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October 1 2009
Babi Yar Hotel
Kiev/JTA
The Kiev municipality's
decision to build a hotel on the site of
the Babi Yar massacre memorial has
alarmed Ukraine's Jewish community.
Kiev officials approved a plan Sept.
17 to build 28 hotels to accommo-
date the tens of thousands of visitors
expected for soccer's 2012 European
Championship, including one at the
Babi Yar site, the UNIAN news agency
reported.
More than 33,700 Jews were gath-
ered and killed by the Nazis along
the Babi Yar ravines edge on Sept. 29
and 30, 1941. The Babi Yar memorial
is located in a residential area of the
Ukraine capital.
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Shalit Letters
Washington/JTA
Jewish Agency for
Israel lay leaders and community rep-
resentatives met with the Red Cross to
deliver letters written to Gilad Shalit.
At the meeting in Washington with
Gail McGovern, CEO of the American
Red Cross, and Mary Werntz, the head
of delegation of the International
Committee of the Red Cross, Jewish
Agency and Jewish Federation of
Greater Washington leaders delivered
hundreds of letters and postcards
for the captive Israeli soldier from
Americans across the country.
The delegation, which included
Jewish Agency board Members Dede
Feinberg and Norman Goldstein, and
Washington federation President Susie
Gelman and CEO Misha Galperin,
thanked the Red Cross for its efforts
to establish a line of communication
between Shalit and his family, and
urged the agency to continue to pres-
sure Hamas to afford Shalit the basic
rights of a prisoner of war under
international law.
Werntz expressed her thanks for the
letters and promised to send the cor-
respondence to Red Cross headquarters
in Geneva. She stressed that the Red
Cross is in regular contact with the
Shalit family and will not stop its efforts
until Shalit is released. Hamas abducted
Shalit in June 2006.
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Mikvah Uncovered
Jerusalem/JTA — A mikvah from
the end of the Second Temple period
was uncovered in excavations in the
Western Wall tunnels. The mikvah was
discovered inside the western hall of
a structure discovered about 66 feet
from the Western Wall.
According to the Israel Antiquities
Authority, the 2,000-year-old ritual
bath is among the most magnificent
structures from the Second Temple
period ever to be uncovered.
The structure currently being exca-
vated by the authority is comprised of
three halls and may be the bureau in
which the Sanhedrin, the Jewish high
court at the time of the Second Temple,
would convene.
Patient Autonomy
Washington/JTA — Two Orthodox
Jewish organizations filed a brief in
the case of a brain-dead man whose
family wanted to keep him on life sup-
port despite doctors' wishes.
Agudath Israel of America and the
Rabbinical Council of America filed an
amicus brief Monday that laid out the
case for patient autonomy.
The man, Ruben Betancourt, 73,
suffered oxygen deprivation during
surgery in March and was declared to
be in a persistent vegetative state. His
daughter wanted to keep her father on
life support, but doctors claimed that
they alone should have the final right
to decide when a patient is meaning-
fully alive and when to cease life-sus-
taining measures.
The New Jersey Superior Court
determined that Betancourt's daughter
had the right to decide her father's
care, a decision the hospital appealed.
He died before the appeal was heard.
Potential Terror
New York/JTA
U.S. counterterror-
ism officials have warned stadiums,
entertainment complexes and hotels of
potential attacks.
One of the bulletins issued to police
forces across the United States includ-
ed an excerpt from an Al Qaida train-
ing manual that lists "blasting and
destroying the places of amusement,
immorality and sin ... and attacking
vital economic centers" as potential
targets, the Associated Press reported.
Law enforcement officials also have
speculated that transit systems could
be potential targets based on reports
that a Colorado man, Najibullah Zazi,
a 24-year-old Afghani immigrant and
Denver airport van driver, in coopera-
tion with others, is suspected of plan-
ning to detonate backpack bombs on
New York City trains.
"Several individuals in the United
States, Pakistan and elsewhere" are
being investigated, according to an FBI
statement.
A U.S. counterterrorism task force
suspected Zazi of being involved in a
plot to use hydrogen peroxide-based
explosives to bomb transit systems.
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