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tory," said NJDC Executive Director Ira
Romney Eyes Presidency
Forman.
Mitt Romney, a former Detroiter
The Ford Motor Co. and Ford family
and current Massachusetts governor,
of
today have been good friends of the
passed on a second term in order to
Jewish
community.
get started on the Republican nomina-
tion for president. He wasted no time
Walkway Dropped
in making clear his message of solid
New York/I-TA — Plans to reno-
support for Israel, according to the
vate a walkway near Jerusalem's
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Romney was one of four candidates Temple Mount were dropped after
Muslims rioted. Ha'aretz reported
to address the Herzliya Conference
that the Jewish Quarter Development
in Israel recently, but the only one
Company, which owns the land under
to do so in person. He spoke force-
the Western Wall Plaza, announced
fully about isolating Iran as long as it
Tuesday that it will stop rebuilding the
poses a nuclear threat, noting that he
pedestrian walkway leading from the
refused to provide police protection
plaza to the Temple Mount's Mughrabi
for its former president, Mohammad
Khatami, when he spoke in the Boston Gate. This follows Jerusalem Mayor
Uri Lupolianski's statement
area last year. He also called
on Monday that the construc-
for the indictment of Iran's
tion plans would be reviewed.
current president, Mahmoud
Company director-general
Ahmadinejad, on genocide
Nissim Arazi told Ha'aretz
charges.
that he would look into alter-
Romney has attracted top
natives to the ramp, which
Republican Jewish donors,
collapsed in 2004 due to bad
including Mel Sembler, the
weather.
former ambassador to Rome. Mitt Romney
The Antiquities Authority
Charlie Spies, formerly
announced
that archaeological
counselor to the Republican
excavations
in
the
area
would con-
National Committee, is now the
tinue,
however,
since
pits
that already
Romney campaign's counsel.
had
been
opened
could
prove
danger-
Nancy Kaufman, who directs the
ous.
Recent
rioting
by
Palestinians
Jewish Community Relations Council
and other Muslims was sparked by
in the Boston area, said Romney
Arab allegations that the Israeli proj-
earned community admiration for
ect would undermine the foundations
shepherding universal health care
of two major Muslim shrines on the
through the legislature and for his
Temple Mount.
solidly pro-Israel credentials. But,
she said, some were disappointed by
Wall Compromise
his rightward drift on social issues
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's
like abortion, embryonic stem-cell
Conservative movement reached a
research and gay marriage. As a
compromise with the government
Senate candidate in 1994, Romney
over freedom of men and women to
had tacked left on such issues.
worship
together at an area of the
The National Jewish Democratic
Western
Wall. The movement, in Israel
Council (NJDC) expressed its "deep
the
Masorti,
dropped its Supreme
concerns" about Romney's decision
Court
appeal
after the government
to announce his candidacy from the
agreed
to
enforce
mixed groups' abil-
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
ity
to
worship
for
free
at Robinson's
The NJDC called the museum "a
Arch,
a
site
at
the
southern
end of the
testament to the life of Henry Ford, a
Western
Wall.
Mixed
groups
will be
notorious anti-Semite and xenophobe
allowed
to
offer
prayers
daily,
until
whose belief that Jews were second-
10:30
a.m.
on
Fridays
and
holidays.
class, inferior citizens were expressed
In recent years, groups who came
in detail in his writings on his theory
to
the site after 8 a.m. were charged a
of Americanization!' Ford was also
fee
to worship, despite previous agree-
bestowed with the Grand Service
ments
to allow them free access to
Cross of the Supreme Order of the
the
site.
The conflict dates to a violent
German Eagle by Adolph Hitler:' the
attack
on
Masorti worshipers in 1998
NJDC said.
by
fervently
Orthodox protesters when
"Mitt Romney's embrace of Henry
a
mixed
group
attempted to pray at
Ford and association of Ford's legacy
the
Western
Wall.
As part of a compro-
with his presidential campaign raises
mise
at
the
time,
the
movement moved
serious questions about either the
its
egalitarian
services
from the main
sincerity of Romney's words or his
worship
area
to
Robinson's
Arch.
understanding of basic American his-

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