THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEW CONCEPT Multi-Size Print Albums for WEDDINGS, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs 3900 from S2 Complete Coverage Special Effects FRIEdMAN phOTO 968-0808 Lincoln Center 101/2 Mile & Greenfield Instant Passports Portraits — Video Report on Law Enforcement in Territories Is Defended JERUSALEM (JTA) — Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir flatly rejected charges that his deputy, Yehudit Karp, had dis- torted the facts in her report on law enforcement in the administered territories. He denied specifically that her references to Jewish vigilantism going unpunished was politically motivated. Zamir appeared before a joint meeting of the Knes- set's legal committee and its state control committee. 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Oak Park For further information call the Temple office: 967-4020 Rena Cohen Michaelyn Silverman Co-Directors cry from Jewish settlers on the West Bank when it was released by the government last week. The police, too, did not take kindly to Karp's find- ings that law enforcement in the territories was ham- pered by poor police work, although they agreed with the deputy attorney general that they were short of manpower. Zamir told the MKs that former Premier Menahem Begin had rec- ognized the need to estab- lish a committee to inves- tigate law enforcement in the territories and that Karp, who headed it, adhered strictly to the guidelines given her. At a press conference la- ter, Zamir stressed that all of the findings in the report were well documented. He quoted police sources who termed the report "an objec- tive document which re- flected the real situation." Zamir said that while Planned Waffen SS Reunion Sparks Protest in Germany BONN (JTA) — Protests are mounting against the annual reunion meeting of former members of the Waf- fen SS "Totenkopf' (Death's Head) Division, planned for March 30 in the town of Oberaula, state of Hesse. But while the various organizations and trade unions are urging the state minister of interior to ban the rally on constitutional grounds, the community of 3,500 seems less disturbed by the prospect of SS vete- rans in their midst than they are fearful of possible demonstrations by anti- Nazi groups. The local authorities, members of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), have rented a public hall to the ex-Nazis. Hotel and restaurant own- ers are looking forward to the influx of 500-odd SS vet- erans and their families. They are concerned, however, that their town's image as a tourist resort will be tarnished by protesters. They recall in particular the thousands of people who protested against the meeting of a different group of Waffen SS vete- rans in the town of Bad Hersfeld last summer. Dieter Pfalzgraf, chair- man of the Oberaula Com- munity Council, told re- porters, "There are many who think that they should protest here and make a cir- cus like in Bad Hersfeld. We are not going to introduce controls on who comes to this place. Fortunately, 100,000 people come here each year and none of them ever resorted to violence. We have no means to keep anyone from coming." According to "The Volun- teer," a magazine published by HIAG, the umbrella organization of former Waf- fen SS members, the "Waf- fen SS comrades" met in Oberaula in 1982 and 1983 and were very well received by the local population. This was borne out by the reply of a 54 year-old resi- dent when a reporter re- minded him that the "To- tenkopf' Division regularly served in concentration camps during the Nazi era and was assigned to "special missions" against • the Jewish population in East- ern Europe. "This does not disturb me particularly. I do not see any problem in their coming here," the man said. The tolerant attitude toward the SS veterans may stem in part from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's recent description of HIAG as nothing more than a social club for mutual assistance. The members of the "To- tenkopf" Division have reg- istered their year as a society of people who want to spend their vacation to- gether in Oberaula. That may have been done to ward off protest demonstrations such as has occurred in Bad Hersfeld. JTS Program NEW YORK (JTA) — A new program to provide day school teachers with oppor- tunities for professional growth has been launched by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at its New York campus. Friday, February 11, 1984 31 Moriah Hotel Fire Labeled Arson in Report most Jewish settlers in the territories are law-abiding, "there is an extremist TEL AVIV (JTA) — minority responsibile for serious violations of the "Malicious arson" was re- law." He cited a pamphlet sponsible for the fire that circulated by -the town took two lives and injured council of Kiryat Arba two 11 people in the Moriah years ago ordering resi- Hotel at Sdom on the Dead dents not to cooperate with Sea Feb. 5, according to a the attorney general and preliminary police report released last week. the state prosecutor. Moshe Tiomkin, who Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hebron, is a Gush Emunim heads a committee ap- pointed by the Interior stronghold. Justice Minister Moshe Ministry to investigate the Nissim said on a Voice of blaze, said the fact that the Israel Radio interview fire appeared to have that the Karp report was broken out simultaneously "helpful" insofar as• it in three separate parts of clarified the situation in the resort hotel and the the territories. He also re- speed with which it spread jected charges by Jewish indicated it was not acci- settlers of distortion. Un- dental. Tiomkin, a former Tel like Zamir, however, Nis- sim was lukewarm in de- Aviv district police com- fense of Karp's integrity. mander, cited the eye- Karp completed her re- witness accounts of fire port 18 months ago. She res- fighters who rushed to the igned last year to protest scene within minutes after the government's failure to the alarm was sounded. act on it. Portions of the re- They saw what appeared to port leaked to the press at be three fires burning inde- the time reflected poorly on pendently of each other. The the conduct of Jewish flames spread rapidly from settlers and implied that the fourth floor to the top the police and civil floor of the building, "too authorities were less than quickly to be accidental," vigorous in pressing the fire fighters reported. Police also suspect arson charges against Jews ac- cused of offenses against in a fire that broke out last Thursday night among fruit Arabs. Karp withdrew her resig- and vegetable stands near nation after her report came the central bus station in under review at the highest Tel Aviv. Fire fighters level of government. The fought that blaze for several controversy surrounding it hours before it was brought was renewed, however, under control. Electric when the report was be- power was cut off in the area of the bus terminal. latedly released last week. The Israeli-American Interculiural Lecture Series Under the Auspices of Bar-Ilan University presents • Dr. Michael Berenbaum Renowned Author and Lecturer Dr. Berenbaum's educational background includes a Ph.D. in religion and culture from Florida State University. He is editor of Washington's "Jewish Week" and a lecturer at Georgetown University. He has served as Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council in Washington and Deputy Director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. He has lectured and published extensively, particularly on the works of Elie Wiesel. Discussing: "From Powerlessness to Power— the Jewish Transformation" Date: Wednesday, February 29, 1984 Time: 8:00 p.m. NO CHARGE • Place: The Home of Mr. David Holtzman NO SOLICITATION Donald Fox Paul Zlotoff General Chairmen For Reservations Call the Bar-Han University office at 398-7180