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to try 20 people for the 1994 bombing
of the Jewish community center in
Buenos Aires.
Prosecutors are seeking life sen-
tences for six of the defendants,
including a car thief and five former
policemen.
Investigators said the search is not
over for all those involved in the
attack, which killed 86 people and
injured 300 others.

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O.U. Backs
Boy Scouts

New York (JTA) — The Orthodox
Union is supporting the Boy Scouts of
America in a U.S. Supreme Court case
involving the Scouts' decision to fire a
gay-rights activist as a scoutmaster.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, the
O.U. is backing the Boy Scouts' claim
that a New Jersey Supreme Court deci-
sion in the case violates the group's
First Amendment rights.

No Racists
On Yahoo!?

The Internet portal
New York (JTA)
Yahoo! vowed to remove racist and anti-
semitic clubs from its online system.
The Anti-Defamation League
recently called on Yahoo! to remove
the clubs, saying that by hosting them,
the portal is violating its own rules.

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World Briefs

Athlete Vaults
For The Gold

Israeli pole vaulter
Jerusalem (JTA)
Alexander Averbukh won the gold
medal in the European indoor pole
vaulting championship in Belgium,
raising hopes he could win a medal in
the Olympics.
Averbukh cleared nearly 19 feet in
his first try. He immigrated to Israel
from Russia more than a year ago.

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`Lost' Film
To Be Shown

New York (JTA) — A long-lost docu-
mentary about the pre-World War I
Zionist community is scheduled to be
screened in New York.
The Life of the Jews in Palestine,
which was filmed in Palestine in 1913,
was discovered three years ago in a
French film archive.

The 78-minute film was restored
and shown in Jerusalem in 1998.

Groups Critical
Of Farrakhan

New York (JTA) — American Jewish
groups are outraged at Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan for having an
official with the fervently Orthodox,
anti-Zionist group Neturei Karta speak
at a recent meeting of the Nation of
Islam.
The Midwest regional director of
the American Jewish Committee,
Jonathan Levine, criticized Farrakhan
for "passing off a tiny sect of Jews
best known for equating Zionism
with Nazism as representative of a
new relationship with the Jewish -
community."

Pope Visits
Biblical Ur

Barred by politics from
Rome/JTA
making the trip in person, Pope John
Paul II last week took part in a multi-
media virtual pilgrimage to Ur, the
ancient town in Iraq revered as the
birthplace of the patriarch Abraham.
The 79-year-old pope had wanted
to visit Ur as part of a series of pil-
grimages to biblical sites this year to
mark the beginning of Christianity's
third millennium.
Plans for the Ur trip fell through in
December, when Iraqi officials said
they could not ensure security or ade-
quately organize the visit due to con-
tinuing U.N. sanctions.
On Feb. 16, before 7,000 faithful,
dozens of cardinals and hundreds of
bishops, the pope presided over a cere-
mony that included readings from the
Bible and a film of Ur's desert ruins.
He sat on a red throne on a stage in a
Vatican audience hall.
Torches and two oak trees, plus a
big boulder representing the stone on
which Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac
set the scene.

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U-M Leads In
Jewish Activism

The University of
Ann Arbor
Michigan is the top feeder school to
the Reform and Conservative move-
ments' rabbinical and teaching school
U-M's Jewish enrollment is about
6,000 — 2 percent of all Jewish col-
lege students in North America. The

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