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War Veterans to Protect Jewish Institutions from Vandalism
WASHINGTON — A national plan of action to work with local police to help prevent
desecration of Jewish institutions has been announced by Irvin Steinberg, national
commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
Citing the increasing numbers of acts of vandalism perpetrated against Jewish
cemeteries, houses of worship and community centers, Steinberg sent a directive to 450
JWV post commanders to institute, with the approval and guidance of local police
authorities, patrols of volunteer members, who would supplement the police by acting as
their "eyes and ears."
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"We will not act as vigilantes," Steinberg declared. "We will patrol with the permis-
sion and cooperation of the local police and the leadership of the Jewish institutions. We
will assist the police, not act as their substitute."
The commander of the JWV Department of Michigan, William Greenberg,
told The Jewish News that he was planning a meeting and would write to the
police chiefs in Southfield and Oak Park to discuss the issue of vandalism.
Greenberg said that although vandalism has not been as prevalent in Michigan as in
the East, the JWV would make itself available to Jewish dnstitutions here.
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February 20, 1981
Yale Begins $6 Million Drive
for Jewish Studies Program
ADL Proposes Ban on
Camps for Extremists
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith has urged state authorities to adopt legislation outlawing
paramilitary training camps run by the Ku Klux Klan or other
extremist groups — and made public a model statute.
The statute, drawn up by ADL's national law department,
calls for imprisonment and/or fines against those found guilty of
operating paramilitary training camps or receiving training
there.
Seymour D. Reich, chairman of ADL's National Civil Rights
Committee, told some 200 participants attending the ADL's Na-
tional Executive Committee meeting that the model law would
make training in the use of firearms, explosives, incendiary de-
vices or techniques a crime when it is for the intention of provok-
ing civil disorder.
The ADL, which has monitored Klan activities since the
1920s, disclosed in a nationwide survey last October that
the Klan is engaged in paramilitary activities in six states.
Patterned after the 1968 federal Civil Obedience Act, the
model law, according to Reich, is an "effective and legally sound
local response to the proliferation of extremist-operated
paramilitary camps."
Reich said that according to available information, the Civil
Obedience Act has not resulted in any arrest of Klan paramilit-
ary instructors. The federal law applies only to teaching while
the ADL model statute makes teaching or participating in
paramilitary training a criminal offense.
The October report on the Klan named Alabama, Connec-
ticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Texas as sites of paramilitary
training and cited California as- a Klan distribution center for
instructional manuals and handbooks on terrorism.
In Alabama, Reich said, the Invisible Empire, Knights of the
KKK, run by Bill Wilkinson, operates a campsite near Cullman
which has been dubbed "My Lai." Training there includes target
practice with M-16 semi-automatic rifles, obstacle course profi-
ciency, study of guerrilla tactics and practice search and destroy
missions.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (JTA) — Yale University has received $1.6 million in special gifts to
support its new Judaic studies program. The gifts initiate a major campaign by a national develop-
ment committee to raise more than $6 million for Judaic studies as an interdisciplinary program in
Yale's undergraduate college and the graduate school.
Co-chairmen of the committee appointed by Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti are Geoffrey H.
Hartman, Karl Young Professor of English Comparative Literature at Yale, and William Horowitz,
former chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education and a retired fellow of the Yale Corp.
(University board of trustees).
The committee is composed of educators, clergy, business and professional leaders. The funds
raised will provide endowment for faculty appointments on junior and senior levels, fellowships and
other student support, strengthening of Yale's Judaica collection and for enhancing the Judaica
Series of scholarly publications of the Yale University Press.
An associated project is the establishment in the university library of an historical
archive covering the 1933-1945 period in Europe. The undertaking is being done in coopera-
tion with the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, Inc., a New Haven community organization
which plans to deposit videotaped testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust in the archive.
The organization will also assume responsibility for funding the archive.
Three gifts constitute the bulk of
the $1.6 million received thus far:
• $1 million from an anonyinous
donor to endow a professorship in the
history of Judaism.
• $300,000 from Robert F. Weis to
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Both Premier Menahem Begin and
fund
a teaching position in biblical
chief autonomy negotiator Dr. Yosef Burg rejected Monday's
studies. Weis, a graduate of Yale in
proposal by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat that the Palestinians
1941, is vice president, treasurer and
should establish a government in, exile.
director of Weis Markets, Inc., of
Sadat's suggestion was made. in Cairo Sunday night, after a
Sunbury, Pa. He is also a member of
meetingwith Ausria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. It came as the
Yale's national development corn-
Israeli autonomy team prepared ideas how to resume the talks.
mittee.
The team met in Jerusalem Monday morning.
• $200,000 in a bequest from Mrs.
Begin said it was not the first time Sadat had proposed a
Leo
Links to support scholarships in
Palestinian government in exile. Begin made clear that Israel
Judaic studies. The late Lee Links
rejected the idea since in effect it would mean a Palestinian state
came to New Haven from Austria
in the making. Begin also expected the Reagan Administration to
and attended Yale with scholarship
oppose the idea, because it would mean Soviet expansion in the
aid, graduating in 1907.
stinian government would be run by the PLO
Mideast. "A Pale
Planning for the new program
which works hand-in-hand with Moscow," he said.
Government-in-Exile
Is Rejected by Israel
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Anti-Semitic Right Is Active in Mexico
OTEW YORK Right-wing extremists in Mexico have begun an anti-Semitic campaign to gain attention for
t political views, according to a report made public this week by the American Jewish Committee's Office for
Mexico and Central America.
Late 1980 saw the swabbing of swastikas on synagogue walls, an increase in the publication of anti-Semitic
pamphlets and articles and the constant attempt to link Jews and Communists in the public mind as part of the
ultra-rightist thrust.
In an effort to create an escape valve for political unrest and provide institutional channels for leftist dissent,
President Jose Lopez Portillo in May 1978 legalized the Communist and Socialist Workers parties on the left and
the Mexican Democratic Party on the right. He also guaranteed that these and three other already-existing
small parties would have at least 100 seats in Mexico's 400-seat Chamber of Deputies. Since the 1929 revolution
Mexico has been governed exclusively and without interruption by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Political activity by the Communists and other leftist groups since reform has stimulated reaction
by ultra-right elements anxious to stake out their own claims and clientele, utilizing anti-Semitism as
one of their appeals, the report said.
The Mexican Jewish community — some 38,000 strong — increasingly is concerned and now facing a
double-barreled threat: from leftist groups advocating pro-PLO and anti-Israel theses and from the ultra-right.
Linking Judaism and Communism as common enemies of the Mexican state and people has a long history
on the Mexican scene. In a recent example, a Mexican organization created some months ago to fight abortion,
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Mendelevich Release
Called Political Move
VIENNA (JTA) — Iosif Mendelevich, the last of the impris-
oned 1970 Leningrad hijack trial defendants, has arrived in Is-
rael to join his mother and sister after his unexpected release
from a prison camp in the Soviet Union. The 33-year-old Or-
thodox Jew, looking haggard from the effects of his prolonged
detention and a hunger strike he began late last October, said
en route at Vienna airport, "I thank the Almighty for having
secured my release."
The surprise release of Mendelevich, who served
nearly 11 years of a 12-year sentence in prisons and forced
labor camps, was arranged privately by the World Jewish
Congress and its president, Edgar Bronfman, through his
personal relationship with Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet
ambassador in Washington.
WJC sources said a major factor in the unprecedented
negotiations between a private organization and the Soviet gov-
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