THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 30, 1981
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NY Task Force Fighting Cults Nationwide
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Task Force on Mission-
ary Activity of the New
York Jewish Community
Relations Council (JCRC),
formed to combat efforts of
cults in the New York area
to recruit Jewish youth as
members, has developed
into a national resource.
Malcolm Hoenlein, JCRC
executive director, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that as the work of the task
force became known, re-
quests for information
began coming in not only
from the metropolitan area
and New York state, but
also from around the coun-
try and from abroad, "indi-
cating the dire need for such
services."
He reported that "an in-
formal network has been es-
tablished," which includes
JCRCs and similar agencies
in Los Angeles, Philadel-
phia, Miami, Chicago, De-
troit, San Francisco, and
Miami; and Montreal and
Toronto in Canada.
The task force de-
veloped seminars and
workshops for profes-
sionals in anti-cult work;
continuation and expan-
sion of a speakers bureau
through the Jewish
Board of Family and
Children's Service
(JBFCS), and im-
plemented a special 24-
hour hotline for Jews
needing advice and other
help.
The task force is also
public
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education campaign, in-
cluding preparation of new
materials to counteract
missionary and cult prop-
aganda."
bookstores,
Jewish
schools and synagogues
throughout metropolitan
New York have been
alerted to a wide range of
literature, calendars, re-
cords and cassettes which
bear "deceptive" Hebrew
names, Jewish symbols and
content, but which are pro-
duced by Christian mis-
sionary groups. The task
force had been told that
such items have appeared in
stores specializing in
Jewish items, organiza-
tional giftshops and at
Jewish-sponsored fairs
around the United States.
Task force chairman
Seymour Lachman urged
Jewish agencies to pub-
licize such materials, in
addition to bringing them
to the attention of rabbis,
educators and neighbor-
hood merchants. He cited
records and cassettes by
"The Liberated Wailing
Wall," "Jerusalem
Haifa Rabbi Hopes to Show
Unity of Material, Spiritual
Is technology
HAIFA
in conflict with religion?
If the recently appointed
Technion rabbi is taken as
an example, then the an-
swer must be a decisive
"no." For though he is new
to his position as Technion
rabbi, Dr. Eliahu Zini is no
newcomer to the Technion.
—
DR.
ELIAHU ZINI
He has served for almost a
decade as a member of the
institute's faculty of math-
ematics. In fact, not long
ago, he was selected by the
students as the most popu-
lar instructor at the Techn-
ion.
His new job enables him
to fulfill his new mission,
that of teaching Torah, and
that of teaching math-
ematics.
At the Technion he
hopes to help increase
understanding of the
unity between the mate-
rial world and Jewish
religious beliefs, and to
help bring Technion stu-
dents back to their roots.
Rabbi Zini was born in
1946 in the village of Tiaret
in Algeria, which was home
to a Jewish community of.
some 3,500. Dr. Zini's
father, as his father before
him, served as chief rabbi of
the Tiaret community.
Rabbi Zini recalls his
grandfather's somewhat
unusual teaching methods.
Alongside the holy books,
sat open texts of general
philosophy.
`:The Algerian Jewish
community had a rich cul-
tural system of its own, and
all the children of the com-
munity learned within it,
until the French seized
Algeria in the beginning of
the 19th Century," says
Rabbi Zini.
The capture of Algeria
took place during the period
of the Enlightenment in
Europe and France. The end
result was the destruction of
the Algerian Jewish educa-
tion system. The Jews were
forced to send their children
to non-religious French
schools.
Rabbi Zini recalls that
his grandfather would
gather the Jewish chil-
dren from these schools
at the end of the school
day, in order to teach
them an hour of Torah
lessons at the synagogue.
In 1962, with the separa-
tion of Algeria from France,
almost the entire 150,000
member Jewish community
was forced to emigrate.
Most of them moved to
France, with a small
number coming to Israel.
In France, Rabbi Zini con-
tinued his studies at the
university level in Paris,
simultaneously learning
mathematics and in-depth
Torah studies, in the article
of his family, whose rabbin-
ical tradition goes back
some 900 years to one of the
students of the famous
Rabbi Itzhak Alfazi, who
was one of the greatest
spreaders of the religious
law. Rabbi Zini holds an MS
degree from the University
of Paris.
Players," "Star of David
Singers," "The Israel-
ites," "Israel's Hope,"
"The House of David,"
and "Shalom Singers."
Lachman also cited
organizations he said were
not earily recognizable as
Christian missionary
groups, listing Beth Sar
Shalom, also known as
American Board of Missions
to the Jews; Hebrew Wit-
ness, Inc.; V'kol Shofar;
Peace for Israel; Shalom
Center; Jewish Voice
Broadcast; Beit Yehoshuah;
North American Jewish
Ministries; Friends of Is-
rael; the Tel Aviv Quartet;
and Judaism in Service to
the World • and the Jewish
Friendship League, the lat-
ter two being front organ-
izations for the Unification
Church, according to
Lachman.
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