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to build support for the
institutional capacity and governance of
a future Palestinian State, including on
the rule of law; (2) to improve freedom
of movement and access for Palestinians;
(3) to encourage further private sector
investment; and (4) to bring change in
the living conditions of the people in
Gaza:'
Clinton, who is touring the Middle
East, spoke Sunday at the U.S.-Islamic
World Forum, an event in Qatar orga-
nized by the Washington D.C.-based
think tank, the Brookings Institution.
"We have encouraged the Palestinians
to pursue their home-grown plan to
build their institutions, end incitement,
improve security, to lay the founda-
tion for a future stable, democratic
Palestinian state,' she said.
President Obama stressed U.S. com-
mitment to a two-state solution in his
video message to the conference.

Ancient Excavation

Jerusalem/JTA — A large and
advanced 1,400-year-old wine press was
discovered in southern Israel.
The wine press was unearthed during
an excavation by the Israel Antiquities
Authority in a region southwest of
Kibbutz Hafetz Haim in the Nahal
Soreq Regional Council, the authority
announced Monday. The land is being
cleared to be the farmland for Ganei Tal,
a new community to be built for Gush
Katif evacuees.
The press was used to produce wine
during the Late Byzantine period, or
sixth and seventh centuries CE, accord-
ing to Uzi Ad, excavation director on
behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority,
and was partially damaged during the
installation of infrastructure on the land.
"The size of the wine press attests
to the fact that the quantity of wine
that was produced in it was exception-
ally large, and was not meant for local
consumption:' he said. "Instead, it was
intended for export, probably to Egypt,
which was a major export market at the
time, or to Europe. This is a complex
wine press that reflects a very high level
of technology for this period, which was
acquired and improved on from genera-
tion to generation."

JTS Cuts Cantorial Deanship

New York/JTA — Faced with a con-
tinuing financial crisis, the Jewish
Theological Seminary has eliminated the
position of dean of its cantorial school.
In an e-mail message Feb. 5, JTS
Chancellor Arnold Eisen announced the
elimination of the dean's position and
a major reorganization, the Forward

reported. The dean, Henry Rosenblum,
was laid off.
Cantorial students
at the Conservative
seminary will be
supervised now
by Rabbi Danny
Nevins, the dean of
the rabbinical school
and former spiri-
Rabbi Nevins
tual leader of Adat
Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills.
The announcement reportedly
sparked rumors that JTS was planning
to close down the cantorial program
or merge it with another seminary —
rumors the administration has denied.
"Despite the rumors that have been
circulating, we are not doing away with
our cantorial program," Provost Alan
Cooper wrote in a letter to the cantorial
faculty. "Far from being fearful or pessi-
mistic about the future of the cantorate,
we are more excited than ever about its
prospects."
Eisen told the Forward that
Rosenblum's layoff was not primarily a
cost-saving measure, but part of a wider
effort to make rabbinical and cantorial
training more effective.
"We can better accomplish it with a
unified structure than with one we've
had in the past:' Eisen said.

Kosher Milk In China

Beijing/JTA — A Beijing dairy has begun
distributing fresh kosher milk through-
out China. The first ton of the milk is
organic and cholev yisroel, a stricter
kosher standard acceptable to ultra-
Orthodox Jews, according to chabad.org .
Produced under the supervision of
Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing, the milk
meets European and American health
standards, the Web site states.
That assurance might alleviate con-
cerns about tainted milk that have been
at the center of several recent food scan-
dals in the Peoples Republic.
In the fall of 2008, more than 300,000
Chinese babies were sickened and six
died after drinking tainted infant for-
mula. Top company officials were sen-
tenced to death, but public distrust of the
dairy industry remains strong. Reporters
investigating the incident discovered
that such dangerous adulteration of milk
products had been going on for years.
The new kosher milk, which is also
supervised by Rabbi Padwa of the
London rabbinical court, will be pro-
duced monthly. It will be available in
eight areas where most of China's 10,000
Jews are found, including the cities of
Shanghai and Hong Kong.

