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VOL.59   NO.4
JANUARY 22,1981-SHEVAT17
To AJS Board
Dr. Yehiel Hayon,. Director of the Samuel M, Melton
"Center for Jewish Studies at
The Ohio State University,
Chairman of the Department
of Judaic and Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures,
and Professor of Hebrew at
OSU, has been elected for a
two-year term to the Board
of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies
(AJS) during the Association's annual conference
held in December in Boston.
The AJS is a learned society and professional organization of 1,000 members which
promotes, maintains and improves teaching, research
and related endeavors in
Jewish Studies in colleges,
universities and other in:
stitutions of higher learning. -
-Besides an annual conference with sessions devoted to
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As 1981 March of Dimes National Poster Child,' Missy
Jablonsky of St. Louis, Mo., represents more than a
quarter-million children born every year in-the .U.S.
with'birth defects. Missy, 5Vz,-was' born.with open
spine.
The 1981 Mothers March on BirthJDe'fects Appeal is
currently in progress through Feb. i,-The money-
raised is used to fund three research grants at Ohio
State University and a Medical ServtceJ3rant at Children's Hospital Birth Defects Center.
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
Task Force on Missionary
Activity of the New York
Jewish Community Relations "Council (JCRC),
formed to combat efforts of
cults in the New York area to
recruit Jewish, youth as
members, has developed into a national resource, according to Laurence Tisch,
JCRC president, and Dr.
Seymour Lachman, Task
Force chairperson.
Malcolm Hoenlein, JCRC
executive director, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that as the work of the Task
Force became known, requests for information began
coming in not only from the
metropolitan area and New
York State but also from,
around the country and from.
abroad, "indicating.the dire
. need for such services."
Lachman  also  reported
task force, development of
_ seminars and workshops for
professionals in- anti-cult
work; continuation and ,ex-
, pansion of a speakers bureau
through the Jewish BQard of
Family and Children's Service   (JBFCS),   and  imple-
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a wide variety of scholarly
and professional matters,
the AJS publishes critical reviews of recent scholarly
works, a scholarly annual,
and information about positions in Jewish Studies.
The B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation has .named
Howard Sachar, noted Jewish Historian and Professor
of Modern European, Middle
Eastern, and Jewish History
at George Washington University, as its 1981 Rabbi
Harry Kaplan Scholar-In-
Resident. '
5.4 Percent Unemployed
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel's unemployment rate now stands
at 5.4 percent of the work force, with 72,000 men and women
out of work. Aharon Harel, chairman of Histadrut, said this
was an increase of nearly 70 percent over the 36,000 figure at
the end of 1979. .About 60 percent of women workers were
without jobs.
Terrorists Were Not Mutilated
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Postmortems performed by Israeli
pathologists on, the bodies of five Palestinian terrorists killed
by Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon recently confirmed Israel's assertions that the bodies had not been mutilated by
explosives and burned, as charged by the Dutch contingent of
the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Germany Moving On Arms Deal
BONN (JTA)—Government officials are believed to be
paving the way-for the sale of 300 highly sophisticated Leop-
ard-2 tanks to Saudi Arabia and have launched a campaign to
prepare public opinion for a possible deviation from the
- traditional limitations on arms shipments to non-members of
' the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In this connection, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been
quoted as saying that Saudi Arabia is not to be considered a
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The Scholar-in-residence
program was endowed by
friends and admirers of Rabbi Kaplan after his death in
1968. Rabbi Kaplan, who
served as rabbi and director
of the Hillel Foundation for
32 years; "was respected
nationwide for his work on
behalf of Jewish college
youth.'Under his direction,
the Hillel Foundation at Ohio
State University, achieved
its reputation for academic, ,
cultural, and institutional
excellenc. This .tradition is
continued by the annual
Kaplan Scholar.
Howard M. Sachar was
born in the United States and
educated at Swarthmore
College and Harvard University. His academic
career as university teacher
and Jewish educator has not
been limited to this country,
however. He lived in Israel
for six years, the last four of
them as Director of Brandeis
University's Jacob Hiatt Institute, and returned here
only in 1965. Since then he
has visited Israel at least
once annually for research
and consultation including
his Sabbatical year there on
a Fellowship of the National
Endowment for the
'' Humanities and as a Visiting
Professor at the University
of Tel,Aviv. His persper tive
on Jewish life in America
has been profoundly influenced by the Israeli experience. Editorials, in the
Anglo-Jewish press that
have followed his lectures
suggest that his views on the
contemporary Jewish world
are both highly arresting
and strikingly original.
Dr. Sachar's comments on
Middle Eastern and Jewish
Developments are
periodically taped via trans-
Howard Sachar
Atlantic telephone, and are
broadcast on Kol Yisraei in
Israel. He also is a guest
commentator for the Voice
of America, and is a frequent
lecturer at the National War
College and the National
Defense Intelligence College.
Dr. Sachar has published
widely on Jewish history and
on the Middle East. Included
among his works is "A
History of Israel," a selection of five book clubs, winner of National Jewish Book
Award and recipient of inter*
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menting a .special 24-hour
hotline for Jews needing advice and other help.
He said the Task Force
also was "launching a public
education campaign, including preparation of new
materials to counteract mis-,
sionary and cult propa- -
ganda." He said that under ;
Task Force auspices, ex- 4
peris in many fields "are
joining together in a concerted effort to combat the critical problems" and that volunteers were sought "to help
us make this program as
creative and effective as
possible."
Lachman said.a special
grant from the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies had
made it possible for the Task
Force "to initiate the full-
scale effort" needed to combat "the scores" of missionary and cult groups "preying" on the metropolitan
area Jewish community. He
;said the Task Force would
seek to "maximize existing,
programs and assist member organizations in undertaking new vitally needed
projects" to combat cult efforts.
Lachman saids that Jewish bookstores, schools and
"synagogues throughout
metropolitan New York had
been alerted to a wide range
of literature, calendars, records- -and cassettes which
bear "deceptive" Hebrew
names, Jewish symbols and
content, but which are produced by Christian missionary groups. He said the Task
Force had been told' that
such items have appeared in
stores specializing in Jewish
items, organizational gift-
shops and at Jewish-spon-.
sored fairs around the
United States.
He urged Jewish agencies
to publicize such materials,
in addition to bringing them
to the attention of rabbis,
educators and neighborhood
merchants. He cited records
and cassettes by "The Liberated Wailing Wall," "Jerusalem Players," "Star of
David Singers,"."The Israelites," "Israel's Hope," "The
House of David," and "Shalom Singers."
Lachman also cited organizations he said were not
easily recognizable as Christian missionary groups, listing. Beth Sar Shalom, also
known as American Board of
Missions to the Jews; He-,
brew Witness, Inc.; V'kol
Shofar; Peace for Israel;
Shalom Center; Jewish
Voice Broadcast; Beit Yeho-
shuah; North American
Jewish Ministries; Friends
, of Israel; the Tel Aviv Quartet; and Judaism in Service
to the World and the Jewish
Friendship League, the latter two being front organizations for the Unification
Church, according to
Lachman.
- Hoenlein said that while
"hard statistics" were hard
to get, the JCRC was certain
that "a disproportionate
number of Jews .were involved in the growing number of cult and missionary
groups" in^the New York
metropolitan area "and that
the number was significant."
He added that, since the
initial studies of the problem
were made, "we have identified more than 100 groups in
the metropolitan area alone
whose primary, or exclusive, purpose is proselytiza-
tion in the Jewish community," operating in every
part of - the metropolitan
area.
Hoenlein said also that,
initially, their emphasis was'
on Long Island and on college campuses but that "it
now appears to have shifted
to the city and. includes the
high schools as well." He
added that while "the major :
target population" is 13 to 35
years of age, the groups eyen
have programs "for three-
and four-year-olds, as well
as senior citizens."
Hoenlein  said  that  the
JCRC noted -two years ago
'.'the- increasing  politiciza-
tion of many of these move- '•
ments and that they sought .
to develop national political
organizations whose purpose
it was to support born-again
Christians and like-minded     ~
"individuals" for public of-    -
fice. He added that "while
we  recognize  their  First
Amendment rights, we see'    _
their activities as a threat to
our pluralistic society." '
Coins To Replace
One Shekel Bills
TEL   AVIV   (JRA)-The   .
Bank; of Israel is planning to
replace  the  present one    •
Shekel bills, worth about 13 ..
cents today, with metal coins
within  the coming  three
months. Five-Shekel coins
(66 cents) will be introduced
by the end of the year and ,
10-Shekel coins at a later
date.
At the present rate of infla- "
tion   (130  percent during
1980) the new coins will be
worth less than half their
present  foreign exchange -
value when introduced. The '>
bank explained that metal"
coinage costs less than half
as much to produce as a
paper note and has a life expectancy of years instead of N
a maximum of one year for a "
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