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>JN April 17, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 70
Passover Medication List on Internet
By IsraelWire
Persons wishing inquire if a specific medication is kosher for Passover may do so at http://www.bti.org.il/pesach/index.html. The English-language site lists medications under the supervision of the Eida Hareidit Rabbinical Council, the Clalit HMO and may be viewed on line, or downloaded in Word or PDF format.
Academy Award-Winning Documentary to be Toned Down
By IsraelWire
The producer of the award-winning documentary on the 1972 Olympic massacre in Munich has announced that the request by families of the slain Israeli athletes would be honored and scenes depicting the slain bodies would be blurred out in the future.
The film, "One Day in September," was awarded an Academy Award as the best documentary film in 1999. It depicts the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Also killed were one German policeman and five terrorists.
According to a report in the weekly German-based Focus Magazine, the German government decided to abandon plans to launch an investigation into the role of PLO Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat's connection to the 1972 massacre.
German security officials planned the investigation based on the book written by Arafat associate Abu Daoud, indicating the PLO leader was aware of the planned terrorist attack.
Focus reported that the ongoing Oslo process between Israel and the PA was among the considerations to drop the case, with government officials fearing an investigation into Arafat's past might jeopardize the attempts to bring peace to the Mideast.
Holy Week Coincides with Pesach
By Ross Dunn (VOA-Jerusalem)
Thousands of Christians have arrived in Israel for Holy Week, which began yesterday -- Palm Sunday -- and climaxes next Sunday -- Easter Sunday. Priests and pilgrims alike attach great importance to visiting sites associated with critical dates on the Christian calendar.
In churches throughout Jerusalem's walled Old City, the bells are hailing Holy Week, one of the holiest seasons in the Christian world. Palm Sunday recounted the events in New Testament, when Jesus arrived in the city on a donkey.
This seemingly simple event has echoed down through the centuries says, Peter Wells, the director of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, the place where some believe Jesus was buried and rose from the dead.
He says that Jesus' humble entry into Jerusalem powerfully symbolized his mission to save the world from sin.
"The very fact of coming in on a donkey, on a beast of burden, a humble animal, not coming in riding a fine stallion, not coming in as the conquering king but coming in as the suffering servant, as the one who knew that his mission was to be crucified, to be crucified and rejected and I think that the very humble way he came in and subsequently humbly washed the disciples' feet was I think trying to convey that his mission was a spiritual mission to address the human problem, of the sin of the human heart, rather than to come in as the great liberation hero to set the captives free, he was actually dealing with a quite different bondage that we are suffering from."
While pilgrimage to the sites in Jerusalem associated with the events of Easter is not mandatory for Christians, some priests say that a visit to the Holy Land can enhance one's spiritual life.
Rev Maxwell Craig, of the Church of Scotland's St. Andrews' Church in Jerusalem, firmly holds the view that many pilgrims benefit from their visit.
"I think that is very important indeed for them. I think there is a great difference in coming as a tourist and coming as a pilgrim. Not that there is anything wrong with tourism. We all do it and we enjoy it but a pilgrim has a quite particular goal and in this land that goal has very, very strong religious connotations of faith, whereas a tourist is seeing things, perhaps coming for entertainment, is not making progress in the way that a pilgrim is, who wants to come and walk the hills and streets that Jesus walked and talked in."
But it is not only Christians who are making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land at this time but also many Jews who are coming to celebrate the Jewish feast of Passover. The two overlapping events are no coincidence.
Jesus presided over a Passover meal, which has become known as the Last Supper, a critical moment in the series of events now being commemorated around the world during Holy Week.
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