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Roberts On School Prayer

Washington/JTA — Supreme Court
nominee John Roberts backed a
moment of silent prayer in the public
schools. While working in the Justice
Department for the Reagan administra-
tion in 1985, Roberts wrote in a memo
to his supervisor that he would not
object to a constitutional amendment
on school prayer.
Referring to a Supreme Court ruling
that struck down a school prayer law in
Alabama, Roberts wrote that the idea
that the "Constitution prohibits such a
moment of silent reflection — or even
silent 'prayer' — seems indefensible."
The memo was among nearly 5,400
pages of records pertaining to the
Supreme Court nominee released by the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Daylight Time Extended

Washington/JTA — President Bush
signed into law an energy bill that
extends daylight-saving time.
The bill was originally to have extend-
ed daylight-saving time by two months,
but the U.S. House of Representatives
and the Senate compromised at the last
moment and settled on a one-month
extension: three weeks in March and a
week in November. Jewish groups had
joined with others, including farmers
and parents groups, in opposing longer
extensions. Observant Jews were partic-
ularly concerned that, with 8:30 a.m.
sunrises, they would be late for work if
they said morning prayers.

Comp Time For Shabbat

Washington/JTA— The U.S. govern-
ment has changed regulations to allow
part-time federal employees to use comp
time to take off for Sabbath and other
Jewish observances. Observant employ-
ees had been allowed to bank comp
time instead of earning overtime wages

in order to take off time for holidays,
but the Office of Personnel
Management recently changed the poli-
cy for part-time employees.

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New York/JTA — Benny Friedman, a
former University of Michigan football
star who played quarterback in the early
years of the National Football League,
was inducted into Pro Football's Hall of
Fame. Friedman, inducted Sunday to
the shrine in Canton, Ohio, is believed
to have led the NFL in touchdown pass-
es during the years he played, 1927-
1933, though statistics are spotty.

Divestment Urged

New York/JTA — The Presbyterian
Church said it would press four
American companies to stop providing
equipment and technology to Israel.
The church said it had selected
Caterpillar, Motorola, ITT Industries
and United Technologies for possible
divestment if the companies refuse to
stop doing business with Israel. Jewish
groups criticized the move as unfairly
singling out Israel without helping the
Palestinians. The move is the latest by
mainline Protestant churches regarding
divestment from Israel. The
Presbyterians also said they would pres-
sure Citigroup because of its alleged
connection to an Arab bank believed to
have ties to suicide bombers.

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New York/JTA — The American
Jewish Committee will construct a
new vocational center in the south-
ern Indian city of Chennai devastat-
ed by last winter's tsunami. The
AJCommittee's Tsunami Relief Fund
has provided $600,000 to organiza-
tions tending to the needs of tsunami
victims in India and Sri Lanka.

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