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it will add about 120 staff members
to its current 300 posted in capitals
around the world, open new offices
and expand the translation of its
approximately 100 reports a year, the
Times reported.
Based in New York, the organiza-
tion was founded in 1978. It is funded
solely by private donations.

Temple Hosts
Europe Tour
OAK PARK — Rabbi
Klein of Temple
Emanu-El in Oak
Park will lead a two-
week trip to Eastern
Europe, May 1-15,
Rabbi Joseph
2011. The itinerary
Klein
includes two nights
in Budapest, four nights in Prague, two
nights in Krakow, one night in Lublin
and four nights in Warsaw.
Trip features will include a din-
ner cruise along the Danube and
an evening cruise on the Moldau
River; the Prague Judaica collec-
tions; erev Shabbat worship in
Prague; erev Shabbat worship at
Warsaw's Progressive synagogue and
Shabbat morning at the only pre-war
synagogue (Orthodox) in Warsaw;
an evening concert in Prague; Israel
Independence Day celebration in
Krakow (if available); and, of course,
Holocaust Memorials.
The projected cost is $3,880/person
(double occupancy), which includes
roundtrip airfare, all transportation,
all hotels, all breakfasts, nine dinners
and four lunches.
Beginning with two nights in
Budapest, there will be four nights
in Prague, two nights in Krakow, one
night in Lublin and four nights in
Warsaw.
Space is limited and Temple Emanu-
El members have priority, but Rabbi
Klein is opening the trip up to regis-
trations from the general community
on Oct. 15. Contact him at rabbi@
rabbiklein.com or (248) 967-4020 for
a copy of the itinerary and registration
information.

Synagogue Attacked
KYRGYZ (JTA) — Police are investi-
gating an attack on a synagogue in the
capital of Kyrgyzstan.
A bomb packed with nails blew up
after it was thrown into the courtyard
of the synagogue in Bishkek an hour
before the start of Rosh Hashanah
services on Sept. 9, Radio Free Europe
reported. The bomb landed in a small
pool of water, which minimized the

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damage, according to the report.
There are at least 1,300 Jews in
Kyrgyzstan, the majority in Bishkek.
The synagogue was firebombed in
April after the government was over-
thrown in a coup.

Jewish Officer Sues L.A.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Jewish
sheriff's deputy who arrested actor
Mel Gibson for drunken driving is
suing his department for harassment
since the July 2006 incident.
Because he reported the requests
of superiors to remove Gibson's
anti-Semitic tirade from the initial
arrest report, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department has continuously
passed him over for deserved promo-
tions and retaliated in other ways,
James Mee charged in his suit, the Los
Angeles Times reported Sept. 8.
When Gibson was stopped on the
Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on
suspicion of driving under the influ-
ence, he asked Mee, "Are you a Jew?"
and then ranted, "The Jews are respon-
sible for all the wars in the world:'
Mee, 55, included Gibson's remarks
in his initial report to illustrate how
drunk the actor was, but said that
superiors told him to put the Gibson
slurs in a separate report not available
to the public.
Yael Trock, Mee's attorney, charged
that the request by Mee's superiors
stemmed from Gibson's celebrity
status and friendship with Sheriff
Lee Baca. Mee, who still works as a
sheriff's deputy, agreed to the separate
report, but its content was made public
immediately by a Hollywood website.
Mee was suspected of leaking the
report "because he is Jewish:' Trock
allegedly said; the deputy has consis-
tently denied the charge. A department
spokesman denied Mee's allegations of
retaliation and ethnic discrimination.
After his 2006 arrest, Gibson apolo-
gized to the Jewish community for his
anti-Semitic outburst.

Invalid Israeli Conversions?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The conver-
sions to Judaism of perhaps thousands
of Israeli soldiers that were performed
by the military rabbinate are not valid,
a state attorney said.
The conversions are invalid, the
state prosecutor told Israel's Supreme
Court justices on Sept. 6, because
they were not approved by the Chief
Rabbinate and often were conducted
by rabbis who are not recognized as

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