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New York/JTA — Leon Uris, the best-
selling author of Exodus and other
books that dealt with Jewish history,
died June 21 in New York at 78.
Exodus, a 600-page novel, details the
Jewish struggle to establish the State of
Israel after World War II. The book
later was made into a movie by Otto
Preminger.
Uris also wrote Mila 18, a chronicle
of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as
well as other successful novels.
The son of immigrants, Uris was
born in Baltimore and grew up in
Norfolk, Va. "I used to think of myself
as a very sad little Jewish boy, under-
sized, asthmatic," he once told the
Associated Press.
But his father's lack of success in life
motivated him to do more. "I think I
can say that from earliest memory I
was determined not to be a failure," he
said.
Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel
credited Uris' Exodus with re-awaken-
ing Judaism in the Soviet Union and
influencing generations of American
foreign policy

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Court OKs
Sabbath Boundary

Washington/JTA — The Supreme
Court declined to hear an appeal to a
ruling that allows an eruv, or Sabbath
boundary, to be built in a New Jersey
city.
The court let stand a lower court
ruling that the city of Tenafly's denial
of the eruv's construction was motivat-
ed by a desire to prevent Orthodox
Jews from moving into the city.
The Orthodox Union praised the
court's move.

Israel Launches
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Jerusalem/JTA — A new 24-hour
music TV station with Israeli music
only will debut in Israel on July 20.
Music 24 already has archives of
more than 1,500 video clips created
over the years by recording companies
but never broadcast on TV "Only in
Israel have artists become accustomed
to having a career and selling albums
without television," said the channel's
CEO, Guy Behar.