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Boston — The Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the organization
representing Reform rabbis, received
the 2000 Pride Interfaith Award, at an
event sponsored by the Pride Interfaith
Coalition for Greater Boston's Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered
People of Faith on Nov. 15.
The award recognizes the CCAR's
decision to allow individual Reform
rabbis the choice to officiate, or not to
officiate, at Jewish same-gender cere-
monies. CCAR represents 1,800
Reform rabbis.
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New York/JTA — Finland officially
apologized to the country's Jewish com-
munity, for extraditing eight Jews to
Nazi Germany during World War II.
Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen
made the apology at a commemora-
tion in Helsinki marking the 58th
anniversary of the event.
In general, Finland protected its 2,000
Jewish national during World War II.
""We support Prime Minister
Lipponen's honesty and bravery in rec-
ognizing errors in judgment and
behavior that caused the loss of valu-
able lives,' said Richard Netter, co-
founder of New York-based Thanks To
Scandinavia, a nonprofit group affiliat-
ed with the American Jewish
Committee.
"At the same time, we affirm our
thanks to Finland for the extraordi-
nary care it showed to the great major-
ity of its Jewish citizens during the
darkest period in our history."
Goussinky Gives Up
Media Holdings
Moscow/JTA — A Russian Jewish
tycoon ceded control of his media
holdings to the country's natural gas
monopoly, which is controlled by the
Russian government.
Vladimir Goussinsky, who left the
country in July after being jailed
briefly on fraud charges, has no plans
to return to Russia to face question-
ing, his lawyers said. Goussinsky, the
leader of the Russian Jewish Congress,
frequently used his independent media
outlets to criticize the government,
thereby drawing the ire of President
Vladimir Putin.
In a related development, another
Jewish media mogul, Boris Berezovsky,
also decided to remain abroad rather
than face possible arrest.
Russian Shul
Is Inaugurated
Chelyabinsk, Russia/JTA — A new
synagogue was recently dedicated in
the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
The governor of the region recently
donated $70,000 for the new syna-
gogue. The city is home to about
10,000 Jews.
Foundation Builds
Summer Camps
Chicago/JTA
A new foundation
approved initiatives to build more
Jewish summer camps in North
America and fund operating expenses
of the Israeli equivalent of the United
Way.
The Trust for Jewish Philanthropy, a
federation offshoot, has not yet raised
funds for the camp project, but has
received $5 million to endow Israel's
Matan organization. The new efforts
come two months after the trust
announced its first project, aimed at
recruiting and training more women
for senior professional roles in Jewish
organizations.
B'nai B'rith
Joins The OAS
New York/JTA — B'nai B'rith
International was accepted as a part of
the Organization of American States, a
grouping of 35 nations that work for
democracy and economic progress in
the Americas.
One of 15 nongovernmental agen-
cies affiliated with the OAS, B'nai
B'rith will participate in discussions of
freedom of speech and other human
rights issues.
Jewish Pop Star
Found Guilty
New York/JTA — A Moroccan court
sentenced a Jewish pop star to three
years in jail and fined him $13.3 mil-
lion because he did not have the nec-
essary papers to take foreign currency
abroad when he prepared to leave
Morocco earlier this month.
The fine against Cohen Pinhas, who is