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Six communities — New
York, Boston, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia and
San Francisco — have resettl-
ed the majority of Soviet Jews
coming to the United States.
Jerome Levinrad, CJF direc-
tor of the Refugee Resettle-
ment Program, said New
York City continually reset-
tles at least 45 percent of the
immigrants. This year, he
said, the figure rose to 55

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1989

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Catholics Condemn
Cardinal's Speech

PLAN NOW TO ATTEND:

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percent.
Meanwhile, the Federa-
tion's Resettlement subcom-
mittee is reviewing methods
in which the community pro-
vides culture and integration
'for these Soviet immigrants.
Subcommittee Chairman
Benjamin Rosenthal said the
committee hopes to complete
its proposal by the end of
September.

Paris (JTA) = Catholic of-
ficials joined Jewish leaders
in the United States and
Europe in condemning
remarks made by Cardinal
Jozef Glemp, the highest-
ranking Catholic official of
Poland.
Cardinal Glemp shocked
even his supporters in the
Solidarity movement by the
language of a sermon ad-
monishing Jews to stop pro-
testing the presence of a con-
vent on the grounds of the
former Auschwitz death
camp.
The cardinal accused Jews
of using the mass media for
anti-Polish propaganda and
offending Poles and their
sovereignty on the convent
issue.
Even the Solidarity daily,
Gazeta Wyborcza, normally
supportive of the Catholic
Church, found Glemp's
remarks offensive.
"The words used by the
primate threaten to be deep-
ly painful to many descen-
dants and brothers of
Holocaust victims," the Polish
newspaper said.
Especially on the eve of the
start of World War II, "we
listened to these words with
regret and pain," the Solidari-
ty paper added.
In Paris, a prelate of the
French Catholic Church
made a strong, if indirect,
response to Glemp's remarks.
It was contained in an arti-
cle written by Cardinal Jean-
Marie Lustiger, the ar-
chbishop of Paris, that ap-
peared Monday in the daily
newspaper Le Monde.
The article included a sting-
ing denunciation of Nazi
crimes and a reiteration of
the meaning of Jewish
martyrdom.
Cardinal Lustiger adopted
an indirect approach so as to
express his views without
breaking or being perceived
to break Church discipline,
French Catholic circles said.
Lustiger made no direct
mention of the controversy
over the Carmelite convent at
Auschwitz or of Glemp's homi-

ly with its heavy anti-Semitic
overtones.
"Whether we like it or not,"
the French cardinal wrote,
"the center of this tragedy
(the Holocaust) is the election
of Israel (as the chosen people)
and the saving of humanity."
Lustiger then boldly refer-
red to his own Jewish origin.
He was born Jewish but rais-
ed as a Catholic after his
parents perished in the
Holocaust.
"I am one of those who
should and could have been
one of [the Jewish martyrs].
We were doomed to the same
annihilation, but we were
spared. Sometimes we knew
how and why, sometimes we
did not."
Lustiger said he did not
believe "that Auschwitz sym-
bolizes a madness without a
past and without conse-
quences. We should search in-
to the past and also examine
all that followed as it is not
enough that the Nazi empire
collapsed.
"This does not mean that
the temptations which caus-
ed it have disappeared."
In Rome, Jewish leaders
were full of praise for Pope
John Paul II's eloquent con-
demnation of anti-Semitism
over the weekend.
Chief Rabbi Elio Tbaff of
Rome and 'Puha Zevi, presi-
dent of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities, saw it
as an antidote to Cardinal
Glemp's harsh words.
In New York, Rabbi A.
James Rudin said that
despite Cardinal Glemp's
remarks, a planned meeting
between U.S. Jewish leaders
and a top Vatican represen-
tative would take place in
early September. But he said
the speech is "going to be part
of the climate" affecting
discussions on the convent.
Cardinal Glemp "revived
some of the worst anti-Jewish
canards of the past," said
Rudin, who is chairman of the
International Jewish Com-
mittee on Interreligious Con-
sultations, which coordinates

