COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
Wanted: College Students
Interested In Adoption
T
he North American
Conference on Ethi-
opian Jewry is look-
ing for a few
good college
students.
Students are
needed to "a-
dopt" — which
/entails a small
monthly fee —
their Ethiopian counter-
warts in Israel.
The NACOEJ recently
sent letters to more than
100 American and
Canadian colleges, offering
speakers and slide shows
to provide updates on the
Otituatio-n of Ethiopian
Jews, both those still in
Ethiopia and those in
Israel.
• "The response has been
terrific," an NACOEJ
ospokesman said. "Speakers
who have been on missions
lito Ethiopia already are
giving talks on many cam-
puses, and, as a result, col-
--
V
lege students are not only
fully informed on this
issue, they are clubbing
together to
adopt Ethio-
pian college
students in
Israel."
Colleges
that have
signed up for
the adoptions are Colgate,
the Fashion Institute of
Technology, the University
of Delaware, Connecticut
College, SUNY at Bing-
hamton, Skidmore, Adel-
phi, Rutgers, Towson State
University, and the Uni-
versity of Western On-
tario.
Colleges interested in
adoption, or obtaining at
NACOEJ speaker at no
charge, should contact
Meyer Leiman at the
NACOEJ, 165 E. 56th St.,
New York, N.Y. 10022, or
call (212) 752-6340.
EM'AFR
'AUER
Odessa To Host
Jewish Concert
he Ukrainian govern-
ment, Tel Aviv Uni-
versity and the city
of Odessa have teamed up
to organize an internation-
al festival of Jewish music,
to be held in October in
Odessa. The festival will
mark the city's 200th
anniversary.
Joseph Dorfman of Tel
Aviv University, who will
serve as artistic director,
said the event will cele-
brate the fact that some of
the world's leading musi-
cians are Jews from
Odessa. They include vio-
linists David Oystrach and
Nathan Milstein, and
pianists Emil Gilels and
Beno Moiseevich.
The festival will com-
prise 18 concerts and the
works of 30 Jewish com-
posers.
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Faxed Prayers
Hit The Wall
T
o, you've just come
home and checked
out the mail and,
once again, it's about as
exciting as reruns of "I
Dream of Jeannie."
The sweepstakes ("You
are a finalist for our big
prize!" — You, and 60
million other Americans).
The bills. The requests
for charity. The fliers
announcing another dry
cleaner opening.
Can't somebody come
up with something decent
to warm the mailbox?
This could be the
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answer.
Nishma is a New York-
based organization call-
ing for "investigation and
re-investigation" and the
"highest standards of
scholarship" in Torah
study. It regularly pro-
vides — at no charge ---
packets and brochures
offering Torah perspec-
tives by a variety of schol-
ars.
For information, con
tact Nislima at 555 Kap-
pock St., Suite 18B,
Bronx, N.Y. 10463, or call
(212) 884-1240.
el Aviv (JTA) — The .
ancient custom of
writing prayers to
the Almighty and inserting
them in cracks between
the stones of the Western
Wall has moved into the
20th century.
The Israeli government's
Bezek telephone company
announced it has opened a
special Fax-to-Hashem
department. A Bezek rep-
resentative will collect the
messages and place them
at the Wall.
The new service costs
the normal charge for a fax
call to Israel, with no addi-
tional amount charged for
hand delivery to the Wall.
The number is 011-972-02-
612-222.
El Al Israel Airlines has lent a helping hand to the Israel Guide Dog Center
for the Blind. Recently, the national airline of Israel carried four Labrador
retriever puppies to Israel. Two were from South Africa and two, named
Charles and Di, were from New York. Shown above are Ilan Jarus, El Al's
cargo manager in the United States, Norm Leventhal, international presi-
dent of the Israel Guide Dog Center, and the lovely Charles and Di.
Was LBJ A Righteous Gentile?
es, he was, accord-
ing to a recent
report in the Texas
Jewish Post.
Writer Tom Tugend says
that Lyndon B. Johnson
could see the evil end of
Hitler's rise to power and,
consequently, arranged
privately for the immigra-
tion of hundreds of East
European Jews to the
United States.
University of California-
Los Angeles Professor
Robert Dallek told Mr.
Tugend that LBJ's grand-
father "drilled it into his
grandson that to bring
about the second coming of
Christ, the Jews had to
return to Israel, Jerusalem
must be their capital, and
that the boy must always
help the Jews."
During the 1930s, when
LBJ was a small-time
Texas politician, he read a
book called Nazism: An
Assault on Civilization,
describing Hitler's plan to
murder the Jews. Learn-
ing that a Jewish friend in
Austin was headed toward
Poland in 1938, the future
president gave him 40 pre-
approved, nameless visa
forms (which was illegal).
He later arranged for sev-
eral hundred Jewish refu-
gees, stranded in South
America, to come to the
United States.
What's The Time Line, Comrade?
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can and Jewish history.
For a copy, send $3.25 to
the JHS (Jewish Historical Lif
Society) of New York, 600
phia
is Line,
offering
a poster,
"Time
1492
to the West End Ave., New York, 1 1
N.Y. 10024.
Present," charting Ameri-
he National Museum
of American Jewish
History in Philadel-