Friday, September 18, 1987/The Jewish Floridian of Tampa Page 3-B Rabbinate accepted the medical definition of brain death, meaning heart transplants would be permit- ted in Israel. JERUSALEM Shamir charged that Jews who leave the Soviet Union with Israeli visas but settle in other coun- tries gravely endanger efforts to increase Soviet Jewish emigration. JERUSALEM Some 1,000 people demonstrated here in favor of religious pluralism following the disrup- tion of a Simchat Torah ser- vice in a Reform synagogue by Orthodox Rabbi Eliahu Abergil. He later apologized, the Kol Haneshama synagogue dropped charges, and Abergil embraced Reform Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman. TEL AVIV Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin seem- ed to confirm in a speech to in- surance agents that Israel sup- plied arms to Iran to help the U.S. obtain the release of American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. JERUSALEM Police questioned and released on bail four leftists who headed the Israeli delegation that met in Bucharest with PLO representatives. TEL AVIV Rambam Hospital in Haifa said it would continue liver transplant operations despite the death of a second liver recipient, Eliahu Shreier, 18 days after surgery. JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers killed an Arab driver at a Gaza roadblock shortly after an Israeli Jew was ^tabb- ed in a Gaza marketplace in the third such attack in two months. JERUSALEM The government placed the debt- ridden Beit Shemesh engine plant, with 340 employees, in receivership. PARIS A powerful bomb exploded outside the main synagogue in Antwerp, caus- ing extensive damage but no casualties. The building was unoccupied at the time. NEW YORK Congrega- tion Bene Naharayim here, the first American-Iraqi synagogue, consecrated its ark and five Torah scrolls. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - About 50 farmers met with 100 local Jews in an effort to understand the growing farm crisis and each other. JERUSALEM Four young men were arrested in Rumania in connection with the burning of a synagogue in the town of Bohush in October and the stabbing of its Jewish janitor, who survived. JERUSALEM Shamir said that Israel did not violate British law in its transfer of alleged nuclear tattle-tale Mordechai Vanunu to Israel. He added that Israel "is not selling arms to Iran." JERUSALEM The war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk of Cleveland was set to open here Jan. 19. He is charged with committing atrocities at the Treblinka death camp where 900,000 Jews were murdered during World War II as the sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible." But at a hearing in District Court here, the first suspected Nazi war criminal extradited to Israel for trial said he was not "Ivan." CHICAGO Speaking at the Council of Jewish Federa- tions General Assembly here, Peres appealed to Jews not to split over religious and secular issues. JERUSALEM Knesset members reacted angrily to the Israeli confirmation that it supplied $12 million of U.S. arms to Iran "in response to an American request. BONN West Germany ex- pelled five Syrian diplomats, froze economic aid to Syria and said its Ambassador's post there will remain vacant this in the wake of a court fin- ding of Syrian complicity in the bombing of the German- Arab Friendships Society in West Berin. OF ALL KINDS R FREEMAN'S 4243 Henderson Blvd. Ph 874-1986 N E W A D D R E S S ttAWDADWs introduces their EARLY BIRD SPECIAL Mon.-Sat. 4:30-7:00. Sun. 4:0f>6:00 Chicken Fresh Fish or Prime Rib Bread, Soup or Salad, Dessert & Beverage s8.95 2500 Rocky Point Dr. Located on Rocky Pt. Island, off the Courtney Campbell Causeway 885-7407 Pinellas 442-1333 JERUSALEM Calm was apparently restored in the Old City after nine days of Jewish anti-Arab violence and van- dalism touched off by the fatal stabbing of yeshiva student Eliahu Amdi in the Moslem Quarter. It was the worst ethnic violence in the 20 years since Israel conquered East Jerusalem. WASHINGTON Jewish groups were shocked at the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Frank McGarr that a creche may stand at Chicago City Hall because the U.S. is a Christian nation. A federal ap- peals court overturned the decision in August. December, 1986 JERUSALEM Israel said it would allow its officials to testify before U.S. Congres- sional committees inquiring about the sales of U.S. arms to Iran. U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese had said "representatives of Israel" had deposited $10-$30 million of Iran arms funds in Swiss bank accounts maintained by the Contras. TEL AVIV The Soviets reportedly continued quiet contacts with Israel begun in October over establishing con- sular relations. PARIS Rumanian Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen blamed a proliferation of anti-Semitic articles for creating the climate in which a synagogue was burned in November. NEW YORK Fined finan- cier Ivan Boesky resigned from most of his Jewish com- munity involvements here, in- cluding the revocation of several six-figure pledges. JERUSALEM The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Interior Ministry cannot inscribe the word "converted" on the iden- tification card of a convert to Judaism. JERUSALEM The Cabinet ratified an agreement with Egypt to submit to inter- national arbitration the dispute over which country possesses Taba, a resort town on the Sinai border. 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