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Dutch Holocaust Museum Withdraws
Human Hair From Auschwitz Exhibit
AMSTERDAM (JTA) - The Netherlands War and
Resistance Museum at Overloon has decided not to include,
human hair from Auschwitz victims in its exhibition of items
from the death camp, which opened recently. The hair was
withdrawn after a flood of protests greeted announcement of
the exhibition. Museum Director Simon Temming said he
wanted to display the hair, "because the public today needs
very strong shocks to appreciate the horrors of Auschwitz."
At the same time, Temming wondered why people reacted so
emotionally to the hair but not to the tin that once contained
the deadly Zyklon B gas used in the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Rise In Anti-Semitism In Italy
Prompts Warning From Leaders
ROME (JTA) --Italy's highest political leaders have
issued a stern warning against the rise of anti-Semitism and
have voiced strong support for measures aimed at combatting it. "A black thread runs through Europe," Nilde Jotti,
president of the Chamber of Deputies, told a conference on
anti-Semitism in Italy and Europe. "It is the trace of racial
hatred against the Jews, which we believe was extinct but
which instead we once again find has come to the fore," she
said. Jotti was among a panel of senior government officials
and Christians and Jewish leaders who took part in the con-
- ference■, which was organized by the Italian chapter of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and held in a
meeting hall of the Parliament building.
Flow Of Ethiopian Jews To Israel Halted
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
emigration of Ethiopian
Jews bound for Israel, which
had been proceeding since
last fall at a rate of about 500
a month, has been halted in
recent weeks, Israeli offi-...
cials have confirmed.
The suspension comes at a
time when thousands of
Ethiopian Jews have piled
into the capital city of Addis
Ababa, hoping to receive
permission to join family
and friends in Israel,
The vast majority of the
Jews left in Ethiopia - as
many as 15,000 people - are
now living in miserable conditions in Addis Ababa.
They have poured into the
capital from their native
Gondar region in recent
months, as fighting between
the government of Mengistu
Haile Mariam and rebel armies has shifted, making
roads to the capital passable.
The emigration of Ethiopian Jews has accelerated
since November, when Israel and Ethiopia restored dip-
Jewish leaders Condemn Statements
Charging lews Control Hollywood
NEW YORK (JTA) -
American Jewish leaders
have rejected charges of
"Jewish racism" in Hollywood that were leveled recently in Los Angeles at the
annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The charges, they say, revive the old anti-Semitism
canard that the Jews run the
media and serve as an irritant to black-Jewish relations.
"This is a dangerous
myth," Abraham Foxman,
national director of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, said of the cliche that
Jews monopolize Certain
professions.
"That kind of thinking develops and leds to the canard
of Jewish control and from
there to Jewish racism," he
said.
At issue are a number of
statements made July 11 ata
panel discussion on blacks in
the entertainment industry,
one of the workshops held at
the NAACP national convention.
One of the speakers, Le-
grand Legg, chairman of the
Coalition Against Black Exploitation and city attorney
of Compton, Calif., said that
the careers of black entertainers and producers has
been held back due to the
"century-old problem of
Jewish racism in Hollywood."
He urged black leaders to
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the Hollywood Jewish community in the same spirit
that J$ws have called.for
"summits" to discuss anti-
Semitic statements made by
such black leaders as Louis
Farrakhan and Nelson Mandela.
Maria Gibbs, producer
and star of the NBC situation
comedy "227," also made
controversial statements.
She was quoted in the "Los
Angeles Times" as saying it
.is time that blacks admit
that "the Jewish system in
Hollywood was not set up for
Talks On E. German Reparations
Must Resolve Complex Issues
JERUSALEM (JTA) «
The Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against
Germany has called on East
Germany to promptly implement its pledge to make just
compensation to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
Dr. Israel Miller made
that plea here recently dur-.
ing the biennial meeting of
the New York-based Claims
Conference's board of direo
tors, which re-elected him
president.
The board heard a report
of the Claims Conference's
first meeting with the East
German government, which
took place in East Berlin on
June25and26.
Miller reported that a
number of "complex legal
and financial issues" remain
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lomatic ties and signed an
agreement allowing for reunification of families on a
humanitarian basis.
The reason for the recent
suspension of the emigration
is unclear, but three main
explanations have been offered.
The most straightforward
reason for the slowdown is
that Mengistu wished to
avoid embarrassment during the meeting of the Organization of African Unity,
which was held two weeks
ago in Addis Ababa.
us."
Gibbs, claiming to have
been misquoted, clarified
her statement later in a
"New York Times" interview.
"What I said was that
when Jewish people • constructed their television
business, they did so to make
money and they did so from
their perspective. They
didn't have us in mind, and
we wouldn't have had them
in mind if we had been doing
it," she said..
Israeli and American Jewish officials say Mengistu
may have feared incurring
the wrath of the hundreds of
hard-line, anti-Israel African leaders who arrived in
the city for the meeting.
They say it would have been
difficult for him to hide the
exodus to Israel.
A second explanation for
the suspension is rising concern among both Mengistu
and Israeli officials that non-
Jews are using the Israeli
channel as a way of escaping
Ethiopia.
Shonac And Schottenstein Stores
To Sponsor Sports Spectacular
Sports Spectacular 1990
will feature two of the best-
known sports celebrities in
golf and tennis today, according to organizers. This
year's golf event is made
possible through the support
of the Shonac Corporation
and the tennis event is made
possible through the support
of Schottenstein Stores Corporation/Value City -., Furniture.  ,'■'.*' :'.:1:
David Frost, this year's
golf pro, has. been a rising
power in the field of PGA
golfers, possessing top ten
finishes in a variety of Opens
since 1985.
Telscher was also a member
of the US Davis Cup Team in
1981,1982,1983 and 1986.
sides.
The talks began last month
at the suggestion of East
German Prime Minister
Lothar de Maziere, who met
with representatives of the
Claims Conference on June
10, during a visit to New
York. At that time, the East
German leader reaffirmed
his country's pledge to institute just compensation for
material losses suffered by.
Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
The pledge was made at
the inaugural session of the
Volkskammer, East Germany's first freely elected
parliament, on April 12.
Meanwhile, more than
80,000 Holocaust survivors
received grants totaling over
$250 million from the Claims
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David Frost
Frost is considered to be one
of the most accurate ball
strikers in the game. In addition, he has adopted a regular
conditioning program that includes daily running coupled
with aerobic exercise:
Eliot Teltscher, this year's
guest tennis pro, also comes to
the Sports Spectacular with a
long list of achievements. In
his career, he has won the
French Open Mixed Doubles
with Ka^hy Jordan, the Seiko
Super Tournament, the GWA
Mazda Classic, the Altech
South African Open, the Japan
Open, the TransAmerica
Open, the San Juan Tennis
Classic, the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution Open and the
Island Holidays Tennis
Classic. In addition, Teltscher
was a finalist in the Scottsdale
Open, Los Angeles Open, Con-
goleum Classic, Melbourne Indoor Championship, Italian
Open and Canadian' "Open:
Eliot Teltscher
Sports Spectacular is a
major fundraiser for the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus. It will take place at
Winding Hollow Country
Club on Monday, Aug. 20.
Aside from golf and tennis,
Sports Spectacular 1990 participants will enjoy a kosher
dinner featuring guest
speaker Rick Pitino o£ the
Kentucky Wildcats. For
more information on this
year's Sports Spectacular,
contact the JCC at 231-2731.
Israeli Farmers Find
'Kosher1 Pigs
TEL AVIV (JTA) ~ Hog
farmers in Israel, fearing
they may soon be put out of
business by an Orthodox-inspired bill banning the raising of pigs anywhere in the
Jewish state, have come up
with a novel solution to their
plight.
They are considering importing and breeding ba-
birusas, an Indonesian species of wild hog related to the
pig family that chews its cud
and has cloven hoofs.
According to Indonesian
farmers, toe meat of the
little-known animal tastes
exactly like the' unkosher
pig. But as it meets the biblical requirements for kashrut, it does not come under
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Meir Joffe, Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia, was
quoted by "the New York
Times" as saying that Israel
had been "alarmed" by the
fact that non-Jews were attempting to immigrate to Israel.
Joffe was quoted as saying
the decision to halt the emigration was made jointly by
the Ethiopian and Israeli
governments.
But William Recant, director of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews, one
of the relief agencies caring
for the Ethiopian Jews in Adr
dis Ababa, said he did not believe Israel had anything to
do with suspending the flow
of emigres.
"This is not consistent
with what we have been told
in the past," Recant said
Sunday. He said Israeli officials were aware that the
screening process for pro-,
spective immigrants "has
been a careful one."
The third most troublesome explanation for a halt
in emigration is that the
Ethiopian Jews are being
held hostage to Mengistu's
demands for Israeli military
equipment.
It has been widely reported in the Israeli and American press that Mengistu
traveled to Israel on July 4
and 5 to meet with Prime
Minister Yatzhak Shamir
and request weapons from
the Israelis, in order to prop
up his embattled regime.
Non-lews Included
In Soviet Aliyah
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JERUSALEM (JTA) - A
quarter of the immigrants
arriving from the Soviet
Union are married to non-
Jews, and millions more
non-Jewish Soviet citizens
may be entitled to Israeli
citizenship under the Law of
' Return, according to Knesset member Michael Kleiner
of Likud.
Kleiner, who chairs the
Knesset Immigration and
Absorption Committee, maintains that in addition to the
approximately 2 million
Jews believed to remain in
the Soviet Union, there are 3
million non-Jews with at
least one Jewish grandparent.
According to Kleiner, they
would qualify for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. As a result, he believes
the law should be changed.
The, Orthodox-controlled
Absorption Ministry, meanwhile, is concerned about the
large number of Soviet Jews
bringing non-Jewish family
members with them to Israel. According to Absorption
Minister Yitzhak Peretz,
many of these non-Jews are
unwilling to convert and are
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