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Spanish town is locale for debate over Kabbalah BY MICHAEL FOONER Gerona (JTA) — A Spanish rabbi who died 750 years ago is the topic of a lively local debate that shows signs of growing into an international con- troversy. The convention involves two names relatively little known in the world at large: "Gerona" and "Isaac the Blind." Gerona, today, is an industrial town in the nor- theast corner of Spain; Isaac the Blind, in religious his- tory, was an early advocate of the Kabbalah the medieval system of Jewish mysticism. What now brings them into a juxtaposition that has been attracting attention beyond the borders of Spain is the claim that Rabbi Isaac practiced in Gerona and that the site of his Kabbalis- tic activities can be iden- tified-in that town. Thus a "new" cultural resource and historic landmark has been discovered deserving -the widest dissemination — so it is claimed. The leading advocate is Josef Tarres, a Salonica born resident of Gerona, who says he has been work- ing on this for 12 years. He envisions major recognition for Rabbi Isaac and his con- tributions to spiritual liter- ature. Tarres envisions also the establishment of a "school of Kabbalah" in the rabbi's name to advance and teach the master's brand of mystical religious philos- ophy in tht, contemporary world. The other side of the de- bate is mainly expressed as informal skepticism by Spanish intellectuals who Hasidim plan $12 million synagogue ANCIENT ART INTERNATIONAL I .r.r 110; a 1. • Han, n, kin, \lit i', 111 I • it i 142 hilli • u ..„ n I tlln s ..,1 Jerusalem (JTA) — The Belz Hasidim will erect what they claim will be the world's largest synagogue on 1.75 acres of land in Jerusalem. It will be built at a cost of $12 million and, when completed some time in 1987, will accommodate up to 4,500 worshippers. Cornerstone-laying ceremonies will be held Sunday, with most of the 10,000 Belz Hasidic families living in Israel attending. Some 8,000 will be flown to Israel for the oc- casion on 27 special flights by El Al. The architect who de- signed the synagogue, Yizhak Blatt, said it would be a close replica of the Belz - synagogue in Galicia which stood on a hilltop from 1843 until it was destroyed dur- ing the Holocaust 100 years later. feel that, scientifically, the claimed discovery is full of holes and unanswered ques- tions. The "opposition" is all good-natured, however, without the rancor often found when experts dis- agree. Visitors, especially foreign visitors, are often impressed, however, when Tarres explains the historic landmark and guides them through the site of Isaac the Blind's "original Gerona synagogue of the Kab- balah." The building itself is reached through a very narrow street of undoub- tedly ancient structures in the middle of what scholars have . identified as an au- thentic district of the Mid- dle Ages. Gerona - may be second only to Toledo in the amount of Jewish commu- nity relics from the Middle Ages actually in place, as distinguished from de- stroyed locations that can be identified by records in the archives. In the 13th and 14th Centuries, Gerona was a very important Jewish community, famous for learning and one of the first centers of the Kab- balist movement. Report officials let neo-Nazi leave Germany Bonn (JTA) — The Jewish community of Lower Saxony has accused the West German authorities of allowing wanted neo-Nazi leader Michael Kuehnen to travel freely and leave the country despite several warrants for his arrest is- sued by various courts. Michael Fuerst, a Han- nover lawyer who is chair- man of the Jewish commu- nity, told reporters this week that legal proceedings have been initiated against still unknown persons who deliberately prevented the prosecution of Kuehnen. He said the intention is to find out who is responsible for the failure to arrest . him. , Kuehnen was inter viewed on West German television from Paris sev- eral days ago and at a house where he is staying in a re- mote part of France. He said he had little difficulty leav- ing West Germany for Swit- zerland. Asked why the German authorities were so lenient, he replied that there was "some, though limited level of understand- ing the need to promote na- tional elements," meaning, presumably, neo-Nazi ele- ments. .