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Extremists dealt setbacks by Nebra^a
VVincbw found at synagogue While rebuilding the Kapuller synagogue at 3(Uh and Cuminc street the present owner, Nebraslia Filter Company, diaeovered a stained glass window bearing the name of the original synagofue, B'nai Jacob Anshe Sholom. It was located In the area of the front doors niid had been coverwl with a steel plate. Shown here with the window which was given to the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society are from left to ri^ John Biggs, JCC malntenano« depnrtment. Jack Mnahart. owner-of the Nebraska FilUr Company and Ophlm Bahnr, archivist of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. The window will be repaired and stored until the tine when a replica of the Kapulier synagogue is created. . ^
New York, NY — Midwest ei[{remUt« seeking to exploit the f^rm criiiis have been dealt new setbacks, according to the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith. Michael E. SehulU, chairman of ADL's Civil Rights Committee, cited "the strong npudiation" of two right-wing gubernatorial candidates in the Republican priihaiy in Nebraska —' who receiv«d leas tlian 9,000 of 190,000 votes — and the conviction by a Colorado jury of the publisher of a now defunct anti-Semitic farm newspaper for crimes connected with the publication. Mr. Schuttz said the candidates, Everett Sileven and Paul Rosberg, had employed farm related issues in tneir campaign. He pointed out that Sileven, after announcing his candidacy, spoke at a rally in Nebraska sponsored by an anti-Semitic paramilitary organization and Rosbe^ had ofEered his campaign contributors an anti-Semitic book. The editor, Roderick "Rick" ElUott. was convicted last month on 14 counts of theft and one of conspiracy in connection with more than $200,000 in unpaid loans made primarily to his anti-Jewish "Primose and Cattleman's Gazette" and to the National Agricultunl Vni^ Aasociation, an extremist group Elliott uys iw formed to combat farm fbieckwurss. Bafbara Coopeismith, associate director of ADL's Denver office,
testified as a witness in the case. Previous ADL analyses of the efforts of extremists in the farm belt, including an ADL-commissioned Louis Harris poll conducted in Iowa and Nebraska earlier this year, revealed that their campaigns to scapegoat Jews for the farm crisis hove not been auccesshil. During the Nebraska election campaign, Sileven. who is pastor of the Faith Baptist Church in Ixwuville, NE, appeared on the same platform with Lany Humpliries, founder of the anti-Semitic paramilitary organization known as the Heritage Library. During the campaign, the League noted, Sileven shared an office with Itudy "Butch" Stanko Jr., a Nebraska meat packer who in 1985 placed ads in Nebraska and Wyoming claiming tluta Zionist-Jewish "conspiracy"' controls the economy and media of the United States. The League said that Rosbsrg, a fanner from Wausau, NE, recommended in his campaign booklet that voters read "The Spotlight," the publication of the far right, anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby. He also offered in return for a campaign contribution a number of Iwoks, including "Billions for the Bankers, Ddbts for the People," written by the late Sbel^n Emry, a notorious antiSemite.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — "PockeU" of Naxi communities, consistiik of the children of Nazi war criminals aid local Nazis, have crimlnst(<m. "It is against the Torah," developed in several South American coun(^ren saiid. tries. Goren, like most Orthodox rabbis, supAccording to Gerald PiMner, a New York ports the "Who is a Jew" amendment to the attorney who is co-author of the newly pubLaw of Return. The Law, passed shortly Ushsd "Mengele: liie Complete Story," after the Israeli State was founded, eniitlss (McOraw Hill, $18.96), there are at least 20any Jew to receive Israeli citiwmkhip im- 26,000 hard core Nazis in South America, mediately upon arrival in the ^puntiy. It with large "pockete" in Aigentina, Brazil identifies a Jew as anyone "bom of a Jewiah and Paraguay. mother or converted." The amendment "The ismnant of the Nazi killing teawould add the words "according to halachins is alive in South America," the 31cha-" It would thus allow the Orthodra rabbi- year-old lawyer, who spent months in South nate to dKiars invalid conversioM per- AnMricia in the guise of a Naii propagandist, formed by non-Orthodox rabbis. It has be«n told an Anti-tMhmation League of B^nai fiercely opposed by the Reform and Con- B'rith luncheon here. "The FoiKth Reich Nazis in South Amerservative movemsnte in the U.S. and Israel. The amendment has been introduced in the ica hate the Jews with passion," he said, Knsssrt many times over the years and to adding that the "^scond gsneration" of Nadate has always been defeated , zis, the sons and daughters of the German
at Supreme Court iiearing JERUSALEM (JTA)— The fiercely controversial "Who is a Jew" issue flared ilnew when it was diacloaed at a Supreme Court lisaring that the Orthedos-contiolled interior Ministry rfquires tii|| the word "converted," in parentheses, l>e printed next to the dMignation "Jewish" on the identity cards of all converts to Judaism in Israel. The new regulation triggered angry responses from secular spokesmen who charged that the Interior Ministry was trying to introduce the Orthodox-iRq)ired "Who U a Jew" amendment "throu^ the Itack door." Bven some Orthodns ralMs regard the designation as objectionable aqd djieriminatoiy against converts. The Interior Ministry told the court that I idsMity card, though not in itself proof ^haladhie status, itpiUaitfiag evidance '|,Mi«liA W-rriM* who register e, aoooiding to tlw Mintbe itU^pUidoa "converted" on the j MidsiHRvw CM g^ to the rabUs »wouU then have to make sure the conlion ww satisfactory for bahKhic purposes. .;: I 'fitfiifT, ffehtamry' Chief Rabbi Shlomo r>0Mn't<vi>iU tbe r^ation a "spilling of .(he blood" of converte. In an interview "Aieaday, he called attention to many Bibliealand TMmudic prohibitipns against di«-
scxyers StudenU in grade 7 of the United Tal^ mud Torah of Omaha were administered the Jewish Awareness Test from the Shteinshleifer Testing Bureau of the Jewish Education Service of North America, Inc. The class was tested on the areas of Bible, Observance and History and scored almost 10% above \he-national average in the three categories plus overall score: The class average improved, by two-and-one-third perceht bv^r last year's, with the biggest improvement in the area ofrBible. ' ', '
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US mayors asked to press Soviets on Jewish emigration resolution passed by the United Stetes liberations it may have with the Soviete. Conference of Mqwrs at ite annual meeting . According to Michael Brown) director of asks\kmerican mayors to join in pressing public affairs for the msiyor's organization, the Swet Union to allow Soviet Jews to the resolution was inspired during a trip to emigrai Israel in M^y of this year by^ group of The Molution chairged that the civil Anterican mayors attending the annual Jer.-righte of Soviet Jews have been violated and usalem Conference of Mayors, whose U.S. that persons identified as "refiiseniks" are qtonsors we the United Stetes Conference forced to live as "outcasts from Soviet so- of Mayors and the American Jewish Conciety." gress. In Israel, he noted, the mayors met Jews in the Soviet Union, the resolution with a group of emigres from the Soviet went on, are "subjected to severe discrimi- . Union who tolfl of the hardships to which nation in many areas of Soviet life," in- Soviet Jews are subjected. / cluding denial of higher education and The resohition by the Mayors' organizaprofessional training to younger Jews. It called on American mayors to use any tion was unanimouslyyapproved by 150 maycontacts they may 4iave with Soviet au- oral delegates to the/convention. Last September, the then president of the thorities to encourage consideration of, emigration requests, and to assist in United States Conference of Mayors, Erarrangemients for resettling Jews and other nest Morial, msyoi; qf New Orleans, acting at the direction of the executive committee, Soviet emigres, where appropriate,' The retolution also urged the United called on the Soviet foreign minister who States government to incorporate "this hu- was in the United States at the time to inman rights issue" in any fbreign policy de- tervene on behalf of Soviet Jews.
Neva who took refuge in South America, are unnpentent and willing to cany on with the atrocities committed by their fothers.
Boy, 14, earns degree TORONTO (JTA) - JMon Levy of Toronto has been graduated bom York University with honors and while he is not the first Canadian Jew to be graduated firom that university, be is probably the first to do so at the age of 14. He samed a bachckir of arto dsgne in honors mgthsmatics. Julian started) cut in the day school of the Aaaqeiated Hshrew Schools but after a year or t««, be was "acceleratsd" to the high sdiool of the Community Hebrew Academy. Ha did net linger there; at the age of ten, he was tcctfUi by Yorii University. bespito extra courses he took in chemistry iud philosophy, Jason held a straight A avenge at York. He was aaked to leave a third year algal^ courae becauae he had alieailr wofkad through the textbook. He fiDsd his tine by taking a graduate courae. Jaaon'e work has been published in the Mathamatieal Report of the Royal Society of(
AXongress suspends tours to Austria NEW YORK — Noting that Kurt Waldheim's election "has made it impossible" for American Jewish Congress members to feel comfortable in Austria, the Jewish organization said it is suspending all tours to that country. The announcement was made by Geoffrey Weill, director of the American Jewish Congress International Travel Program, yioM'a largest Jewish group travel enterprise. • Mr. Weill said that althou^ the travel program is not normally influenced by political events, "the unprecedented implications lA Waldheim 8 election by a majority of Austsrian voters makes it entirely inappropriate for us to continue to include Austria in our travel itineraries." This .year, Austria was scheduled as a major stop on 14 AJCongress tours.