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Greenberg Likely
To Head Council

Washington (JTA) — President Clinton
plans to appoint Rabbi Irving "Yitz"
Greenberg to serve as chairman of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council,
according to a White House source.
The appointment is expected to be
announced after a background check is
completed, the source said.
A theologian who has written about
the Holocaust's impact on religion,
Greenberg would succeed Miles Lerman,
who told Clinton he would step down
as soon as a successor is, appointed.

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Researchers
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Jerusalem (JTA) — For what is believed
to be the first time, Israeli researchers
observed gallstones as they were form-
ing. The development may help physi-
cians learn how to inhibit their growth,
according to researchers at the Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
The researchers, who conducted the
observations using two state-of-the-art
microscopy systems, plan to publish
their findings in the February 2000
issue of the journal Hepatology.

Divorce Rate
High In Israel

Jerusalem (JTA) — The- divorce rate in
Israel now stands at nearly one out of
every three couples, rabbinical court
officials said this week. Court director
Rabbi El Ben-Dahan said some 30,000
couples married in Israel in 1999,
while 8,604 couples divorced.
As in previous years, the greatest
number of divorces, 3,016, were grant-
ed in Tel Aviv, compared with 2,494
the previous year.

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Jerusalem (JTA) — Some 10,000
members of the Chabad Lubavitch
movement gathered Jan. 18 at a Tel
Aviv stadium to mark the 50th
anniversary of the late Rebbe
Menachem Mendel Schneerson's
becoming the movement's leader.
The anniversary also commemorates
the death of Schneerson's predecessor,
his father-in-law, Rebbe Yosef Yitzhak
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