Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1978-11-09

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VOL.56 NO.46
NOVEMBERS, 1978-CIIESHVAN9
Jewish Leaders Protest ABC-TV Film
As 4 Glorification Of Terrorist Outrages
The Jewish Center will observe Jewish Book Month
during its Book Fair to be held for one week beginning
Dec.2-10.
Center Sponsors Book Fair
The Jewish Center  will
sponsor" its-tinhual  Book
M\      Fair, Dec. 2-10 according to
Ruth  Edelstein,  chairman
for the Book Fair.
Jewish Book Month, held
annually under the national
auspices of the Jewish Welfare Board Book Council,
have released the poster an-
' nouncing this year's theme
"Jewish J3ooks—Link
Between Past and Future."
The theme was chosen to illustrate that Jewish books
can be the connection
between persons of all ages
and can help close the generation gap. .--...-•
According 'to Mrs. Edelstein, the many events and
activities that her committee is planning for the week-
long Book Fair will include
exhibits, demonstrations,
speakers and entertainment
for people of all ages in the
community to enjoy. All of
these functions will take
place at The Jewish Center,
1125 College Ave. Watch for
a detailed schedule of events
in future issues of The Ohio
Jewish Chronicle.
NEW YORK (WNS)-Jew-
ish leaders have denounced
the ABC-TV documentary,
"Terror  in   the  Promised
Land" as a one-sided glorification  of Palestinian  terrorism. The one hour documentary was aired Oct. 30 by
some 200 ABC-owned and affiliated stations as part of
the network's "News Close-
ups" series. Mary Fifield,
director of public relations
for ABC Newst admitted that
most of the telephone calls
by viewers about the program  were negative.  Ms.
Fifield said some 1500 calls'
were received in New York
and other cities before the
program   was   aired   and
charged   that   there   was
evidence that it was part of
an   organized   campaign,
Which she said was probably
encouraged  by   the  B'nai
B'rith     Anti-Defamation
League. She said most of
the callers read from what
appeared to be "prepared
scripts'* and may-of them
~ wehTcWldreri: MsYFifieRT
said when she asked the
children  why  they  called,
some replied, "because my
Hebrew school teacher told
me to" or the "rabbi told me
to." Ms. Fifield said that the
film drew a 10.7 rating which
was about normal for a docu-,
mentary.
ADL general counsel
Arnold Forster said that the
ADL "was denied its request
to preview the film." Ms.
Fifield said it was ABC
policy not to preview shows
"Human Rights In Middle East" To Be Debate
"Human Rights in The
■ Middle East: Myths and
Facts" will be the topic of a
debate with national ramifications between two professors of international law,
Howard Dickstein and John
B. Quigley, Jr., Ori Wed.,
Nov. 15 at the Ohio Union
Conference Theatre, Ohio
State University Campus, at
7:30 p.m. James E. Meeks,
Dean of the Ohio State University, College of Law, will
serve as moderator, announced Carole S. Genburg
and Mindy Rodney, co-chairpersons of the Alliance for
Israel' student organization
(Law.School. Division) at
OhioState University.
,The idea of a debate was
initiated by Alan M. Dersho-
witz, Professor of Law,
Harvard University, noted
expert on the Arab-
Palestinian Issues, and
attorney_who unsuccessfully
, tried to obtain Soviet permis-
' sion to represent Anatoly.
Shcharansky   during   his'.
recent trial, who stunningly
challenged Quigley to an
open debate at OSU on these
issues. However, Quigley declined to debate Dershowitz
on personal grounds. Unwilling to allow only Quigley's
viewpoint to be heard on the
OSU campus, Professor
Dershowitz suggested that
his colleague, Howard Dickstein, former professor of international law at Cambridge University (England)
and the University of California (Davis), practicing
attorney in Sacramento,
California specializing in
American-Indian Law, and
author of the '.National
Lawyers Guild "Minority
Report Concerning Treatment of Palestinians in
Israeli Occupied Territories" which completely
refutes Professor Quigley's
charges, be given the opportunity to.debate Quigley in
his place. The OSU Alliance
for' Israel student.organization extended the "second"
for "special interest
groups," unless an endorsement was sought. Only the
press is invited to previews,
she said. Forster. in an attack on the film prior to its
presentation, said, "The evil
of the ABC film is its accept:
ance of the PLO rationale of
its murder program, almost
giving the impression that
the producers understand
and accept the rationale."
Most | of the protests which
came after the show also
faulted ABC for showing the.
documentary at a time when
Israeli-Egyptian peace nego-
tiat ions ■were going on. Charlotte Jacobson. chairman of
the American Section of the
World Zionist Organization,
look strong exception to a
comparison between the
Holocaust and the situation
of Palestinian refugees. She
said that "one ol the insidious notes< introduced was
the contrast between the living conditions in one of the
worst of the refugee camps
with the neatness and order
of. an Israeli kibbutz. The
legitimate contrast would be
between the way Arab
refugees are forced to live by
their Arab brothers and the
way those same Arab brothers themselves live, in the
oil-built palaces of Saudi
Arabia, Iraq, etc." Bertram
H. Gold, executive vice-president of the American Jewish Committee; said the
"program served to glorify
outlaws whose so-called
'heroism' is directed against
nnocent people, including
women and children."
Richard Cohen, associate
executive dir^'Mor of the
American Jewish Committee,    said   ABC    is    now
iCONfINHF1) ON PA<;r 1
Carter, Vance Express Confidence
That Peace Treaty Will Be Soon
challenge to Mr. Quigley and
recently announced that he
had agreed to.face Howard
Dickstein in a public debate
on Nov. 15.
The debate will focus on
the charges that have been
repeatedly made by John
Quigley, Jr., .vice-president
of the National Lawyers
Guild and a well-known local
spokesman for Arab-
Palestinians, which condemn Israel for alleged
gross .violations of
Palestinian human rights,
including i torture of
suspected Arab terrorists.
These charges of Israeli
mistreatment of Arabs are
based oh a "Majority
>_teport" written by John
Quigley, Jr., and other members of a National Lawyers
Guild delegation trip to the
Middle East that was sponsored by the Palestine
Liberation OrganUa-
tion(PLO), (in. July, 1977.
"With   few- exceptions,"
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NEW YORK (WNS)-
President Carter and Israeli
Premier Menachem Begin
expressed confidence Nov. 2
that an Israeli-Egyptian
peace^ treaty will be concluded soon. The two met for
a half hour at the home of
, Arthur Krim, a prominent
'Jewish businessman active
in Democratic Party affairs.
The meeting which had not
beenoriginally planned was
scheduled during a two hour
and 20 minute meeting Begin
had earlier with Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance at which
Vance extended the invitation to meet Carter. The
meeting came after reports
that Carter was snubbing
Begin since both were in
New York Nov. 2—Begin to
receive a "Family of Man"
peace award which he won
jointly with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat from the
New York City Council of
Churches and.Carter to campaign for New York Gov.
Hugh Carey" and other Democratic candidates. The
meeting at Krim's house followed a fund-raising
luncheon there for Carey.
Begin had rejected reports
that Carter had snubbed him
saying after the meeting
with Vance that he had not
felt snubbed "for one
minute" since his arrival in
New York Nov. 1. Upon landing in Kennedy International
Airport with his wife, Aliza,
Begin said . that relations
between him and Carter
were "cordial.".He stressed
he had not'asked for a meeting with the President, noting that he had met him five
Rabbi Goldman Installed
Pictured at the recent Installation of Rabbi Harvey
S. Goldman as the 23rd Rabbi of Temple Israel on Fri..
Oct, 27, are left to right Rabbi Jerome D, Folkman;
Rabbi Theodore S. Gordon or Wynnewood, Pa...Rabbi
Harvey S. Goldman; President of the Congregation
Sidney I. Blatt. Over 700 people attended the Installation Services. Many community leaders were present.
Rabbi .Goldman has been in the position since July 1st
of this year. He and'his wire Seena are the parents of
three children. • ' .
times     since    becoming
Premier.
When Begin arrived at
Krim's residence, he and
Carter embraced when the
President met him on the
street in front of the house.
Carter introduced Begin to
those inside saying "I think
there will be peace in the
Middle East thanks to these
brave men (Begin and
Sadat) who have had the
courage to face difficult
problems." The Israeli leader told the President that
real progress was made at
his meeting with Vance. The
Vance-Begin meeting ended
with the two men saying progress was made on the
Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty. Vance said he would
meet with the Egyptian delegation when he returned to
Washington. The meeting
reportedly dealt not only
with the peace treaty, but
with the issue of linkage
between the treaty and negotiations on the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip and U.S.
economic aid to Israel after
the withdrawal from Sinai.
Begin disclosed that Israel's
withdrawal be financed by
25-year low-interest loan
from the U.S. instead of a
grant. He said that Vance
welcomed the idea and said
he would discuss it with
Carter. Vance was accompanied at the meeting by
-'' Alfred Atherton. the special
U.S. Ambassador to the
Middle East who has headed
the U.S. delegation at the
Blair House talks for most of
the sessions. Israeli Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan and
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who heads the Israeli
delegation, and Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz. a member of
the delegation, accompanied
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