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The United States has offered
Israel several diplomatic and security
incentives in exchange for a two-
month extension. Netanyahu has said
that his government would fall if he
extends the freeze, though he offered
a freeze extension in exchange for
Palestinian recognition of Israel as a
Jewish state.
Meanwhile, Yasser Abed Rabbo, the
Palestinian Liberation Organization
executive committee secretary, said
in an interview published Saturday in
al-Hayat that the Palestinians would
consider breaking agreements signed
with Israel, such as the Oslo Accords,
which set up the framework for peace
negotiations.
"The situation in which one side
will be bound by the agreements for-
ever while the other side violates them
to the point of annulling them entirely
cannot continue Rabbo said. "If Israel
continues with its current policy, the
moment may come when we will re-
examine these agreements."
Rabbo also accused Netanyahu
of "forming an alliance with the
American right to weaken President
Barack Obama's government!'
Russian Census Falls
MOSCOW (JTA) -- The Russian cen-
sus under way will show a Jewish
decline of as much as 25 percent, a
specialist on Russian Jewish demog-
raphy predicts.
The estimate by Mark Kupovetsky,
director of biblical and Judaic studies
at the Russian State University for the
Humanities, for the 2010 census is
based on the stable decline of the
Jewish population in Russia over the
past years, as death rates rise and
birthrates fall.
Kupovetsky told the Russian news
agency MA Novosti at a news confer-
ence last week that he believes the
current census will show 40,000 to
60,000 fewer Jews than the 233,000
Jews from the most recent Russian
census, in 2002. The first post-World
War II census, in 1959, revealed
875,000 Jews.
Census workers frequently fail to
ask respondents to declare their eth-
nic origins, Kupovetsky said.
Evgenia Mikhalyova, head of the
Federal Jewish Cultural Autonomy,
told JTA that she declared herself
Jewish only to be asked by the inter-
viewer, "Are you positive?"
Kupovetsky said the Jewish birth-
rate is dropping because the majority
of the Jewish population is urbanized
and families have one or two chil-
dren.
According to the demographer, half
of the Jewish population in Russia
lives in Moscow and its suburbs, and
20 percent lives in the St. Petersburg
area. The rest reside in cities with
populations over 1 million.
Ongoing assimilation is another
reason for the decline of the Jewish
population in Russia, according to
Kupovetsky. Up to 90 percent of
Russia's Jewish children now come
from mixed marriages, he said.
In addition, between the census of
1989 and that of 2002, about 40 per-
cent of the Jewish population left the
country.
Emigration does not play a signifi-
cant part in the Jewish population
numbers, since it is counterbalanced
by re-immigration, Kupovetsky said.
Berel Lazar, one of the two chief
rabbis of Russia, recently told the
German President Christian Woolf
that the Russian Jews who left for
Germany in the 1990s are now
streaming back to Russia.
The potential inaccuracies notwith-
standing, the census will serve as the
only source of information about the
numbers of the Jewish population in
Russia because since the 1990s, no
statistical data on mortality, mar-
riages and birth have been collected
based on ethnic groups.
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
This month, UNESCO, the United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization, warned
Israel about its archeological exca-
vations in Jerusalem, calling some
of the activities "destructive."
The Answer
When the Muslim religious coun-
cil literally bulldozed parts of
Jerusalem's Temple Mount earlier
this decade, disturbing the arche-
ology there, the world remained
mainly silent. But when Israel,
which has very strict laws on
protection of historic sites, takes
action, the Arab-dominated United
Nations reveals its bias.
— Allan Gale
Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
0 Jewish Renaissance Media, October 28, 2010