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Greater Detroit Section
Israel Denies
Spy Charges
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Auschwitz Sign
Is Restored
WARSAW (JTA) — The "Arbeit
Macht Frei" sign stolen from
Auschwitz and cut into three pieces
has been repaired.
The iron sign was unveiled May
18 in the laboratory of the camp
museum. Repairs to the sign, which
measures 16 feet across and means
work makes you free took several
months.
It was stolen from the former Nazi
concentration camp on Dec. 18, 2009
and recovered elsewhere in the coun-
try 72 hours later. It was found cut
into three pieces.
A copy of the sign has been
placed above the entrance gate. The
repaired sign will likely become part
of a new exhibition.
Five Polish men were convicted of
carrying out the theft on behalf of a
Swedish citizen, Anders Hogstrom,
who acted as a middleman for a
neo-Nazi buyer. Hogstrom founded
the far-right National Socialist Front
party in Sweden in 1994.
Four Bay Groups
Get UpStart Help
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – Four
new Jewish groups have been
accepted into the UpStart incubator
program, which aids new Jewish
nonprofits.
Accepted into this year's program
of UpStart Bay Area are: A Wider
Bridge, which brings together les-
bian and gay communities in Israel
and North America; Amir, a gar-
dening program offered to schools
and other youth institutions as
a way of teaching about hunger
and environmental activism; The
Kitchen, an unaffiliated, Shabbat-
centered Jewish community for
young adults in San Francisco; and
Urban Adamah, a Jewish service
learning program in Berkeley that
combines urban agriculture, social
action and Jewish learning.
Philip Roth Honored
For Literary Career
LONDON (JTA) — Jewish author
Philip Roth has won the Man Booker
International Prize for the body of
work in his more than 50-year writ-
ing career.
The biennial
award for Roth, 78,
will be presented
in June in London.
The prize comes
with an award of
nearly $100,000.
Roth, the author
Philip Roth
of the widely
read and contro-
versial Portnoy's
Complaint, has also won two
National Book Awards and a Pulitzer
Prize. He is well known for creating
the character Nathan Zuckerman,
often considered a Roth alter-ego.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russian gov-
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
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ernment claims that Israel's military
attache in Moscow was spying are
unfounded, the Israeli army said.
"The IDF
military attache
and Ministry
of Defense rep-
resentative in
Russia, Col. Vadim
Leiderman, was
held back by a sur-
prise investigation
Vadim
by the Russian
Leiderman
government last
week on suspi-
cion of spying," said a statement
by the IDF Spokesman's office. "He
was taken to the headquarters and
released after a short while due to
diplomatic immunity because of his
position."
Leiderman reportedly was arrest-
ed at a coffee shop in Moscow, where
he was meeting with a Russian mili-
tary officer. He and his family were
given 24 hours to leave the country.
Obama Extends
Syrian Cutoff
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President
Obama extended a freeze on Syrian
assets to the country's government
and its entire leadership.
The order was the most expansive
yet targeting Syria, naming President
Bashar Assad and including any
"senior official of the Government of
Syria" or "any agency or instrumen-
tality of the Government of Syria,
or owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by the Government of
Syria or by an official or officials of
the Government of Syria."
The order cites "Syria's continuing
escalation of violence against the
people of Syria — including through
attacks on protesters, arrests and
harassment of protesters and politi-
cal activists and repression of demo-
cratic change, overseen and executed
by numerous elements of the Syrian
government!'
It essentially cuts off Syria from
the United States and bans any U.S.
business from trading with Syria's
government or its leaders.