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Yeltsin May Visit
The West Bank
Court Hears
Church-State Case
Moscow (JTA) — Russian President
Boris Yeltsin may travel to the West
Bank in January to mark the Eastern
Orthodox celebration of Christmas,
according to Yasser Arafat.
The Palestinian Authority presi-
dent made the comment during a
visit to Moscow after speaking with
Yeltsin by telephone. Yeltsin canceled
a planned meeting with Arafat
because of illness, and Arafat met
with Russian Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin instead.
Washington (JTA) — The U.S. Supreme
Court was scheduled to hear oral argu-
ments in a case that addresses whether
federal funds provided to parochial
schools to purchase computers, software
and library books violates the constitu-
tional separation of church and state.
The case stems from a lawsuit filed
in the early 1980s by parents in
Louisiana.
The court also agreed to decide
whether judges or juries have the
responsibility to impose sentences
under state hate-crime laws.
Anti-Zionists
Praise Farrakhan
New York (JTA) — Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan and leaders
of a religious anti-Zionist group
condemned the "Zionist-controlled
media" and the "Zionist lobby,"
according to the Final Call, the
Nation of Islam's newspaper.
The comments came at the sec-
ond meeting this year between
Farrakhan and leaders of the Neturei
Karta. Rabbi Moshe Beck, who
headed the Neturei Karta delegation,
offered a blessing to Farrakhan gen-
erally reserved for nobility and royal-
ty, and wished him "long life and
healthy years to continue preaching
the truth and doing good deeds,"
according to the newspaper.
At the first meeting in June,
Neturei Karta members appealed to
Farrakhan to intercede on behalf of
13 Jews imprisoned by Iran for spy-
ing for Israel.
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New York (JTA) — New York City
will soon be home to the first
regional office of the National
Jewish Day School Scholarship
Committee, according to the group's
chairman, George Hanus.
Its director, who has not yet been
named, will work with the roughly
275 Jewish day schools and yeshivas in
New York to raise money for endow-
ments. The hope is ultimately subsi-
dizing tuition for any student seeking
a day school education, Hanus said.
He also hopes to eventually open
offices in Miami, Los Angeles,
Baltimore and Texas.
Panel Blasts
Swiss Record
Zurich (JTA) — The Swiss govern-
ment helped the Nazis achieve their
goals, according to an international
panel of historians probing the Alpine
nation's wartime past.
A spokesman for the panel, known as
the Bergier Commission, said this is one
of the major conclusions of its report. A
spokeswoman for the Swiss Foreign
Ministry denied that the government
was angered by the report, which focuses
on Switzerland's treatment of Jewish
refugees during World War II.
In a separate development, a leader
of a right-wing Swiss party plans to try
to replace President Ruth Dreifuss in
the nation's government.
Political observers in Bern said
Christoph Blocher's chances are slim
and denied that Dreifuss' Jewish roots
had anything to do with Blocher's plan.
Jewish Journalists
Are Sued
New York (JTA) — The head of a con-
servative group that has repeatedly
sued the Clinton administration has
filed libel lawsuits against two Jewish
journalists.
Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial
Watch, says he has been unfairly
attacked by the "liberal Jewish intelli-
gentsia" because he is a "Jew who
believes in Christ" and has close ties to
social and economic conservatives.
The lawsuits were filed against
Harvey Berkman of the National Law
Journal and David Segal of the
Washington Post, the Post reported.
Lawyers for the newspapers said the
suits have no merit.