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Arens NEW YORK (JTA) — The expulsion from Paraguay of Josef Menyele, known as the "Angel of Death" for dozens of inhuman experiments performed mostly on Jewish inmates at the Auschwitz death 'camp, was demanded by 150 demonstrators who gathered outside the Paraguayan Mission to the United Nations. Mengele reportedly fled during the last days of the Nazi regime and ha3 been living undisturbed in Paraguay since 1G80. Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn District Attorney, told the group that if Paraguay continued "to refuse to expel Mengele, than all United States aid to Paraguay should bo discontinued." Other speakers were Elie Wie3el; Menachem Rosensaft, chairman of the International Network of Children of Holocaust.
Survivors; and Nazi-hunter Beate Klnrsfeld. After the meeting, Holtzman and Wicsel, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, met briefly with some Paraguayan officials. Wiesel !>aid the officials "did not admit nor deny" Mengele was living in Paraj»uay. Wiecol said he planned to form a delegation to meet with the President of Paraguay to convey the feelings of Mengele's surviving victims about the Nazi war criminal. He also said a request would be made to the Congress to enact a measure to have the United States governmenf'put pressure on Paraguay to give up Mengele." Ho and Holtzman Gaid they bslieved Paraguayan officials know where Mengele is.
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Editor's note: ..The following interpretation of Debbie Friedman's music is being''published in advance- of her June 10 concert scheduled for the JCC theater at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $4.50 for members, $6.50 for nonmembers, and $3.50 for students and senior citizens.
By David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA) - Israeli Defense Minister Moshen Arens flatly denied that Israel has been supplying Iran with arms or with spare parts for the weapons that country received from the United States under the Shah.
do. He noted that the Iran-Iraq war has been going on for nearly four years and while the Saudis have a great deal of American equipment, they don't have the "capability, the desire or maybe the motivation" to use them.
But Arens also stressed that in the "escalating" situation in the Persian Gulf in which ships are under attack from Iran and Iraq the shoulder fired Stinger would not be effective since its range is only three miles.
_ A special Israeli investigating commission set up by the Defense Ministry ruled that the two captured terrorists had been beaten to death with blunt instruments. Arens, who said "the report does not make pleasant reading," said the incident was a "clear deviation from Israeli rules, regulations and standards." He stressed that those responsible will face criminal charges.
Arens, however, ruled out any Israeli milArens, answering questions from report- itary involvement in thp Gulf. This is "not ers nt a press conference, also denied that at all being considered," ha said. there are any flights between Israel and In another matter Aren3 said that while Teheran carrying weapons to Iran directly or through a third country. He repeated the he wa3 on the ccene April 13 when Israeli denial when asked the same question in He- troops killed two Palestinian bus hijackers, and captured two others, he did not know brew by Israeli reporters. that the two captured Palestinians had been Arens, who met for 45 minutes earlier beaten to death. with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger "I was in the area during the entire night at the Pentagon, said he expressed Israel's while the bus and passengers were held hosopposition to President Reagan's decision tage," ho said. "I was in the area when the to send 400 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to bus was taken over by the Israeli armed Saudi Arabia. forces and I left the area thereafter." He added that just before he left he told re"Our concern is that these missiles could porters that two Palestinians had been fall in the hands of terrorist groups," he ex- killed and two captured. . plained. He said Israel feared the terrorists would use the easily affordable weapon Arens reportedly believed that the two against civilian aircraft and this "could be captured terrorists had died on the way to a danger to us, but not only to us." the hospital, according to an Israeli official.
The Israeli official suggested that the Saudis will not: be"effective" in defending the Gulf as the U.S. is counting on them to
By Jan Lund, Member, Music Committee, JCC The Debbie Friedman songs waft through the house like summer breezes ruffling the curtains, her lyrical notes curling around my senses like the lingering aroma of bread baking. OK, so I'm a child of the 60s and folk music warms my soul quicker than hot cocoa on a ski slope! But I am in my element listening to her beautiful voice, the lovelymusic and meaningful lyrics, all making up the ultimate winning combination. As I sit back and listen, however, I realize that there is an aura to all this that is different — Debbie's music is Jewish content. Several folk-singers and song-writers I love are Jewish. Not many of them compose Jewish folk songs or set the traditional liturgy to their own music. Few contemporary composers have set traditional liturgical songs to new music in a way that makes this beautiful soul-rendering stuff accessible to our 1980s lifestyle of stereo and cassette. (I have some Jan Pearce recordings of Kol Nidre; I don't have the victrola that plays 78s!) Debbie's songs deliver messages as old as the Torah, but they do it with music that is "totally now" as my students would say. Like the saying goes, "you don't have to be Jewish" to enjoy this unique and'wonderful array of songs, but you can't help noticing when you hear her that she
Feme Katleman, of New York, assumes her duties as president of the Conference of Jewish Communal Service succeeding DanPhoto by Alan Polaah. iel Mann, of Washington, D.C., director of B'nai B'rith International's Israel mant within us may be Commission. brought up to the surface, Ms. Katleman is director of continuing or, if felt vividly like hers, may be exuberantly reaf- education for the Council of Jewish Fedfirmed. Her brand of songs erations. Previously she was Director of the evokes an instant feeling of Community Services Division, Jewish Centers Association of Los Angeles; and held community! Besides her interpreta- staff positions at the Milwaukee Jewish tions of straight liturgy, she Center and the Omaha Jewish Federation. has written, like many of She has served on the faculty of Hebrew her contemporaries on the Union College's School of Jewish Comfolk music scene, a host of munal Service and University of Wisconother songs, poems really, sin-Milwaukee School of Social Work. set to her own music, about Ms. Katleman is a past president of the that vital search we all make Western States Chapter of the Association — for a deeper and more of Jewish Center Workers. She has been meaningful understanding vice-president nationally of the Association of life. She has one whole album called, "I believe — Ani ma amin" — a musical montage expressing her affirmation of humankind's hope for brighter tomorrows. I have not met Debbie, A dedication ceremony of the Carl Frohm but in knowing her music, I Day Camp Pavillion will be held at the Jewfeel I know her. I know that ish Community Campus on June 10 at 2 she is a dreamer and has vi- p.m., according to Sharon Cipperley, chairsion, that she has struggled man for the JCC Camp Committee. Sharon and, yes, even suffered, but Greene will chair the event which marks the has always come away be- completion of Phase II of the Campus Outlieving that where there is door Development Project. despair there is hope and when we feel pain and sadAccording to Paul Epstein, chairman of ness, this, too affirms that the fundraising drive, "We are grateful to we can feel joy. I will be in the audience the Carl Frohm Foundation for their genat the JCC on June 10, hop- erous support toward the outdoor developing for a glimpse into her vi- ment project." sion, hoping to share her joy in our same cultural heriMrs. Cipperley noted that, "The children (continued on page 2) of our Jewish community will be able to
Jewish day School students display Debbie Friedman record albums in support of the upcoming JCC Concert.
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is providing you with a means of coming closer to Jewish roots and to living Jewish heritage through the music. (She has even recorded a "curriculum in song" for teaching Hebrew — simple , tunes that, are set to contagious rhythms which start the student toe-tapping to the mastery of basic vocabulary and even key grammatical concepts of the language! As a foreign language teacher, I can attest to singing in the target language as an unequalled method of vocabulary and grammar drill, and as a way to master accent and intonation. They didn't teach Hebrew her way in my day; otherwise I'd still know some!) Debbie's first record, a Sabbath Liturgy called "Sing Unto God," was a recording of songs of prayer — songs we all know like L'Cha Dodi, prayers — the Barechu, Sh'ma and the Kaddish— all done with an underlying energy — reawakening through new music of her (and maybe our?) deep religious commitment. It is as though through her singing, she is reaching out to us to share her particular sentiments about God and the Jewish experience, sentiments which, if lying dor-
of Jewish Center Workers and the Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel and holds the same position with the International Conference of Jewish Communal Service. The Conference of Jewish Communal Service was established in 1899 as the Conference of Jewish Charities. It has evolved into its present form to reflect its aim of improving the quality of professional service to the American Jewish community as its distinctive contribution to enriching and perpetuating Jewish life. The CJCS brings together more than 3500 professional workers and 320 local and national agencies from the United States and Canada, operating through eight Affiliated Professional Associations, its Annual Meeting and an ongoing structure of committees and commissions.
have a first class facility to utilize during the 1984 camping season thanks to ghe generosity of the Foundation." The Outdoor Development Project, estimated to cost $300,000 when completed, has been co-chaired by Joe Kirshenbaum and Mort Trachtenbarg, as a. three year project to improve the property in the rear of the Jewish Community Campus. Two hundred and thirty thousand dollars have been raised for the project in the community from several sources including: The Carl Frohm Foundation, The Livingston Foundation,, the Omaha National Bank, InterNorth and Mutual of Omaha. A community "plant a tree" program is. planned for the fall of 1984.