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)