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Latest news briefs from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
(JTA) - Israel kills nine terrorists
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank. Commandos raided Nablus before dawn Wednesday, killing four Al-Aksa Brigade fugitives and a bomb maker from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a shootout. In the afternoon, an Israeli undercover unit ambushed and killed four suspected terrorists who were meeting in an industrial zone north of Jenin. Witnesses said Israeli troops fired on Palestinians who threw stones at them in Nablus, killing an 11-year-old girl. The army said it was investigating.
(JTA) - Some settlers to take the cash
Approximately 100 settler families reportedly have applied for relocation packages under Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. Ha'aretz said Wednesday that the families had contacted Israeli government representatives about payouts of between $200,000 and $500,000 that could begin as early as next week for settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip or four West Bank communities. The Security Cabinet approved the relocation budget on Tuesday, and it is expected to be ratified by the Knesset in November.
(JTA) - Security upped at French Jewish sites
France stepped up security at Jewish sites for the High Holidays. The increased security comes after France's interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, said 160 violent anti-Semitic acts had been reported in the first six months of 2004, compared to 75 such acts in the same period of 2003, Agence- France Presse reported. "Everybody is getting ready for this period of spiritual gatherings against a background of worry," Moise Cohen, a French Jewish official, was quoted as saying.
(JTA) - Putin: Happy New Year
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Rosh Hashanah greetings to Russian Jews. "Today, Russia is experiencing difficult and dramatic times," reads the letter given Wednesday to Berel Lazar, one of Russia's two chief rabbis. "I am sure that the people of Russia must oppose the terrible threat of terrorism with unity, solidarity, civil responsibility and, of course, superhuman spiritual values, revered by people of all nationalities and religions." The letter continued: "During the days of Rosh Hashanah, it is usual to not only recall the year that has just passed, but also to look ahead with plans for the future. I want to extend a traditional wish to the Jews of Russia: Have a Happy and Sweet year!"
(JTA) - Israeli objectors released
Five Israeli conscientious objectors were released from prison Wednesday after having their sentences reduced. The five Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Noam Bahat, Shimri Tzameret and Adam Maor had served some two years in military and civilian prisons, including 10 months in an army camp. "We were in prison for almost two years because our moral belief prohibits us from being part of an army occupying another people and destroying Israeli society, and we come to Yom Kippur with a clean heart," Tzameret said on the eve of his release.
(JTA) - Israelis ambivalent about synagogue
Some 40 percent of Jews in Israel intend to go to synagogue on the High Holidays, according to a survey. But the survey by the Israeli Reform Movement's Center for Jewish Pluralism says 22 percent of those interviewed said they would go to a synagogue on only one of the two holidays, and 37 percent said they would not go to synagogue at all on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. Sixty-four percent of those who define themselves as secular said they would not go to a synagogue over the holidays. The survey also indicates that 13 percent of those who intend to go to shul will pray in one of the 60 non-Orthodox synagogues of the Reform or Conservative movements in Israel.
(JTA) - Jews, Arabs clean up act
Jews and Arabs will clean up neighborhoods across Israel next week. The Jewish National Fund is coordinating the Sept. 20 effort in Israel, part of the Clean Up the World program. Some 40 million people in 128 countries are expected to participate in the international effort, including about 30,000 Israelis.
(JTA) - ADL helps N.Y. 'peace' school
The Anti-Defamation League is providing curriculum and training to a New York school focused on peace and diversity. The group's A World of Difference Institute is offering teacher training, and peer leadership training to staff, students and families at the Peace and Diversity Academy in the Bronx. The school opened this month with 100 ninth-grade students, and is slated to add 100 students each year.
(JTA) - Free services!
Two listings offer a guide to free Jewish prayer services for the High Holidays. A list of services from different denominations is available at www.ujc.org, and a listing of free Chabad services is at www.chabad.org.
(JTA) - Candidates send Rosh Hashanah greetings
President Bush and his presidential opponent, Sen. John Kerry (D- Mass.), issued Rosh Hashanah messages to the Jewish community. "As you share in the traditional festivities of this special time of year, you renew your commitment to acts of compassion, and to the cause of freedom around the world," President Bush said in his message, released Tuesday. "Together, all of us are helping to build a world filled with the blessings of family, health, and peace." Kerry used the occasion to stress his support for Israel. "Particularly in uncertain times like these we must reaffirm and indeed strengthen our special relationship with Israel, our most steadfast friend and ally in the region," Kerry said. "Israel's cause must be America's cause."
(JTA) - Jihad terrorists killed
Israeli commandos killed a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank. The Islamic Jihad fugitive was shot in a clash Tuesday with special forces in Nur a-Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm. An accomplice barricaded himself in a home, prompting Israeli forces to demolish the building when he refused to emerge. The second terrorist's condition was not immediately known.
(JTA) - Group backs benefits for gay couples
The American Jewish Committee voted to endorse giving legal benefits to gay and lesbian couples who enter into civil unions. The group's Board of Governors made the decision Monday. Like most liberal Jewish groups, the AJCommittee already has stated its opposition to a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment restricting marriage to heterosexual couples. Orthodox groups back the proposed amendment.
(JTA) - Rabbi: I'd lead anti-Sharon ceremony
An Israeli rabbi said he would be willing to hold a mystical ceremony supposed to lead to the death of Ariel Sharon. Yosef Dayan, from the West Bank settlement of Pesagot, said this week that if asked he would hold a "pulsa denura" ceremony against the Israeli prime minister, who is planning to withdraw Israeli soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip and four west Bank settlements next year. Dayan held a similar ceremony before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
(JTA) - Righteous Gentile still righteous
Israel's High Court rejected a petition to strip a Ukranian man of his title of Righteous Gentile. The court said Tuesday that the court was not the right place to determine whether Stefan Wrzemczuk deserved the accolade, given by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial to those who helped save Jews during the Holocaust. Survivors say Wrzemczuk lied when he claimed that he helped his mother lead Jews out of the Ludmir Ghetto to the protection of partisans in the surrounding forests. Wrzemczuk currently lives in Israel.
(JTA) - Jewish photographers out of Madonna's retreat
Jewish photographers were asked to stay away from Madonna's spiritual retreat in Israel during Rosh Hashanah. Organizers of the Kabbalah Center said Jewish photographers would not be allowed to photograph the retreat because they don't want to encourage Jews to break Shabbat, Agence France-Presse reported. Madonna has become increasingly interested in Jewish mysticism in recent years, and now reportedly goes by the name Esther and observes Shabbat.
(JTA) - Mayim, mayim
The Jewish National Fund received a grant from the U.S. Forest Service. The grant, the second the JNF has received from the forest service, will provide water monitoring kits to U.S. Jewish schools and schools in Israel to participate in World Water Monitoring Day. The program encourages students to test water in areas around them for pollution between Sept. 18 and Oct. 18. The information then will be entered in a global database. JTA END
(JTA) - Israel kills nine terrorists
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank. Commandos raided Nablus before dawn Wednesday, killing four Al-Aksa Brigade fugitives and a bomb maker from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a shootout. In the afternoon, an Israeli undercover unit ambushed and killed four suspected terrorists who were meeting in an industrial zone north of Jenin. Witnesses said Israeli troops fired on Palestinians who threw stones at them in Nablus, killing an 11-year-old girl. The army said it was investigating.
(JTA) - Some settlers to take the cash
Approximately 100 settler families reportedly have applied for relocation packages under Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. Ha'aretz said Wednesday that the families had contacted Israeli government representatives about payouts of between $200,000 and $500,000 that could begin as early as next week for settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip or four West Bank communities. The Security Cabinet approved the relocation budget on Tuesday, and it is expected to be ratified by the Knesset in November.
(JTA) - Security upped at French Jewish sites
France stepped up security at Jewish sites for the High Holidays. The increased security comes after France's interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, said 160 violent anti-Semitic acts had been reported in the first six months of 2004, compared to 75 such acts in the same period of 2003, Agence- France Presse reported. "Everybody is getting ready for this period of spiritual gatherings against a background of worry," Moise Cohen, a French Jewish official, was quoted as saying.
(JTA) - Putin: Happy New Year
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Rosh Hashanah greetings to Russian Jews. "Today, Russia is experiencing difficult and dramatic times," reads the letter given Wednesday to Berel Lazar, one of Russia's two chief rabbis. "I am sure that the people of Russia must oppose the terrible threat of terrorism with unity, solidarity, civil responsibility and, of course, superhuman spiritual values, revered by people of all nationalities and religions." The letter continued: "During the days of Rosh Hashanah, it is usual to not only recall the year that has just passed, but also to look ahead with plans for the future. I want to extend a traditional wish to the Jews of Russia: Have a Happy and Sweet year!"
(JTA) - Israeli objectors released
Five Israeli conscientious objectors were released from prison Wednesday after having their sentences reduced. The five Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Noam Bahat, Shimri Tzameret and Adam Maor had served some two years in military and civilian prisons, including 10 months in an army camp. "We were in prison for almost two years because our moral belief prohibits us from being part of an army occupying another people and destroying Israeli society, and we come to Yom Kippur with a clean heart," Tzameret said on the eve of his release.
(JTA) - Israelis ambivalent about synagogue
Some 40 percent of Jews in Israel intend to go to synagogue on the High Holidays, according to a survey. But the survey by the Israeli Reform Movement's Center for Jewish Pluralism says 22 percent of those interviewed said they would go to a synagogue on only one of the two holidays, and 37 percent said they would not go to synagogue at all on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. Sixty-four percent of those who define themselves as secular said they would not go to a synagogue over the holidays. The survey also indicates that 13 percent of those who intend to go to shul will pray in one of the 60 non-Orthodox synagogues of the Reform or Conservative movements in Israel.
(JTA) - Jews, Arabs clean up act
Jews and Arabs will clean up neighborhoods across Israel next week. The Jewish National Fund is coordinating the Sept. 20 effort in Israel, part of the Clean Up the World program. Some 40 million people in 128 countries are expected to participate in the international effort, including about 30,000 Israelis.
(JTA) - ADL helps N.Y. 'peace' school
The Anti-Defamation League is providing curriculum and training to a New York school focused on peace and diversity. The group's A World of Difference Institute is offering teacher training, and peer leadership training to staff, students and families at the Peace and Diversity Academy in the Bronx. The school opened this month with 100 ninth-grade students, and is slated to add 100 students each year.
(JTA) - Free services!
Two listings offer a guide to free Jewish prayer services for the High Holidays. A list of services from different denominations is available at www.ujc.org, and a listing of free Chabad services is at www.chabad.org.
(JTA) - Candidates send Rosh Hashanah greetings
President Bush and his presidential opponent, Sen. John Kerry (D- Mass.), issued Rosh Hashanah messages to the Jewish community. "As you share in the traditional festivities of this special time of year, you renew your commitment to acts of compassion, and to the cause of freedom around the world," President Bush said in his message, released Tuesday. "Together, all of us are helping to build a world filled with the blessings of family, health, and peace." Kerry used the occasion to stress his support for Israel. "Particularly in uncertain times like these we must reaffirm and indeed strengthen our special relationship with Israel, our most steadfast friend and ally in the region," Kerry said. "Israel's cause must be America's cause."
(JTA) - Jihad terrorists killed
Israeli commandos killed a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank. The Islamic Jihad fugitive was shot in a clash Tuesday with special forces in Nur a-Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm. An accomplice barricaded himself in a home, prompting Israeli forces to demolish the building when he refused to emerge. The second terrorist's condition was not immediately known.
(JTA) - Group backs benefits for gay couples
The American Jewish Committee voted to endorse giving legal benefits to gay and lesbian couples who enter into civil unions. The group's Board of Governors made the decision Monday. Like most liberal Jewish groups, the AJCommittee already has stated its opposition to a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment restricting marriage to heterosexual couples. Orthodox groups back the proposed amendment.
(JTA) - Rabbi: I'd lead anti-Sharon ceremony
An Israeli rabbi said he would be willing to hold a mystical ceremony supposed to lead to the death of Ariel Sharon. Yosef Dayan, from the West Bank settlement of Pesagot, said this week that if asked he would hold a "pulsa denura" ceremony against the Israeli prime minister, who is planning to withdraw Israeli soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip and four west Bank settlements next year. Dayan held a similar ceremony before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
(JTA) - Righteous Gentile still righteous
Israel's High Court rejected a petition to strip a Ukranian man of his title of Righteous Gentile. The court said Tuesday that the court was not the right place to determine whether Stefan Wrzemczuk deserved the accolade, given by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial to those who helped save Jews during the Holocaust. Survivors say Wrzemczuk lied when he claimed that he helped his mother lead Jews out of the Ludmir Ghetto to the protection of partisans in the surrounding forests. Wrzemczuk currently lives in Israel.
(JTA) - Jewish photographers out of Madonna's retreat
Jewish photographers were asked to stay away from Madonna's spiritual retreat in Israel during Rosh Hashanah. Organizers of the Kabbalah Center said Jewish photographers would not be allowed to photograph the retreat because they don't want to encourage Jews to break Shabbat, Agence France-Presse reported. Madonna has become increasingly interested in Jewish mysticism in recent years, and now reportedly goes by the name Esther and observes Shabbat.
(JTA) - Mayim, mayim
The Jewish National Fund received a grant from the U.S. Forest Service. The grant, the second the JNF has received from the forest service, will provide water monitoring kits to U.S. Jewish schools and schools in Israel to participate in World Water Monitoring Day. The program encourages students to test water in areas around them for pollution between Sept. 18 and Oct. 18. The information then will be entered in a global database. JTA END
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