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Vandalized - Mosque Visit
HEBRON (JTA) -- Rabbis from West
Bank settlements visiting a vandal-
ized mosque brought Korans to replace
burned holy books.
Peace activist and Rabbi Menachem
Froman of Tekoa led the delegation that
arrived on Oct. 5 in the Hebron-area vil-
lage of Beit Fajar. It also included Rabbi
Aharon Lichtenstein, head of the Har
Etzion Yeshiva, and another rabbi from
the yeshivah, Shlomo Brin; and Shlomo
Rifkin, chief rabbi of Efrat. The new cop-
ies of the Koran replaced those burned
in the Oct. 3 arson attack.
The rabbis were under heavy secu-
rity during the
visit, escorted by
Israeli officers and
guarded by dozens
of Palestinian police-
men, according to
reports.
"Our goal is to
Rabbi Froman
share our horror
at the attack of the
mosque and to clearly state that this is
not the way of the Torah or the Jewish
way:' Brin said.
"This act does nothing for the settle-
ments; it is morally and religiously
wrong and is offensive to its core. This is
not how we educated our children. Islam
is not a hostile religion, even if we have a
dispute with some of its followers:'
Prayer rugs were burned in the attack
and graffiti was spray-painted on the
walls in Hebrew, including the words
"revenge" and "price tag',' referring to in-
kind reprisal of Jews against Palestinians
for attacks.
Palestinian villagers said they saw
Jews enter the village and destroy the
mosque. No arrests have been made.
It was the third Palestinian mosque
to be torched, allegedly by settlers, in the
past year.
"We condemn this attack in the stron-
gest terms and call for the perpetra-
tors to be brought to justice,' U.S. State
Department spokesman Philip Crowley
said.

Western Wall Plaza JERUSALEM
(JTA) -- A Jerusalem municipal plan-
ning committee approved a plan to make
sweeping changes to the Western Wall
plaza.
The plan approved on Oct. 4 by
the Jerusalem Planning and Building
Committee would completely change
the layout of the plaza, which was estab-
lished in 1967. It was the first step in a
long approvals process.
Despite a plan for a movable mechit-
zah between the men's and women's
sections, which would allow for the
enlargement of the women's section as
needed, women's groups have expressed
concerns about the new configuration,
believing that they are being squeezed
out.
The plan also is expected to anger the
Muslim community, which has protested
previous work on the plaza, such as the
construction of a temporary bridge to
the Mugrabi Gate entrance of the Temple
Mount in 2007.

Israeli Sports Talk Radio
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel's first all-
sports talk radio, Israel Sports Radio,
debuted in July. It features predominately
English-language broadcasts with eight
hours of original programming five days
a week. Subjects include American and
Israeli sports.
Israel Sports Radio is the brainchild
of Ari Louis and Andy Gershman,
former co-hosts of American Sports
Talk on Rusty Mike Radio, an Israeli
Internet broadcast in English, and Josh
Halickman, founder of the sports blog
"The Sports Rabbi:"

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
Kenneth O'Keefe, an American on
board the Turkish "aid" ship Mavi
Marmara last May when it was
boarded by Israeli forces, says the
ship's passengers were arrested,
beaten and starved by their captors.

The Answer
O'Keefe is a left-wing radical whose
ideology makes his account dubi-
ous. He speaks out against what he
calls "American imperialism" and
has called for the end of a Jewish-
majority state in the Middle East.

- Allan Gale

Jewish Community Relations Council

of Metropolitan Detroit

@ Jewish Renaissance Media • October 14 , 2010

