Pioneer Rebecca Gratz in Hall of Fame
BERKELEY, Calif. — On March 4, the occasion of her 200th birthday, Rebecca Gratz will join a dozen
other famous men and women who have been honored by the Jewish-American Hall of Fame at the Magnes
Museum. Past inductees are Judah Magnes, Albert Einstein, Louis Brandeis, George Gershwin, Haym
Salomon, Herbert H. Lehman, Gershom Seixas, Henrietta Szold, Touro Synagogue, Golda Meir, Levi Strauss
and Jonas Salk.
With Miss Gratz's induction, an art medal will be made available in limited editions of gold, silver, pewter
and bronze, with the proceeds going to help in the educational work of the non-profit Magnes Museum.
The Gratz family made significant contributions to America ... Gratz College, the first Jewish
teacher-training institution in the U.S., established in 1856 by Hyman Gratz; Gratzburg, New York,
founded by Michael Gratz in 1793; and the Female Benevolent Society (1819), the Hebrew Sunday
School Society (1838), and the Philadelphia Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum (1815), all
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Strong Stance ors Camp David
by Sadat Applauded in Israel
PLO Israel Denunciation
Draws Sharp U.S. Rebuke
GENEVA (JTA) — An impassioned denunciation of Arab charges
that Israel violates human rights in the occupied territories was deliv-
ered by Michael Novak, the new head of the U.S. delegation to the
United Nations Human Rights Commission. "I was -shocked at hearing
so much hatred, so many lies, such squalid racism, such despicable
anti-Semitism all in the sacred name of human rights," Novak de-
clared.
He spoke last Friday in response to the speech by Farouk Kad-
doumi, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization political depart-
ment, who opened the commission's debate on alleged Israeli violations
last Thursday with bitter attacks on Israel and the United States.
Novak's speeCh was awaited with interest by the delegates
inasmuch as he is the first appointee of the Reagan Administra-
tion to address the international forum. They were clearly taken
aback by the vehemence with which he castigated the Arabs and
his unqualified defense of Israel in terms much stronger than
any used by previous American delegates.
Novak apparently had instructions to take a tough line against
Israel's foes and that is believed to signal the tone of the new Adminis-
tration's rhetoric in future debates in UN bodies.
Kaddoumi himself was extremely harsh, accusing the former Car-
ter Administration of "advertising its hypocritical campaign for
human rights" while "simultaneously aiding Israel to build a military
arsenal, to improve methods of torture, to speed up its process of
Judaization" in the territories.
He urged the Reagan Administration to "begin by censuring Is-
rael - but observed that "indeed, this will not take place as Reagan, like
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New Paris Archbishop
Continues to Believe in
a 'Certain Jewish Ideal'
PARIS-(JTA) = Paris' Jewish-born Archbishop Msgr.
Jan-Marie Lustiger says that he considers himself a Jew
and continues to believe in "a certain Jewish ideal." The
54-year-old prelate told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
T was borne Jew and I shall remain one even if the fact is
cult to accept by some. I continue to consider myself
- wish even if the rabbis do not agree to this."
Lustiger, who was born in Paris of Polish-Jewish
parents, said he had not undergone a 'Bar Mitzva
ceremony because his parents were socialists and
did not believe in any form of religious instruction.
He said that though he became interested in Catholic
subjects from the age of eight "I always continued to feel
Jewish. How can it be otherwise for the son of poor immig-
rants?
I was also reminded of my Jewish belonging by some of
my schoolmates -to whom . I had not tried to hide my
Jewishness." Lustiger said that on several occasions he
received mild beatings but said that this had no effect on
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has expressed satisfaction that President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt has reaffirmed his adherence to the Camp David accords in his speech to the European
Parliament on Tuesday. Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Naftali Lavi said Wednesday that
Israel had found it plausible that Sadat expressed the need to use only peaceful means in seeking
an agreement.
But at the same time, Lavi said Israel disagreed with some of Sadat's remarks on the
Palestinian issue. Israel differed with Sadat on self-determination for the Palestinians, and.the
establishment of a Palestinian entity. The spokesman said these terms were a deviation from
the Camp David agreements: At this point, Israel does not know what Sadat had in mind when
he spoke about European guarantees and called for a mutual recognition between Israel and the
Palestinians.
Jerusalem was also in the dark as to when Sadat wanted to resume the autonomy negotia-
tions. This will be one of the topics on the agenda when Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir sees
U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig in Washington next week.
Sadat on Tuesday praised European diplomatic initiatives, saying they can play "a
positive role in the search for global peace in the Middle East."
The Egyptian president said that the recent joint declaration on the Middle East, issued in
December in Luxemburg, shows "that Europe wants to play a role of its own." He added that this
role should be in "bringing
about a mutual recognition of
Israel and the Palestinians.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel election date was formally
Such a recognition would de-
set Tuesday for June 30. The bill providing for the early dissolu-
velop into the creation of a
tion of the Knesset and for the holding of elections passed its third
Palestinian entity."
reading without opposition.
Sadat, 'who was widely
Earlier, during the debate over the second reading, a number
applauded throughout his ad-
of opposition amendments calling for an earlier date — in late
dress, said Egypt is determined
April or May — were defeated by the coalition majority. A pro-
to go ahead with the peace proc-
posal by MK Ronne Milo (Likud-Herut) to hold the poll in August
ess started at Camp David and
was also defeated.A July election, originally endorsed by Likud,
will do so "whatever the diffi-
was rejected because of school vacations. Israel does not have
Israel Election June 30
absentee ballots.
Kreisky the Broker
in PLO Hostage Ploy
By VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
Former White- House Counsel Robert Lipschutz re-
vealed some diplomatic secrets the other day which threw
the spotlight on Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria and
the strange role this Socialist activist who was born a Jew
but describes himself as a religious agnostic plays as the
chief apologist and advance man in Europe for Yasir
Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Lipschutz has disclosed that shortly after the Iranian
students occupied the American embassy in Teheran and
took its staff prisoner, Kreisky approached the White
House through a New York intermediary with what
boiled down to a proposition that if President Carter pub-
licly asked Arafat and the PLO to secure the release of the
hostages — thus implying de facto recognition of the ter-
rorist organization — Arafat would use his close connec-
tions with the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian revo-
lutionaries to get the hostages freed.
Lipschutz did not explain why the head of a gov-
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Hebrew U. Foundation
to Perpetuate Memory
of East European Jewry
JERUSALEM — To help perpetuate knowledge of the
lost civilization of East European Jewry for future gener-
ations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is creating
"The Cracow Foundation." It will be used to develop re-
search, teaching and publications on the history and cul-
ture of the great Jewish world of Eastern Europe which
was annihilated in the Holocaust.
The initial endowment for the foundation comes from
Ascher Wiener of Melbourne, in memory of his parents
and sister.
Foundation funds will be used to appoint senior fellows
for teaching and research, to endow a chair, to encourage
publications on the subject in all languages including
Yiddish, and to award a Cracow Foundation Prize for
already-published literary works on any facet of Eastern
European Jewish life.
Publication of textbooks for school and university use,
in many languages, designated to serve both Jewish and
non-Jewish readers, will also be encouraged.