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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."