THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Belfast Jewish Residents in Delicate Situation
By MARK SEGAL
class areas are so far free of
this specter of atavistic
A telling anecdote now hatreds and the Jews being
mostly middle-class, man-
going around in Belfast re-
age to stay out.
fates of a local Jew out for a
The big question mark,
stroll suddenly confronted
however, hanging over
a masked gunman
everyone, and this of
(whether of the Protestant
course includes the Jews,
or Catholic extremists is un-
is whether, if the Northern
clear).
Ireland situation gets out
The Belfast Jew heard the of hand altogether, the
menacing voice querying middle-classes can main-
• "Who are you, a Catholic or tain their relatively unin-
P- :•
He answered volved position.
"Neither, I am
As the president of the
a Jew," to which the masked Belfast Hebrew Congrega-
stranger responded impa- tion, Harold Smith, said:
tiently, "OK, but which are
"The Jews react to the
•ou, a Protestant Jew or a environment in which they
Catholic Jew?
live. We do not accept the
This anecdote, more than idea that the Jewish com-
munity exists in a crossfire,
anything else, sums up the
for the Jewish community
Delicate situation in which
this tiny Jewish community as such has no position on
finds itself since the out- this matter."
Smith, and other mem-
break of the civil strife in
bers of his small community
1969. This city of churches
and pubs is the focus of of 280 families, say they
what has hecome the almost have no experience of pre-
judice against Jews,
intractable Irish Question.
Smith stated that "all
So far the Belfast Jewish
sorts of well-meaning peo-
community, as such, has ple, Jews and non-Jews,
managed to stay out of the have asked us to be media-
,Tossfire between the Pro-
tors but we decided that
testants and Catholics: and
we will not get involved
1 hey hope they can carry on and will not take sides."
that way. The civil strife
Most interestingly, mem-
end sectarian hatred are bers of both Christian com-
mainly a phenomenon of the
munities are to he found on
Protestant and Catholic social occasions at Jewish
\vorking classes in Belfast.
homes: especially those of
the more
leaders in the professions.
. sedate middle-
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ST. LOUIS — Michael
The national faction won
Allen, unit secretary at the out over the Nix faction, Al-
Breckenridge Hills head- len said. The present St.
quarters of the Greater St. Louis Nazi unit is a splinter
Louis National Socialist group of the party of a year
White People's Party, is -ago.
planning a public outdoor ,
The party is still involved
"anti-Communist" rally in with two court cases re-
September.
maining from Nix's leader-
The rally, according to Al- ship.
len, will be the largest pub-
The American Civil Lib-
lic demonstration by the erties Union is handling a
Nazi Party in the area.
case against Southwestern
"The rally will educate
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company discontinued the
the party's local plans to eli-
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minate all Marxist groups in
sage service after only four
the country," he said.
hours of operation.
Allen claims that the
The ACLU is handling an-
Nazi Party is "the only
other case of four Nazi
political party in the
Party members arrested for
United States with a
distributing Nazi Party lit-
proven record of having erature without a license.
stopped communism."
Allen says that the dis-
Just about a year ago the ruption of the party last
first St. Louis unit of the year has not affected party
Nazi Party split, according membership. Athought Al-
to news sources. Its unit len will not give a memher-
leader, Dennis Nix, was ex- ship figure, news sources es-
pelled from the party after a timate the membership at
shooting incident.
200 persons.
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The importance of the
fact that Liliane Thorn of
Luxembourg knows He-
brew, has visited Israel, and
has reported on the Jewish
State in a special program
on Radio Luxembourg, one
of the most popular and in-
fluential media in Europe,
lies not in her status as the
wife of the Luxembourg
Prime Minister and the
mother of his only son, but
in her status as a famous
journalist and radio com-
mentator whose influence
goes far beyond the confines
of her own small country.
St. Louis Nazi Party to Have
Public 'Anti-Communist' Rally
Aide Says Hitler Dreamed
of Setting New York Afire
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Liliane Thorn — Famous
Reporter in Luxembourg
This is irrespective of the
specifics of local conditions,
though naturally they ag-
gravate things. Yet, even in
Belfast, they are discussing
aloud the possibility that
their community may dwin-
dle even further, and they
are setting up a special trust
fund in order to ensure the
orderly operation of com-
munal institutions should
that unfortunate eventual-
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The very nature of the lo-
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more closely-knit Jewish
community, with a higher
rate of involvement in com-
munal affairs than is known
in larger communities
which enjoy tranquil condi-
tions in other parts of the
United Kingdom. But the
question mark of survival as
a community hangs over
them.
Friday, September 5, 1975 73
Among the hooks lining
the attractive lounge in her
home are numerous vol-
umes on various aspects of
Judaism. On a table rests
the Sarajevo Haggada.
Mrs. Thorn was horn in
Dodling- en, a small town in
he country, right in the
steel belt, where her father
was an - engineer. She is a
graduate of the Sorhonne,
"but I never ceased learning
things.
Now she is studying
Hebrew, despite a full
schedule as a top rank
journalist and broad-
caster, the Prime Minis-
ter's wife and hostess, the
mother of a son of 12, and
the president of the na-
tional women's organiza-
tion in her country.
"My father took me to
visit Israel when I was 16.
He was a devout Christian,
but took an interest in other
faiths. A Dutch friend later
advised me to learn the He.
brew language, pointing out
the many implications of
Hebrew, _which is not
-merely the language of -one
country on the face of the
earth."
Mrs. Thorn also said she
is now reading Sholem,
Buher and other Jewish
philosophers, albeit in En-
glish, German or French.
Mrs. Thorn's visit to Is-
rael this spring was duly
reported in her weekly
peak-listening program on
Radio Luxemhourg, which
is a Sunday program deal-
ing with foreign -(to Luxem-
bourg- ) nations and places.
She gave a series of talks on
Israel, her politics, her so-
ciety. -
She recently had a radio
hroadcast on the Jews of
Prague, their history and
their ancient monuments.
Her next Jewish program
will be on the Jews of Cor-
dova, the birthplace of Mai-
monides (Ramham), and on
the Golden Age of Hebrew
Letters in Spain of the Mid-
dle .-kg-es generally.
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