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London/JTA The director of the
documentary Shoah pulled out of a
Holocaust conference because a con-
troversial American academic was
also invited to speak.
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann
objected to the presence of Norman
Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust
Industry, which charges that Jewish
groups have blackmailed European
nations to pay the victims of the
Nazis.
The organizer of Britain's
Remembering for the Future confer-
ence, Elisabeth Maxwell, was also
upset that Finkelstein was on the
program. She said he was invited
without her knowledge or permis-
sion.

Rabbi Criticized
For Making Threat

New York/JTA — The Orthodox
Union criticized a rabbi who said
Jewish law might allow Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, D-Conn., to be assassi-
nated for not supporting the imme-
diate release of convicted spy
Jonathan Pollard.
According to the New Haven
Register, Rabbi Mordechai Freedman
of the American Board of Rabbis also
called Lieberman a "traitor" for not
doing more for Pollard, a former
naval intelligence analyst who is serv-
ing a life sentence for passing secret
U.S. military information to Israel.

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New York/JTA — A 19-year-old
woman filed a criminal complaint-of
sexual misconduct against a former
Orthodox youth group professional
who allegedly molested or harassed
teenagers over several decades.
The complaint that Rabbi Baruch
Lanner molested the student while
serving as principal of a Monmouth
County, N.J., Jewish day school in
1995 could lead to criminal charges.
Rabbi Lanner recently resigned
from the Orthodox Union's National
Conference on Synagogue Youth
after similar allegations were made in
an article in the New York Jewish

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Emeth in Highland Park, N.J., with-
drew from the O.U. to protest the
Lanner case, following another syna-
gogue's secession last month.

Cereal Bibles
Called A Mistake

New York/JTA — U.S. cereal maker
General Mills issued an apology for CD-
ROM versions of the Bible that were
distributed in some 12 million of its
cereal boxes.
The discs are part of a $10 million
software-and-cereal promotion that
offers customers CD-ROMs with corn-
puter games and dictionaries.
But the company said it did not
know the Bible was also part of the pro-
motion, a claim denied by the software
provider.
"While inclusion of the Bible may be
seen as added value by some, it is the
company's policy not to advance any
particular set of religious beliefs," it said.

U.S. Teens
In Israeli Accident

Tel Aviv/JTA — Nineteen American
teenagers were slightly injured when
their bus was hit by an army truck that
swerved from its lane near the town of
Rosh Pina in northern Israel.
The teens, who are from New York,
New Jersey, California and
Washington, D.C., are part of TSUM-
mer youth tour sponsored by the
Reform movement's North American
Federation of Temple Youth. The
director of the group's Israel programs,
Rabbi David Forman, said the injuries
were mostly "light scratches."

U.S. Failed To Act
On Eichmann

Budapest/JTA — Hungary notified the
United States in 1947 that Nazi war
criminal Adolf Eichmann was in the
American zone of Germany and request-
ed his extradition, but U.S. authorities
waited four years to respond, according
to documents recently unearthed by the
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center's
founder, said it was "outrageous" that
the United States sat on the informa-
tion, adding that Eichmann could have
been found years earlier had the United
States acted sooner.

