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Page 4-THE NEWS-May, 1985 WAT>T n ■pi? \ T hv Marta Garplilf Wl/lvLLf r>riAl Jews, Christians Hold A ‘'Freedom Seder For Soviet Jews” SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - An estimated 100 Jews and Christians gathered outside the Soviet Consulate here to hold a “Freedom Seder for Soviet Jews.” The noon, hour-long demon- stration, which centered around a fully-set Passover table, was organized to draw paredlels between the suffering of Jews in ancient Egypt and the present suffering by Jews in the Soviet Union. Chairs around the table, which were placed across the street from the Soviet Con sulate, were left empty. Enlarged photographs of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience were set in a row down the center of the table. Foreman said “Jews in the Soviet Union cannot celebrate Passover, so we are doing it for them.” U.S. Protests Anti-Semitic Remarks At UN Forum UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The United States govern ment has sharply protested to the United Nations the anti- Semitic remarks of an Arab Nazi collaborator who declared at a Human Rights conference last December in Geneva that Hitler had reason to murder the Jews and that Jews are instructed to drink the blood of non-Jews each year or face damnation. The American protest was made in a confidential letter from the United States Mis sion to the UN to Kurt Hemdl, Assistant Secretary General in charge of the Human Rights Center in Geneva. The letter concluded: “The United States government re quests a full explanation from the Center for Human Rights on how an individual of Mr. Al-Dawalibi’s background could have been allowed to participate in a United Na tions seminar designed to pro mote religious tolerance. We would like to know why the Center and the seminar’s chairman did not immediately disassociate themselves from Al-Dawalibi’s remark. We urge that in the future ac tivities of the Center such un fortunate episodes are not repeated.” In April the U.S. Mission to the UN received a reply from Hemdl in Geneva. Hemdl said that he agrees that every ef fort should be made to avoid such incidents in the future, noting that episodes like that give the UN bad publicity. He did not respond, however, directly, to the demands made by the U.S. government in its letter. Ethiopian Jews Study At TAU TEL AVIV (JTA) - Ten Ethiopian Jews are now studying at Tel Aviv Univer sity after having attended special preparatory courses, and another 11 are now attending the pre-university “mehina” course to bring them up to the required standards. According to a counselor in the Dean of Student’s Office, they are highly motivated. “They have their hearts set on studying in Israel and show a great desire to succeed. “They learn Hebrew more quickly than most other im migrants and they study hard. And they are exceptionally motivated in what they do, despite the tragic background many come from, and the pro blem of integrating into a very different society.” Israeli Skin Banks Protested Public opinion was outraged by reports that Israel’s major hospitals did not have suffi- ' cient human skin urgently needed to treat 14 soldiers who suffered severe bums in a suicide truck-bomb attack on an Israel Defense Force con voy in south Lebanan on March 10. Twelve soldiers were killed in the attack. The skin shortage was at tributed to a law passed by the Knesset a year ago under in tense pressure from the Or thodox political parties forbid ding the storage of human skin in skin banks for future emergencies. Israeli doctors reportedly appealed to col leagues in Holland to fly in skin for emergency transplants. Under the circumstances, the two Chief Rabbis ruled that skin banks were per- missable when lives are at stake. But ultra-Orthodox circles denounced their ruling, claiming it would encourage doctors to perform autopsies without the consent of the deceaseds’ next of kin. Israel To Help Caribbean Nations In Agricultural Development WASHINGTON (JTA) - Israel will help in agricultural development in three Carib bean countries — the Domini can Republic, Jamaica and Antigua — under a project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). The $550,000 grant for the “first-of-kind agreement” will finance technical services to be implemented by Israel’s Division of International Cooperation and Center for In ternational Cooperation for Agricultural Development. In the Dominican Republic, Israel will provide a plant pathologist, a field crop expert and laboratory specialists to work on an AID project there. In Jamaica, six Israeli specialists will help improve the management, operation and maintenance of two irriga tion systems on the southern coast. In Antigua, Israel will fur nish a long-term resident technician and other assis tance to help with the “Bethesda Project,” an irrigation-based settlement in tended to achieve intensive vegetable production. Rockefeller U. and Weizmann Institute Form New Foundation NEW YORK (JTA) - The collaboration between two of the world’s foremost research institutions, the Rockefeller University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, will be made possible through a con tribution by the Rapid-Ameri can Corporation (R-AC). A contribution of $5 million is expected to generate $500,000 per year from invest ment. Many of its initial efforts are likely to be in biomedical research areas like cancer biology, the neurosciences, molecular genetics, im munology, plant genetics and parasitic diseases, as well as May / Have yottr Atienticn ?!? JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES NEEDS 1. A telephone answering machine. 2. Comfortable furniture to be used in the Armstrong trailer. 3. Small size men's clothing for an older man who is confined to his home and has limited income to purchase clothing. 4. Anyone interested in sharing housing opportuni ties with single parents and/or the elderly as a way of sharing expenses and care. 5. Volunteers to become friendly visitors for the isolated elderly. Iff you can provide any off th«se, pl«as« call Jawish Social Services, 364-6594 or 366*5007. other fundamental science. The subjects and findings of the research supported thr ough the new foundation will form the basis of intema- tional symposia involving leading scientists from institu tions throughout the world. Some Israelis Living Abroad Ask To Have Citizenship Waived JERUSALEM (JTA) - About 200 Israelis living abroad, most of them in the U.S., have asked the Interior Ministry to waive their Israeli citizenship, the Ministry an nounced today. They made the request because of the recent steep rise in the travel tax im posed on Israelis going abroad. The purpose is to discourage foreign travel and conserve currrency. Israelis living overseas said the new tax, which applies on ly \to citizens, would make it difficult for them to make their periodic trips home. Each time they wanted to leave they would have to pay the travel tax which amounts to $150 plus 15 percent of the air fare. Tib-Bits ATHENS (JTA) - Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece and Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel are each indebted to the other’s countrymen. It was Palestinian Jews who rescued Papandreou’s father, George Papandreou, from the Nazis in German-occupied Greece more than 40 years ago. And it was the Greek underground, of which the elder Papandreou was a member, which rescued Peres’ father, Itzhak Persky, from the Gestapo in Greece at about the same time. • BONN (JTA) — Simon Wie- senthal was presented with the Grosses Verdienstkreutz (Grand Service Cross), one of West Germany’s highest awards, for his contributions to the reconciliation between Jews and Germans. “You have devoted your life to this task despite the deep suffering you experienced under the national Socialist reign of terror,” Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrote in a letter of congratulations to Wiesenthal. • BONN (JTA) - Marc Scheps, Director of the Tel Aviv Museum, has become the first Israeli to receive the Goethe Medal, the only official decoration of the West Ger man Federal Republic in the field of cultural exchange. • JERUSALEM (JTA) - The transfer of the entire Talmud to cassettes has just been com pleted here. There are 1,000 cassettes containing 1,500 hours of Talmud study. Anyone who listens to the tapes for one hour a day will be able to complete the entire Babylonian Talmud within four years. The universal “Daf Hayomi” — one page a day — program takes seven years. • TORONTO (JTA) - Ernst Zundel, a resident alien in Canada since 1958, was sentenced to 15 months im prisonment and three years probation by a federal judge for spreading the lie that the Holocaust did not occur. • BONN (JTA) - The Green Party faction in the City Coun cil of Bonn, in a surprise rever sal, has agreed to join a local association formed to resist anti-Semitism and anti-Zion- ism and to erect a memorial here to Bonn Jews who perish ed in the Holocaust. • BONN (JTA) — The town of Neuwied in the Rhine valley will hire unemployed workers to restore the old Jewish cemetery there, it was just an nounced. They will be super vised by experts and Jewish representatives, including rab- (Continued on Page 17) JMAMMTVMI/ELS MATTHEWS OFFICE NOW OPEN 600 Matthews-Mt. Hill Rd. 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