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The stones are among the oldest
ever found in the Rheinland-Pfalz
region, experts said. Construction
plans have been halted pending
a decision from the Berlin-based
Orthodox Rabbinical Council. If the
site is determined to be a graveyard
and not just a repository for stones,
it may affect building plans.
The president of the Jewish com-
munity, Stella Schindler-Siegreich,
said an investigation of objects
found at the site will be conducted
to determine whether bodies had
been buried there.

Non-Jews Can Lease Land

Jerusalem/JTA
The Jewish
National Fund told Israel's High
Court on Monday it will lease land
to non-Jews. The court delayed a
ruling for three months in order to
give the organization time to reach
an agreement with state Attorney
General Menachem Mazuz.
In the meantime, the JNF and
the Israel Lands Authority agreed
to formalize an interim land-swap
agreement wherein the JNF will be
compensated with land from the
ILA whenever the JNF leases land to
non-Jews. This arrangement ensures
that the amount of Jewish-owned
land in Israel remains the same, a
spokeswoman for JNF told JTA.

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September 27 2007

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge

Christian theologian Rosemary
Radford Reuther of the Garrett
Theological Seminary near
Chicago recently posted a letter
on a pro-Palestinian Web site
that states that Jews, who suf-
fered great personal and prop-
erty loss in the Nazi Holocaust,
used that loss to justify building
their state (Israel) on Arab land.

The Answer

Reuther's claim is a horrendous
twisting of Jewish and Israeli
history. The State of Israel was
built on lands legally purchased
for that purpose over a 50-year
period by the Jewish National
Fund, mainly in the years prior
to World War II.

— Allan Gale, Jewish Community

Relations Council of Metropolitan

Detroit

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