Around The Nation

Shoah Foundation
President Ousted

Bard Acquitted
In Split Decision

Los Angeles (JTA)
Stephen Spielberg's Shoah Foundation
removed as its president Michael
Berenbaum, who joined the group
after heading the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum's research institute.
Berenbaum, who led the founda-
tion as it gathered thousands of
videotaped interviews from
Holocaust survivors, was reportedly
asked to step down because of fund-
raising problems and continuing crit-
icism by scholars over the quality of
the 50,000 interviews. He will serve
as a consultant and pursue other
research projects, officials from the
foundation said.

Washington
In a 7-5 decision, a 12-person jury,
with Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg presiding, has ruled
that while there may be anti-Semitic
elements in The Merchant of Venice,
William Shakespeare's intent was not to
cause harm, ridicule or injury to Jews.
The ruling came at a mock trial
June 3 sponsored by the Lawyers
Committee for the Shakespeare
Theatre in preparation for the theater's
performance of the play.
Defenders of the play argued that
while it does express anti-Semitism,
that does not mean Shakespeare
endorsed those sentiments.
Shakespeare may have wanted to por-
tray Shylock as a "bad Jew and bad
human," they said, but his intent was
not to incite harm to Jews in England.
Opponents countered that
Shakespeare was "commercially com-
petitive" and would logically have
appealed to the anti-Jewish feelings of
the audience, since other playwrights
were doing the same. They cited pre-
eminent Shakespeare scholar Harold
Bloom, who has written that one
would have to be "blind, deaf and
dumb" to not see the anti-Semitism of
the play.
— Washington Jewish Week

Kippot Alternative
For Women

San Francisco
After a year of soul-searching, study
and research, textile artist Jamie
Hyams has developed a head cover-
ing for non-Orthodox women: vel-
vet headbands carrying Hebrew
inscriptions.
Married Orthodox women from
some sects cover their hair or wear a
wig called a sheitl for reasons of mod-
esty-. But Hyams; a community pro-
grams director for the Jewish
Federation of the Greater East Bay,
wanted to allow women to express
their dedication to Judaism with an
alternative kind of head cover.
Hyams said the idea for creating
headgear began to take shape last
June during a religious retreat in
Snowbird, Utah. Little had been
written on the subject, she found, so
she began to consult rabbis about
the options.
Her final bit of inspiration struck
when "a girlfriend of mine took me
into a boutique her 14-year-old
daughter shops at. I saw all these won-
derful velvet headbands."
Now Hyams crafts her headbands,
then pens or brushes on Hebrew
phrases like Laasot dvarai Torah, (to
interact with words of Torah).
"A lot of women like to wear this
one to Torah study," she said.

— Jewish. Bulletin
of Northern California

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San Francisco
A new interfaith institute is being
established here, an outgrowth of the
University of San Francisco's Jewish
studies program.
The Jesuit-run university will inau-
gurate its Flannery-Hyatt Institute for
Interfaith Understanding with a sym-
posium next March.
Functioning primarily to host an
annual conference on Jewish-Christian
relations, the institute will further the
work of the late David Hyatt. Before his
death in 1992, Hyatt, a Catholic, cham-
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National Conference of Christians and
Jews and the International Council of
Christians and Jews.
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