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VOL. 62   NO. 46
NOVEMBER 8.1981-CHESHVAN 13
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals,.
German Newspaper
Prints Apology For
Anti-Semitic Slur
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of
the Simon Wiesenthal Center
here, indicated that he is satisfied with the apology he
had demanded from the publisher of a local German-language newspaper which described Mayor Edward Koch
of New York as "Der Jude
Koch" (The Jew Koch).
The publisher, Peter Eich-
mann, printed a frontpage
apology in his paper, Staats
Zeitung,- and admitted to "a
very poor choice of words."
The slur was contained in a
story in which Koch-at a
recent meeting with Austria's visiting Foreign Minister, raised the issue of
former Austrian Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky's favorable
attitude toward the Palestine Liberation Organization. Kreisky is Jewish.
According to Hier, the
term used in the Staats
Zeitung was shockingly similar to the title of the notorious anti-Semitic propaganda
film "Jud Suss" produced in
Germany during World
War II. He said he demanded an apology which
was forthcoming. "It certainly was an apology that
was well deserved," Hier
said yesterday.
ADL Report Shows Ku Klux Klan,
U.S. Neo-Nazis Are On Decline
With the aid of a $1 million gift from the families of
Jerome, Saul and Alvin E. Schottenstein, Yeshiva
University has purchased the 63-year-old building that
once housed the Yeshiva Rabbi Moses Soloveitchik.
The structure will be renovated and turned into the
Schottenstein Center, housing a variety of activities.
Yeshiva University Purchases
63-Year-Old Building With
Aid Ot Schottenstein Family
With the aid.of a $1 million
gift from the families of
Jerome, Saul and Alvin E.
-Schottenstein, Yeshiva University has purchased the
63-year-old building that
once housed the Yeshiva
Rabbi Moses Soloveitchik, a
historic Jewish day school.
The structure,  at 560 W.
Beth Jacob To Receive Award
At Orthodox Union Convention
Beth Jacob Congregation
will be the recipient of the
National Adult Education
Award at the Convention
Awards Luncheon on Friday, Nov. 23,' at the 86thv
Anniversary National Convention of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. The award
will be presented to a delegation from the synagogue led
by its spiritual leader Rabbi
David Stavsky and its president Ronald Golden.
According to Rabbi Joseph
Karasick, chairman of the
Convention Awards Committee, "The Orthodox Union is
honored to cite Beth Jacob
Congregation for its well
attended, innovative and
creative adult education programs — specifically the
Religious Emphasis Week
Program — conducted
between the Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur Holy Days,
and the "Rebbe's Tisch"
Program. We note with pride
that the congregation ' was
founded in the same year as
the Orthodox Union, 1898,
and has been in the vanguard of Orthodoxy in the
Central East area."
Julius Berman, president
of  the  Orthodox   Union
. added, "Under the leader-
< ship of Rabbi David Stavsky,
who has served as spiritual
leader of the synagogue for
the past quarter of a century, the growth arid
achievement of the congregation has paralleled the
resurgence of Orthodoxy in
North America."
The Orthodox Union Convention, to be held Thanksgiving weekend, Nov.. 22-25,
is the Orthodox Union's biennial gathering of its members and friends — both rabbinic and lay — who will
meet to discuss and resolve
issues of vital interest to the
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Jewish War Vets
Sabbath is Nov. 9
Jewish War Veterans,
Capitol Post #122, Herman
Rosen, commander, invites
the community to join their
Veterans Day Shabbat Services being held Friday,
Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. at Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354
E. Broad St.        \
Services will be conducted
by Rabbi Harold J. Berman.
Guest speaker will be Colonel John Siemer, chief of
Veteran Affairs, State of
Ohio.
There will be an Oneg.
Shabbat follqwing services,,.
185th St., will be renovated
and turned into a multi-
faceted University center.
In honor of the Schotten-
steins' gift, the building —
which includes one of the oldest synagogues in Upper
Manhattan — will be named
the Schottenstein Center. It
will be dedicated in memory
of Ephraim L. and Anna
Schottenstein and Leon and
Alvin E. Schottenstein.
Jerome Schottenstein, who
has been a member of the
University's Board of Turs-
tees since 1980, is chairman
of the board of Schottenstein
Stores  Corp.,   Wiebolt's,
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DENVER (JTA) - Ku
Klux Klan membership in
the United States has fallen
approximately a third in the
last two years to some 6,000,
it ranks depleted by leadership crises, organizational
splits and declining financial
contributions, according to a
"status report" on the Klan
and the American neo-Nazi
movement made public last
week by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
But the ADL warned that
some Klan desperados, frus1
trated by the KKK's failures,
are considering a campaign
of terror and assassinations
against those they view as
their enemies. This possibility, ADL said, should not be
taken lightly in view of the
KKK's long record of violence and lawlessness;
The ADL also disclosed a
parallel decline in the fortunes of the neo-Nazi movement, ' whose membership
was estimated at no more
than 500 across the nation —
a drop of approximately 50
percent since 1978. The ADL
report was prepared by the
Fact Finding Department of
the agency's Civil Rights
Division and was made public by Justin Finger, director
of the division, at a session of
the agency's national executive committee meeting here
at the Fairmont Hotel.
Steady KKK Decline Noted
The Klan has lost strength,
the ADL said, both in hard
core members and in the
number of sympathizers —
Reservations Still Available
For Amit Women's Dinner
Shirley Abrams, president
of the Columbus Chapter of
Amit Women (formerly
American Mizrachi Women), states that reservations
are still available for the Annual Dinner scheduled for
Sunday, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. at
the Beth Jacob Social Hall.
Master of. ceremonies will
be Michael -Seidemann.
Seidemann, his wife Ruth
and family have been residents, of Columbus since
1956. He is a 1955 graduate of
Yeshiva University Graduate School and holds a masters degree in social work.
He has served with the Ohio
Department of Public Welfare for 25 years" and presently is state coordinator for
refugee resettlement programs. He is a member of
Congregation Ahavas Sholom, sits on'the Boards of
Ahavas Sholom, Torah
Academy, Vaad Ho-ir, and is
affiliated with Heritage
House. ' '
where an even greater decline has taken place. Klan
rallies, which in the late
1970s and early 1980s, attracted large, enthusiastic
gatherings, now pull in much
smaller,, "dispirited"
crowds, the report said. "No
Klan faction today can count
on more than a few hundred," the report said.
According to the ADL's
periodic estimates of Klan
strengh, active membership
in 1973 was 5,000; a mid-1970s
revival brought the figure up
to between 9,000 and ,10,500 in
1979 and a 1981 peak was put
To Hear D. Celeste
Children of the Holocaust
Survivors announce their
first annual gathering at the
home of Gail Schottenstein,
Thursday evening, Nov. 15,
at 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker,
Dagmar Celeste, will highlight the event discussing
her views on the Holocaust.
The main thrust of the evening is the candle lighting
program, during which a
candle can be lit for peace, to
commemorate a simcha or
remember a loved one.
The rabbis have been
asked to bring greetings
from their synagogues. The
opening prayer will be given
by Judith Factor, one of the
co-presidents of the Aliza
Chapter of Amit Women; the
Hamotzi by Felice Abrams;
Birkat Hamozon by Cantor
Elwin Redfern and, the singing of the "Star Spangled
Banner." and "Hatikvah,"
led by Cantor Baruch Shifman;
Entertainment will be provided by the Apple, Core
Singers: John Everett, Keith
Hinshaw, Howard Hill and
Kevin Kehres.
For reservations, candles,
pledges for .Mother-Father-
Sister or Brother-in-Israel,
, call Abrams, 235-7354, or An-
1 nette Tanenbaum, 237-4604.
Dagmar Celeste
Celeste has had an active
career of community involvement. As well as being
the wife of Gov. Richard F.
Celeste, she is active in
many organizations. She has
been" on the metropolitan
board of the YMCA, a member of 648 Mental Health
Board and a founder of
Womenspace.
Born in Krems, Austria,
Celeste is familiar with the
HoIocaustrShe will share her
views on historic preservation By speaking on the subject, "Hope."
All children of Holocaust
survivors are invited to attend this event. Survivors
are also welcome to join
their children in preserving
the memory. 7
at between 9,700 and 11,500.
In 1982, the ADL estimated
membership at between
8,000 and 10,000.
Another blow to the Klan,
it was pointed out, was
defeat on the political front.
While a number of Kiahsmen .
have run for- public office
and a few have made "credir
ble shoWings," there is not a
single elected official in the
U.S. who is an acknowledged
member of the Klan.
The Klan has also 'been
hurt by vigorous law
enforcement—numerous arrests and convictions for.
lawlessness and violence —
and by the adoption in a
number of states of ADL
model legislation outlawing
paramilitary training aimed
at fomenting civil disorder,
the ADL said.
Basis For Neo-Nazis
Decline ■;
In the section of the report
dealing with neo-Nazi
groups, the ADL said their
decline is based on the
American people's rejection
of the neo-Nazis as: a "foreign import" identified with
Nazi Germany in World War
II, and also on the splintering process that went on
after the 1967 assassination
of neo-Nazi leader George
Lincoln Rockwell.
The neo-Nazis" have splintered into at least 15 organizations, very few of which
can claim as many as a
dozen members. The largest
of these groups is the "New
Order" party based in
Arlington, Va., the successor
to the original neo-Nazi
group founded by Rockwell
in 1958.
Units of the organizations,
ADL said, are in Cincinnati,
Chillicothe (Ohio), Chicago,
Columbus, Detroit, Houston,
Indianapolis, Los Angeles,
Milwaukee, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, Port Fails
(Idaho), Salinas (Calif.) and
San Diego.
Despite their small numbers, the ADL said 'the neo-
Nazis remain a concern, in
part because of their nationwide distribution of hate
-filled, anti-Semitic literature
and posters. It named as
"the largest of the neo-Nazi
publishing mills" Liberty
Bell Publications in West
Virginia;
Early Copy Deadline
pv for the Nc
later man noon
on Thursdays Nov. 15. The OJC office'will be
closecton Nov. 22, ThanksgivingPay. Copy.for the-
Nov," 29 issue' is due7Wednesday, Nov. 21,
at '8:a.m.:x7'7.7 . ■'.
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