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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stole
the show at the Israel Independence
Day celebration in Los Angeles.
Twelve national
and international
television crews,
plus another
dozen photogra-
phers and print
reporters, jostled
for positions
May
10 to cover
Arnold
the
event
at the
Schwarzenegger
Skirball Cultural
Center — in par-
ticular Schwarzenegger as he received
an award recognizing his longtime
support of Israel and its economy.
Schwarzenegger the day before
had announced that he and his wife,
Maria Shriver, had separated after 25
years of marriage. The split between
the Republican body builder/movie

action star/politician and the
Democratic niece of President John
F. Kennedy made world headlines
and transformed the annual com-
munity event into a media frenzy.
The former governor, looking
buff, tanned and relaxed at 63, had
been invited long ago to receive the
award at an event hosted by Israel's
consul general in Los Angeles, Jacob
Dayan.
Schwarzenegger prefaced his
remarks by thanking the audience
and the public for "the tremendous
amount of support and love that you
have given us in the last 24 hours."
"I just spoke to Maria an hour
before I came here ... we both love
each other very much and are for-
tunate to have four extraordinary
children;' he said, adding that "we're
taking it one day at a time."
The audience of 800 then turned
its full attention to Israel's 63rd
anniversary, the other honorees and
the 90-minute multimedia show.

Wiesenthal Center
Honors Tom Cruise
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Actor and
producer Tom Cruise was recognized
with the the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's
Humanitarian
Award.
The award,
presented at a
national tribute
dinner May 5, was
given to Cruise for
his longtime sup-
Tom Cruise
port of the center
and its Museum of Tolerance, the
organization said. It was presented
to Cruise by Brad Grey, chairman

and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
The Wiesenthal Center also
presented Medals of Valor to Luis
Alberto Urzua, the foreman of the
33 trapped Chilean miners whose
cool head and calm leadership
guided the men through their
ordeal; Gyongyi Mago, a Catholic
schoolteacher in Hungary deter-
mined to keep the memory of the
Holocaust alive despite a backlash
from the growing far right; and
posthumously to Peter Bergson, an
activist who during the Holocaust
challenged the Roosevelt govern-
ment and establishment Jewish
organizations to make the rescue of
Europe's Jews a top priority.

Birthright Israel
Month In N.Y.
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has
declared May Birthright Israel
month.
Bloomberg
issued a formal
proclamation at
an event last week
attended by more
than 1,000 alumni
of the free Israel
trip for Jews aged
18 to 26.
Michael
The Taglit-
Bloomberg
Birthright Israel
organization said May will fea-
ture events in cities across North
America for trip alumni, special
Birthright Shabbat celebrations at

more than 100 synagogues, visits
to communities by Israeli soldiers
who participated in Birthright
Israel trips and special donor func-
tions.
The organization plans to publi-
cize its goal of increasing participa-
tion from 30,000 a year to 51,000
a year by 2013, or one of every two
young Jewish adults.
In January, the government of
Israel announced that it would
contribute $100 million to Taglit-
Birthright Israel over the next
three years. Birthright also plans to
increase its fundraising this year by
$10 million to $58.6 million, and
then add another $20 million next
year in order reach its participant
goal for 2013.

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