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May 9, 2002

Couple Fights Harassment

Jacobson and Dorman have installed a security system and now keep a video camera by the door, which they take whenever they leave the house. They are afraid of their neighbors, and the tapes they have made show good reason to be.

Bringing Tolerance to the World

French multimedia mogul Jean-Marie Messier will spearhead a five-year project to build a European Museum of Mutual Respect in Paris, modeled largely on the Simon Wiesenthal Center\’s Museum of Tolerance.\n\nThe chairman and CEO of Vivendi Universal announced plans for the museum while accepting the Wiesenthal Center\’s 2002 Humanitarian Award at its national tribute dinner May 2 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.\n

Without a Trace

On five separate occasions — the most recent in February 1997 — 10 more Iranian Jews, ranging in age from 15 to 57, were arrested near the Iranian border and have since disappeared, incarcerated without a trial, imprisoned without word to their respective families.

Caring Never Grows Old

In a corner of the brightly lit dining hall of the Eisenberg Village campus at the Jewish Home for the Aging sit The Three Wise Guys. These three men — Ellis Simon, 77; Hy \”Spike\” Spikell, 93, and Jules Berlinsky, 90 — have formed a friendship so strong that they rate having their own table, No. 56, and they are not the least bit shy about telling you why they love living at the Jewish Home.

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