Page 4-THE NEWS May, 1984
WORLD BEAT edited by Marta Garelik
Brighton Beach Russian
Children Aided By New
Jewish Program
NEW YORK (JTA) - When
the news became known in the
Brighton Beach section,
described as the Odessa of
Brooklyn for its huge influx of
Russian Jews, that more than
50 Russian Jewish children
had been induced to attend
summer camps last year
operated by Christian mis
sionaries, a number of concern
ed local Jewish leaders
organized an ad hoc commit
tee to cope with the problem.
Out of it grew the Brighton
Beach Coordinating Commit
tee for Outreach to Russian
Jews, formed to provide an ex
tensive network of services to
Russian Jewish youngsters,
many of them easy targets for
Christian missionaries.
UNA Board Adopts Resolution
Objecting to Anti-Semitism
At UN
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— The Board of Governors of
the United Nations Associa
tion (UNA) has unanimously
adopted a resolution which ob
jects to anti-Semitism at the
UN, the International Council
of B’nai B’rith reported.
In a letter to Dr. Harris
Schoenberg, director of UN
Affairs for the International
Council, Robert Ratner, presi
dent of the UN Association,
stated that at its last meeting,
the UNA-U.S. Board acknowl
edged that “certain attacks
against Israel” at the last
General Assembly “degen
erated again into blatant anti-
Semitism.”
The Association’s Board
added that it is “disturbed
that surprisingly few delega
tions bothered to object.” (On
ly Israel and the U.S. did in
fact denounce the anti-Semitic
rhetoric.) “But the Secretary
General (Javier Perez de
Cuellar) did issue a timely
statement which took issue
with the use in the General
Assembly of epithets and
slurs of a racial, religious or
personal nature, even in the
heat of the debate.”
The UNA Board resolution
concluded with a strong en
dorsement of the Secretary
General’s appeal “to all
members to refrain from
language unbecoming to
serious internationed debate.”
The Board instructed the
UNA-USA staff to distribute
the resolution widely, in
cluding UN Missions and na
tional organizations affiliated
with the Association.
A Future of Ups and Downs?
TEL AVIV (JTA) - An up
per Galilee eunbulance driver
drew a sigh of relief when he
rushed a pregnant woman to
the maternity hospital and got
her there just on time. But his
relief was short-lived.
He escorted the 22-year-old
woman and her husband in the
elevator to the fourth floor
delivery room. On its way up,
the elevator got stuck. While
a hospital midwife shouted in
structions down the elevator
shaft, the driver delivered the
baby before the elevator could
be started again.
Babies bom on buses and
aircraft are frequently given
free lifetime travel passes.
Hospital staffers were wonder
ing what sort of pass they
could give to the elevator
baby.
Israeli Group Seeks Curb
Of Politicians' Abusive
Language
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Upset by the escalation of
abusive language by Iraeli
politicians, especially in the
Knesset, a group calling itself
the “Movement for a Good
Israel” is monitoring the in
vectives in the hope that
political rivals will exercise
restraint, if only to preserve
the dignity of the democratic
process.
According to the Move
ment’s record, “hypocrisy” is
indeed a mild pejorative com
pared to others hurled by
politicos at each other. Among
them are “clown”, “come
dian”, “degenerate”, “racist”,
“fascist” £md “fool”; also
“You £ire the biggest liar of
all”; “you are the theater of
the absurd”; “traitor” and
“disseminator of treacherous
lies.”
Fascism in France Becoming
Real and Present Danger
PARIS (JTA) - The
resurgence of fascism in
France has become a real and
present danger, for many of
the same reasons that fascism
enjoyed a considerable follow
ing here in the 1930’s depres
sion era before World War II
— social discontent, large-
scale unemployment and racial
prejudice.
The fascist National Front
Party won hundreds of new
members following the ap
pearance of its leader, Jeai. ■
Marie Le Pen on a television
panel show, watched by at
least 10 million people.
Asked why they were join
ing the extreme rightwing
group, most of those in line
said they were impressed by
Le Pen’s frankness, especially
his remark that Jews in
France were over-protected
compared to other citizens.
Baylor College Guilty of
Discrimination Against Jews
HOUSTON (JTA) - Two
Jewish cardiovascular
anesthesiologists have been
vindicated in their suit that ac
cused Baylor College of
Medicine here of unlawfully
discriminating against them
by not allowing them to par
ticipate in the Baylor rotation
to the King Faisal Hospital in
Saudi Arabia.
U.S. District Court Judge
James DeAnda found inten
tional discrimination on the
basis of religion. The two doc
tors were identified as
Lawrence Abrams and Stuart
Linde.
In his findings, the judge
ordered a permanent injunc
tion prohibiting Baylor from
discrimination on the basis of
religion. “We must thereby
permanently enjoin the defen
dant from excluding qualified
Jews from the King Faisal
rotation program,” DeAnda
ruled.
He also awarded back pay to
both doctors to compensate
for the difference in wages
received as members of the
Baylor staff as opposed to
what they would have been
permitted to participate in the
King Faisal program. The
total amount of awards to
Abrams was $156,840.30. the
awards to Linde totalled
$248,982.08.
Swedish Diplomat Warns of
Rising Anti-^mitism in Europe
NEW YORK (JTA) - Per
Ahlmark of Sweden warned of
a rising wave of anti-Semitism
sweeping through Western
Europe that is shrouded in a
veil of anti-Zionism.
According to Ahlmark,
since the Israeli invastion of
Lebanon in June, 1982, there
has been a marked increase in
attacks against Israel and
Jews. He noted an increase in
overt attacks against Jewish
institutions, cemeteries and
synagogues in Western
Europe, adding that three of
the largest Jewish cemeteries
in Sweden have recently been
desecrated by anti-Semitic
vandals.
Purim In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Purim got off to a cheerful
start when Galei Zahal, the ar
my radio network, emnounced
a “major new Israeli break
through: cloud-seeding that
will extend the winter until
July.”
The report claimed that the
precious week’s wet weather
— the first heavy rain for near
ly two months — was the
result of the new cloud-seeding
technique and now the
Cabinet would decide if the
winter would continue until
July — or, as the farmers were
demanding, until September.
Two Orthodox Jews Remanded
On Grave Robbing
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Two
Orthodox Jews from Rishon
LeZion have been remanded in
custody for 15 days on suspi
cion of having illegally remov
ed the skeleton of Teresa
Engelovitz from her grave in
the Aishon LeZion Jewish
cemetery and transporting it
to Ramie. The skeleton of a
woman, positively identified
by police forensic experts, was
found discarded in a Moslem
cemetery in Raunle. The re
mains were reburied in the
original grave by order of the
Supreme Court.
The case has stirred a con
flict between civil and
religious authorities. The local
rabbinate ordered Engelo-
vitz’s body exhumed several
months after the deceased was
buried a year ago on grounds
that she had not been con
verted to Judaism in her
native Rumania according to
strict Orthodox practice. A
court injunction prevented the
rabbinate’s order from being
carried out.
After the skeleton was iden
tified, Israel’s Chief Rabbis
and the local rabbinate
deplored the apparent g^ave
robbery but insisted that the
remains could not be reburied
in the Jewish cemetery. The
Supreme Court ovorrul^ their
objections.
Gap Should Be Narrowed
Between Sephardim
and Ashkenazim
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Israeli MK Meir Shitrit
(Likud) warned that unless the
educational and social gap bet
ween Sephardim and
Ashkenazim in Israel is nar
rowed, and more money and
resources are channeled to im
prove the education of depriv
ed youngsters, Israel’s future
is at stake.
“The real threat to Israel is
not from the Arabs, but from
the erosion of the human ad
vantage in Israel as a result of
lack of proper education to the
disadvantaged in Israel, most
of them of Sephardic origin,”
Shitrit, a member of the
Finance and Education Com
mittees, said.
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