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VOL.63   NO.43
OCTOBER 17,1985-CHESVAN 2
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals
Public Invited
To film Series
On Holocaust
The B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation, the Melton Center and the Department of
Judaic and Near Eastern
Languages and Literature at
Ohio State University sponsoring a film . program,
"Holocaust in World Cinema," which is shown in conjunction with the evening
session of Hebrew 375, "The
Holocaust in Literature and
Film."
On Tuesday evening, Oct.
22, in Hopkins Hall, 128 N.
Oval Mall, room 162, Mr.
Emmanuel will be presented. The film, made in
1944 and directed by Harold
French, is a war-time British drama about an aging
Jewish widower who travels
to Germany before the war.
Other movies will be
shown on the next six Tuesday evenings in the same location. All are free and open
to the public.
SPECIAL TO THE JTA
JDC Reports More Than $300,000
In Mexican Relief
NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish community
and members of the general public moved with alacrity in
response to the Mexico City earthquake and the announcement that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) was opening its mailbox to earmarked
donations. The JDC, the overseas relief agency of the
American Jewish community, announced last week that donations and pledges had risen to over $300,000 and were still
coming in.
Klinghofter's Boyhood Friend Says
Being Jewish Led To His Death
Egypt Bars Israel From 1986 Book Fair
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will not be allowed to participate in the 1986 International book fair in Cairo next January.
Egyptian Culture Minister Ahmed Heikeal was quoted by the
state-owned Middle East News Agency as saying that his
ministry "has rejected an Israeli request for participation in
the fair." Heikeal gave no reason, but his statement came
after Egypt's denunciation of Israel's air attack on PLO
headquarters in Tunisia. Israel was allowed to participate in
this year's fair after it withdrew its troops from Lebanon. It
was barred from the fairs in 1983 and 1984 as a protest by
Egypt to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Louis Farrakhan Brings Message
Of Bigotry, Anti-Semitism To N.Y.C.
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NEW YORK (JTA) -
Black Muslim leader Louis
Farrakhan brought his controversial nationwide tour to
a thunderous conclusion
here last week in a speech to
some 25,000 persons in which
he lashed out at his critics,
especially Jews, whom he
accused of having- injected
"the germ of murder . .,
into the hearts of Jews"
throughout the country.
"Some person is going to
think they're doing God a
favor and seek-my death,"
Farrakhan declared to the-
overflow crowd at Madison
Square Garden and the Felt
Forum. - "You can't find a
word in the text of my
speeches that calls for the
death of Jews, yet I am
made to look like an anti-
Semite."
Saying the "Jewish lobby
has  a   stranglehold   on
government,"  he said,  "I
will not bend my knees to the
power  of  the  Jews."   At
another point, he said "Jewish control of Black organizations has to be busted up
and broken. We don't want to
relate to the Jews in a master-slave  relationship,"   a
remark  that,  like  many
throughout the evening, triggered a wildly enthusiastic
respolnse from the audience.
Anger And Controversy
Farrakhan's  appearance
here, in the city with the largest Jewish population in the
United States,  generated
much  anger  and  controversy,   as  did  his   other
speeches during the 14-city
nationwide tour. His speech
to some 18,000 persons at the
Forum in Los Angeles last
month and the behind-the-
scenes efforts between the
Black and Jewish community on how to handle Farrakhan, has left'bitter
strains between the two communities there.
In New York, however, the
Jewish community sought to
maintain what was , described by some Jewish
leaders as a lower profile.
Instead of coming out and
staging a demonstration at
the Garden, for example,
they sought to stay away
from the event, for fear of
turning "the rally into "a
media event, which is exactly what he wants,"
according the Mayor Edward Koch.
However, the Jewish Defense Organization staged a
small protest outside the
Garden Oct. 6. Some of the 18
persons at the demonstration carried placards calling
for "death to Farrakhan."
On the same day, a demonstration against Farrakhan
was held at the Riverdale
Monument by the Hebrew
Institute of Riverdale, protesting Farrakhan as an
anti-Semite, racist and
bigot.
Assails His Critics
But Farrakhan is well
aware of the controversy he
generates and made reference to his critics during the
course of his more than two-
and-a-half hour address.
"Those who call me a bigot,
a hater, an anti-Semite, I
want you to listen to me real
carefully," he said.
"If anything like that
comes out of my mouth I
want you raise your hand
and stop me," Farrakhan-
said from the podium where
he was surrounded by
guards from his Fruit of
Islam group. "That's what
they say I am. Tonight, I
want you to judge for yourself."     '        '
Later, Farrakhan said,
"Who are the people who are
against Farrakhan? Are the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Maurice Blond, a boyhood
friend of Leon Klinghoffer of
New York, the only passenger on the Italian cruise liner
Achille Lauro to be murdered by the Arab terrorist
hijackers, said last week
that there was "no question"
that Klinghoffer had been
slain "because he was a
Jew."
Blond, who is chairman of
the Board of the Israel Bond
campaign's New York Division of Organizations, told
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that Klinghoffer was
a regular contributor to New.
York synagogues and was
always "very generous", in
giving to Jewish causes.
Blond said his friend has
been very active in the
Brotherhood Synagogue in
Greenwich Village where
Klinghoffer had resided, and
a consistent contributor to
synagogues on the Lower
East Side where the two men
had been active as youths in
the Grand Street Settlement
House, a gathering place for
Jewish immigrants. Blond
said that Klinghoffer had
been "a great beliver in
Judaism."
Klinghoffer and his wife,
Marilyn, had' celebrated
their 36th wedding anniversary on Sept. 18 and had at
the time talked excitedly
about the cruise they would
take, Blond recalled. Marilyn was not aboard the ship
when, the terrorists seized it
and later shot Klinghoffer
and threw his body overboard. She had remained in
Egypt with other passengers
to go sight-seeing.
'This Is Just Savagery'
Blond said that the news of
his death, after initial reports that none of the passengers nor crew members
had been hurt during the
two-day ordeal, was "the
worst thing" for his family
and friends to have to
accept.
Klinghofter's daughters,
Ilsa and Lisa, stayed in the
bedrooms of their homes,
crying inconsolably after
receiving the tragic news.
Friends and neighbors who
had been rejoicing with the
family after receiving word
that the ship was released
with no one harmed, were
horrified and distraught to
learn of Klinghofter's death.
A family friend, Benson
Imberman, said,  "This is
just savagery. This was a
pleasant man who would sit
in his wheelchair in front of
the building (where he had
resided) and greet people. If
you wanted to chat, he would
chat .with you. He never
intruded, though."
Carol Hodes of Wood-
bridge, N.J., whose mother,
Millie, was one'of the cruise
passengers, said, "I can't
believe it. Why would they
pick on him? He was an
elderly man, such an innocent victim:"
Klinghoffer was confined
to a wheelchair after suffering a paralyzing stroke.
Some of his friends speculated that the terrorists had
ordered him to move and
when he didn't or couldn't do
so fast enough, they shot
him.
Rabbi A. Ciner To Address
Rabbinic Alumni Convention
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner of the
Agudas Achim Synagogue
will address the 4lst Annual
Convention of the Rabbinic
Alumni of Yeshiva University.
The convention, Oct. 22-24,
will be held at the Homo-
wack Hotel in upstate New
York and will have as its
theme "The Jewish Family
in Transition, Halachic Approaches to Emerging Problems." Sessions and workshops highlighting numerous
topics will be discussed.
Models for Family Life in
Tanach; Integrating the
Non-Married into the Syna
gogue; and Parents and
Stepparents — Parameters
of Kibbud Av Va'Em are
some of the topics to-be
discussed.
Bella Wexner To Be Honored, Oct. 24,
At Hadassah's Annual Major Gifts Dinner
Bella Wexner, a community leader and philanthropist, will be honored by the
Columbus Chapter of Hadas-
Bella Wexner
sah at the Annual Major
Gifts Dinner on Thursday,
Oct. 24, at- Winding Hollow
Country Club.
Wexner, a recent Hadassah founder, will be awarded
a certificate in recognition of
her gift to Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital in memory of
her husband, the late Harry
Wexner.
To the people of Jerusalem
and all of Israel, Hadassah is
a destination. An enormous,
imposing network of healing: The Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical Center
... one institution on two
campuses... Kiryat Hadassah (Ein Kerem) and Mt.
Scopus. To the hundreds of
thousands each year, who
seek its life-saving services,
Hadassah also means a university teaching hospital...
a community health center
. ,\ . a research-institute ..
five centers for the prevention of degenerative diseases
.. ..and one of six leading
cancer institutes in the
world."
In launching their annual
Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) Campaign at the
. Chapter meeting on Oct. 15,
Renee Resnik, president of
the Columbus Chapter, announced that the 1985-86 goal
for Columbus is $66,000, an
increase of 10 percent over
the previous year's quota,
which Columbus proudly
achieved. The first event of
.the campaign ... the Major
Gifts Annual dinner will
have as guest speaker Deborah Kaplan, the national
treasurer of Hadassah, and
. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
'Rabbi Alan Ciner
Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University,
will address the groups at a
dinner held on Wednesday
evening in honor of the past
presidents of the Rabbinic
Alumni.
The convention brings together rabbis from throughout the country. The Rabbinic Alumni is the largest
rabbinic body of its kind,
consisting of nearly 2,000
rabbis who are serving in
pulpits in the United States
and abroad, as well as in
leadership positions in the
Jewish communities as Hillel directors, teachers and
administrators and executives in national and local
Jewish agencies.
Yeshiva University is the
oldest and largest university
under Jewish auspices in
this country and will be celebrating its centennial in 1986. -
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