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25, 1983 83

W. Hartford Synagogue Hit
by Arson Gets Israeli Torah

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HARTFORD, rael Synagogue of West
WEST
Conn. — The Emanuel Syn- Hartford was destroyed.
agogue, one of two syna- The chapel and Torahs of
gogues damaged during a the Emanuel Synagogue
wave of arson directed at were burned Aug. 15. The
the Jewish community here next morning, an arsonist
last summer, has received a destroyed the library in the
100-year-old Torah from the home of Young Israel rabbi
city of Afula, Israel to re- Solomon Krupka.
place one of the Torahs lost
A month later, on Yom
during the fire.
Kippur, the home of State
West Hartford is one of Representative Joan
several Connecticut cities Kemler was fire-bomed.
twinned with Afula in Pro- Mrs. Kemler and her
ject Renewal, a United husband are members of
Jewish Appeal (UJA) prog- EmanUel.
ram which sends American
When the citizens of
contributions to economi- Afula heard about the arson
cally disadvantaged Israeli attacks, they decided to give
towns for housing im- up one of their Torahs to re-
provements, adult educa- place one of those damaged
tion and other projects de- in the fire at Emanuel Syn-
signed to increase the qual- agogue, according to the
ity of life. __ town's mayor, Ovadia Eli.
The string of fires, which In ceremonies earlier this
police say were all deliber- month, Eli personally pre-
ately set, began early on sented the Torah to Rabbi
Aug. 11, when the main Gerald Zelermyer, the con-
sanctuary of the Young Is- gregation's rabbi.

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NEW YORK — The con-
stitutionality of prayer
meetings on public school
premises — even if volun-
tary during non-class hours
and sanctioned by school
board policy and state sta-
tute — is being challenged
in the U.S. Court of Appeals
by four human relations
agencies.
In a joint amici curiae
brief, the four agencies —
the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, the
American Jewish Congress,
the American Ethical
Union and the Jewish Fed-
eration of Tulsa — have cal-
led upon the Appeals Court
in Denver to:
• Uphold the decision of
the District Court for the
Western District of Ok-
lahoma banning the use of
public school premises for
morning prayer meetings as
unconstitutional; and
• Reverse that part of the
District Court's decision af-
firming the constitutional-
ity of the Oklahoma Volun-

tary Prayer Act and the Lit-
tle Axe School Board policy
which provided the legal
basis for voluntary prayer
in the public schools.

The case challenged
the practice of conduct-
ing student prayer meet-
ings every Thursday
morning on public school
premises. The sessions,
which involved school
personnel, included
prayers, songs and tes-
timony concerning the
benefits of finding Jesus
Christ. They were held
between 8 a.m. and 8:25
a.m., the interval from the
time school buses depo-
sited the children at the
school to the beginning of
classes.

The brief, which also
challenged the distribution
of Gideon Bibles to school
children during the school
day, declared that the case
"raises questions concern-
ing religion in ouir schools
which are central to our
American way of life."

Some Germans Still Cling
to Nazism, Survey Reveals

NEW YORK — A sig-
nificant number of Ge‘r-
mans still cling to the Nazi
-ideology, according to a re-
port in Midstream
magazine by two American
Jewish Committee officials.
The article, by • AJCom-
mittee legal director
Samuel Rabinove and Mil-
ton Ellerstein, director of
trends analysis for the or-
ganization, cites a 1980
public opinion poll con-
ducted by the West German
chancellor's office. The re-

port revealed that 18 per-
cent of West German voters
look back on the Hitler era
as "the good old days."

However, the article
points out that the survey
found those below age 40 as
"largely immune to
Nazism," while most of
those endorsing Nazism
were over the age of 50. To-
day's Germans by and large
reject the Nazi ideology as a
viable political force, the
poll concluded.

Alternate Layo ff Plan Urged

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NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Commit-
tee has advocated the im-
plementation of work shar-
ing or attrition plans rather
than the seniority system
when worker layoffs become
necessary.

In a friend-of-the-court
brief submitted by the AJ-
Committee to the Supreme

Court last week, the Jewish
organization said other
means of determining
layoffs should be examined
in order to reduce .conflict
between the workforce.
The Supreme Court case
stemmed from a 1979 fed-
eral suit involving austerity
layoffs in the Memphis,
Tenn. fire department.

