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VOL, 60   NO. 21
MAY27,1982-SIVAN5
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Britain's Jewish Leaders Under Fire
LONDON (JTA)—Leaders of Anglo-Jewry have received
abusive letters and telephone calls following press reports of
Israeli arms supplies to Argentina, which have caused
strains between London and Jerusalem. Unlike the DAIA, the
central Jewish community organization in Argentina, which
has hailed the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, the
Board of Deputies of British Jews has refrained from issuing
unqualified support for the government of Britain in the
Falklands crisis. Greville Janner, the president of the Board
and a member of Parliament, justified this caution by noting
the absence of unanimity in the Jewish community, as in
Britain as a whole, about the government's handling of the
crisis. At the same time, he voiced British Jewry's prpfound
concern for the safety of British forces defending the Falklands.  -	
Air Force Restriction On Yarmulkas Voided
NEW YORK (WNS)-A-federal district court judge in
Washington has voided the United States Air Force's restriction on the wearing of Yarnlulkas by Air Force personnel.
Judge Aubrey Robinson ruled that the wearing of a skull cap
for religious reasons is a constitutionally protected right,
according to Howard Zuckerman, president of the National
Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs.
Jewish Leaders Urge Reagan Administration, Congress
To Launch Probe Of War Criminals Smuggled Into U.S.
Study Shows 1.1 Million Jews in NYC
NEW YORK (JTA)—First results of a preliminary population study of the New York City Jewish population indicate
that there are 1,118,800 Jews living in the city's five boroughs.
The study was made by City University of New York under
auspices of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. The survey staff conducted more than 4,500 interviews, making the
project the largest Jewish community study ever made outside of Israel. Federation officials emphasized that the
figures were preliminary and that the results of the complete
study will not be ready for some 16 months. More than 18 percent of New York City households were found to be Jewish.
NEW YORK (JTA)~
American Jewish leaders
and organizations last week
urged the Reagan: Administration and Congress to
undertake immediate investigations of allegations
that U.S: officials smuggled
hundreds of Russian-born
Nazi war criminals into the
country after Worjld War II
and that various government
• agencies covered up that
covert operation for years
thereafter.
The charges were made by
John Loftus, former prosecutor lor the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OS!>, in an appearance on the CBS-TV "60
Minutes" program recently.
The B'nai B'rith Inters
national, in a resolution approved unanimously by its
Board of Governors at their
semi-annual meeting in
Washington^, demanded an
immediate probe by the Administration and the Congress to determine who Was
responsible, for the smuggling and cover-up.
According to Loftus, hundreds of collaborators who
belonged to the] Nazi-cbh-
trolled Byelorussian puppet
government during World
War II, were clandestinely
brought to the U.S. for anti-
Soviet propaganda and intelligence purposes. Many
were participants in the extermination of Jews.   .
The B'nai B'rith International: resolution said:
"Just action should be taken
against those U.S. officials
responsible for either the development of this policy or
the cover-up and expeditious
steps should be taken to expel Nazi war criminals from
our country."
Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith in New York, called on
Man Of La Mancha Opens At Center June 5
"The Impossible Dream,"
one of the great songs of this
century, will lift the hearts of
audiences with its tuneful lilt
and its message of courage.
at the Jewish Center, beginning June 5 for a 12 performance engagement through
June 20, when Gallery Players presents Man of La Mancha , the musical play that
brought it to fame.
One of the longest-running
hits in New York stage history, this internationally-acclaimed musical play ranks
with My Fair Lady, Hello
Dolly! and Fiddler on the
Roof in the list of all-time
stage favorites.
Besides "The Impossible
Dream," Man of La Mancha
is threaded with such other
hit-parade songs as "The
Quest" and "Dulcinea,"
with music by Mitch Leigh
and lyrics by Joe Darion.
The comic Cervantes's masterpiece, Don Quixote de La
Mancha, was adapted by
Dale Wasserman, and it presents the high points in the
hilarious and picaresque adventures of the fumbling
knight who imagines that the
vulgar world around him is
still the golden age of chivalry.
Veronica Lewis will portray the reeking barmaid
who is astounded to be regaled as the lovely "Dulcinea." Gregg Patterson will
play the humble servant who
stoutly squires his pixillated
master because, as he plaintively sings, "I Like Him."
Others in the cast will be
Julian Barnett as the overbearing innkeeper, Steve
Mohler as a patient priest,
Glenn Bittner as the comic
barber and David Weaver as
the cynical doctor.
Man of La Mancha is being
directed by Harold M. Eisenstein and choreographed by
Gwen Kagy. Its setting of a
Gallery Players technicians for the production of
Man of La Mancha confer on backstage necessities for
the award-winning musical opening at the Jewish
Center, June 5. Shown (1. to r.) are Stage Mgr. Michele
Gibson, Asst. Costumer Karen Miller and Marilyn
Frank, who is creating the properties.
the House Judiciary Committee and the Administration to open immediate investigations of the allegations. "The American people
have the right to know
whether reputed Nazi war
criminals are presently employed in any capacity .by the
U.S. government," Perlmutter said. He said the disclosures on the "fiO Minutes"
program "confirmed earlier
reports of such immoral
operations."
Ra bbi Alex a hder
Schindler, president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations,   called  on
President. Reagan to name a
commission "of impeccable
stature, with full powers and
with your total support" to
investigate the charges. In a
telegram to the White House,
Schindler said:
"That agencies of the U.S.
government would defy
Presidential directives, mislead the Congress and violate the most fundamental
American traditions of morality and decency in hiring
the most loathsome creatures of our generation is a
charge of such magnitude
that it requires a prompt and
thorough investigation."
For lo, the winter
is post
The rain is over
and gone,
The flowers appear
on the earth   :
■ Has come,...
dismal prison where Cervantes is awaiting trial, which
becomes transformed into
the various scenes of Qut
xote's fantastic forays, is being designed by Mike Keith, *
and a colorful rag bag of
quite unheraldic costumes is
being -created by; Wendy.
Goldstein,' Karen Miller and
Harold Curhiode.
Tickets are still available
for most performances. For
reservations or information
on group rates, call the Cultural Arts Department of the
Jewish Center, 231-2731.
These words, immortalized by King Solomon in
.j Song of Songs, aptly describe the feeling with which
we welcome Shavuot—a three-fold celebration com/   ^
memorating:
•*^^TS*> The giving of the Torah on-Mount,.Sinai,
^m^7^^The harvesting of wheat in Israel,
The ripening of the first fruit in the Holy Land.
Shavuot
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The Festival of Weeks
Sotheby's Offers First Sale Of Judaica Works
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Sotheby's New York has announced that, for the first
time, it will offer in a single
sale fine Judaica works of
art as well as books and
manuscripts.
The June 2-3 sale, at the
firm's York Avenue Galleries, features a portfolio of 48
original gouaches from Arthur Szyk's Haggadah; a
highly unusual 19th century
silver gilt miniature set of
temple fittings, .modeled
after those in the Temple in
Jerusalem; and a rare emissary document signed by two
leading 19th century
Hassidic rabbis, the Rabbi of
Apt and the Rabbi of Ruhzin.
Jay Weinstein, head of
Sotheby's Judaica Works of.
' Art department, said this is%
probably the only document
in existence signed by the
two rabbis whose signatures
are considered by many to
be a blessing.
Weinstein said that because of "the rich selection
of material offered in a wide
range of value, this sale pro^
vides a rare opportunity for
both new and established
collectors of Judaica."
He said the Judaica
material included important
letters and documents
relating to North American
Jewry and rare documents
pertaining to European
Jewish history. Much of the
Attierican material was
► written by leading Jewish;
men and women of their
time.
Weinstein said the letters
give personal glimpses into
little-known aspects of North
American Jewish history.
Represented are such,
famous Jews as Rebecca
Gratz; Judah Benjamin,'
attorney general of the
Confederacy; and Efraim
Hart, one of the founders of
The New York Stock Exchange.