THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 28, 1980 19 A CJF Gift for Begin Boris Smolar's '1 1.frirs77: `Between You . . . and Me' Vabe Shoes , tots itini teens Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) ADL YESTERDAY AND TODAY: I remember the Anti-Defamation League from way back in the 1920s when its office was in Chicago where Adolph Kraus, the Bnai Brith president, resided. There was social prejudice against Jews in those years but no political anti-Semitism. Political anti-Semitism came later with Henry Ford's importation to this country of `" .0- notorious "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and with the ablication of his virulently anti-Semitic magazine, "Dearborn Independent." He later regretted his anti- Jewish campaign -and apologized publicly in a letter to Louis Marshall, then president of the American Jewish Committee. With political anti-Semitism practically unknown to Americans prior to Ford's sudden pathological animosity toward Jews, the activities of the ADL were concentrated in those early years of its existence on combatting the offen- sive image of Jews created by vaudeville actors on the American stage. The actors were not anti-Semites — in fact, many of them were Jews — but they considered it smart entertain- ment to tell funny stories about Jews: The leaders of the ADL made it one of their major aims to combat this kind of defamation. It did not take them long to be successful. The ADL, naturally, also stood on guard against any other forms of defamation of Jews. The ADL developed a wide program of fighting bigotry and prejudice, watching all forms of anti-Semitism and discriminatory behavior against Jews in this country, ex- posing anti-Israel activities and propaganda in the United States, promoting inter-religious friendship and keeping an eye on anti-Jewish developments overseas . Today-, the ADL maintains 28 regional offices in the U.S., always on the alert in all parts of the country. EYES ON FRANCE: The latest move of the ADL was to send one of its top executive officers, Abraham Foxman, to Paris to study the size of anti-Semitism in France which culminated in the recent bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue and in anti-Jewish terrorist acts in various parts of France. The report which Foxman submitted to ADL leaders -- and to leaders of the Jewish federations — indicates that he found the Jewish community in France concerned but not panicked; worried but not desperate; security-conscious but not paralyzed in its day-to-day activities. An innovation has, however, been introduced in the allocation system of the organized Jewish community — funds for security and self-defense. No Jewish institution today and no Jewish event remains unguarded and unpro- tected by volunteer Jewish youth. ADL FOR EUROPE: Additional concern to the Jewish community is the reaction of the "average" Fren- chman in the vicinity of the synagogue on Rue Copernic. Some Frenchmen were blaming the victims rather than the perpetrators. In light of the growing anti-Semitic forces in France— and the growing extremist movements in other countries in Europe — the ADL leadership believes that the organiza- tion, with its many years of experience in active counterac- tion against the forces of anti-Semitism, has a vital role to play now in Europe. An ADL office, formed by a group of Jews in France, is now functioning in Paris monitoring the activities of the anti-Semitic groups and individuals in various European countries, their domestic links, their in- ternational contacts and their propaganda material. doctor's shoe 13 resCriprieta correctl/ lilted . photo by Robert A. Cummins . 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