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ing; “This incident not only
represents a violent assault on
public property, but it defiles
and trivializes the suffering of
the victims of one of the most
monstrous evils committed
during this century. It is
especially painful for the many
Holocaust survivors who live
in the Skokie area, for it is a
tragic reminder that hate and
bigotry continue to poison our
community.”
Georgia Synagogue Grateful
for Townes Support
ATLANTA (JTA) - Mem
bers of Temple Beth David in
nearby SneUville, Ga., whose
sign announcing the site of
their planned synagogue
building was defaced, reported
receiving numerous expres
sions of support from the local
community.
The vandalism, which con
stituted a red swastika, a
yellow negation sign painted
over a Star of David as well as
blue lightning bolts, took place
about the time the Jewish
community was commemorat
ing the Jewish victims of the
Holocaust.
FoUowing the incident, the
synagogue received telephone
calls of outrage, apology and
support from both Jews and
non-Jews. “All people are not
like that,” said one. All the
messages were positive.
Japanese Store Withdraws
from Confab Featuring
Anti-Semitic Author
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
leading Japanese department
store cancelled its sponsorship
of a Tokyo forum held June 2-3
following a protest by ADL
because the scheduled lecturer
was Masumi Uno, the author
of two anti-Semitic books. The
subject of the forum was
“Signs of a Great Depression
and Japan’s Future.” The cir
cular contained the following
question: “Are Jews the key to
solving world problems?”
Uno charged in his current
Japanese best-seller, “If You
Can Understand Judea, You
Can Understand the World,”
that American Jewish busi
nessmen “orchestrated” a plot
to increase the value of the yen
in order to harm Japanese in
dustry. He claimed that the
scope of the Nazi Holocaust
against the Jews has been
greatly exaggerated.
Kansas Creates
Holocaust Council
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (JTA)
— Gov. Mike Hayden has es
tablished a State Holocaust
Commission comprising six
Jews and five non-Jews. The
commission will educate the
public about the Holocaust, as
well as look into “matters per
taining to religious and ethnic
freedom in general through
the State of Kansas.” Outside
of Kansas City, Topeka and
Wichita, “there is a tremen
dous lack of information about
the Holocaust. "Discussion of
construction of a Holocaust
memorial in Kansas will be
high on the agenda.
War Crimes Files Show Hitler
Ordered Mass Murders
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— Preliminary study of the
500 files Israel obtained from
the UN War Crimes Commis
sion archive confirms that the
Nazis embarked on the exter
mination of Jews in the early
stages of World War II, with
the active participation of
Adolf Hitler, the Israel Mis
sion to the UN disclosed.
The documents revealed for
the first time that Hitler per
sonally ordered the mass
murder of 10,000 Jewish
women and children in the
Latvian village of Skirotawa,
near Riga, in 1941, while
Jewish men were sent to slave-
labor camps.
This is the first documen
tary evidence of Hitler’s direct
involvement in the destruction
of European Jews. Historians
until now have been unable to
find written orders from Hitler
setting the “Final Solution”
into motion.
Study of the archives also
reveal^ that of the 142,000
Czech Jews killed as of July
1943, 51,000 were women and
49,000 were under age 21.
The documents under study
include the files on Hitler, his
deputy Martin Bormann,
Reichsmarshal Hermann
Goering, Propaganda Minister
Josef Goebbels, Reichsfuhrer
Heinrich Hinmiler, Reinhard
Heydrich, Auschwitz death
camp doctor Josef Mengele
and Klaus Barbie,the former
Gestapo chief in Lyon, who
recently was convicted there
for crimes against humanity.
There is additional informa
tion on medical experiments
performed on inmates of
various death camps and a
comprehensive list of the Nazi
officers who operated the
Maidenek, Stothoff and
Treblinka death camps.
•
LYON (JTA) — A plaque in
the village of Izieu, in memory
of 44 Jewish children arrested
there and deported to their
deaths in Auschwitz in April
1944 on the orders of then
Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie,
was defaced by swastikas.
Young Dwarf to Receive
Treatment in Israel
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only in Israel and two other
countries will be performed at
the Sheba Hospital in Tel
Hashomer in an attempt to
add to the height of eight-year-
old Jon Gisselson, a child from
Iceland who suffers from
achondroplastic dwarfism, a
genetic disease.
Young Jon, a non-Jew, is on
the government hospital’s
pediatric ward with three
Israeli children with the same
ailment. Doctors hope to add
about two feet to his height.
The disease is not respon
sive to drugs. The long bones
of the body fuse too early in
life, stunting growth. Victims
usually have normal in
telligence but a sunken nose,
small face and stubby, short
limbs.
The procedure has been per
formed in Italy and Austria.
Metal screws are inserted into
the leg bones and turned
slightly each day for about a
month before they are with
drawn. Sheba Hospital has
performed it successfully in
other cases. While the patients
do not attain normal height,
they are much taller than un
treated dwarfs.
Jon’s parents heard about
the treatment when he was an
infant. They have come to
Israel where his father, an
engineer, found work in
Ashdod.
Tid-Bits
NEW YORK (JTA) - A de
tailed study of non-Jewish-
born spouses in mixed mar
riages has confirmed that
Jewish men are much more
likely to marry non-Jewish
women than the reverse and
that women are more likely to
convert than men.
The study also found that
most non-Jewish-bom part
ners found it easy to integrate
into the Jewish community,
though few had been exposed
to community “outreach” ef
forts. But they felt that born
Jews lacked understanding for
the converts’ particular
situation.
•
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (JTA)
— The first woman mayor of
this city of 3,000 near Atlan
ta is also Jewish. Renee Unter-
man overcame a KKK rally
and spoke out against anti-
Semitism during her election.
She, her husband Marc and
son Zachariah are the only
Jews in the area.
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NEW YORK (JTA) - Most
of the boys from the Satmar
Hasidic community of Kiryas
Joel in upstate New York have
walked to school every day
this year in all kinds of
weather. For religious reasons,
they will not ride school buses
driven by women. A federal
court ruling said that the com
munity could not demand that
the five bus routes for United
Talmud Academy be driven
only by men.
Their mothers do not drive
and can not arrange carpools,
so the boys walk.
•
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A seri
ous problem of conversion
among Soviet Jewish im
migrants who have settled in
the U.S. was reported by
Maariv. According to the
newspaper, which cited a
survey by “American-Jewish
elements,” hundreds of Jewish
children are studying at
church schools and thousands
of former Soviet citizens apply
for aid to missionary and
church welfare organizations.
•
PARIS (JTA) - Premier
Yitzhak Shamir promised that
Israel would lend its expertise
to help Cameroon improve its
agriculture, especially in its
arid northern regions, and to
develop its fishing industry.
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
brain drain from Israel is
reaching serious proportions.
According to a survey by the
Association for the Study of
Emigration, 224 of the coun
try’s senior scientists, all of
them holding doctorates and
specializing in the hard
sciences, left Israel during the
past year.
Most of them went to the
U.S. and the remainder to
Western Europe. According to
data provided by the Ministry
of Immigration and Absorp
tion, 32,000 university
graduates from Israel are
presently working in the U.S.
They include 8,000 engineers.
•
BONN (JTA) - More than
50,000 West Germans visited
Israel from January through
the end of April 1987, a 30 per
cent increase over the same
period last year.
West Germany has been for
several years the main Euro
pean source of tourism to
Israel. The great majority of
visitors are non-Jewish. There
are only 30,000 Jews in the
Federal Republic compared to
more than a half million each
in France and Britain. The
Germans benefit from their
strong currency, which makes
a visit to Israel inexpensive for
them. The Tourist Office cited
that improved economic, cul
tural and political ties with
Israel are other reasons for the
boom.
NEW YORK (JTA) - Rosa
Parks, whose refusal to sit in
the back of a Montgomery,
Ala., public bus was one of the
founding acts of the U.S. civil
rights movement, received the
1987 Roger E. Joseph Prize
from the Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of
Religion. She received the
prizes’s $10,000 cash award at
the college’s ordination and in
vestiture ceremonies.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Jewish National Fund re
cently named music virtuoso
Mstislav Rostropovich of the
National Symphony Orchestra
Man of the Year.
Rostropovich, a cellist and
conductor who left the Soviet
Union 20 years ago, will have
a JNF forest named for him
outside Jerusalem.
WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA)
— The Brandeis University
board of trustees voted to di
vest of all stock in companies
doing business in South Afri
ca, except those providing me
dical goods and humanitarian
services or reporting the news.
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Giora
Ilani, chief zoologist of the
Israel Nature Reserves Au
thority, has warned that erec
tion of Voice of American ra
dio transmitters in the Negev
may have grave ecological im
plications for the region.
Illani said the Americans
have failed to supply precise
data on the amount of electro
magnetic radiation the trans
mitters will emit. He is con
cerned that the radiation will
harm the hundreds of thou
sands of migratory birds that
fly over the Negev each year.
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