.:;;IilainaiggWoNalffirilKiNtle stiAglinogiamitaR^ .30,1f1, 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." Confronting Fifth Column Among Arabs in Israel With Faith in .tate's Security Commentary, Page 2 "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. HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review On Criticism and Positive Approaches to Communal Structuring of Jetuish Events Editorial, Page 4 Copyright fa) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL LXXVIII, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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, (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 5) 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- (Continued on Page 6)