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Two Arab-Owned Cars
Torched By Safed Vandals
Jerusalem (JTA) — Two cars owned by
Arab students at the Safed Academic
College were set on fire following a cam-
pus event to promote dialogue between
Jews and Arabs.
Anti-Arab graffiti also was spray-paint-
ed on the walls of the college following
last week's event. "Arabs get out;' "Death
to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" were
among the epithets.
The event broke down into heated dis-
cussions, including whether Arabs have a
place in the Jewish state, Haaretz reported.
The college condemned the incident.
Galilee police are searching for the vandals.
Tensions between Jews and Arabs in
the mixed city have been on the rise for
months, spurred by a call last fall from the
city's chief rabbi asking Jews not to rent to
non-Jews, specifically Arabs. Many Arab
students attend the college and rent apart-
ments nearby.
Israel To Remove
Border Mine Fields
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's Knesset unani-
mously passed legislation that authorizes
the removal of land mines throughout the
country. The bill, which passed its second
and third readings by a vote of 43-0, cre-
ates the National Authority for Land Mine
Clearance.
The efforts of Daniel Yuval, 12, who lost
his leg after stepping on a land mine last
year during a hike in the Golan Heights,
helped to advance the measure. The
Israeli government will commit about
$7.5 million to the clearing effort; the rest
is expected to come from humanitarian
organizations.
The Israeli military began remov-
ing mines along the border with Jordan
last month, according to Haaretz, which
reported that as many as 400,000 mines
are buried along that border. Hundreds
of mines also are buried in the Golan
Heights, facing Syria.
'Embassy-In-Jerusalem' Bill
Circulating In U.S. House
Washington (JTA) — Top Republicans
in the U.S. House of Representatives are
circulating a bill that would strip the
president of his power to waive a law
requiring him to move the U.S. embassy to
Jerusalem.
The bill, launched March 10 and
sponsored by Rep. Dan Burton (Rind.),
the chairman of the House's Europe
Subcommittee, is also backed by Rep.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chair-
woman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, and Rep. Steve Chabot
(R-Ohio), the chairman of the House
Middle East Subcommittee — all but
guaranteeing its passage in the Foreign
Affairs Committee and referral to the full
House.
President Obama, like his predecessors,
Presidents Bush and Clinton, has consis-
tently invoked the national security waiver
in the 1995 law that first required such a
move.
Thus far, the bill has 10 Republican
sponsors and two Democrats.
U.S. To Investigate
Campus Atmoshere
Washington (JTA) — The U.S. Department
of Education's Office of Civil Rights
launched an investigation into a complaint
of a hostile environment for Jewish stu-
dents at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
"The rhetoric — which demonizes
Israel, compares contemporary Israeli
policy to that of the Nazis, calls for the
dismantling of the Jewish state, and holds
Israel to an impossible double standard
— crosses the line into anti-Semitism
according to the standards employed by
our own government:' said the complaint
filed in June 2009 by Tammi Rossman-
Benjamin. She teaches Hebrew at the
university.
Sen. Gillibrand Presses Army
To Let Chaplains Wear Beards
Washington (JTA)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand urged the U.S. Army to modify
a regulation banning facial hair in order to
allow rabbis to serve as chaplains.
"It is my understanding that a review
of this policy is currently under way at
the Department of Defense Gillibrand
(D-N.Y.) wrote recently to Army Secretary
John McHugh. "I write to strongly urge
that while this review is ongoing, the
Army grant waivers of this policy to pro-
spective chaplains who are otherwise fully
qualified to serve!'
In December, Rabbi Menachem Stern
sued the Army, saying it refused his ser-
vices as a chaplain because he would not
shave his beard. Gillibrand and other
senators had taken up Stern's case.
"Since writing to you last August about
the case of Rabbi Menachem M. Stern,
I have become aware of other instances
where qualified chaplains have been
told by their superiors that they cannot
display facial hair while serving in the
Army:' Gillibrand said in her letter. "This
discriminatory practice forces rabbis and
other members of the clergy to choose
between their deeply held religious beliefs
and their desire to serve their country in
the Armed Forces."
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Canada Adds Funding To
Toronto-Area Jewish Campus
Toronto (JTA) — Canada's federal govern-
ment will contribute up to $15 million
toward the building of a massive Jewish
community campus north of Toronto.
Last week's announcement was made by
Julian Fantino, Canada's minister of state
for seniors. The federal funds will support
the third phase of the Joseph and Wolf
Lebovic Jewish Community Campus proj-
ect, a sprawling 50-acre site in the Toronto
suburb of Vaughan. Its services are to be
phased in from 2012 to 2016.
The final phase of the project, to cost
$45 million, will include a conference
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Jerusalem (JTA) — An Israeli ice hockey
team of 10- to 13-year-olds, who mostly
practice on roller skates, won the gold
medal at a tournament in Canada.
The Bat Yam Club peewee team, made
up of boys from Bat Yam, Rishon Lezion,
Nes Ziona, Maalot and Kfar Saba in central
Israel, went undefeated in five games to take
the Division B title last month at the the
Bernieres-Saint-Redempteur International
Peewee Tournament in suburban Quebec
City, the Canadian Jewish News reported.
The tournament included 96 teams
from Canada, the United States, Finland,
France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and
Switzerland.
The 17 young Israelis, who were hosted
by the local Jewish community, finished
5-0 in the tournament, including a 7-3
victory in the final over the Seigneurs
Lotbiniere club of Quebec.
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is the Canada Center in Metulla, a two-
hour drive north; it is Israel's only ice
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hall, an outdoor pool and a number of
multi-purpose programming and meet-
ing facilities A Jewish high school already
is housed on the campus. The completed
project will include a network of health
and social services.
The Lebovic campus is one of three
Jewish community centers in the Toronto
area being funded by the United Jewish
Appeal of Greater Toronto's $225 million
Tomorrow Campaign.
To date, $180 million has been raised
for the project. "Our government remains
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