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New York philanthropist funds Soviet immigrants By GO Sedan coining to Israel would not ezpecta they will C(»ne in JERUSALEM (JTA)- be digible, he stressed. unprecedented numbers. An AmArican Jewish The severe housing Sharansky, who heads phUanthrapist has given shortage has been one of the Soviet Jewry Zionist the Isradi government a the main drawbacks of im- Forum, an asaodation of hand toward solving one migration to Israel. But Soviet immigrants in Isof the most troublesome since the United States es- rael, is an outq>oken critic problems confronting Jew- tablished a ceiling on im- of the Jewish Agency's ish immigrants arriving migration bom the Soviet and Absorption Ministry's from the Soviet Union— Unicm in October, Sovi^ h»nHllng of the new arthe lack of affordable Jews who want to leave rivals, explained how the housing. have little chmce. Israel nuHtgage fund will work. JoB^h Gross, 86, a New York investment banker deecribed as a billionaire, has establishefji^a $20 million fond to provide qualiRdbU AiyA Airiel (left) and stadenta from ToiQile brad'i n^gioiia adiool pre*fied emigres with noe^ » $4300 dwck to Uora Ott/a member of the Food Bank'* bMurd of dincton interest private mortand Chiurlea J. RaffeBaperger, the Food Bank'a ozecnthre director, to help feed . gages. He did it throu^ By AlUeon Kaphm sor Griff') gave a newspathe huagiy la Oaaha. Mr. RaffenqNtger aald the gift repnsenta a new reeWd the government and the NEW YORK (JTA) - per interview in which he for a doaatiaB freai a leBgooa laiititatioD aii4 tape the previoaa record aet Iv TenTefahot mortgage bank, The controversy surround- made outrageously antipie larad laat year. according to So^t Jewry ing the music rap group statements, activist Natan Sharanaky, Public Enemy has reig- Semitic who has been named ad- nited with the rdease of among them that the Jews ministrator of the fund. thefr new album's first sin- "were responsiUe for the Sharansky announced HJa. "Welcome to the Ter- majority of wickedness in the world." the Gruss project, to be nwdome." After Griffin's state. The song's lyrics revive named for the philanthnpist'a late wife, Caro- the andent accusation of menta wwe roundly conRay GoMatein, Beth El According to Howard Emil Berkovita should line, at a news conference Jewiah req;ionaibility for deinned, the bsnd's lead Syiuijpigue prestdeot, haa Kooper, rhairmiB of the lead ua inarriroming the hare. {{ejal4 it wouU ben- the crudflzion of Jeeus, shuger, Chudt Ridenhonr annowiMid that ground- building eonamittee. the year 5762 (in the Pall of efit spme SjOOO Jewiah and impliea that Jews (atage wme Chudc D), breaking careraonlea for board qiproved aQ minor 1991) in our new syna- famtlum mmlng from tlM have done the| same to the briefly suqieoded Griffin from PubUc Enemy and Soviet Union, but only if aong's narrator the new Beth El bufldlng changes and additions. gogue building." then tamporaiily dissolved will take plape between Groundbreaking and conMr. Goldstein indicated they come to Isrsel Crucifixion ain't no fic- the group. But less thsn a Purim and Paaaovar. Mr. struction will begin as that the building ahoidd be directly. tion The fund waa announced OoidateiD Mid the dadaian aom as the weather al- reedy before the Pall of So-called choeen, froeen month later, the group waa mada at the m6et'nt- lowa, he said. 1991, but, "Iliat dnold be at the Moecow Soviet' Apology made to whoever reassembled and Griffin was reinstated. "If everything goes ac- a good time during which Jewry coQgraaa last week oeo* B«M> El board meetDuring the height of the ing folloving final ap- c<irding to schedule," Mr. to formalize our welcome hy Shmuel Asarkh. an offiStill they got me. Just proval of tiia architectaral Goldstein laid, "Rabbi and acceptance of the new cial of the Soviet jiwry Zi- like Jeans. controversy, one of Public onist Foram, to the chsers drawings for the facility. Paul DrazoD and Cantor Beth EL" Enemy's managers, Lyor of the crowd. Azarkh is The words appear to re- Cohsn. srranged for Ridenfrom Moooowand livea in fer to the atorm of con- hour to spsak by telaphone Jeruaaltm. troversy surrounding the to the Simon Wieseathal So-called "dropouta" group last summer, when Center's Rabbi Abraham who tried their hidk in group member Richard Cooper about Jewiah senother countries before Griffin (known as "Profes- sitivities.
Feeding the hungry
Public Enemy causes stir again
Beth El to break ground for new synagogue Building
Behind the headlines:
For Romanian Jews, precarious past gives way to unpredictable future
By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - There were few, if any, Jews on the barricades during the bloody upriaing in Romania these past two weeks, which overthrew the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife, Elena, on Dec 26. For one thing, about half of thf country a 30,000 Jews an over 06 years of 'age, too old for street fighting. But mainly, Ro. manian Jewa have ambig[ uous fMlngs about the L momentous evaots in their r country. h While their relationship t' with Caauseecu waa D<«carioua but comfbrtable, ; thiir fate under tha new rebilibe ia unpradkitable. Romania's kmg r of indlgwoua anti' laodtiam, Jewlah fsan are nderstandahla, aa nationKliatic paaaiona replace Communist dogma in a da' tariontlng eooBomic situ-
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Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977. And if Ceauaaecu wel comed Paleetine Liberu tion Organisation leader Yaair Arafat, he also played host to evwy Isradi prime miniater in the last 20 years. On the domeatic front, Romanian Jews tuicytd considerable religioua freedom under Ceausescu. Their ooinmunal hwtitutiona ware allowed to Amction. They ware aUowad to maintah ties with hitamational Jewiah organLutiona aAd reoaivea nmch needed aid fl^om the American Jewiah Joint Distribution Committee. There are doae to 70 Jewiah coBMiMmiliea hi the country, wUh 190 aynagoguae still in uss. In some small villsgee wfafre a (ew dotsn Jewiah famOiae nitvive. the ahula are oft* ralatiooa with the Arab wooden stmeturae dating world. He played an active from the early 19th cenpart hi arringiag Bgyp- tury. (CoadatMd on Piwe 8) Matt'Praeldent Anwar
The small Jewish community played s role disproportioDate to its size in Romania'a academies of medicine, science, and even history and literature. Sevenil Jews are tenured iinhremity profsesors, and others belong to the country^ top scientific bodies. Jews Kill not forget that CeauaeacBVHomania was the only Waraaw Pact county to oppoae the Soviet invaaioA of Ciechoalovakia that4|rudMd the socalled Praltae Sprffig of democratici reforma in 1968. Most important was the fact that C<anaeeea. alone among Bast bloc leaders, contlaiiad to mafaitain full diplomatic relations with laraal after the 1967 SisDay War. ThoRomkaian dictator
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