Grenada Hanuka: Chaplain Visits U.S. Soldiers
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 20 U.S. Jewish soldiers stationed in Grenada partici-
pated, along with non-Jewish military personnel and the commander of the U.S. troops in
Grenada, Maj. Gen. Jack Ferris Jr., in a Hanuka celebration led by Army Chaplain Capt.
Jacob Goldstein.
Goldstein said he brought to the island packages supplied by the Lubavitch Youth
Organization which contained kosher wine, menoras and candles and other items,
including candy bars for the local children.
Potpourri
Good Will With
Mutual Respect
Among All Faiths,
When Hunger is
Politicized
Unlike the other Caribbean islands where Jewish communities exist, Gre-
nada has no Jews at all, an oddity which Goldstein said was relayed to him when
he met with the Anglican Archbishop of Grenada. The Archbishop said there was
never any Jewish presence in Grenada, an island about 133 square miles with a
population of about 100,000.
The only Jews who were in Grenada at the time of the U.S. invasion were students in
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December 23, 1983
Arafat and PLO's Evacuation
Tied to Hussein, Peace Talks
Bond Campaign Hails
Eleanor Roosevelt
NEW YORK — James Roosevelt,
son of the late President and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, friends of the
Roosevelt family and Jewish commu-
nity leaders participated in the
launching of the year-long, nation-
wide Israel Bond tribute to Eleanor
Roosevelt in 1984 to commemorate the
100th anniversary of her birth. A re-
ception was held Dec. 16 at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel in New York.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Roosevelt is national honorary
chairman of the Centennial Committee which includes
Nancy Reagan, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon,
Lady Bird Johnson and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as
honorary members.
At the reception, James Roosevelt purchased the first
Israel Bond of the centennial observance from Mrs. Jan
Peerce of New York, national chairman of the Eleanor
Roosevelt Centennial Committee. Brig. Gen. (Res.)
Yehudah Halevy, president and chief executive officer of
Israel Bonds, took part in the ceremony.
Mrs. Roosevelt purchased one of the first Israel
Bonds in June 1951, when the Bond Organization was
founded, from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of
the Treasury under President Roosevelt and a close
friend of the family, who was chairman of the Bond
campaign's board of governors in the early years of
the organization. Since then, close to $6.4 billion in
Bonds and other securities, which help develop Is-
rael's economy, have been sold.
The Bonds Women's Division is organizing a series of
events across the country for the Eleanor Roosevelt Cen 7
tennial. These include major dinners honoring women who
have distinguished themselves in business, professional,
government, humanitarian, civic or cultural endeavors.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A senior State Department official said Tuesday
that the evacuation from Tripoli of Yasir Arafat and some 4,000 of his loyalist
Palestine Liberation Organization force, would be "meaningless" if it did not
lead to bringing King Hussein of Jordan into the peace talks.
The official, answering questions in a year-end review of the Middle East at
the Foreign Press Center, said the U.S. "hopes that a way could be found" in
talks between Hussein and Arafat to allow the King to enter the negotiations
with "credible Palestinian support."
"It came very close to an understanding in April," the official said,
"and it was -a source of great disappointment to us and to many others"
inside and outside the region that the talks failed when Arafat could not
get the backing of the PLO executive committee.
There was no mention by the official that one of the reasons given by the
Syrian-backed group of PLO dissidents who forced Arafat out of Lebanon for
their opposition to him was that he had talked to Hussein about participating in
negotiations with Israel. -
The official noted that the PLO evacuatio n aboard Greek ships flying
United Nations flags was good in itself because i t was hoped that it will mean
KING HUSSEIN
the end to six weeks of bloodshed among Lebanese,
Palestinians and Syrians in the Tripoli area. "But it
will be a kind of meaningless affair if it doesn't lead to
some political efforts to get into the peace process," he
added. "I think there is a possibility it can. We cer-
tainly will work toward that end," the officials said.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The General As-
Those remarks seemed to add a new dimension to
sembly on Monday night adopted five anti-Israel
the U.S. demands over the last two weeks that Israel
resolutions, calling for sanctions against the Jewish
not impede the PLO's departure from Tripoli. The
state and denouncing the recent agreement between
U.S. publicly said that the departure would end the
Israel and the United States on closer strategic coop-
killing of innocent civilians in Tripoli and could also
eration.
be seen in the context of the U.S. goal to have all
Yehuda Blum, Israel's ambassador, condemned
foreign forces leave Lebanon.
the resolutions, charging that "instead of defusing
tension and promoting reconciliation, the resolutions
The State Department official said that the
add more fuel to the fire" of the Mideast conflict.
U.S. continues to believe that President
One resolution, stating that the new American-
Reagan's Middle East initiative is the best way to
Israeli accord "will increase Israel's intransigence
move ahead toward peace in the area and noted
and its war potential and escalate its annexationist
that nothing has been offered since the
policies in the Palestinian and other Arab territories
UN Hits Israel in
`Palestine Debate'
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Sinai, Ford Plan Pact Will Allow U.S. Troops
WB Hospital
to Use Top Israeli Hospitals
Sinai Hospital of Detroit and Henry
Ford Hospital are planning to establish an
acute care, 200-bed hospital in West Bloom-
field on the site of Ford Hospital's Edsel B.
Ford Center on Maple west of Drake and
across from the Jewish Community Center.
Interest in the West Bloomfield area as
a site for an inpatient facility dates back to
the early 1970s when the Ford West Bloom-
" field Center was being planned. It opened in
1975, with Sinai's board president, Maxwell
Jospey, on the founding board.
The first cooperative effort of the two
hospitals was a pulmonary rehabilitation
program which has been offered at the West
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A preliminary agreement reached between the
United States and Israel in Jerusalem for the use of Israeli medical facilities was
hailed as a positiVe step forward by Rep. James Scheuer
The agreement which was reached last Thursday between Dr. William Mayer,.
assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, and Brig. Gen. Moshe Revach, the Israel,
Defense Force Surgeon-General, includes the use of the Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
Scheuer and other Congressmen had strongly criticized U.S. Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger because the U.S. Defense Department had
not used the Rambam facility to treat American servicemen wounded in the
Oct. 23 truck bomb attack against the Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Scheuer had publicly rejected Weinberger's explanation that the Israeli
offer of facilities was not accepted because it had not been needed.
"While I regret that Secretary Weinberger is still insisting that the bizarre
procedures followed after the Oct. 23 attack were proper and logical, actions speak
louder than posturing," Scheuer said.
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Greece Seeks
Links to Israel
ATHENS (JTA) — Prime Minister An-
dreas Papandreou told a delegation of Euro-
pean leaders of the World Jewish Congress
that he "wants to improve relations with the
state of Israel," it was reported here.
The premier formally received the dele-
gation last week as a follow-up to a private
meeting he had with WJC president Edgar
Bronfman in Corfu last July. At that time,
agreement was reached to continue dis-
cussions "with the aim of addressing con-
cerns felt by the Jewish community and to
build upon these areas of mutual interest
between world Jewry and Greece."
The meeting last week lasted one hour
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