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Zionist Group Launches Campaign
For Release Of Israeli MIAs
T
he American Zionist
The ad appears 11 years
Movement (AZM) has
after the capture of Zachary
launched a major cam-
Baumel, Zvi Feldman and
paign to press for the
Yehuda Katz, all of whom
release of four
were taken
,/- Israeli soldiers
following a
missing in
tank battle
• action, some
with Syrian
/J for as long as
forces in
\ 11 years.
Lebanon in
In a full-
June 1982.
adver-
The fourth
• page
.
tisement last
MIA, Air Force
Ron Arad, Zachary Baumel
week in the
Capt. Ron
New York
Arad, has been
Times,
the
missing for
AZM, a na-
seven years.
tional um-
He parachut-
brella organi-
ed from his jet
zation repre-
over Lebanon
senting 22
in October
Zionist organi-
1986, and was
Zvi Feld man, Yehuda Katz
N _ zations with 1
later handed
million members, called on
over to the Iranian
Iran, Syria and Lebanon to
Revolutionary Guards.
"use their influence" in
With the exception of
bringing about the release
these four men, all other
of the four members of the
Western hostages in
Israel Defense Forces.
Lebanon were freed in 1991.
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Thar's Gold In Them Thar Digs
T
el Aviv (JTA) — A
group of American
student volunteers
from Minnesota have
unearthed a rare and
priceless archaeological
treasure of 99 ancient gold
coins at a dig in the
ancient port city of
Caesaria.
The coins, dating back
some 1,500 years to the
Byzantine period, are
known as solidi, the cash
currency of the time.
Found under the floor of a
home of an affluent family
of the era, the coins shed
light on the economic and
commercial life of ancient
Caesaria and the standard
of living of the people.
The total weight of the
coins amounts to about 16
ounces.
The find, the first of its
kind in Caesaria and one
extremely rare anywhere
in the world, was uncov-
ered as part of a large-
scale archaeological dig
being undertaken by the
Combined Caesaria
Expedition, sponsored by
the University of Haifa's
Recanati Center for
Maritime Studies and the
University of Maryland.
The coins were found in
a kind of safe made from a
broken basalt flour mill
uncovered by the student
volunteers. Deciphered by
the expedition's numisma-
tist, the coins are in an
excellent state of preserva-
tion.
They were minted in the
second half of the 4th cen-
tury C.E. One side bears
the likeness of the head of
an emperor; the other is a
figure of a victory goddess
with military insignia.
The coins probably were
minted in Antioch or
Constantinople, where the
period's two primary
mints, out of seven, were
located.
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Fun Facts
For Fun Folks
O
kay everybody, it's
time to put away
Thomas Mann (you
know you don't really
understand The Magic
Mountain) and turn off
"Law & Order" (deep inside,
it's "Unsolved Mysteries"
that you love) and get ready
for the summer with some
really intellectual stuff.
Here are some fun facts
to get you started. Did you
know:
* Petroleum was discov-
ered by amateur scientist
Abraham Schreiner. (So
why is it all the oil is in
Arab nations?)
* Film producer Samuel
Goldwyn's original name
was Samuel Goldfish. Glub
glub.
* Israel's former chief
rabbi Shlomo Goren served
in the Haganah.
* Read all about it: A
Hebrew
newspaper,
HaMelitz (The Advocate),
was published from 1860-
1904, first weekly then
daily, in Russia.
* Russian-Jewish novel-
ist and poet Peretz
Markish, who died on the
Night of the Murdered
Poets, bore a striking
resemblance to Lord Byron.
* Halachah, Jewish law,
does not obligate witnesses
to swear to tell the truth.
The rabbis hold that any
kind of oath should be
avoided, and false vows are
considered a descreation of
God's name.
* One of the first presi-
dents of Sears, Roebuck
and Co., and the man cred-
ited with making the store
into a major conglomerate,
was Julius Rosenwald
(1862-1932) of Chicago.
Rosenwald gave away some
$70 million in his lifetime
and created the Julius
Rosenwald Fund (which
functioned for 25 years
after his death), to be used
for establishing schools for
blacks.
Disabled Atheletes Join Maccabiah
D
on't talk to these
four athletes about
disabilities. Talk
to them about tennis,
swimming and running.
Among the 650
Americans
entering
Ramat Gan Stadium in
Israel last week were
Judy Goldberg, Ryan
Martin, Marc Nadel and
Brenda Smith -- all dis-
abled, all topnotch ath-
letes representing the
United States for the
14th World Maccabiah
Games.
It is the first time the
disabled competition will
be included as part of the
World Maccabiah Games.
rend.
Smith, of
t*ith
will
us
‘nd
e marathon while
in Israel.
Judy Goldberg of New
York, born with the brit-
tle bone disorder osteoge-
nesis imperfect, always
wanted to swim competi-
tively. It was in water
that she initially learned
to walk. A National
Wheelchair Association
competitor, she holds a
national record in the
100-meter butterfly
event.
Ryan Martin of
Washington, D.C., began
playing wheelchair ten-
nis six months after he
was paralyzed by a bullet
wound. He is a
University of Miami
freshman and the top-
ranked disabled tennis
player in the United
States.
Marc Nadel of Duluth,
Ga., was 20 when he was
paralyzed in a shooting:,
incident.
Toda y, --he'
team captain of the
Atlanta
n Tennis.
Associati
This
month he wboth the
singles and doubles
events at the ALTA
Wheelchair League city
championships.
Dr. Leo and Joan Koven present a Sefer Torah to the leaders of Beersheva's
Ethiopian synagogue.
Synagogue Receives Torah
I
srael's first Ethiopian
synagogue has just wel-
comed a Sefer Torah
from Brooklyn.
Dr. and Mrs. Leo Koven
of New York donated the
Torah. They brought it from
the old Brooklyn Jewish
Hospital where Dr. Koven,
now retired, had served. Dr.
Koven's late parents donat-
ed the Sefer Torah to the
hospital more than 50 years
ago.
As leaders of the
Ethiopian synagogue, locat-
ed in Beersheva, accepted
the Torah from the Kovens,
a choir of Ethiopian and
Russian children from a
nearby school joined the
dancing and singing.