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News Digest

AJCongress Denies
Rich Report

School Renews
Israel Program

New York/JTA — The American
Jewish Congress denied a report pub-
lished last week that financier Marc
Rich offered the group a donation
with the understanding that the
group would write to President Bill
Clinton in support of a pardon.
AJCongress Executive Director Phil
Baum clarified that agents for Rich
asked the organization to "intervene
on Rich's behalf."
However, no mention was made of
a pardon, said Baum, who declined to
speculate on how the AJCongress
interpreted the request.
In addition, though Rich's philan-
thropy in the Jewish community was
well-known, no mention was made of
a potential donation to the
AJCongress, Baum said.
In the end, Baum said, he declined
to help Rich, believing that his good
works "didn't excuse the harm he had
done in other contexts."

Los Angeles/JTA — California State
University plans ro reinstate its over-
seas study program in Israel this fall.
Cal State came under considerable
criticism last October when it abruptly
notified 11 students — already
enrolled at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University —
that the program had been terminated,
and urged them to come home
because of violence in the region.

Schroeder Meets
Jewish Leaders

Bonn/JTA — German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder promised Jewish
leaders he will press German officials
to begin making payments to
Holocaust slave labor victims.
He made the vow during a meet-
ing in Washington on March 29
with officials of the Claims
Conference before meeting with
President Bush.
In a related development, lawyers
are withdrawing a class-action law-
suit they filed last month against
IBM for its role in aiding the Nazis.
The move follows Germany's com-
plaint that the lawsuit was prevent-
ing payments to the slave laborers.

Agency Finds
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Moscow/JTA — A German docu-
ment recently obtained by the Jewish
Agency for Israel shows that Jews are
owed $270 million in today's curren-
cy to cover insurance claims for
destruction caused during
Kristallnacht.
The destruction took place on the
night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi
thugs ransacked Jewish-owned shops
and torched synagogues across
Germany and Austria.

Groups Seek
Seder Prayer

New York/JTA — The Jewish Agency
for Israel and the World Zionist
Organization are calling on Jews
around the world to set aside a seat at
the seder table and say a prayer for
Israelis missing since the 1982
Lebanon War and for four Israelis kid-
napped by Hezbollah forces last
October.
A suggested prayer is available at
www.jafi.org.il/prayer/index.htm.

Court Sentences
SS Officer

New York/JTA — A German court
sentenced a former Nazi SS officer to
12 years in jail for killing seven Jewish
prisoners in 1945 as they dug trenches
in what is now the Czech Republic.
Czech Jewish leaders welcomed the
conviction of 83-year-old Julius Viet.
"It sends an important message that
such people, even after 60 years, can-
not and should not escape justice,"
said Tomas Kraus, executive director
of the Czech Federation of Jewish
Communities.
German media dubbed the case the
nation's "last Nazi war crimes trial."

Corrections

Jason Greisdorf of Greis Jewelers in
Farmington Hills was misidentified
as Jason Greis in the story "Keeping
the Sparkle," March 30, page 64.

The recipe for frozen chocolate
dessert (pareve) for Passover
("Seder Finale," March 30, page
92) was provided by Caryn
Finkelstein of Farmington Hills.

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