THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Police Probe Bombings of W. Hartford Synagogues
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been' deliberately set. Of-
ficials said they believed
.• all three incidents were
linked, but they did not
know if the fires were the
work of a single arsonist.
Gov. William A. O'Neill
has offered a $20,000 re-
ward for information about
the fires; the city of West
Hartford and a Jewish
organization have each
added $5,000 to the offer.
The eight synagogues in
the city and other Jewish
Just Write
for
Back-to-School
organizations met to discuss
additional security meas-
ures.
West Hartford, an
affluent suburb whose resi-
dents are mainly profes-
sionals, has 7,300 Jewish
residents out of a population
of more than 60,000, accord-
ing to the Greater Hartford
Jewish Federation.
Many West Hartford
residents would not give
their names to reporters,
saying the police had ad-
vised them against iden-
tifying themselves lest
they become targets of
reprisals. A police officer
guarding the home of
Rabbi Krupka, whose li- -
brary was destroyed,
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said that several resi-
According to the Con- synagogue there and an at- monies to mark the 50th
dents who appeared in
news reports on televi- federacion de Asociaciones tempt against the residence anniversary of Reform
de Colombia, the of the Israeli Ambassador. Judaism in South Africa.
sion Monday evening had Judias
central representative body
In
Johannesburg, It was the first such attack
received threatening of Colombian Jewry and the
anonymous telephone WJC affiliate, the explosion South Africa, Ambas- on a synagogue in the his-
sador Eliahu Lankin of
calls Tuesday morning.
occurred early last month Israel denounced the tory of South Africa.
The chief of the West shortly. after Sabbath eve bomb attack against
Hartford police said he services attended by some
Daily—Hospital
would increase car and foot 150 persons. Despite prop- Temple Israel there on
Sympathy
Aug.
6
as
a
cowardly
at-
patrols near synagogues erty damage, there were no
tack on a place of Jewish
FRUIT
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worship and directed at
dents.
BASKETS
The New York Times re-
Reporting on the inci- the Jews as a people.
3 Times Daily
Temple Israel was dam-
ported that Alan H. Nevas dent, Edgardo Gorenberg,
Nation-Wide
Delivery
the U.S. Attorney for Con- acting undersecretary of the aged by an explosion just
necticut said the Federal Latin American branch of hours before President
$ 1795
Bureau ofInvestigation was the WJC, said the force of Marais Viljoen and Other
dignitaries, including the
checking to see whether any the explosion had blown a
RODNICK-
federal statutes had been hole in the roof of the city's Jewish mayor, Allan
McINERNEY'S
Gadd, and Lankin were
violated. synagogue one meter in
scheduled to attend cere-
772-4350
The pastor of the nearby diameter. According to the
Catholic church offered authorities, this was an iso-
e inci dt
both synao
en ith
g g u
es th
e use o f latd
w no group
its parish center for serv- or person having claimed
"3
ices.
responsibility for the bomb-
ing.
In a related develop-
ment, the Beth-El
In a speech made at the
Synagogue, in -the coastal
synagogue, the president of
Colombian city of the local Jewish communal
Baranquilla, was dam- fund, Daniel Arman, noted
aged by an explosive de- that this was not the first
vice which detonated act of anti-Semitic violence
only hours after Friday in the country. He referred
night services ended, the to recent incidents in
World JeWish Congress Bogota, particularly van-
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Overseas Intern Joins NY
Jewish Vista Volunteers
By BEN GALLOB
Our expansion is in progress. All floor
samples and accessories must be sold
within 3 days. Delivery available.
interns work with elderly
Jews at storefronts of the,
The 44 members of the Jewish Association for
Jewish Vista Corps (JVC) Services for the Aged.
Fine Furniture to Live With
summer internship project Others work with children
in New York include for the and the handicapped at fed-
Tel-Twelve Mall 12 Mile & Telegraph
first time this year, an over- eration day camps and
seas student intern, a na- agencies. This summer, 27
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tive of Beirut who is cur- of the 44 interns are work-
Daily 101 9, Sunday 12-5
rently a law student in ing under the aegis of - the
Brussels.
JVC is a program of the
Jewish Association for Col-
lege Youth (JACY), a
member agency of the New
York Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies. JACY
began in 1970 to seek to
enrich Jewish life f or
undergraduates in the New
York area. JACY created
JVC in 1972 and the pro-
gram since then has served
as a model for other Ameri-
can cities, with Miami and
Philadelphia since having
created similar programs.
,gn 'e*M2W- MMXSIMMAIWAM.M.kums,
More than 500 students
have been interns in JVC.
The overseas intern is
Lina Ajamie, 21, who is
fluent in Arabic, English,
Hebrew, French and Dutch.
Ms. Ajamie works four
days a week as a re-
searcher in the American
Air Conditioning
Zionist Youth Founda-
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tion University Services
Defog., Rem. Mirrors, Super Stock Whls. Radial
Department. On Fridays,
WW, Stereo, Mldgs, Dr. Guards, Stk. #1593.
she -joins the other 43
interns in special pro-
grams of Jewish interest,
including seminars,
workshops and tours of
Jewish agencies.
The JVC interns come
from varied backgrounds,
according to Rena Magun,
JVC director. Some are Or-
thodox and others have had
no religious education.
Some, like Ms. Ajamie, are
activists. Others have never
had affiliation with any
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Ms. Magun said assign-
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