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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The award is named for
The Israel Ministry of Benjamin of Tudela, of
Tourism will present its northern Spain, who was
first annual "Benjamin of perhaps the most signific-
Tudela Award for Excel- ant travel writer of the 12th
lence in Travel Writing on Century, and who is consid-
Israel" early this summer.
ered to be the most impor-
The award has been tant Jewish traveler of the
created to recognize the entire medieval period.
author of the best travel ar-
His "Sefer Ha-Massa'ot,"
ticle on Israel published in first published in 1543 in
the U.S. or Canada. The Constantinople, recounts in
1982 award will be for pub- great details his journeys
lished articles in calendar through the entire Mediter-
year 1981.
ranean area, and to Israel.

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By REV. FRANKLIN H.
LITTELL

National Institute
on the Holocaust

PHILADELPHIA —
There have been 350,000
members of the Bahai faith
in Iran, a membership
matched only by the
number of adherents in the
United States. Their lead-
ers are being slaughtered by
the Khomeini government
by clerical fascists, some-
times after show trials but
usually without trial.
As in the earlier trials of
those who didn't fit the
monolith of Hitler's Third
Reich, in the Iran show
trials the charges are
treason (contact with
foreign organizations) or fi-
nancial manipulation (col-
lecting money for an inter-
national movement, cur-
rency exchange and move-
ment either in or out of the
country).
By definition, under Hit-
ler's dictatorship and Kho-
meini's despotism, the most
basic commitment of be-
lievers to share with co-
believers in need, or in
furthering the work of the
movement internationally,
is counted as negative. Only
the most frenetic
chauvinism is approved.
Jewish leaders and Chris-
tian leaders are also under
attack in Iran. But the
Bahai are the special objects
of hostility because their
movement arose in Shiite
Islam itself. Totalitarian
ideologies always resent
what they regard as "apos-
tasy" even more than they
resent what they consider
foreign imports.
Under Nazism, before
the mass killings were
launched, the full weight
of the movement was
thrown against former
Nazi Party members who
resigned. For this reason
many Roman Catholic
priests were thrown into
the concentration camps
and perished.

At the time of the Concor-
dat between Hitler and the
Vatican, priests as well as
lay people were encouraged
to join the party. Then,
when Pope Pius XI realized
he had been tricked and
that the Nazis wouldn't
keep their promises to the
church, he issued the
encyclical "Mit brennender
Sorge." At the same time
internal instructions were
issued that priests should
get out of the Nazi Party.
The Nazis retaliated with
some show trials of priests,
and mass roundups and im-
prisonments.
Under the Khomeini fas-
cists, the long resentment of
the Shiite establishment for
the "apostate" Bahai has
been unleashed in show
trials and mass repression
_ and killing.
The Bahai faith was
pioneered by "the Bab,"
and given its basic form
of teaching and life by
Baha' ullah. Both suf-
fered martyrdom. Tens of
thousands of their fol-
lowers were slaughtered
in the first decades of the
movement.

In the modern period, and
especially under the late
Shah, they were protected
from the mullahs and their
mobs. Some Bahai leaders
attained eminence in busi-
ness and the professions, al-
though the large part of the
movement still consisted of
villagers of simple status.
In a season when Muslim
fundamentalism is raging
throughout the Arab world,
threatening the extinction
of Christians in the Leba-
non and marshalling dip-
lomatic and military ac-
tions to destroy Israel, it is
worth remembering that
there was once, a century
ago, a movement which
arose out of Islam teaching
peace, justice, international
amity and the end of racial
hatred.
Today, the Bahai faith is
made up of persons from
many different nations and
religious backgrounds.
There are over 60,000 local
meetings in 140 countries,
with major temples in
Uganda, Panama, Au-
stralia, Germany, the U.S.
(Wilmette, Illinois) — and
several being built (includ-
ing Samoa and India).
Among the most beautiful
buildings in the world are
the shrine of "the Bab" and
the International Court of
Justice in Haifa, Israel.
The message of the Ba-
hai is rooted in the con-
viction that the promised
millenium is even now
breaking into human af-
fairs, that the outward
signs of cruelty and de-
humanization and
exploitation and violence
are peripheral to the real
direction of human his-
tory.
In the beautiful gardens
which surround the shrines
in Haifa and outside Acre
(Akko), the flowers and
bushes and trees and plants
from all over the world have
been gathered and are care-
fully tended. The gardens
have also been made the
dwelling place of a mul-
titude of small animals.
Symbolically, just as in a
recovered Eden the hatreds
and warring between
human kind will end in
fraternity and peace, the
time is near when the
alienation of mankind from
nature and its creatures
will also be ended in a uni-
versal harmony.
Therefore, the Bahai
faithful are hated by the

,JWB Project
Geared Toward
Jews in Service

NEW YORK — The
Jewish Welfare Board
(JWB) will sponsor a series
of "Outreach Evenings" at
U.S. service academies be-
ginning later this year.
The project, which is
headed by Rabbi Joseph B.
Messing, director of the
JWB Armed Forces and
Veterans Service Commit-
tee, is designed to enlighten
the men and women in the
service with the importance
of maintaining a vibrant
Jewish life within the mili-

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movements and regimes they consider murderous
that curse the present age, and hateful activity
and they must pay a heavy sanctified by religion or
price in suffering for uni- ideological systems to be the
versal truths: peace, frater- most scandalous of human
nity, justice, mercy. With wickedness.

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