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VOL. GO   NO. 4.1
OCTOBER 21,1982-CHESHVAN 4
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Kollek Refuses Vatican Invitation
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Mayor Teddy Kollek has publicly
refused an invitation from the Apostolic delegate in Jerusalem to attend a service marking the fourth anniversary of
the inauguration of Pope John Paul II. In a message to the
delegate, Msgr. William Carew, Kollek said he must decline
in view of "the astounding fact" that the Pope granted an
audience last month to PLO chief Yasir Arafat.
Begin To Address CJF General Assembly
NEW YORK (JTA)—Premier Menachem Begin of Israel
will be the featured speaker at the 50th anniversary General
Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations scheduled for
Saturday evening, Nov. 13, at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los
Angeles, Calif.,"it was announced here by the CJF. More than
3,000 delegates representing the 200-member Federations of
the Council will be attending the assembly November 10-14.
Youth Exchange Visits Suffer
BONN (JTA)—Youth exchange visits between West Germany and Israel have apparently suffered because of the war
in Lebanon. Five West German youth groups have cancelled
visits to Israel and three others announced they would refuse
to host Israeli groups due to come here. The German groups
which decided not to go to Israel said their reasons were political. They stressed, however, that their decision did not
mean an end to the youth exchange program with Israel.
LOS ANGELES (JTA)-
The Union of American He-
brew Congregations
(UAHC) launched a $5 million, drive here last week to
rescue, restore and reacquire long-lost documents
and artifacts representing
1,000 years of Polish-Jewish
History.
The funds will go toward
the UAHC's Polish Judaica
project, initiated last year
following the signing of a
unique cultural exchange
agreement between the Reform Jewish group and the
University of Warsaw.
Dr. Armand Hammer,
president of Occidental Pe- ■
troleum Corp., served as
chairman of the $500-a-plate
dinner in the Beverly Wil-
shire Hotel attended.by 600
guests Monday night. Hammer called the UAHC-Polish
.idence-Herifage Manor
This Sunday, the entire
community is invited to cele-
grate -the achievement of
another milestone in services for the elderly with the
Dedication of the A. Herbert
and Lillian Kanter Residence-Heritage Manor,
located on -the Heritage
Village campus.
The remodeled home will
welcome nine senior members of the community, who
will be able to enjoy all of the
benefits of shared assistance
living. With the daily supportive services of the
Faculty Coordinator, residents will appreciate the
security arid friendship
available through this innovative and comfortable life-
' style.
1 Heritage Village becomes
only the third Jewish organization in the nation to sponsor this type of alternative
living program for the
elderjy.
In recognition of their contributions to the community,
the residence will be dedicated to Mrs. Lillian Kanter
and her husband, the late Dr.
A. Herbert Kanter, a retired
physician and founder of the
Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
Heritage Village will host
an Open House this Sunday
at the Kanter Residence-
Heritage Manor following
the Dedication Ceremonies,
scheduled for 2 p.m. at Heritage House. Louis Robins,
Chairman of the day's festivities, states that prior to the
Dedication, the community
will share in the afternoon's
second highlight—the pre
sentation of the Eleanor and
Jack Resler "Life With Dig-
nity" Award to Sol Zell by
Mrs. Eleanor Resler. Rabbi
Dr. and Mrs. A. Herbert Kanter
Samuel Rubenstein of Con-    ceremonies with the setting
gregation  Agudas  Achim    of the'mezuzah'at the Resi-
will  complete  the special    derice.
Agreement ''a breakthrough
because, for the first time, a
Communist nation, "Poland,
has agreed contractually
with an American Jewish organization to provide Judaic
objects, manuscripts and
art, much of which has been
inaccessible to Western
scholarship." He continued:
"The agreement will serve
also as a model to other nations, particularly those
within the Communist
sphere, hopefully engender- -
ing additional religious and
cultural exchange and significant humanitarian gestures."
1238 Codes
To Be Reproduced
Dr. Maury Leibovitz of
New York, president of the
Knoedler Cfalleries and co-
chairman of the dinner with
Guilford Glazer, announced
that the UAHC would issue a
limited edition' of 300 full-
size, full-color facsimile reproductions of the Kalony-
riius Codex, an illuminated
Bible manuscript in Hebrew
and Aramaic dating from."
the year 1238, that is regarded as one of the oldest
and most beautiful treasures
of Jewish religious art. A
limited edition of 300 copies
at $5,000 each will be published.
The Kalonymus Codex was
one of 20 works of rare Jewish art from Poland on exhibit at the dinner. It will
move to the Skirball Museum of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in Los Angeles,
where more than 100 articles
of Polish Jewish art, on loan
from various Polish institutions to the UAHC, will be on
display through December.-'
Many of the works of Polish Judaica were thought
lost or destroyed in the Holocaust Rabbi Alexander
Schindler, president of the
UAHC, told the dinner
guests:.
enfs, Artifacts
"We cannot bring back the
martyrs of .our people or restore the burned scrolls and
precious manuscripts v that
have been lost forever. But
through this historic agreement we can and will carry
out our proud obligation to
preserve, for today and for
the years to come, the
precious fragments of a vanished world. Ii\doing so, we
will moreivividly remember,
more fully comprehend and
more nobly honor the vitality
and genius of one of the great
communities in our people's
history."
Project Has Been Broadened
Since the agreement was
signed, Schindler reported,
the project has been, broadened to include the restora-.
tion and reconsecration by
the UAHC of Jewish cemeteries in some 400 cities and
towns in Poland, as well as
the restoration of several
synagogues, the furnishing
of a new synagogue in Lublin
and the construction of a
Jewish chapel at the site of
the Maidenek concentration
camp.
Rabbi Philip Hiat, assistant to the president of the
UAHC, negotiated the agreement with Polish church,
governmental and university officials during several
trips to Poland. He pointed
out that while the UAHC is a
Reform Jewish group, it has
invited Conservative and Orthodox rabbis and scholars
to join in the work of "rescuing and restoring the art,
artifacts, historic documents
and treasures of Polish
Jewry for the entire Jewish
people."     ?
The exhibition, which went
on view in Los Angeles last
week will be returned to
Warsaw for the 40th anniver-^
sary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising next April. Later,
the collection will be sent to
Israel, where it will be on
' view at Bet Hatefutsot, the
Museum of the Diaspora, in
Tel Aviv.
Completed For
Final plans have , been
completed for the annual
Mizrachi Dinner to be held
Sunday, Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. in
Dr. Dorothy Rubenstein
the Agudas Achim Social
Hall. Dr. Dorothy Rubenstein, mistress of ceremonies, will once again sell
the candles which are
lighted in honor of an occasion or in memory of a loved
one. The evening will feature
dinner catered by Keni.
Graduates of American
Mizrachi Women's schools
are achieving positions
among the leadership of Israel that allow them to do
full justice to the care and
guidance they received in
AMW projects. For the future of Israel, Mizrachi
works to build the future of
Israel's youth. This is the
contribution of AMW—the
gift of a generation of Jewish
boys and girls who know and
appreciate their heritage
and are prepared to add to it.
The community is invited
to attend. For further information, call 235-7354.
Egyptian Media Reflect Furor Over Lebanon War
CAIRO (JTA)-If an assessment of the current state
of Egyptian-Israeli relations
was to be made on the basis
of attitudes reflected in the
media here, there would be
. little indication that the
peace treaty has .weathered
Egypt's furor over Israeli
actions in Lebanon.
Although celebrations
marking last week's anniversary of the Yorn Kippur
War lacked the fanfare of
last year's military parade,
at which President JVnwar
Sadat was assassinated,
Egypt  appeared  to' com
memorate its 1973 crossing
of the Suez Canal with an
er^bjusiasm that over-
sfiSapwed any homage to the
late President Sadat for his
legacy of peace.
The. eulogies that appeared in nearly every paper
and even the address delivered by President Hosni
Mubarak to mark the anniversary of Sadat's death
bore the tone of apologies to
the Egyptian people rather
than a collective acclamation'of the late President's
achievements.
In his nationally televised
address before Egypt's
ruling political party, Mubarak warned that ' 'whatever the attempts to try and
blur the accomplishments of
Sadat... the great achievements, of course, can never
be dissipated against the
background of certain marginal matters ..."
Prevailing Attitude
Toward Sadat
Egypt's largest circulation
daily, Al Akhbar, published
a front page editorial entitled "Sadat-A Dictator,"
which attempted to answer
charges that the late Presi
dent was an autocratic ruler
by demonstrating how his
style of autocracy was
unique arid positive in many
respects.
A similar trend surfaced in
the major •Egyptian journals. Anis Mansour, editor of
the widely-respected October magazine, observed that
the prevailing attitide toward Sadat in Egypt Joday
has pointed to an Egyptian
trend of rallying behind the
country's leaders with a
fervor, only to malign them
after death. Mansour suggested that the present gen
eration of Egyptians has
reverted to a kind of blind
worship of the late Gamal
Abdel Nasser.
Government officials, as
well as the news media, have
gone to great lengths to
remind Egyptians of Sadat's
domestic and foreign policy
achievements, including the
peace treaty with Israel,
At the same time, however, the dual anniversary of
the October. 1973 war and
Sadat's assassination last
year has provided an opportunity, in light of Egypt's.
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