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VOL.65   NO.36
SEPTEMBER 3,1987-ELUL9
Devoted to American
and JeMrf'.h ideals
Israeli Envoy
Rips 'Glasnost'
GENEVA (JTA) - The
new Soviet policies of glasnost (openness) and
perestroika (renewal) have,
meant little to Soviet Jews,
Israeli Ambassador to the
UN Pinchas Eliav stated at a
recent meeting of the Sub-
commission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
He deplored the prohibitions against Jewish expression and education. "Jews
are not even allowed to attend Hebrew, courses given
in Soviet universities for
Christian theological students," he delcared. "No
Hebrew books can be published and no printed
material on Jewish subjects
is available in any language
apart from the 7,000 copies of
the monthly Soviet Homeland."
He said 400,000 Jews have
expressed the desire to go to
Israel, but that in recent
years their emigration has
been limited to about 1,000
annually. He welcomed the
increase this year to about
4,000, but noted that the current rate would mean
another 700 months (58-plus'
years) for the 400,000 to
leave.
Musicians Protest Against Waldheim
SALZBURG, (JTA) —Two internationally-renowned musicians wore yarmulkes during a concert appearance at the
Salzburg Festival^ saying they intended the gesture as a protest against Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. Violinist '
Pinchas Zukerman and pianist and composer Marc Neikrug
made, no statement on stage, but told reporters during the
intermission that they did not normally wear the religious
head coverings while performing and that "we don't normally perform in a countrywhich has a President who was
sufficiently suspect hot to be allowed into our country."
Kosher Take-Out Restaurant
To Open In Moscow
NEW YORK (JTA) — The first kosher take-out restaurant
in the Soviet Union will be opened on the grounds of the
Chorale Synagogue in Moscow this month, it was announced
here by Rabbi Arthur Schneier of New York, president of the
Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Schneier said approval for
the kosher food service had been given by Konstantin Kharchev, chairman of the Council of Religious Affairs, USSR
Council of Ministers. At a recent meeting with Kharchev in
Moscow at which they discussed plans for the new facility,
Schneier said, it was agreed that the take-out restaurant
would be established as an interim step prior to the opening
of a full-fledged kosher restaurant.
Botha Pledges To Defend South African Jews
JOHANNESBURG (JTA) - President P. W. Botha
promised South Africa's 110,000-member Jewish community
that his government would protect'them against any neb-
Nazi attacks. This statement came last week after an
upsurge of neo-Nazi activity prompted by the death of Rudolf
. Hess.
Jewish Journalist Is Tapped
As Next U.S. Envoy To Austria
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Henry Grunwald was a teenager when he fled his native
Vienna in 1940 to escape Nazi
occupation. Twenty-eight
years later, he is expected to
return to Vienna next year
as the next U.S. ambassador.
Although Grunwald, editor-in-chief of Time magazine, will not be the first Jewish ambassador to Austria —
the current ambassador
Ronald Lauder is also Jewish —his background and the
current political situation in
Austria makes Grunwald's
nomination particularly significant. Last year the
Austrians elected as President Kurt Waldheim, the
former Secretary General of
the United Nations, who has
been accused of involvement
in atrocities while serving in
the German Army from 1942
to 1945. Earlier this year the
Department of Justice
placed Waldheim on its
"Watch List" of undesirable
persons which bars him
from entry into the U.S.
Grunwald, who was
scheduled to retire from
Time at the end of the year,
reportedly apparently resigned from Time two weeks
ago. He could not be reached
for comment.
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
director of international relations for the American
Jewish Committee, praised
Grunwald as a "world-class
act, a man of first-rate intel-
'Chronicle' Community Calendar
To Be Mailed On September 21
New Torah Academy Headmaster
To Be First R.E.W. Keynote Speaker
Rabbi Henoch Millen new
headmaster at Columbus
Torah Academy will be the
first keynote speaker for this
year's R.E.W. Program at
Beth Jacob Synagogue.
Rabbi Millen will address
the congregation and the
community on Shabbos
T'Shuvah, Saturday, Sept.
26, at 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Fred Kapetansky,
chairman of R.E.W., announced that Rabbi Millen
will focus on "To Be a Learning Jew and Not Just a
Yearning Jew," the aspects
and priorities of being a
knowledgeable Jew in contemporary society.
The second session of
R.E.W. will take place on
Sunday night, Sept. 27, when
another Torah scholar,,
Rabbi Yakov Feitman, will
speak. Rabbi Feitman is the
rabbi of the Young Israel of
Cleveland.'
The third session will be
held on Tuesday when Rabbi
David Stavsky will address
the teenagers.    .
The< final session will be
held on Wednesday, Sept. 9,
at the Sisterhood luncheon.
Dr. Millen has previously
served as headmaster at
Westchester Day School in
New York City and the Akiva
Hebrew Day School in
Detroit,, Mich, and was the
founding principal at Hamilton Hebrew Academy in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He is the former associate
director of the Institute of
Judaic Studies in Jerusalem,
Israel.
Dr. Millen received his
doctor of Hebrew literature
in 1974 from Yeshiva University. He holds a masters degree in Jewish Philosophy
from the Revel Graduate
School of Yeshiva University
and received his smicha
(ordination) in 1962, for
Riets, Yeshiva University.
He is national vice president
of the Educators Council of
Rabbi Henoch Millen
America and has a record of
working with Jewish Youth.
Dr. Millen is married to
Dr. Rachel Millen, and they
are the parents of three children.
Gallery Players deceives Rights
To Produce Simon's 'Biloxi Blues'
Gallery Players announces that the group has
received the rights to produce the Columbus premiere
of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues.
Biloxi Blues, Neil Simon's
second autobiographical
play in his trilogy, will close
the 39th season of Gallery
Players next June. This will'
be a Columbus premieraand
will follow Brighton Beach
Memoirs, Gallery Players'
hit of 1986, which became
Gallery Players' most suc-r
cessful non-musical produc
tion ever, according to the
group.
"We are very excited that
we were able to secure these
- rights," states Joyce Bloch,
chairwoman of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish .Center's
Drama Committee. "We
waited out the summer
hoping we would get them."
'The play will follow the life
of Eugene Jerome as he
enters the Army in WWII
and is stationed in Biloxi,
Miss. It will be the closing
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The calendar, which contains the information found
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well as the original artwork
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Court Says Board
Must Reschedule
Saturday Graduation
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
federal court in New York
ruled recently that a school
board must reschedule its
1988 high school graduation
so that a Sabbath-observing
student can attend without
violating his religious beliefs.
The lawsuit was filed by
the American Jewish Congress on behalf of David
Smith, 17, who alleged that
the North Babylon (N.Y.)
' School Board's decision to
hold graduation exercises on
a Saturday violated Smith's
First Amendment right to
free exercise of religion.
Smith, an observant Jew,
will be a senior at North
Babylon Senior High School
this fall. With the help of his
father, Rabbi Richard
Smith, David Smith had requested that the school
board move the 1988 gradua-
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lect. To appoint him as ambassador to Vienna is a sign
that our government is both
concerned as to what is happening to Austria-U.S. relations and the extent of our
desire to try to heal the relations so strained because of
the Waldheim business," he
said.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said the
real issue is what Grunwald
does with the Austrian people, not what he does with
Waldheim, who as President
has only ceremonial functions. Grunwald could be a
source of moral confidence
and support to the small
Austrian Jewish community.
He could also help Austrians _
deal with repression and
denial of their Nazi past, he
noted.
"A Henry Grunwald who
comes into the scene with
skill and sensitivity can help
advance that whole movement of facing the past and
dealing with it," Tanenbaum
said. "There's an. enormous
amount of work thai, can be
done by very diplomatic,
statesmanlike building of
bridges there and mobilizing
constructive democratic
forces in the society and
helping bring the weight of
American democracy behind that of the democratic
forces in Austrians."
But Rabbi Marvin Hier,
dean of the Simon Wiesen-
thal Center, said Grunwald
will have to walk a "tight
rope" by minimizing contact
with Waldheim. "He can't be
known as a trailblazer in
bringing about Waldheim's
rehabilitation. He has a
dilemma in accepting the
job. He has to be clever
enough to signal to those people in the Jewish community
that he is not appeasing
Waldheim," Hier said. "Mr.
Grunwald has a lot of work
to do. He has to minimize
contact. So long as he's a
shadow, he can't act as a
broker."
Elan Steinberg, executive
director of the World Jewish
Congress, agreed that "his
objective is to walk that thin
line which distinguishes
Austria from Waldheim."
But he added: "It is symbolic that not only do we
have an ambassador who is
a Jew, but in addition, an
ambassador who is a refugee. The symbolism of that
will not be lost on the
Austrians nor should it be. I,
think America is saying, to
Austria that there are dark
shadows of your past that
have recently seen the light
of day. Mr. Grunwald will be <
the living remainder of that
shadow."
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