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Arabs Killed In Gaza Clashes - Conservatives Protest At Wall
Jerusalem/JTA — Israeli forces hunt-
ing Gaza mortar crews killed at least
12 Palestinians.
The dead in the latest incursion
into a neighborhood on the outskirts
of Gaza City included at least 10 mil-
itants, Palestinians said. Israel said it
launched the raid in response to rock-
et and mortar fire on nearby Jewish
towns. Hamas, which lost at least one
commander in the clash, vowed
revenge.
In a separate incident, two
Palestinians were killed in an Israeli
operation aimed at demolishing tun-
nels used to smuggle arms over the
border from Egypt.
Earthquake In Israel
Jerusalem/JTA — An eight-second
earthquake rattled Israelis and Arabs
on Wednesday morning, Feb. 11.
The tremor, measuring 5.0 on the
Richter scale, radiated out from the
Dead Sea area and was felt as far
away as Lebanon. In Israel, the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, people fled out-
doors for fear that buildings would
collapse. But damage was minimal,
and Israel's emergency services report-
ed treating 20 people for shock.
Straddling the Syria-Africa rift, the
Holy Land can expect a major earth-
quake around once a century, seis-
mologists say. "We have not seen
such a strong tremor here in recent
years," Infrastructure Minister Yossi
Paritzky said.
Jerusalem/JTA — Conservative rabbis
protested a plan to expand gender-
segregated prayer areas near
Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The rabbis, in Israel for the
Conservative movement's annual
Rabbinical Assembly, accused the
Orthodox of trying to impose their
will on other Jewish denominations.
"Unilateral actions by those who
view the area as their own private
domain must not be allowed to
stand," said Andrew Sacks, an Israeli
Conservative rabbi. "If we permit
actions such as these, we will quickly
find ourselves on a slippery slope
toward losing our rights at Judaism's
most holy site."
The gender-segregated prayer area
is being expanded by 600 square
meters, but it still will be dwarfed by
the open plaza beyond it, where
Conservative and Reform groups
often hold mixed-gender prayer serv-
ices.
Arabs Cased Nairobi Resort?
Jerusalem/JTA — Several Arab-look-
ing men may have filmed an Israeli-
owned hotel in Kenya three months
before a bomb attack there.
A former hotel mechanic told a
Nairobi court about the events before
the attack in November 2002 that
killed 15 people at the hotel, Reuters
reported.
"Three months previously, some
people, large men ... Arabs, in a white
Pajero, came to the hotel with a video
camera and began filming the com-
pound," the witness said.
Four Kenyan men are on trial for
the murder of 12 Kenyans and three
Israelis at the Paradise Hotel, north of
the Indian Ocean coastal city of
Mombasa. The defendants also are
charged with a failed attempt the
same day to shoot down an Israeli
airliner with a missile.
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Agudath Israel Backs Change
New York/JTA — Agudath Israel said
it would work to change the
Massachusetts and U.S. constitutions
to restrict marriage to heterosexual
unions.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
ruled last week that the state consti-
tution will be fulfilled only if full
marriage rights are granted as well to
same-sex couples.
Boy Scouts' Defense Backed
New York/JTA — Orthodox Jewish
groups want the U.S. Supreme Court
to reverse a ruling allowing
Connecticut to exclude the Boy
Scouts from a charity fund-raiser
because the group discriminates
against gays.
Agudath Israel and the Orthodox
Union joined a friend of the court
brief last week asking for a reversal of
the ruling by a U.S. appeals court
upholding Connecticut's decision.
The state had banned the Boy
Scouts from participating in an annu-
al state employee -charitable fund-rais-
ing campaign because the group bans
gay scoutmasters.
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