Each winner -- the other two are Rabbi Stuart Seltzer, dean of Judaic studies at the Shoshana S. Cardin School in Baltimore, and Nili Simhai, director of the Teva Learning Center in New York -- will receive $36,000. In addition, each of their institutions will receive $5,000; employed by two agencies, Brown has asked that the funding go to the federation, which had nominated her for the award.

"The Covenant Award gives deserved recognition to those doing extraordinary and innovative work on the ground -- in our classrooms, our synagogues, our camps and other settings where Jewish education is an objective and priority," Harlene Winnick Appelman, executive director of The Covenant Foundation and 1991 Covenant Award recipient, said in a statement.

Jewish educational and communal leaders supporting Brown's nomination for a Covenant Award cited the expansiveness of her educational outreach, and her ability to engage and commit her students to action, both in their own Jewish lives, and in the greater community, according to a press statement.

"I am not sure how I will use the grant, but very much am honored by the recognition," Brown said in an e-mail.

Court reopens

AMIA bombing probe

The Argentina Supreme Court has ordered the reopening of the investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

The court ruled 4-2 that Carlos Telledin, a former car mechanic who had been acquitted of involvement in the attack on the AMIA center, will be retried, Ynet reported. Telledin allegedly provided a van filled with explosives that was used in the bombing, which killed 85 and wounded hundreds.

The Supreme Court criticized the judge in the original trial, saying he was pressured by a local terror network affiliated with Hezbollah.

Jews top

Australia's rich list

Australia's three wealthiest individuals are high-profile members of the Jewish community, according to an annual list.

BRW magazine's Rich 200 list published this week named Anthony Pratt, who inherited his father Richard's packaging and recycling company when he died last month, as the nation's wealthiest individual, followed by shopping mall magnate Frank Lowy and property mogul Harry Triguboff.

Pratt was listed with a fortune worth $3.35 billion, according to the magazine. Visy Industries, the company his father expanded into a global empire, has factories in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the United States, where it employs about 3,000 staff in 26 states. The Pratt Foundation donates about $11 million a year to charities in Israel, America and Australia.

Lowy, 78, who survived the Holocaust before fighting in Israel's War of Independence, has accrued $3.3 billion as founder of the Westfield Group, the world's largest shopping mall owner with outlets in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and America.

Lowy established for $40 million the Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2002 as a gift to Australia on the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the country. In 2006 he founded the Israeli Institute for National Strategy and Policy, which operates within Tel Aviv University.

Triguboff, 76, who has made his fortune via his property development company, Meriton, is listed at $2.85 billion. He is the patron of the Jewish National Fund in New South Wales and is a longstanding supporter of the Yeshiva Center in Sydney, which houses the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in the state.

French anti-Zionist party

slogans concern Jews

French Jews are shocked and outraged by an anti-Zionist party's campaign slogans for upcoming European Union Parliament elections.

Campaign graphics showing a crossed-out Israeli flag over a map of France "constitute an insult and a threat to oust Jews from their country," said the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, in a May 28 statement. In its statement, the bureau said that it had been flooded with calls from concerned Jews who see the current anti-Zionist party campaign as "propaganda that reminds them of the darkest days of the 20th century" leading up to the Holocaust.

The group also asked the interior minister to block the anti-Zionist party from participating in the June 7 European elections.

-- by Aaron Leibel with reports from JTA News and Features and other sources