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Mussolini's Kin
Backs Israel

Jerusalem/JTA — The world should
beg forgiveness of Israel, Mussolini's
granddaughter said.
In an interview
with Hdaretz,
Alessandra
Mussolini said,
"The entire world,
including the
Vatican and the
pope, should beg
forgiveness of
Israel."
Mussolini
The interview
coincided with the
arrival of Italian Deputy Prime
Minister Gianfranco Fini to Israel.
Both Mussolini and Fini belong to
the National Alliance Party, a party
trying to distance itself from its neo-
fascist roots.

Israeli Goods
Get A Label

Jerusalem/JTA — Israel agreed to
distinguish goods made in the West
Bank from those in Israel proper.
The labels will allow the European
Union to give tax breaks only to
those goods produced within Israel's
pre-1967 borders, and not to goods
made in the West Bank, Gaza Strip,
eastern Jerusalem or the Golan
Heights.
The decision ends a dispute
between Israel and the European
Union that has simmered for several
years.

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New York/JTA — Chabad-Lubavitch
announced it has emissaries in more
than 70 countries, a record for the
movement.
New countries that added full-
time emissaries this year include
Cyprus, Croatia, Finland and India.
Also for the first time, Chabad had
a representative in Iraq during the
High Holidays, Col. Jacob
Goldstein, state staff chaplain of the
New York Army National Guard.
The announcement was made at
Chabad's 20th annual Shluchim con-
vention, which drew about 2,000

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Jewish outreach emissaries (shluchim
in Yiddish) to the five-day confer-
ence in Brooklyn.
Chabad has about 4,600 emissaries
worldwide, including permanent
representatives in 45 states and 67
U.S. campuses.

Reform Group
Joins AIDS Vigil

New York/JTA — A Reform Jewish
activist group is joining Christian
groups and African lobbyists in
demanding quicker AIDS assistance.
Rabbi David
Saperstein of the
Religious Action
Center of Reform
Judaism will join a
vigil next week for
World AIDS Day
outside the
Treasury
Department in
Washington.
Saperstein
The coalition of
religious groups and Africa aid lob-
byists wants President Bush to speed
up his State of the Union pledge to
spend $15 billion over five years to
combat AIDS in Africa and the
Caribbean.
Bush so far has pledged $2 billion
for 2004 spending, some of it at the
expense of other aid programs. The
vigil also will demand debt forgive-
ness to impoverished nations.
Also represented will be the
American Jewish World Service,
which recently urged U.S. officials
to ensure that funds for treating
AIDS in Africa should focus more
on prevention and treatment.

New York N ayor
Names Israel Center

New York/JTA — Michael
Bloomberg named a health center in
Jerusalem for his mother.
The New York
City mayor dedi-
cated the
Charlotte R.
Bloomberg Mother
and Child Center
at Hadassah
University Medical
Center in honor of
his mother's
Bloomberg
upcoming 95th