Front Lines
Dr. Coleman A. Mopper Memorial Lecture
DIGEST
Street Rededicated
New York/JTA A New York street
named for an anti-Semite will be
rededicated.
The New York Times reported that
Corbin Place in Brooklyn had been
named for Austin Corbin, a 19th-cen-
tury developer who was a leader of the
American Society for the Suppression
of Jews. Corbin also ran the Long
Island Rail Road and ejected the
Montaukett tribe from the Hamptons
in a contested land deal.
A January column in the Daily News
brought the matter to the attention of
local lawmakers, who set about chang-
ing the street's name. But residents,
including members of the Jewish com-
munity, did not want to change their
addresses, the Times reported.
In late March, the group hit upon
the solution of rededicating the street
to Margaret Corbin, a Revolutionary
War heroine who helped defend Fort
Washington against the British in
1776.
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Cleitring in the' Woods,
Picrtv-AtigliNN Rclmir. 1865- rho Decroit
Sunday, April 29, 2 p.m.
FREE with museum admission
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, famous for his sensual portraits and
vibrant still-fifes, was also an innovative landscape painter.
Dr. Colin B. Bailev, renowned scholar of 1. 8th- and 19th-century
French painting< discusses this lesser-known side of Renoir,
Population At 7.15 Million
Me Dr. Coleman A. Moppet- Memorial Lecture was established in
1997 in memory IlDr. Colema/z A. Mapper.
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Jerusalem/JTA Israel's population
rose 1.8 percent in the past 12 months
to 7.15 million, the Central Bureau of
Statistics reported.
The increase was attributed mainly
to a high birthrate. Some 148,000
babies were born in 2006, and 18,400
immigrants arrived.
Israel's 5,415,000 Jews, and 31,000
"others" — primarily Russians and
Ethiopians who made aliyah but aren't
halachically Jewish — make up nearly
80 percent of the population. Some
1,425,000 Arab and Druse citizens
comprise the remaining 20 percent.
When the Jewish state was estab-
lished in 1948, there were 806,000 resi-
dents. A third of them are still living in
the country.
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Forbes Likes Teva
Washington/JTA
Forbes magazine
included Israeli pharmaceutical firm
Teva on its ranking of 130 "global
superstars."
Ynet reported Monday that the
Forbes shortlist, a lead-up to its annual
"Global 2,000" ranking, is based on a
combination of the firms' sales, profits,
assets and market value.
In 2006, Teva registered $8.41 bil-
lion in sales, $55 million in profits,
$20.47 billion in assets and a market
value of $26.91 billion.
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Israeli Independence
Jerusalem/JTA
Israelis began cel-
ebrating 59 years of independence
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10 April 26 • 2007
Monday evening.
Yom HaAtzmaut started immedi-
ately after a day of mourning for fallen
soldiers and victims of terrorism. The
Israeli flag at Mount Herzl cemetery
was raised at sunset from its half-
mast position and 12 torches were lit,
starting a celebration that included
speeches, singing and dancing.
Protest At March
Krakow/JTA Neo-Nazi demonstra-
tors protested the March of the Living
in Krakow, according to a Jewish orga-
nization.
During the March of the Living,
200 people participated in an April
14 demonstration staged by the far-
right National Radical Camp, a tiny
extremist group. The participants
held "Heil Hitler" signs and shouted
"This is Poland, not Israel,""Poland
is a saintly thing" and "Jews out of
Poland:' according to the Warsaw-
based Foundation for the Preservation
of Jewish Heritage in Poland.
The demonstration in Krakow
Market Square took place amid foreign
tourists, including Israelis who were in
Poland for the March of the Living, the
foundation reported. The foundation
complained that police did not stop
the demonstration, despite the Nazi
slogans, which are illegal in Poland.
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E.U. Sanctions Iran
Luxembourg/JTA European Union
foreign ministers approved further
sanctions on Iran over its nuclear
program.
They agreed to the actions at a
meeting Monday in Luxembourg. The
ministers added to the U.N. Security
Council's March sanctions, which
placed a travel embargo on certain
Iranian officials and imposed a partial
ban on Iranian arms exports. The E.U.
ministers added officials to the exist-
ing travel embargo and froze their
assets, and fully banned Iranian arms
exports.
E.U. foreign policy chief Javier
Solana intended to meet this week
in Turkey with Iranian negotiator Ali
Larijani in a fresh attempt to break the
deadlock over Tehran's nuclear enrich-
ment.
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Statue Defaced
Moscow/JTA — On the eve of the
137th anniversary of Lenin's birth,
vandals painted a Star of David onto
a large statue of the Soviet leader in
southern Russia. The perpetrators
have not been found and the motive
was unclear.