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ROUNDUP
Roundup from page 10
Eat Right, Exercise
New York/JTA
Conservative rabbis
are being asked to adopt healthy eating,
exercise and lifestyle habits. Rabbi Julie
Schonfeld, the executive vice president
of the Rabbinical Assembly, is asking
her colleagues to join the U.S. president's
fitness challenge as
part of a new initia-
tive called The Shalem
Campaign, which will
launch on Jan. 1.
It is the first time
that a rabbinic group
has issued a fitness
challenge, according
Rabbi
to the Rabbinical
Schonfeld
Assembly.
"With so many people facing sig-
nificant stress, healthy lifestyle habits
often fall by the wayside Schonfeld
said. "Now, more than ever, we need our
leaders to provide a model for investing
in our own health as a contribution to
our families and communities as well
as to ourselves. Rabbis interact with
people on so many levels, at every stage
of the lifecycle. If they model positive
values of physical, mental and spiritual
health, it will only have a positive effect
on members of the community and the
public!'
Rabbis Lisa Gelber and Aaron Gaber,
co-chairs of The Shalem Campaign,
said in a letter to their colleagues, "As
rabbis, we are in a unique position to
model for our communities, whether
we work in a traditional congregational
setting, a school, a hospital, an agency
— wherever we find our calling —
what it means to make fitness a part of
our daily (or weekly) lives. This means
making mindful: decisions about how,
when and where we'll exercise; envi-
sioning physical fitness as a personal
and professional need, we commit to
creating more balance in our bodies
and our lives. Improving our behaviors
in relation to fitness, we take respon-
sibility for what we can control in our
lives and practice letting go of what
comes with our genes."
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Washington/JTA The U.S. House of
Representatives overwhelmingly passed
sanctions against Iran's energy sec-
tor. The Iran Refined
Petroleum Sanctions
Act of 2009 (H.R.
2194), cosponsored by
Rep. Gary Peters, D-
Bloomfield Township,
was approved on Dec.
15 by a vote of 412-12,
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The bill will strengthen the presi-
dent's authority to sanction compa-
nies that help Iran import or produce
refined petroleum, which is seen as
potentially having a large impact on
Iran's economy because the country
imports 40 percent of its refined petro-
leum. The measure also requires the
White House to report 90 days after
passage, and every six months there-
after, on any person who has provided
Iran with refined petroleum or engaged
in any activity that would assist them
in acquiring it.
Iran imports more than 40 percent of
its supply of gasoline and other refined
petroleum products. "Despite being a
leading producer of crude oil;' Peters
said from he House floor, "Iran can-
not adequately meet its own needs for
refined petroleum products. Enacting
sanctions to restrict the imports of
those products into Iran is important
leverage we must have to ensure the
security of the United States, Israel, and
our allies around the world.
"Passing tough sanctions today will
show Iran, and the global community,
that the United States will not stand
idle as Iran attempts to amass a nuclear
arsenal."
A Senate version of the bill is unlikely
to pass before the beginning of next
year, after the Obama administration
urged the body to slow down progress
on the legislation as it attempts to gar-
ner backing for multilateral sanctions.
The Obama administration also wants
to see some changes to the measure.
Virtually every major Jewish
organization backed the legislation;
Amfficans for Peace Now appears to be
the only organization that opposed it.
"This measure sends a strong mes-
sage to Iran, and to our friends in the
international community, that the United
States has the will to act to prevent Iran
from acquiring a nuclear weapons capa-
bility'," the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee said in a statement.
Iran Tests New Missile
Tehran/JTA Iran said it has success-
fully test-fired a new missile capable
of reaching Israel and U.S. military
bases. The Sejil-2 missile is a two-stage
surface-to-surface missile, and has a
longer range than the older Shahab-3
missile, Iran state television reported
Dec. 23 during its announcement of the
successful test.
The missile reportedly hit its tar-
get. State television showed what was
reported to be the missile launch.
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