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'Jewish Vote' Criticized LOUISVILLE, KY - "The question of voter support for Jimmy Carter must not be influenced by his religious beliefs," Benjamin R. Epstein, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of JTnal B'rith, declared recent-,,
about Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan — not on the basis of religious beliefs, but on what Is known about the man and his positions on domestic and foreign Issues." "Like everyone else," the • * _• "we Jews nave riaa too League executive told the - jjf----•-•• --luuCii "£Apcfi6fiCc witii ijuiiig representatives or over 100 nadisqualified simply (or being tional and local Jewish com- lii aii address iieiOre iiie an- Jews ever to apply such a munity relations agencies,""-. nual plenary session of the Na- criterion to a member of Jews will want assurances oru tional . Jewish Community another religion. As In- the social and economic Issue* Relations Advisory Council at dividuals, Jews will decide facing the United States. They . Gait House, Epstein said "a about Jimmy Carter — and will want to know what foreign policy will be followed, not only in terms of Israel but In all areas, Including the dictatorships of the left and right thatt are making such Inroads upon democracy around the world. The candidates religion simply is not, must not and will nott be an Issue." Speaking on-the. question, "Is there a Jewish vote.?" Epstein remarked, "I'm not sure It's always a question anymore, for sometimes it SERVING DES MOINES, seems to take on the tone of an 3 C0UNCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA accusation against the Vol. LV No. 38 Omaha, Neb., Fri., July 30,1978 American Jewish community." He said there is a serious and vicious effort to identify "the Jewish vote" as part of CwnpUltd from Jtwlih Pratt N«v*S*rvlcti. I the so-called "Zionist lobby". A Presbyterian minister with close ties to' the Jewish He called such charges /'a Cruel and ugly form of antiWASHINGTON (JTA) - community* the Rev. Paul It. Carlson of Queens, N.Y., warned. Semitism".- , J, The Soviet Union was called June 30 that Christian missionaries have'launched a major "However unintentionally," upon in both Houses of Con- effort to convert Jews this summer. The effort, known as gress for assurances against "Operation Birthday Cake", Is more of a threat to the Jewish Epstein told his audience,, politlclzation of the Olympic community than was the nationwide "Key '73" program three "the news media are conGames scheduled for Moscow years ago, he said. Groups include the so-called Hebrew tributing to'this. Pick your day Christians.. .Dr. William Perl, 70, leader of the Washington- and newspaper — or radio stain 1980. „ area Jewish Defense League, vvns free on $20,000 bond June 30 tion or TV channel — and Criticizing Canada's stand ' after his arrest by FBI agents on charges of conspiracy to shoot' * there will be another- story against Taiwan in the current Into die apartments of two Soviet Embassy officials.:.The ahnijt Carter et \60me. other Montreal Games, Sen. James Unlled States on June 29 vetoed In the U.N. Security Council a candidate and the Jewish B. Pearson (R. Kansas) asked resolution calling on the Council "to affirm the inalienable voter, usually involving: In aSenale speech whether the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including Israel. Are Jews the only Cihadlan - precedent would the right to return and the right to national Independence and voters to whom candidates form a basis for the Soviets to sovereignty In Palestine, in accordance with the Charter of the ever make an appeal?" "exclude the Israelis at the re- United Nations".... He expressed concern "that ' > quest of the Arabs" or the all this emphasis on Jews and A new method for diagnosing osteoporosis, a bone disease .West Germans by the East candidates tends to create an Germans or the United States associated with aging, has been developed by scientists at image In the public mind of Hebrew University's Racah Institute of Physics.. .The First by African nations. the Jewish voter as a distinct, Israeli Furniture Week has been scheduled for May, 1977, at the ly different and powerful Tel Aviv Hilton Hotcfand wllj feature furniture manufactured In "I urge both the Intcrnapolitical bloc". —=• tlonal Olympic Committee Israel.. .During 1975, Magcn David Adorn, Israel's Red Cross, Like every other group in and the Soviet government to supplied Hadassah Medical Center In'Jerusalem with 10,458 America, he went on, "Jews issue public pledges that no units of fresh blood.. .Jewish inmates of federal prisons arc now vote their conscience on issues athletic team will be denied entitled to receive full kosher meals "as long as non-kosher food of Importance to them. For ' -participation at the Moscow Isnot consumed." many years the Irish Catholic Rabbi Arthur Herteberg, president, American Jewish vote was influenced by the "sliiirter Olympics." Pearson, a member of the Senate Congress, says "the prime task of Zionism in the Diaspora" is Issue of Ireland's freedom. Foreign Relations Committee, Jewish education for the young, rather than aliyah.. .Greek That did not make Irish said. "If the Soviet Union burial Inscriptions found by archaeologists while excavating a Catholics less American or should ^decide, for whatever church In Rehovoth in the Negev have dated the church to the open them to the charge of reason, to refuse any athletic 6th Century C.E.. .Empire Kosher Poultry plans to add il new dual loyalty, anymore than It team permission to par- convenience poultry specialties and also plans expansion of Its •does Greek' or Turkish > ticipate, then the IOC should main processing plant In Mlinintown, Pa. Americans who care about select an alternative site for what happens on Cyprus." the games." "Jews will behave like good Americans when it come to - In the House, Rep William and Israeli cltzertshlp, the voting," Epstein said. *'Thcy S. Bromfield, Ut. Mich.), British government had been will .be concerned about the ranking minority member on Britain Is expected to dethe House International Rela- mand that Uganda deliver up acting on her behalf, and it Is economy, Inflation, unemploytions Committee, spoke of the the body of Mrs. Dora Bloch, In part due to her case that ment, corruption, Infr"ugliness of International tcr- the 75-year-old Jerusalem relations between Kampala ingements on civil rights and rorlsm injected into the Olym- woman believed murdered by and London have been rapidly liberties, the growth of Com-....•- munism abroad, and all the piad" in Munich four years Ugandan eHieiais ioiisvnag - deteriorating. bb"servcrs"feel there is little other Issues that occupy their ago when II Israeli athletes the Entebbe raid. hope that Britain will recleve fellow Americans;*..'. wore murdered and ^further "They will also have a Formally, Britain is still', a satisfactory response to her .debasing" of the Olympic ideal by permitting political awaiting word from Uganda request for full details of Mrs. special concern about what considerations to dictate stan- on the results of an "investiga- Bloch's fate — and in the the elections mean In terms of dards of eligibility" In Mon- : 1iori"'tiiat President Amin pro- absence of such response the Israel, Soviet Jewry, the efmised to. launch .Into Mrs. Foreign Office is expected to fects of the Arab boycott on treal. demand the return of her the American Jewish comBloch's fate. munity, and what course of ac"One would hope, Bromfield . She 'was last seen being body. tion AV!!!fcstaker, is ssfegusrd said, "that the Soviets wili dragged out of a Kampala honor and abide by their com- • hospital by four officials on reported on Britain's efforts In this country's civil rights laws violations as mltment to the IQC and not at- , the night of July 4, some 20 ^ the BIo<~li case during last Sun- against such, preferentfar:Hreaiflient' arid~ tempt to exercise restraint or day ^ w e k l s r "Cabinet i control over the participants." :••:,' *>,/•;•*.:/.. racial and ethnic quotas." Since she had both British m e e t i n g . ' T
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An elderly Lebanese woman waits patiently for treatment at an Israeli Army medical center near Metulla in northern Israel. Almost 3,000 villagers from war-torn Lebanon have been treated by Israeli medicals teams In recent months. (RNS Photo)
Lebanese KeepComing KaprUUd Iran U» Jerautem Pml Israeli assistance, despite the Over 1,700 people have recent PLO call to refrain received medical attention so from contacts with the "Israel far at'the army field clinics devil." that Israel has set up on the Some 200 last Sunday Lebanese border fence, thronged around the border Defence Minister Shimon fence near Metulla to receive Peres told the Israeli Cabinet. medical treatment, food and Several dozen Lebanese — fuel from IDF units in the men, women and children — vicinity. have been hospitalized In Israel, and several dozen war On the PLO threats to take refugees from Lebanon have 'action against those coming beengrahtedrefugeln Israel: ,intp contact v$th Israells,:two Peres told the CaMaet of the 'Lebanese among the group food and water provided by stated that the villagers had the army for some of the grown accustomed to this type border villages, cut off by the of dally threat. war from the Lebanese Besides, they added, illness heartland. help them overcome whatever In a later speech, the other -fears they may have Defence Minister referred to had. The two, a young woman the "opportunities to buy and - and a middle-aged man, said sell In Israel" which have that PLO representatives had been made available to the visited south Lebanese villages, bringing flour and . Lebanese villagers, He did not elaborate, but of- promising to provide amficials explained that the bulances. Israeli authorities have been encouraging Lebanese villagers who wish to do so to sell their agricultural produce on theisraelfslde of the fence. Several villages have jointly sold their entire annual tobac- . JERUSALEM (JTA) ; ' T V co crop to.a Tel Aviv mer- Diplomatic efforts continued chant, with the knowledge and In B u e n o s A i r e s .and consent of the I s r a e l Jerusalem to obtain the authorities, the officials con- release of five World Zionist Organization shlichlm who firmed. . . were ^arrested last; week, In Israel is plainly reluctant to Cordoba, Argentina; after atdraw overmuch public attention at this early stage to this tending a Zionist seminar, • Shlomo Avmeri, director kind of small-scale trade proceeding across the border — general of the Foreign partly for fear of frightening Ministry, met with Portela Pico, the Argentine Charge or deterring the villagers. But observers recall that the d'Affalres here, and informed "open bridges" policy across him of the government's conthe Jordan also began In a cern over the detention of the sissll-scsls, ssiai-secret, and Israelis. Pico promised he' haphazard way, with West would relay the concern to the Bank traders hauling their Argentine government and goods across the war- se6k an Immediate reply i damaged bridges. ThenAvineri expressed to. Pico Defence Minister Moshe the wish that what he called a Dayan was quick to spot the "misunderstanding" • -would political and military ad- soon be resolved and thevantages of the situation, and Israelis freed. Sources in he gave orders to repair the Jerusalem also expressed con-:
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traffic and trade across them, result of a. "mlsunderstanIn a later report Israeli of- dingi" But they said It will riciaisi noted Lebanese nprobably take a long time fa clvUlap contjnue to receive beresolved.V. ,