MEDIA MONITOR
0
IN NOVI & SOUTHFIELD
GAS Federal Fireplace
LOGS S ALE
BARBEQUE & PATIO FURNITURE
FITS MOST
FIREPLACES
WITH MANUAL VALVE
WHY PAY MORE?
D.C. 'Jewish Week'
Editor Resigns
Deep Bark Oak Style
Fireplace Gas Log Set
Your choice of 18" or 24" sets.
Naturally highlighted to add richness
and warmth to your room. Includes 8
year warranty, logs, grate, burner,
valve and glowing embers. #R18, R24.
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
WITH AUTO SAFETY PILOT
B
SUPER VALUE!
*SAVE NOW
GAS LOGS
IqP. 55 00
OVER 40%
SAVE UP TO 25% ON ALL
STYLES AND SIZES
INCLUDING OAK, PINE &
WHITE BIRCH
REG. 95.00
*Up TO 20 FT. OF COPPER TUBING (ZONE 1)
WITH PURCHASE OF GAS LOGS
Southfield Rd. at 12 Mile Rd.
1 mile north of 1-696
THIS SALE ENDS
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1990
AT 9 P.M.
Novi Rd. at 10 Mile Rd.
SOME ITEMS NOT EXACTLY AS PICTURED.
PRIOR SALES EXCLUDED
*SEE DETAILS IN STORE
557-3344
1-1/2 miles south of 12 Oaks Mall
348-9300
J
DESIGNS IN DECORATOR
LAMINATES
For High Quality Formica
Always At A Great Discount
it's all you need to celebrate
The best selection of
Party Supplies
NOW at DISCOUNT PRICES
SPECIALIZING
IN:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Wall Units
Bedrooms
Dining Rooms
Credenzas
Tables
Offices
28946 Orchard Lake, Farmington Hills
855-3636
ALSO
SPECIALIZING:
eing editor of a Jew-
ish newspaper may
have its liabilities,
but perhaps no one in the
annals of Jewish journalism
risked as much by entering
the profession as did Martin
Pomerance.
Mr. Pomerance, who re-
cently resigned as editor of
the Washington Jewish
Week, had a background
that could have provided the
plot for a made-for-TV film.
According to insiders, Mr.
Pomerance's comeuppance
owes much to his lack of
popularity among the
paper's editorial staff, which
did some investigating into
his background.
They discovered that in
1978, according to
Jerusalem Report, Mr.
Pomerance had moved from
the United States to Israel,
where he opened an art
gallery in Jerusalem.
Four years later, according
to a 1982 front-page article
in Ma'ariv, Jerusalem police
charged him with selling
works of art without permis-
Arthur J. Magida is a senior
writer for the Baltimore Jew-
ish Times.
• Woods • Glass
• Stones • Lucite
Wiesenthal Center
Disputes Red Crescent
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COST A
FORTUNE ... ONLY LOOK LIKE IT!
CALL LOIS HARON 851-6989
Allied Member ASID
I
N
N
Oriental Rugs
Today's Pleasure
Tomorrow's Treasure
high fashion at
affordable prices
251 Merrill
Birmingham
(313) 644.7311
2915 Breton
Grand Rapids
(1.800-622-RUGS)
RUTH & MARLENE
-O-
N
Maple III
INVITE YOU TO
Woodward
we've moved! come
and visit us at our
new location. We
now carry janet
sartin cosmetics.
KNIT SEPARATES
Mon.-Fri. 10-4 • Sat. 10-3
29107 Northwestern Hwy.
michelle & lee
Southfield, Michigan
358-4085
167 n. woodward • downtown-birrningham • 645-0311
N
30
Special to The Jewish News
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1991
sion of the artists who had
created them. The charge is
still pending.
Ma'ariv reported that Mr.
Pomerance, facing a police
investigation and two court
orders prohibiting him from
leaving the country, boarded
a tourist boat in Eilat, dove
into the water and swam to
Egypt. Newspaper accounts
of the incident say Israeli
sources assumed that Mr.
Pomerance had used false
papers to enter Egypt, from
which he returned to the
United States.
Before coming to the
Washington Jewish Week in
fall 1989, Mr. Pomerance
had been editor of the Palm
Beach Jewish World.
A Dec. 13 editorial in the
Washington Jewish Week
stated that it was alleged
that Mr. Pomerance had
"omitted important details
about his past when he
interviewed for the editor's
position," and that subse-
quent investigations con-
firmed those allegations.
The editorial said that the
paper's publisher, Dr.
Leonard Kapiloff, was
"confident" that Mr.
Pomerance's past had not af-
fected his performance as
editor.
To date, the Jewish Week
has not replaced Mr.
Pomerance.
CLOSED 12/2 5/90-1/1/91
Los Angeles' Simon
Wiesenthal Center has told
the International Com-
mittee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) that an article in the
Palestinian Red Crescent's
magazine claiming the
Holocaust was a hoax
"disqualifies (the Palestin-
ian group) as a human-
itarian organization by its
incitement to racism."
Meeting in Geneva with
ICRC president, Cornelio
Sommaruga, Dr. Shimon
Samuels urged that the
international group sever its
relationship with the Pales-
tinian Red Crescent.
Dr. Samuels is the Wiesen-
thal Center's European Di-
rector.
The offending article ap-
peared in the July issue of
Balsam, which is printed by
the Palestinian Red Cres-
cent in Nicosia, Cyprus. The
Red Crescent is the human-
itarian wing of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
The article, which was
written by Rim Arnov,
alleged that Jews had fab-
ricated the fiction of the
Holocaust to obtain "big
sums of compensation" from
West Germany. These funds
"enabled Jews to establish"
Israel.
The ICRC president said
he was "sad to hear such
stupidity in an article which
lost for its publishers all
possible neutrality and is, in
fact, against the principles of
the League."
While not committing
himself to further action on
the matter, Mr. Sommaruga
characterized this as a
"political" controversy that
could endanger the ICRC's
work in the field.
A Los Angeles Times arti-
cle about the incident stated
that although "some Pales-
tinians" have claimed the
Holocaust was a fraud, "the
PLO itself has never before
taken up the revisionist
cause."