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March 31, 2000 - Image 39

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The Detroit Jewish News, 2000-03-31

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Steven F. Zatkin

Museum Exhibits
Nazi-Looted Art

New York/JTA — The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York admitted
that it has a Nazi-looted painting in its
collection. Museum officials said the
Nazis likely looted "Guardroom With
the Deliverance of Saint Peter," by the
17th-century Flemish painter David
Teniers the Younger, in Vienna in 1938.

Iranian Ban
Partially Lifted

movement should redouble efforts to
welcome the non-Jewish spouses of
Jewish partners and children of inter-
married couples, said the leader of the
movement's Jewish Theological
Seminary.
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch made his
comments at the 100th anniversary
meeting of the movement's Rabbinical
Assembly in Philadelphia. "We are the
only branch of Judaism that carries
out serious conversion practices," said
Rabbi Schorsch. "We do not offer
conversions like you apply for a credit
card or country club membership."

Austria/JTA — Officials in the
Austrian town where Hitler was born
announced plans to turn his birth-
place into a "center of international
understanding."
The officials at Braunau am Inn
said they took the move because they
were stung by international criticism
over the recent inclusion of the right-
wing Freedom Party in Austria's gov-
ernment.

Eichmann Files N ay
Aid Shoah. Victims

Boarding School
Coeducational

Jerusalem/JTA — German officials
reportedly found thousands of files from
the Vienna office of Nazi war criminal
Adolf Eichmann dating back to 1938.
Eichmann followed Hitler's army into
Austria that year and launched an antise-
mitic campaign. His files are expected to
fuel the ongoing debate in Austria over
compensating Holocaust victims for
their loss of property, according to the
German news magazine Der Spiegel.

Greensboro/JTA — A coeducational
Jewish boarding high school, modeled
on prep schools like Exeter and
Andover, is scheduled to open in the
fall of 2001 in Greensboro, N.C.
Funded by anonymous donors and
headed by Alvin Mars, an educator
who used to direct the Conservative
movement's Camp Ramah in
California, the American Hebrew
Academy expects to enroll 40 to 50
students in its first year.

the most frequent Internet shoppers in
the United States, according to a poll.
In a survey of nearly 4,000 people
conducted by Zogby Culture Polls,
U.S. Jews ranked highest, with 42.3
percent saying they shop online. Asian
Americans were next at 39.8 percent.

Non-Jewish
Spouses 'Welcome

Philadelphia/JTA — The Conservative

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Hitler Birthplace
To Aid In Learning

Washington/JTA — As a goodwill ges-
ture toward newly elected reformers in
Iran's government, U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright announced a
lifting of a ban on imports of Iranian
pistachios, caviar and carpets.
She also said U.S. officials would
closely watch the upcoming trial of 13
Iranian Jews accused of espionage as
"one of the barometers of U.S.-Iran
relations." However, advocates for the
13 criticized the move, saying the U.S.
should not make any concessions until
the Jews are released.

Jews Are Top
Shoppers On 'Net
Washington/JTA — American Jews are

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Pollard Focus
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New York/JTA — One of the stars of
television's "Seinfeld" is taking on the
role of a spy for Israel. Jason
Alexander, who appeared as George
Costanza in the NBC hit, is slated to
play Jonathan Pollard in an upcoming
film on the Showtime network.
Pollard is currently serving a life
sentence in the United States for spy-
ing for the Jewish state. Alexander has
been active in the past on behalf of
the Anti-Defamation League and the
American Jewish Committee.

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