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VOL. 61   NO. 42
OCTOBER 13,I983-CHESHVANG
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Retires Early
From Faeulty
LOS ANGELES (JTA)
—Officials of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center an-'
nounced that convicted "
Dutch Nazi war criminal
Jacob Luitjens has prematurely "retired" from the
University of British Columbia (UBC) science faculty.
The announcement came
after a phoife conversation
by Wiesenthal Center officials with Dr. Robert Scagel,
head of UBC's botany department, where Luitjens
has served as an instructor
for nearly 20 years.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean
of the Wiesenthal Center,
which has been actively pursuing the Luitjens case for
the past six months, said he
was "pleased" Joy the news.
However, he added, the Center was still "disappointed
that UBC's president, K.
George Pedersen, had
earlier refused the Wiesenthal Center's demand that
Luitjens be fired.
"UBC was obviously more
interested in protecting a
rhan (Luitjens), convicted
by a sister democracy (Holland) than.for his crimes
against humanity," Hier
said. He also said that the
Center is continuing discussions with Dutch officials
about this case to press the
Canadian government to
find a way to expel Luitjens
"so that he will pay his debt
to society."	
AJCommitfee
Concerned Over
Refugee Limits
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
American Jewish '-Commit-
tee has expressed concern
over Administration proposals to limit refugees to be
admitted to the U.S. in the
coming year, particularly a
proposed reduction in admissions from Eastern Europe.
The AJC said such an action
"would signal to the Soviet
bloc that the U.S. has diminished its commitment to
refugees from that part of
the world."
Howard Friedman, AJC
president, said,"The leadership position the U,S. has as-,
sumed in worldwide refugee
affairs" is being threatened
by "a reduction in refugee
flow and by uncertainties
about the commitment of the
U.S. to reach it annual
goals."
He stressed'that the^most
serious problem has been the
trend to view numbers set
for refugee admissions as
ceilings that need not be met
: rather than as "realistic expectations,"
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ntinues To Focus
Herzog To Visit U.S.
As Main Stumbling Block To Peace
JERUSALEM—President, Chaim Herzog will visit the
United States during the latter part of November and is expected to meet with President Reagan at the White House.
Herzog is scheduled to be one of the principal speakers at the
52nd General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations
in Atlanta, Ga. Israel Television reported that Herzog, a
former ambassador to the* United Nations, is weighing the
possibility of addressing the UN General Assembly during
his planned ten-day visit to the United States.
Hadassah'lsrael Established
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Hadassah-Israel, a new women's
organization intended to support and implement Hadassah.
projects in Israel, was established here this week. The 500
delegates attending the inaugural ceremonies at the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus, elected Rose Joshua, president;
Hadassah claims a membership of 370,000 which makes it the
largest American Jewish organization and the largest single
Zionist body in the world. It is based exclusively in the U.S.
But at its national convention in Washington, D.C. six months
ago, the delegates endorsed a national board recommendation to authorize "persons residing outside the U.S. to
express their support for the Hadassah programs."   ,
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The Reagan Administration,
now that it has Congressional approval for the U.S.
marines to remain in Lebanon for at least another 18
months, is continuing to
focus on Syria as the main
stumbling block to the
removal of all foreign forces
from Lebanon and thus the
re-establishment of the government of Lebanon's sovereignty over its country.
A senior Administration
official, briefing, reporters
at the State Department
recently, rejected the contention of Prince Bandar Ibn
Sultan of Saudi Arabia that
he believes the Syrian army
would leave Lebanon once
Israel pulls out its forces and
Rabbi Ciner To Speak At Friends
Of Columbus Hebrew School Dinner
On October 23 At Agudas Achim
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner, the
spiritual leader of the Agudas Achim. Synagogue, will
be guest speaker at the
"Friends .of the Columbus
Hebrew School Annual Dinner on Sunday, Oct. 23 at the
Agudas Achim Social Hall.
Rabbi Ciner's address for
the evening is titled, "Jewish
Education, Which Way to
Go?"
Rabbi Ciner came to Columbus in Feb., 1983. He is a
1968 graduate of Yeshiva
College, after which, in 1971,
he received Rabbinic Ordination from Rabbi Isaac El-
chanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.
In that same year, Rabbi
Ciner graduated from the
Bernard, Revel Graduate
School of Yeshiva University
with a masters degree in
Jewish history.
Rabbi Alan Ciner
As a student, Rabbi Ciner
started a_unique program of
a congregation within a congregation in Bayside, N.Y,
The Etz Chaim Congregation, as it was called, served
the needs of high school and
college age young people in
the North Queens area.
Upon receiving Semicha,
Rabbi Ciner moved to Baltimore, Md., where lie assumed   his   first   pulpit.
Keeping pace with the rapid
growth of the congregation,
Rabbi Ciner instituted numerous creative programs.
After  Baltimore,   Rabbi
Ciner assumed a position in
the business world, the last
several years spent as a
senior consultant with a firm
in the brokerage and commodity   industries.   Simultaneously, he continued to ;
be on the Rabbinic-faculty
at  youth ' seminars  sponsored by Yeshiva University. He lectured extensively
throughout the New York'
area and served as a participant in a series aired on CBS.
Rabbi Ciner's coming to
Columbus was a decision to
re-enter the Rabbinate, on a
full time basis. Since arriving, he has instuted innovative programs of prayer,
study and  spirituality at
Agudas Achim. He led a;
group  of  teenagers  and1
adults from Columbus in the
Salute to Israel Parade held
in N.Y., the first time that a
group from the Midwest has
participated in this event. .
Since coming to Columbus,
Rabbi Ciner has appeared on
television and radio. He has
lectured extensively on the
relevance of Halachic and
philosophicaUudaism to the
spirituality of the times. He
was "recently elected to the
position of vice president of
Columbus Board of Rabbis.
The evening will start with
cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and
will be followed by dinner at
7 p.m.
Reservations are still
being accepted and may be
"made by calling the Hebrew
School office at 231-7764 or
231-8700.
the process of Lebanese
national reconciliation gets
underway. Bandar, who has
been named the desert kingdom's new ambassador to
Washington, has been credited with helping bring about
the cease-fire.
The U.S. official said Bandar's statement could be >
"turned on its head" and the
proposition made that if the
Syrians agree to withdraw,
all foreign forces would then
leave Lebanon. He also indicated that the Palestine Liberation Organization and
other Palestinian forces now
in Lebanon would not be
there without Syrian back->.
ing;
The official rejected any
suggestion that the U.S.
would abandon the May 17
Lebanon-Israeli agreement,
which he called an "important achievement." There
have been consistent reports
from Beirut that in seeking
to accommodate Syria the
U.S. would simply allow the
agreement to die.
But the Administration
official stressed here
strongly that in*the agreement Israel pledges "to
remove itself entirely from
Lebanon" once Syria and the
PLO agree to withdraw "and
that is something to build
upon and not to throw out."
Unmentioned in the support of the agreement was
that it came about with the
personal intervention of Sec-
retary of State George
Shultz, who made his first
trip as Secretary to the Mideast last May? and it stands
so far as his only major sue- -
cess in the Middle East in the
little more than a year he
has been in office.
Klaus Barbie Claims
He Was Kidnap Victim
PARIS (JTA)-Klaus Barbie, the wartime "butcher of
Lyon," now in jail awaiting
trial for crimes against
humanity, has demanded his
release on grounds that he
was a kidnap victim.
According to his defense
counsel, Jean Verges, Barbie was seized by unidentified French agents in
Cayenne, French Guiana,
after his expulsion from
Bolivia last February and
transported- to France. "I
was a kidnap victim and request justice," the former
deputy commander of the
gestapo in Lyon said.
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Rabbi Gary Huber
Rabbi David Hachen
Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin
Huber Tole Installed As Rabbi Of Beth Tikvah
The official installation of
Gary A. Huber as Rabbi of
Congregation Beth Tikvah,
6121 Olentangy River Rd.,
will take place Oct. 14. At the
8 p.m. service, Rabbi Alvan
Rubin, of Temple Israel in
St. Louis, will officiate and
deliver the sermon.
Rabbi Rubin is the author
of many texts for religious
schools. He holds several
degrees: bachelor of science, master of arts, master
of Hebrew letters and doctor
of divinity. He is adjunct professor of religion at Webster
College and a member of the
board of Lindenwood College. He has been involved jn
a variety of civic and religious organizations.    ~
Rabbi David Hachen,
regional director of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, will attend
as representative of that
organization. The Northeast
Lakes Region includes 66
reform congregations in
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,
western Rennslyvania and
western New York.
Jewish Leaders Reassured
Egypt Committed To Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Fourteen r Jewish leaders,
who met with President
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for
more ihan an hour last week,
came away reassured that
Egypt is eommitted to peace
with Israel but disappointed
that the Egyptian leader has
allowed the relationship between the two countries to
cool over the last year.
Julius Berman, chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, who
led the group, told a press
conference inside the Egyptian Embassy that the Jewish leaders had also expressed'disappointment to
Mubarak that he and other
Egyptian officials have been
calling for Israel's withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and
Palestine Liberation Organization forces.
Secretary of State George
Shultz told Jewish leaders
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