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Social Hour 12:00 Midnight Services Sept. 22, 1984 • ,,,..- ADL and Nicaragua exiles are critical of NJA findings Washington (JTA) — University and a founder of There is no official anti- the New Jewish Agenda; Semitism in Nicaragua David Cohen, president of today but there are strong the Professional's Coalition anti-Israel sentiments be- fon.Nuclear Arms Control; cause of Israeli policies in and Dr. James Statman, Central America which ap- psychologist and a member pear to support right-wing of the New Jewish Agenda's dictatorships, according to Central America Task three members of a recent Force. The three said that dur- fact-finding mission to Nicaragua organized by the ing their five-day mission, the delegation, which in- New Jewish Agenda. The three, part of a ten- cluded Rabbi Marshall member delegation, briefed Meyer, the founding rector reporters last week on their of the Central American recently-concluded mission. Rabbinical Assembly in They said they wanted to Buenos Aires and A member investigate whether there is of President Raul Alfonsin's a basis for allegations of Commission on the Disap- anti-Semitism initially peared Persons in Argen- raised by the Anti- tina, met with leading Defamation League of B'nai members of the Sandinista government and opposition B'rith. While the three said they leaders. Among those whom they are not in conflict with charges raised by the ADL met were Nicaragua Sup- about anti-Semitism in reme Court President Dr. Nicaragua two years ago, Roberto Arguello, Deputy they asserted they differed Minister for Foreign Affairs with the policies of the Rea- Nora Astorga, editors and gan. Administration which, clerics, and members of the they claimed, used the Nicaraguan Commission charge of anti-Semitism in for Human Rights. They Nicaragua for its own polit- also said they met with the ical purposes. ten remaining Jews in The assertions were im- Nicaragua; with American mediately challenged by Jews living in that country; Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, and, before leaving the director of the ADL's Latin United States, with three American Affairs Depart- expatriate Nicaraguan ment, and by the Miami- Jews living in Miami. based Jewish Nicaraguan Based on their dis- Congregation in Exile. cussions, the group con- Rosenthal said he was cluded: "We believe that "disappointed" with the re- there is no policy of anti- marks. He said that "in no Semitism or bias on the part way does it reflect the ex- of any official body. perience of the Nicaraguan Moreover, it was made Jews ... I think they used abundantly clear to us and the Jewish issue as a pre- confirmed by leaders of the text for going down there Sandinista government and I question to what ex- that Nicaragua welcomes tent they were serious in Jewish participation as well doing something for Jews." as participation from any The Jewish Nicaraguan group in the reconstruction Congregation in Exile said of a pluralistic society the statement that the which seeks friendly rela- Nicaraguan government tions, based on non- has no anti-Semitic policy is intervention with respect to "not only misleading, but its neighbors." Serotta quoted Sergio tragically irrelevant." The exile group, in a statement Ramirez, a member of signed by Kurt Preiss and Nicaragua's three-member Fred Luft, president and governing junta, as saying secretary, respectively, said that his government is there is no Jewish commu- "open to mutual initiatives" nity in Nicaragua and that toward re-establishing rela- the delegation was hard tions with Israel. Nicaragua pressed to find a single Jew broke diplomatic ties with Israel in 1982 over Israel's with whom to speak. "The delegation's experi- invasion of Lebanon. The controversy over ence is eloquent testimony to the fact that it is beside . charges of anti-Semitism in the point whether the San- Nicaragua reached its dinistas have an official pol- zenith last summer when icy of anti-Semitism," the President Reagan told a group's statement said. White House forum that "The effects of the Sandinis- "virtually the entire Jewish tas' anti-Semitic actions, community of Nicaragua which began even before has been frightened into they came to power, show exile . ." that no 'policy' is needed to Many Jews fled, charging destroy a small Jewish harassment and that their community of less than 60 property has been confis- Jews." cated. The synagogue in The three mission mem- Managua was also confis- bers at the news conference cated and turned into a were all from Washington: children's social club and its Rabbi Gerald Serotta, chap- walls were plastered with lain at George Washington anti-Zionist propaganda. The 'issue of the syna- gogue was raised by the ADL with the Nicaraguan government as long ago as 1981. At that time, a lead- ing Nicaraguan official said the issue would be re= viewed. Services were last held there in 1978. The To- rahs are in safe keeping in Miami. Serotta told the piess con- ference that Nicaragua has pledged to return the syna- gogue. He said the remain- ing Jews there asked him to arrange services for Yom Kippur in October. Argentine Jews seek Nazi extradition Buenos Aires (JTA) , — During the official visit of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to Argentina earlier this month _ , he was handed a letter from the Argentine Jewish commu- nity urging that his gov- ernment "request, in a for- mal peremptory mapner" the extradition of Nazi war criminals residing in Argentina and the other countries of Latin America, the World Jewish Congress disclosed-last week. The letter, written in the name of the DAIA, the representative body of Argentine Jewry and the WJC affiliate here, re- minded Kohl of Germany's "ethical and political im- peratives with regard to the Jewish people" as a conse- quence of the Holocaust.- The extradition of Nazi war criminals would be "strictly a matter of justice and would prevent similar in- famous crimes,"" the letter said. Meat dealer is suspect New York (JTA) — A task force of the federal. Depart- ment of Agriculture and the state kosher law enforce- ment division is collecting evidence against the owner of a multi-million dollar wholesale firm supplying kosher and non-kosher meat in the Catskill resort area in the belief that the owner has been selling non-kosher meat as kosher to many hotels in that area. Sources who asked not to be quoted by name said the New York State Depart- ment of Agriculture and Markets, parent agency of the kosher law- enforcement division, had seized more than 1,000 pounds of sus- pect meat at the wholesale factory in Woodridge, N.Y. The sources said that the confiscated meat would be part of the evidence against the wholesaler.