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This blocks the participation of Jordan in the negotia- tions, a vital ingredient in the peace process." The resolution on Soviet Jewry noted that the "exodus" of Jews from the USSR" has now declined to a trickle of 250 per month from an average of over 4,000 a month in 1979." Re- pression of the Jews in the Soviet Union has inten- sified, the resolution stated. There is constant intimida- tion and harrassment and severe sentences of impris- onment and exile is meted out , to activists on false charges. The resolution on Ethio- pian Jewry expressed "deepest concern over the danger of physical and spiritual disintegration of Ethiopian Jews. It con- tinues to. call on all con- cerned agencies, organiza- tions and governments to make greater efforts to ameliorate their plight." It noted "with apprecia- tion the fact that the number of Ethiopian Jews reaching Israel has in- creased . . . We express con- fidence in the agencies in- volved in this great effort." -This statement was seen as an answer to those groups in the U.S. and Canada which have been critical of Israeli and Jewish organizations for their alleged failure to help greater numbers of Ethiopian Jews emigrate to Israel and of Israeli agen- cies for treating those Ethiopian Jews who have come to Israel as second class citizens. The resolution on the nuclear arms race called upon all nuclear powers, but especially the U. S. and USSR to pursue a program that will pro- duce a total and multi- lateral halt to the nuclear arms race." In response to delibera- tions at the 1981 General Assembly, the Committee on Religious Issues in Is- rael, chaired by Raymond Epstein of Chicago, con- cluded that "it is inappro- priate" for the CJF to deal with religious issues in Is- rael. The report also ex- pressed widespread concern that changes in the Law of Return would be- highly di- visive. The news of Aliza Begin's death in Israel saddened the huge General Assembly. Her husband, Premier Menahem Begin, returned home to Israel before he was able to give a scheduled ad- dress to the CJF. In other events at the ses- sions, a rabbi warned that "the politicalization of the Holocaust as an instrument with which to deal with the gentile world" and as an in- strument of international diplomacy "has boomer- anged." He also warned that the fixation on past catas- trophies that befell the Jewish people and the view that Jews continue to face destruction at any time and anywhere — that "all roads lead to Auschwitz" — is self-defeating and negates any plea to non-Jews to live in peace with thQ, Jewish people. people in its historic home- land, Eretz Israel, through aliya from all countries; the strengthening of the state of Israel which is based on the prophetic vision of justice and peace; the preservation of the identity of the Jewish people through the foster- ing of Jewish and Hebrew education and of Jewish spiritual and cultural val- ues; and the protection of Jewish rights everywhere." Another speaker at the forum was Sirnha Destel, an Ethiopian Jew. He told the audience that in Ethiopia today it is very hard to live as a Jew. "Jewish schools are closed by the order of the govern- ment. Teaching Hebrew is prohibited by the govern- ment. Jews are not allowed to meet together even in a small group of three. There Furthermore, Rabbi Harold Schulweis, spiritual leader of Valley Beth Sholom in Encino, told a plenary session that misusing the mem- ory of the Jewish peoples' past by invoking the Holocaust to induce guilt in the new genera- tion of both Jews and non-Jews and employing false equations between past anti-Semites and current political figures who disagree with policies of the govern- ment of Israel or the Jewish community on specific issues is to in- dulge in a "desperate fan- tasy." There are, he pointed out, friends to be won, alle- giances to be formed, al- liances to be gained, and new options to be sought. To politicize the Holocaust, as some "on our side" have done, has made it harder "to mention the Holocaust massacre without some stammering," Schulweis. said. 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