Israel's Parliamentary Procedures: The Tests for Israel's Future Rulers THE JEWISH NEWS Commentary, Page 2 A WeekIN Review HA N UKA Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere 'of Jewish Events Copyright ro-: The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXVIII, No. 14 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35` 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 — 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. (Continued on Page 6) 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 _ 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. . (Continued on Page 7)