THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, September 12, 1980
Jewish Groups in Court
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CHICAGO — Several
Jewish organizations in-
cluding the American
Jewish Congress have filed
friend-of-court briefs here
in a major test case involv-
ing the right of a Seventh
Day Adventist to refuse to
pay union dues on the basis
of his religious beliefs.
The case, "Nottelson v. A.
0. Smith Corporation," is
now before the United
States Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit.
The employee, Darrel C.
Nottelson, worked for the A.
0. Smith Corporation in
Milwaukee. When he re-
fused to join or contribute to
the union as required by the
union contract, the corn-
pany dismissed Nottelson
at the behest of Smith
Steelworkers, Directly
Affiliated Local Union
19806, AFL-CIO.
Nottelson said he could
not support the union be-
cause of the tenets of his
church. He offered to
make a contribution to
charity in the amount of
the required union dues,
but this was rejected by
the union.
After losing his job,
Nottelson filed suit under
Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, which requires
employers to make reason-
able accommodations to the
religious practices of em-
ployees.
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The Jews of Zimbabwe
By WARREN FREEDMAN
Rhodesia, now known as
Zimbabwe, has with great
difficulty retained its vib-
rant Jewish community.
The Sharon School, ad-
joining the suburb of Salis-
bury, the capital city, has
more than 100 children,
white and black, wearing
golden Magen David
badges.
Although the Jewish
population has been re-
duced from 7,000 persons in
1964 to less than 1,800 per-
sons in 1980, Jewish com-
munity life continues. (Jews
still live in Salisbury and
Bulawayo as well as in such
small Midland towns as
Gatooma, Gweld and Que
Que.)
The kosher butchers
are open for business as
are the Jewish sports
clubs. President of the
Jewish Board of De-
puties of Zimbabwe is
Harold Gallop. Vice
President of the Liberal
Party and member of the
Jewish Board of De-
puties is Arthur Kaplan.
Salisbury's three
synagogues, Orthodox,
Sephardic and Progressive,
are all open without rabbis.
The Conservati ill
synagogue in Bulaw
built in 1970 was closed in
1978 and today is a social
hall. (Rabbi Curtis Cassell
had retired.)
Zimbabwe life for Jews
continues amid the greatest
tragedy, as told in a new
book, "The Goldbergs of Lee
Ranch."
Corruption Charges Shake
National Religious Party
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The National Religious
Party is being severely sha-
ken by charges of corruption
against Minister of Reli-
gious Affairs Aharon
Abu-Hatzeira, one of three
NRP ministers in the
Cabinet.
The Jerusalem Post in its
lead story last week re-
ported that "five charges of
bribery and fraud" were
likely to be completed
against Abu-Hatzeira.
Police sources have re-
vealed that the investiga-
tion has found that funds
were channelled to non-
existent yeshivot and other
yeshivot were given money
for twice as many students
as they actually had. The
money allegedly went to the
minister and his NRP fac-
tion.
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg, an NRP Minister
who also heads the police
department, Justice
Minister Moshe Nissim
and Attorney General
Yitzhak Zamir met with
Premier Menahem Begin
to discuss the case. The
police may seek to have
Abu-Hatzeira's immunity
as a Knesset member re-
voked.
Zamir, meanwhile, met
with Binyamin Siegel, the
top police fraud inves-
tigator, and approved his
request to grant Yisrael
Gottlieb, deputy mayor of
Bnei Brak and an NRP
member, the status of
state's witness with immun-
ity from prosecution.
The Jerusalem Post
quoted police sources as say-
ing Gottlieb has claimed he
transferred millions of
shekels of ministry funds
slated for Bnei Brak
yeshivot back to Abu-
Hatzeira at the latter's re-
quest.
The investigation has
deepened the enmity
within the NRP between
the faction headed by
Abu-Hatzeira and that
headed by Burg.
Abu-Hatzeira's suppor-
ters are calling for an inves-
tigation into the Ministry of
Interior. Some are charging
that Abu-Hatzeira would
not be the subject of an in-
vestigation if he was not a
Moroccan Jew.
Two Russians Allowed
to Study at Jewish Seminary
NEW YORK — Isaak
Fuchs, a graduate of the
Kiev Technical Institute
and Yuri Kerzhenevich, a
construction worker from
-Moscow have been granted
permission by Soviet
authorities to begin studies
at the Jewish theological
seminary in Budapest.
The move by Soviet offi-
cials is apparently an at-
tempt to deal with a shor-
tage of rabbis in Russia, ac-
cording to New York Rabbi
Arthur Schneier.
The Hungarian seminary
has been selected by the
Soviet Council on Relgious
Affairs, a state body that
oversees legally established
religious groups, as the set-
ting for a cautious experi-
ment.
Pressed over the years
by American and other
Western Jewish leaders
to do something about
the shortage of religious
leadership for Jews, the
council agreed to allow
Adolf Shayevish, from
the Jewish autonomous
region of Birobidzhan, to
enroll in the Budapest
seminary.
Reports reaching Moscow
on Shayevich's studious-
ness and political loyalty
were favorable and the
Soviet authorities permit-
ted two other Jews, Mikhail
Povzhitkov of Kiev and
Nudel of Riga to study at the
seminary. Fuchs and Ker-
shenevich will be the fourth
and fifth students that
Soviet authorities have
sent.
Club for Blind
FAR ROCKAWAY, N.Y.
(JTA) — Thirteen blind
women and five blind men
— most of them elderly
Jews — have celebrated the
eighth anniversary of their
"visually handicapped" club
of the Gustave Hartman
YM-YWHA.