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Putin's Rabbinic
Choice Clear
Foxman Regrets
Rich Support
Moscow/JTA — The Lubavitch move-
ments chief rabbi in Russia was named
Tuesday to a high-profile Kremlin
advisory panel that includes leaders of
all the religions officially recognized by
the Russian government.
While Berel Lazar was appointed to
the council, the other chief rabbi of
Russia, Adolph Shavevich, was excluded
from the body, which he has served on
for years. Local Jewish observers consid-
ered the developments the clearest indi-
cation yet of Russian President Vladimir
Putin's support for Lazar as the sole rep-
resentative of Russian Jewry.
New York/JTA — The national direc-
tor of the Anti-Defamation League
said he "probably .' should not have
joined the effort to pressure President
Clinton to pardon fugitive financier
Marc Rich.
Abraham Foxman's statement came
as a U.S. congressional committee is
reportedly preparing to issue subpoe-
nas in the investigation into the Rich
pardon.
Attack Victim
Is Married
Jerusalem/JTA — Europeans are
turning to hummus as they avoid
meat for fear of foot-and-mouth dis-
ease, Israel's financial newspaper
Globes reported.
The high-protein chickpea dish has
been flying off the shelves in
European supermarkets, the director
general of Israel's Tzabar Salads com-
pany said. The company's hummus
sales in Europe jumped 24 percent in
the last two months.
New York/JTA — One of the wounded
in a 1994 shooting attack on a van car-
rying Orthodox Jewish students over the
Brooklyn Bridge was married Monday.
Nachum Sasonkin lay in a coma for
a week and spent months in rehabilita-
tion after he was shot in the head in
the attack, in which Lebanese gunman
Rashid Baz killed 16-year-old Ari
Halberstam. Sarah Sasonkin said her
son's wedding was a testament that
we should never lose hope."
Yad Vashem
Adds Museum
Jerusalem/JTA
The Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem is
building a new museum as parr of a
major expansion project.
The new museum will be three
times larger than the present one. As
part of the expansion, new archives
and a library were opened last year to
house more than 55 million pages of
documents and 80,000 books.
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Louisville — General Electric is
introducing a Sabbath mode feature
on 65 models, including all of its wall
ovens, smooth-top electric slide-in
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High School Yearbook 2001
The Jewish News will honor Michigan's brightest Jewish
high school seniors in our "Cap & Gown" supplement
May 11. Deadline for nominations is April 12.
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nominating form to their eight Jewish students with the
highest unweighred grade point averages (minimum 3.6 required).
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