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taking a very long time to give
permission to Jews seeking to
leave the Soviet Union for the
United States who have already
received permission from the
United States,” said Karl Zuk-
erman of HIAS. “The OVIR,
instead of taking three to four
months, is taking eight or nine.
“This delay is inhibiting the
flow quite considerably, which
is why we have, after half a fiscal
year, just about 9,000 arrivals
out of an expected 40,000 for the
full fiscal year,” he said.
Age of Dad Sea Scrolb
Determined
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A lab
oratory in Zurich employing a
new, improved method of car
bon-14 dating has pinpointed
the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls
to between the second century
BCE and the beginning of the
first century C.E., according to
Magen Broshi, curator of the
Shrine of the Book at the Israel
Museum, where some of the
most important scrolls are kept.
The scientific finding should
put an end to a 40-year challenge
to the scroll’s antiquity by some
wary scholars.
The determination of the
amount of radioactive carbon-
14 remaining in the scrolls means
they were written between 2,000
and 2,200 years ago.
Of more than 800 scrolls
found, only two refer to historic
events which suggest a date.
Previous estimates of their age
were based mainly on paleo
graphy, the study of ancient
writing. On this basis, scholars
had deduced that the scrolls were
written over the course of three-
.and-a-half centuries, from the
mid-third century BCE to the
eve of the Roman conquest, or
68 C.E.
Over 120 Groups in USSR
Associate with or Resemble Pamyat
LONDON (JTA) — As many
as 120 groups active in the Soviet
Union are associated with or
bear a resemblance to the overtly
anti-Semitic Pamyat society,
according to Soviet scholar
Lionel Dadiani.
Some of these groups are
seeking contact with overtly
racist or violent political factions
in the West, Dediani said.
For example, Alexsandr Ku
lakov, a leader of the Pamyat
(Russian) Orthodox Patriotic
Front, declared at a news con
ference a year ago that his group
favored cooperation with
“healthy forces” in Europe.
Kulakov gave as examples
Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National
Front in France, and Germany’s
Republican Party headed by
former Waffen SS officer Franz
Schoenhuber, both extreme
right-wing groups, and the out
lawed Irish Republican Army
Dadiani reported.
He said anti-Semitic groups in
the Soviet Union are trying to
infiltrate the Untied Front of
Workers, a major nationwide
conservative nationalist organi
zation.
They are also seeking recruits
among veterans of the Afghan
istan war and World War II, and
among students, the military and
ecology circles.
Dadiani quoted Leningrad-
based chemistry teacher Nina
Andreyeva as saying that her
neo-Stalinist Unity Association
maintains close contacts with
anti-Semitic groups.
The IJA said Dadiani believes
there are relatively few anti-
Semitic activists in the Soviet
Union, but the number of people
holding anti-Semitic views is
considerable and growing.
He wrote that several “hard
line” — i.e. anti-Semitic —
critics of Zionism in the admin
istration of the late Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev “have now
become ideologues of Pamyat.”
Dadiani himself was described
as a “soft-line” critic of Zionism
by Lukasz Hirszowicz, an IJA
specialist on Soviet anti-Semit
ism.
The IJA, an international
research body sponsored jointly
by the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith and the World
Jewish Congress, said Russian
anti-Semites “appear to be mak
ing a bid to regain the leading
position the (Czarist) Black
Hundreds occupied in European
anti-Semitism at the beginning
of the century. In this respect
they hold a strong card — they
have more Jews to bait than any
other country in Europe.”
Synagogue Fire in Sidney Unites
CbilstiaEs/Jews for Law
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) —
Christians and Jews joined in
demanding national anti-hate
laws as another Sydney syna
gogue went up in flames, forcing
200 congregants to seek an
alternative place to worship on
the eve of Passover.
The Allawah synagogue in
southwest Sydney sustained
extensive damage. The fire,
attributed to arson, was the fifth
to hit Sydney synagogues in two
months and the seventh coun
trywide.
Only hours before the latest
blaze, a delegation of Jewish
community leaders met with
Prime Minister Bob Hawke to
urge legislation outlawing racial
vilification and racial violence.
Leslie Caplan, who led the
delegation on behalf of the
Executive Council of Australian
Jewry, said after that the attack
on Allawah was further evidence
that racism in this country must
be confronted at the highest
level.
The Rev. David Gill, secretary
of the Australian Council of
Churches, the largest Christian
body in Australia, joined Ca-
plan’s call. The council fully
supports the introduction of
anti-racist legislation.
Following his remarks,
nearby churches offered use of
their facilities to Jewish congre
gations whose synagogues were
burned. There are four in Syd
ney alone. A fifth escaped dam
age when the security guard
drove off arsonists, sustaining
injuries in the process that
required hospitalization.
Synagogues have been at
tacked in Newcastle and Mel
bourne as well.
Prime Minister Hawke is
reported to have told his Jewish
visitors that the Attorney Gener
al’s Office is studying various
legislative models to deal with
the problem.
Bulgarian Olim Arrive in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
first flight to Israel by Alkan Air,
Bulgaria’s national airline,
landed in early April at Ben-
Gurion Airport with 68 immi
grants on board.
Jewish Agency officials ex
pressed hope that at least 100
Bulgarian olim would arrive
each month now that direct
flights from Sofia have been
established.
About 1,000 Bulgarian Jews
immigrated to Israel last year.
They traveled by indirect routes
in the absence of direct flights.
About 5,000 Jews live in
Bulgaria, most of them in Sofia,
the capital.
Jewkb Agency Reopens in Romania
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Romanian office of the Jewish
Agency for Israel, shut down
during 40 years of Communist
rule, was reopened in Bucharest.
The ceremonies were attended
by the country’s chief rabbi,
Moses Rosen, who affixed a
mezuzah to the doorpost.
The office was officially reo
pened by Simcha Dinitz, chair
man of the Jewish Agency and
World Zionist Organization
executives, in the presence of
representatives of Romania’s
Jewish community.
About 50,000 immigrants
passed through Bucharest dur
ing the past year, most of them
Soviet Jews immigrating to
Israel.
European Anti-Semitism Growing
LONDON (JTA) — A former
deputy prime minister of Swed
en active in fighting anti-Sem-
itism offered a pessimistic fore
cast for the 1990s here at a public
meeting of the European Jewish
Congress Commission on Ter
rorism and Anti-Semitism.
He predicted anti-Semitism
would grow.
Per Ahlmark, a leader of
Sweden’s Liberal Party, is one
of the non-Jewish members of
the Swedish Committee on Anti-
Semitism founded eight years
ago. The committee was instru
mental recently in silencing a
viciously anti-Semitic radio
station serving the Islamic com
munity in Stockholm.
Ahlmark said that 1982, when
Israel invaded Lebanon, was a
pivotal year marking the serious
revival of anti-Semitism.
Since then, Moslem immi
grants have absorbed European
anti-Semitism, which they have
added to their own, while non-
Moslem revisionists in Britain,
France, Canada, Australia and
the United States denied the
occurrence of the Holocaust to
a new generation with no mem
ories of World War II.
His committee, composed half
of Jews and half non-Jews,
monitors anti-Semitic articles
and innuendoes in the media and
tries to educate the public on the
dangers of Holocaust revision
ism.
Israel Approves $20 MUUoa
To Help Build Atari Factory
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Cabinet agreed unanimously to
authorize about $20 million to
facilitate establishment of a
personal computer factory in
Israel by Atari, the American
videogames and computer giant.
The government money
would be used to set up a new
investment corporation that
would modernize existing plants
or build new ones to produce
parts and provide ancillary
services for the Atari factory.
That was the condition of
Atari, whose headquarters are in
Sunnyvale, Calif., for choosing
Israel as the site of its new
offshore plant.
The entire project promises to
create over 2,000 new jobs in
Israel, and ultimately possibly as
many as 3,000, at a time of severe
unemployment.
Final approval is needed from
Finance Minister Yitzhak Mo-
da’i and the minister of industry
and trade, Moshe Nissim.
Israeli System Marks Minefields
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A system
developed in Israel for marking
safe lanes through minefields is
helping armored units of the
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf
area, according to the manufac
turer.
Known as the Clear Lane
Marking System, or CLAM, it
was developed by Israel Military
Industries and is widely used by
the Israel Defense Force.
The system is mounted on the
front of tanks, equipped with
mechanical devices to defuse
land mines.
As the tank clears the field,
the CLAM is programmed to
release brightly colored markers
equipped with night illumina
tors. They define the safe path
through the minefield for follow
ing troops and vehicles.
Israel Military Industries says
several hundred CL A Ms have
been supplied to the Marines.
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