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League battled with the Christian Right.
A convicted spy for Israel, Jonathan Pol-
lard, remained in jail when President
Clinton refused to commute his sentence.
With the Senate's confirmation of
Stephen Breyer's appointment, two Jews
sat on the Supreme Court for the first
time since 1938.
And fractured black-Jewish relations
dominated headlines that threatened to
permanently spread out into branches
the two communities. From almost one

end of the year to the other, mentioning
blacks and Jews meant mentioning black
separatist Louis Farrakhan: The Con-
gressional Black Caucus made a "scared
covenant" with him last fall, his nation-
al spokesman called Jews "hooknosed...
bloodsuckers" a few months later, and
his attendance at the NAACP's nation-
al black leadership summit in June drove
one of the worst wedges between blacks
and Jews since Jesse Jackson called New
York "Hymietown" in 1984.