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Page 4-THE NEWS-April, 1986
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
NJCRAC Concerned
About Farmers
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
national coordinating body of
community relations policies
in the American Jewish com
munity urged that its 113 local
and 11 national constituent
agencies direct more attention
to the plight of the American
fgirmer and support various ef
forts aimed at easing the
growing farm crisis.
The National Jewish Com
munity Relations Advisory
Council (NJCRAC) adopted a
resolution to this effect during
the organization’s annual
pleneiry session at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel. It is believed to
be the first time the issue of
the farm crisis has been direct
ly addressed by a national
Jewish community organi
zation.
The action comes amid
growing concern in the
American Jewish community
on increased activism by
rightwing extremist groups,
many preaching virulent anti-
Semitism, in the farm belt.
These organizations have
sought to depict Jews and
other minority groups as
responsible for the continuing
problems facing the American
farm community.
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National Jewish AIDS
Project Formed
NEW YORK (JTA) - A Na
tional Jewish AIDS Project
was established here to gen
erate, mobilize and coordinate
efforts in the community to
respond to the needs of vic
tims of the fatal disease and
their families.
It is estimated that at least
300 to 500 Jews have been
diagnosed as AIDS victims
since 1979. This estimate is
based on taking 2.2 percent
(the Jewish percentage in the
population) of the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) figure
of 17,361 reported diagnosed
cases. Of these 48 percent
(about 163 Jews) are still alive.
However, CDC stated that
15,000 to 20,000 new cases will
be reported diagnosed by the
end of 1986, bringing the
estimated number of addi
tional Jewish victims to 440.
German Mayor Resigns
BONN (JTA) - The Mayor
of a West German town who
suggested that “a few rich
Jews should be slain” in order
to balance the budget, has
resigned under a barrage of
criticism. Wilderich Von Mier-
bach of Korschenbroich, a
town of 27,000 in North Rhine-
Westphalia, said he was quit
ting to avoid further damage
to West Germany’s image
abroad emd to the process of
German-Jewish reconciliation.
Danger of Recurrent
Anti-Semitism in Germany
BONN (JTA) — Chancellor
Helmut Kohl has acknowledg
ed the danger that anti-
Semitism could reoccur in Ger-
msmy, but his ruling Christian
Democratic Union (CDU) ap
pears unanimously opposed to
a debate on the subject being
urged by coalition as well as
opposition members of parlia
ment.
Kohl told the Bundestag
that everybody is aware of the
danger of recurrent anti-
Semitism.
Peres Praises Aquino's Courage
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Prime Minister Shimon Peres
sent a warm message of con
gratulations to the new Presi
dent of the Philippines, Cora-
zon Aquino.
Relations between the two
countries were warm under
former President Marcos —
and Israeli officials believe
they wiU be no less cordial
under President Aquino.
Israeli experts work in the
Philippines in agriculture and
other helds, and a surprising
ly large number of ordinary
Israelis have visited as
tourists. Invariably they have
found a warm and hospitable
country, whose people relate
without ideological preconcep
tions to Israel and the Mideast
conflict.
Soviets Object to Israeli Stamp
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Hundreds of letters mailed by
Israelis to their relatives in the
Soviet Union recently have
been returned to Israel be
cause the Soviet authorities
object to the stamp on the
envelopes.
The overseas mail stamp
bears the likeness of Theodor
Herzl. The Russians are
returning them, overprinted
with the words “addressee
unknown.”
Israeli Scientists Praised
For Contributions to Star Wars
TEL AVIV (JTA) - U.S.
General James Abramson,
head of the Stategic Defense
Initiative — SDI (Star Wars)
program, said that Israeli
scientists had already made
useful proposeils for possible
Israeli contributions to Star
Wars research.
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Abramson was in Israel to
attend the annual Israel con
ference on aviation and
aeronautics in Tel Aviv and at
the Haifa Technion.
He said that Israeli research
work in this field would benefit
not only the American pro
gram but would also let Israel
enjoy a variety of spin-offs to
meet its own needs. Abramson
said that one Israeli proposal
already made was “absolutely
unique,” connected to what is
known as an “electro-magnetic
rail-gun firing system.”
Tid-Bits
MONTREAL (JTA) - Ir
win Cotier, the attorney who
represents Anatoly Shcharan-
sky, South African prisoner
Nelson Mandela, and various
Soviet refuseniks, announced
the establishment of an inter
national council of lawyers
who will “work relentlessly for
the release of all the Shcharan-
skys and Mandelas now rot
ting in various prisons in the
USSR and South Africa.”
•
NOTRE DAME. Ind. (JTA)
— Notre Dame, a bastion of
Roman Catholic education,
enrolled its first Israeli
undergraduate student this
academic year. He is 22-year-
old Yehuda Kovacs, whose
course of study is mathema
tics but whose avocation —
and reason for choosing Notre
Dame — is fencing. Kovacs is
a former national junior fenc
ing champion in Israel.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Eliahu Essas, the Soviet
Jewish aliya activist who
became an Orthodox Jew
while still in the USSR, spoke
critically of the way Russian
Jews have been absorbed in
Israel. According to the
40-year-old Essas, too much
stress has been placed on
material benefits and not
enough on the “spiritual”
needs of the immigrants. He
claimed this contributed to the
high dropout rate among
Soviet olim. “If coming to
Israel is only about apart
ments and cars and not about
aliya, going up to the holy
land, then it is no wonder that
the dropout rate has reached
80 percent or more.”
•
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
The Simon Wiesenthal Cen
ter’s Library Archives has ac
quired the microfilm edition of
the complete set of “Der
Stuermer,” the infamous anti-
Semitic weekly published be
tween 1923 and 1945 by Julius
Streicher in Nuremberg. The
newspaper, which carried the
slogan “The Jews are our
misfortune” on its front page,
was notorious for its sadistic
anti-Jewish cartoons.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israel’s development areas
have been hard hit by unem
ployment. Figures released by
the Manpower Planning divi
sion of the Ministry of Labor
and Welfare reported 6,500
people in those sensitive areas
are out of work. They com
prise 26 percent of the total
number of jobless in the coun
try. Three towns seriously af
fected by the lack of jobs are
Bet Shean, Sderot and Yeru-
ham.
•
WEST HARTFORD (JTA)
— The Greater Hartford
Jewish Community Center has
launched a program to record,
preserve and disseminate the
oral history of Jewish im
migrants to the U.S. now liv
ing in the area.
The program’s theme, “Ellis
Island; The Jewish Immigrant
Experience,” has two phases.
The first stage involves
recording oral histories which,
in the second stage, will form
the basis of a play. This pro
duction £md an exhibit which
will be curated, will travel
together to performances at
senior and community centers.
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