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egin: "We Are Fighting for Our Lives" from preferring advice, at By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) - Pre- least in public, within earshot mier Menachem Begin has ~ to our enemies who conspire to joined battle with those in Is- do us evil. rael and in the diaspora who Remember, please, the simuphold the unfettered right of ple fact that we care for our diaspora Jews to criticize Is- children and grandchildren — raeli defense and foreign poli- and they, these little children, cy. live here." Begin was replying to a letIn a lengthy and forceful public letter to Prof. Leonard ter from Fein In which the proFein, editor of Moment mag- fessor dissociated himself azine, Begin wrote last week- from personal criticism of end: "Jews havo the right to Begin attributed to him by criticize the government of Is- local media after a news con rael in which I serve as Prime ference he held here last Minister — at any given mo- month. ment, any second, any hour, Fein referred to these reday or night." ports as "a grotesque misquo"But I, too, have the right to tation." He said his remarks ask of them to understand one at the press conference had thing at least: on matters dealt "with policies, not perwhich relate to the national se- sonalities. I have long becurity of this little nation In lieved, and I trust you share Eretz Ylsrael, please refrain that belief, that full discussion
and debate of such difference (regarding policy) is important, and perhaps even constructive." " . . . No one knows better than you," Fein wrote to Begin, "how others who do not share our axiomatic commitments may seek to exploit our sometime disagreement. It seems to me that the only response we can make is the response we'have always made — that is, to continue to work and live in a way that makes clear to one and all what our central beliefs are." Fein was a moving spirit among the group of 56 American Jewish leaders and intellectuals who recently publ i s h e d a full p a g e advertisement in the Israeli press criticizing aspects of Is-
What's A Nice Jewish Girl Doing With a Bengal Tiger? ByCariCohn Can you imagine a "nice Jewish girl" from Omaha taming a Bengal Tiger? That's what Sharon Nogg may be doing in two years after graduation from Institute for Exotic Wildlife Management and Training. Miss Nogg, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvln Nogg, graduated from Weslside High School in 1970. She went on to the University of Nebraska In Lincoln, University of Arizona, and World Campus Afloat. She started her studies in Pre-Veterlnary, but ended in Archaeology. For the last six years she was a surgical technician at Methodist Hospital after training in Omaha. Miss Nogg said, "animals are my first love. I showed horses for ISyears." That was not the end of her experience with animals. She also worked at Henry Doorly Zoo, and with a Veterinarian during high school and summer months. She said her experience helped her get into the Institute. The school Is located in Moor Park California, north of Los Angeles, and Is the only one of Its kind in the United States. It Is affiliated with the Moor Park Junior College, and students must be accepted into the college for admittance .into the Institute. "Its two year program teaches the training of Wildlife for Movies and Television. They have over 300 wild animals. We will be in charge of
raeli policy. It was plain from Begin's letter that the Premier had that ad in mind as much as the remarks attributed to Fein in his press conference. Begin wrote: "I permit myself to express astonishment why a man like you has to organize American Jews in order to publish a statement which lends — not, God forbid, intentionally — comfort to those who gleefully declared: look, the Jews of America are turning their backs on Israel. "Why should one act thus in the particular times that are confronting us? Do you not see what is happening in Copenhangen? Did you not read the Fatah Damascus resolution? Don't you hear the speeches from the rostrum of the United Nations? Do you, with your intelligence, not perceive that the whole purpose is to squeeze us into a thin strip of territory? What else has to be rendered in writlng'/trf ofally" to make you and, your 'colleagues understand that we are fighting for our lives?" Begin bridled against the use of the term "Greater Israel" In reference to his policies. It smacked, he wrote, of the wartime allied accusation that Hitler wanted to set up a "Greater Germany." The British Lord Privy Seal (Deputy foreign Minister) Sir Ian Gllmour was another who used that term. "The innuendo is clear. The purpose Is beyond doubt. Must Jews, pro-
fessors among them, lend credence to this nonsense...? It was absurd, Begin argued, to levy the "Greater Israel" charge against a policy which sought to retain Western Palestine — an area only 40 miles wide — under Israeli control." The Premier acknowledged the existence of the Palestinian problem but contended that it was of the Palestinians' own making, and that the Israeli autonomy proposal sought to alleviate It. "It was we, the disciples of Zeev Jabotinsky, who proposed this humanitarian idea. It was accepted in Washington and Cairo both
and we shall let no man distort It. "By the idea of autonomy, for the first time in their history, the Arabs will be able to live together with us in Eretz Yisrael in peace, in understanding, in freedom, In mutual respect and advancement, they themselves conducting their own affairs . . . Is npt this, our course, worthy of the support of a man who considers himself progressive? Is this chauvinism? Is progress embodied in the man who wants a 'Palestinian state' ruled by the PLO, as a jumpIng-off ground for the destruction of Israel. . .?"
Hilton Guide Omits Israel ATLANTA, Ga., (JTAJHilton International, the giant hotel chain, claims the omission of two Hilton hotels in Israel from its recently published Middle East edition of "Business Travelers' Guide," is a "must for doing business In the Arab countries," It was reported in The Southern Israelite by Vlda Goldgar, the editor and publisher of the weekly newspaper in Atlanta, Ga. The guide, a 40-page directory of information about Mideast countries and the services available in 10 Hilton ' hotels in the area does not include the Jerusalem Hilton or the Tel Aviv Hilton. Nor does an inside back cover list of 76
Hilton International hotels world-wide include the Israel hotels, Ms. Goldgar reported. "Does this mean that the Tel Aviv Hilton and the Jerusalem Hilton are mirages and do not exist?" That was the question asked Peter Mahler, Hilton International's director of-marketing for the Middle East after The Southern Israelite secured a copy of the guide. Reached by telephone in Hilton's New York headquarters, Mahler said, according to Ms. Goldgar, "This is produced (to be) widely distributed in the Middle East — not so much as far as Israel is concerned, but In the Arab countries — and we cannot distribute it listing the Israeli hotels."
Arnold Carmel Heads Education in Toledo
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certain animals and rotate to cover all types and learn something about all animals. The majority of the students go Into training, but I'm interested in research with marine mammals (like dolphins)." Miss Nogg continued "Each class is split into groups of five people, one group must be In the animal compound 24 hours a day In shifts. We are always 'on call' for emergencies "The school is year round for two years and Includes
weekends and holidays. This makes it impossible to have an outside job. So this will be my life for two years." , She also said emphatically, "The director will vPork your tall off!" In May 1982, she will graduate from the Institute with an associate degree in Exotic Wildlife Management and Training. At that time this nice Jewish girl from Omaha could be "talking to the animals."
The Toledo Board of Jewish Education has appointed Dr. Arnold Carmel of Lincoln, Neb., at their new Executive Director. Dr. Carmel's responsibilities will include the administration of the Hebrew Academy (K-6), the Community Hebrew School, High School and Adult Institute. Dr. Carmel completed his formative education in the Jewish day schools in London, England. In 1958, he participated in the Jewish Agency's Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad course in Israel. After completing the course, he spent two years In London as a program coordinator for Dror, a British Zionist Youth movement, and made aliyah to Israel in 1961. Between 1961-1966, Dr. Car- me) completed his military service in the paratroopers and spent several years on Kibbutz Machaqayim working
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in all phases of agriculture as well as working with youth from the kibbutz. Dr. Carmel moved to the U.S. in 1966 to attend the University of Houston where he received his B.S. in Psychology and an M.Ed, in Administration and Supervision of Public Education. Dr. Carmel received his Ph.D. in Educa-
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tional Psychology from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. During his academic training, Dr. Carmel worked closely with synagogues in the Conservative and Reform movements in both Houston, Texas and Lincoln, as a teacher and curriculum development coordinator. Dr. Carmel is certified and has functioned as a school psychologist and Administrator for State programs for the Developmentally Disabled. He was most recently responsible for the curriculum development in various human service fields at the University of Mid-America. Dr. Carmel has served on the Board of Directors of Tifereth Israel as a trustee, the Board of Education; Secretary of the Lincoln Chapter of B'nai B'rlth; and was the adult program planner for the Lincoln Federation.