Purely Commentary
Setting the Record Straight on the Communist Domination in
By Philip
Poland and the Polish-Jewish Tragedy . . . And the Collabora-
Slomovitz
tion of Two Government Departments With the Arab Boycott
virtually
giving
comfort
to
the
boycotters
by
their
in-
The Great Debates . . . Spectacle
of a great nation does not rest on a TV spectacle or on
action.
the moods of political candidates. A great nation sur-
or Diplomatic Blunderbusses
Heroic economic war threats before the election, a vives indiscretions.
In another week, on the eve of the Sabbath after ploy after inaction, some other boo-boos keep puzzling
this one, the Great Debates will have ended. The last the Chief Judge on Judgment Day, the Voter.
Congress versus President
The President had been in Eastern Europe. One
laugh will be from the lips of the Final Judges, the
spot is exemplary: Poland. This Commentator also vis- in Boycott Scandal
Voters.
If it will be a laugh, then the Voter will be the ited there, but much earlier. Is that country free from
As matters stand today, with the Commerce De-
unblemished because he will only chuckle rather than Communist domination'? Forget Romania and Yugos-
partment insisting that only future acts of collabora-
speak. That's where the great danger emerges—when lavia for the present. There are few obstacles for the
tion with the Arab boycotters will be publicized, the -
the politicians speak! The danger lies in the misspeak- tourist or observer there. But in Poland the steps of evident decision being that the thousands of previo! ,--,,
the outsider are followed, the power stemming from criminal acts will be ignored, creates a new strug:
ing.
"Misspoke - became a descriptive apologetic for the Kremlin is not hidden.
between Congress and the White House.
When the Commentator was in Poland there were
the President while the Opponent kept correcting his
Congress appeared determined to expose par-
still some 27,000 Jews there. JDC and ORT still oper- ticipants in the boycott, contrary to the views of the
own share of the boo-boos.
Administration, but pressures from State Depart-
Perhaps slips of the tongue are normal and correc- ated. In the 15 years that elapsed there was a moral
pogrom, Jews who had forgotten their heritage and
ment officials apparently scuttled the effort. Presi-
tible, yet they put the hearer to thinkin'.
who had risen to leadership in Poland were included
dent Ford claims that he had endorsed an expose of the
The Deniocratic candidate, the Georgian, said he among the persecuted who were charged with being
would have economic war on the Arabs for the immor- Zionists as a stigma assigned by Russia for those cho- boycotters last November. Then came the Commerce
ality of their boycott of Americans for doing business sen for hatred. Now there are less than 10,000 old Department's obstruction.
The Treasury Department .endorsed the Com-
with Israel. That's how he would fight the oil embargo. people left in Poland and they no longer have any fears
How admirable! Would it be workable? Diplomacy is from the Kremlin: they have outlived their usefulness merce Department's stubborn objection to the
Rosenthal-Bingham resolution in the U. S. House of
thus put to the test.
as scapegoats. But the President found blessing's in his Representatives. Their action can be judged only in
Israel consistently opposes resort to boycotts as path. That's saintly to see only the good in the evil-
the same view as the boycott itself — that it is im-
counteractions to boycotts. Such actions are not vie- laden!
moral, unethical, prejudicial to world Jewry as well as
wed as workable. That's realism as contrasted with
Therefore the Voter is puzzled. He watches the
Israel and the many Christians who are penalized for
the Carter bombast.
debaters and listens. In his wisdom he represents the
doing
business with Israel.
Meanwhile, the President issued an order — to majority that is silent. Only in the voting booth does he
The
condoning of the boycott will not be tolerated
place on the open record — no secrets, said Gerry to show his power. And on the morning after he is lucky if
by Americans, if the latest reactions are judged ra-
Jimmy! — the names of all business firms accused of the air has cleared.
tionally. The American principle of fair play is not for
collaborating with the Arabs in their boycott of Israel.
Is this why there is apathy, skepticism, indiffer- sale to the highest bidders, even if they, are oil produc-
But the White House was silent for many months, ence, a measure of frustration?
ers. That's the impression gained in the current dis-
during the demands for a U. S. rejection of the Arab
Have faith, comments the hoary-bearded histo-
boycott, while Secretary of the Tresury William Simon rian. It's happened before. The tests come in the cussion of the issue. Is this being too optimistic that
morality will predominate in American politics and
and Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson were course of actual confrontation with realities. The fate industrial
relations?
Justice Department Investigates
Ads for 'Shomer - Shabat Village'
BY BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
The federal Depart-
ment of Justice is seeking
to determine whether ad-
vertising by a Florida de-
veloper for a con-
dominium complex,
which labels the project
"Shomer Shabat Vil-
lage, - violates the 1968
Civil Rights Act.
The case was turned
over to the Justice De-
partment by the federal
Department of Housing
and Urban Development
(HUD), after the south-
eriP area director of the
Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Brith, Arthur
Teitelbaum, failed in pri-
vate talks to persuade
Viking Codev, Inc., the
developer, to cease such
- advertising for the pro-
ject, being built, in Fort
Lauderdale.
Early in 1975, Viking
was running newspaper
ads, initially labelling the
project "The Manor at
Tamarac," and calling it
"the only country con-
dominium with a tradi-
tional Jewish way of life,"
with the word "Jewish" in
Hebraic-appearing let-
ters. The advertisement
featured references to
kosher butchers, Flori-
da's "first `haimisheh'
(homelike) condominium
community" and its "on-
premise" synagogue.
Teitelbaum said his of-
fice acted in response to
many complaints, all from
Jews, about the adver-
tisement which he said ap-
peared, as far as he knew,
only in the local Miami
Herald. He said the com-
plaining Jews said they re-
called similar advertising,
dating back two decades,
which carried "code" ele-
ments, such as references
to "churches nearby," de-
signed to deter Jewish
home buyers.
In
recent
years,
thousands of Jews have
moved to Florida for their
retirement years, many
purchasing the con-
dominiums which until
recently were being built
in large numbers.
Teitelbaum said that
initially his office tried, in
private talks, to explain
to Viking officers that the
advertising violated fed-
eral law against dis-
crimination in housing
and to obtain their volun-
tary compliance with the
law.
Tejelbaum said the
proc ure assumes that
the advertiser did not in-
tend to engage in dis-
criminatory advertising
and that once the adver-
tiser understood the im-
pact of such advertising,
he would voluntarily
cease the practice.
The law involved is Title
VIII of the .1968 act.' He
stressed that the ADL did
not accuse the developer
of intent to violate the law,
seeking only to make clear
that the developer could
not legally use advertising
which indicated a religious
preference among poten-
tial buyers.
He said Viking con-
tinued tfte disputed ad-
vertising, after the pri-
vate talks, and the adver-
tising was then sent to
HUD's Atlanta office.
Teitelbaum said that the
1968 act empowers HUD
to enforce the act's ban on
discrimination in housing
and also to seek com-
pliance through concilia-
tion.
He said a conciliation
agreement to end such
advertising was reached
at a meeting last January
in which the participants
were representatives of
Viking, HUD and the
ADL. Under that agree-
ment, which Teitelbaum
said was legally binding,
the developer agreed to
stop its Tamarac Manor
advertising.
Within a month, Teitel-
baum said, Viking ran the
revised advertisement,
using the name "Shomer
Shabat Village," in the
same nelowspaper on Feb.
18. The revised adver-
tisement had a headline:
"fear Out for Florida's
pnly community with a
synagogue." The new ad-
vertisement omits ethnic
terms and the word
"Jewish. -
In response to the re-
vised advertising, which
• Teitelbaum said had ap-
peared in the same news-
paper several times since
the conciliation agree-
ment was signed, HUD
asked the Justice De-
partment to determine
whether Viking, by
changing the name of the
complex but in a way that
maintains its specific ap-
peal to Jewish buyers,
was guilty of violation of
the conciliation agree-
ment to omit religious
appeals in its advertising.
War Crimes Trials Continuing
Within W. Germany and Europe
BONN — After a trial
lasting 31/2 years, Karl
Streibel, former SS com-
mander of the Trauniki
concentration camp in
Poland and five former SS
non-commissioned offics
ers, were acquitted of the
charge of murdering
more than a million Jews.
In Hanover, six former
members of the Gestapo
and Bilgora Polish police
are on trial charged with
the murder of 3,000 Jews.
Walter
Christoph,
former SS corporal, is on
trial in Krefeld facing five
charges of murder.
dering the `execution of
seven Polish Jews near
Radom in 1942-43.
Friedrich Schwend,
also known as "Wendig,"
who was a producer of
counterfeit money for Hi-
tler, was arrested in Bonn
The retrial of Paul Nell, when he was unable to
former SS commander, pay his hotel bill.
In trials outside of West
opened recently in Ham-
burg. He is accused of or- Germany, it was reported
-that Arnold Krasowski
was sentenced to life im-
prisonment in East Ger-
many, bggause he, a Soviet
citizen, had during World
are everywhere building War II defected to the
German side and was in-
the new city.
On one side of the road 4blued in the execution of
archeologists are busy civilians in the Ukraine.
In' East Berlin, Albert
recovering the old Kasa-
rin; on the other side de- Drabant, a former SS
e
s n a
found
velopmInt and building is
guilty and given
going M.
More than 200 apart- sentence for complicity in
ments are already tom- the murder of more than
plete, and 500 people are 4,000 Soviet citizens in
being sought to settle in Soviet territories in
1942-43.
Kasarin.
In Poland, the Supreme
The German explorer
Gottlieb Schumacher vis- Court has upheld the
ited the Golan region in judgement of a Lodz
e 1880s. He described court which sentenced
.Kasarin as "ancient Eugenia Pohl to 25 years
imprisonment for crimes
ruins - .
After the Six-Day War committed as a supe,7: ,- -
in June, 1967, the region visor of a children's car
was explored by the Is- in Lodz.
According to the
raeli archeologist
Shmaryahu Gutman. He Netherlands Ministry of
wrote that Kasarin- was Justice, L.J. Loyen has
built on old ruins. He been arrested on charges
found seven rows of of murdering several
stones, a door, a cup, a hundred Jews in a con-
menora and other ar- centration camp in the
Soviet Union . while a
tifacts.,
In 1969, a group of Is- member of an SS unit.
In Vienna, Johann Vin-
raeli archeologists found
that the ancient zenz Gogl, a former SS
non-commissioned officer,
synagogue was one of do-
zens of synagogues in the was acquitted after a ret-
Golan after the destruc- rial on charges of crimes
tion of the Second Tem- committed at Mauthausen
and Ebensee concentra-
., pie•
Israeli archeologists tion camps.
Gogl's second trial was
will soon start excavating
Kasarin. Meanwhile, the ordered by the Austrian
first new inhabitants of a Supreme Court in re-
planned, 20,000 commun- sponse to an appeal fol-
ity have arrived in the lowing his acquittal at
the original trial in 1972.
ancient hills.
Ancient Golan Jewish Town
Being Brought Back to Life
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — Kasarin
ice t place with 1,800 years
of Jewish history. Today
it is a small Arab village
in the center of-the Golan,
which was abandoned by
its inhabitants 8 kilomet-
ers east of the Jordan
River. A new Kasarin is
being built, destined to be
the city -center of the Go-
lan.
There is a new modern
highway, with new
houses all around. Trucks
with building materials
South Africa Jews
Calm
41es
JOHANNESBURG
can authorities limit the
(ZINS) — The latest out- transfer of capital by any
breaks in South Africa emigrant to no more than
have not engendered $25,000. This sum is not
anything resembling a sufficient for the purch-
panic among the 116,000
ase of a comfortable dwel-
Jews in that country. ling in Israel in a style to
There hAs been some which the South African
thought given to immig- Jews have become accus-
ration to Israel, but so far tomed.
there has been no sig-
nificant increase in the The South African
number of South Africans Zionist leadership is in
going on aliya. touch with the Jewish
The present rate of community of Rhodesia
aliya from South Africa is where the situation is
about 600 per year. A more serious. Many
reason for the small rate Rhodesian Jews have
of immigration is the dif- eP packed their bags and are
ficulty in transferring preparing to emigrate,
capital. The South Afri- mainly to Israel. •