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VOL.60   NO.24
JUNE 17,1982-SIVAN 26
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BONN (JTA)-An East
German' Communist official
has accused the Bonn authorities of failure to prosecute the judges who served
in the notorious Peoples
Courts during the Nazi era,
pronouncing death sentences
on thousands of political
prisoners opposed to the
Third Reich
According to Josef Streit,
the Chief Prosecutor of East
Berlin, his country,handed'
over thousands of documents
to the West German Authorities identifying former Nazi
judges living in West Germany. "But the Bonn authorities erected legal barriers to
keep the former Nazi judges
from being; tried, on grounds
that it would not be in line
with the principles of international law," Streit said in
an interview with the official
East German news agency,
ADN.
Streit is a member of the
East Berlin Politburo and as
such is active in an ongoing
propaganda compaign aimed at discrediting the Federal Republic. But his charges
touched on a sensitive and
much discussed issue in
West Germany. Despite persistent efforts by anti-Nazi
activists, the Bonn government has made no serious attempt to prosecute the
dozens of former Nazi judges
estimated to living in the
country.
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Miss Debbie Applebaum is one of'the many residents'
of Heritage House and Heritage Tower who are busily
at work preparing their favorite recipes for the community's arrival at the Heritage Village Annual Meeting to be held on Sunday, June 27, at 7 p.m.
PARIS (JTA)-Israel has
been under attack from both
the Eastern European Communist bloc and America's
Western European allies for
its invasion of Lebanon. The
Soviet Union warned Israel
that an attack of Syria could
have "serious consequences."
The ten Eurpoean Economic Community (EED)
countries, all of which except Ireland are members of
NATO, met in special session in Bonn last week to condemn the Israeli action.
Theyhinted that they would
consider economic sanctions
against Israel if it did-not
withdraw ' its' forces from
Lebanon.
American sources in Bonn,
where President Reagan is
attending a conference of the
16 NATO member states,
Partleipafitin @f Women In Jewish Life
Beeom.es Inereaslnglyimportant, Visible
NEW YORK (JTA)-A
sense of triumph, somewhat
marred by frustration and
disappointment, is the feeling that prevailed among a
group of Jewish women leaders who participated in a
symposium recently on the
progress of women in Judaism over the past decade.
The symposium, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee to commemo-
Dubious Charges Barred
BONN (JTA)—The highest Hamburg court has ruled that
the defendant in a current case may not repeat dubious allegations as to the nature of the World War II Warsaw Ghetto in
tbe course of his defense. The ruling overturned a decision by
lower court judges that allowed rightwing lawyer Juergen
Rieger to assert repeatedly that Jews were confined to the
Warsaw Ghetto only to prevent the spread of a .deadly
disease. Several charges are pending against Rieger. He first
made his remarks on the Warsaw Ghetto last November
when he appeared in court as a witness for the defense in the
trial of Arpad Wigand, the former SS police chief in Warsaw.
Wigand was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. '• • ■;.-'.   '■   "-
Greater Involvement In
Anti-Nuclear Movement Urged
NEW YORK (WNS)—Appeals for greater Jewish involvement in the growing movement against nuclear weapons
were aired recently by rabbis and lay leaders.
The appeals were made at a two-day conference on the
danger of nuclear war, sponsored by the Emet Foundation, a
private foundation in Los Angeles dedicated to the, advancement of art, sciences and humanities. Some 140 people attended the conference, which coincided with the opening of-
the Second United Nations Special Session On Disarmament.
rate the tenth anniversary of
the ordination of the first
woman rabbi, was attended
by some 40 people, predominantly women who play active leadership roles in Jewish religious and academic
life. Among them were rabbis, a cantor, congregational
presidents and professors of
Judaica.
Noting that "ten years is
really just the blink- of an
eyelash,'' in Jewish history,
Francine Klagsbrun,. an
author and active Jewish
feminist who delivered the
keynote address, said that
the participation of women
in Jewish life has become increasingly/significant and
visible since a' decade ago.
By the end of this month, the
U.S. and Canada will have 61
women rabbis, ordained according to figures presented
by Klagsbrun. In addition,
Klagsbrun, said, there are
currently nineteen women
cantors and 193 women
presidents of Reform and
Conservative 'Congregations.
Even in the Orthodox
establishment,  she  ob-
> served, "the winds of change
are definitely; blowing," a$
seen by the introduction of
new Jewish! rites, such as a
ritual to'honor the birth of
baby girls, and the growing
■, participation of women in
such activities as dancing
with the Torah during Sim-
chat Torah celebrations.
Acceptance Tenuous
'... Nevertheless, the acceptance of women into the
heart of Jewish life is still
tenuous, as witnessed by the
experiences of Klagsbrun
and other women of Conservative and even Reform
backgrounds, who were surprised to find themselves excluded from minyans while :
sitting shiva among family
and friends who professed
the same egalitarian values.
Susan Weidman Schneider,,
editor of the feminist Jewish'
magazine Lilith, called
Kadish "the single greatest
consciousness raiser," in
Jewish ritual life. When a
choice has to be made between paying deference to
the sensitivities of traditionally-minded distant relatives
or to those of the deceased
person's closest kin, the
former it was observed, will
frequently triumph.
This phenomenon was
viewed as a reflection of
what Rela' Geffen Monson, a
professor of sociology who
has '.written extensively on
women in, Jewish communal
life, termed the "normative
dilemma"— the problem of
applying newly recognized
values while still very influenced by socialization in a
pre-Egalitarian Jewish community. As part of the same
phenomenon, Klagsbrun
noted, many non-Orthodox
Jewish women who theoretically accept the right of
women to participate fully in
all areas of Jewish life, continue to,feel uncomfortable
with their own roles in Jewish ritual.
A major source of frustration for participants at the
symposium was the failure
of the Conservative move-
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said the President had been
in direct contact with Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev
but would not confirm that
their talk dealt with the Middle East. West Germany's
Foreign Minister Hans-
Dietrich Genscher reportedly warned that Western
Europe's ties with the Arab
world would be irreparably
damaged unless there was
an immediate end to the
fighting in Lebanon.
The Soviet press, radio'
and television attacks on Israel were the most vituperative. But all of Eastern
Europe joined in denouncing
Israel's "aggressioit" President Nicolae Ceaucescu of
Rumania, the only Communist bloc country that main-,
tains diplomatic relations
with Israel, vociferously attacked Israel's "militaristic
policy." He was quoted by
Rumania's official Ager
Press news agency as calling on Israel to accept an immediate cease-fire and pull
its forces out of Lebanon at
once."
Anti-Israel Demonstration
-  in Paris"
A  mass   demonstration
took place in Paris last week
protesting Israeli "aggression" with the participation
of the Communist Party and
several major trade unions.
Jewish organizations called
for a counter^emonstration
outside the Israeli Embassy.
Diplomatic sources said
that Greece and France
favor the immediate imposition of sanctions against Israel. West Germany, Holland and Denmark proposed
an interim period to give Israel a chance to comply with
demands for a cease-fire and
withdrawal.
Soviet attacks on Israel
seemed intended to deter an
attack on Syria, which is
Moscow's last foothold in the
Middle East: Syria and the
USSR have a mutual assistance treaty providing for
automatic Soviet support if
Syria is attacked. The treaty
does not cover attacks on
Syrian forces in Lebanon
which are there within the
framework of an Arab
League mandate.
NATO   experts   stressed,
however,  that despite the
violence of its protests, Mos-,
cow seems unable and prob-
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Secrecy On Arab Investments
Tb Be Curbed By Proposed Bill
NEW YORK (JTA)---Rep.
Benjamin Rosenthal (D.
NY), has announced he will
introduce legislation to end
the secrecy on Arab petrodollar investments in the
United States.
Addressing the annual
meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith at
the Grand Hyatt Hotel here,
Rosenthal said the Arab investments, which he said
could hold this country
"hostage to foreign government control," may total between $75 billion and $200
billion.
Rosenthal said his proposed legislation would have
a three-pronged approach. It
• would require a permanent
registration system to identify all past and future in-
vestments;.country-by-coun-
try disclosure on the breakdown of foreign investments,
and establishment o! an
independent government
agency to "delay or prohibit
foreign-directed investment" in areas sensitive to
the economy and national
security of the U.S.
, . The Congressman, a member of the, House Government Operations and Foreign Affairs Committee, said
the legislation is needed, because of a 1974 Treasury De
partment agreement with
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and
the United Arab Emirates to
keep confidential the bulk of
their investments in the U.S.
He said the agreement must
Determinated.
Rosenthal told about 400
American Jewish community leaders that Senate approval of the sale of AWACS
reconnaissance planes to
Saudi Arabia illustrated the
extent of petrodollar influence on U.S. jptolicy. "If the
vote had been taken in
secret, it never would have
been approved," the lawmaker said, "because a majority of members of Congress believed it was not in
the U.S. national interest."
Organized by Saudi /Vra-
bian lobbyists, a massive effort was mounted to enlist
support for the AWACS sale
on the part of American
companies which do business with Saudi Arabia, Rosenthal added. "Tens of
thousands of telegrams were
received by senators from
business leaders, including
the heads of such firms as'
Rockwell International,
American Airlines, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Proctor and Gamble
and Wells-Faigo Bank."