metro >> roundup UNITED,/ Roundup from page 6 One lucky winner will receive two round trip tickets to Israel Courtesy of United Airlines, the official airline of the Walk For Israel. Raffle will be conducted the day of the walk and announced the same day. Must be present to win. Come Celebrate SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, May 15, 2011 Community-wide Event Hosted by Temple Shir Shalom (3999 Walnut Lake Rd., corner of Orchard Lake and Walnut Lake Rd.) West Bloomfield Convenient nearby parking & shuttle service available. 10:00 am - Israeli Art Fair 12:00 pm - Kosher Lunch (no charge) & Program 1:00 pm - Walk Starts WWW.WALKFORISRAEL.ORG Platinum Sponsor Ford Motor Company Fund Co-Sponsors Temple Shir Shalom Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit Tamarack Camps The Detroit Jewish News National Council of Jewish Women Congregation B'nai Moshe Friends of Israel ORT Michigan Region Israel Ministry of Tourism AIPAC Temple Israel Temple Kol Ami Congregation Beth Ahm Zionist Organization of America Amy & Andre Douville Volunteers for Israel Stand with Us Michigan Suretta & Alan Must The Ira Kaufman Chapel Akiva Hebrew Day School Fran Bell Mat Shalom Synagogue B'nai Israel Synagogue Ayelet Tours Jiffy Signs, Inc. & JS Printing Temple Beth El Michigan Jewish Institute B`nai B'rith Enlighten America Friends of Israel Defense Forces Anti-Defamation League B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Hillel Foundation of Metro Detroit Congregation Beth Shalom Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah Jewish Community Center of Metro Detroit State of Israel Bonds Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit Jewish National Fund Scyllaweb Jewish Community Relations Council Temple Emanu-El jbrooksdesign inc. As of 4 - 29 - 11. For latest sponsorship list visit our v.pbsite. Additional sponsors are welcome. 8 May 5 2011 Israeli Director Wins Tribeca Prize NEW YORK (JTA) — Israeli director Alma Har'el took top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival in the docu- mentary category. Bombay Beach, her feature-length film, follows three down-and-out residents of a ghost town on the Salton Sea, a surrealistic land- scape in Southern California filled with losers and Alma Hare! dreamers. Pope John Paul II Is Beatified ROME (JTA) — Pope John Paul II, who made fostering Catholic- Jewish relations and remembering the Holocaust cornerstones of his papacy, was beatified at the Vatican. John Paul's successor, Pope Benedict XVI, officiated at Sunday's cer- emony — the last step before canonization, or sainthood — before an estimated 1 mil- lion faithful and a live broadcast audience of millions more around the world. The ceremony took place just hours before Yom Hashoah, when Jews around the world remember the Holocaust in prayer and cer- emonies. The Polish-born John Paul, who died in April 2005, served as pon- tiff for more than 26 years. John Paul had Jewish friends growing up and witnessed ,the Holocaust. Throughout his papacy, he reached out to Jews and met frequently with Jewish representa- tives, including Holocaust survi- vors, and repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism. In 1986 he became the first pope to visit a synagogue when he visited Rome's main synagogue, where he embraced the Rome chief rabbi and referred to Jews as Christianity's "elder brothers in faith." During his reign, Israel and the Vatican established formal rela- tions, and he made a pilgrimage to Israel in 2000, during which he prayed at the Western Wall. Har'el, a Tel Aviv native now living in the United States, takes home $25,000 in prize money. She describes herself in her biography as a video artist and music video director. The judges were unanimous in their decision. They praised the film for its "beauty, lyricism, empathy and invention." Another Israeli, Dor Fadlon of Ramat Gan, won special mention at the festival for Eva Working Title. Fadlon, a graduate of the film and television department at Tel Aviv University, wrote and directed the 14-minute film. — Social Justice Groups To Merge SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Two Jewish social justice organizations — the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice — have decided to merge. The groups will announce the merger officially May 26 at a fundraising gala, along with details about what the move will mean to each organization. The merger will take place later this year. Jewish Funds for Justice has con- tributed financially to strengthening low-income communities and pro- moting social change since the 1980s. The Progressive Jewish Affiance, founded in 1999, focuses on social justice and Jewish-Muslim dialogue in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. Anti-Israel Billboards Down In Seattle SEATTLE (JTA) — Three billboards calling on the United States to stop its aid to Israel will be removed from downtown Seattle, several months after similar bus ads were rejected. The ads, sponsored by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, were deemed offensive by Clear Channel Outdoor, which decided late last week that it would remove the ads after origi- nally accepting them. Clear Channel said its policy is to avoid messages that are offensive to certain groups of people and organizations. The billboards read "Equal rights for Palestinians: Stop funding the Israel military." In February, a federal judge in Seattle ruled that the Metro Transit system of King County, Wash., did not violate the First Amendment rights of the campaign when it refused to run an ad on its buses accusing Israel of war crimes.