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Briefs: Gore,=20 Oz among Dan Prize winners; Dems dis Lieberman

Halivni Wins=20 Israel Prize

Rabbi David Halivni won the Israel Prize = for=20 Talmud. Halivni, who made aliyah in 2005, wrote a seven-volume = commentary=20 on the Talmud. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew = University,=20 and was a professor for many years at Columbia University in New = York. The=20 founder of the Union for Traditional Judaism, a = transdenominational=20 religious organization that has attracted thousands of Orthodox = and=20 traditionally observant Jews, Halivni was born in Ukraine in 1927 = and was=20 ordained at the age of 15. He was the only member of his family to = survive=20 the Holocaust. The Israel Prize, the highest honor in Israel, will = be=20 awarded on Israel Independence Day, observed this year on May=20 8.



Gore, Oz Among Dan Prize = winners

Al Gore,=20 Tom Stoppard and Amoz Oz are among the 2008 Dan David Prize = winners. The=20 winners in each category from three time dimensions -- past, = present and=20 future -- will be presented $1 million prizes in a ceremony in May = at Tel=20 Aviv University.

Oz, an Israeli author, and Stoppard, a = British=20 playwright, share the prize in the past category in the field of=20 literature, theater and film with Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. = Gore,=20 the former U.S. vice president and a Nobel Prize winner, won in = the=20 present category in the field of social responsibility with = emphasis on=20 the environment. Sharing the prize in the future category, in the = field of=20 geosciences, are American professors Ellen Moseley-Thompson and = Lonnie=20 Thompson of Ohio State University, and British scientist Geoffrey=20 Eglinton.

The Dan David Prize each year rewards = achievements that=20 have an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social = impact=20 on the world. Founded in 2001, the prize is named for = international=20 businessman and philanthropist Dan David and headquartered at Tel = Aviv=20 University.



Palestinian Population = Soars

The=20 Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east = Jerusalem has=20 grown 30 percent over the past decade, a census found. The = Palestinian=20 Authority's Central Bureau of Statistics, having completed its = first=20 census in a decade, announced Saturday that the Palestinian = population=20 stands at 3.76 million, up from 2.89 million in 1997. The figures = could=20 bolster Palestinian Authority demands for Israel, which quit Gaza = in 2005,=20 to cede large parts of the West Bank and even east Jerusalem under = peace=20 talks that were revived in November.

Israeli Prime = Minister Ehud=20 Olmert, like his predecessor Ariel Sharon, argues that a growing=20 Palestinian population in the territories, as well as a relatively = high=20 birth rate among Israel's Arab citizens, poses a "demographic = threat" to=20 the Jewish state. The answer to this threat, Olmert says, is a = Palestinian=20 state. Israeli demographers in the past have accused Palestinian = census=20 takers of inflating population figures for the sake of political = gain.=20 There was no immediate Israeli response to the latest census.=20

Israel's population of 7.2 million is 80 percent Jewish = and=20 approximately 20 percent Arab. Palestinians say they have as many = as 4=20 million compatriots living abroad as "exiled refugees" and who = also stake=20 a claim in future nationhood.



Kucinich Denies = AIPAC=20 Meeting

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) denied an = Internet=20 rumor that Jewish officials had offered to help him win = re-election if he=20 dropped impeachment efforts against President Bush. The rumor, = which has=20 gained traction in recent days on left-wing blogs, alleges that = U.S. House=20 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and several representatives = of the=20 American Israel Public Affairs Committee offered to "guarantee" = Kucinich's=20 re-election to the House if he dropped his effort to impeach = President=20 Bush and Vice-President Cheney.

According to the account, = Kucinich=20 threw them out of his office. An official in Kucinich's office = told JTA=20 Monday that the rumors were baseless.

"It never happened," = the=20 official said.



Gibson Honor Roils Irish=20 Rabbi

The Irish Film and Television Academy will pay = tribute to=20 Mel Gibson, an actor and director, at its award ceremony Feb. 17 = for his=20 contributions to world cinema. According to the Irish newspaper = the=20 Independent, a leading rabbi in Ireland condemned the recognition = for=20 Gibson in light of widely publicized anti-Semitic comments he made = to=20 California police officers after being arrested for drunk driving = in 2006.=20 The citation stresses Gibson's Irish roots -- his mother and = paternal=20 great-grandfather were Irish. Gibson also made his movie = "Braveheart" in=20 Ireland.

Ireland's Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism = has been=20 named an official partner of the ceremony, though the department = does not=20 fund the academy. The Gibson controversy comes on the heels of a=20 department inquiry into accusations that paintings stolen by the = Nazis=20 were on display in the Limerick Hunt=20 Museum.



Chicago-Area Synagogue is = Greenest

A=20 $10 million project earned The Jewish Reconstructionist = Congregation in=20 Evanston, Ill., the highest rating from the U.S. Green Building = Council's=20 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. The = "platinum"=20 rating was awarded for features such as using recycled concrete,=20 sensor-controlled lighting and a parking space reserved for a = hybrid car.=20 Six churches across the country have received similar = certification.=20

A synagogue in San Luis Obispo is seeking a lower silver = rating.=20 The Reconstructionist synagogue's energy costs will be about 45 = percent=20 less than a typical synagogue of the same = size.



No Dem=20 Delegate Status for Lieberman

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman = (I-Conn.)=20 will not get delegate status at the Democratic convention. = Lieberman=20 remains a registered Democrat and caucuses with the party in the = Senate=20 despite his 2006 reelection as an Independent after he lost the = Democratic=20 primary to Ned Lamont. That status might have qualified as a = "super=20 delegate," one of several hundred automatic delegates -- among = them,=20 Congress members -- who are not selected through the primaries and = caucus=20 system.

However, Connecticut state Democratic officials = told The=20 Hartford Courant that Lieberman's endorsement of U.S. Sen. John = McCain=20 (R-Ariz.) violates a rule against endorsing a candidate across the = aisle.



Briefs courtesy Jewish Telegraphic=20 = Agency



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