Poisoning of Children's Minds Must Be Averted by Religious Separations Commentary, Page 2 Public Opinion Vital to Prevent Menacing Trends Through Arms for Jordan THE JEWISH NEWS A WeekIN Revieic of Jeicish Events Editorial, Page 4 Copyright t The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXI, No. 14 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c June 4, 1982 60 Senators Form Opposition to Weapons Sales for Jordan - Spokesmen Tackle M.E. at ZOA Sessions Here NEW YORK — Several hundred members of the National Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America will gather in Southfield June 11-13 to discuss the Middle East situa- tion and to hear an address June 12 -by the president of the ZOA, Ivan J. Novick of Pittsburgh. The meeting will be at the Sheraton-Southfield Hotel. Also addressing the gathering will be Harry Hurwitz, minister of information at the Israel Embassy, Washington, D.C., at noon June 13. Addressing the Friday evening oneg Shabat will be Congressman Tom Corcoran, member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. COngressman Edward J. Der- winsky,_ member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will be among the speakers at 8 p.m. Saturday. The presentation of the ZOA Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award will be made to Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish News, and his wife Anna, by Novick at noon June 13. Slomovitz is con- sidered the "dean" of American IVAN NOVICK Jewish editors and reporters by his peers. He is an active' Zionist who has held various positions in the ZOA and currently serves as an honorary vice president of the organization. Novick has said that Slomovitz epitomizes the ideals of Brandeis who was committed to Zionism, Israel, America and the rights and dignity of men and women of good will throughout the world. Past recipients of the award include Abba Eban, George Meany, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Elizabeth Taylor and New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, among others. An expert on the- Middle East, Novick is frequently called to high-level meetings in Washington by the Administration, at the State Department, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. He is a vice president of the American Section of the World Jewish Congress, honorary chairman of the Jewish National Fund, a member of the Zionist Actions Committee, Executive of the World Union of General Zionists, board of (Continued on Page 6) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Half the U.S. Senate now supports ar-resolution opposed to the sale of advanced U.S. weaponry to Jordan on grounds that it would threaten Israel's security and peace in the Middle East. The resolution, which has 50 co-sponsors e was introduced last Thursday by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.); John Heinz (R-Pa.); Gary/ Hart (D-Colo.); and Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minn.). It expands and updates Senate Resolution 332, co-sponsored by Kennedy and Heinz in March. At that time, 33 Senators signed a leetter to President Reagan taking issue with reported plans by the Administration to sell F-16 jet fighter bombers and mobile Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems to Jordan. The strong opposition reportedly caused the Administration to scale down its offer of arms to Jordan. The new resolution would apply to F-5G fighter aircraft, "Stinger" shoulder-launched missiles and laser-guided missiles, items the Administration is now contemplating for sale to the Jordanian kingdom. No date has been set for a Senate vote on the measure. At a press conference before introducing the resolution, Kennedy said, "Our message to the Administration in this resolution is clear beyond any doubt — the U.S. must not sell arms in the Middle East that jeopardize the security of Israel. The Administration's scheme to sell advanced weapons to Jordan violates that cardinal rule of responsible U.S. policy in the Middle East. "I reject the incredible notion that Jordanian warplanes, missiles and bombs — supplied by the U.S. and stationed just minutes away from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the factories of Tel Aviv and the kibutzim in Galilee — will not constitute a real danger to the people of Israel." - Kennedy added, "Our resolution is designed to encourage the Administration to halt its escala- tion of the arms race in the Middle East and to pursue a policy of peace." Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon returned from his visit to Washington and on Sunday claimed that Israel could muster sufficient support in the U.S. to block any plans by the Reagan Administration to BONN (JTA) — Two former SS officers found guilty of com- supply sophisticated weapons to plicity in the murders of 1,000 Jews in the Ukraine during World Arab states in the Middle East. He War II, received prison sentences from a Traunstein court last briefed Premier Menahem Begin on week. Franz Bauer,.64, from Altoetting was given 5% years and his discussions and reported to the his co-defendant, Hans Hertel, 65, of Hamburg was sentenced to Cabinet on Tuesday. 3 1/2 years. SS Officers Sentenced for Holocaust Crimes Their trial, which lasted nearly six months, heard eye- witnesses testify about mass shootings ordered by Bauer and Hertel. But there was no conclusive evidence that either man had personally participated. The accused claimed they were acting on orders of their superiors and had no authority to stop the killings The State Prosecutor charged that Bauer and Hertel were responsible for the murder's of at least 11,000 Jews but the court concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the charge. Meanwhile, an East German Communist official has accused West German authorities of failure to prosecute the judges who served in the notorious Peoples Courts during the Nazi era, pronouncing death sentences on thousands of political prisoners (Continued on Page 6) Local Soviet Jewish Immigrant Critiques USSR's Propaganda By LEONID MAKOR-LIMANOV (Editor's note: Makor-Limanov was asked by The Jewish News to review two press releases disseminated by the Novosti Press Agency from the Soviet Em- bassy in Washington. Makor-Limanov and his family immigrated to Detroit from Moscow last August. In December 1980, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 days in jail for "hooliganism" for participating in an annual demonstration in Moscow by Soviet Jews protesting the 1970 Leningrad hijacking trials. Two weeks after his release from jail, Makor-Limanov was sent to prison for an additional 15 days for the same incident. A native of Moscow and now age 36, he- is an assistant professor of mathematics at Wayne State University and maintains contact with Soviet Jews in Russia.) NOVOSTI: "The important socioeconomic changes that have taken place in Soviet times, the establishment of the Soviet way of life and the drawing together of nations have, in many ways, determined the course of tlie cultural development of the country's Jewish population. The Jews have been contributing substantially to the overall pro- , gress of Soviet culture. (Continued on Page 5) Sharon contended that the U.S. is fully aware that Israel cannot live under the constant threat of terrorism and recognized the dangers that Palestinian ter- rorism posed to the chances of peace in the Middle East. Before leaving Washington, Sha- ron insisted, in an interview with the Israel Radio correspondent there, that the U.S. had full knowledge that (Continued on Page 10) Holy Land Archeology Reviewed in 'Digging for God and Country' By PROF. NORMA GOLDMAN (Editor's note: The reviewer teaches in the de- partment of Greek and Latin at Wayne State Univer- sity and has participated in the archeological dig at Caesarea, Israel.) A lively and informative book on archeology in the Holy Land is Neil Asher Silverman's "Digging for God and Country," just published by Alfred Knopf. Subtitled "Exploration, Archeology and the Secret Struggle for the Holy Land, 1799-1917," the book is devoted to the uses and abuses of archeology by conquerors, explorers, traders, ad- venturers, scholars of the Bible and scientific archeologists from the time of Napoleon through the First World War. What began as conquest and holy pilgrimage was broadened into a frenzy to establish the exact location of sacred sites and to recover artifacts. In a land sacred to (Continued on Page 11) NORMA GOLDMAN