Iraqi, Syrian Jews Terrorized

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The disclosures were made
by a tourist who recently
visited Iraq. He told ITIM,
the Israeli news agency, that
the tragedy occurred as the
Kashkosh family was packing
its bags to leave Iraq. Mrs.
Kashkosh managed to crawl
out of her home and told the
story before she died.
Another Kashkosh daugh-
ter, Dori, was saved because
she was attending classes at
the university at the time.
She is currently reported to
be living with a Jewish fam-
ily in Baghdad.
The tourist said that Iraqi
Jews believe that all the
vs who have disappeared
Baghdad since last Sep-
tember have been killed be-
cause the authorities have
confiscated their property.
Premier Indira Ghandi of
India was urged by Shoshana
Arbelli-Almoslino, chairman
of the Knesset Labor Com-
mittee, to intervene to save
the life of Dori Kashkosh.
The appeal, cabled to Mrs.
Ghandi, stated: "As an Iraqi
by birth and as a member of
I s r ael's parliament, I ap-

proach you and appeal for
your intervention as a woman
and as the premier of India
to save the life of Dori Kash-
kosh, the last remnant of a

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Syrian Jews
Risk Torture
on Escaping

COPENHAGEN (JTA) —
An unidentified Syrian Jew
said here Tuesday that Syr-
ian Jews risk jail and tor-
ture if they try to escape the
ghetto. Wearing a mask and
sunglasses, the man told a
press conference that he was
forced to remain anonymous
because his family is still in
Damascus.
He said that Jews are not
allowed to move out of the
four-square kilometer area
that constitutes the ghetto,
that all personal documents
belonging to Jews are mark-
ed with a red stamp and that
contact with foreigners is
severely punished.

family which was murdered
in Iraq." A copy of the cable
was sent to the speaker of
the Indian parliament.
Knesset member Moshe
Shachal said that the Christ-
ian churches of Switzerland
have promised to intercede
on behalf of Dori. Shachal
said that the International
Red Cross also was inter-
vening with the Iraqi govern-
ment on her behalf.
Israel's Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef led a
mass prayer rally and me-
morial service at the Ramat
Gan synagogue in memory of
Jews reported slain in Iraq.
It was learned the services
were held at the Choral
Synagogue in Bucharest, led
by Romania's Chief Rabbi
Moses Rosen. He eulogized
the victims and read a list of
names of Iraqi Jews report-
edly missing or kidnaped.
He demanded that they be
freed and that the dead be
buried according to Jewish
rites.
An open air memorial serv-
ice for the Kashkosh family
was held outside the Iraqi
Embassy in London.

Historians Open Convention Today

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The conference's keynote
adress will be delivered this
evening by Rabbi Malcolm
H. Stern, director of rabbinic
placement for the Central
Conference of A m e r i c an
Rabbis.
Speaking at services at
Temple Beth El, at 8:30 p.m.,
Rabbi Stern will talk on the
subject "Reforming of Re-
form Judaism—Past, Present
and Future."
Prof. Abraham Karp, AJHS
president, will deliver the
sermon at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek at 9 a.m. Saturday
services.
Saturday's luncheon session
at Northland Inn will feature
an address by Rabbi Daniel
J. Silver of The Temple,
Cleveland, and will be fol-
lowed by an "Ask the Ex-
perts Forum," to be moder-
ated by Dr. Jacob R. Marcus,

speaking on "The Growth of
Reform in Alien Soil"; Prof.
Gershon Greenberg, of the
University of Rochester, dis-
cussing "David Einhorn's
American Mission," and
Rabbi David S. Hachen, di-
rector of the Northeast Lakes
Council, Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, whose
subject is "The American
Reform Rabbi, 1973."
Philip Slomovitz will mod-
erate the panel, "150 Years
of the American J e wish
Press."
Speakers will be Bernard
Postal, author, editor and his-
torian, whose subject is "The
American Jewish We e k l y
Press after 150 Years," and
Rabbi A. James Rudin, of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, speaking on "Jacob
De Haas, Her zl's Press
Agent."
Closing the formal confer-
ence program will be an ad-
dress by Prof. Sefton D.
Temkin, State University of
New York at Albany, speak-
ing on the subject "Joseph
Herman Hertz, America's
of the National Urban Coali- Gift to the British Empire."
A post-convention tour of
tion, called upon the rabbis
to lead their congregants in local sites, including Green-
a "massive new effort for field Village, the Henry Ford
social justice and liberty in Museum and the Ford River
Rouge plant, has been set for
America."
Rabbi Judah Nadich, presi- Monday.
The AJHS concerns itself
dent of the Rabbinical As-
sembly of America, proposed with collecting, preserving,
that Jewish welfare funds publishing and disseminating
contribute to the support of information about the history
synagogue-spomored schools of the Jews in the United
States and other countries in
system.
through a VGI
Rabbi Nad. -1- who is the the Western Hemisphere.
The society's library, head-
spiritual leadc,r of the Park
Avenue Synagogue in Man- quartered in its own modern
hattan, addressed 500 dele- building, contains the world's
gates attending the Rabbini- largest and most valuable
cal Assembly's convention. collection of manuscripts and
He said that members of printed material dealing with
congregations were beitig the history and achievement
taxed doubly when they con- of American Jewry.
AJHS publishes thousands
tributed to welfare funds and
of
pages of materials, all
at the same time have to
pay for the programs of their documented, in its American
Jewish Historical Quarterly.
congregations.
The society is supported al-
He recommended a sys-
tem whereby a child or adult most entirely by member-
would receive a voucher ships, ranging from $15 for
from the local community associate membership to
fund to pay for tuition in an $1,000 for honor historian
educational program of his membership. Members r e -
ceive the Quarterly and other
choice.
notices and publications of

director of American Jewish
Archives in Cincinnati.
Panelists include Prof.
Karp (American Jewish his-
tory), Rabbi Isidore S. Meyer
(Colonial American Jews),
Dr. Nathan M. Kaganoff,
(Jewish migrations), Rabbi
Stern (Jewish genealogy),
Katz (Michigan Jewish his-
tory) and Dr. Jehuda Rein-
harz (general Jewish his-
tory).
"Collecting History — the
Use of Oral History" is the
subject of an address by Dr.
Samuel Proctor, editor of the
Florida Historical Quarterly.
Sunday will be devoted to
the conference's two major
themes, with Dr. Stern pre-
siding at the morning session
on "The Centennial of Reform
Judaism."
Panelists include Carol H.
Long, a member of the
AJHS's executive council,

Needs of Jewish Youth Viewed
as a Priority Iss ue at Parley

GROSSINGER, N.Y. (JTA)
—Three leaders of major
Jewish organizations agreed
that the needs and demands
of Jewish youth must be the
top priority of all Jewish
communal agencies.
In other areas, the panel-
ists, addressing the 73rd an-
ual convention of the Rab-
dfical Assembly, differed
on a number of issues.
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
national director of inter-re-
ligious affairs of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, char-
acterized youth as vulner-
able to the evangelism of
Key 73. "Every defection of
a Jewish young person is an
argument for the need of
Jewish institutions to be far
more responsive to the chal-
lenge of religious illiteracy,"
he observed. "Paradoxically.
the proselytizing pressures of
missions to the Jews are
eliciting a creative and posi-
tive response on the part of
Jewish religious and civic
agencies.
At the closing banquet,
Saul M. Linowitz, chairman

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