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High Court Rebuffs
Jerusalem Passport Law
JNS.org — The U.S. Supreme Court on
Monday struck down a law that enabled
Americans born in Jerusalem — which
the U.S. government does not recognize
as a part of any country — to list "born
in Israel" on their passports, on the
grounds that Congress overstepped the
president's authority on foreign affairs.
By a 6-3 vote, in an opinion written by
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme
Court said that "the power to recognize
foreign states and governments and their
territorial bounds is exclusive to the
Presidency."
The three Jewish justices, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena
Kagan, voted with the majority, along
with Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia
Sotomayor.
Dissenting were Chief Justice John
Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and
Samuel Alito.
The case in question involved a
12-year-old boy, Menachem Zivotofsky,
whose parents sought to list "Jerusalem,
Israel" as the birthplace on his U.S. pass-
port.
The U.S. government does not rec-
ognize any nation's sovereignty over
Jerusalem and maintains that its status
must be resolved through negotiations
between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel took control of the eastern portion
of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day
War and considers the entire city to be
its eternal and undivided capital.
In 2002, Congress passed the Foreign
Relations Authorization Act, which
included a section that mandated rec-
ognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
At the time, President George W. Bush
signed the law, but issued a statement
saying that it violates the president's for-
eign relations authority.
Additionally, Congress has called on
the U.S. to move its embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem through the Jerusalem
Embassy Act of 1995. But Presidents Bill
Clinton, Bush and Barack Obama have
all delayed the move out of "national
security concerns?'
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QUICK CLICK ... Vignettes From The JN Archives
Mike Smith
Detroit Jewish News
Foundation Archivist
L
ive and learn. Kari Alterman
wrote to me about an error in my
Quick Click on Bert Ruby, her
great-uncle. A source I used was not reli-
able — Ruby was born in Ermihalyfalva,
Hungary (now Valea Lui Mihai,
Romania), not Columbus, Ohio.
I do apologize for my error. But, there
is a very good side to my mistake: I
learned some very interesting facts about
Ruby.
Ruby was a generous man, and
through his promotion of wrestling
shows in Michigan, raised a lot of money
for charities. If one searches the pages of
the JN, it is also evident that both Bert
and his wife, Irene, were deeply involved
in Detroit's Jewish community. But, the
Rubys' humanity went beyond their
public work, and the most heartwarming
story was not reported in the papers.
Emery Grosinger, Alterman's father
and Rudy's nephew, was an orphaned,
teenage Holocaust survivor. He
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arrived in Detroit in 1948, and Bert and
Irene took him in as if he was their own
son.
So, while Ruby, the "Maygar Hercules,"
was a big man, his heart was bigger.
Thanks for writing to me, Kari!
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