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VOL.64   NO. 46
NOVEMBER 6,1986-CHESHVAN 4
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Mitterrand Asks EEC
To Investigate Syria
PARIS (JTA) - President
Francois Mitterrand said
last week that France will
not sell arms to Syria and
called on the 12 member-
state European Economic
Community (EEC) to investigate Syria's possible participation in terrorist activities in Western Europe.
Speaking at a nationally
televised press conference,
he said that if the charges
against Syria are established, "there should be no
compromise whatsoever
with states that export terrorism abroad."
Mitterrand said that if
Syria's involvement was
proved, "Europe should
close ranks against crime
and adopt special measures."
Britain's Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe had
called for a ban on arms
sales, the cancellation of
economic aid and the recall
of all European Ambassadors from Damascus.
The Foreign Ministers of
the EEC member states,
who met last week in Luxembourg, failed to agree on
joint action against Syria or
even on the publication of a
joint communique condemning Syria's alleged involvement in the attempt to blow
up an El Al jet at London's
Heathrow Airport last April.
Eleven of the Ministers
issued a statement expressing outrage but failed to
mention Syria by name.
Greece refused to approve
even this watered-down
communique. All joint EEC
statements must be decided
unanimously.
Mitterrand called on the
governments of the 12 na-
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International Red Cross Erects
A Barrier To The Recognition
Of Israel's Magen David Adom
State Of Israel Bonds Holds
Annual Golda Meir Luncheon
GENEVA (JTA) - The
International Red Cross
Movement appears to have
erected a permanent barrier
against recognition of Israel's Magen David Adom
(Red Shield of David) as a
humanitarian agency by its
decision last week to change
its official title to the International Red Cross and Red
^Crescent Movement; Israel
Jewish  organizations
The Golda Meir Club of State of Israel Bonds recently met at a luncheon as the guests of Eleanor
Resler, Reva Shaman, Bella Wexner and Eleanore    „.,ia _.
Yenkin. Golda Meir Club members purchase a mini- iflfjg"     ,.       .   . .
mum of $5,000 in Israel Bonds each year. Yenkin, not^^f objected vigorously
pictured, just returned from Israel with reports of how      •    The Red Crescent 1S the
Israel Bond investments are a vital part of the country's economic growth. Pictured (1. to r.) are Wexner;
Shaman; Ruth Coller, National Executive Board, State
Of Israel Bonds, and Resler. Photo by Lorn Spolter.
Red Cross equivalent in Moslem countries, just as the
Magen David Adom is in Israel. The decision krineorpo-
rate the Red Crescent was
Paul Feinberg To Keynote
Tax Reform Act Seminar
Paul H. Feinberg, a partner in the law firm of Baker
and Hostetler in' Cleveland['<
and an authority on charit-f
able giving for non-profit
tax-exempt organizations,
will keynote a seminar on
"Understanding the 1986 Tax
Reform Act" on Tuesday,
Nov. 18.
The program, sponsored
by the Legal and Tax
Advisory Committee of the
Columbus Jewish Foundation, will be held from 4 to
6p.m. at The Christopher.
Inn. In addition to Fein-
berg's presentation, two
local attorneys, William
Brandwein- and Harvey
Dunn, will discuss "Tax Reform and Charitable Giv
ing." "The Columbus Jewish
Foundation — A Community
Legacy" will be discussed by
I. David Cohen, a local investment planner.
Feinberg spends a significant amount of his time on
matters relating to charitable giving; tax-exempt or-,
ganizations and estate and
income tax planning for individuals, He is counsel to a
number of tax-exempt organizations, including private
foundations and health care
organizations.
He formerly was assistant
Paul Feinberg
Foundations" which is avail-
' able from the Council of Jewish Federations.
Feinberg also serves as a
national vice chairman of
general counsel of The Ford     the  Endowment  Develop-
Nazi War Criminal's Request
For Political Asylum Denied
STOCKHOLM (JTA) -
The Swedish government
has rejected a request for
political asylum made by
Karl Linnas, the former
chief of the Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia,
who is facing deportation
from the United States, the
World Jewish Congress reported here.
Representatives of Swedish Jewry had expressed
concern recently over re-
. ports in the Stockholm press
that the government had re*
ceived an asylum request
from Linnas. The U.S. Department of State ruled last
" year that Linnas was ineligible for asylum in the United
States.
Georg Andersson, Sweden's minister of immigration, in disclosing his govern
ment's decision, stated that
materials provided by the
U.S. government showed
that American courts "have _
conducted extensive inquiries which proved that
Linnas had a leading role in
a Nazi concentration camp."
Noting that "war crimes
cannot by compared to any
other kind of criminal activity," Andersson declared
that the Swedish government wanted it understood
that "Sweden will not .and
cannot become a haven for
war criminals." ;
Linnas, 67, is currently in
federal custody in New
York, pending a U.S..
Supreme Court decision on
his petition for review of a
May 8 decision of the U.S.
Second Circuit Court of Appeals approving his deporta-
' tion to the Soviet Union.
Foundation and is a cum
laude graduate of Harvard
Law School and has ah LL.M
(in taxation) from New York
University School of Law.
Feinberg's firm is counsel
to The Jewish Community
Federation of Cleveland and
is special counsel to the Endowment Program of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
ticins. He and his late partner, Norman"*A. Sugarman,
were co-authors of the
"Handbook  on  Supporting
ment Department of the
Council of Jewish Federations in New. York.
There is a $10 per person
registration charge which
covers the program and a
social/cocktail hour to follow. Courtesy parking has
been made available at The
Christopher Inn lot.
For further information on
the tax seminar or to make a
reservation contact the
Foundation office at 237-
7686.
endorsed without a vote by
delegates from more than
120 governments and 137 national societies attending the
International Conference of
the Red Cross here, a
quadrennial event.
Pinhas Eliav, the Israel .
government delegate, said
restriction of recognition to
Christian and Moslem emblems means that Israel is
excluded from the various
international societies which
coordinate aid for victims of
natural disasters and armed
conflict all over the world.
He maintained that the
Magen David Adom, which
sent observers to the conference, fulfills all criteria for
full membership, except for
its emblem.
Israel has been seeking
full membership, to no avail,
since the Red Cross Movement was reorganized in
1948-49, in the aftermath of
World War II. Eliav, lddging-
a strong dissent from the
conference consensus, noted
that the six-pointed Star of
David was symbolic of Jewish history, creativity and
Jewish suffering, as well as
being a religious symbol, as
are the cross and crescent.
"To our regret, we encountered a lack of readiness and
misunderstanding and even
the same political hostility
which was and still is manifested against the emancipation of the Jewish people as a
nation," Eliav said. Non-'
recognition of the Israeli
symbol violates the principles of the international
humanitarian movement, he
said.
He warned, that "the
revised statutes will further
aggravate the situation by
crystallizing even more the
imposition of two religious
and civilizational emblems
on our global humanitarian
movement."
Yehuda Amichai To Speak At Israel Open University
Israels master poet,
Yehuda Amichai, will be the
speaker for the second Israel
Open University program on
Wednesday, Nov. 12, at
8 p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center.
The Israel Open University, sponsored by the Israel
Department of the Columbus
Jewish Federation in cooperation with the Community
College for Adult Jewish
Studies, is continuing its
series of programs focusing
on different aspects of life in
Israel. This; program will
also be part' Of: the Jewish
Center's Book Fair.
Amichai has been accorded international recognition upprecedented for a
modern Hebrew poet. Individual poems have been
translated into more than 20
languages and volumes haye
appeared in German,
French, Swedish, Spanish,
Catalan, as well as English.
He has been voted a foreign
honorary member of The
American Academy and Institute of "Arts and Letters.
Harper and Row has published The Selected Poetry of
Yehuda ^Amichai, a repre
sentation of all his published
verse. He teaches literature
and creative writing at the
Hebrew University and
makes frequent personal appearances abroad.
"We are indeed fortunate
to have someone uf Yehuda
Amichai's stature lecture for
the Israel Open University.
We hope the public will take
advantage of the exceptional
opportunity," stated Judy
Genshaft, chairwoman of the
Israel Open University.
This program is open to
the entire community at no
charged'5*'»' »V.:,:
Another strong dissent
was voiced by Daniel Lack,
representative of the World
Jewish Congress, which has
observer status at the conference. "The use of the emblems associated in the eyes
of many with the two great
religions of Christianity and
Islam enshrines the religious
polarization that propels the
emblem crisis into unprecedented proportions of gravity," he said.
"The joint and exclusive
use of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent in the very title of
the movement . . renders
permanent an anomaly
which contradicts the letter
and the spirit of the Red
Cross philosophy by ,the
reciprocal and mutual
reinforcement of these two
signs as the symbol of religious polarization and exclu-
sivism," Lack said.
Orthodox, Reform In
Co-operative Effort
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Orthodox Agudath Israel of America and the Reform Union of American
Hebrew" Congregations
(UAHC), in a rare cooperative effort, have helped
ensure that persons wearing
yarmulkes will never be
barred from the Senate's
visitors' galleries.
The effort came about, according to David Luchins, an
aide in the New York office
of Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D.
NY), after a constituent told
Moynihan that a pass to the
gallery he received from
Moynihan's office barred
persons wearing hats.
This is not true in the
House where the gallery
passes read: "Hats may not
be worn by gentlemen ex^
cept for religious reasons."
Luchins told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that no
one wearing a yarmulke has
ever been barred from the
Senate galleries. This was
pointed out also by Moynihan in a letter to Ernest
Garcia, the Senate Sergeant-
Of-Arms. B^it Moynihan
added, however, "The rules
as set forth on the pass could
lead a Jewish or Sikh guest
to forego visiting our chamber."
Moynihan suggested
changing the pass wording to .
include the House exception
to which Garcia agreed. The
change was proposed to the
Senate Rules Committee
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