I PURELY COMMENTARY I Machon L'Torah The Jewish Learning Network of Michigan Call For 'Iriruth Presents • Continued from Page 2 ••• ELVE INTO YOUR PAST • ... REFLECT ON CURRENT EVENTS ♦ ... VIEW YOUR FUTURE OPENING SESSION Tuesday, January 23, 1990 7:30 pm — at — The Jewish Learning Network of Michigan 15221 W. Ten Mile Rd. Oak Park, Michigan For further information and reservations, please call 967-0888 Ronald D. Kerwin, M.D., P.C. is pleased to announce the relocation of his Dermatology Practice to the Atrium Medical Building 6330 Orchard Lake Road (North of Maple Road) West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322 (313) 855-3366 SPECIAL VALENTINE WEEK PACKAGE: LIMOUSINE. DOZEN ROSES, CHAMPAGNE. DINNER & DANCING AT THE RED TIMBERS OF NOVI HOME OF THE SUPERCRU SER ONE FREE HOUR WITH 1ST 4 HOURS PAID (Consecutive Hours Only) With Coupon *Not Valid with any other special package or offering 44 FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1990 J R LIMOUSINE SERVICE USE OUR FLEET FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE (313) 477-1630 ALL FOR A SPECIAL PRICE Call For Details (Valid 2/11-2118) a resumption of the anti- Semiticism, the Klarsfelds issued a statement condemn- ing the horrors and added the following: In 1983, we had asked J- C Pressac to write a reference work with all the available drawings and photographs devoted to the technique and opera- tion of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This initiative on our part was by no means exceptional because already in 1978 we had published in English a very detailed work entitled The Holocaust and the Neo Nazi Mythomania. When we see what an isolated and tenacious researcher like J-C Pressac has been able to reconstitute, starting his work 35 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we cannot but regret that it was not possible for Jewish research missions to study the Auschwitz site and its archives in 1945. But at that time there was, alas, no Jewish state, and the Jews as such were not authorized to appear for the prosecution in the name of the Jewish people at the Nuremberg trial. As for the archives of the Soviet War Crimes Com- mission which worked for two months at Auschwitz, only fragments of them have come to light and the Soviets themselves, who lost interest in the subject after Nuremberg, do not seem to even know where they are. Thanks to the new possibilities opened up by Perestroika and the thaw- ing of Soviet-Israeli and Polish-Israeli relations, we may hope that the historians and archives of the Yad Vashem will suc- ceed in recovering a valuable documentation that has so far remained unpublished. The Call for Truth endless- ly sounded in the Klarsfelds' dedicated labors for decency in mankind gets added em- phasis and strength in the Pressac documentation. ❑ Israel Deals With Cults c ults and cultists often tempt the naive, the, frustrated, the estranged from family iden- tifications. Some Jews even embrace a deity by identify- ing under the title Jews for Jesus. They have the chief temptation of asking to be called Jews while abandoning that right under the assumed title. Such false conception caus- ed one couple among them to ask for the right to the Jewish Law of Return in Israel, and that's when they fell into a trap. That's when a judicial ruling admonished the delud- ed applicants to learn that fact that what they adopted under the much advertised ti- tle in expensive newspaper advertising simply meant that they are not Jews but Christians by adoption. The Israel Supreme Court ruled that those who claim to be messianic Jews are not en- titled to automatic Israeli citizenship. The judicial rul- ing concluded with the belief that Jesus was the Messiah makes them Christians in- stead of Jews. Justice Menahem Elon stated in the court ruling: "Messianic Jews attempt to reverse the wheels of history by 2,000 years. But the Jewish people have decided the 2,000 years of its history that messianic Jews do not belong to the Jewish nation and have no right to force themselves on it. Those who believe in Jesus are in fact Christians." Many are often puzzled by the campaigns conducted ex- pensively in efforts to lure Jews. A necessary guide for rejecting and ridiculing those who seek to lure Jews into false beliefs is provided in the Israeli court decision. The lastingly historic Jewish posi- tion is simple. The cultists are Christians by adoption and should be ousted from all ef- forts to create confusion in Jewry. ❑ I NEWS I Jews, Soviet Envoys Talk New York (JTA) — Three Jewish organizational leaders with Eastern European roots expressed concern to Soviet diplomats over the upsurge of anti- Semitism in the Soviet Union. They met for more than an hour last month with Dmitri Bykov, the Soviet deputy ambassador to the United Nations, and Alexander Khadakov, first secretary of the Soviet U.N. Mission. Harold Ostroff, president of the Workmen's Circle and manager of the Jewish For- ward, said they received assurances that the problem was being given high priori- ty by the Soviet authorities.