| נשלח ב-28/1/2004 04:02 |
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פרישע קאנטערווערסיע מיטן גיבסאן מאווי
אידישע פירער האבען אריינגעכאפט מיט א פאלטשער אידענטיטעט צו זען דעם פילם פאר עס קומט ארויס פאבליק
אין ארויפגעברענגט דעם אויפברויז פון דעם גיבסאן קאמפאני
Gibson's Company Blasts Jews Who Saw 'Passion' Film 'in Stealth Mode'
By Kevin Eckstrom
Religion News Services
(RNS) Officials from Mel Gibson's Icon Productions film company blasted Jewish critics who used a fake church name to sneak into an advance screening of "The Passion of the Christ."
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said he viewed the film "in stealth mode" at an evangelical pastors' conference in Orlando, Fla., last Wednesday. Foxman and Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, the ADL's interfaith consultant, registered as pastors with the fictitious "Church of Truth" in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the film, Foxman said the film's portrayal of Jews was "painful to watch."
Foxman has warned that the film threatens to stir up anti-Semitism by blaming Jews for the death of Jesus. Gibson, who has hosted invitation-only screenings around the country, has refused to show the film to Foxman.
A statement from Gibson's company accused the two men of "deceit." John Maxwell, chairman of the Global Pastors Network that sponsored the convention, said, "I am disappointed they lied to get in."
Before seeing the film, participants were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement that stipulated they could speak only positively of the movie. Foxman did not sign the statement.
Foxman said he had no choice but to lie. "I am sorry we had to engage in stealth tactics, but only because he (Gibson) forced us to," he told the Orlando Sentinel. Foxman told The New York Times he initially felt bad about sneaking in, but then changed his mind.
"I decided yesterday, 'Why am I uncomfortable? Let him (Gibson) be uncomfortable.' For him to say, 'You can only see it if you love it'? I felt it was my moral duty to see it," he said.
Other Jewish leaders who saw the film last week said they went in openly. David Elcott, interfaith director for the American Jewish Committee, saw the film in Chicago and said he was "completely upfront" about his affiliation and was welcomed warmly.
Rabbi A. James Rudin, the AJC's senior interreligious affairs adviser, saw the film at the Orlando screening by paying the $195 registration fee. Rudin, who accurately listed his affiliation as a visiting professor at Saint Leo University, also did not sign the confidentiality agreement.
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| נשלח ב-18/4/2004 08:25 |
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וואס האט דאס מיט גיבסאן מאווי
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| נשלח ב-17/4/2004 00:30 |
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April 16, 2004
Crash Kills Man Moments After Son Is Born in Car
By RICHARD LEZIN JONES and MATTHEW C. McCUE
y dawn Wednesday, Atara Sasoon had already become a mother in a most remarkable fashion - giving birth to her son in the back seat of a car while her husband, Binyamin, drove his new family to the hospital.
Then she became a widow.
The police said that moments after the birth, Mr. Sasoon lost control of his car. It veered into a utility pole, killing him instantly. The force of the crash threw Ms. Sasoon from the car onto the side of Route 88 in Brick Township, N.J., the police said. Her newborn remained in the car, struggling to breathe, his umbilical cord severed by the impact.
Ms. Sasoon flagged down a passing driver. He resuscitated the baby as a 911 operator guided him over his cellphone.
"When God has you driving by for a reason and has you there, you better do what you're supposed to do," said Patrick Schlagenhaft, 35, the Samaritan who helped Ms. Sasoon and dismissed talk that he had done more than others might have.
The police said that the events, reported yesterday in The Asbury Park Press, began shortly before 5:30 Wednesday morning as Mr. Sasoon drove his wife from their home in Lakewood, N.J., to the Ocean Medical Center in Brick Township.
The couple, both 22, were about a mile from the hospital when Ms. Sasoon gave birth in the back seat, the police said. Moments later - the police theorize that Mr. Sasoon may have turned to help his wife - the car spun out of control in the rain on what the authorities said was a slick roadway and hit the pole.
A short time later, Mr. Schlagenhaft - who had left 15 minutes earlier than usual for his job as a manager at a Somerset County playground manufacturer - was driving along the same stretch of highway when he saw Ms. Sasoon emerge from the darkness and the fog, waving her arms.
"When I stopped, I could see the car right behind her," Mr. Schlagenhaft said.
He said that as he got out of his car to help, he reached for his cellphone to call emergency workers, thinking that she had been the only passenger in the car. Then, he said, Ms. Sasoon - who was unclothed from the waist down and bleeding heavily - turned to him and said, "You have to help my husband and my baby."
Mr. Schlagenhaft said that he moved quickly to a rear passenger door that had flung open and noticed a jacket lying on the floor. He heard a sound.
"I knew something under the jacket was alive," he said. He reached for the jacket and found the newborn lying face down, his hands over his face, having difficulty breathing.
By then the 911 operator was on the line and instructed Mr. Schlagenhaft on how to clear the infant's airway by wiping fluid from his nose and mouth. The child let out a cough and began crying, he said.
"The 911 operator said, 'Good job, I hear the baby,' " Mr. Schlagenhaft said.
He then gave the child to his mother and turned to help Mr. Sasoon, who was lying diagonally across the front seats. Mr. Schlagenhaft said that he checked Mr. Sasoon's vital signs and that a few moments later paramedics, who had begun arriving on the scene, confirmed what he feared. Mr. Sasoon was pronounced dead at the scene.
Both Ms. Sasoon and the baby boy, who was unnamed, were listed in fair condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune last evening, hospital officials said.
Mr. Schlagenhaft, who lives in Brick Township about half a mile from the scene of the accident, said that it struck a particular chord with him because his wife, Amy, is seven months pregnant with their child.
At the Lakewood home of the Sasoons, friends and family members - many of whom had recently celebrated Passover with the couple - kept vigil and mourned the loss of one life that occurred simultaneously with the start of another.
Mr. Sasoon, who was born in Israel, was remembered yesterday for his kindness and generosity.
"He was the type of guy who helped everybody," said Yosef Traube, 18, a former schoolmate. "He was a happy-go-lucky guy."
Friends said that the Sasoons had been looking forward to the birth of their child with much anticipation.
"All he wanted in life was to have his kid," Mr. Traube said. "His wife was very happy he got to see his child."
Richard Lezin Jones reported for this article from Newark and Matthew C. McCue from Brick Township, Lakewood and Neptune. Yaniv Gafner contributed reporting from Newark.
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| נשלח ב-20/2/2004 20:13 |
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גיבסאן'ס טאטע פרעדיגט ווייטער אנטיסעמיטזעם
הComments by Gibson's Father Raises Furor Just before 'The Passion' Opens
By Tracy Connor, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 19 - A week before Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus Christ hits theaters, his father has gone on an explosive rant against Jews -- claiming they fabricated the Holocaust and are conspiring to take over the world.
"They're after one world religion and one world government," Hutton Gibson, 85, said in a radio interview that will air Monday night.
"That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine."
In the bizarre interview, Gibson also said Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan should be lynched and called for the government to be overthrown.
The movie star's father has made outrageous statements about the Holocaust and Jewish conspiracies before.
But the timing of his latest comments is certain to fuel the uproar over his son's movie, "The Passion of The Christ," which opens Ash Wednesday.
Some critics say the movie blames Jews for the death of Christ and will provoke anti-Semitism, and they question why Mel Gibson hasn't denounced his father's views.
Hutton Gibson spoke Monday to Steve Feuerstein of "Speak Your Piece!" on WSNR (620 AM), a show syndicated by Talkline, the largest syndicator of Jewish programming.
Some of his most outrageous rants focused on the millions of Jews exterminated by Adolf Hitler.
"They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war, and they claimed after the war there were 200,000 -- therefore he must have killed 6 million of them," he said. "They simply got up and left! They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles."
He said the Germans did not have enough gas to cremate 6 million people and that the concentration camps were just "work camps."
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said.
Gibson repeatedly smeared prominent Jews as money-grubbing power-mongers.
"Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him."
He even belittled the Pope's reported endorsement of "The Passion," recounting how Mel referred to the pontiff as an "ass."
Gibson reserved most of his vitriol for Judaism, asking: "Is the Jew still actively anti-Christian? He is, for by being a Jew, he is anti-everyone else."
Mel Gibson's spokesman, Alan Nierob, had no comment on the elder Gibson's tirade.
But Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said they were the words of a "classical anti-Semite."
"If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny," he said.
He's troubled by Mel Gibson's failure to condemn his father's beliefs, and pointed to a recent interview where Gibson said his dad never lied to him.
"Well, he's been lying to the world, but it sounds like truth to the son? That's strange," Foxman said.
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