SERVING NEBRASKA AM) IOWA SINCE 1920 Vol. LXV No. 2 Omaha, Nabr.
14 TMtri, 8747 Friday, Oetobw^ 17, II
Tanenbaum calls campaign 'ideologically dangerous myth' RICHMOND, VA.,-Rabbi Mare H. ^Tanenbaum, director of International Relations of the American Jewiah Committee, Itold a group of diatinguiahed clergymen, .educatora and lawyera ^t the "New Chriaitian Right" campaign to Christianize iAmerkaaod^ eatablish a Chriatian repub^c was "an ideologically dangwous myth mc American demcwracy which must not go |unconteated." \ Rabbi Tanenbaum apoke at the National !Confa«nce for Religious Freedom at the yPaOKaok'ShKVtan Hotel in Rkfantond. The iNnxlay aunfareuce, part of a year-long peelebndioB of the bicentennial of the Vir^jinie Statute for Religious Freedom, is mwnaoNd try the CitizeDS to Commemorate wt Statute for Religious Freedom. \ PtsaiiD% othera who spdce at the CcMiferbnce were farmer U.S. Supreme Court Jua[tice Arthur J. Goldberg; Dr. Robert M. lO'Neil, president of the University of Vir' ; Jease Choper, dean of the Univerair of California School of Law at Berkeley; Samuel D. Proctor, senior minister of [Abyaainian Baptiat Church in New York; Jather Charles M. Whelan, Aaaodate Edi|or, AnMriea, md Profeasor of Law at Fcrd(ham Univaiaity; and Rex E. Lee, attorney M Waahingtoo, D.C. p "Much of the present'New Ri^t'public ^iiacuaaioB of issues aeema to be characterjied by that traditional scenario of political conflict between the 'children of light' pmd the 'drildren of darkness.'" Rabbi ^aneobuim said. [ There is too much demonology in the curItent discussion, which appears to consign ^c^tical candidates to bdng demolished as paataaic," he added, with secular humanists htanding at the side of Satan. I "One has a sense that some'New Right' ladvocatea perceive America as if it were a toast camp revival meeting," Rabbi TaneniHnun stated, "whooe characteristic method was to pkmge into anguiah the ainner ,over the state of hie soul, then bring about I Cfxafession of faith by overainqdifying the 1 aa a choice between a dear good i an obvious eviL" Obaerving that some "New Christian ' ipokaenien have asserted cr inqdied at "the Founding Fathers" of our nation iived America as "a Christian Repub-
lic," Rabbi Tanenbaum said that such assertions contradicted everything Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffers<», James Madison, and others stood and fought for. The campaign by some members of the "New Christian Right "to elect "born-again Chriatiana" to public office "is anathema to everything American democracy stands for," Rabbi Tanenbaum stated. "It violates Article 6 of the United States Constitution, which forbids the exercise of 'a religious test' for any citizen running for public office. The American people must repudiate that anti-democratic practice-"
SDI and Israel By David Friedman WASHINGTON |JTA)-Th« techaolcgy being devdcysd through the StratagieSlafense Initiative (SDI) will not ooly provide a defenn minst intercontinental bidlisttc miaaOes (ICBM), but also against shortrange missiles such aa threaten Israel, two Pentagon officials stressed Wednesday. Frank Oaffney, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nudear Forces and Arms Control Policy, and Air Force Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, director of SDI, discussed SDI, popularly known as "Star Wars," and Israel before a group of Jews from across the country at the Old Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Qaffiiey said that Israel wants a defense against tactical ballistic missiles that now threaten it from the air, land or sea The Soviet Union has provided Syria with the highly-accurate SS-21 missile which can hit Israel's population centers, as well as military targets. Abrahamson said that Israel must stop a misale "not in the last few seconds wh^ it goes off over that tiny country... The best place to stop it is as soon as possible right after it's launched." There is a popular misconception that SDI is aimed at providing the United States with an "umbr^" against ICBMs, Abrahamson said. But he said the program is aimed to find "an effective defenae against ballistic missiles of all ranges" to protect the UtS. and its allies, induding IsraeL
Governor applauds Hadassah Governor Bob Kerrey applanda Hadaaaah Wednesday after iandag a prodamation !• honor of the iifgf"t"**""'* ^"t*** —ln^aary. He |wamitaH the pradiHatfan to NanVI Carm, president trf the Llaodn Chapter of Hadaasah, wiio in tnm praaeated the Goveraer with a cotificate in connection with the planttng of a tne In hia haaat ini t laraeL llie Qovemar eaiUer gave Hadaasah a State flag to be flown tb laraal for Hadasnah's Jabilee celebration.
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Nobel winner Etie Wtesel speaking liere in April Elia Wiesel-winner Of the Nobd Peace nise-wiU.apeak in Omaha next April in connection with the conmiunity's observance of Yom RaShoah. . His appearance April 29 irill be under the auspices of the Jewish Cultural Arta Council and the United Christian Campus Ministries. Mr. Wiesel, human ri«^ta aetaviat, wither, lecturor and philoeopher, apoke in Omaha in 1983 during a lecture at Crei||^ht(n Uniyfpijty «^^ •|^«|pGp0miunity Rehitioiis Ctimmitfee of tbs Jewiah Federation of Omiaha. lite ii>ove photo was taken by the Jewiah Press during a press ccmference preceding the 1983 lecture.
Jewish Nobel Laureates to be honored in New York NEW YORK-Fwty-five American Jewiah liTobol Laureates will be honored for their otmtributions to human knowledge by the Jewish Acad«ny of Arts & Sciences at a special convocation in New York City on Nov. 12. The ceremony will mark the approaching SOth anniversary of the award of the Nobd Prize to physicist Albot Einstein, who was himself a fdlow of the Jewish Academy of Arts & Sciences. Presiding at the ceremonies wil) be former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Arthur J. Goldberg, who is chairman of the Board of the Academy. Isaac Bashevis Singer, the noted author and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, will deliver the keynote address. The Albert Einstein 1937 Fellow of the Jewish Academy of Arts & Sdences Commemorative Medal will be presented to the Nobel Laureates present at the ceremony by Justice Goldberg. "It's a tribute long overdue, Mr. Goldbo'g said, for they exemplify the contribution of Jews to human knowledge. They comprise more than 28% of American Nobd Prize winners, which is meaningful in view of the fact that Jews represent 2.6% of the population of the United Statea." Prof. Abraham I. Katsh and Joe^h Handleman, preaident and vice president respectively, of the Jewish Academy, will also be presented with-a Commemorative Medal in hcmor of their long yeara of service to the Academy. The Academy's convocation will be hdd at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Paric Weat. The afternoon convocation will take place in the first fk>or auditorium between 4 p.m. and6:16p.m. • The dinner ceremonies will take idace in the Auduboh Gallery on the ftturth floor of
the Sodety buikling between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Misha Raitzm of the Metropolitan Opera will sing. The Jewiah Academy of Arts & Sciences waa created in 1936. Fellows of the Academy indnde illustriaus names of Jewish men and women with outstanding accomplishments in the arts and sdences, in the humanities and in •"•«'<««"''• Hiey indude Salo W. Baron, Felix Frankfurther, Nelson Glueck, Chiidm Heizog, Isaac Herzog, Norman Lamm, Jan Peerce, Amo A. Penzias, Hyman Rickover, Cecil Roth, Albert B. Sabin, Jonaa E. Salk, Abba Hilld Silver, Edward Teller, Franz Werfd, Elie Wiesel, Harry A. Wolfaon, Herman Wouk and Rosalyn Yalow. For further information contact: Benjamin Saxe, (212) 767-1628.
Group seel<s cemetery aid A meeting to develop a plan for maintaining the Jewish cemetery in Council Bluffs will take place Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. in the Hoitage Iim, 36th and Broadway, Council Bluffs. According to Maynard 8. Telpner, the meeting has beein called to figure out a way to fund the perpetual care of the cemetery. "It is falUng into disrepair and neglect," he said. Mr. Maynard suggested that many people in the Omaha^ouncil Bluffs area today and former residents of the area have parents or family members buried in the cemetery and thus are interested in preserving the grounds. Mr. Telpner tnay be contacted at 712-332-5607.