THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 30, 1981 14 NY Task Force Fighting Cults Nationwide SAVE UP TO 60% ON DIAMONDS By BEN GALLOB 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 a "launching • We Sell Diamonds Only • By Appointment Only - Call Jerry Turken at The New York Diamond Cutting Company -S "The Diamond Cutters" 3000 Town Center, . 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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. 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