World Briefs

ORT Marking
120 Years

Young Jews
Israel Bound

New York

New York/JTA

ORT, the Organization for
Educational Resources and
Technological Training, will mark its
120th birthday on April 10.
"In an age when 10 years is consid-
ered old for an organization, we're cele-
brating the fact that ORT's mission is as
relevant now as when ORT was estab-
lished by the Jews of St. Petersburg,
Russia," said Andi Wolfe and Sandy
Stark, co-presidents; -Michigan Region,
in a statement. "We've gone from weld-
ing to the Web with the same guiding
philosophy. to provide our students with
the skills for a lifetime of meaningful
and satisfying work."
A world leader in technology educa-
tion, ORT educates 280,000 students in
60 countries. Women's American ORT
is the leading provider of support for
ORT. For information, visit Web sites:
ORTnet at wvvw.ort.org and Women's
American ORT at www.waort.org

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China's President
To Visit Israel

Jerusalem/17A

China's president plans
to visit Israel and the Palestinian self-rule
areas in what will be the first such trip
by a Chinese head of state.
Jiang Zemin will make the visit dur-
ing an April 12-27 trip that will also take
him to Turkey, Greece and South Africa.

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Fifteen-year-old Katie
Fernbach traveled alone across the coun-
try to represent her synagogue at the
fourth annual Leadership Institute of the
Coalition on the Environment and
Jewish Life.
"I came because I wanted to get
my temple more involved in envi-
ronmental issues. As Jewish people,
we can make a difference. Everyone
lives on this earth," said Katie, of
B'nai Or in Morris Plains, N.J. "As
God's people, we need to take a spe-
cial responsibility to take care of cre-
ation."
She joined 169 other Jewish envi-
ronmental activists from the U.S.,
Canada and the United Kingdom in
southern California for the Mark and
Sharon Bloome Jewish Environment
Leadership Training Institute from
March 30 - April 2.

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The Birthright Israel
program plans to send 2,000 young Jews
on free 10-day trips to Israel this summer
after sending 6,000 during the winter.
The trips, which will take place from
mid-May through mid-June, will pri-
marily target people who were on the
waiting list for the winter trip or who
were unable to participate because of
conflicts with their college schedules.

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Chinese Cemetery
Is Reopened

Beijing/JTA

A Jewish cemetery in the
northeastern Chinese city of Harbin has
been cleaned up and reopened, state
media reported.
The reopening came nine days
before Chinese President Jiang Zemin,
begins a trip, to the Middle East that
will include a visit to Israel. At the
start of the 20th century, Harbin was
Jews, who
home Co more than
founded the cemetery in 1903.

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Role Model
For Jesus?

Jerusalem/JTA

A Jewish would-be
messiah named Menachem may have
been a role model for Jesus, according to
an Israeli researcher.
Menachem, a leader of an ancient
Jewish group called the Essenes, saw
himself, as Jesus later did, as the suffer-
ing son of God, writes Israel Knohl, the
head of the Bible Department at the
Hebrew University. Knohl based his
work on the "Thanksgiving Scroll,"
which was found hidden among the
Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Pope Presented
Special Bible

Jerusalem

On his recent trip to
Israel, Pope John Paul II received a
Bible published to commemorate the
75th anniversary of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
The Hebrew University Bible is a
leather-bound edition based on the old-
est known manuscript existing in the
Bible. Inside the copy presented to the
pope is an inscription with a quote from
the Prophet Isaiah, written in Hebrew
and Latin, "My House shall be called a
House of Prayer for all nations."

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