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From there the trail grows tenuous and circumstantial. The mailbox on the Brooklyn apartment bears the names of both Elgabrowny and his cousin El Sayyid Nosair, who is serving a prison term on weapons-possession charges related to the 1990 slaying of Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Zionist zealot. Salameh is known to have worshipped at a Jersey City mosque -- actually a bare room under a leaky roof -- where he would have heard the fiery sermons of Sheik Omar Abdel- Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt whom the U.S. government is trying to deport. The sheik vocally advocates overthrow...
Acting Hillel Director Rabbi Sally R. Finestone, who worked with the FDO on scheduling, said "They were a wonderful help and assistance. I'm delighted with the amount of foresight they have shown...
...possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look for the issue to spark discussions...
...When Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesenthal Center's founder, began planning the Beit Hashoah in the early 1980s, he envisioned a rather conventional Holocaust museum. But he soon realized that it should be more. "We're talking about the eradication of hatred," he explains. "We have no guarantee that future Holocaust victims will be Jews." Karl Katz, a museum designer who helped plan the Beit Hashoah, recalls intense arguments about the plans: "You ask yourself what happens between the time a human being is born and the time he incinerates someone. How do you stop that attitude? We tried lots...
Acting Hillel Director Rabbi Saliv A. Einestone said she thought the panel "realistically laid out the challenges both groups face" and that the speeches by Ogletree, Gates and Jackson "gave backing to what we've been saying all along...