18 Friday, June 8, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Soviets tie Olympic ban
to New York Jewish rally
on Album or Cassette
London (JTA) — "A sepa- cution of Jews who have ex- tivist, Vladimir Tsuker-
rate column of armed police pressed their desire to man, were arrested in May
marched with the Zionist leave. The Soviet govern- 1980 after staging a protest
through (New York's) ment was also asked to march in Kishinev with 12
streets under anti-Soviet allow Jews remaining in the other refuseniks. They and
posters," according to Korn- Soviet Union full freedom to their families had been
somolskaya Pravda, the of- observe and practice their waiting for five years for
permission to emigrate.
ficial Soviet youth news- religion and culture.
The National Conference Tsukerman, who drew a
paper, in an apparent refer-
ence to the Soviet Jewry on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) re- similar sentence, was re-
rally in New York on May 6. ported that 109 Jews left the leased several weeks ago.
"Can you imagine these Soviet Union in May. The
Meanwhile, Yeshiva
people defending Soviet figure represents a slight University this week pre-
athletes?" the newspaper increase over this year's sented its first honorary de-
asked in its May 25 edition, monthly average of 80.
gree in absentia to Soviet
The NCSJ also said that Jewish Prisoner of Con-
the Institute of Jewish Af-
fairs, the World Jewish Osip Lokshin, a 41-year-old science
Anatoly
Congress research arm, re- lawyer and Jewish activist Shcharansky.
Avital
ported. The article, titled from Kishinev, was re- Shcharansky, Anatoly's
"From Fascists to leased from a Soviet labor wife, in accepting the award
Gangsters," apparently camp late last month after at commencement cere-
cited the rally as one reason completing a three-year monies at the university,
why Moscow decided to sentence for "violating pub-, said, "Anatoly has learned
withdraw from the summer lic order" and "defaming the the meaning of being a Jew
Soviet state."
Olympics in Los Angeles.
in its deepest and most try-
Lokshin and another ac- ing sense."
The institute also re-
ported that laws aimed at
Jewish activists have been
toughened by the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet this
year.
Major amendments for
so-called anti-Soviet agita- BY DR. JOSEPH GUTMANN
tion and propaganda pro- Special to The Jewish News
vide for tougher penalties
The Sexuality of Christ in theology" — the humaniza-
for actions committed with
Renaissance Art and in tion of Christ.
foreign support.
The emphasis on Christ's
The report says this could Modern Oblivion, written
affect dissidents and re- by a Jew born in Moscow sexual organ in art was,
fuseniks who receive help and now Benjamin therefore, not rooted in
from abroad, making them Franklin Professor' of Art licentious artistic conceits;
lifiple to moredonerous History at the University of rather it represented the be-
punishment and discourag- Pennsylvania, has won the lief that Christ incarnated
ing them from accepting admiration and approval of himself in order to suffer a
human fate — to free hu-
foreign help even when they leading Catholic thinkers.
Steinberg removes the manity "from Adamic con-
lack other means of support.
These and other changes, veil of mystery that has tagion and shame." Thus,
says the institute, can be shrouded a long embarras- Christ's dependence on
partly regarded as the re- sing, offensive and suppres- nourishment from his
storation of provisions re- sed reality for Christians — mother's breast, and the
moved from the criminal the prominence given to the fondling and proud display
code in the de-stalinization genitalia of Christ in Euro- of his genitalia were simply
program of the late Nikita pean Renaissance works of assurances of Christ's hu-
art (ca. 1400-1550). In these manity for Christian be-
Khruschev.
A formal declaration ex- artistic renderings the main lievers.
This well-written, pro-
pressing concern over the focus appears to be on the
treatment of Jews in the revelation of the Christ vocative and original work
is highly recommended to
Soviet Union and viewing child's sexual organ.
all students interested in
the curtailment of their
the history of ideas of the
,right to emigrate as an im-
pediment to improved
Western world.
East-West relations was re-
The Sexuality of
leased in Strassbourg,
France, bearing the signa- Christ in
tures of 240 members of the
Renaissance Art Schooling gains
Parliament of Europe.
help Sephardis
The declaration ex- and in Modern
pressed hope that the Soviet
Jerusalem (ZINS) — Bet-
Union will honor its com- Oblivion" by Leo
ter education for the
mitments under the Hel- Steinberg
younger generation of Is-
sinki Agredinent guarante-
raelis with Sephardic back-
eing basic human rights (Pantheon
grounds will help narrow
and voices great concern Books).
the Ashkenazi-Sephardi
over the, upsurge of anti-
gap in future generations,
Semitigin in the Soviet
according to a report by the
press and other media. It
Central Statistics Bureau.
also regretted restrictions
In 1962, only 26 percent of
on Jewish emigration which
This apparently scandal- the offspring of Sephardic
it saw as a barrier to im- ous and irreverent attitude parents in Israel were
proved relations between towards Christ on the part enrolled in• elementary
the USSR and the West.
of leading Renaissance ar- schools, the report said. But
The signatories urged the tists is, as Steinberg admir- by 1981, that figure had
Soviet government to allow ably shows, rooted in very doubled to 52 percent. In the
all Jews who wish to reunite sophisticated, contempor- last decade there has also
with their families abroad ary Christian theological been a significant increase
to do so freely and called on arguments. The. sermons of in the number of Sephardic
the Soviet authorities to end -the time stressed what the university students, accord-
the' harassment' and perse: euthereallsPincarnational -ing-to the reportm.-.*-1-
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