Friday, May 25, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 20% FOR THAT SPECIAL OFF! • SWEET SIXTEEN • BAT-MITZVA GIFT BORIS SMOLAR From the small two-room national headquarters of Anti-Defamation _ the Ln League of B'nai B'rith, which was located in one of o the "Loop" buildings in Chicago where the ADL was founded in 1913, to the pre- sent imposing ADL head- quarters in New York — lo- cated in its own nine-story building opposite the United Nations and facing ti-• East River — is quite a \ - nce. • The distance is even longer between the ADL activities of today and those of the early years of its establishment. The ADL opens its annual five-day national meeting • on May 30 in New York to chart its policies for the coming year and discuss the challenges it will be facing. In the early years of its - existence, the primary func- tion of the ADL was to com- bat the mockery of Jews by vaudeville actors who pre- sented the American Jew in their acts on the stage in a false and ridiculous light. Within a few years, the dis- paraging characterizations of Jews disappeared com- pletely from the American stage. With the march of time, the ADL started an in- tensified campaign against the refusal by some summer resorts, hotels and clubs to admit Jews; and against , other forms of anti-Jewish bias. The ADL reached great strength in the 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan appeared as a strong factor in prop- agating virulent actions against Jews, blacks and Catholics, protected by hooded anonimity at mass meetings which attracted millions of adherents. The ADL excelled itself by penetrating into the ranks of the KKK and exposing the leaders and their methods, which included physical terror. It thereby diminished the KKK's power and influence. The KKK and other anti- Semitic groups began to fear the ADL, calling it "the Jewish Secret Service." The ADL was similarly active in exposing bigots like Father Coughlin, the Royal Oak priest who con- ducted vitriolic propaganda against American Jewry nationwide over numerous radio stations throughout the country. It played an active leadership role in combatting the German scan Bund which con- _ ted Hitler's Fifth Col- umn in America. It stood in the forefront of combatting and discrediting extremist and fascist organizations like the Christian Front and other anti-Semitic groups which emerged in this coun- try following Hitler's rise to power in Germany. In today's divided and un- certain world, combatting anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry remains ADL's principal priority. To its present annual five-day , r meeting, the ADL comes with a crowded agenda indi- cating the challenges it faces in the current year and the next. Among the major chal- lenges is the controversy created by the anti-Jewish innuendos and remarks voi- ced in the Presidential elec- tion campaign by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his right-hand supporter, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Black Muslim organization, the Nation of Islam. Other challenges include the Arab-Israeli conflict; the rise of anti-Semitic ac- tivity in Europe linked to the presence of the Pales- tine Liberation Organiza- tion; anti-Semitic and anti- Zionist propaganda in the United Nations expressed by the Soviet Union and the Arab countries; the almost total . suspension by the Soviet government of Jewish emigration from the USSR and the encourage- ment by the Kremlin of anti-Jewish propaganda in the Soviet Union, in. addi- tion to violating their human rights; combatting Arab propaganda activites in the United States; and, of course, dealing with the problems still presented by organized hate groups in this country. ; SUPER SHAPE-UP•FASHIONS I COMPLAISANT BETWEEN YOU & ME Leotards & Active-Wear 200, 20% For All Shapes and Sizes I OFF! OFF! 20% OFF! 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