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News Digest: Fine In Murder Investigation Prague/JTA — A Jewish filmmaker was fined $1,500 by Czech police for obstructing an investigation into the death of a U.S. Jewish official in the 1960s. Martin Smok recently approached the police to present a fresh lead into the death of Charles Jordan, an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee official whose body was found floating in the Vltava River in Prague in 1967. Smok's evidence, based on a new witness who came for- ward recently after his documentary on Jordan was aired on Czech televi- - sion, suggested an Arab link to Jordan's death. Police said Smok was fined because he refused to reveal the source of his information. Police intend to close the Jordan case for lack of evidence. `Crown Heights' Controversy New York/JTA — A fringe politician took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to defend a play some say blames Jews for the 1991 Crown Heights riots. Lenora Fulani denied that the play, called Crown Heights, is anti-Semitic and says she is a bridge builder who wants to bring blacks and Jews togeth- er. Earlier this year, the New York Sun reported that Crown Heights, by Dan Friedman and Fred Newman, distorts More Israel and national news at wvvvv.jewish.com the events that led to the 1991 riots and the murder of a Jewish student during those riots. Money For Iraqi Jews Paris/JTA — Jews who fled Iraq in the 1950s reportedly will receive payments on their insurance policies. AXA, a French insurance firm that had a Baghdad subsidiary, will pay $130,000 in compensation to three refugees now living in Israel for their old policies on assets abandoned in Iraq. If paid, the compensation would be the first for any of the 800,000 Jews who fled Arab lands. Saudi Sentenced In Killing New York/JTA — A U.S. court sen- tenced a student from Saudi Arabia to 60 years in jail for killing his Jewish friend. The sentencing in Houston was a plea bargain. Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, apologized for the August 2003 killing of Ariel Sellouk but did not explain why he did it. Sellouk's father told the court that he hopes someone slits Alayed's throat in prison. Kosher Only For Killers? New York/JTA — Virginia allegedly transferred a Jewish prisoner to maxi- mum-security facilities in order to accommodate her request for kosher meals. Mitzi Ann Hamilton, serving five For years we've been building a firm foundation on the commitment to compassionate health care. This commitment now supports the newly-renovated state-of-the-art Crittenton Hospital Medical Center. Our expanded facility allows t04: r -)vqd -rvices that meet years for fraud and forgery, is suing the state for sexual discrimination because it placed her at a maximum-security facility alongside violent criminals. Hamilton alleges the state says the site was the only place she could get "corn- mon fare" meals for prisoners with religious requests. nt ► tOWfir care. It -makes our, ' re efficient and offers oft ctors more time to spe_ with their patients. Well, It Isn't Ken Or Barbie d the best:part of this worl class health care facility...? Jerusalem/JTA — An Israeli company is creating bobble-head dolls of famous Israeli personalities. Rosh-Gadol, the company that makes the caricature-type toys, origi- nally conceived of the Ariel Sharon prototype during the 2003 Israeli elec- tion. An expanded repertoire of hand- made and painted ceramic dolls is set to include other prime ministers, war heroes and Zionist visionaries. The dolls come with biographies. ,-; y our neighborhood. - Kerry Remembers Shoah Washington/JTA — Sen. John Kerry recalled the loss of his own relatives in the Holocaust to mark Yom HaShoah. "This year, with the knowledge that a great aunt and great uncle perished at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, Yom HaShoah has new personal meaning to me as my entire family is drawn closer still to the survivors who have become witnesses for us all," the Massachusetts senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said in a cam- paign statement. CRITTENTON HOSPITAI , 1\.4 4/23 2004 arj , I I tett n