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New York/JTA — The poet laureate
of New Jersey is ignoring calls to quit
for reading a poem insinuating that
Israel knew in advance about the Sept.
11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey
called for Amiri Baraka's resignation
after Baraka read the following at a
festival earlier this month: "Who
knew the World Trade Center was
gonna get bombed/Who told 4,000
Israeli workers at the Twin Towers/To
stay home that day/Why did Sharon
stay away?"
Baraka later defended the poem.
"Everything said about Israel in the
poem is easily researched," he said. "If
you criticize Israel, they hide behind
the religion and call you anti-
Semitic."
Baraka, a controversial black poet
once known as LeRoi Jones, has run
afoul of Jewish groups in the past.
Family Meets
Organ Recipients
Jerusalem/JTA — The family of -a
Jewish activist killed in a traffic acci-
dent met in Israel with some of the
patients who received his organs.
Jonathan Greenberg, the executive
director of the Jewish Life Network,
died Sept. 14 in Israel, a day after he
was hit by a car while riding his bicy-
cle.
Greenberg also was a founder of
Makor, a Jewish center on New York's
Upper West Side.
His organs were transplanted into
six patients, including an Arab resi-
dent of eastern Jerusalem. His parents,
Rabbi Yitz and Blu Greenberg,
described Jonathan as full of life and
giving, and said that his good deeds
would live on in others, the Israeli
daily Mdariv reported.
Jewish Groups
Take Iraq Stands
New York/JTA — The Reform move-
ment's congregational arm offered
qualified support for President George
W. Bush's Iraq policy.
In a policy memorandum, the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations said it would support
an attack on Iraq if theBush adminis-
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