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December 5, 1980
•LS. Blocks Communist Bids
for PLO at Madrid Meetings
Rally on Sunday to Protest
Latest Terrorism in France
NEW YORK
The U.S. has rejected Soviet and East European suggestions that the
Palestine Liberation Organization be invited to the European Security Conference in
Madrid.
The issue came up in a closed session of the conference that is reviewing compliance
with the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights and East-West relations.
Last week, Israel, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco made statements to the
conference as nonparticipating states. The Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
suggested that the PLO take part "as the only legal representative of the Palestinian
people."
The co-chairman of the American delegation, Max M. Kampelman, opposed
participation by the PLO, which he described as "a nongovernmental organiza-
tion which identifies itself with terrorism and with the destruction of a non-
participating Mediterranean state that is part of our process here."
Israeli Ambassador to France Meir Rosenne told the Madrid meetings,last week that
his country was "gravely concerned" by increased anti-Semitism in Europe and the sharp
decrease in the number of Jews being permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Only
524 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union during the first three weeks of November.
U.S. delegate Jerome Shestack also charged the Soviets with 'anti-Semitism in a
Madrid speech last week. Shestack said the Soviet campaign was thinly disguised as
anti-Zionism.
Rosenne charged that anti-Semitism was appearing in "the official propaganda or-
gans" of some countries. He also called on the Madrid conference to strengthen the family
reunification provisions of the Helsinki accords.
In New York this week, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Union of
Councils for Soviet Jewry declared, "Soviet deeds at home fly in the face of their
words in Madrid."
They reported that 40 par-
ticipants in the weekly scien-
tific seminar at the home of Dr.
Victor Brailovsky were again
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Attorney General Yit-
turned away Sunday by
zhak Zamir announced Monday that he will bring charges
authorities. This is the second
against Minister of Religious Affairs Aharon Abu Hatzeira
Sunday in a row that the
of taking bribes from three religious institutions in Bnei
Brak.
gathering of refusnik scholars
Zamir informed Premier Menahem Begin and Knesset
has been thwarted.
speaker Yitzhak Berman of his decision which was taken
Dr. Brailovsky was arrested
after weeks of studying eight separate police files against
Nov. 13 on charges of "anti-
the religious affairs minister.
Soviet slander." Police stood
The next stage in the legal process will transpire
outside Brailovsky's apartment
in the Knesset's House Committee, where Zamir will
and declared no one could enter
ask that Abu Hatzeira be stripped of his immunity.
because of "a funeral" and "the
Abu Hatzeira -and several aides are accused of receiv-
area was being fumigated." Dr.
ing kickbacks from the institutions in exchange for inflated
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PARIS (JTA) — French Jewry is in
a state of alarm after an unknown
gunman last week murdered the
Jewish owners of a Paris travel
agency that specialized in tours to
Israel.
A Detroit-area protest rally on
Sunday, originally called in response
to the October terrorist bombing of a
Paris synagogue, has taken on added
urgency in the wake of the latest
Paris outrage. The rally, 3 p.m. Sun-
day at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, will fea-
ture the participation of youth as an
answer to world anti-Semitism and
terrorism.
The rally is being sponsored by
the Labor Zionist Alliance and
the Metropolitan Detroit Bnai
Brith Council in cooperation with
Shaarey Zedek.
The Bhai Brith Youth Orga.hiza-
tion will lead a Hanuka candle-
French Jews are shown pro-
lighting ceremony observing the testing the October bombing of
fifth night of Hanuka and relating the Rue Copernic synagogue.
the holiday of religious freedom with
the events of anti-Semitism occuring around the world. Habonim youth will
circulate petitions to be sent to the French ambassador in Washington as an
expression of concern to the French government and to representatives of
French Jewry in Paris to express solidarity of the Jewish community in
Detroit with the Jewish community of France.
Dr. Allen Pollack, national president of the LZA, Rabbi Irwin Groner of
Shaarey Zedek and Dr. Carol Rittner of Mercy College will be the featured
speakers on the subject of "Global Anti-Semitism."
The latest attack in Paris occurred Nov. 25 when the assailant walked
into the office of IT-Tours and fired eight bullets from an automatic pistol,
fatally wounding Edwin Douek, 53, the proprietor. His wife, Michele, 29, was
killed instantly and a clerk was slightly wounded. Edwin Douek died of his
wounds later in a hospital.
The incident was the first fatal attack on Jews in France since the
Oct. 3 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue which took four lives.
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Cabinet Member Charged
in Religious Bribery Case
allocation's from the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Holocaust, Israel Change Meaning of Hanuka
By DVORA WAYSMAN
World Zionist Press Service
Most Jews know a potted history of Hanuka. Those with a
dicum of Jewish consciousness can tell you that it is an annual
..inter festival, occuring on 25th Kislev, where candles are lit each
night for eight days. This symbolizes a miracle which occurred in
165 BCE when a cruse of oil was needed to purify the Temple, and it
miraculously lasted for eight days instead of one.
Many Jews also know the story of the valiant Judah Mac-
cabee, the Hasmonean, who led the revolt against the tyrant An-
tiochus IV and the Hellenistic culture which threatened to wipe
out the whole Jewish tradition and heritage.
Antiochus went too far when he issued decrees to defile
and destroy the Temple, to order Jews to worship Greek gods, to
forbid them to study Torah, observe lashrut' or to practice their
customs. In place of servile submission, there erupted a national
awakening and many Jews such as Eleazar the scribe and Hannah
and her seven sons chose "torture unto death" rather than to obey
the unjust and sinful decrees.
There is a parallel between the events of the Hasmonean wars
and those of 1948 when the Hagana, despite overwhelming odds,
defeated the Arab armies and ushered in the independent state of
Israel.
Even before this in World War II, Jewish resistance to
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lie
Hitler's brutal policies was much more widespread than is
generally known. There were Jewish uprisings in the ghet-
toes and Jewish partisan fighters in the forests outside the
cities of Poland and Russia conquered by the Nazis. In occu-
pied countries, Jews joined the resistance movements, many
losing their lives. Jews eagerly volunteered to serve in the
Allied armies. It is estimated that 1.5 million Jewish soldiers
fought in the Allied forces against Hitler, and 150,000 in
European resistance movements.
The Palmach, the commando troops of the Hagana, were the
most mobile spearhead and the largest units of the Jewish forces in
1948. Etzel and Lehi fought heroically. The refugees on board
boats illegally bringing them from Cyprus, struggled through
passive resistance until they were brought to Israel.
Later, Israel's operation into Entebbe, Uganda is a magnifi-
cent example of modern heroism, as is the struggle of Soviet Jews
for their right to emigrate to Israel, however great the odds against
them
From its beginnings, the Zionist movement adopted the revolt
of the Hasmoneans as a symbol. Now we celebrate Hanuka not
only as a religious but also as a national festival. As torches are lit
each Hanuka in Israel, the story of the faith and the heroism is
told, once again becoming a symbol for the whole people and a
beacon to the younger generation.
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