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The Detroit Jewish News, 1985-02-22

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Friday, February 22, 1985

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The husband, sons,
daughters-in-law and
grandchildren of the late

NEWS

SADIE
GOTTLIEB

Policies Scored

Continued from Page 76

to generalize about human rights
conditions in the Arab countries
since the level of abuse ranged
from Jordan and Egypt, where
there was little abuse, to Syria
and Iraq which had complete
one-man rule.
However, he noted that Egypt is
the Arab country with the
greatest trend toward liberaliza-
tion. "Egypt is a developing coun-
try moving toward political
liberalization and greater free-
dom of expression," the report
said.
Several of the accounts of coun-
tries gave the conditions of their
Jewish communities. In Egypt,
the report simply notes that most
Jews "emigrated many years ago
and those few who remain appear
to practice their faith without re-
striction or harassment from any
source."
In Iran, the report, as it did last
year, states that the persecution
of Jews that existed in the early
,flays of the Khomeini revolution
has abated as it has for Christians
and Zoroastrians. However, "they
continue to have problems with
the regime over religious prac-
tices, and some members of all
three groups suffer officially
sanctioned job discrimination,"
the report said.
Iraq's Jewish community "is be-
lieved to have decreased from
150,000 following World War II to
go about 400," the report notes.
"It was severely persecuted in
the past, but there is no evidence
of recent persecution. In 1983 and
in late 1984 Western journalists
visited the last known synagogue
in Baghdad and confirmed that it
is still functioning. Only a hand-
ful of people, mostly older men,
were seen attending services led
by two rabbis."
In Syria, "the 3,000-4,000 Jews
are free to practice their religion,"
according to the report. "The situ-
ation of the Jewish community

has improved in recent years, de-
spite continuing uncertainty over
the community's future, and
today it enjoys a relatively good
standard of living, access to
higher education and entrance
into the professions."
But the report notes that only
Syrian Jews are routinely re-
quired to post a bond of $250 to
$10,000 if they want to travel
abroad. "In recent years, Jews
have found it somewhat easier to
travel overseas, although an offi-
cial ban on their emigration has
continued. The government con-
tinues its policy of not issuing
passports to all members of a
Jewish family at the same time,
although there have been some
recent exceptions."
In the Yemen Arab Republic,
from where most of the once-large
Jewish community emigrated to
Israel, "the number of remaining
Jews live in peace with the Mos-
lem majority," according to the
report.
"They practice their religion
freely, suffer no unusual economic
hardships" and while they main-
tain contact with Jews from out-
side Yemen, they may not do so
with those in Israel.
The report puts the number of
Jews in Morocco at 11,000-14,000,
most of them in the major cities.
"The Jewish community operates
schools and social institutions, as
well as 20 major synagogues," the
report said.
"Publications in Hebrew are
permitted," and "the Jewish
community has close ties to com-
munities in other nations includ-
ing Israel."
In Ethiopia, the report noted
the "considerable illegal emigra-
tion" by Jews during 1984. (Legal
emigration is restricted for Jews
and other Ethiopians.) The report
points out that access to the
Jewish villages of the Gondar
region by foreign Jews and Is-

Radio-TV Listings

and her son, Rick, discuss the
Sephardic community; Dr. Ralph
Cash of Sinai Hospital Tay-Sachs
disease with Mark Goldsmith;
Robert Oppenheimer tells
Chasidic stories.

THE JEWISH SOUND: 6:15
a.m. Sunday, WMJC-FM (95) and
11 p.m. Sunday, WNIC-AM
(1310). Rabbi Yitzchak Kagan is
the moderator.

OPEN DOORS: 7:30 a.m. Sun-
day, Channel 4: Rabbi James I.
Gordon of Young Israel of Oak-
Woods will discuss the impor-
tance of the State of Israel to Jews.
A film on the current economic
and political status of Israel will
be shown. Sheri Terebelo-Schiff
will be the moderator.

RELIGION IN THE NEWS:
9:05 a.m. Sunday, CKWW (580),
Rabbi Jonathan V. Plaut is the
moderator.

NATIONAL JEWISH TELE-
VISION: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Cable
Channel 47, a program of interest
to the Jewish community. (Pro-
gram time is subject to change
without notice.)

HA-KOL: THE JEWISH
VOICE: 4:30 p.m. Sunday,
WDET-FM (101.9), Shirley Behar

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RELIGION ON THE LINE: 10
p.m. Sunday, WXYT-AM (1270),
Chaya Sarah Silberberg and Joce-
lyn Ruth Krieger will speak on
"The Woman's Place in Judaism
— Lofty or Lowly."

COFFEE WITH HY: 8 p.m.
Monday, WCAR (1090), a pro-
gram of community interest mod-
erated by Hy Shenkman.

YIDDISH IS HEIMISH: 8:30
p.m. Monday, WCAR (1090), an
all Yiddish program of music,
news, interviews and other fea-
tures with Hy Shenkman.

CAFE SHALOM: 9 p.m. Mon-
day, WCAR (1090), music, news
and features from Israel plus
community announcements, with
Bella Greenbaum, Fay Knoll,
Masha Silver and Marilyn Smith.

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raelis which was allowed in 1983,
was shut off for most of 1984, al-
though re-opened to some extent
in December.
The human rights report, as in
other recent State Department
reports charged that in the Soviet
Union, "the Jewish community
faced an exceptionally difficult
year in 1984 which saw a sharp
increase in anti-Semitic prop-
aganda thinly veiled as anti-
Zionism" as well as increased dis-
crimination against Jews. The re-
port speculated that there may be
"pressure from some quarters to
end Jewish emigration com-
pletely."
Abrams said that he did not be-
lieve that the urging by Reagan
Administration officials at their
meetings with Soviet officials or
improvement in human rights
conditions of Jews and others in
the USSR has so far had any effect
but, "it is hard to measure," he
said.

OBITUARIES

M.S. Arnoni

Amsterdam (JTA) — M.S. Ar-
noni, the journalist perhaps best
remembered for his lively one-
person left-wing periodical The
Minority of One, which appeared
in the U.S. in the 1960s, died here
at age 63.
Menachem Samuel Arnoni was
a native of Lodz, Poland, and a
survivor of its ghetto, about whose
horrors he wrote the novel Fela.
He settled in Israel after the es-
tablishment of the state, but later
emigrated to the U.S.
In his publication, Mr. Arnoni
exposed oppression and persecu-
tion of minorities all over the
globe. When the Six-Day War
broke out in 1967, he devoted sev-
eral issues to defending Israel's
right to exist and to protect itself.
After settling in Holland in the
1970s, he published another one-
person periodical, In Search after
working for a short while as a
political commentator on Dutch
television.

Lawrence Emmer

Lawrence H. Emmer, a phar-
macist and owner of the Ferndale
Pharmacy for 32 years, died Feb.
17 at age 56.
A native Detroiter, Mr. Emmer
was a member of Cong. Beth Ab-
raham Hillel Moses, Maurice C.
Zeiger Lodge of B'nai B'rith and
Alpha Zeta Omega National
Pharmaceutical Fraternity.
He leaves his wife, Marlene; a
son, Curtis, and a daughter,
Natalie.

Dr. Emil Lengyel

New York — Dr. Emil Lengyel,
historian who specialized in
World War II Europe and the rise
of Nazism, died Feb. 12 at age 89.
He had worked for the New
York Times and had written 20
history books during his career.
He also was a professor at New
York University.

Wish to acknowledge all
the kindness and sym-
pathy shown to them dur-
ing their recent bereave-
ment.

The Family
of the Late

LAJOS
LONYAI

Acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent be-
reavement.

A sincere thank you to all our friends and family
who helped us through our bereavement on the pass-
ing of our beloved

EVELYN
SCHWARZBERG •

Wife, Mother, Sister and Grandmother

The Simon Schwarzberg Family

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of

The Family Of

BEN
GOLDSTEIN

ARLINE G.
SCHAFER

Who passed away March
12, six days into Adar. He
will never be forgotten by
those who loved him.
His wife,
Rebeccah Irma; and
sons, Melvyn & Mark

Fondly remembers her
love and kindness on this
her yahrzeit.

Max J. Schafer

In memory of our dearly beloved father, who
passed away Feb. 26, 1984

LOUIS BELLER

Who is sadly missed and will always be remem-
bered by his children, grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.

EDITH
LUBLIN

Feb. 22, 1984

Remembered and sadly missed by the Lublin
Family.

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