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The Detroit Jewish News, 1986-05-30

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Friday, May 30, 1986

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

THE JEWISH NEWS

Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community
with distinction for four decades.



Editorial and Sales offices at 20300 Civic Center Dr.,
Suite 240, Southfield, Michigan 48076-4138
Telephone (313) 354-6060

PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Arthur M. Horwitz
EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz
EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt
CONSULTANT: Carmi M. Slomovitz
ART DIRECTOR: Kim Muller-Thym
NEWS EDITOR: Alan Hitsky
LOCAL NEWS EDITOR: Heidi Press
LOCAL COLUMNIST: Danny Raskin

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: .
Lauri Biafore
Randy Marcuson
Judi Monblatt
Rick Nessel
Danny Raskin

OFFICE STAFF:
Lynn Fields
Percy Kaplan
Pauline Max
Marlene Miller
Dharlene Norris
Phyllis Tyner
Mary Lou Weiss
Pauline Weiss
Ellen Wolfe

PRODUCTION:
Donald Cheshure
Cathy Ciccone
Curtis Deloye
Joy Gardin
Ralph Orme

© 1986 by The Detroit Jewish News (US PS 275-520)
Second Class postage paid at Southfield, Michigan and additidnal mailing offices.
Subscriptions: 1 year - $21 — 2 years - $39 — Out of State - $23 — Foreign - $35

CANDLELIGHTING AT 8:41 P.M.

VOL. LXXXIX, NO. 14

Vinegar Vagaries

The current crisis for kosher consumers involving vinegar products
underscores the need to restructure kashrut supervision in this country.
It seems that non-kosher wine-derived alcohol processed into vinegar
from a source under kosher certification had been in use for about six
months as an approved raw ingredient in the making of hundreds of
products under virtually every national kashrut certification.
The fact is that each kashrut organization competes with the others
but each is reliant on the others for the supervision of raw products. For
as the Young Israel Viewpoint noted, In a highly centralized and
technologically sophisticated kosher food industry, there is only one
kashrut standard, regardless of the symbol of the package, and that
standard will be determined by the lowest common denominator of
supervision and reliability."
The kashrut agencies do not disclose to one another or to the
consumer the procedures, schedules and personnel used in their
supervisions. This is unfair. Kosher consumers pay a premium to ensure
the highest standards of kashrut supervision. Such disputes are needless
and embarrassing, for they have more to do with economic and political
power within kashrut than they do with religion. It is time for the
kashrut agencies to announce their standar& and, as the Viewpoint
suggests, "to assume mutual responsibility to maintain those standards
regardless of the specific -kashrut symbol on the offending product."

TV Terrorism

OP-ED

New Waldheimers Disease
Spread From Nazi Germany

BY RY- SHENKMAN
Special to The Jewish News

Kurt Waldheim is not the first
ex-Nazi to make it in the post-war
political arena. It's just that he is
the first one to be considered by a
people to become president of their
country.
The Allies paid a high price to
defend democracy, but while they
won the war, they lost the battle to
control Nazism by allowing the con-
tagious worm to climb out of the
grave and contaminate the political
atmosphere.
In 1945, the Allies put on a
show in Nuremberg where a few
Nazi fish were fried and the rest
were allowed to get away. They left
out hordes of Nazis and their col-
laborators, without whom the so-
called "Jewish Solution" would not
have been executed. Thousands of
them resumed normal lives as if
nothing had happened.
Money enabled the Nazis to es-
cape justice. There were enough cor-
rupt politicians all over the world
willing to share in the spoils of war
— diamonds and gold taken from the
victims as well as money stolen from
German banks.
Western authorities, fearing
Communism, also shielded Nazis
who could serve as anti-Communist
experts.
The soft-peddling of Nazi crimi-
nals became even more evident in
1946. It was then that the Jewish
Historical Institute in Munich
worked full-time gathering docu-
ments on war criminals. . Thousands
of survivors from practically every
concentration camp were inter-
viewed in depth. Fresh information
was gathered, documented and care-
fully catalogued in a series of seven
books called From The Last Exter-
mination.
Several former concentration

camp inmates volunteered valuable
information about the war criminals
and their whereabouts. The crimi-
nals could be seen outside their
homes, drinking and laughing, for
when it came to investigations they
were untouchables.
Reports about war criminals liv-
ing in Munich were hand-delivered

The Allies procrastinated,
finding all sorts of
excuses. When they ran
out of lies, the war
criminals had
disappeared.

to American authorities. Staff mem-
bers were sympathetic to the efforts
of the Jewish Historical Institute but
acted suspiciously slow when it came
to bringing the criminals to justice.
Some of those bureaucrats were good
samaritans, believing in live and let
live. Others followed their religious
values to forgive the sinners and
pray for them.
They procrastinated, finding all
sorts of excuses and delays. Finally,
when they ran out of lies, the war
criminals disappeared.
Ironically,
while
Allied
authorities exerted pressure on the
German government to ban the Nazi
Party, they allowed their own brand
of Nazis the full freedom to organize
and grow. For over four decades,
Nazis in the Western Hemisphere
Were allowed to function .and develop
like any other political party. They
were enjoying all the freedoms for
which their counterparts in Ger-
many had thrown people in jail.

Continued on Page 24

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NBC News made news of its own recently when it aired an interview
with an Arab terrorist accused of plotting the Achille Lauro hijacking —
and agreed not to disclose- his whereabouts s even though the U.S. suspects
him of being responsible for the murder of passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
Abul Abbas was interviewed for about three-and-a-half minutes
during which he vowed to launch terror attacks against Americans at
home and abroad, and called President Reagan "enemy number -one."
NBC justified the .interview on the grounds that it was news. "It's critical
that people know about terrorist leaders and what their plans are and
what they are like," said NBC News president Lawrence Grossman. But
other journalists, and U.S. officials, strongly disagree.
The State Department asserted that terrorism thrives on such
publicity and accused the network of becoming, in effect, the terrorist's
accomplice. The decision to keep Abul Abbas's location secret was
"reprehensible," according to a State Department spokesman. And a
number of journalists said there was little news value in the interview,
which simply gave a terrorist a platform to spout his propaganda. There
were no probing questions or revealing answers.
NBC went too far in its attempt for a scoop, making a pact with a
man heading our nation's list of most wanted terrorists, and showing us
the dark side of journalistic ethics.

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