THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26 friday, June 12, 1981
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Jewish Renewal Leaders Feel
Action Influenced Giscard Upset
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Last month's French
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presidential elections saw
one Jewish organization,
Renouveau Juif (Jewish
Renewal), break with the
traditional neutrality of the
organized Jewish commu-
nity. Henri Hajdenberg and
Philippe Ryfman, two
lawyers who lead Jewish
Renewal, believed it played
a part in defeating Valery
Giscard d'Estaing's hopes
for re-election.
In an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
here, Hajdenberg and Ryf-
man stressed that Jewish
Renewal did not support
any candidate for president.
What they did was urge
Jews to vote against Gis-
card whose policies Hajden-
berg called pro-Arab and
anti-Israel.
"This is the first time in
France that anyone spoke of
the Jewish vote," Hajden-
berg said. The organization
sponsored 15 rallies and
demonstrations throughout
France and distributed
more than 100,000 leaflets
calling for Jews to "vote
against Giscard."
The campaign to vote
against Giscard did not
favor any candidate in
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the first round, Hajden-
berg said. Jews voted for
Gaullist Jacques Chirac
on the right as well as
Socialist Francois Mit-
terand.
But the two leaders admit
that in the second round,
which was a runoff between
Giscard and Mitterrand,
their call for a vote against
Giscard favored Mitter-
rand. They also believe
Jewish Renewal's efforts to
convince France's 300,000
Jewish voters to oppose Gis-
card were successful.
Hajdenberg said that in
11 out of the 12 districts in
Paris and its suburbs where
Jews make up seven to 12
percent of the population
Mitterrand won, in many
cases reversing the outcome
of the 1974 election. He said
that in two districts, where
Jews are a majority, Mitter-
rand received a much
higher percentage of the
vote in winning than he did
seven years ago.
Hajdenberg and Ryfman
were in Washington to
attend the recent 22nd an-
nual policy conference of the
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee (AIPAC).
They were particularly in-
terested in watching
AIPAC members go around
Capitol Hill to meet their
Congressmen and discuss
support of Israel.
Ryfman noted that
Jewish Renewal has also
provided French Jewry
with an alternative
spokesman in the media.
He said up to now when a
Jewish reaction was
wanted, the media sought
out only the leaders of
CRIF and FSJU. But,
Ryfman said, after the
Rue Copernic synagogue
bombing and during the
election, Jewish Renew-
al's views were also ex-
pressed. In addition,
there have been many ar-
ticles on Jewish Renewal
in the French press dur-
ing the recent elections.
Meanwhile, both Hajden-
berg and Ryfman are op-
timistic about the policies
Mitterrand will have
toward the Middle East.
"The new French policy will
be better balanced toward
Israel," Ryfman said. Had-
jenberg predicted there will
be a ban on the sale of nu-
clear technology to the Arab
countries and foresees the
nationalization of the arms
industry which he believes
will mean a more balanced
policy of arms sales in the
Middle East.
Whatever Mitterrand's
policy turns out to be, it is
certain that Jewish Re-
newal will be watching
closely and will speak out
when it believes the inter-
ests of the Jewish people are
not being respected.
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House Arrest for 5 - Druze
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Five
Druze residents of the
Golan Heights have been
placed under administra-
tive arrest for five months
by the military commander
of the area, for allegedly in-
citing to violence and
threatening community
members who opted for Is-
raeli citizenship.
They include Sheikh
Kamal Kanj Abu-Salah, a
former member of the Sy-
rian Parliament who was
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sentenced to 20 years in
prison some years ago, on
charges of spying for Syria.
He was released after serv-
ing one year.
The detention of the
five was welcomed by
Druze who have taken Is-
raeli citizenship, but it
was denounced by
nationalistic elements in
the community.
The detainees are said to
have issued a public appeal
against Israel, , using
phraseology similar to the
Palestine Liberation
Organization's Nationa'
Covenant.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eight Neo-Nazis
Officials of the Conserva- Jailed in Brazil
tive Zionist movement,
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)
MERCAZ, at a meeting of — Eight members of a
the MERCAZ board here, neo-Nazi gang said to be
lauded the decision of the headed by a wanted Nazi
Aliya Department of the war criminal were arrested
Jewish Agency instructing in western Brazil after they
directors of absorption cen- fled Bolivia to avoid ap-
ters in Israel to arrange for prehension. Brazilian police
worship services in both the sources said they would be
Conservative and Reform deported to their countries
modes at the request of new of origin.
settlers.
According to Rodolfo
A resolution approving Landyvar, the Bolivian
the order, issued by Raphael Consul in Mato Grosso Do
Kotlowitz, head of the Aliya Sul, Bolivian security serv-
Department was approved ices uncovered the para-
by the 25 members of the military gang which calls
MERCAZ board at its itself "Las Novios De La
semi-annual meeting here Muerte" (Brides of Death)
last week, Rabinowitz said. in the city of Santa Cruze De
The formal title of the Con- La Sierra.
servative Zionist movement
Its leader, Landyvar said,
is The Movement to Reaf- is Klaus Altmann, alias
firm Conservative Zionism. Barbie, the notorious
Kotlowitz's order, issued "butcher of Lyon" who de-
last April, was in the form of ported Jews and others from
a memorandum to directors that French city during
of absorption centers and World War II. Altmann has
community centers for new been sentenced to death in
olim. He quoted the direc- absentia in France but ef-
tive as declaring, "It is the forts over the years to ob-
policy of the executive of tain his deportation have
this (aliya) department to been fruitless.
facilitate 'these services, if
the demands for it come
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Jewish Employee
Fired by British
Property Firm
LONDON (JTA) — One of
Britain's leading companies
was said to have fired a
Jewish senior employee be-
cause of the Arab boycott.
An industrial tribunal
(labor court) has told last
week that MEPC, the sec-
ond largest property man-
agement concern in the
United Kingdom, dismissed
Anthony Simmons, its
assistant secretary, last
September during talks
with the Kuwaiti Interna-
tional Investment Co. about
a $35 million loan.
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