THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Asian Pacific Jewish Bodies Affiliate, Print a Bulletin By WARREN FREEDMAN (Editor's Note: Attor- ney Warren Freedman has written numerous legal books and treatises on such topics on insur- ance, product liability and social problems. In the • Jewish sphere, Freedman has held many Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith offices in New York and nationally. He also has been in- volved in the activities of Bnai Brith, on the local and district scales. He also has chaired activi- ties to benefit Israel. Freedman has written illrnumerous articles on 7 Jewish communities throughout the world.) During the summer of 1980 at a conference of lead- ers of Asian Jewish corn- muriities in Hong Kong, the Asia Pacific Jewish Asso- ciation (APJA) was for- mally organized. Isi Leibler, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was elected chair- VISH FOR JEWEhRY Highest dollars paid for your diamonds, gold, sterling or old jewelry! T.11. rant . mologtsks I State of Mictagan Licensed CALL FOR APPOINTMENT 21514333 WARREN FREEDMAN - man. Jewish communities represented at the first meeting were India, Singa- pore, Taiwan; the Philip- pines, Japan, Korea, Au- stralia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The new group im- mediately established the Bulletin, a periodic news- paper; the first edition of September 1980 announced that APJA was comprised of 10 Jewish communities (adding Thailand) for a total Jewish population of more than 80,000. Plans were detailed for "intensification of educa- tional activities for both children and adults, the need to establish teenage- youth activities and possi- bly hold youth camps." The same first Bulletin wel- comed to Tokyo Rabbi Jonathan Z. Maltzman and his wife Julie; during the weekend of Sept. 5 and 6 the new Jewish Community Center in Tokyo was offi- cially opened by Israel am- bassador Designate Amnon Ben-Yohanan. In October 1980, the Taipei Jewish community celebrated its fifth anniversary. The second Bulletin in HOUSE of SHUTTERS SINCE 1959 4- Call Now For Free Home Estimates RESIDENTIAL-COMMERCIAI CUSTOM WINDOW SHAPES 50% OFF 40% OFF by Joanna, Delmar, Graber By Joanna, Mastercraft CUSTOM SHUTTERS Horizontal & Vertical CUSTOM WOVEN WOODS 50% OFF 50% OFF VERTICAL BLINDS HORIZONTAL 1" blinds aluminum decorator cloths & suedes. P.V.C. macrame, wood many decorator colors by LEVOLOR HOUSE of SHUTTERS excluding previous orders 559-4668 25511 SOUTHFIELD RD., SOUTHFIELD/ FOR INFORMATION CALL 354-8080 November 1980 de- lineated the Hanuka fes- tival in great detail. Good news included the re- opening of the Hebrew school in Hong Kong under the direction of Ms. Micheline Burke, and the expansion of the Singa- pore Hebrew School under Rabbi Ben Zalin. Fifteen pages of other news, especially from In- dia, revealed the extent of activities of these Jewish communities in the Asian Pacific. The third Bulletin in March 1981 clscribed the Purim holiday, and con- tained announcements of world-wide Jewish activi- ties. The small community of Taipei under the leader- ship of Yaakov Liberman has a full range of Jewish activity. Author Chaim Potok was the guest of honor at a "Confest" in Au- stralia organized by the Au- stralian Union of Jewish Students and the Hillel Foundation, as a cultural festival for Jewish youth from the Asia Pacific areas. The executive director of APJA is Kurt Rathner, whose office is at 343 Little Collins St., 12th Floor, Mel- bourne, Victoria, Australia 3000. Officers of APJA are I. J. Leibler of Australia, president; Yaakov Liber- man of Taipei, D. Citrin of Hong Kong, and Benjamin Death of German With Jewish Tie Still a Mystery BONN (JTA) — West German police have no clues yet in the murder of Heinz-Herbers Karry, the economic minister of the state of Hesse, who was shot to death in his home in Karlsuhe last week. Although the Third Reich Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, claimed re- sponsibility for the killing, the Federal Prosecutor said at a press conference that he does not believe it was in any way connected with the crime. - Karry, 61, had a Jewish father and members of his family perished in the Holocaust. He himself spent part of the Nazi era in a con- centration camp. His mur: der was the second this month that has police in Germany and Austria puz- zled as to whether there were political or racial motivations. A prominent Socialist of- ficial of the Vienna munici- pal government was fatally shot there on May 1. The victim, Heinz Nittel, 50 was not Jewish but he was president of the Austrial- Israel Friendship Society. of Singapore, vice presidents; J. Gersh of Au- stralia, honorary secretary; G. Diestal of Hong 'Kong, honorary treasurer; and the board of directors: H. Borns- tein of Japan; I. Djemal of Thailand; E. Kolet of India; Rabbi K. Leinwand of Korea; E. 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