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Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Justice Department
Seeking Witnesses
The Anti-Defamation
League is asking persons
who were imprisoned at the
Nazi concentration camps of
Kattowitz (also known as
Eintrachthuette) or Gleiwitz
I between November 1943
and January 1945 to contact
the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
Elliot Welles, who heads
the League's Nazi War Criminals Task Force, said OSI is
seeking witnesses from
these'camps in connection
with a pending deportation
action.
Replies should be addressed, to Michael S. Bernstein, Assistant Deputy Director, Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division Bond Building, 1400 New
York Ave., Washington, D.C.
20530. The telephone number
is (202) 786-5005. This information could also be forwarded to Welles, at the
Anti-Defamation League,
823 United Nations Plaza,
New York, N.Y. 10017 or
phone (212) 490-2525.
'Forward With Family'
To Be REW Theme
Doctor Fred Kapetansky,
chairman of the 1988 Beth
Jacob Religious Emphasis
Week (REW) Committee,
announced that the theme of
this year's program is "Forward with Family."
The REW observance is a
program instituted 29 years
age by Rabbi David Stavsky
to help the community observe the Days of Awe, the
period of time between Rosh
Hashanah and.Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Stavsky pointed out
that this is a time for introspection, self evaluation and
rededication to Jewish
; values.
This year's program will
open with the keynote address delivered on Thursday
evening, Sept. 15, at8p:m. at
the Beth Jacob Synagogue,
1223 College Ave.
On Saturday, Sept. 17,
Shabbos Shuvah, there will
be a scholar-in-residence
program along with the
Rebbe's Tish. The Rebbe's
Tish, literally "the Rabbi's
\ table,", is a noontime Shabbos meal featuring singing,
eating, story telling, a D'var
Torah and the quiz program,
"Stump the Rabbi."
The REW program will
conclude on Sunday, Sept.
18, with an address by the
scholar-in-residence at a
brunch sponsored by the
Beth Jacob Sisterhood and
Brotherhood.
Members of this year's
REW committee are Polly
Haas, Nancy Kay and Doctor Aaron Saffer.
Employee Sues Auto Company
n Oharaes Of Anti-Semitism
B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge To Sponsor
Children's Home Day At State Fair
The B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge #62 of Columbus will
sponsor its twenty-third annual Children's Home Day
at the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 10. Started
in Ohio In 1965, Children's Home Day provides the financial and physical support to assist nearly 4,000 underprivileged children from all over Ohio who might
otherwise be unable to attend the Ohio State Fair. The
children are from all 88 Ohio counties and are wards of
the state. In 1965, the first year for the event, 750 children participated; nearly 4,000 are expected to participate this year. They are brought to the fair, provided
entrance, some spending money, food and adult supervision and friendship. If anyone would like to help with
a donation or to volunteer services, or if they would like
more information, they should contact Al Bornstein at
(614) 761-0881 during the day.
NEW YORK (JTA) -The
eastern regional manager of
Korean-based Hyundai
Motor America has been
accused of a "willful and
malicious" practice of discriminatory behavior directed against Jews, women
and blacks, according to
related cases filed in state
and federal courts.
Allegations in a New
Jersey state Superior Court
suit by Susan Tetley, an
employee at the car company's Cranbury, N.J.,
regional office, form the
basis of a second federal suit
in New York;
In both suits, Tetley attributes to regional manager Ed
Gormleyreferences to a personal "rating system" of
employees and car dealers.
According to the system,
whites are accorded "ones;"
"niggers", "twos'; arid
Jews, "threes."
Tetley joined the company
in 1985 as a senior secretary;
Although^ now a facilities
supiervisbrysiie claims in her
suit that Hyundai failed in its
promises to promote her to
administrative manager "on
the basis that she is Jewish
and female."
According to Tetley's
court papers and statements
she made to the Anti-Defamation  League  of  B'nai
B'rith, Gormley refused to
hire blacks and deliberately
decreased the number of
Jews receiving auto dealerships.
First Four Israeli Conservative Rabbis
Ordained In Mount Scopus Ceremony
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The first four Israelis to
become Conservative rabbis
wore ordained last week at
ceremonies on Mount SCOPUS. '    ' ■:,' ' '
The occasion was the highlight of a week of solemnities
and festivities surrounding
the meetings here of the
principal institutions of the
worldwide Conservative
movement.
More than 1,000 people,
Israelis and guests from
overseas, packed the Mount
Scopus amphitheater to hear
Chancellor Ismar Schorsch
of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America in New
York pronounce the young
Israelis rabbis.
Ehud Bandel, Shlomo Fox,
David Levine and Shmuel
Shaish comprise the first
graduating class of the Seminary of Judaic Studies at
Neve Schechter here.
Neve Schechter is an inde-
pendent institution of higher
learning affiliated with the
Masorti movement for Conservative Judaism in Israel
and linked to JTS in New
York, It offers a four-year
course leading to ordination.
Levine is the son, of Lee
Levine, dean and director of
the seminary and a professor of archaeology at the
Hebrew University.
The Israeli government
was represented at the ordination by Education Minister Yitzhak Navon, a
former president of Israel.
Conservative Judaism is
determined to establish
itself in Israel and to win the
same rights enjoyed by the
Orthodox religious establishment.
Concurrent with the Masorti movement meeting, the
Rabbinical Assembly, the
rabbinical branch of Conservative Judaism in the United
States, is holding its 88th
annual conference in Jerusalem.
It overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on the
Knesset to abolish the office
of chief rabbi. Doing so
would eliminate exclusive
Orthodox control over the
religious courts, religious
councils, educational programs and almost every
aspect  of  family  life  in
Israel.
The resolution, drafted by
representatives of the 130
Conservative rabbis practicing in Israel, noted that "the
Chief Rabbinate is not based
on Jewish tradition."
It charged the office with
monopolizing religious life in
the country, leading to
injustices. "We call on the
Knesset to dismantle" it at
"the earliest possible movement," the resolution said.
Members of the assembly
said they would launch an
intensive educational and
public relations campaign in
Israel to persuade the Knesset to adopt such legislation.
In
The Chronicle
Furthermore, Tetley
quoted Gormley as saying
that there are "too many
Jews" among Hyundai deal-
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At The Federation .... 10,11
Classified  8
Editorial Features 2,3
Here And There......... 7
Marketplace....  12
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Jordan's King Hussein Begins
Culling Ties With West Bank
From Wire Service Reports
In a move predicted last week by experts on Middle
Eastern affairs, Jordan's King Hussein on Sunday laid
the groundwork for dismantling legal and administrative links between Jordan and the West Bank.
Declaring, "Jordan is not Palestine," the King made
Jordan's position in the current struggle clear by saying, "We respect the wish of the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, to
secede from us in an independent Palestinian state."
Up until this time, the United States, in pushing for
Arab-Israeli peace talks, had looked upon Jordan as
the chief negotiator; now it would seem that that option
has been permanently removed.
Belgian Provokes Spat Over Spit
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A recent incident in Bethlehem between Israeli soldiers and a Belgian diplomat has turned into
an imbroglio. The soldiers claim the diplomat, Roger de
Wulf, spat at them. De Wulf, who is the Belgian consul
general in East Jerusalem, insisted he did no more than cast
a reproachful glance at three armed soldiers guarding a
blindfolded Palestinian and his hands tied behind his back,
the consul general said he had been profoundly shocked by
the sight. The Foreign Ministry here had no comment on the
incident. Diplomatic sources said it was not likely to affect
the traditionally friendly relations between Belgium and Israel.
WJC Told Nachmann Scandal
Won't Affect Reparations
NEW YORK (JTA) — The embezzlement scandal uncovered in West Germany's Jewish community will not affect reparations payments, leaders of the World Jewish Congress assured recipients two weeks ago. They were referring
to the growing scandal involving the late Werner Nachmann,
head of the Central Council of Jews in West Germany until
his sudden death last January, who apparently misappropriated at least $18 million the Bonn government provided
and entrusted to the Central Council for payment to former
Jewish persecutees. The money has yet to be traced. 7
Orthodox Woman Regains Job Lost
Over Sabbath Observance
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — A Jewish woman whose contract with the United Nations Development Program was not
renewed in April because she would not work on the Sabbath
was reinstated recently. Danielle Hartweg, an Austrian citizen, had been leaving her job as a computer operator at the
UNDP early on Fridays during the winter months, so that she
could return home before the Jewish Sabbath. Contacted at
her office here by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Hartweg
said of her reinstatement, "I am very happy to be back at
work and I am yery satisfied the way things were worked
out." She declined further comment, referring all questions
to Dr, Harris Schoenberg, director of United Nations Affairs
for B'nai B'rith International, who was instrumental in helping her regain her job. Schoenberg said that Hartweg not
only received a new contract with the UNDP, but also received a promotion. - • ■