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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Washington state's insurance commissioner posted thousands of new policyholder records from the Holocaust era on the Internet to help survivors and their heirs file claims on policies that European insurers refused to pay after World War II.

Commissioner Deborah Senn said the posting at http://www.insurance.wa.gov would supplement lists already posted by her office and other groups, including the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.

In a related development, a new Web site to combat Holocaust denial is housed at Emory University, home to a professor who won a trial against a Holocaust denier earlier this year.

The site, http://www.HolocaustDenialOnTrial.org, is based on research conducted for Professor Deborah Lipstadt's defense against libel charges made by David Irving.

Fans kvell over kicker for victory in overtime

PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) -- A Jewish football player who traveled to Israel last winter on the Birthright Israel program scored the winning goal for the University of Oregon Ducks on Saturday.

Place kicker Josh Frankel scored with the 47-yard game-winning field goal in overtime, enabling the team to beat rival Washington State University 27-24 and achieve its highest national ranking ever.

Winners of seven straight games, Frankel and the Ducks are just three victories away from earning their first Rose Bowl appearance since 1994.

Black-Jewish dialogue returns to college scene

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A new project is trying to improve black-Jewish relations on U.S. college campuses.

The program sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life features dialogue centered around a new PBS documentary, "From Swastika to Jim Crow," a film centering on the uncertain future faced by 1930s Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany.

Confronted with anti-Semitism at American universities and a public distrust of foreigners, a surprising number sought refuge in a most unlikely place -- the traditionally black colleges in the then-segregated South. These scholars came to form lasting relationships with their African-American students.

The television premier is slated for February 2001.