This Week
World Briefs
France Returned
Major Assets
Paris/JTA
More than 90 percent
of the assets seized from Jews under
France's pro-Nazi Vichy regime were
returned or reimbursed after the lib-
eration, according to a government
panel.
The Matteoli Commission, which
issued its report Monday after a
three-year investigation, estimated
the total value of seized Jewish assets
at some $1.26 billion at current
prices.
The World Jewish Congress wel-
comed the report and said it would
work with the French government
and local Jewish officials "to seek
proper moral and material restitu-
tion" of unclaimed assets.
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Interfaith Seder
Held In Russia
Moscow/JTA — More than 400 peo-
ple attended a Passover seder in
Russia in what is believed to be the
first-ever interfaith celebration of
Passover there.
Many Muslim and Christian stu-
dents attended the seder conducted
by a Hillel student group in Ufa, the
capital of the predominantly Muslim
region of Bashkiria.
The Moscow office of the Anti-
Defamation League organized the
seder.
Outreach Group
Expands Mission
New Yrok/JTA
A national Jewish
organization focusing on outreach to
the intermarried is expanding its
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mission from being a "think tank
and a research institute to becoming
a key provider of program services,"
according to its newsletter.
Among its plans, the New York-
based Jewish Outreach Institute now
hopes to launch a "national helpline"
for interfaith couples, sponsor Israel
trips for such couples and to per-
suade Jewish institutions to be more
inclusive of interfaith families.
Camp's Liberation
Is Marked
New York/JTA
Delegations from
18 countries visited Germany to
mark the 55th anniversary of the
liberation of the Sachsenhausen con-
centration camp.
About half of the camp's 200,000
inmates died during the war.
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Catholic Leaders
Extend Apology
New York/JTA = The Catholic
Church of Switzerland apologized
for not doing enough to help Jews
during World War II.
Swiss Catholic bishops said, the
church had not tried to save
refugees, particularly Jews, from the
Holocaust.
Meanwhile, Lithuania's Catholic
Church issued an apology for not
doing enough to prevent the mas-
sacre of some 220,000 Jews during
the 1941-44 Nazi occupation. "We
are sorry the church did not show
enough resistance in times when
nationalist egoism was overtaking
the values of the Bible," said a state-
ment that was signed by the nation's
archbishop.
Corrections & Clarifications
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to Israel.chairman, served in the same role two years ago, but did not chair the
first mission in 1996 ("Getting Ready," April 14). Also, the age range for teen
mission participants is generally 15 to 17 years old, not 13 to 17.
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The "Hangin' Out" story (April 14) mistakenly said that Eli Kaplansky
owned a linen business. Mr. Kaplansky worked for a linen business.
A recipe for Passover mandelbread (April 14, page 124) had a missing ingre-
dient. The recipe needs a 1/2 cup of orange juice.
The national tour of Burn the Floor, scheduled to play at Detroit's Fox
Theatre April 25-30 (see this week's Out & About" column on page 82),
has been cancelled. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
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