Closing_April 26
AJC-IEF to End
With Rally,
Final Telethon
The Basic
Facts Explaining
The Price
of Peace'
Between Egypt
and Israel
-
Workers in all divisions of the 1979 Allied Jewish Campaign
- Israel Emergency Fund are busy contacting prospective con-
tributors in anticipation of the Campaign closing April 26.
Division chairmen will report on their workers' progess at a
report meeting Sunday at the Jewish Community Center. The
meeting, the final major Campaign gathering before the closing,
will begin with continental breakfast at 9:45 a.m.
Guest speaker will be Ilan Cohen, a veteran of the Six-Day
and Yom Kippur Wars who formerly chaired the young leader-
ship of Israel's Liberal Party. Division leaders on all levels
will be honored at the meeting.
An intensive telethon to contact prospects will be held
during the last three days of the Campaign, April 23-25.
Workers are urged to join in the telethon, which will be
held in the evening at United Hebrew Schools.
The Campaign closing will be celebrated with a reception
beginning at 8 p.m. April 26 at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. Ephraim
Evron, Israel's ambassador to the United States, will speak.
Reservations are required. There is a charge. For informa-
tion, call the Jewish Welfare Federation, 965-3939.
HE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly
nommentary, Page 2
Review
of Jewish Events
VOL. LXXV, No. 6 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c
PASSOVER
Greetings
to Jewish
Communities
Everywhere
April 13, 1979
ADL Fears 1,000 Kidnapped
Jews in Argentina Are Dead
Israeli Stamp of Peace
01 .1U) 1P0t7M...
HO Pt 141.ISHEs PENA-E.
4.
n. " 30
WHO littiNG ,
C1.11
IrSALUIS? 1 1.]- 1 A'11,11
JERUSALEM — The Western Wall
has for 19 centuries been the Jewish
People's holiest site, the only remnant of
the holy Temple. Jews for centuries have
prayed at the Wall, written their dearest
wish on a scrap of paper and placed the
paper in a crevice of the Wall.
In honor of the signing of a Peace
agreement between Israel and Egypt, Is-
rael's Ministry of Communications has
issued a commemorative stamp showing
a scrap of paper stuffed into a crevice of
the Western Wall, symbolizing the
dearest wish of an entire nation — peace. Ns"
The stamp was chosen from 86 designs
submitted by 20 artists and bears the
word "peace" in English, Hebrew and
Arabic.
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two officials of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith have expressed the
fear that most of the more than 1,000 Jews that have disappeared in Argentina over the last three years
may be dead. Benjamin Epstein, who retired recently as the long-time national director of the ADL, and
Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, director of the ADL's Latin American Affairs Department, said that there was
little chance that those missing for long periods were alive.
Since a military junta overthrew the government of Isabella Peron in March 1976, some 20,000
Argentinians have disappeared from their homes, according to Rosenthal. He said that while some of them
were arrested, most were "kidnapped" by secret intelligence squads set up to wipe out leftist guerillas.
These squads, wearing civilian clothes and using unmarked cars, have taken persons from their homes to
interrogation centers or to several detention camps in the country where their prisoners are tortured.
Bodies have frequently been found on beaches or on river banks with heads and hands severed to.prevent
identification. Rosenthal said that while many of those arrested include people the government of
President Jorge Videla considers subversive many others are arrested for no reason other than that they
were the friends of someone who had been arrested.
"Jews are not specifically targeted as Jews," -Rosenthal stressed. "However, the security
agents tend to be suspicious of Jews." The security forces, which include many Nazis, also treat
Jews worse than other prisoners, Rosenthal noted. He said prisoners who are released are more
likely to be non-Jews. Epstein, who is now executive vice president of the ADL Foundation,
recently visited Argentina and said what he
found saddest was the families of the missing
people. They cannot accept the probability that
most of the prisoners are dead, he said, despite
the evidence of the bodies that have been found.
The relatives continue to believe strongly that
their children, husband or wife, are still alive; Eps-
tein said. He said many Jews told him that the
American Jewish community could help. They
pointed to the efforts for Soviet Jews, Epstein noted.
Both Epstein and Rosenthal said U.S. Jews could
help by writing President Carter, the Argentine am-
bassador to the U.S., and their Senators and Repre-
sentatives. They noted efforts have been made by the
State Department, the ADL and other Jewish organ-
izations, Catholic and Protestant groups, and other
(Continued on Page 5)
Resolution Warns on
USSR Olympic Bias
Next Year in Jerusalem! — from the New Union Haggada
issued by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) last week
introduced a resolution in Congress which stated: "Consis-
tent with the spirit of the Olympic Games, the Soviet Union
should cease discrimination and oppression against Jews
and other Soviet citizens" and the United States and In-
ternational Olympic Committee "should ensure full and
equal" participation of Israeli athletes in the 1980 Summer
Olympics in Moscow.
"At a time when the Soviets are continuing their
policies of discrimination, harassment and oppression
against dissidents, including Jews and Christians alike, it
is vitally important that Congress be on record for not only
total fairness of treatment for all participants at the Olym-
pics but also for spectators who could be the victims of
discrimination because of ethnic or religious affiliations,"
Kemp said.
Kemp's resolution states it is the sense of Congress
that "participation in the Olympic Games should not be
hindered by the Soviets or any other nation."