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Conservative Jewry
Enters Its
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Negligence Lail
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Former OSI director tells DetroiterS'-34 i .
nobody cared to ask the right questions

John Demjanjuk, noliptking tried
in Israel.
Before the formation of OSI,
Why did the United States not U.S. immigration authorities were
catch more Nazi war criminals investigating Theodore Fedorenko,
when they entered the U.S. after a suspected Treblinka guard. De-
World War H? "Because we never mjanjuk's photo was included in
tried." Could we have caught more copies sent to Israeli police to show
if we tried from the beginning? to Treblinka survivors in 1976.
"Absolutely," said the same expert When the first survivor pointed out
Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible,
this week in Detroit.
Allan Ryan Jr., former director police dismissed the idea because
of the U.S. Office of Special Inves- there was no previous evidence
tigations (OSI), illustrated his con- against him. But when three others
tention Tuesday night during a identified Demjanjuk as Ivan, Is-
Holocaust Memorial Center- raeli police sent the information to
sponsored speech at Adat Shalom U.S Immigration. There it lingered
Synagogue. He used the case of Continued on Page 14

MIKE ROSENBAUM

Special to The Jewish News

Mazon Food Project
Is Begun In Detroit

Dr. Ismer Schorsch,
Chancellor of
the Jewish
Theological
Seminary
in New York

Jews are asked to donate three percent
of the cost of their rsimchas' to the hungry

Staff Report

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An effort to involve the Detroit
Jewish community in the national
Mazon project to feed the hungry is
being organized by Rabbi A. Irving
Schnipper of Cong. Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses.
The two-year-old Mazon project
asks Jewish individuals and organ-
izations to contribute three percent
of the total money they spend on a
party, bar mitzvah or other affair
to Mazon (nourishment) to feed the
hungry.
Schnipper plans to present the

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Mazon idea to Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses' board next week and to
other rabbis and synagogues in the
area. He also wants to start a sepa-
rate fundraising plan — Ezrat
Mazon or Meal Aid — in which in-
dividuals contribute $103, the
numerical value of the Hebrew
word mazon.
During Passover, the national
Mazon office, based in California, is
asking Jewish families to contrib-
ute the cost of feeding one stranger
at their Seder table to Mazon.

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