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The Agonies of Hitler,
Lessons of Holocaust
Dr. Gutmann's Reviews on Page 56
Saluting_
Leonard Simons'
75th Birthday
Gemilut Hassodim
Revitalized
The Boat People
and the Sins
of World War II
Jerusalem Employee
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Sholom Aliechem
Holiday Stories
Book Review, Page 4
Feature on Page 56
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
Commentary, Page 2
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`Confidence,'
Patriotism,and
Politicians
Perpetuating
Prejudices Under
Guise of
`Illegalism'
Editorials, Page 4
July 27, 1979
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Rejocting. .__UNTSO. :Obstacles
Petro-Dollar Pollution
of Academe Protested
Protesting editorially against injection of anti-Israel prej-
udice in the academic community, the New York Times on Sun-
day listed a series of instances of bigoted acts, especially the
Aspen Institute case.
In its editorial, The Oil Stain in Academe," the New York
Times stated:
"Arab oil money, like every other king, talks — and in the
accent of its donors. The sound of that money talking can be heard
on Wall Street and even along Pennsylvania Avenue. Now it
echoes through the halls of academe.
"American educational institutions that accept funds from
the Arab trade, or Arab nations, for the study of Arab affairs are
being directed, or expected, to demonstrate a decent respect for
the politics and prejudices of their benefactors.
"There have already been terrible rows about alleged
demands that Jews, Israelis and Israeli-born scholars be
barred from the Middle East study programs of the Univer-
sity of Texas and the University of Southern California.
Faced with similar controversy, the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technonogy and Swarthmore, Haverford and Bryn
Mawr lost their enthusiasm for Arab culture.
"There have been complaints that the Arab studies center at
Georgetown University speaks single-mindedly to its Washing-
ton neighbor, the Federal government, for the cause of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization. And now come intimations from
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Egypt have agreed not to let the bitter dispute over the nature
of a future United Nations peacekeeping force in Sinai develop into a confrontation between them and
may, in fact, be on the way to working out their own solution, sources in Israel indicated Wednesday.
The possibility of a bilateral agreement between Jerusalem and Cairo emerged as Israel reacted
angrily to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's announcement Tuesday night that a United
Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) force will replace the United Nations Emergency
Force (UNEF) in Sinai.
Senior diplomatic sources, quoted in Maariv, said that neither Waldheim nor the U.S. can take
one-sided steps in Sinai without Israel's agreement. The UNEF mandate expired at midnight
Tuesday. Its replacement by an expanded UNTSO force, which Israel flatly rejects, was proposed by
the U.S. and Soviet Union after behind-the-scenes negotiations at the UN last week.
Israelis regard this as a breach of President Carter's undertaking at Camp David to form
a multi-national force to police the phased withdrawal of Israeli forces from Sinai over the
next three years should UNEF be dissolved. The Americans insist that UNTSO fills the
requirement for a multi-national force.
Israel Radio reported late Tuesday night that Israel and Egypt have raised the possibility of an
agreement to voluntarily keep out of the Sinai demilitarized zones after UNEF is withdrawn, except
for the early warning stations that each country maintains.
If both countries respect the demilitarized zones there would be no need for an outside force.
Another alternative would be for Israel and Egypt to maintain joint patrols, Israel Radio said. These
proposals were said to have emerged from Tuesday's meeting of the joint Israeli-Egyptian Military
Committee.
They are expected to be discussed at greater length between Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and
Egyptian Defense Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, who begins a three-day visit to Israel on Sunday.
Weizman was reported Tuesday to have told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee
that Israel and Egypt would be best off if left to police their peace arrangements between themselves.
Weizman is also said to have stated that he personally was not troubled by the idea of a UNTSO force.
But a majority of the government favors the presence of another multi-national force. •
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United Jewish Charities Funds
Projects for the Aged, Retarded
Doctors Must 'Wait and See'
on Begin's Vision Impairment
An innovative "group living" apartment program for the elderly and two projects to
benefit the mentally handicapped are among several grants recently approved by United
Jewish Charities of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Funding for the programs was part of $100,153 for five projects approved 'on the
recommendation of UJC's Jewish Community Foundation. Under the chairmanship of
Stanley J. Winkelman, the foundation reviews applicationi for grants to research and
experimental projects related to Jewish communal services.
UJC President Joseph H. Jackier presided at the meeting at which approval was
given for a first-year operating subsidy and start-up costs for group - residences for the
'-lerly, under the auspices of Jewish Family Service.
Other UJC grants will make possible the implementation of a semi-
- in ependent apartment program supervised by the Association for the Jewish
Retarded and an assessment by Jewish Vocational Service-Community Work-
shop of needs of mentally impaired individuals living in the inner city.
The second year of a subsidy for the Senior Service Corps of the Jewish Vocational
Service and the third and final year of a grant for camp counselor training for the
University of Michigan Hillel Foundation are the other projects funded by the UJC.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin is
suffering a 25 percent loss of vision in his right eye and a 10
percent loss in his left eye. Hadassah Hospital neurologist
Sylvan Lavie says it is still too early to tell whether Begin's
eye trouble would be permanent or would cure in the course
of his recuperation from the blood clot that hospitalized him
last Thursday.
Begin has a small clot blocking an artery to his brain.
The other symptom he suffered on admission, giddiness and
loss of balance, has now rectified itself, the doctors say, and
the Premier is walking about his hospital suite without
difficulty. The ailment is not related to his heart condition.
The vision impairment means that Begin cannot read
as - much or as fast as he would like. Nevertheless, the
Premier is reading press and official papers, as well as
receiving family friends and Cabinet ministers at his bed-
side.
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Time of Mourning
Tisha b'Av
Throughout
Jewish History
MENAHEM BEGIN
By RABBI SHMUEL HIMELSTEIN
World Zionist Organization
JERUSALEM — We are all familiar with the biblical ac-
count of the 12 spies sent by Moses to investigate the condi-
tions in Canaan, and how their negative report resulted in the
Jews being punished by having to wander in the desert for 40
years.
Less familiar is the midrashic comment on the whole
episode. The Midrash relates that the spies returned on the
ninth day of the month of Av, and when the people heard their
report they all began weeping and wailing. At that time, the
Midrash relates; God told them: "On this ninth day of Av you
have mourned without any cause. In future generations I will
give you cause to indeed mourn on this day." And historically,
we know that both the First and the Second Temnies fell on the
same day, ninth of Av. Both of our exiles, the short one of
. 70 years, and the long one lasting close to 2,000, followed those
ninth days of Av.
But these were not the only calamities that befell us on that
fateful date. Let us examine a few examples of events that
affected us on the ninth of Av. Some of them are more known
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