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Lower Prices New York (JTA) — Leaders of the Haitian corn- munity in the United States are applauding Jewish groups that have called on President Bush to permit Haitian refugees fleeing military dictatorship to reside freely, at least tem- porarily, in the United States. In the more than 10 weeks since a military coup depos- ed democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sept. 30, nearly 7,000 Haitians have fled their native Caribbean island. Traveling in small boats and carrying nothing but the clothes on their backs, most have been plucked out of the water by U.S. Coast Guard cutters and sent to Guan- tanamo Bay, Cuba, where they are being detained in military camps at a naval base. Hundreds of refugees have drowned attempting to escape from Haiti, according to Jocelyn McCalla, ex- ecutive director of the Na- tional Coalition for Haitian Refugees. The Bush administration would like to return the refugees to Haiti, but on Dec. 3 was temporarily re- strained from doing so by U.S. District Judge Clyde Atkins of the Southern District of Florida. That rul- ing has been appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Ap- peals, in Atlanta. Whatever the results of that appeal, a further appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is expected. A statement of support for the plight of the refugees came first from a coalition of Chasidic groups in Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Boro Park, Brooklyn. It was soon followed by statements from organiza- tions including the Ameri- can Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Jewish Labor Corn- mittee, New York Jewish Community Relations Coun- cil and the Institute for Public Affairs of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con- gregations of America. And two Jews spoke to a crowd of 3,000 Haitians at a rally in Washington on Dec. 13: Gary Rubin, director of national affairs for the American Jewish Corn- mittee, and Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. In statements and speeches, all of the Jewish groups have called upon President Bush to provide the refugees safe haven in the United States by gran- ting them temporary pro- tected status, allowing them to live and work in this country legally until the po- litical crisis in Haiti is resolved. The Jewish organizations' statements of concern for the refugees were welcomed by Haitian leaders here. "We are happy to see that the Jewish community rec- ognizes that we Haitian peo- ple, even though we are black and poor, we are peo- ple, too. There is no double standard," said Philippe Wilson Desir, general consul in New York of the Republic of Haiti. - "I'm very pleased by the kind of support that the Hai- A statement of support for the plight of the refugees came first from a coalition of Chasidic groups in Crown Heights, ,Williamsburg and Boro Park. tians have gotten from Jew- ish groups all over the spec- trum," said Ms. McCalla. "It's essential that the Jew- ish community demonstrate this support." "Haitians feel like the Jewish community is the one that can relate to it and is responding," said Mr. Rubin. But while Jewish statements of support are important as humanitarian gestures, he said, they are not going to do much to heal rifts in the black-Jewish re- lationship. "We shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking this is the front-burner issue in black-Jewish relations," Mr. Rubin said. That relationship "will be made more on domestic so- cial issues," he said. "As a coalition issue, this is more of a high priority for some of the church groups. It's not in the top tier of issues for blacks." But the statement made by the historically insular Chasidic communities, espe- cially by the Lubavitchers in Crown Heights, made an