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ver since it passed two years
ago, Jewish leaders who
pressed hard for a tough
federal anti-terrorism law
have been nervously waiting for its
first major court challenge.
Now it appears that the test will
come in Los Angeles, where the U.S.
Court of Appeals will decide a case
challenging the most controversial
provisions of the Anti-Terrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act.
Those provisions prohibit foreign
groups designated as terrorist organi-
zations from receiving funds and other
material support from allies in this
country.
The provision was written into the
law to prevent American affiliates of
Hamas and other Mideast terrorist
groups from raising money here,
ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.
Leaders of groups such as the Anti-
Defamation League and the Confer-
ence of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations argued that the
money was fungible — that despite
the benign claims of the fund-raisers,
it was often used for terrorist purpos-
es, or for supporting the families of
terrorists.
But Arab-American and civil liber-
ties groups said the law represents a
sweeping civil rights violation.
The challenge was brought by
American supporters of the Tamil
Tigers and the Kurdistan Workers
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The Christian Coalition calls its
Washington gathering the "Road to
Victory" conference, but it opened last
Friday with a stinging defeat.
As delegates gathered to hear a long
list of Republican heavy hitters, as well
as political preachers and a solitary
rabbi — Daniel Lapin of "Toward
Tradition" — the Senate failed to
override President Clinton's veto of a
bill banning "partial birth" abortions.
The coalition and other groups had
pulled out all the stops in pressing for
an override; there was widespread
speculation on Capitol Hill that the
vote was scheduled on Friday to coin-
cide with the group's Capitol Hill lob-
bying blitz.
A number of Jewish groups, led by
the National Council of Jewish
Women, were on the other side.
NCJW, along with the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, the
Rabbinical Assembly and others, col-
lected the signatures of 729 rabbis on
a letter arguing against the ban and
making the case that many people of
faith do not agree with the Christian
Coalition's vehement anti-abortion
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last week, the override effort failed by
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on both sides, no votes had changed
since the original passage of the bill
more than a year ago.
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Coalition leaders to punish those leg-
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failure, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-
Calif.). On the night before the vote,.
Ms. Boxer read from the rabbis' letter
on the Senate floor.
The nine Jewish Democratic sena-
tors all voted against the override;
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the
only Republican, voted for it.
Liberal Jewish activists were pleased
with the results.
"The vote held," said Sammie
Moshenberg, NCJW's Washington
director. "We have no illusions that
this issue won't resurface pretty quick-
ly,in the new Congress, but we're grat-
ified that a sufficient number of sena-
tors understand that this issue is about
real women's lives; there's too much at
stake for political posturing."
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