Index INSIDE Calendar 2 Opinion 4-S THIS Federation 6 Community 10-13 Arts 17-18 Food 20 Simchas 32 Obituaries 34-35 Miriam to partner with Israeli March of the Living participants Meet Matisyahu, reggae artist. My Voice 36 hospital. See page 3. share stories. See page 9. See page 17. The JEWISH VOICE & HERALD 22 Tammuz 5765 Vol. IV - Issue XXXII Jewish Federation of Rhode Island July 22, 2005 Federation introduces Israel to diverse R. I. leaders JTA photo Settlers protested disengagement from Gaza this week. Violence threatens Gaza withdrawal NEVE DEKALIM, settlement in the Gaza Strip, Photos by Rebekah Raz Gaza Strip OTA) -A pool of shouting over loudspeakers to blood seeped over the concrete residents to stay indoors. GOLAN HEIGHTS - The group checks a map of Israel during a stop on the Golan Heights, to explore sidewalk next to a parking lot The barrage of shells that the security issues in Israel. Tour guide Mike Hollander holds up a map with the assistance of Miriam blanketed in shattered glass fell Sunday on Neve Dekalim Hospital CEO, Dr. Kathleen Hittner and Herb Stern, president of the Jewish Federation of R.I. near where a mortar shell had injured six people, including ByMaryKorr exploded, injuring two men, two children, and sent moth­ including an American. Israel, like the biblical ers with baby strollers racing Joseph, wears a coat of many Security officers in armored for cover. T he streets of the colors. A diverse group of vehicles drove through Neve See GAZA. Page 14 Rhode Island leaders saw its Dekalim, the largest Jewish fabric, and the historical and biblical threads intertwining Jewish groups examine it, on a recent trip with the Jewish Federation ofR.I. They saw Qymran and Supreme Court nominee the caves where the Dead WASHINGTON (JTA) church and state. Sea Scrolls were found. They - The nomination of Judge President Bush nominated stood on the mount where John Roberts to the U.S. Roberts, a judge on the District Jesus preached. They attended Supreme Court may motivate of Columbia Circuit Court of a session in the Knesset, where some liberal American Jewish Appeals, as a Supreme Court Benjamin Netanyahu scurried organizations to work against associate justice Tuesday night, past them. Their hearts were his confirmation, but it will saying he "has earned the seared at Yad Vashem, the CAPERNAUM - Tour guide Mike Hollander led the group to take time for many to deter­ respect of people from both national Holocaust memo­ Capernaum, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the site of Jesus' mine where Roberts stands political parties." rial, when Holocaust survivor teachings and where the remnants of a 2"'-century synagogue on issues such as reproductive Rabbi Baruch Goldstein, of can be visited. 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Certainly in the Miriam Hospital will be part­ area of trauma and emergency nering in the near future with medicine, we have much to learn Northern Israel's premiere hospi­ from them," Dr. Hittner said. tal - Ha'Emek Medical Center. The center serves the diverse Known as the "Hospital of population of the Galilee and Peace," Ha'Emek treats victims Jezreel Valley, comprised ofJews, of terror on both sides. It's the Muslims, Christians, Bedouins designated trauma center in the and Druse. The area also absorbs northern part of the country for many Ethiopian immigrants. "MCEs" (mass casualty events), said Larry Rich, the center's Ha'Emek Medical Center in Afula, northern Israel. A medical team from Israel director of development, on a will spend several weeks here in visit to Miriam June 17. The suicide bomber. In the ensuing Palestinian father fromJenin who Ha'Emek, like Miriam, is a the fall and a Miriam team will hospital is located in the Afula explosion, three people died and walked the 10 miles to the medi­ teaching hospital. It is affiliated go to Ha'Emek in the spring. / Gilboa region that is connected 70 were wounded and brought to cal center, and passed through with the Rappaport Faculty of Providence physician Dr. to Rhode Island through the H a'Emek. the security checkpoints, with Medicine, Technion-Haifa.