Pao«4THE NEWS-Novmbar. 1982
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Anti-Semitism
in Latin America
JERUSALEM (JTA) - A
“wave of violent anti-
Semitism” has been sweep
ing across a number of coun
tries in Latin America.
The Mexican Jewish com
munity number some 50,000.
Against the backdrop of the
war in Lebanon and the dif
ficult economic situation in
Mexico, anti-Semitic incite
ment has arisen, fanned in
part by the media.
Anti-Semitic slogans
have been plastered on
synagogues and cemeteries,
and appear at some key
crossroads. Threats have
been made against the lives
of individual Jews and
bomb-threats have been
received by Jewish institu
tions.
A cartoon in Montevideo’s
leading daily, El Nacional,
showed Hitler saluting and
shouting, “Viva Israel.”
Many of the Jews ‘‘are sit
ting on suitcases in case the
situation worsens; they
would move out to the U.S.”
In Columbia there is “a
small but very rich Jewish
community” of some 7,000
persons, in Bogota, the
capital, the authorities have
kept any latent anti-
Semitism under control. But
a pro-PLO demonstration in
the oil town of Barranquilla
turned ugly, with cries of
“death to the Jews.”
Odd Couple
(Jewish Post and Opinion)
— The horrors of Nazism are
being presented to West
Coast audiences by an
unlikely pair: Alfons Heck,
once a Hitler youth; and
Mrs. Helen Waterford, once
in Auschwitz. Each had been
called on from time to time to
relate their experiences.
Later they decided to team
up. Heck’s encounters with
Hitler, Speer et al. and his
subsequent revulsion over
Nazism stirs their audience.
Magen David Adorn
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Senate unanimously
adopted a Sense of the
Senate Resolution urging the
International League of Red
Cross Societies to formally
recognize the Magen David
Adorn. The Senate resolution
was introduced by Senators
Paula Hawkins (R.Fl.) and
Christopher Dodd (D. Conn.)
who are cochairmen of the
U.S. Committee to Secure
Recognition of the Magen
David Adom by the League
of Red Cross Societies.
Speaking in favor of the
resolution on the Senate
floor, in addition to the two
sponsors, were Senators
Charles Percy ranking
Democrat on the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit
tee which had first approved
the resolution.
Victorian Age Returnee
(The Jewish Post and Opi
nion) — When he lost both
his arms at the age of 13 in a
bombing raid by the PLO in
northern Israel, Aron Had
had never .thought he would
be able to use them again,
much less become an artist.
Not only that, but he is a
qualified pilot, and even had.
competed in auto races. Liv
ing now in Hollywood, his
works were exhibited recent
ly in a Wilshire Boulevard
gallery, and he is currently
negotiating for a showing in
a Santa Ana gallery.
The Senator's Wife
(The Jewish Post and Opi
nion) — If Arlen Specter
were to lose out the next time
he’s up for re-election as
U.S. Senator from Penn
sylvania, he could retire on
the earnings of his wife,
Joan, whose pies are sold in
a 14-state area surrounding
Philadelphia. But that is not
her only activity, she was
elected in 1979 to
Philadelphia’s 17-member
City Council. A former food
writer for the Philadelphia
Bulletin, she operated cook-
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discriminate.
Funds Contributed For
Civilian Relief in Lebanon
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
group of American corpora
tions has formed an
organization to collect funds
from U.S. firms for the relief
of the civilian population of
Lebanon. American Cor
porate Aid for Lebanon Inc.
(ACAL) already has com
mitments for nearly $1.5
million from 21 American
corporations.
Condos To Be Built
SAN FRANCISCO
(Jewish Post and Opinion) —
A non-profit condominium
complex surrounding a
garden and a swimming pool
is planned for Jerusalem by
Alan Carnoy, local builder.
The 800-square feet condos
will sell from $7-9,000 for an
annual one-month stay.
Many Yordim In South
Africa
JERUSALEM (Jewish
Post and Opinion) — Of the
120,000 Jews of South Africa,
a total of 20,000 are former
Israelis, it was reported here
by Arye Dulzin on his return
from that country.
USSR Emigration
(JTA) — Jewish emigra
tion from the Soviet Union
from January through
August totalled 1,961 as com
pared to the 35,553 Jews who
were permitted to leave dur
ing the same period in 1979, a
peak year for Jewish emigra
tion.
First Hasidic Jew Elected
To Public Office in N. Y.
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
first Hasidic Jew to be
elected to a public office in
New York City is Rabbi
Yisrael Rosenfeld, a member
of the Lubavitch movement,
who has been for many years
executive director of the
Crown Heights Jewish Com
munity Council in Brooklyn.
Israel Bonds Honor
Morris Speizman
Approximately 250 people attended the gala dinner under
the auspices of the Charlotte State of Israel Bond Committee
at the Radisson Plaza Hotel to honor Morris Speizman. Mr.
Speizman (left) is shown receiving the Israel Humanitarian
Award from Yitzhak Rage (President of State of Israel
Bonds) and Henry Senden (President of National Building
Corp. of Nashville). More pictures on 14,
Photo/Alan Goldberg
Local Photo Exhibit
SpariQS Celebration
More than 450 adults and
children celebrated Jewish
Life in The South during Dr.
Louis Schmier’s scholar-in-
residence weekend. October
15-17. His exhibit of
photographs dating back to
1851 will remain on display
at Temple Beth El and then
at Temple Israel.
In an extremely crowded
three days. Dr. Schmier
deli\ered three major lec
tures, a workshop on collec
ting personal history and
two guided tours of his ex
hibit for the 180 students,
teachers and parents of the
Beth El Sunday School.
Emphasizing his own
history as a 20 year
transplant from Brooklyn,
N.Y., Dr. Schmier used his
lectures as powerful ser
mons. On Friday evening he
traced the history of Jewry
in small town Georgia and
asked the congregation to
look for parallels. They were
easily found between the role
of minority in 1890 and to
day. But he did not focus on
the negatives, instead he
focused on how the early
Jews paved the way for later
waves by maintaining their
Jewishness and earned
respect for their piety in a
society which valued and
still values religion and its
observance.
Saturday morning he used
anecdotes to trace the course
of the Jewish peddler as that
unique individual blazed a
personal path of success and
failure and success again
and again.
His talk Sunday morning
was an admonishment to his
audience not to accept the
false myths about Jewish life
in the South. Citing
numerous examples of
Jewish personalities who
were “not famous, but im
portant” he wove a tapestry
of Southern history filled
with the rich and
multicolored threads of Jews
and their experiences. He
charged the audience to fully
establish the Henrietta
Wallace Collection of
Southern Jewish
Memorabilia and com
plimentary chairs of Jewish
history. His implication was
clear - the Jews of Charlotte
today are a part of Southern
Jewish history and we must
move to preserve our records
and our footprints for those
yet to come.
Dr. Schmier’s residency
was made possible by the
Henrietta Wallace Collection
of Temple Beth El and by
Herman Blumenthal, Morris
Speizman and Harry Lerner.
The exhibit was mounted by
Stuart Schwartz, Curator of
the Mint Museum of
History.
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