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1983 VELMA AVE.
COLS, 0,  43211 EXOH
VOL.59   NO.23
JUNE4.1981-S1VAN2
CURACAO (JTA)—A year-long celebration to mark the
250th anniversary of the continuous use of the synagogue
building of Congregation Mikve Israel-Emanuel began here
on Passover, April 19, and will culminate in March, 1982, it
was reported by L. Capriles, chairman of the 250th anniversary celebration committee, and J.S. Taytelbaum, president
of the congregation. The Jewish community here was established 330 years ago. Both the synagogue and the congregation are the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation
Through Training), for more than 100 years the Vocational
and technical education program of the Jewish people, will
make a precedent-setting entrance into the Jewish day
school system of the United States by participating in the new
Jewish High School of South Florida that will open its doors to
students in September, 1981.
Bond impl@y@03 Ratify AgrttfMf
NEW YORK (JTA)—Some 500 professional and clerical
employees of the Israel Bond Organization, who went on
strike on May 14 here and at 70 regional offices throughout
the country, last week ratified an agreement for a new two-
-year contract which ended the two-week walkout.
Both lay leaders and Jewish Center staff are working
to make this year's Annual Meeting a special event.
Shown are: (seated 1. to r.) Dena Handler, Chairpersons Judy Tenenbaum and David Milenthal, and Jack
Gaiser; (standing 1. to r.) Sylvia Mellman, Marc
Klynn, Carol Shkolnik, Claudia Rinkov, Bob Schachter,
Harold Eisenstein and Steve Herz. Not pictured: Hal
Tanenbaum and Nancy Fromson.
Promises f § Be EntortahiiM
"A combination of music,
dialogue, slides and film will
make this year's Annual
Meeting of The Jewish Center an entertaining evening
for the entire community,"
promises David Milenthal,
who is co-chairing the event
on Wednesday, June 17, at
the Center.
The program, beginning at
7:45 p.m., will feature the
installation of officers and
award presentations to
honor outstanding Center
people and programs of the
past year. The use of multimedia will make the event
nostalgic and enjoyable.
The theme of this year's
meeting deals with movement^ commemorating "One
Hundred Years of Jewish
Immigration (1881-1981)."
The Jewish people has long
been associated with move
ment—movement toward
freedom and a better life for
themselves and their
descendants. "Even- now,
our New Jewish Center is being built behind our present
building, and we are planning our move to a new facility which will serve the Jewish community of Columbus
for many years to come,"
said Judy Tenenbaum,
Annual Meeting co-chairperson. "On June 17, we will
honor those who have made
our current program year
such a success and also look
forward eagerly to our
future in The New Jewish
Center."
All community members
are encouraged to attend
this year's Annual Meeting
on June 17. For more information, contact Sylvia Mellman at 231-2731.
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
President Reagan summoned back to Washington
last week his special Middle
East envoy, Philip Habib,
for consultations on the
"progress" of -Habib's
efforts to defuse the conflict
over Lebanon. Habib, who
saw the President after he
arrived, is expected to
return to the Mideast this
week.
Both Reagan and the State
Department took pains to
deny that Habib's mission
had been a failure in the
wake of reports Habib was
returning after Saudi Arabia
had failed in efforts to con-'
vince Syria to accept the proposal to remove its SAM-6
anti-aircraft missiles from
Lebanon in return for
decreased Israeli reconnaissance flights. Habib had
been in Jerusalem since a
week ago Saturday, apparently waiting for an answer
to the Saudi effort. '
Reagan said that Habib
had done "a remarkable
job" since having been sent
_to the.Mideast. He noted that
at the time when the veteran
diplomat was summoned out
of retirement to go to the
area, it appeared that Israel
and Syria "were on the
verge of war and that has not
happened."
This view was echoed by
the State Department.
"When Ambassador Habib
set out for the Middle East, it
was widely believed that
there was an imminent prospect of open conflict, open
hostilities," David Passage,
a State Department spokesman, said. "We have now
gone three weeks without
actual outbreak of widespread fighting."
Passage stressed that
"while it would probably be*
premature to say the mission was a success, it certainly would be incorrect to
say it was a failure." He also
said that while the seriousness of the situation had not
lessened, there has been a
commitment from "all the
principal leaders in the
area" to go on record as being against armed conflict.
The Department spokesman stressed that Habib's'
mission was still continuing,
since he had been called
back to Washington only
because the President
wanted to consult with him.
, Passage noted that Habib
had "worked very hard" on
his mission. Habib had made
several trips between Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem, and a side trip to
Riyadh.
Habib's mission will continue to be an effort to "bring
about a return to normalcy,"
in the short range, Passage
said. He explained that this
meant defusing the threat of
war. He said the long-range
aim of the U.S. was, as
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig said, a return to the
"status quo ante" as it has
existed in Lebanon since
1976. '
While this was, not spelled
out, Passage obviously was
referring to the situation
before the Syrian army
attacked the Christian village of Zahle and took control of two strategic mountain tops  in  the Sannine
mountain range. This was
followed by the Israel Air
Force shooting down two
Syrian helicopters believed
to be attacking a Christian
village, which Syria then
used as an excuse to move
the SAM missiles into Lebanon.
.Passage continued to
maintain that Saudi Arabia
has "played a helpful role"
in the U.S. effort to defuse
the situation in Lebanon. But
he refused to comment on a
statement by the Saudi_
Ambassador to Lebanon,
who  said  Saudi   Arabia
backed the Syrians and the
Palestinians in the Lebanese
conflict.
Meanwhile, in other Mideast-related developments,
King Hussein of Jordan, who
arrived last week in Moscow, said at a Kremlin dinner that he supports the
Soviet proposal "for convening an international conference on the Middle East with
the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization as an equal partner with
other sides."
Soviet President Leonid
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NEW YORK (JTA)-Jew-
ish community officials in
Nashville, Tenn., report that
law enforcement agencies
are continuing in their
efforts to find and prosecute
'members of the Ku Klux
Klan .involved in an alleged
attempt to plant dynamite at
a local temple last week.
A report by the Tennes-
sean, Nashville's morning
newspaper, said that meanwhile three persons arrested
in the incident were members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The newspaper said that at
least seven other members
were being sought in a conspiracy that included plans
to bomb a number of pawn
shops owned by Jews.
The Tennessean identified
the three arrested as Gladys
Girgenti, about 50 years old,
of nearby Madison; Charles
Boyers, about 27, of Madison; and Robert Pranz,
about 35, of Nashville.
According to Jay Pilzer,
executive director of the
Jewish Federation of Nashville, three men were arrested by federal authorities
as they drove their pickup
truck onto the property of
The Temple, a reform synagogue, in an alleged attempt
to plant a bomb at the
temple.
Pilzer, in a phone interview with the Jewish, Tele-"
graphic Agency, said that
Nashville, with a Jewish
community of about 3700,
has not had a history of anti-
Semitic incidents. Pilzer
added that it was "actually
just the opposite," and
referred to the Jewish community as being "generally
accepted."
Morris Werthan, president
of the Jewish Federation of
Nashville and Middle Tennessee, in a statement to the
JTA, said: "We find the
threat of violence against
any citizens of our community, the attempted attack on
a Jewish house of worship,
as contrary to all the traditions of our country. The
manufacture and placement
of- this explosive device
posed a"' threat not "only to
The  Temple,   but   to  the
safety of all Nashvillians.
The Jewish Federation
appreciated the actions of
law enforcement officials
and are fully behind then-
continued efforts to find and
prosecute any who may be
involved in these acts of
hatred and violence."
Terrorist ing Trained if Ihe PLO
NEW YORK (JTA)-Ar-
gentine authorities have
broken up a local terrorist
network that was trained by
the Palestine Liberation
Organization to assassinate
high Argentine government
officials, it was revealed
here. According to the Latin
American Affairs Department of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, two
high Argentine military offi
cials announced that the ring
had been dissolved before it
could carry out its death
mission.
Gen. Cristino Nicolaide,
commander-in-chief of the
Army's Third Division, and
Col, Miguel Cabrera, chief of
the division's intelligence
unit, said the terrorists were
trained in Lebanon by the
PLO. The terrorists, these
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The Festival of Shavuot
is celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan
(June 8 and 9). The biblical names for the festival
are: "Hag Shavuot" ("Feast of Weeks") and "Yom ha-
Bikkurim" ("The Day of the First Fruits"). This feast,
one of the three pilgrim festivals, marked the end of
the barley and beginning of the wheat harvest.
Shavuot has few special rituals. In the synagogue,
it is customary to read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot.
Among the reasons given are: that the events
recorded in Ruth took place at harvest time: and
that Ruth's "conversion to Judaism is approp-iate
reading for the festival which commemorates the
giving of the Torah.
In some medieval communities it was customary
to introduce children to the Hebrew School on
Shavuot. At this initiation ceremony the child, at the
age of five, began to make his f iftt attempt at reading the Hebrew alphabet. He was then given cakes,
honey and sweets "that the Torah might be swest
on his lips." In many modern synagogues, the confirmation of older children takes place en Shavuot.,
It is a home custom to eat dairy products on
Shavuot because the Torah is compared to milk and
because the law of the first fruits is placed close to a
law concerning milk.