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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Bush to meet with Jewish educators
President Bush will meet with leading Jewish educators.
Bush will use his annual Chanukah meeting with Jewish leaders, set for Dec. 18, to focus on higher education.
He plans to meet with leaders of Hillel, Chabad and Jewish universities, as well as some students.
Also Monday, Bush will light the White House menorah and host the White House’s annual Chanukah party.
Orthodox historian barred from bimah
An Orthodox historian who published a book on Jewish anti-Zionism said he was prevented from giving a blessing from the bimah in Dublin’s main synagogue.
University of Montreal professor Yakov Rabkin, whose book “A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism” charts the history of religious objections to Zionism, tried during Shabbat services Saturday to recite a thanksgiving blessing after crossing the ocean, but was stopped by two members of the congregation.
In a letter published in Wednesday’s Irish Times, Rabkin complained that Dublin Jews had “yet to come terms with the contradictions” between religion and ideology, and therefore were “hostile” even to writing about Jewish opposition to Zionism.
Community members said they objected not to Rabkin’s political views or scholarship, but to the fact that he was in Ireland to promote his book at the invitation of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, an anti-Israel organization regarded by many in the community as a hate group.
Israeli gets 3 years for church bombing
An Israeli man was sentenced to three years in prison for attacking a Nazareth church.
Haim Eliahu Havivi,his wife, Violette, and their daughter entered the Basilica of the Annunciation in March with a baby stroller loaded with firecrackers and gas canisters.
Ensuing riots left 13 police officers and 13 civilians wounded, as well as four cars in flames.
Violette Havivi, who is Christian, received a six-month suspended sentence.
The couple were convicted in September of conspiring to commit a crime, incitement, general mayhem and unruly behavior in a public place.
Ontario, Israel share emergency tips
Ontario officials traveled to Israel to share expertise on emergency services.
Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter headed a delegation last month that included Ontario Deputy Fire Marshal Doug Crawford and Toronto Fire Chief Bill Stewart.
They were accompanied by Steven Shulman, a representative of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The group met with the Jerusalem Police’s anti-terror unit, toured a hospital to learn about emergency triage for mass-casualty events and shared their own expertise with local emergency services personnel.
“The Israelis are particularly interested in Ontario’s Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, because its emphasis on fire prevention and public education have had a significant impact on the preventable fire-death rate in Ontario,” Kwinter said.
Over the past two years, Israeli fire officials have received training at the Ontario Fire College.
Last year 39 Ontario police chiefs went to Israel to learn about counterterrorism measures.
Saudi envoy talks about common interests
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington discussed areas of common interest with Israel when he met with a pro-Israel group.
Leaders of the Israel Policy Forum, a group that backs increased U.S. engagement in the Middle East, met Monday with the ambassadors of Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Syria, and met last week in New York with the Egyptian ambassador.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi envoy, stressed “the growing commonality of interests between Israel and the kingdom in the wake of Iran’s ascendancy,” an IPF statement said.
The meeting was Prince Turki’s last before his sudden resignation from the post this week and his return to Saudi Arabia.
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