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District Court
Dismisses Lawsuit
New York (JTA) - A U.S.
District Court here dismiss-
ed a lawsuit brought by Jews
for Jesus against the Jewish
Community Relations Coun-
cil of New York.
Jews for Jesus sued the
JCRC because the
Stevensville Hotel, a glatt-
kosher resort in Liberty,
N.Y., which has since closed,
did not permit the Hebrew-
Christian organization to
hold its 1987 annual gather-
ing there after JCRC direc-
tor Michael Miller told the
hotel's president that Jewish
groups would no longer
patronize the establishment
if Jews for Jesus did.
Agudath Israel of
America, which was
scheduled to hold its annual
convention there a few days
after the Jews for Jesus
gathering in November
1987, was ready to cancel its
reservations once it learned
of the missionary group's
plans. But Stevensville's
president cancelled the con-
tract with Jews for Jesus
and returned the group's de-
posit.
Jews for Jesus sued the
JCRC in March 1988, alleg-
ing a conspiracy to violate
the group's civil rights.
In his ruling, Judge
Richard Owen of United
States District Court in the
Southern District of New
York ruled that the JCRC's
efforts were protected by the
First Amendment.
The JCRC's efforts were
"definitely not an unlawful
economic boycott," he said.
Judge Owen acknowl-
edged, in his opinion, that
"Jews for Jesus is an
`evangelistic missionary
society' whose followers,
Jews and non-Jews alike,
believe that Jesus was the
Messiah, a belief that con-
flicts with traditional Jew-
ish doctrine."
The "JCRC, among other
Jewish organizations, feels
that Jews for Jesus uses
deceptive tactics in pro-
moting its doctrine, and, in
particular, that Jews for
Jesus missionaries
fraudulently and
misleadingly use Jewish
symbols to associate them-
selves with Judaism and to
attract followers," he said.
The lawyer for Jews for
Jesus, Jay Alan Sekulow,
said that the group will
"definitely" appeal the deci-
sion to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Se-
cond Circuit, and to the
Supreme Court. It is also
considering filing the suit in
the state courts, and possibly
refiling it in Federal District
Court on procedural
grounds, he said.
Jews for Jesus was found-
ed 21 years ago by Moishe
Rosen, a Jew who converted
to Christianity in the early
1950s and was ordained a
Baptist minister in 1957.
The group, which answers
its San Francisco head-
quarters telephone with the
greeting "Shalom," has been
condemned by Jewish and
Christian leaders for its
mixture of rabbinic Judaism
with Christian tenets, and
for its tactics, which have
been called harmful, decep-
tive and divisive.
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Must Return Pay
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Former
Bank Leumi Chairman Ern-
st Japhet must return part of
the inflated severance pay
he arranged for himself
when he was forced to resign
in 1986, the Tel Aviv
District Court ruled last
week.
The court also cut his pen-
sion in half
It acted on a suit filed by
Bank Leumi, one of Israel's
largest banks, to recover at
least part of the retirement
benefits accruing to its
former chief executive offi-
cer, who was implicated in
the 1983 bank shares scan-
dal.
The court ordered Mr.
Japhet to return $2.5 million
of the $4.4 million severance
package he extracted from a
compliant board of directors.
Judge Michael Ben-Yair
also reduced Mr. Japhet's
annual pension from
$68,000 to $34,000.
In 1986, a special commis-
sion of inquiry, headed by
Chaim Beisky of the High
Court of Justice, found collu-
sion between the heads of
the country's largest banks
to artificially inflate the
price of the shares while the
public was kept unaware of
their rapidly diminishing
value.
Bank Leumi will recoup
the amount awarded it by
the court by debiting his
monthly pension.
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