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FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1989
New York (JTA) — The long-
promised removal of the
Carmelite convent from
Auschwitz has been in-
definitely postponed by a
Polish Catholic cardinal, a
move that Jewish leaders say
will severely strain Catholic-
Jewish relations.
Cardinal
Franciszek
Macharski, the archbishop of
Krakow, announced on
Vatican radio last week that
the building of a proposed in-
terreligious information
center was now "an im-
possibility."
The center was to have been
built off the site of the former
death camp, and was to have
housed the convent as well.
Macharski attributed his
decision to "a violent cam-
paign of accusations and
defamation, and offensive
not only verbal — aggression,
which echoed up
to
Auschwitz?'
The campaign, Macharski
said, was the work of "certain
Western Jewish circles."
Jewish organizations have
reacted with outrage, not only
at Macharski's nullification
of the agreement to move the
convent, but at the wording of
his statement.
Numerous Jewish organiza-
tions have publicly protested
for the convent's removal, and
demonstrations have been
mounted at the convent itself.
Last month, seven New
York Jewish activists climbed
over the fence surrounding
the convent and asked to
speak with the nuns. They
were beaten and dragged off
the grounds.
demonstration
This
.
reportedly incensed Machar-
ski. Sources in Europe say
that Macharski called the
demonstration "violent and
intolerable" in a meeting
with local priests.
Rabbi Avraham Weiss, who
led the demonstration at
Auschwitz, called for Jewish
leaders to "freeze dialogue"
with the Vatican until the
convent is moved.
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
who has been deeply involv-
ed with the convent issue, is
taking a more conciliatory
approach.
He said that Polish leaders
had told him in the past few
weeks that Macharski's com-
mitment to built the convent
and the center by 1990 "was
firm."
But, Tanenbaum said, the
recent demonstrations have
caused a backlash in Poland
and "touched off a furious
reaction among Polish
Catholics who now support,
even insist, that the
Carmelite convent not be
moved."
Tanenbaum said that he
was told by Macharski's per-
sonal secretary, Stanislav
Musial, that the statement
"does not represent a rupture
between the Polish Catholic
church and the Jewish peo-
ple."
Tanenbaum described it as
"a temporary interruption,
but not a break in the rela-
tionship."
He said that Macharski
wants to make the point that
it's impossible to make plans
to move forward as long as the
"attacks on the convent
nuns" continue.
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Soviet-Anti-Semitism
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Convent Stalemate
Threatens Dialogue
New York (JTA) — Despite
the Kremlin's growing
tolerance of Jewish cultural
and religious life, reports of
disturbing anti-Semitic in-
cidents are still coming out of
the Soviet Union.
Last month, a 30-year-old
Hebrew teacher from the
Soviet republic of Moldavia
was beaten by three men and
told to stop his Jewish ac-
tivities, the Union of Councils
for Soviet Jews reported.
The Union of Councils also
reported that Svetlana
Mezheborsky, mother of Len-
ingrad refusenik Yuri
Mezheborsky, was stabbed by
three hooded men who broke
into her apartment.
Some activists fear that
Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev's policy of
glasnost, or greater openness,
which has helped Soviet Jews
in many respects, may also be
fueling anti-Semitic activity
by allowing greater exposure
for such groups as the ultra-
nationalist Pamyat.
"As social and economic
unrest, and ethnic and na-
tionality conflicts mount, and
as glasnost permits more
public expressions of discon-
tent, the natural tendency to
anti-Semitic propaganda and
violence is given more oppor-
tunity of expression," said
Pamela Cohen, president of
the Union of Councils.