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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1991
Agudah's Abba Cohen:
Into a complex broth.
the agency responsible for
dealing with false or
misleading advertising.
But the biggest hitch re-
mains the fear that requir-
ing information on the
manufacturer of house-
brand foods could drive pro-
ducers from the kosher food
market.
Many house brands are
produced by the big-name
food companies. The Union
of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America has
argued that requiring
disclosure of the manufac-
Rep. Stephen Solarz:
Something for our soldiers.
turer could drive those pro-
ducers out of the house-
brand business because
consumers would no longer
have any incentive to buy
the more expensive, brand-
name products.
Agudah officials indicated
this week that they are look-
ing at compromise language
that may address the pri-
vate-label problem.
Rep. Stephen Solarz
(D-N.Y.) is expected to in-
troduce the kashrut measure
when Congress returns from
its spring break.
The Rev. Stan Musial
Scores With U.S. Jews
RVAND
SioattARM
rthodox groups are
trying to find some
common ground as
they wrestle with proposed
lesiglation designed to make
information on the certifica-
tion of kosher foods more ac-
cessible to consumers.
But that process has
become an enormously com-
plex one, involving an al-
phabet soup of federal agen-
cies — and embroiling two
major Orthodox groups in a
debate over the arcane issue
of private label foods.
"Basically, you have four
agencies involved, which
makes for a cumbersome
process," said Abba Cohen,
Washington representative
for Agudath Israel of
America, the group that in-
itiated the legislation. "The
United States Department of
Agriculture has jurisdiction
over meat and poultry; the
Food and Drug Administra-
tion supervises all other
foods."
The Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms is also
part of the process, since it
oversees such things as
kosher wines. And the Fed-
eral Trade Commission is
Stan Musial stepped up to
the plate in Washington last
week — and hit the ball out
of the park, according to his
enthusiastic audience.
But the Musial in question
was not the St. Louis
slugger. The Rev. Stanislaw
Musial, a high-level official
in the Catholic church in
Poland, was in town to
discuss Polish-Jewish rela-
tions with officials at B'nai
B'rith International, as well
as staffers from the Congres-
sional 'Human Rights
Caucus and a number of re-
-ligious leaders.
Fr. Musial also visited the
site of the Holocaust
Memorial Museum on Wash-
ington's Mall and toured the -
emerging facility with mu-
seum director Michael
Berenbaum.
The cleric admitted that
anti-Semitism is still wide-
spread in Poland — and
argued that the church in
Poland must be the engine
for changing those ingrained
attitudes.
Anti-Semitism, he said, is
"a crime against God and
against Christianity."
One way to demonstrate
its determination to wipe out
age-old patterns of anti-
Semitism is for Poland to in-
vite fleeing Soviet Jews to
immigrate to that country,
Fr. Musial said, to
repopulate a Jewish popula-
tion all but wiped out during
the Holocaust.
U.S. Gls In Israel
May Get Combat Perks
With April 15 approaching
with sickening speed, Rep.
Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.) is
trying to do something for the
American soldiers who shot
Scud missiles from the skies
over Israel.
According to military
regulations, the soldiers
were not technically in a
"combat zone," despite the
Scud missiles raining down
on central Israel.
As a result, they are not
eligible for the special Inter-
nal Revenue Service exemp-
tions for Desert Storm
soldiers.
Before the congressional
recess, Mr. Solarz shot off a
letter to Gen. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, the American
chief of Operation Desert
Storm, urging him to use his
authority to declare that the
Patriot operators were serv-
ing in direct support of the
U.S. war effort, even though
they were outside the formal
combat zone. This would
make them eligible for the
The soldiers were
not technically in a
combat zone.
IRS exemption, as well as for
combat decorations.
"I can think of few people
who contributed more to the
war effort," Mr. Solarz
wrote. "They not only saved
thousands of lives, but may
also have helped to prevent
the escalation of the Gulf
war into a cataclysmic Arab-
Israeli conflict."