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he American Jewish Corn- Eastern countries — there are
mittee, which has been over 1 million Jews there." ❑
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critical of the German gov- New York Jewish Week
ernment for paying pen-
sions to Nazi war criminals
while refusing reparations to
Holocaust survivors in Eastern
Europe, is taking its case to the
German people.
The organization opened an ERIC J. GREENBERG
office in Berlin headed by Eu- SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
gene DuBow, the group's former
director of community services. Moses may have led the He-
"I don't think the opening of brews into the Sinai desert.
the office is aimed at bringing
But its Matthew Golombek, a
pressure on the Gerinan gov- Jew from New Jersey, who has
ernment on this issue," said led Terrans up to the desert of
DuBow, "but we'll be trying to the planet Mars.
explain why it is so important to
The boyish, exuberant
us and American Jewry."
Golombek is chief project spe-
David Har- cialist for the history-making
ris, the AJC's NASA mission to the Red Plan-
executive di- et. His joyous, excited expres-
rector, said sion, framed by glasses, is the
that by open- main one seen on the numerous
ing the office televised press conferences re-
his
tion organiza-
was mak- cently as scientists explain what
ing itself as a humankind is learning for the
first time about its closest neigh-
"p ermanent b or.
player on the
When asked about his back-
David Harris:
German ground, a NASA spokeswoman
AJC executive
scene. The es- said, "He is of Jewish heritage,
director.
tablishment of but is not practicing."
Golombek, who now lives in
an American Jewish presence in
Germany by a national Ameri- California and has two children,
can Jewish agency is a new and is a native of Hackensack; grad-
important step in German Jew- uated from Rutgers University
ish relations."
with a degree in geology in 1976
DuBow, who has been active and received a doctorate in ge-
in German -Jewish affairs since ology from the University of
the early 1980s, was last year Massachusetts in 1981.
awarded the Officers Cross of
His Rutgers adviser, Profes-
the Order of Merit by the Ger- sor Michael Carr, now chairman
man government for his years of of geological sciences, says he's
commitment to improving Ger- not surprised at Golombek's
man-Jewish relations.
achievement.
"He's one of a handful of the
He said he has known the
Jew-
very best and is showing the
new president of the Berlin
ish community, Andreas same personal qualities — very
Nachama, for many years. energetic, very smart, always
There are about 60,000 Jews in with a positive attitude, that
Germany, 10,000 in Berlin have always served him very
alone, DuBow noted.
well," said Carr.
"One of our purposes is to put
Carr recalls that Golombek's
ourselves into stronger contact first major paper dealt with
with the German-Jewish com- earthquakes in El Salvador.
"He did his senior thesis for
munity [in Germany]," he said.
"There has been a great influx me," Carr said. "He showed that
of Jews in the last several years, the earthquake eruptions oc-
almost all of them from the for- curred in spurts in a tidal pat-
tern. That got him into using
mer Soviet Union."
In addition, DuBow said the computers."
Golombek was awarded the
AJC wants to "bring Germans
and Jews into closer contact department's prize as most out-
with each other" and to increase standing student.
Despite their long association
contact with the German gov-
ernment "to let it know what Carr said he did not know his
Jewry is thinking about differ- student was Jewish.
ent topics of importance."
"He did not wear his Jewish-
DuBow added that the AJC ness in an obvious way." 0
would use its Berlin location as
a "jumping off place for contact New York Jewish Week
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