Charlotte Jacobson Elected National JNF President
NEW YORK (JTA) — Charlotte Jacobson, a leading American
Zionist, has been elected president of the Jewish National Fund, succeed-
ing Rabbi William Berkowitz. She is the first woman to head the 80-year-
old Zionist afforestation and land development agency. Prior to her elec-
tion by the JNF Board of Directors at its biennial meeting here, Mrs.
Jacobson was chairman of the World Zionist Organization - American
Section. Her two-year term as JNF president begins immediately.
A native of New York City, Mrs. Jacobson has been active in Zionist
activities for more than 30 years. In Hadassah, she was its national vice
president and national treasurer before serving as president from 1964 to
1968. She served as chairman of the Medical Building and Development
Campaign until 1976 and was responsible for the rebuilding of the Hadas-
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sah Hospital on Mt. Scopus after the Six-Day War.
She was elected to the Jewish Agency Executive in 1968 and is a
member of the Board of Governors of the reconstituted Jewish Agency for
Israel.
As chairman of its Commission on Higher Education, Mrs.
Jacobson supervises its allocations for the seven institutions of
higher learning in Israel that it supports.
In 1970 she was co-chairman of a committee that resulted in the
founding of the American Zionist Federation. She also served on the
committee for the reorganization of the Jewish Agency.
She has visited many countries in her capacity as a Zionist leader and
as an expert in international health and social development programs.
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Anti-Semitism
Less Virulent
In This Decade
A Weekly Review
Commentary, Page 2
of Jewish Events
Holocaust Center
as an Affirmation
of 'Never Again'
to Bestialities
Patience
as a Cure for
Many Agonies
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Violent Gaza Demonstrations
End in Death, More Protests
Memory of Six Million
Pervades HMC Event
By ALAN HITSKY
"Today, 36 yearsafter the Holocaus t, the unbelievable is
prove that
the
happening. We to have
Holocaust
really hap-
pened."
The words of speaker Ernest Miche l echoed through the
Jewish Community
Hall on Sunday as a
Center's Shiffmans
hushed, standing-room-only audience of 6 00 listened to Michel at
ceremonies and
the r Detroit's
Holocaust
groundbreaking
fo
Memorial Center.
The first exclusive ly-designed facility of its type in the U.S.,
to the main entr-
the HMC will be a sep arate building adja
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Atik.
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, left, guest speaker Ernest
Michel and Henry Dorfman are shown at the press confer-
ence which preceded Sunday's ceremonies and
groundbreaking for the Holocaust Memorial Center.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Unrest in the administered territories spread Wednesday over both the
Gaza region and Judea and Samaria.
The entire Gaza region was closed off by the military authorities to all outsiders, including
newsmen. The general strike in the Strip continued. Shortly after noon Wednesday the merchants in
the city of Gaza gathered to decide on further steps. The Gaza Municipality as well as other public
institutions in town decided to extend the strike for another two days after the authorities on Tuesday
welded the doors of 170 stores as a punitive measure against the strike. The strike, originally called to
protest the introduction of the civil administration to the Strip and the implementation of a value
added tax on Gaza merchants, was originally scheduled to end on Tuesday.
Leaflets and notices of support were distributed throughout the West Bank.
Funeral services were held early Wednesday morning for Mohammad Suleiman Nahle,
16, who was shot when Israeli security forces were surrounded during a violent demonstra-
tion which took place in the town of Rafah on Monday. The funeral was held under heavy
guard. Only family members were allowed to attend, to prevent agitation of the local
population. Three other teens and an Israeli soldier were injured in the clash. A curfew was
imposed on the town of Rafah, in the
southern section of the Gaza strip.
The demonstrations spread Wednesday
to various places in the West Bank. Youth
burned tires, threw rocks at security forces
and raised Palestinian flags. In one case
JERUSALEM (JTA) — French Foreign Minister
the security forces entered a Ramallah
Claude Cheysson's 24-hour visit to Israel ended Tuesday
school and tore down a Palestinian flag.
with his Israeli hosts immensely satisfied that the long era
Meanwhile, the Israeli Supreme Court
of "misunderstandings" and cold relations between the two
on
Wednesday issued an interim order
countries has ended although France and Israel still re-
banning the military government from
main worlds apart on Middle East political issues, mainly
linking the town of Salfit, in the Hebron
resolution of the Palestinian problem.
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region, to the national electricity network.
The Israelis were especially gratified by Cheysson's
The court also issued an order against
unqualified pledge that there would be no more "European
the military government, compelling it to
initiatives" in the region, indicating that as far as France
was concerned, the European Economic Community's Ven-
explain within 30 days why it would not
ice declaration of June 1980 is dead.
reverse its decision to link the town to the
national network.
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Cheysson Pledges
End to Initiatives
Reagan, Anti-Semitism and Unresolved 'Dual Loyalty' Issue
By RABBI MARC H. TANENBAUM — A Seven Arts Feature
PRESIDENT REAGAN
Despite the assurances that President Reagan gave to Jewish leaders recently in which he repudiated the resort to
anti-Semitism during the AWACS struggle, there is something deeply disconcerting over the unresolved issue of "dual
loyalty."
After 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus and displaced some 250,000 Greek Orthodox refugees from their homes,
Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church.of North and South America, organized a massive political
campaign against American economic and military aid to Turkey. The Archbishop, joined by Greek lay leaders who have
substantial political and financial clout, met with Presidents Nixon and Ford, and members of the U.S. Congress,
demanding that America terminate its extensive aid to Turkey. Although Turkey is a critically important anchor of the
NATO alliance, the Greek community in the U.S. succeeded in influencing the American government to curtail its aid to
Turkey.
Significantly, throughout the entire American Greek political and public opinion campaign, not a whisper
of the charge of "dual loyalty" was lodged against them. Similarly, no such charge has been lodged against the
American Irishmen who press for an economic boycott of Great Britain for her policies toward Ireland. No one
charges American blacks who have been vociferous in demanding American reprisals against South Africa for
that country's despicable apartheid policy with "dual loyalty."
The singling out of American Jewry by Reagan Administration aides and several Senators who floated the "Begin
versus Reagan" scenario is nothing less than an act of singular scapegoating of American Jewry and it must be opposed
with undiminished fervor. If this Administration succeeds in intimidating American Jewry into silence over the Saudi
plan, what is to stop them from silencing Greeks, Irishmen, and blacks from exercising their democratic rights?
RABBI TANENBAUM