Allied Jewish Campaign Effort Launched at Annual Stag Day
The 1981 Allied Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency
Fund was officially launched by General Chairmen Marvin
H. Goldman and David S. Mondry on Wednesday at the
Detroit Service Group's 31st annual Stag Day, held at
Franklin Hills Country Club.
Announcement of the appointment of Goldman and
Mondry as general chairmen was made by Jewish Welfare
Federation President George M. Zeltzer at the official clos-
ing of the 1980 Campaign in May.
Pro-Terrorist
U.S. Action
Exposed
Honor for
Sam Cohodas,
Tribute to
Sam Levenson
Goldman and Mondry, co-chairmen of both the 1979
and 1980 Campaigns, will oversee the annual fund-raising
effort which supports social and humanitarian agencies in
Detroit, the U.S., Israel and elsewhere overseas.
Goldman served as AJC-IEF co-chairman for
three years prior to the 1980 Campaign. Mondry, a
former Campaign associate and vice chairman, is a
longtime member and leader of the Mercantile Di-
vision.
Stag Day was capped by a dinner where engraved
Jewish Welfare Federation medallions honoring the outgo-
ing 1979-1980 general chairmen, David Handleman and
Irving R. Seligman, were presented along with scrapbooks
highlighting their term in office.
Awards were also presented honoring the leadership
team of the 1980 Allied Jewish Campaign and the Profes-
sional Services and Real Estate and Building Trades di-
visions which tied in soliciting the greatest percentage
increase in pledges over the preceding year.
Analysis of
Jerusalem
Besieged
HE JEWISH NEWS
Third World
Dilemma
of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review
Editorials, Page 4
Commentary, Page 2
VOL. LXXVIII, No.
17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
424-8833
$15 Per Year: This Issue 35c
September 5, 1980
Old, Unproven 'Torture Claim
Is Denounced Again by Israel
A Time for Introspection
LONDON (JTA) —Israel has denounced a report by Amnesty International claiming
brutality to people arrested on suspicion of security offenses in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip. Israel also rejected Amnesty International's call for an impartial and public inquiry into
complaints of brutality.
The Israel embassy in London accused Amnesty International of a breach of faith by
publishing its 74-page report with accusations against Israel without waiting for a detailed
reply.
The official Israeli reply, from Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir, published as part
of the report, defended the continuation of Israeli military rule in the administered
territories and the security procedures. It drew attention to many terrorist atrocities
_against innocent civilians and said: "In these circumstances the question of human
rights takes on a very different complexion."
Israel's Justice Ministry also lambasted the Amnesty International report, noting that it
"continues to display a clear bias and imbalance which characterized an earlier version of the
report."
Amnesty International urged Israel to change its security procedures immediately to bar
the ill treatment of suspects and said Israel had not been able to refute persistent complaints of
brutality. But Amnesty International admitted that it is unable to establish the veracity of the
accusations of torture.
In its report, released Tuesday,
Amnesty urged the Israel govern-
ment to permit relatives, lawyers
and independent doctors to have
prompt
and regular access to security
NEW YORK (JTA) — The largest theater benefit
suspects as an immediate way of pro-
party in history, with an expected attendance of some
tecting them against ill treatment.
500,000 people in 1,000 theaters in the United States and
Responding to Zamir, Amnesty
13 other countries around the world, will celebrate the 33rd
commented that basic human rights
anniversary of Israel on May 11, 1981.
The first designated beneficiaries of the $100-a-ticket
do not change with circumstances.
gala event, which is expected to raise upwards of $50 mil-
"They are irreducible and they in-
lion, are: Hadassah, the American Friends of The Hebrew
clude freedom from torture, and from
University of Jerusalem and the American Friends of
cruel, inhuman or degrading treat-
Haifa University, with others to come, accvding to motion
ment."
picture producers Edie and Ely Landau, who conceived.this
Amnesty's recommendations,
event with Meshulam Rikli's, chairman of the board of
Rapid-American Corp. A subsidiary of Rapid-American is
originally made in a detailed
funding the project.
memorandum to the Israel gov-
The initial work force involved in selling the 500,000
ernment, were made public to-
tickets will include more than 2,000 local chapters of
gether with an Israeli reply reject-
Hadassah, ORT and Friends of The Hebrew and Haifa
ing them. The full report also con-
500,000 to See Film
Marking Israel's 33rd
A father and son are shown performing the ancient custom
of Kapparot in the Mahaneh Yehuda quarter of Jerusalem. Kap-
parot, which dates to the Ninth Century, symbolically transfers
- ' 11e sins of a person to a fowl. The fowl is swung around the head
iree times, then ritually slaughtered and given to the poor.
Kapparot is practiced on Rosh Hashana, Hashana Rabba and
the day before Yom Kippur. In modern times, some Jews substi-
tute a sum of money for the fowl.
Universities, accord'ng to the Landaus.
(Continued on Page 5)
(Continued on Page 5)
The New Right Threat Menacing American Freedom
By DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Co-Director, UAHC Religious Action Center
WASHINGTON — Amidst the political vagaries of this election year, certain omin-
ous patterns have clearly emerged. None is so alarming as the growth of the so-called
"New Right" which threatens to alter inexorably the political realities of this country to
the detriment of the Jewish community and the nation itself.
The New Right is a network of arch-conservative groups which pool their vast
mailing lists, resources, and political influence in an effort to undo many of the progress-
ive changes which this nation has undergone in the 20th Century.
It is a loose coalition of old-line extremist groups like the KKK and John Birch
Society; political fund-raising groups like the National Conservative Political Action
Committee; think-tank outfits like the Heritage Foundation; direct mail operations like
Ravco; single-issue groups like the so-called "pro-life" groups and gun control opponents;
and fundamentalist religious-political groups like the Moral Majority.
From only a handful of groups that, according to Congressional Quarterly,
raised scarcely $250,000 in the 1972 campaigns, the New Right is now an ultra-
sophisticated network of 60 organizations that may directly and indirectly pour
some $30 million into the 1980 campaign. Collectively, these new organizations -
have created a centralized political action fundraising and letter-writing capa-
bility that dwarfs any previous or existing political movement in American life.
Five factors can be cited which make the threat of these arch-conservative coalitions
so immediate. First, no political force on the American scene today utilizes advanced
technology as effectively as does the New Right. Spurred by direct-mail wizard Richard
Viguerie, the New Right coalitions have sophisticatedly computerized mailing lists from
scores of ultraright and single-issue organizations to provide a list of some 30 million
(Continued on Page 7)