THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

PBS-TV Series on Jews in Production

NEW YORK — With
two-thirds of a $6 million
production budget already
secured, filming begins this
month in Israel on the first
episode of the 11-part series
"Civilization and the Jews,"
which New York station
WNET is producing for na-
tional broadcast over the
Public Broadcasting Serv-
ice (PBS) in 1983.
Abba Eban, the series'
on-air host and commen-
tator, will visit the United
tates later this month for a
oast-to-coast tour to bring
religious and historical
organizations, foundations
and the public up to date on
the television project.
Abba Eban is a special consultant and on-the-air
In October 1979, a special host for an 11-part TV series "Civilization and the
film was done on Mt. Sinai Jews" which will be broadcast on public television in
shortly before that territory 1983.
was ceded back to Egypt by and at Kadesh Barnea in years on their way from
Israel. Eban was filmed at the northern Sinai, a loca- Goshen to Canaan.
Mount Moses in the Santa tion generally thought to be
Now, additional filming
Katarina area of the Sinai, the place where the ancient for the series is about to get
Israelites settled for 38 underway at several his-

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AJCongress Files
California Brief
Against U.S. INS

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NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Commit-
tee, together with the Mexi-
can American Legal De-
fense and Educational
Fund, has filed a friend-of-
the-court brief in a Califor-
nia suit that accuses the
U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service
(INS) of violating the equal
protection guarantees of the
U.S. Constitution.
The brief charges that the
INS, in an attempt to un-
cover illegal aliens, has
conducted factory raids dur-
ing which its agents have
singled out individuals for
questioning solely on the
basis of racial and ethnic
stereotypes. The brief cites
depositions by a number of
INS agents who candidly
admitted that their deci-
sions to detain and question
persons during a raid were
based solely on such factors
as dark complexion,
Spanish accent, Mexican
garb, nervousness, and
avoidance of eye contact.

Survivor Sues

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LOS ANGELES — A
Holocaust survivor has filed
a $17 million law suit in Los
Angeles against the Insti-
tute for Historical Review
for failing to award him
$50,000 for proving that the
Nazis exterminated Jews in
gas chambers.
The Institute for Histori-
cal Review has published
neo-Nazi works claiming
hat the Holocaust never
ook place. It promised in
1979 to pay anyone $50,000
if they could prove that gas
chambers were used to kill
Jews.
Mel Mermelstein, a
Holocaust survivor who is
now a Long Beach busi-
nessman, and Simon Wie-
senthal, the Nazi-hunter
based in Vienna, both sub-
mitted evidence to claim the
$50,000.
Barring an out-of-court
settlement, a Los Angeles
County Superior Court will
decide if Mermelstein com-
plied with the challenge to
win the $50,000.

toric sites in the Mideast.
Already, 15 locations asso-
ciated with 4,000 years of
Jewish history have been
filmed, including the shores
of the. Mediterranean at
Caesarea, once the Roman
capital of Judea; the ancient
Jewish catacombs of Beth
Shearim in the Galilee; the
Al Aksa Mosque and the
Western Wall, both part of
the ancient Temple Mount
in Jerusalem; and Wadi
Kelt in the Judean wilder-
ness, near the Dead Sea.
Interior locations at
which Eban has been filmed
include reconstructions of
the 11th Century study of
Rashi of Troyes, a French
rabbinical scholar; a 12th -
Century Crusader hall; a
17th Century Venetian
synagogue; a 19th Century
living room of the
Rothschild banking family;
and the study of Theodore
Herzl, now in Jerusalem.

Friday, March 13, 1981

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