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Kosher Chinese At Game

Miami/JTA — The Florida Marlins
will host a Jewish day at the ball-
park.
At Sunday's game, May 29, against
the New York Mets in Miami,
Israel's national anthem will be sung
in addition to "The Star-Spangled
Banner."
Glatt kosher snacks, including hot
dogs, falafel and Chinese food, will
be served at the game.

Air Force: Incomplete

Washington/JTA — A task force
investigating religious intolerance at
the U.S. Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs admitted it had
not met with two critics.
Among those not interviewed by
the task force, which is expected to
issue its report to the acting secre-
tary of the Air Force on Monday, is
Mikey Weinstein, a Jewish graduate
of the school who says his son, a
cadet at the Colorado school, has
been called a "Christ killer" by fel-
low students.

St. Petersburg Kosher

St. Petersburg/JTA — A new kosher
restaurant opened in St. Petersburg,
Russia, last week.
L'Chaim, located in the city's
Grand Choral Synagogue, is the first
centrally located kosher restaurant in
the city, which has Russia's second-
largest Jewish community.

Texts For Foxholes?

New York/JTA — Jewish texts will be
sent to U.S. soldiers overseas.
The Jewish Publication Society
and the JWB Jewish Chaplains
Council will send 2,750 copies of
the Book of Psalms and the Torah
to soldiers overseas in time for
Shavuot.

Teaching Israel

Evanston/JTA — A U.S. university
will launch a postdoctoral fellowship
program on modern Israel.
In conjunction with Tel Aviv
University's Dayan Center for
Middle Eastern and African Studies,
Northwestern University will host a
teaching fellow in Israel studies. A
list of finalists for the position, who
recently earned doctorates in the
field, will be decided by the Dayan

Center. Northwestern will make the
final decision.
Chicago's Jewish federation is
funding the program. The first fel-
low is expected to arrive on the sub-
urban Chicago campus in fall 2005
or fall 2006.

Laureates Hit Boycott

London/JTA — Twenty-one Nobel
Prize winners published an open let-
ter calling on a British teachers
union to overturn its academic boy-
cott of Israel.
"Academic freedom has never been
the property of a few and must not
be manipulated by them," the letter
read. "Therefore, mixing science
with politics, and limiting academic
freedom by boycotts, is wrong."
Signed by laureates including
Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel and Israeli
scientists Avram Hershko and Aaron
Ciechanover, the letter expressed the
hope that "academic reasoning will
overcome political rhetoric."
The controversial motion, passed
last month by Britain's Association
of University Teachers, called for
the severing of ties with Haifa and
Bar-Ilan universities but is expected
to be overturned at the AUT's
meeting May 26.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators last
week in London demanded that
Britain launch a wide-ranging boy-
cott of Israel. The event, which
drew British lawmakers, trade
unionists and Muslim leaders, saw
newly elected legislator George
Galloway, a vociferous critic of the
Jewish state, call for Israeli-made
goods to be shunned and for stores
selling such items to be picketed.

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Revolutionary Vets Cited

New York/JTA — Pioneers of
American Jewish life were memorial-
ized in Manhattan on Sunday.
Twenty-twoJews who defended
New York in the American
Revolution were remembered' at
America's oldest Jewish cemetery.
The Veteran Corps of Artillery of
the State of New York performed a
color-guard ceremony and American
flags were placed at the graves of the
Revolutionary War veterans at the
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