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"It's very nostalgic. This
camp has a whole lot of tradi-
tion and a whole lot of great
memories."
Recent campers, like 10-
year-old Danny Rosenberg
and 7-year-old Laura
Rosenberg, were among the
last to spend a session at
camp this summer. Although
sad about the facility's clos-
ing, the two are looking for-
ward to going to Camp Maas.
Richard Haas, who served
as camp caretaker from 1938
until 1959, was upset to see
Brighton close.
"I hate to see camp go," he
said. "There were a lot of
happy memories and mostly
good times for me at this
place. It's a real heartbreak-
er."
Most, if not all, who
showed up on Sunday stayed
to see the American and
Israeli flags lowered for the
last time. They also joined in
the camp tradition of singing
"Taps." ❑
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Sydney, Australia (JTA) —
Students at the University
of Sydney are outraged at
the publication of a
fraudulent letter in the stu-
dent newspaper that makes
a mockery of the Talmud
and portrays Jews in a
dangerously inaccurate light
bordering on blood libel.
The letter, signed with the
name of a non-existent per-
son, contains a series of
mythical extracts from the
Talmud in an attempt to
discredit Jewish sources in
debates on issues of morali-
ty.
Published last week, the
letter charges that a Jew is
permitted to "violate" 3-
year-old non-Jewish chil-
dren; treat "a non-Jewess"
as "a piece of meat"; and
"rape, cheat and perjure
himself."
In all there are nine such
libelous quotations in the
letter, harking back to
Medieval times when
virulently false theological
charges were regularly rais-
ed against Jews and which
Jews in those times were
forced to answer.
Shosh Simons, the presi-
dent of the university's sec-
tion of the Australian Union
of Jewish Students, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
she was "shocked and sur-
prised at the newspaper" for
publishing the letter.
"The publication of the
letter violates every policy of
the Students' Represent-
ative Council and breaches
New South Wales state anti-
racist legislation," she said.
She said she was expecting
a full apology for the
publication of the letter to be
printed in the next issue of
the newspaper. Failing this,
she said, the matter would
be pursued further.
Anna Davis, president of
the Students' Represent-
ative Council at the univer-
sity, said she was aware of
the anti- Semitism in the
letter as soon as she read the
paper.
She told JTA that the
paper could not publish
anything which is racist,
sexist or in any other way
offensive, but this policy
does not apply to the letters
page, where anything
received is generally
published.
She said she firmly be-
lieves this letter should not
have been published and
that the editors had failed to
even check whether the
signator existed, let alone
considered the offensiveness
of the letter's content.
She told JTA that, if she
"has anything to do with it,
the paper will not only
publish an apology but print
an article on the evil of anti-
Semitism in a forthcoming
issue."
The national president of
the Australian Union of
Jewish Students, Melanie
Landau, said she was
"sickened by the
maliciousness of the author
of the letter and the ir-
responsibility of the news-
paper in publishing it.
"There is a disturbing res-
urgence of anti-Jewish ac-
tivity in Australia today.
This sort of letter em-
phasizes the need for vig-
ilance by opponents of
racism and effective
government action for the
victims of racism, anti-
Semitism and discrimina-
tion," she said. ❑