This Week News Digest Call For Peace In The Sudan Washington/JTA — A Jewish group is calling for an end to slavery in Sudan. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism held a vigil in Washington to protest genocide and government-facilitated slavery in the war-torn African nation. The group linked its call to this week's celebration of Sukkot, which commemorates the journey of the Children of Israel from slavery to free- dom. "We cannot turn our backs when others are enslaved today," said Rabbi David Saperstein, the center's director. The center and 13 other Jewish agencies released a statement calling on Congress to pass legislation to promote peace in Sudan. 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The film, which appear- ed on PBS, portrays the Middle East conflict through the thoughts and views of seven Israeli and Palestinian children. AJCommittee Report Blasts The U.N. New York/JTA — The United Nations spent most of its time last year adopt- ing anti-Israel resolutions when it should have dealt with the war on ter- rorism, according to a new report. This was the central conclusion of "One-Sided: The Continuing Campaign Against Israel at the United Nations," the American Jewish Committee's annu- al report examining the treatment of Israel at the U.N. General Assembly and the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The report, which includes a detailed country-by-country voting record on Israel, is available at www.ajc.org No Dispute Over Siege Jerusalem/JTA — Israeli-U.S. ties remain solid despite a U.S. call for Israel to lift its siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah head- New York/JTA — An English-ran- quarters, Shimon Peres said. guage newspaper in Saudi Arabia pub- Asked about White House criticism lished a cartoon comparing President of the siege, Israel's foreign minister Bush to Hitler. told Israel Radio that "sometimes there The cartoon, published in the Arab are contradictions between" the way News, appeared days after the Anti- the two countries see things, "but this Defamation League issued an open letter is not a dispute." to the leaders of Saudi Arabia calling for Addressing foreign diplomats in a halt to the almost-daily barrage of anti- Jerusalem, Peres said Israel would not Semitic and anti-American statements in comply with a U.N. Security Council the Saudi media. "Clearly, all of our resolution to end the siege because the appeals to Saudi leaders have fallen on Palestinians are not meeting the resolu- deaf ears," said Abraham Foxman, the tion's call to halt terror. Israel says it will ADL's national director. not withdraw from the compound until In Germany this week, Justice about 200 people holed up inside sur- Minister Herta Daeuler-Gme-lin relin- render. It alleges that about 50 of the quished her post after she was reported people, including Palestinian intelli- to have said that Bush's saber-rattling gence chief Tawfik Tirawi, have been on Iraq was similar to what Hitler did involved in terror attacks. Tirawi denied to divert attention from domestic . the allegations in an interview with issues. Maariv and vowed not to surrender.