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Elected Officials To
Host Coffee Talks
State Sen. Vincent Gregory
(D-Southfield) and State Rep. Vicki
Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) ask
members of the Farmington Hills area
to join them for coffee and conversa-
tion regarding state and community
issues — including the status of the
state budget — at 10 a.m. Saturday,
June 8, at Panera Bread Company,
34635 Grand River, Farmington Hills.
Pay It Forward With
Musical Instruments
The Wayne State University's
College of Fine, Performing and
Communication Arts (CFPCA)
Alumni Association, in collaboration
with Detroit Public Schools Fine Arts
Office (DPS), launched a used musical
instrument donation drive at WSU's
Main and Oakland Campuses.
"Playing It Forward" will benefit
DPS elementary, middle and high
school students.
Collections are from 11 a.m.-6:30
p.m. Tuesday, June 25, WSU Oakland
Center, 33737 W 12 Mile Road, Room
305, Farmington Hills; and from noon-
4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, WSU
Main Campus-Welcome Center, 42 W.
Warren, Detroit.
Urgently needed instruments:
baritone, tenor, alto and soprano saxo-
phones; bass trombone, trombone;
baritone/euphonium; tuba; string
basses (full and 3 A sizes); cello and
viola (all sizes).
For details, contact Joan Smykowski
at (734) 748-0078 or joan.smykowski@
gmail.com .
4th Annual Rosman MSU
Hillel Golf Outing Set
The 4th Annual Ryan Scott Rosman
Memorial Golf Outing will be at 12:30
p.m. Monday, June 24, at Tam-0-
Shanter Country Club, 5051 Orchard
Lake Road, West Bloomfield.
The golf outing is presented by MSU
Hillel and honors Ryan Scott Rosman,
an MSU student who passed away in
2009. The memorial outing celebrates
Ryan's passion for golf, his love of com-
munity, his friendships and entrepre-
neurial spirit.
Prizes include golf for four players
with carts and lunch at Orchard Lake
Country Club, golf for four players
with refreshments at Birmingham
Country Club, a one-year Jax unlim-
ited car wash gift card, two tickets
to the July 20 Beyonce concert at the
Palace with dinner and VIP parking
and Bacco Ristorante gift certificates.
There will also be a silent auction.
For reservations, contact Cindy
Hughey at (517) 332-1916 or
director@msuhillel.org.
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Spelling Bee Champ
Wins With AKnaideli
Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old
eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, N.Y.,
won the Scripps National Spelling Bee
on May 30, correctly spelling the word
"knaidel," according to a report from
CNN.
"It means that I am retiring on
a good note said Mahankali, who
attends Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle
School. "I shall spend the summer,
maybe the entire day, studying phys-
ics:"
Mahankali, who wants to become a
physicist, had finished third in the two
previous national bees. He was elimi-
nated after misspelling words with
German roots.
"I thought that the German curse
had turned into a German blessing:'
he said, when asked what he thought
when he heard the final word, a
German-derived Yiddish word for a
type of dumpling.
Norwegian Daily Prints
Cartoon Of Gory
Circumcision, Child Abuse
(JTA) - A leading Norwegian
daily published a caricature depicting
what some construed to be Jews tor-
turing a baby during a circumcision.
The caricature that appeared May 28
in the Dagbladet newspaper — the coun-
try's third largest in terms of circulation
— showed a bearded man wearing a
black hat and black coat sticking a pitch-
fork into the head of a blood-soaked
baby while holding a book
Another unseen person cuts off
the baby's foot with a bolt cutter as
a woman in a long-sleeved shirt and
a hat shows police officers another
blood-spattered book and tells them:
"Abuse? No, this tradition is central to
our belief' The police officers apolo-
gize "for interrupting:'
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's
associate dean, Rabbi Abraham
Copper, said the cartoon was "so
virulently anti-Semitic it would make
Hitler and Himmler weep tears of joy."
Manfred Gerstenfeld, a scholar of
anti-Semitism and former chairman
of the Jerusalem Center for Public
Affairs, said the caricature "cannot
be viewed separately from centuries
of libels in Christian circles that try
to establish a link between the ritual
abuse of blood and the Jewish faith:'
But in an email sent to MIFF,
a Norwegian pro-Israel organiza-
tion, Dagbladet cartoon artist Tomas
Drefvelin said he did not mean to draw
Jews in his caricature, which he meant
"not as criticism of either a specific reli-
gion or a nation [but] as a general criti-
cism of religions:' Drefvelin wrote.
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