THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 22 October 17, 1975 Anti-Semitism Found in Greece BETH YEHUDAH SCHOOLS 6ht Atabieirda/ef DG Cobo Hall Sunday, November 23, 1915 Odden gottah Jtikattd cPeevent NATHAN P. ROSSEN General Chairman: Irwin I. Cohn Dinner Chairman: I. William Sherr Special Guest Speaker Nationally syndicated Newspaper Columnist and Television Commentator For Reservation Please Call: 557 6750 - SPONSORS Kenneth Fischer Daniel A. Laven Max Biber Sidney Fischer Joseph Nusbaum Stuart Marshall Bloch Nathan I. Goldin Irving I. Palman A. Howard Bloch Martin Goldman Dr. Lloyd J. Paul Jack J. Carmen Ruben Grevnin Julius Rotenberg Ernest L. Citron Samuel Hechtman Alex Saltzman Irwin I. Cohn George Hill I. William Sherr David B. Holtzman Max Stollman Dr. Arnold Eisenman Arnold Joseff Phillip Stollman Dr. Leon Fill Mrs. Morris Karbal Dr. Arnold Zuroff Reubin Dubrinsky (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) (Editor's note: Alexan- der Coren is an Israeli journalist who recently visited Greece.) There are Greek Orthodox clergymen who are "fanat- ically" anti-Semitic, accord- ing to Joseph Lovinger, the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communi- ties in Greece. There are bishops writing' and preaching against Juda- ism who try to "explain" that world Zionism sup- ports Jehovist sects and that the purpose is to make Jeru- salem the "capital of the world," he said. Lovinger said that his community decided to do- nate Greek marble valued at $30,000 for the central syn- agogue now being built near the Heichal Shlomo in Jeru- salem and that special per- mission was given by the Minister of Commerce in Athens for the transfer. Another sum of $45,000 in three yearly install- ments was pledged to the Chair for Greek Jewish Studies of the University of Tel Aviv and the first sum of $15,000 has been re- mitted through the Bank of Greece. These cases are proof, says Lovinger, that the Greek government is favora- bly inclined to Jews in Greece and to Israel. Albert Kovo, vice presi- dent of the Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, ex- plained that although Greece has consistently pro- Arab policy, which is an es- tablished fact, Members of Parliament and government officials are friendly to- wards Jews and Israel. He said that more than 100 young Jews from Greece are studying in Israel. Kovo Jewish Kids Learn African Language JACK ANDERSON Harold Beznos By ALEXANDER COREN JOHANNESBURG (JTA) — The King David Primary School, a Jewish school in Victoria Park, is teaching its first to fourth grade pup- ils South Sotho, a major lan- guage of South African Blacks. One 20-minute lesson a week is given which includes learning the morning pray- ers in South Sotho. The youngsters do their home- work with the assistance of black family servants, ac- cording to their teacher, Mrs. Thelma Altschuler. She said the lessons in South Sotho are intended to make the Jewish youngsters aware of the fact that black people with whom they have daily contact at home have a culture of their own which is a closed book to the aver- age white child in South Africa. The King David School museum recently held an exhibition of the customs, music and dress of the South Sothos. Responsibility should never rest on him that is by pain or grief oppress'd. —The Talmud explained that these and other young persons are at- tracted by technologically developed countries — the United States, Britain and Germany. The senior spokesman of the Greek government and long-time close associate of Premier Constantine Cargmanlis, Undersecre- tary for Information Pan- ayotis Lambrias, referred frankly in a special inter- view to allegations of ru- mors of anti-Jewish feel- ing in Greece connected with the personality of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Lambrias said: "The ru- mors are substantially un- founded. It is true that some remnants of the junta, which as a dictatorship, cul- tivated a kind of anti-Semi- tism in order to reinforce an ultra-nationalistic spirit in the country." Lambrias spoke, too, of last year's "anti-American wave," which for some rea- sons was justified. Anyhow it is a fact that it existed during the dictatorship and after its fall, caused by the tragedy of Cyprus, he said, and it had a direct connec- tion with Kissinger's role. "I think that this anti- American wave with its an- ti-Semitic aspects is reduced in size and in acuteness now," Lambrias said. A third cause of anti- Semitism, he said, is the exploitation "by the ex- treme left, the Moscow- oriented left, the so-called danger of Israeli aggres- sion in the Middle East." Lambrias added that he recently received two repre- sentatives of Jewish organi- zations in London who asked him about anti-Semi- tism in Greece. 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