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sraeli Cabinet
Condemns U.N.
Resolution
- By David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
The Cabinet Monday strongly condemned the United Nations General Assembly's,re-
solution declaring the Camp
David accords invalid.'The
resolution, adopted last ■
Thursday night by a vote of
75-33 with 37 abstentions,
was denounced in a Cabinet
communique as "another
proof of the decline of the
United Nations. The international organization designed
to keep the peace 'condemns' a peace agreement,"
the communique said.
The General Assembly resolution declared that the
Camp David agreements
signed in September, 1978 by
Israel, Egypt and the United
States, "have no validity insofar as they purport to determine the future of the
Palestinian people and the
Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967."
Although the General " Assembly and other UN bodies
have expressed opposition to
the agreements in the past,
this declaration was the first
by the General Assembly to
reject the accords by name.
The resolution also condemned "all partial agreements and separate treaties
which constitute a flagrant
violation of the Palestinian
people," a reference to the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty, and rejected those
provisions of the Camp David agreements "which ignore, infringe upon, violate
or deny the inalienable
rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right of self-determination and the right to national independence and sovereignty inPalestine."
The' resolutions was op-_
posed by Israel,-Egypt, the
U.S.-and eight of the nine
member, states of the European Economic Community. ~
France, the ninth member,
abstained. An earlier attempt by Egypt to delete the
references to the Camp David accords was defeated by
a vote of 56-51 with 30 abstentions.
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The resolution was supported by Third World countries. The Cabinet communique criticized the non-
aligned bloc for "voting automatically for resolutions
proposed by the most ex-
. treme of the Arab states
which are backed by the So-
- vietbloc."'
Shcharansky Appeals For Support
Phenomenal Run
Jerry Traynor is shown above receiving a special
award from Jack Gaiser on his phenomenal run of five
miles in the Jewish Center's Thanksgiving Run II.
Jerry, a Cerebral Palsy victim from birth, traveled to
' this run from Parkersburg, West Virginia. His time
was 55 minutes. (More Run photos are on page 12.)
Bishop Burt Guest Speaker
The Rev. John Harris
Burt, D.D., Bishop-Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, will be the
guest speaker at the ninth .
annual Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry on Monday, Dec.
10th.
Council of Churches. Bishop
Burt also serves as Chairman of the Joint Committee
on Ecumenical Relations
and as Chairman of the Committee on Theology. ^
A native of Marquette, Michigan, Bishop Burt is a
graduate of Amherst College
in Massachusetts and the
Virginia Seminary. He studied at Columbia University
and the New School for Social Research oa a fellowship for graduate study in social work. Bishop Burt also
has an honorary Doctor of
Divinity Degree from Amherst.
Bishop Burt and his wife,
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By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Avital Shcharansky, wife of
imprisoned Soviet dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky, returned to Washington Friday
appealing for continued support to help obtain her husband's release so that he can
join her in Israel.
Looking worn from her
ceaseless efforts for her husband's freedom, Mrs. Shcharansky met with reporters at
a breakfast at the National
Pres: Club, appeared on
television and later was a
guest at a reception at the
Capitol,-hosted by Rep. Robert Drinan (D.Mass.), whom
she described as a "dear
friend of our family."
The reporters received copies of her personal account
of her life,' entitled* "Next
Year in Jerusalem," which
were Anatoly's last words,
when his trial ended in Moscow in 1977. The book, written with liana Ben-Joseph
and translated from Russian,
by Stefani Hoffman, is the
story of two young people
who married for love and
were separated because they
are Jewish. Mrs. Shcharan-
- sky emigrated to Israel in
July 1973, the day after her
wedding in Moscow. She has
not been permitted to visit
her husband since then.
Mrs. Shcharansky explained the background of
what she called the double
standard the Soviets employ
regarding dissidents. As an
example, she said the Soviet
government produced "the
very aggressive" television
film against Israel and Zionism that emphasized to the
Soviet peoples "we have,
here in the Soviet Union soldiers of Zionism," meaning,
she said,'"persons like Anatoly, the Slepaks and Ida Nudel."
Mrs. Shcharansky ob- ~
served that "Oh the one
hand, the Soviet government
makes an anti-Semitic atmosphere in the street and
on the other hand it won't let
them (the dissidents) out."
She said that, with the 1980
Olympic Games in Moscow
only  eight  months  away,
Jews in the Soviet Union are
saying, "we're afraid" that
the round-ups and removals,
from Moscow and other cities that preceded the visit of
President Nixon in 1972 will
be repeated to avoid possible
contacts with foreigners.
Mrs. Shcharansky urged
that letters from individuals
and statements by officials
be sent to the Soviet Authorities to explain to the Russians in a "big public campaign" that in her special
case "Anatoly is sick" and
that other Jews want to emigrate, too. "In my husband's
case and in general we must
not only speak but do," she
said.
Artist To Speak At Dedication
The formal dedication of
the Agudas Actum Synagogue scheduled for Dec. 14-
16 will feature on Friday
evening, Dec. 14, Mr. Irving
Amen, noted artist and designer of the stained glass
windows oh the altar of the
synagogue. Amen will discuss the religious significance of the windows. The
seryice begins at 8:15 p.m.
and will be followed by an
Oneg Shabbat sponsored by
the sisterhood.
Amen is a native New
Yorker and a graduate of
Pratt Institute. From 1942 to
1945 he served with the
armed forces and headed a
mural project executing
murals in the United States
Irving Amen
and Belgium. He has had exhibitions throughout the
country, in particular at the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C
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Bishop John Burt
Bishop Burt is well-known
for his work in the area of civil liberties in order to maintain the democratic principles of freedom. He served
on the board of the Civil Liberties Union of Southern
California, and chaired the
Los Angeles "Town Meeting
for Democracy" and the
"Religious Witness for Human Dignity" rally in Los
Angeles; both important
milestonesJin the civil liberties struggle in California.
For his work of this type,
the Jewish War Veterans of
the United States honored
him with their Risseca Human Relations Award in
1964. In 1974, Bishop Burt
was appointed to the Presiding Bishop's Advisory Com-
' mittee on Jewish Relations,
and reappointed in 1977.
Bishop Burt is a member
of numerous organizations
both in Ohio and on the national level. Among these is
the General Board oi the National Council of Churches of
Christ. He is Chairman of the
National Episcopal Church's
Clergy Deployment Board,
and of the Faith and Order
Commission, of  the  Ohio
Israeli Public Aids Cambodians
By Simon Griver
World Zionist Press Service
While the problems of
South East Asia are remote
from Israel in geographical
terms, the psychological distance is much smaller.
Israel is a country largely
established on the blood of
the holocaust and partly
built by the sweat of its survivors. It is a country where
a large part of the population
knows at first hand the grim
reality of being a refugee.
Consequently, the pitiful
plight of Cambodia's starving millions has engaged the
sympathy and solidarity of
the Israeli public.
In a campaign, the extent
of which has never been seen
here before,' armies of
helpers have been mobilized
to raise money to combat the
deprivation that now stalks
Cambodia. This time, the
holocaustic proportions of
the crisis seems to have
touched a sensitive nerve
amongst Israelis, invoking
memories of previous decades. Thus, when poet Abba
Kovner, partisan leader and
holocaust survivor, was
aked what associations he
had when he saw pictures of
Cambodia, he at once replied—Auschwitz.
At the time of this writing,
more than $600,000 has been
collected for Cambodia during the last week. As each
day passes, more money
pours into the bank accounts ,
that have been specially
opened for the relief fund.
This is a vast sum for a country ' like Israel, which is
small and not so affluent.
The money has come
through three sources. There
is the government sponsored
Israel Voluntary Services,
which is still busily organizing a wide range of activities. Then there is Abie Nathan, the maverick and popular philanthropist and operator of the "pirate" radio
station "The Voice of
Peace." Abie has already
flown to the Cambodian border and purchased medical
supplies with, money he had
raised.
But by far the bulk of the
money received, 75 percent
of it, followed a TV charity
show in.which Israel's top
artists performed one after
another into the early hours
of the morning, for free. The
show was introduced by
President Yitzhak Navon
and included Eurovision
song contest winners, "Milk
and Honey." Viewers were
given numbers to phone in
order to pledge donations.
"We were overwhelmed
by the response," says Peter
Milik, the TV Moor manager
who first suggested the idea
of the charity performance.
"The lines were jammed
with calls for hours. We received pledges/ from ordinary citizen^; Kibbutzim,
holocaust survivors and
even children. By the way, I
was disappointed with many
of the large companies, although the banks were very
generous. Bank Hapoalim
donated $25,000 and Bank
Leumi gave; $35,000." (The
latter also gave. $8,000 to the
Israel Voluntary Services,
the first group to start collecting money in a big way.)
"Prime Minister Begin
started the ball rolling,"
says Itzhak Ben Shalom, the
Director of the! V.S:, *>hen
he organized an inter-departmental committee of the
Health, Labor and Education ministries and El Al. We
are the fund raising arm of
that committee. We have
raised $50,000 from individuals and companies. The
national youth movements,
which like other voluntary
groupings have been
collecting door to door and
holding a variety of fundraising events, have -collected
another $50,000. We have received an avalanche of letters, many from groups offering their services; dance
and drama groups, .even a
flamenco dancer. We have 50
doctors prepared to go to
Cambodia and hundreds of
other volunteers. We will be
raising funds for weeks to
come, Perhaps we will bring
some refugees here as we
did with 400 of the Vietnamese boat people."
The television people and
I.V.S. have consulted but
have unfortunately been unable to coordinate their activities..  Tbe   television
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