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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sao Paolo Jewry Has a Thriving Community
By MOSHE RON
(Jewish pianist). "Aha- them. Only a small minor- institution which does not
ron
Adler" (Jewish ity believe the PLO prop- have an income. The surgi-
industrialist), etc.
aganda.
cal rooms, X-ray and car-
TEL AVIV — In the
A new Habad school was
In Sao Paolo there are diology apparatus are
course of a recent 10-day
built on a plot donated by
several hospitals, but the ultra-modern. There is a
visit to Sao Paolo, Brazil, I
the Sao Paolo Municipality.
most luxurious and mod- huge blood bank.
saw several Jewish institu-
There are many Orthodox
ern hospital is the Jewish
During my visit to the
tions, a Jewish hospital
rabbis and two Conserva-
hospital named after Al- hospital I was accompanied
named after Prof. Albert
tive rabbis.
bert Einstein.
by Mrs. Lily Zwerner; the
Einstein, the only Jewish
Sao Paolo's Jewish center
The hospital is situated hospital's president and
weekly, "The Moment," a
is luxurious. It has 24,000 on a 150-acre site donated famous heart specialist Dr.
home for old people and
members, who use its large by the Sao Paolo Municipal- Josef Feher; and by the
some synagogues and small
gyms, swimming pools and ity. It consists of two 14- manager of the hospital Dr.
prayer houses.
special rooms for various story buildings, with 273 Jose Lodovici. On each
When I visited the
games. There is a kosher rooms and 300. beds in each. patient's door we saw a
synagogue of the Habad
kitchen. The buildings
The hospital is not only mezuza. The food is kosher
Hasidim, I was surprised to
stretch over several streets. for Jewish patients. Some and on Friday evening the
find a man who had re-
In Sao Paolo today 80,000 30 percent of the patients women bless the candles.
MOSHE ROH
DR. JOSEF FEHER
turned to the Jewish faith,
of Brazil's 170,000 Jews are poor and do not pay. The Over the entrance there is a
who studied the Haftorah in in the synagogue and at live. The governor of the hospital is a philanthropic quotation from the Bible.
dren, is being built in the
Portuguese with a group of other religious events and I
Sao Paolo district is a
• • •
The hospital employs
name of Sao Paolo's Reuven
people at prayers. There speak to them in a language
Christian Arab from Leba-
I 1,200 persons. In one of Zeuven Zwerner. His chil-
which they understand.
were dozens of youngsters
non, Paul Salem Malauf. He
I the departments I met Is- dren donated a large sum
and some old people. The There are a few who under- is popular with the popula-
g
t
I
i raeli engineer Tibi Singer for the building which will
youngsters were very reli-
stand and know Hebrew or tion, including the Jews. He
from Haifa. He came to care for 300 indigent chil-
Yiddish, but the majority
gious..
and other high officials visit
Brazil as representative. dren.
Before the Mussaf, Rabbi understand Portuguese. We Jewish synagogues on holy
of the Israeli firm "El-
In the department for in-
in-
Shabtai Halperin gave a have a holy obligation to days, especially on Rosh
.
, cint" which installs med- fants, special
fresh milk and
marvelous sermon about prevent the Jews of Sao Hashana. But the Brazilian
s Lr ical instruments. The
t
infants'
clothing
are
pro-
,
Paolo from leaving Jewry." Foreign Minister Sareiva
the importance of the
management of the 'hos-
vided. There are special
months of Elul and Tishri,
We passed streets in Gerera flirts with PLO
c i
pital believes this Haifa
rooms for toys. On Christ-
in which one has to repent "Sao Paolo bearing names
representatives in Brazil.
firm produces the most
mss,
special trees are pro-
for his sins. Everything is in
like "State of Israel,"
In Brazil there are many
I
advanced
medical
vided
for non-Jewish chil-
Portuguese.
"Horazio Laufer" (a Arabs from Syria and Leba-
equipment.
dren
with
candles and toys.
I asked the rabbi why he
former Jewish Finance non. Most of them keep.
In all departments there More than 6,000 persons re-
didn't speak in Yiddish. He Minister), "Ghetto Upris- friendly relations with the
An ambulance arrives are special services for vis- ceive medical help in the
said, "I am pleased to see
ing," "Prof. Albert Eins - Jews, participate in their at Sao Paolo's Albert
itors. Now a special build- emergency room of the hos-
hundreds ofJewish families
tein," "Adolfo Tabokov" celebrations and work with
Einstein Hospital.
ing, a department for chil- pital each month.
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
ADL Leader Calls Saudi Arabia Moderation'
By ABRAHAM H.
FOXMAN
Associate National Director of
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith. Head of ADUs Inter-
national Affairs Division
The notion that Saudi
Arabia is moderate, pro-
Western and a friend and
ally of the United States has
been widely adopted in
Washington.
Indeed, these ideas are
vigorously promoted by var-
ious paid agents of the
Saudi regime•— such as
Frederick Dutton, who was
assistant secretary of state
for legislative affairs in the
Kennedy Administration,
and former U.S. Sen. J.
William Fulbright, both of
whom are registered with
the ,Justice Department as
foreign agents.
Joining them is an array
of sympathetic State De-
part merit - Arabists - and re-
ti red ambassadors who
have served in Arab capi-
tals, including two former
ambassadors to Saudi
Arabia —.lames Akins and
John West.
The oil-rich desert
kingdom's image also
benefits from the profit
considerations of an im-
pressive number of cor-
porations in the U.S.
which do billions of dol-
lars worth of business
with Saudi Arabia.
In addition to firms like
a
Myth
Fluor Corp. and Bechtel, tober 1978, when the Saudis
the "moderate" and Arabia publicly and bla- They participated in our
this group ncludes joined with radical, hard-
"pro-Western" Saudi tantly identifies itself with armed struggle in 1936, in
Standard Oil of California line Iraq and other Arab
Arabians supply to the the goals of the Palestinian 1948; and when the Palesti-
, Chevron), Exxon, Texaco League states at a meeting PLO consists of light
"revolution" and its use of nian revolution began
and Mobil in the Saudi- in Baghdad to sabotage the
arms, ammunition, exp- terrorism. under the leadership of
controlled
Arabian- Camp David peace accords losives and military ye-
For example, after the Fatah in 1966, King Faisal
American
Oil
Co.
hicles. The question of PLO massacre on the Tel and the Saudi government
iARAMC0). Mobil has un -
whether any of the vast Aviv-Haifa coastal road in did not hesitate to help our
abashedly argued the Saudi
''.„.
American - made weap-
1978 in which 35 Israelis movement and revolution.
case in advertisements in
ronry sold to Saudi
were killed and more than The supportlas not ceased.
major American newspap-
Arabia has made its way
70 wounded, Radio Riyadh I express my appreciation to
ers.
into the hands of PLO
said "the PLO action had a King Khalid, who has in-
Moreover, the sheer bil-
terrorists has not been
noble aim." And SaudLOil creased the financial, politi-
lions reaped by the Saudis
raised.
Minister Sheikh Zaki cal and military aid."
from oil exports to the U.S.
There have been intelli- Ahmed Yamani said in a TV . The short-sightedness of
fill the coffers of major U.S.
gence reports, however, interview that "Israel will Saudi policymakers stag-
banks, not to mention the
that the Saudis are not not be able to get away from gers the imagination! While
U.S. Treasury itself. This
above passing on military this disease of terror until their precious oil fields are
has led to a certain receptiv-
equipment to other Arab the Palestinians know that eyed by the Soviets, the
ity in U.S. banking, finan-
countries — including one they are part of a country Saudis help them by
cial and government circles
indicating that the Saudis that bears their name."
enhancing the power,
to the Saudi viewpoint on
had transferred some $3.5
Rafiq Al-Natshe, the prestige and ability of the
various Middle East issues.
billion worth of arms to Fatah representative in PLO to carve out strategic
While the Saudis and
Iraq. Even Soviet-made Riyadh, said recently ' that pockets of Kremlin domina-
ABRAHAM FOXMAN
their advocates avoid men-
tanks were allowed to be -... the Saudi people have tion in the Mideast.
tioning the influence pf pet-
transshipped
to Iraq for use given their support to the
How long will it take
between Israel and Egypt.
rodollars, their dirtiest
in
their war against Iran.
Palestinian issue, as in- American policy planners to
That the object of the
secret is the role played by
Since 1973, Israel has de- cumbent on them by virtue realize the myth of Saudi
Saudi largesse — the PLO
so-called - moderate - and
cried
the
enormous of their Islamic obligations. "moderation"?
— is intricately connected
"pro-Western"
Saudi
amounts of military equip-
-
with the Soviet Uni
Union,
is
Arabia in bankrolling the
ment purchased by the
over
terrorist and anti-American also a fact glossed
by
Saudis
from
the
U.S.,
Saudi propagandists, even
Palestine
Liberation
though the PLO-Kremlin France, Germany and other
Organization.
Western countries and h
h a s
axis, and Soviet support for
By BEN GALLOB
complained that man
y o f
relation to several topics,
Saudi Arabia currently other terrorist groups, is
(Coyright 1981, JTA. Inc.)
the arms are, in reality, de-
"including the history of
supplies at least $100 mil - well documented.
stined for other Arab coun-
The role of Christian anti-Semitism,
t he
1
Christian Role in Holocaust
Outlined in College Course
lion a year to the PLO ter-
rorist bands, in addition
to ongoing political sup-
port, military aid and
agreements reached in Oc-
What it adds up to is that tries.
theology and institutions in endorsement of Nazi racism
Just this year, Saudi the Holocaust "is the most by some segments of Ger-
penetration
of
the
Middle
Arabia
requested
U.S.
per-
sensitive
issue" in courses ,man Protestantism, the
East, the PLO serves as a
for
s
in
American-made tanks to dents in a college in a small flounce the Final Solution
the Sudan — after the town in northern New York explicitly, and the indif-
The military aid that
Saudis had, according to the in which there are very few ference of the majority of
Associated Press, "mis- Jews.
European Christians to the
takenly handed over some
Lawrence Baron, assis- • plight of the Jews."
tanks without permission." tent professor of history at
He asserted that the "ap-
The Saudis also make it St. Lawrence University in
possible for young Arab Canton, reports on his ex- palling lessons" of the
Palestinians studying in perience in the current Holocaust, "the most heM-
Saudi Arabia to attend issue of -Shoah," a publics- ous atrocity ever committed
Fatah training camps in tion of the National Jewish in the name of prejudice"
should be reaching people
Syria during their vaca- Resource Center. .
tion periods.
Baron wrote that the "in areas where there are
Furthermore, "moderate" Christian role had to be few Jews or other
and "pro-Western" Saudi dealt with, in his classes, in minorities, for that matter."
in the Soviet Union's steady