Page 4-THE NEWS-February 1992
World Beat
Matzoh Bulls on Maui?
LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
With the opening of the Shaloha
Restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii
now has what is reportedly its
first-ever certified kosher eatery.
One is not likely to find luau-
roasted pig there, but the new
facility promises that customers
“will always be greeted with
‘Shalom’ and ‘Aloha,’ ” which
accounts for the restaurant’s
name.
The glatt kosher restaurant is
located on the ground floor of
the Island Colony Hotel, in the
Waikiki area of Honolulu.
Offering seating for 45, a
catering facility and take-out
food, the Shaloha is also ready
to send freshly prepared meals
to major hotels on the islands
of Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Molo
kai and Oahu.
The restaurant is under the
certification of the Rabbinical
Council of California.
Israeli Scientists Announce
Method to Detect AIDS Virus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is
raeli scientists have devised a
simple, quick, inexpensive meth
od of detecting HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS, as well as
other viruses in the human
system.
According to Professor Alex
ander Honigman, who heads a
team of researchers in the De
partment of Molecular Genetics
at the Hebrew University-Ha-
dassah Medical School, the new
method is especially effective in
identifying HIV in infants born
to parents with the virus.
The technique is based on a
gene found in a common firefly
and the ease with which the
presence of light is detected,
Honigman explained.
The gene responsible for the
firefly’s glow is isolated and,
through a bio-engineering pro
cess, creates a row of cells in
which the gene lights up in the
presence of the viruses.
The light shows up on sensi
tive film within a short time of
exposure. It is a positive indi
cation that the virus is in the
blood.
In addition to detection, the
new method will permit scient
ists to follow the progress of
patients being treated for ac
quired immune deficiency syn
drome and evaluate the effec
tiveness of AIDS-inhibiting
drugs in tissue cultures.
Slovak to Seek Removal
Of Tiso Plaque
PARIS (JTA) — A Slovak
minister has agreed to seek the
removal of a plaque recently
dedicated to the memory of
Father Josef Tiso, the Roman
Catholic priest whom Adolf
Hitler installed as leader of the
Slovak puppet state created by
the Nazis when they occupied
Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Tiso deported 72,000 Jews
from Slovakia between 1942 and
1944. He was hanged as a war
criminal after the war.
The plaque was put up in his
hometown, Bytca, by the Hlinka
Youth Party, a direct descendant
of Tiso’s fascist Slovak national-
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The European director of the
Los Angeles-based Simon Wies-
enthal Center, Shimon Samuels,
met in Bratislava with the Slov
ak minister of culture, Ladislav
Snopko, to protest the honoring
of a war criminal.
Snopko, founder of the Public
Committee Against Violence,
the Slovak branch of the Czech
Civic Forum Party, agreed the
plaque was a disturbing chal
lenge to the democratization of
Czechoslovakia.
He promised to do what he
could to have it taken down.
Rabbi Learns What Makes
Coke the 'Real Thing'
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
giant Coca-Cola Corp. has
yielded to an Israeli rabbi a
secret hitherto known only to the
soft drink’s founding family and
a handful of the corporation’s
most trusted executives — the
formula for making Coke.
There was a need to know,
says Rabbi Moshe Landau of
Bnei Brak, an Orthodox town
ship northeast of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli businessmen who
just acquired local bottling
rights applied to him for a
“Hechsher,” the kashrut certif
icate which assures the pious
they may consume a product
without violating divine law.
But first the rabbi had to be
sure Coca-Cola is indeed kosher
according to strict Orthodox
standards. To do so, he had to
be told the ingredients it con
tains — knowledge Coke’s com
petitors presumably would die
for.
The would-be bottlers con
tacted Coca-Cola headquarters
in the United States, where it was
decided to let the rabbi in on one
of the great corporate secrets of
all times.
Still the rabbi, to satisfy
himself, had to visit Coca-Cola
plants in Europe and the United
States, where the syrupy liquid
is produced. Some of his aides
also got free trips to the Far East
to examine how a secret herbal
root essential to the formula is
processed. The Bnei Brak
hechsher is expected to be issued
shortly.
Emigres Seeking Asylum in
Holland Turning to
Russian Orthodox Church
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
The Russian Orthodox Church
in Holland has taken up the
cause of about 150 emigres from
the former Soviet Union who
came here from Israel during the
past year and now face expul
sion.
Church officials have asked
the Dutch Jutice Ministry to
allow them to remain in the
Netherlands until they can find
another country willing to ac
cept them, preferably the United
States or Canada.
The Dutch authorities have
returned more than 50 former
Soviet Jews to Israel after de
nying their request for asylum
on grounds they were not in
danger of persecution in Israel.
Some of the emigres now say
they are, in fact, Christians and
claim they suffered discrimina
tion in Israel because of that. A
few turned up at a Russian
Orthodox Church Christmas
service in The Hague.
The Dutch authorities are
investigating reports that a
Russian travel agency is selling
would-be immigrants a list of
Dutch families willing to put
them up as tourists while they
apply for political asylum, which
they are unlikely to be granted.
The travel agency is said to
charge $2,500 for the list, a sum
the average Russian cannot pay.
The people who have utilized the
agency’s services are believed to
have raised the fee through
criminal activity.
Memorial Foundation
Produces Mini-Library
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
mini-library of five Russian-
language books about Jewish
history, holidays and heroes has
been produced by the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture
to help Jewish families in and
from the former Soviet Union
discover their Jewish heritage.
The Israeli-made paperback
volumes were selected from the
Orot library, a collection of close
to 500 Russian-language books,
magazines, songbooks and au
dio- and video-cassettes on
Jewish themes published by the
foundation in cooperation with
the Israeli government, the
Jewish Agency and representa
tives of Jewish groups in the
republics of the former Soviet
Union.
The books will be distributed
in Israel to new Russian-speak
ing immigrants and to organi
zations that work with Russian-
speaking Jews around the world.
The Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture, the only
international body devoted sole
ly to advancing Jewish cultural
activities, was established in
1965 with reparations funds
from the government of West
Germany.
Tulane Offers Law Scholarship
To Jewish Soviet Immigrants
NEW ORLEANS (JTA) —
Prospective law students who
are Jewish and recent immi
grants to the United States from
the former Soviet Union are
encouraged to apply for a new
Tulane Law School scholarship.
The scholarship covers full
tuition costs for three years of
law school.
Any recent Soviet Jewish
immigrant who wishes to apply
for admission to the Class of
1995 is eligible for consideration.
The scholarship has been
made available through a dona
tion by James Schrieber of New
York on behalf of the Herbert
W. Nurnberg Trust.
Applications for admission to
Tulane Law School and addi
tional information can be ob
tained by writing to the Dean
of Admissions, Tulane Law
School, 6801 Freret St., New
Orleans, La. 70118.
The suggested completion
date for applications for admis
sion to the class of 1995 is March
1, 1992.
Greek Inscription Found
In Beit She*an
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
Greek inscription found recently
in Beit She’an by archaeologists
from Hebrew University, sheds
new light on the status of a
prominent Samaritan family
who lived there, and on the date
of the construction of a magnif
icent commercial street in the
town.
Beit She’an was the central
city of northern Israel under the
Romans and was known at the
time by its Roman name of
Scythopolis. It later became the
capital of what was known as
the Second Palestine (Palestina
Secunda) under Byzantine rule.
The inscription is one of only
a few archaeological finds ever
uncovered in Israel that talk
about people who have been
known until now only from
historical texts of the period.
The eight-line inscription was
etched into a large stone block
about 3.5 feet wide, which sat
atop an archway that was part
of a stone portico lining the front
of a row of shops along the main
thoroughfare of Byzantine-era
Beit She’an. The portico col
lapsed during the severe earth
quake that shook the town in the
year 749.
The inscription tells of the
construction of the portico
between 500 and 515, with funds
provided by Byzantine Emperor
Anastasius. Initiators of the
project are given as the brothers
Salustius and Silvanus, the sons
of Arsenius, all jurists from the
city of Scythopolis.
Silvanus, known from histor
ical sources as the owner of
substantial properties and also
a high city official, was a mem
ber of an important Samaritan
family with close ties to the
Byzantine emperors of those days.
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