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This Year In. ..SOUTH AMERICA!
QUESTION: How can we travel through South America
and know that we will enjoy Shabbat services and
the pleasure of meeting a whole new group of Jewish
friends?
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ANSWER: Just travel through South America on a hosted
VARIG Brazilian Airlines' Jewish Heritage Tour.
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There are synagogues, Jewish clubs and
organizations all the way from glorious Bahia in
the north of Brazil to cosmopolitan Buenos
Aires thousands of miles to the south.
Feel that special kinship with the sizable
Jewish population of South America. You'll be
introduced to Brazilians and Argentineans who
enjoy the very same religious celebrations
and wonderful traditions shared by Jews every-
where. You'll meet Jews who settled in Manaus,
a city carved out of the Amazon Jungle in
1699. You'll visit with Jewish ranchers in the
south of Brazil and talk to Jews living in
Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America," and
learn about their Jewish past and present.
You'll travel through this vast and magnificent
continent, secure in the knowledge that come
Friday night, you and your new friends will
experience the ancient sounds and rituals
of Shabbat services...Just like home.
Call your travel agent today or send in for
VARIG's colorful "Jewish Travellers Guide to
South America" and our Jewish Heritage
Tour Brochure.
Remember—This Year In ...SOUTH AMERICA!
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Geneva (JTA) — The 43rd
session of the U.N. Human
Rights Commission, which
wound up here earlier this
month, left a bitter taste, ac-
cording to the Israeli repre-
sentative, Rafael Walden.
Mr. Walden, whose status
is that of observer because
Israel is not a member of the
commission, referred to the
"usual series of anti-Israel
resolutions," which are a
hallmark of the annual
seven-week human rights
forum.
But his most severe
criticism was reserved for
the commission's mute re-
sponse to a blood ritual libel,
one of the oldest and
deadliest forms of anti-
Semitic incitement, which
was introduced into the pro-
ceedings by the second-
ranking member of the
Syrian delegation on Feb. 8.
The delegate, Nabila
Shaalan, recommended that
commission members read
"a very valuable book"
called The Matzah of Zion by
Syrian Defense Minister
Mustafa Tlas, which justifies
ritual murder charges
brought against Jews in
Damascus in 1840 for the
death of a Catholic mis-
sionary.
Although 30 nations urged
the commission to issue a
public condemnation of the
Syrian's remarks, its chair-
man, Enrique Bernales
Ballesteros of Peru, claimed
he lacked the authority to
speak on behalf of the body
on the issue.
There can be no doubt, said
Mr. Walden, that had a simi-
lar allegation been made
against any other world re-
ligion, the commission
would have acted strongly
and decisively to dissociate
itself from the remarks and
denounce them.
The fact that the commis-
sion took no collective steps
to denounce one of the cen-
tral accusations of anti-
Semitism shows how little
the Human Rights Commis-
sion lives up to the tasks it is
supposed to fulfill, Mr.
Walden said.
Charging a "double stan-
dard," he said some of
the anti-Israel resolutions
adopted at the human rights
session this year were more
extreme than many adopted
by the larger U.N. General
Assembly.
"This year, the Western
countries abstained with
regard to several anti-Israel
resolutions, in contrast to
last year, and this can be
seen as an improvement."
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