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BESSER Washington Correspondent W hen former presi- dential candidate Jesse Jackson met with Israel's ambassador in Washington on Sunday to discuss the troubled state of black-Jewish relations, of- ficial word was that the meeting came at the request of the Jackson team, which is working hard to set the stage for the civil rights leaders' continuing role on the na= tional political scene. But according to several sources close to the Israeli embassy,' the Jerusalem gov- ernment was at least as eager for the meeting — in part because officials were con- cerned about the lack of dialogue between American Jewish groups and the Jack- son forces. The meeting, which partici- pants described as intense but amicable, addressed issues including the quest for peace in the Middle East, Israeli-South African rela- tions and the controversy over the Black Hebrews rights to Israeli citizenship. According to some, the meeting will be a big plus for the Democrats in the Novem- ber election by neutralizing the "Jackson factor" — the belief, encouraged by Jewish Republicans, that the Democrats have surrendered to anti-Israel forces. Jewish Groups Pushing Hate Statistics Bill g ivin g than' your time, Vi giving life, Gabriel Kapla Nationat cria — TIME•• LOCAL CF CHA This space contributed as a public service. , 2R FRIDAY AUGEIST 1-2. 1988- The bill to mandate the col- lection of statistics on crimes motivated by religious or racial bigotry — a high domestic priority for a wide range of Jewish groups — has run into another potential roadblock. But a number of Jewish groups are playing "beat the clock" to ensure that a rumored amendment to the bill by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) does not make it into the final legislation. Grassley supposedly wants the bill to include statistics on labor violence, a move that most Jewish groups say is ex- traneous to the bill. "We're very much opposed to this kind of change," said one congressional staffer who has been working on the bill. "The whole point has been to sharpen the focus of the leg- islation. This potential Moshe Arad: Eager. amendment dilutes the bill by introducing an entirely dif- ferent category of crime." The American Jewish Com- mittee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti: Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith will be pressing hard this week to nip the Grassley amendment in the bud. How Is Israel Faring On Hill? According to the popular thinking, constituent mail to congressional offices can be a good measure of changing sentiment in the country. Despite claims by some speakers on the pro-Israel cir- cuit that anti-Israel mail is on the upswing, most offices report little mail on the Mid- dle East. "Back in January, we were seeing a tremendous increase in mail critical of Israel," said one Jewish activist who works for a member of Con- gress. "Many of (letters) were coming from Jews. But it tapered off; in the last few months, there's been very lit- tle of it." What we do get seems to be more pro than anti — by a small margin." Jewish senators and representatives seem to be be receiving more mail critical of Israel from Jewish consti- tuents than their non-Jewish colleagues. But no offices con- tacted indicated any kind of significant upsurge in critical mail. Accords Amendment Defeated As expected, Sen. James A. McClure (R-ID) last week tried again to toughen the re- quirements for between Washington and Moscow. The McClure amendment would make full Soviet com- pliance with the Helsinki accords on human rights a pre-condition of improved trade relations between Washington and Moscow. Most Soviet Jewry activists object to McClure's proposal because they feel it would set unrealistically high stan- dards on the Soviet government. Last week, McClure's attempt to tack the amend- ment on to the trade bill fail- ed by a resounding vote. Soviet Jewry activists were surprised Sen Arlen Specter's vote for the amendment. In the past, Specter has voted with the conservative hard- liners — a move that some analysts see as an attempt to win points with conservative constituents on a measure that had little chance in the first place. AJC Supports Scientologists' IRS Appeal In one of the stranger alliances of recent days, the American Jewish Congress has gone to bat before the Supreme Court for the Church of Scientology. The AJC has filed a "friend of the court" brief supporting the church's appeal of an IRS ruling which will not allow tax deduction of payment for courses offered by the church. "This could have implica- tions for other religious groups," said Steve Silbiger, AJC Washington represen- tative. "If you rule that these courses are not tax deducti- ble, you open up a door." The ruling, he said, may create problems for Jews who deduct the cost of High Holidays tickets. The Court is expected to take up the Scientology mat- ter soon after its return to Washington in October. z Kuwait Sale Set To Pass Washington (JTA) — The Reagan administration said Monday it was pleased that its prposed $1.9 billion arms sale can now go ahead, since the 30-day period by which Congress could have blocked the sale expired Sunday. State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said that Kuwait has ac- cepted the compromise reach- ed between the administra- tion and Congress. N