THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Iranian Jewish Students Study at Yeshiva University
.
NEW YORK — For the
group of Iranian students
enrolled at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, it is a time for the dis-
covery of a new language
and culture and the oppor-
tunity to further explore
their Jewish identity.
The recent arrivals have
joined foreign students at
the institution, including
those who have fled Rus-
sian, Syrian and other per-
secutions, or the disruption
of their lives in their native
lands.
Two of the Iranians are
sisters Rifka and Laya Gha-
tan of Teheran, who are
enrolled at Stern College for
Women. They had attended
Iran College until the school
was forced to close \due to
political turmoil.
Rifka, 18, and Laya, 19,
have a brother, Yededia
Ghatan, 20, who is in his
second year at Yeshiva
College. Their parents
have remained in Iran.
The sisters, here barely
two months, are eager to
learn English and each
night write a composition in
English on a given topic for
their brother to examine.
The young women say that
they're looking forward to
learning the langaage well
enough so that they'll no
longer have to write com-
positions.
In addition to their
nightly compositions, Rifka
and Laya attend the Inter-
national School of Lan-
guages twice a week where
they are privately tutored
in English.- They also plan
on attending the ORT cen-
ter to use the English tapes
at the agency's language
laboratory. At Stern Col-
lege they are enrolled in
courses which do not re-
Four Alleged Nazis Acquitted
BONN (JTA) —;.A doctor trial almost four years ago the statute of limitations
and three former women along with nine other which, unless it is
guards at the notorious former guards at Maidanek, abolished, will go into effect,
Maidanek' concentration a death camp near Lublin, Jan. 1, 1980.
Hausner was critical of
camp were acquitted by a Poland:
Dusseldorf court last week Last month, Public Pro- the hostile manner in which
for lack of positive' identifi- secutor Dieter Ambach said witnesses were 'treated dur-
cation as the persons in- surviving Maidanek in- ing its almost four-year du-
volved in the murders of mates from Poland and Is- ration.
250,000 inmates, most of rael who testified were un-
them Jews, during World able to establish positive
War II. Although the ver- identification. The trial of
dict was not unexpected in- the other nine defendants
asmuch as the prosecutor will continue.
MONTIVIDEO, Uruguay
One of them is former — In the latest of a series of
himself had recommended
acq'uittal, it touched off a Queens housewife Her- terrorist attacks, a bomb
near riot among spectators mine Braunsteiner Ryan damaged a monument to
in the courts who over- who was deported from President Franklin D.
turned benches and shouted the U.S. four years ago Roosevelt, last Sunday.
because she lied about
"Nazi murderers."
In the past six months, a
The defendants were Dr. her Nazi past when synagogue, a building of the
Heinrich Schmidt, 66, who- applying for citizenship.
Jewish Macabi Sports Asso-
had been charged with In- Israel, Gideon ciation and the Masonic
selecting children, sick and Hausner, head of the Yad Grand Lodge have been
elderly inmates for the gas .Vashem, said' the trial in targets of attacks. _
chambers and camp guards Dusseldorf was conducted
The bombers painted the
Charlotte Mayer, 61 and in an "insufferable atmos-
Rosa Suess and Hermine phere" and that its verdict words "Jew" and "Freema-
son" and drew a Star of
Boettcher, both 60, charged would now be used to justify
with assisting in the selec- ending the prosecution of David on the base of the
monument.
tion process. They went on Nazi war criminals under
Bomb Damages
Roosevelt Statue
Nazis Rally on Hitler's Birthday
VIENNA (JTA) — A
group of neo-Nazis from
Europe and the United
States, wearing Nazi uni-
forms and armed with clubs,
gathered at Adolf Hitler's
home town in Braunau on
Saturday to celebrate the
Nazi dictator's 90th birth-
day and clashed with leftist
demonstrators and police-
men. Several persons were
injured and police arrested
11 neo-Nazis.
Hours later, Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky,' campaign-
ing for the May 6 general
elections, spoke at a rally of
his Social Democratic Party
at Braunau. 7There are still
some incorrigible people
who glorify the rule of the
Nazis," Kreisky told a
crowd of 3,000 under tight
security measures. "We
have to argue with them,"
he said. "There is no use in
staging counter-
demonstrations, because
this gives them even more
publicity."
Austria had announced
last week that it would eject
any American or European
Nazi who entered Austria to
celebrate Hitler's birthday.
A caller phoned the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
in New York last Friday to
say, "There was no
Holocaust. Today is Hitler's
birthday. Heil Hitler."
In Detroit, members of
the Interfaith Council
Against the Nazis plc-
keted a house on Monica
which was identified in
leaflets as being the site
of a birthday party for
Hitler Saturday night.
In Strasbourg, Austria,
on Saturday, 10,000 persons
from 20 countries demon-
strated against neo-Nazi ac-
tivities in Europe.
Meanwhile, the national
commander of the. Jewish
War Veterans of the U.S. is-
sued a statement criticizing
the Justice Department for
its lack of action in dealing
with former Nazis who may
have entered the U.S. illeg-
ally after ,World War II.
Nathan Goldberg said the
Special Litigation Unit on
Nazi War Criminals has
quire fluency p English,
but they expect to take a
full, regular program by
next semester.
Another of the new
foreign students at Stern
College this year is Alegria
Assor, 21, from Casablanca,
Morocco. "Maggie," as her
friends call her arrived in
the U.S. last September and
started learning English
four hours a day at Hunter
College- while living with
her brother and his family.
in Brooklyn. Her parents
are still living in Morocco.
Four Moroccans attend
Yeshiva University.
From the other side of
the world at Stern Col-
lege is Suzanne
Goldberger, 20, one of
two students from Au-
stralia. Suzanne says she
spent her "summer va-
cation," from December'
of last year through 1979
at Stern taking courses in
basic Jewish concepts,
Humash, philosophy and
Hebrew. She plans to re-
turn to Stern next year
for the full academic
_
term.
Of the 175 students from
abroad at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, slightly more than half
are undergraduates, while
the others are in' such
schools as Albert Einstein
College
or Medicine,
Wurzweiler School of Social
Work, Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of LaT and other
university graduate or pro-
fessional schools.
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group may have been re-
sponsible for the explosion
that blasted doors and win-
dows at the Vienna Jewish
Center Sunday night, be-
lieved at first to have been
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