News Digest

Injured Athlete
Gets Compensation

Sydney/JTA — Australian Jewish lead-
ers applauded Israef's decision to pay
$4 million in compensation to Sasha
Elterman, an Australian athlete seri-
ously injured when a bridge collapsed
at the opening ceremony of the 1997
Maccabiah Games.
Community leaders told JTA it is
now likely that Australia will participate
in the 16th Maccabiah Games slated for
July in Israel, but this is conditional on
Israel's settling other cases related to the
1997 tragedy, in which four Australian
athletes were killed and 70 injured.

UJC Names
Overseas Director

New York/JTA — The United Jewish
Communities hired a top professional
for its Israel and overseas pillar, the last
of the organization's four main depart-
ments to be staffed.
In addition to directing the pillar,
Arthur Naparstek, formerly a social
work professor and dean of Case
Western Reserve University's school of
applied social sciences in Cleveland,
will serve as one of six vice presidents
of the umbrella organization for North
American Jewish federations.

Refugee Film
Vies For Oscar

Los Angeles/JTA — An Oscar nomi-
nation went to a film about the
10,000 refugee children evacuated to
Britain on the eve of the Holocaust.
"Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories
of the Kindertransport" received a nod
Tuesday in the best documentary cate-
gory. In addition, "One Day Crossing,"
about a Jewish woman who poses as a
Christian in 1944 Budapest, was nomi-
nated in the category of live action
short film. Israel's entry for best foreign
language film, "Time of Favor" by
Joseph Cedar, was not among the five
films nominated in its category. The
Oscars will be given out March 25.

Technion To Host
Trip To Turkey, Israel

Farmington Hills — American Society
for Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology will host a mission to
Turkey and Israel April 30 to May 11.

Turkey highlights include meetings
with Jewish communal leaders in Istanbul
and Izmir, visits to Hagia Sophia, the
Hippodrome, Bosphorous (the palace of
the Ottomon sultans) and ancient
Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues.
"A very special Shabbat will be cele-
brated in Izmir in the Yahudi Mahalessi
(the Jewish Quarter), with Izmir's
Jewish community," said Morris
Rochlin, president of the American
Society for Technion's Detroit Chapter.
The Israel portion will include visits to
Haifa, the Technion, and local compa-
nies now traded on the NASDAQ.
For more information, call Nancy Gad-
Harf, American Society for Technion
regional director: (248) 737-1990
or e-mail nancy@ats.org

Reports Blast
Russia On Jews

Moscow/JTA — The Russian govern-
ment does not adequately protect
Russian Jews from anti-Semitism,
according to reports from two U.S.-
based organizations that monitor anti-
Semitic incidents and human rights
violations in Russia.
But one of Russia's chief rabbis,
Berel Lazar, disagrees with the assess-
ments made by the Anti-Defamation
League and the Union of Councils for-
Soviet Jews. President Vladimir Putin
is committed to combating anti-
Semitism, Lazar said.

Book Touts
Schindler's Widow

New York/JTA — Oskar Schindler's
widow, who was left on the sidelines
in the Steven Spielberg movie
Schindler's List about her husband, is
being remembered in a new book that
shows her role in rescuing thousands
of Jews from the Holocaust.
"She was not in Oskar's shadows. She
worked right beside Schindler, and that
is the truth," Argentine journalist Erika
Rosenberg told Reuters. Rosenberg is
author of Ich, Emilie Schindler —
German for I, Emilie Schindler.

Aryan Nations
Victims Fight Back

New York/JTA — A mother and son
whose lawsuit bankrupted a U.S.-based
white supremacist group bought the
group's compound Tuesday and then
said they may resell it to a human

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