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Rabbi Kushner's Best Selling
Now Available in Paperback from Avon

Rabbi Harold Kushner's rael in Natick, Mass., Rabbi
best-selling book, "When Kushner has comforted
Bad Things Happen to Good many people in their grief.
People," is now available as - Yet, in his own pain, Rabbi
an Avon paperback. Kushner admits that his
The book is intended to once unshakable faith in an
aid people who are attempt- omnipotent God wavered.
ing to deal with tragic He rejects the idea that God.
events in their lives. Rabbi and nature are one.
Kushner wrote the volume
"Nature is morally
as part of an effort to come to
terms with the death of his blind," he writes, while
own son, Aaron. Aaron "God stands for justice
Kushner died in 1977, at the and fairness, for compas-
age of 14, from Progeria, a sion." Rabbi Kushner
rare disease that ages the notes that the "laws of
body at an accelerated pace. nature do , not make ex-
As a counselor to some ceptions for nice people.
550 families at Temple Is- That is why good people

get sick and get hurt as
much as anyone." -
The hardcover edition of
the book has been on the
New York Times Bestseller
List for more than a year
with some 400,00Q copies
now in print. Rabbi Kush-
ner has received nearly
2,000 letters from the
United `States and 14 other
countries' since the book's
initial publication.

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Autopsy Debate Continues

The question involving
autopsies as well as transfer
of organs in the body is often
raised in relation to
Halakha and accepted
Jewish practices. A refer-
ence to the subject was
made in a recent Jewish
News issue quoting a New
York Times editorial.
In response to that edito-
rial, the following letter
from Rabbi Menahem
Lubinsky, director of gov-
ernment and public affairs,
Agudath Israel of America,
appeared in the Times on
March 5:
"Your editorial incor-
rectly referred to the posi-
tion of Orthodox Jews on
amending state law to per-
mit medical examiners to
remove corneas from bodies
without consent of next of
kin.
"Although there might
already be a compelling
state interest for an au-
topsy (inch as in a
homicide investigation),
Jewish law would only
permit such a procedure,
even when mandated by
law, to the extent that it is
necessary, to determine
the cause of death. Next
of kin would still have the
obligation to consult with
a rabbi on the justifica-
tion for any further tam-
pering with the body, be-
yond the draining of cer-
tain fluids, for example.
"Depriving the deceased's
loved ones of the opportu-
nity to fulfill their religious

JWB to Sponsor
AJPA Awards

NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Press
Association's (AJPA) an-
nual Simon Rockower
Memorial Awards in Jewish
Journalism competition
will be administered by
JWB, according to JWB
President Esther Leah Ritz.
Prizes will be awarded in
five categories; news report-
ing, editorial writing,
human-interest feature
writing, news-feature writ-
ing and page one layout and
-
make-up.
AJPA was founded in
1947 by editors and pub-
lishers - of English-language
Jewish" community publica-,
tions. JWB is the central
service agency for Jewish
Community Centers, YM &
YWHAs, and camps in the
U.S. and Canada.

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obligations to protect those
parts of the body from au-
topsy which are not de-
manded by the homicide in-
vestigation is a clear viola-
tion of religious rights.

"The shortage of corneal
tissue (referred to in the
editorial) should be ad-
dressed through a more ef-
fective public education
campaign, in particular
public education campaign,
in particular to prompt hos,
pital patients and their
families to consent to such a
procedure through donor
cards. The solution to the
shortage is not in the medi-
cal examiner's office, and
certainly not at the expense
of religious rights."

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Bnai Brith Aids
Australians

WASHINGTON — On
the heels of its drive to ease
the plight of U.S. flood and
tornado victims in January,
Bnai Brith International
and Bnai Brith District 21.
(Australia) have opened a
campaign for the relief of
victims of the brushfires
that recently swept across
the southern coast of Au-
stralia.
A $1,000 check has been
contributed from the organ-
ization's contingency fund
and more than-12,500 from
members in Melbourne,
Sydney and Canberra
within the first two days of
the drive in Australia.
Bnai Brith has been help-
ing victims of natural disas-
ters since it aided plague
victims in Palestine nearly
125 years ago.

Mengele Talked
to a Reporter?

PARIS — The French
weekly magazine Oggi has
printed a two-part inter-
view with a man identified
as Josef Mengele, "The
Angel of Death" of Au-
schwitz, who claims that
Adolf Eichmann was a Jew
and that Nazi-hunter
Simon Wiesenthal was a
Nazi informant in
Bucharest.
Mengele was reportedly
interviewed by a French re-
porter in a wild area of
outh America. The maga- -
me claims that handwrit-
ing tests confirmed the
man's identity as Megele.

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