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`Reagan Plan Is Dead'
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Julius Berman, chairman of
the Conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations,
believes the Reagan plan is
dead and that U.S.-Israel
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relations will continue to
improve from now on.
Berman expressed his
views at a press conference
after a meeting with Pre-
mier Menahem Begin. He
said the peace initiative an-
nounced by President Rea-
gan last Sept. 1, im-
mediately rejected by Israel
and never accepted by the
Arab states, was doomed
from the start.
"The fact is that the Ad-
ministration put all of its
marbles on King Hussein
and eventually he scratched
himself from the race," Be-
rman said. "I might add that
this Administration's
theory that `Yeshua' (salva-
tion) will come by way of
Saudi Arabia, has gotten
nowhere."
Berman predicted that
Secretary of State George
Shultz' will steer Ameri-
can foreign policy in the
future and the influence
of other cabinet members
and the National Security
Council will diminish.
The Republicans are anx-
ious to win the Jewish vote
in next year's elections and
therefore there will be no
deterioration in relations
with Israel, Berman said.
He added that these do not
depend on Syria's with-
drawal from Lebanon.
Berman was accom-
panied at his meeting with
Begin by Yehuda Heiman;
executive director of the
Presidents Conference.
They informed Begin that
the conference expects to
hold its convention in
Jerusalem at the end of this
summer and that about 80
heads of American Jewish
organizations would attend.
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Hasidic Rivalry Turns Violent
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by Satmar extremists.
Several months ago the
rabbi moved his family to
the Borough Park section
where the Lubavitch are
headquartered, but the
harassment continued in
the form of threatening
telephone calls and false
alarms being sent to the
fire and police depart-
ments.
The attack on Rabbi
Wechter was preceded sev-
eral weeks ago by a similar
incident. A Lubavitch rabbi
who had been tutoring a
young follower of the Sat-
mar was attacked and had
his beard shaved.
A 28-year-old assistant
administrator in the main
Satmar office has been
charged in that attack,
which involved five attac-
kers.
Satmar spokesmen have
condemned both attacks,
but expressed doubts that
their followers were in-
volved in the assault on
Rabbi Wechter.
The incidents have led
to reports that Satmar
employers in New York's
diamond district along
47th Street have dis-
missed Lubavitch em-
ployees, and vice versa.
There have also been
calls for economic
boycotts between the two
groups.
The Satmar Rebbe,
Moishe Teitelbaum, told re-
porters in Jerusalem on
Tuesday, where he is mak-
ing his first visit to the Holy
Land, that he condemns the
attacks and was sending his
son home to "find the attac-
kers and oust them from the
Satmar community."
A friend of Wechter who
visited him in the hospital
told reporters that the Sat-
mar may condemn the at-
tacks, but will not do any-
thing about them. "They
know who these people are,
but by doing nothing they
encourage it." -
According to the New
York Times, the current
dispute between the
Lubavitch and Satmar in-
volves the Lubavitch policy
of encouraging Satmar
members to study
Lubavitch philosophy and
join the Lubavitch commu-
nity.
The Satmar are an in-
sular community that
shuns outsiders. They
oppose the state of Israel
on the grounds that a
Jewish state cannot come
into existence until the
arrival of the Messiah.
The Lubavitch once held
similar views but are now
staunchly Zionist. While
the Satmar remain a closed
society, originating in 18th
Century Hungary, the
Lubavitch, originally from
Poland, encourage non-
observant Jews to become
Orthodox in the Lubavitch
style.
W. Germans, Jews Outraged
at Holocaust Board Game
BONN (JTA) — West
German authorities and the
Jewish community have
expressed outrage over a
dice-and-board game being
circulated by rightwing and
neo-Nazi groups, the objec-
tive of which is to get pawns
representing Jews into
squares marked with the
names of Nazi death camps.
Werner Nachmann,
chairman of the Jewish
community of West Ger-
many, has demanded that
those responsible for the
game be brought to trial. He
said the community was
awaiting the results of a
police investigation. Rafael
Schier, chairman of the
Jewish community in Bonn
said the game was "simply
disgusting."
Justice Minister Hans
Engelhard said the • game,
which has appeared here
and in other cities "exceeds
in perversity everything
that has previously come
from neo-Nazis." He said his
ministry is working around
the clock to close loopholes
in the present laws forbid-
ding the circulation of Nazi
propaganda.
The game called "Jews,
Don't Get Angry," is hand
drawn. It consists of a
large star of David, each
of the six points of which
contains a square named
Auschwitz, Treblinka,
Maidanek and other
camps where Jews were
exterminated during
World War II.
Players move pawn-s ac-
cording to the roll of dice;
each pawn represents one
million Jews. The winner is
the first to fill all six
squares and get the "Jews"
into a "central gas
chamber."
The game has been circu-
lated by rightwing youth
groups to at least two
schools, a dance school and
two discotheques. It has also
been mailed to Jewish
families.
According to Schier, this
latest manifestation of
anti-Semitism in West
Germany should not be seen
as an isolated case. He re-
ported on a radio interview
that at recent soccer games,
youths have shouted "Juden
Raus" (Jews Out) and "Send
him to Auschwitz" at un-
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