Anti-Zionist Diatribe May Signal Closing of Gates NEW YORK (JTA) — The anti-Zionist manifesto signed by eight prominent Soviet Jews and published in Pravda last Friday "might presage a period in which the iron gates of the USSR could be padlocked shut against any Jewish exit," two SOviet Jewry groups warned this week. According to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews -(UCSJ), the document's assertion that Russian Jews are "citizens of the USSR, part and parcel of the Soviet people" makes it clear that any Jew who wishes to go to Israel or applies for emigration "can be classified as an enemy of the state_and treated Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 40th Anniversary Challenges Conscience of Mankind as such." The two groups pointed out that another article under the byline of Tsezar Soladar, a• Jewish journalist, which appeared in the March 9 edition of Literaturnaya Gazeta, distingushed between capitalists, backers of Israeli Premier Menahem Begin and ordi- nary workers. Both represent "the newest and most frightening aspect yet of the Krem- lin's anti-Semitic campaign," the groups said. The anti-Zionist manifesto was signed by Gen. David Dragunsky and law (Continued on Page 16) THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Editorials, Page 4 of Jewish Events Patrilineal Descent Scrutinized in Analysis of Talmudic Precepts Analysis by Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Page 64 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL., LXXXIII, No. 6 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c April 8, 1983 Administration Warns Arabs Not to Lose 'Unique Moment' Falashct 'Campers' WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Reagan Administration warned the Arab world this week that it must seize "a unique moment" before it is lost and come to the negotiating table which, it stressed, was the only place where the Palestinian problem could be solved. The warning came after Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat left Amman for Kuwait without giving King Hussein of Jordan the green light the King said he needs to enter the negotiations for autonomy for the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza. "What is needed is a prompt move to the negotiating table," State DepartMent spokesman John Hughes said. "It is only there that a solution to the Palestinian problem in all its aspects can be found." He said that President Reagan's Sept. 1 Middle East peace initiative, "based on UN Security Council Resolution 242, provides the best means for accomplishing that goal." "King Hussein has taken the lead in recognizing the opportunity currently available for revitalizing the peace process," Hughes added. "We hope that others as well will recognize that this is a unique moment _ _ which must be seized before it is lost and that they will support the King in his de- sire to move forward toward peace." The statement seemed to be aimed at Arafat or beyond him, the Arab League TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Swiss doctor representing the Inter- - • summit conference that is expected to be national Red Cross has confirmed the findings of the Israeli held in Morocco April 16 17. But Hughes Health Ministry that no poisonous substance was involved in the refused to be specific. He noted that there mystery ailment which felled nearly 600 persons on the West already has been a great deal of talk, Hus- Bank, most of them teenage Arab girls. sein talking to people, Arafat talking to Dr. Franz Altherr reported to Health Minister Eliezer Shos- people and it was time to bring the talks to tak that his investigations on the West Bank, discussions with "conclusion." West Bank and Israeli physicians and with some of the girls afflicted with the illness showed absolutely no indication of But at the same time, Hughes denied poison. that the U.S. was "disappointed" that the The Health Ministry and army medical offiCials came to latest talks in Amman between Arafat and the same conclusion last week. Nevertheless, two epide- Hussein had not ended with Hussein an- miologists from the United States Centers for 'Disease - (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 3) Red Cross Doctor Says Arab Girls Not Poisoned - Some 35 Jewish youngsters from Ethiopia who immigrated to Israel in recent years spent last sum- mer "camping" • at Talpiot Hadera Youth Aliya Vil- lage. Funded by the Jewish Agency, a beneficiary of Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign, the Youth Aliya program is marking its 50th anniversary this year. The program has aided more than 200,000 Jewish youngsters adjust to a new life in Israel. (See story on Page 10) Anniversary Marks Valiant Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is the historic occurrence of heroism and resistance, marking the spiritual triumph of a small band of Jews who fought the powerful Nazi army, and the recollections of that memorable experience will dominate the observance of the annual tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. The heroes of that revolt will be memorialized at the Shaarit Haplaytah event at Bnai David 1 p.m. Sunday and at assemblies throughout the world. It will be the occasion to pay tribute to Emmanuel Ringelblum, whose memoirs and the retention of his chronicled account of the occurrences serve to perpetuate the horrors of that era. Ringelblum was one of the foremost historians in Poland and was chairman of the YIVO Historians' Circle. It was organized during the German occupation of Noland as an institution with the deceptive title Oneg Shabat to gather and preserve documents on the Holocaust and the Jewish resistance. The documents were placed in tin receptacles and milk cans and were buried in the ground. They were unearthed after the war and became the reminder of what had occurred. Ringelblum was murdered on March 7, 1944. On March 1, less than a week before his capture in "Aryan" Warsaw and his tragic death, Ringelblum wrote a letter to the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), the Yiddish Pen Club, Sholem -Asch, H. Leivick, J. Opatoshu and R. Mahler: "We write to you at a time when 95 percent of the Polish Jews have already died in the throes of horrible tortures in the gas chambers Of the annihilation centers in Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Oswiecim or were slaughtered during the numberless 'liquidation campaigns' in the ghettos and camps. The fate of the small number of Jews who still vegetate and suffer in the few concentration camps has also already been deter- mined. "Perhaps there will survive a small group of Jews who are hidden in the 'Aryan districts' in the constant fear of death or who wander through the woods like hunted animals. That any of us, the community workers, who carry on under conditions of two-fold secrecy, will outlive the war, we greatly doubt. We, therefore, want to take this means to tell you in brief about those activities which link us most closely to you. (Continued on Page 8) . These milk cans and other metal containers were buried in the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum and his "Oneg Shabat" organization. The cans contained -the Jewish record of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.