Digest Diamonds Into Paintings New York/JTA — An Anglo-Jewish diamond mogul paid more than $12.6 million for an Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor. London-based jeweler Laurence Graff bought the iconic 1963 image, one of 13 silkscreens made from a publicity photo of Taylor in the year she filmed Cleopatra" at a Sotheby's auction in New York. Graff, 65, outbid five other con- tenders last week for the canvas, which had been owned by a Los Angeles art collector since 1965. The child of Jewish immigrants to Britain, Graff founded of one of the world's most famous jewelry houses, which has made him a fortune estimated at $1.4 billion. Ayalon meets Pollard Washington/JTA — Israel's ambassador to Washington met with Jonathan Pollard. Daniel Ayalon met with Pollard on Tuesday at the North Carolina prison where he is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. Pollard, who was granted Israeli citi- zenship in 1995, has demanded such a visit for years, saying that the United States otherwise wouldn't take his requests for release seriously. "In our meeting today, I conveyed our support for his release on a humanitarian basis," Ayalon said in a statement. "I came to him with a mes- sage of strength and support from the Israeli government and people." Ha'aretz reported that Pollard was unhappy with the meeting, feeling it lacked substance. A former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, Pollard pled guilty in 1986 as part of a deal with the prosecution. However, the judge threw aside the plea and sentenced Pollard to life in prison the following year. Bishop: No To Divestment Boston/JTA — The leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts has come out against proposals to divest from Israel. Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, head of the 80,000-member diocese, which includes 194 churches in eastern Massachusetts, made the comments in a statement for two members of the diocese who, together with the American Jewish Committee, are planning an Israel trip for church members in January. "During this period of hope for peace between Israel and Palestine, divestment would be especially inap- propriate. Because the economies of Israel and Palestine are so closely intertwined, divestment is actually counterproductive for the Palestinian people," Bishop Shaw wrote. Episcopalians Rip Israel New York/JTA — Episcopalians con- sidering divesting from Israel have slammed Israel's West Bank policy. A fact-finding panel that returned from a visit to the West Bank said it was "deeply disturbed" by Israel's security barrier, checkpoints, settle- ment expansion and security meas- ures around Palestinian areas, the Episcopal Church (USA) said May 12. The church's Social Responsibility in Investments Committee will report to church leaders later this year on whether the church is profit- ing from investments in companies that support Israel's presence in the West Bank or harm Palestinians. Toronto Campus Slated Toronto/JTA — The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto officially broke ground Sunday on a 50-acre state- of-the-art community development. The nearly $79 million Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, which will take five. years to complete, will feature a range of family and social services as well as fitness, sports and health programs. It will house a number of cultural agencies plus facilities for childcare, camping, conferences and meetings. Included will be a new campus for the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto and up to four new elemen- tary schools, which UJA says will make the Lebovic site the world's largest Jewish day school outside of Israel. The school is scheduled to open in September 2006. 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