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Klucrb'
er who died last year.
Several stones reportedly were
destroyed, and the cemetery's walls
were defaced with anti-Semitic slo-
gans, swastikas and an image of a gal-
lows with a Star of David hanging
from it.
New Programs
Aid German Rabbis
Berlin/JTA — The College for Jewish
Studies in Heidelberg, Germany, plans
to start a multidenominational rab-
binical studies program in the fall.
Another previously announced rab-
binical training program, under the
auspices of the liberal Abraham Geiger
College in Potsdam, is also planned
for the fall.
Both are a response to the growing
need for rabbis and Judaism teachers
in Germany.
Czech Scrolls
Are Celebrated
Prague/JTA — A recent Chicago con-
ference focused on 1,564 Czech Torah
scrolls that were rescued nearly 40
years ago from an abandoned syna-
gogue in Prague.
All but 100 or so of the 1,564
scrolls originally brought to England
have been distributed across the world.
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Detroit's Joel Tauber, chair of the
executive committee of United Jewish
Communities, greets U.S. Sen.
Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., at the
Washington Leadership Summit 2001.
Nearly 200 North American
Federation leaders attended the
summit to advocate issues of
concern to the Jewish community