia, also must
complete three years of
supervision after his sen-
tence is complete, includ-
ing no Internet access.
LeBoon had posted the
video on YouTube in March
Eric Cantor
2010, at the height of the
debate over health care when a number of
Democrats had been threatened, although it
is not clear why he threatened Cantor (R-Va.),
the only Jewish Republican in the House.
Cantor, at the time the minority whip in
the U.S. House of Representatives, is now
the majority leader.
Golan Heights Winery
Takes Italian First Prize
ROME (JTA) — An Israeli winery
for the first time won the grand prize
at Italy's leading international wine
competition.
The Golan Heights Winery, found-
ed in 1983 in Katzrin, beat out 3,720
wines from more than 1,000 produc-
ers in 30 countries to take home the
so-called "Wine World Cup" — the
Gran Vinitaly Special Award granted
ahead of Italy's annual Vinitaly wine
trade fair in Verona, one of Europe's
top wine events.
Though it was the first grand prize
given to an Israeli winemaker, Golan
Heights won grand gold medals at
Vinitaly in 2004 and 2006.
Golan Heights wines are marketed
under the Yarden, Gamla and Golan
labels.
Ireland Will Probe
UNIFIL Soldiers' Deaths
DUBLIN, Ireland (JTA) — Ireland will
conduct an independent review into
the deaths of three Irish soldiers whose
vehicle was blown up on a United
Nations mission in Lebanon.
Alan Shatter, Ireland's defense minis-
ter, announced the new inquiry April 8.
The soldiers, part of a UNIFIL
detachment, died in 1989 after their
truck ran over a landmine believed to
have been planted by Hezbollah and
intended for Israeli vehicles.
The soldiers' families are suing the
Irish state for compensation. An Irish
army inquiry found no negligence in
the deaths.
Shatter, Ireland's only Jewish national
politician and a major parliamentary
defender of Israel, is sending 400 Irish
troops to south Lebanon at the end of
the month for the first time in 10 years.
Forty-seven Irish soldiers were
killed during a 23-year deployment
with UNIFIL, which ended in 2001
after Israel withdrew from southern
Lebanon.