Anti-Semitism Act A Law Washington/JTA — President Bush signed into law a bill that requires the U.S. State Department to document anti-Semitic attacks around the world each year. Bush signed the Global Anti- Semitism Review Act of 2004 into law Saturday. "This nation will keep watch, and will make sure that the ancient impulse of anti-Semitism never finds a home in the modern world," he said at a campaign stop in West Palm Beach, Fla., later that day. The act requires the State Department to create an office to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, and to file a report on anti-Semitic incidents around the world. The State Department opposed the legislation, suggesting it would show favoritism toward the Jewish community in human rights reporting. On money markets, cur rate ,., happen to he the highest In town. Wives Address UJC Small bank-highest interest, big bank-lowest interest. What's wrong with this picture? 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Rates are variable and subject to change at any time without notice. New York/JTA — A civil liberties group said it would not take money from two major U.S. foundations because it considers the requisite anti- terrorist language in their grant agree- ments an attack on free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union said it rejected money from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations because the anti-terror provisions could impede work done by the ACLU and other organizations. Just because we weren't going to be intimidated or our speech wasn't going to be chilled doesn't mean we can overlook the potentially negative impact the language will have on other entities," said Nadine Strossen, the ACLU's president. The foundations' rules were put into place after a JTA investigative series last fall found that the Ford Foundation had funded virulently anti-Israel groups with links to terror- ist organizations. The Ford Foun- dation has no connection with Ford Motor Co. " War 'Endangers Israel' Washington/JTA — The Iraq war has endangered Israel, Al Gore said. "Our friends in the Middle East, including most prominently Israel, have been placed in greater danger because of the policy blunders and sheer incompetence with which the civilian Pentagon officials have con- ducted this war," the former vice president said at an event in Washington sponsored by MoveOn, a liberal political action committee. "The prestigious Jaffe think tank in Israel released a devastating indict- ment just last week of how this mis- adventure in Iraq has been a deadly distraction from the crucial war on terror." Ginsburg Pursues Justice Washington/JTA — A mezuzah on the door is OK, but no one knows how Ruth Bader Ginsburg will judge the public display of the Ten Command- ments. The Supreme Court justice, who will consider this term whether dis- playing the Ten Commandments vio- lates church-state separation, recently described the large, silver mezuzah on her chambers' doorpost, as well as the biblical injunction, "Justice, justice shall you pursue." She did not mention the Commandments in her 10-minute speech to the United Jewish Com- munities' Lions of Judah function for major women donors. Ginsburg said she and Justice Stephen Breyer were both mindful of their Jewish heritage. "I am a judge, born, raised and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs throughout the Jewish tradition," she said.