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Labor, Kadima Bond
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's Labor Party
reportedly has agreed to join Kadima's
coalition government. Just before
Sukkot began Monday in Israel, Labor
and Kadima reportedly reached an
agreement under which Labor will
join Tzipi Livni's governing Kadima
Party as a senior partner.
Labor leader Ehud Barak will
become senior deputy prime minister,
a newly created position, while Livni
will be prime minister. The agree-
ment is expected to be signed later
this week, according to Israeli media
reports. The move brings Livni her
first major governing partner, but she
needs more to complete her coalition
and take office as prime minister.
The partnership with Labor
likely will make it harder for Kadima
to bring another large party, the
Orthodox Shas Party, into the coali-
tion.
Livni has until Oct. 20 to form a new
coalition government, although she
can ask President Shimon Peres for a
two-week extension.
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Zionism Chapter Rapped
New York/JTA — American Jewish
Committee is calling on a leading pub-
lishing house to withdraw a chapter on
Zionism in a new encyclopedia. The
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism is
published by Macmillan Reference USA,
a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. It is
available in print and online versions.
"It is incomprehensible that a
reputable publisher would include
the national movement of the Jewish
people, Zionism, in an encyclopedia on
racism;' said AJC Executive Director
David Harris. "No other form of
nationalism is included in the three-
volume encyclopedia."
In a letter to Frank Menchaca, Gale's
executive vice president and publisher,
AJC not only questioned why Zionism
was included in the encyclopedia, but
also pointed out a number of factual
and historical inaccuracies in the
chapter. The author of the Zionism
chapter, Noel Ignatiev, has no track
record of scholarship in Middle
Eastern or Jewish studies, but his pre-
vious writings show an inherent bias
toward Jews and Israel, says the AJC.
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'Obsession' Blasted
Washington/JTA — An interfaith
group blasted the creators and distrib-
utors of a film critical of radical Islam.
At a news conference in Washington,
Interfaith Alliance chairman Rabbi
Jack Moline described the film
Obsession: Radical Islam's War with the
West as a "thinly veiled call for dispar-
agement and distrust of all Muslims."
By "exercising the rights guaranteed
to them by the Constitution:' the film's
distributors have "attempted, by infer-
ence and innuendo, to limit the rights
of Muslims to enjoy the free exercise
of their faith:' Moline said.
Twenty-eight million DVD copies
of the film were distributed in U.S.
presidential election swing states by the
Clarion Fund, a nonprofit organization
founded by Raphael Shore, a producer
and co-writer of the film. Shore also
works for the Aish HaTorah, but that
group has said it is not involved in the
distribution and that Shore's involvement
with the film was in his free time.
Temple Mount Shul Opens
Jerusalem/JTA — A synagogue near
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's
Muslim Quarter was reopened. The
Ohel Yitzhak Synagogue was aban-
doned in 1938 by a group of fervently
Orthodox, or Charedi, Jews called the
Shomrei Hachomot, or Guardians of
the Walls, in the face of Arab violence.
It is also known as the Ungarin Shul
since it was founded by Hungarian
Jews in 1904, according to the
Jerusalem Post.
American philanthropists Irving
and Cherna Moskowitz bought the
property rights to the synagogue,
which is located about 100 yards
from the Temple Mount, and funded
the refurbishing. The Temple Mount,
home also to the Dome of the Rock
mosque, has been at the center of ten-
sion between Jews and Arabs, particu-
larly in the past two decades.
N.Y. Federation Reserves
New York/JTA — North America's
largest Jewish federation may tap
into reserve funds to deal with the
economic crisis. Officials at the UJA-
Federation of New York said that
they were prepared to dip into their
reserves to help out agencies in dire
need sustain their services, the CEO of
the federation, John Ruskay, told the
New York Jewish Week.
The UJWs endowment, which holds
most of the reserve money, doubled
to about $850 million over the past
five years, and the money could be
used to help agencies in New York that
have been hit hard by the economic
crisis. The federation already has given
an emergency grant of $400,000 to
the Metropolitan Council on Jewish
Poverty to help sustain its food bank.