This Week
News Digest
Campus Group
OKs Zionism
Hadassah Says No
To Abortion Ban
New York/JTA — A coalition of
Jewish groups on college campuses
added "Zionism" to its mission state-
ment.
As part of its unanimously approved
strategic plan for the upcoming aca-
demic year, the Israel on Campus
Coalition approved the term after
Zionist member groups objected to its
omission.
In addition, Wayne Firestone, ICC
director, said the group decided to
take a proactive stand on Zionism,
which previously had been an implicit
message.
New York/JTA — Hadassah urged
President Bush to veto Congress' pas-
sage of the "partial-birth abortion" bill.
"If signed into law, the so-called 'par-
tial-birth abortion ban would mark the
first time that the federal government
has outlawed an abortion procedure,"
Hadassah's national president, Bonnie
Lipton, said in a statement June 5. "We
consider this a major setback in our
ongoing struggle to maintain reproduc-
tive rights in this coimtry."
Lipton added that Jewish law permits
abortion when the woman's physical or
mental health is at risk, an exception
not permitted under the legislation.
Intifada Exhibit
Taken Down
Paris/JTA — A photo exhibition of
the Palestinian intifada (uprising) was
withdrawn from a city hall in northern
France after officials said it contained
pictures that "legitimized terrorist
acts," the Liberation daily reported.
Municipal officials in Lille inspected
the photographs and asked for some of
the images and accompanying cap-
tions to be removed describing them
as "often violent" with "the potential
to shock."
The exhibitors chose to withdraw
the whole exhibition.
Paper's Apology
Is Accepted
Chicago/JTA — Chicago's Jewish
leaders are accepting an apology from
the Chicago Tribune regarding an edi-
torial cartoon that many viewed as
anti-Semitic.
An editorial apologizing for the car-
toon appeared in the Chicago Tribune,
alongside a letter by Lester Rosenberg,
chairman of the board of the Jewish
United Fund/Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Chicago.
The paper acknowledged that the
cartoon "is not just offensive. The
content was wrong, dangerous and
anti-Semitic," said Michael Kotzin,
executive vice president of the Chicago
federation.
The cartoon, which ran May 30,
depicted a kneeling figure, presumably
President Bush, laying out dollar bills
on a "pathway for peace" viewed by a
hook-nosed, grotesque likeness to
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Argentina
Releases Files
Buenos Aires/JTA — Argentina will
release secret evidence related to a
1994 bombing at a Jewish community
center that killed 85 people.
Argentine Jewish leaders welcomed
Nestor Kirchner's announcement,
which he made June 5, less than two
weeks after he was elected president.
"It is the most important news in
nine years," said Abraham Kaul, the
head of the AMIA Jewish center,
where the bombing occurred.
Argentine Jews have long pushed for
intensifying investigations into the
AMIA bombing and into a 1992
bombing at the Israeli Embassy in
Buenos Aires that killed 29.
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London/JTA — British Jews are criti-
cizing recommendations from an ani-
mal welfare body that would effective-
ly outlaw kosher slaughter in the
United Kingdom.
"The Jewish community is completely
opposed to the Farm Animal Welfare
Council's recommendation in favor of
stunning" animals before killing them,
said Henry Grunwald, the president of
the umbrella Board of Deputies.
Rabbinic authorities have ruled that
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lates the requirement that it be unharmed
when killed. Muslim dietary restrictions
also would be affected by the ban. The
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