Jewish Welfare Federation Allocates Campaign Funds With a projected 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign achievement of $18.5 million, the Jewish Welfare Federation Board of Governors has approved allocations to its local, L national and overseas beneficiaries for 1983-1984. While the overseas allocation, $9,977,700, was level with the preceding year's, an additional $4.1 million was raised by Detroit through the special Israel Emergency Fund, - and $145,000 in new dollars went to Project Renewal (a total of more than $6 million to c– the program over the past four years). Federation President Avern Cohn said the always difficult process of The Tragic Oswego, N.Y. Chapter of U.S. Bartering With the Lives of 1,000 Refugees Who Were Escapees from Nazism THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 [. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 24 budgeting was compounded by the effect of Detroit's depressed economy. Central to the budgeting decisions were the health and welfare needs of those in the community hardest hit by economic conditions, Judge Cohn said. Community Services Division recommendations for its agencies were approved at $1,314,513, an increase of $154,860 over last year. In the case of some agencies, such as Jewish Family Service, the increased allocation will restore staff positions that had been reduced during previous budget cutbacks and will help alleviate long waiting lists. (Continued on Page 7) Copyright of Jewish Events Spanish-Jewish Relations Have New Liberal Sparks `Democratic' Guilt in UN Venom A Reunion with a Sad Note Editorials, Page 4 The Jewish News Publishing Co. 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue 40c August 12, 1983 1,Canadian Anglicans Confirm E-- - Duty to Battle Anti-Semitism TORONTO (JTA) — A series of resolutions adopted by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada calls on all church members to reject expressions of anti-Semitism and to acknowledge "the reality that the Nazi regime executed millions of Jewish people and members of other racial groups from 1937 to 1945 on account of race." The General Synod also urged that "courses of study in World War II in all school systems For one Jewish history. scholar, an eight year NEW YORK include reference to the acts of genocide by the Nazi regime" and that copies of this resolution be search for a print that many of his colleagues believed never existed sent to the premiers and leaders of opposition parties in all 10 provinces of Canada as well as to ended recently in Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library. the ministers of education in the provinces and territories. There, Dr. Sid Z. Leiman, adjunct professor of Jewish history and This resolution was seen by some observers as an allusion to what has become known as the literature at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University Keegstra affair in Eckville, Alberta. James Keegstra, a teacher in the town of Eckville, of which and chairman of Brooklyn College's De he is also mayor, has been instructing his students that the mass extermination of Jews during partment of Judaic Studies, discovered the war was a highly exaggerated story — part of an international Jewish conspiracy. a picture of Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira The Anglicans' commitment to combat anti-Semitism was emphasized in a letter to the leading rabbinical figure in 17th Rabbi Robert Sternberg, director of the national Century Amsterdam who taught and later excommunicated the philosopher religious department of the Canadian Jewish Con- Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632 1677). gress, by the Rev. Brian Prideaux, ecumenical officer of the Anglican Church. Prideaux wrote: Rabbi Morteira (1596 1660) was "It is shameful that such statements (the resolutions) the chief rabbi of the Sephardic commu Rabbi Don SKOKIE, Ill. should still be necessary, but we want to assure the Jewish nit y in Amsterdam. (Sephardic Jews id nt of the Hebrew Well, president We community in Canada of our wholehearted supp ort are of Spanish, Portuguese or Oriental Theological College, and Dr. Rolf descent.) He also headed the academy against bigotry and racism in our society. " Weil, president of Roosevelt Uni where Spinoza studied as a boy. In Amsterdam; the majority of the Dutch delegation versity, have announced an agree currently participating in the sixth assembly of the World ment formally linking their two in In 1656, Rabbi Morteira served Council of Churches in Vancouver in British Columbia has stitutions. as head of the beth din (rabbinical BARUCH SPINOZA Beginning this fall, students demanded that the University of British Columbia which court) that excommunicated the earning a baccalaureate degree in is hosting the conference dismiss convicted Nazi war crim- t 23-year-old Spinoza because of his doubts about religion. The Judaic studies from the Hebrew writ of excommunication, dated July 27 of that year,. noted final Jakob Luitjens from its faculty.' Theological College will be eligible Spinoza's "wrong opinions and behavior" that amounted to Luitjens was sentenced to death in absentia by a to be accepted directly into any "horrible heresies." tribunal in 1948 for his participation in the Dutch sp master's degree program offered at Soon after his excommunication, Spinoza moved to The Hague, death of Dutch resistance members during World War II Roosevelt University. This adds to where he made a living as a grinder of optical lenses and wrote his and for his collaboration with the Nazi occupation forces. an existing consortial agreement philosophical works, including his best-known treatise, the "Ethics." After the war, Luitjens settled in Canada where with Northeastern Illinois Univer- He died of tuberculosis at age 44. - he got a job as a botany lectuere at the University of Within the Jewish community, Rabbi Morteira was widely known sity by increasing the options k Rare Picture of Spinoza Teacher Found at Yeshiva - — — - — - Colleges Reveal Consortial Pact - - - — - - - (Continued on Page 5) available to HTC students. (Continued on Page 3) A U.S. Marine Lauds JWB Role in His Military Career (Editor's note: The following is part of an exchange of letters between U.S. Marine Sgt. Ted Isaacson and officials of JWB. The letters appear in the late summer edition of "JWB Circle.") I would be honored to have my story appear in "JWB Circle," as would anyone — particularly any serviceman who knows what JWB is and what it does for Jews in America's armed forces. I'll try to write the i facts, and you can use what you need. My home town is Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. After high school, I joined the Marine Corps, and began my recruit training — "boot camp" — at Parris Island, S.C., on Sept. 8, 1976. I became a very familiar face at the Parris Island Jewish Chapel! During my entire three months at boot camp, I went to services every week. During the rigors of our merciless, rigid Marine Corps training, no matter how much sweat and pain, I always had that to look forward to — that calm, quite, peaceful hour at the Jewish Chapel. It , was one place where I could shuck off the culture shock of boot camp, relax a bit, and feel somewhat at home. It meant a great deal to me then, as it still does now. Because of the effect the Parris Island Jewish Chapel had on me, I made a decision that I've lived by throughout the years: that no matter where I would go or what I would do, I would never forget that I'm a Jew. I vowed to be an active participant in the local Jewish community wherever I found myself— a big city, a ship at sea, a lonely Marine outpost — no matter what. After boot camp, I was assigned to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where I trained as a heavy vehicle operator. It was my home for three years, during which time I learned and experienced a great deal, rising through the ranks from private to sergeant. At Lejeune, again the Jewish Chapel played a very great role in my life. It was there that I learned to be a responsible, adult Jew. There, too, my Jewish values and principles were reinforced; I became an active (Continued on Page 18) 1.-- -- .L_ .7 IP 7 Marine Sgt. Ted Isaacson, left, shows Rabbi David Lapp his most recent duty stations, the U.S. embassies in Pretoria, South Africa and Jeruslalem, Israel. Rabbi Lapp is chairman of the JWB Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy and Isaacson had worked with Rabbi Lapp at Camp Lejune, N.C.