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June 13 • 2013

Ann Arbor Bus Can
Refuse Anti-Israel Ad
The Ann Arbor Transportation
Authority ("AATA") does not have to
run an advertisement that says, "Boycott
`Israel' — Boycott Apartheid," and con-
tains a menacing drawing of a spider
crushing skulls, according to Federal
Judge Mark Goldsmith, in a ruling June
4 in United States District Court Eastern
District of Michigan Southern Division.
The AATA had denied Blaine
Coleman's request to run his ad because
it violated the AATAs advertising policy.
Coleman filed suit in November 2011,
alleging that the AATAs advertising
policy was unconstitutional and that the
AATA violated his constitutional rights
when it decided not to run his ad.
After an evidentiary hearing in July
2012, Goldsmith found that the AATAs
advertising policy created a public
forum and, therefore, that the AATAs
decision to reject Coleman's ad was
improper. The AATA amended its pol-
icy in light of Goldsmith's findings and
to comport with 2012 federal court of
appeals decision concerning the limits
of a transportation authority's ability to
restrict advertising on public buses.
Goldsmith ordered the AATA to
consider the ad under its revised poli-
cy and the AATA again rejected it. Last
week, Goldsmith found that the revised
policy created a limited public forum

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Cinema Tov: Detroit Jewish Film Lab
presents 400 Miles To Freedom 6 p.m.
Sunday, June 16, at the Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue in Detroit.
In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded
2,500-year-old community of obser-
vant Jews in northern Ethiopian, fled
a dictatorship and began a secret
and dangerous journey of escape.
Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then a

and that the AATA could reject the ad
without violating the constitution.

Disability Rights Advocate
Wins Bronfman Prize
Eric Rosenthal, founder and executive
director of Disability Rights International
(DRI), a human rights advocacy
organization dedicated to ending the
segregation and abuse of children
and adults with disabilities, last week
received the Charles Bronfman Prize.
The prize, awarded annually to an
individual or team younger than 50,
whose "work is informed by Jewish val-
ues and has global impact that changes
lives and inspires others:' is accompa-
nied by a $100,000 award.
Through DRI, Rosenthal has provid-
ed global leadership and effected world-
wide change to protect a vulnerable and
overlooked population. He documents
human rights abuses, has trained activ-
ists in 25 nations, and works with gov-
ernments to end abusive practices. He
was instrumental in the United Nations'
adoption of a new Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities —
now ratified by 130 countries — and,
through DRI, recently launched the
Worldwide Campaign to End the
Institutionalization of Children. The
goal of the campaign is to "bring an end
to the practice of putting any child in
any institution for any reason:' he says.

10-year-old boy, was among them.
The film follows his story as he
breaks the 20-year silence around
the brutal kidnapping he endured as
a child in Sudan. This launches an
inquiry into issues of immigration,
racial diversity and Jewish identity,
leading him to African, Asian and
Latino Jews in Israel and the U.S.
A facilitated discussion follows
with Timothy Corvidae.

