frontlines NCJ >> r o un d up Roundup from page 6 National Council of Jewish Women Greater Detroit Section Israel Denies Spy Charges SAVE THE DATE CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK AN ANNUAL BENEFIT TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAMS OF NCJWIGDS WOMEN OF VISION FEATURING ALEXANDRA PELOSI AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKER AND AUTHOR RECEIVING THE 2011 JOSEPHINE S. WEINER COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD TOBY ARONS NCJW/GDS VOLUNTEER WENDY WAGENHEIM COMMUNITY ACTIVIST THE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC A FREE CLINIC SERVING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDED BY THE DETROIT ALUMNI CHAPTER OF ALPHA OMEGA DENTAL FRATERNITY 1676000 • „ • The Community is Invited to Share in the Dedication of The Louis and Fay Woll Memorial Bible Garden at Congregation Beth Ahm Sunday, June 5th at 11:00 am Tours of The Garden Following the Dedication RSVP to the Office, 248.851.6880, or email ablau@cbahrn.org by June 1st To learn more about the Memorial Bible Garden visit www.wollbiblegarden.org Congregation Beth Ahm • 5075 West Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322 • www.cbahm.org 111 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 8 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.