THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
50 Friday, March 1, 1980
Latin American Jews Worry About Terrorist Violence
Torah Thieves
LOS ANGELES — Two
members of the Jewish De-
fense League were arrested
for stealing a Torah from
the Ahavat Zion
Synagogue.
One of the defendants de-
scribed the synagogue as a
Christian missionary
group.
The two men were ar-
rested after leaving the
building and a study group
found the Torah missing.
The Torah was later found
in the sandbox of a nearby
school.
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Like other economic middle
class residents of troubled
Central American nations,
Jews in the five little coun-
tries on the isthmus be-
tween Panama and Mexico
are worried about their per-
sonal safety and property
and some have liquidated
their assets and emigrated
because of the spiraling rise
in political violence.
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social activities center on a in a much more agreeable
and
not be used, visitors here economic
from Central America have standards to stop the vio- quadrangle near position. The country's
downtown San Jose with economy is described as
stressed that Jews are not lence."
He reported that a branch a synagogue, school and stable and the government
singled out any more or less
than other Central Ameri- of the Ernesto Freund chain recreation halls, also are as friendly towards the
cans of their economic class of stores in the provincial uneasy. They worry, it is community. Some anti-
but generally they are more city of San Miguel was re- said, that if El Salvador's Semitism appears through
government is wiped out, the activities of the Pales-
visible targets of revolu- cently destroyed by fire.
then Costa Rica may be tine Liberation Organiza-
tionaries aiming to alter so-
In Guatemala, which has
tion against Israel. Being a
cial and economic condi- about 300 Jewish families next.
tions. Jews on the isthmus and three synagogues —
Costa Rica adjoins Third World country,
are nearly all engaged in Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Nicaragua and aided the Panama tolerates a PLO
light industry or commerce. Reform — Jews are con- revolutionaries to over- office there.
Mexican-Israeli rela-
Very few, if any, Jews cerned by the waves of vio- throw the Somoza govern-
remain of the tiny com- lence, particularly the re- ment but nevertheless its tions were described as
munity in Nicaragua cent seizure and subsequent propertied classes are trou- never better and the
which underwent violent killings in the Spanish em- bled by events in El Sal- Jewish community
civil war for months. At bassy.
vador that borders on about 45,000 is simila_
much less concerned
its height, in the early
Nicaragua to the north.
about its future than in
"It was all very upset-
years of this decade, the
Circumstances for the the small countries to the
Jewish community num- ting," a visitor said. He
bered only about 120 per- analyzed the antagonism approximately 125 Jews in south. Most Mexican
sons, mainly Eastern against the propertied Honduras are reportedly Jews live in Mexico City
Europeans who arrived classes as being a form of similar. They are divided with groupings in Mon-
in the late 1920s and dur- xenophobia. "You could be between Tegucigalpa, the terrey, Guadalajara and
ing the Hitler period. The French, American, Mexi- political capital in the Tijuana.
"So they're not worried in
first Jews in Nicaragua can, or a Jew, but if you are mountains to the west, and
Mexico?"
a visitor was
San
Pedro
Sula,
the
com-
prospering
economically
came from France more
than a century ago. Vir- you are a target for trouble," mercial center on the asked. "Did you ever find a
Caribbean coast, where Jew who wasn't worried?"
tually all have become he said.
they have a Jewish center. he responded. If you're a
Costa
Rica's
2,000
assimilated.
Panama's 2,500 Jews are Jew you worry."
About 15 years ago, the Jews, whose communal
community built a two-
room structure that served
as a synagogue and a club
house. It was ravaged by the
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — published extracts of the di-
earthquake of 1976 and
ary.
damaged again during the Adolph Hitler's mistress,
Eva
Braun,
had
a
Jewisit
Eichmann said he "went
fighting last year.
ancestor, according to so far" as to kiss a pretty
"There was not too much extracts of Adolph Jewess on the mouth, ac-
fallout from the outcry by Eichmann's dairy published cording to Hausner, trial
revolutionaries in in Tel Aviv. The Gestapo of- prosecutor. The diary re-
Nicaragua against Israel ficial wrote the diary in vealed that Hitler's subor-
because it sold some arms to 1962 after being captured dinates asked for an urgent
the Somoza government," by Israeli agents. He was investigation of Miss
one visitor said. He pointed awaiting execution for hav- Braun's ancestry and‘ that
out that Nicaragua con- ing exterminated Jews dur- the investigation showed
tinues to have diplomatic ing World War II.
her blood was one thirty-
relations with Israel. The
second Jewish.
Eichmann asked his Is-
Israeli ambassador in
Eichmann concluded
Panama is accredited to the raeli prosecutor Gideon
his diary by affirming
Hausner
to
have
the
diary
government in Managua.
that when a refugee aid
In El Salvador, with published immediately but organization advertised
ADOLPH EICHMANN
Israeli
Prime
-
Minister
about 100 Jewish families
for foster parents in the
David
Ben-Gurion
barred
who maintain a magnifi-
United States and psychological test per-
cent synagogue, personal publication at the time.
Canada for thousands of formed on the prisoner in
fear and uncertainty of the "Eichmann wanted to im-
Jewish children who es- which he selected pictures
future grips the community, mortalize a favorable image
caped from Germany in he liked of unknown people
a traveler said. AS in other of himself," Hausner told
1939, not a single offer to indicated that he had a
countries, the Jews who are the Tel Aviv newspaper
adopt a child was re- preference for killers. A
among the most prominent Yediot Aharonot, which ceived. Yet an advertise- Swiss psychologist who
citizens, are not singled out
ment reading "homeless analysed the prisoner's
but are lumped with other AJC Study
puppy seeks foster par- choice of photos, not know-
Salvadoreans by revolu-
ents" drew hundreds of ing he was Eichmann, re-
Reissued
tionaries.
answers, the Gestapo ported that the patient
The venerable Rabbi By Chicago U.
seemed to be "a potential
chief wrote.
Alexander Granat con-
Hausner said that a murderer."
NEW YORK — How an
tinues to lead the com-
munity which was affluent suburban com-
shocked by the kidnap- munity became Jewish in
ping and subsequent spite of itself is delineated
murder a year ago by in an updated version of a
revolutionaries of Er- noted sociological study re-
SDE BOKER — The In- Israel. As senior vice
nesto Liebes, a leading cently issued by the Univer-
stitute for Desert Research president of the Confer-
merchant and coffee ex- sity of Chicago Press.
Originally sponsored by of Ben-Gurion University of ence on Jewish Material
porter who was Israel's
honorary consul. Liebes, the American Jewish the Negev will be renamed Claims against Germany,
it was emphasized, was Committee, "Jewish Iden- the Jacob Blaustein Insti- he succeeded in negof
ing substantial reps
seized because of his tity on the Suburban Fron- tute for Desert Research.
Blaustein, with his lions for individuals and
wealth and prestige and tier: A Study of Group Sur-
not for his identification vival in the Open Society," father, was a co-founder of Israel.
with either Judaism or by Marshall Sklare and the American Oil Co. in
Blaustein served as
Joseph Greenblum, was 1910 and became its executive chairman of
Israel.
"Life in El Salvador is dif- based on a two-year study of president in 1933.
American Jewish
At the United Nations tee from 1949-1954.
ficult," the traveler added. Jews in an actual Middle
"Some Salvadoreans — Western community that Founding Conference at
President Yosef Tekoah
Jews and non-Jews — are was given the fictitious San Francisco in 1945, he
played an important role in of Ben-Gurion University
half in and half out. I mean, name of Lakeville.
It was the first of a two- the inclusion of the human described a grant made by
a man puts his family in
Guatemala or Miami and volume series known as The rights provision in the the Jacob and Hilda Blaus-
commutes between those Lakeville Studies, pub- United Nations Charter. tein Foundation to the uni-
places and San Salvador to lished in 1967. The second Blaustein later served as a versity's Desert Research
tend to his business which is volume, "The Edge of U.S. delegate to the United Institute as "a life giving in-
fusion in the area of desert
run by office managers." He Friendliness: A Study of Nations.
research and reclamation,
Closely
associated
with
Jewish-Gentile
Relations,"
said, "The hope is that the
present government, which by Benjamin B. Ringer, President Truman, so vital to the future of Is-
is much more liberal than examined the reactions of Blaustein had a key role rael and the world, one-
the previous one, can defuse the community's two reli- in the United States' third of which is covered
recognition of the state of with deserts".
the situation and arrange gious groups to each other.
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