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Spain Interested
In Diplomatic Relations With Israel
' BRUSSELS (JTA)—Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Mar-
quez of Spain indicated here last week that his government is
very much interested in establishing diplomatic relations
with Israel. He also expressed admiration for "the Jewish
lobby in Europe, in the United States and in Latin America"
for their tenacious support of Israel.
Egypt To Host Palestinian Conference
LONDON (JTA)—Egypt is to be the site of a conference
"in support of the Palestinian people" to be held at the end of
this month, the World Jewish Congress reported last week.
Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat is to attend the meeting to be convened in Cairo on March 30, according to a broadcast carried by Radio Cairo, which was
monitored here by WJC sources. Preparations were reportedly already underway for the event.
Pope To Meet With Swiss Jews
GENEVA (JTA)—Pope John Paul II will meet with.leaders of the Federation of Jewish Communities when he visits
Switzerland in June, it was announced here last week. The
meeting will be held in the town of Freiburg on the second
day of the Pontiff's week-long visit. Jewish circles expressed
satisfaction that the meeting will be one of the first items on
the Pope's agenda. He is expected to discuss with the Jewish
leaders such matters as Jewish-Christian relations, holy
places and relations between the Vatican and Israel.
Israel Reacts Bitterly
To Lebanese Abrogation
Of May 17 Agreement
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Although hardly unexpected,
Lebanon's formal abrogation last week of its May. 17,
1983 withdrawal and security
agreement with Israel drew
bitter reactions here. An official statement issued by the
Prime Minister's Office
blamed Syria for "forcing
Lebanon to surrender to a
diktat which means a death
sentence for Lebanon's independence."
The Reagan Administration, which played a major
role in negotiating the agreement, also reacted strongly
to the announcement in Beirut of the abrogation of the
accord.
The decision to cancel the
accord was announced after
an extraordinary session of
the Lebanese Cabinet by
Cabinet secretary Shafiq
Mneimneh. "The Cabinet at
its meeting under President
Amin Gemayel today decided to cancel this unratified agreement and to consider it null and void," the
statement said. It followed
by several days Gemayel's
return from Damascus
where he had conferred at -
length with President Hafez
Assad of Syria.   ~
Abandonment of the pact,
the second to be signed between Israel and a neighboring Arab state, was Syria's
main condition for good relations with the Gemayel re
gime and a ceasefire between the .Lebanese army
and the Syrian-backed Moslem and Druze factions battling against it.
Mneimneh hinted, however, that Lebanon was prepared to renegotiate terms
for the withdrawal of Israeli
forces from south Lebanon.
He spoke of guarantees that
Beirut would prevent the re-
infiltration of terrorists into
the region close to Israel's
northern border. This was
greeted by skepticism in Israel.
The statement from the
Prime Minister's Office said
that inasmuch as Lebanon
has proven "unable to fulfill
its international commitments and prevent south
Lebanon from becoming
.once again a base of terrorism, Israel will, by itself,
know how to find the suitable
ways of protecting its security."
Appeals For Constitutional
m To Allow Voluntary
rayer9 in Public Schools
Purim
March 18
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Purim is a joyous
festival;
celebrating the
deliverance of the
Jewish people
from Haman's
plot to destroy
them In the days
of Persia's King
Ahasuerus. it is
recounted in the
reading of the
Megillah—the
Book of
Esther—this year
on Saturday night,
March 17.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
President Reagan made a
strong appeal again last
week for a Constitutional
amendment that would "al-
Synagogue Files
Class Action Suit
Against Vandals
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A
Silver Spring Conservative
synagogue that was defaced
by anti-Semitic slogans in
Nov., ,1982, filed a class action suit last week in U.S.
District Court in Baltimore
against eight men alleged to
be responsible for the desecration.
The suit seeks $3,000 to
cover the cost of removing
the red anti-Semitic graffiti
which was spray-painted on
the outside walls'of Shaare
Tefila ■ synagogue. It also
seeks monetary damages for
' emotional distress and puni-'
tive damages. Marshall
Levin, the congregation's
executive director, said any
money awarded will be
given to the Montgomery
County Human Relations
Commission.
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low voluntary vocal prayer"
in public schools.
"I'm convinced that passage of this amendment
would do more than any
other action to reassert the
faith and values that made
America great," Reagan
said in a speech to the 42nd
annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Columbus, Ohio,
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Reagan, who has made the
school prayer amendment a
major issue of his campaign
for re-election, urged the
evangelicals to express their
support to members of" the
Senate and .House in order to
ensure that the amendment
' gets the necessary two-
thirds vote in both houses of
Congress.
1  Aim Of The Amendment
Reagan stressed that his
amendment "explicitly
states that no child must
ever be forced to recite a
prayer. Nor would it allow
MEW LEGAL CHALLENGE TO NA2IS IN U.S.
Five Holocaust Survivors File
Class Action Legal Suit Against
Former Yugoslav Nazi Artukovic
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
Five Holocaust survivors
from Yugoslavia, who are
now American citizens, have
filed a "class action legal suit
against Andrija Artukovic,
the former minister of the interior of the Nazi puppet
state of Croatia, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center at Yeshiva University reported. The
action was taken last week
when the complaint was filed
in the.U.S.' District Court
B'nai B'rith Women Culminate
Winter Membership Campaign
B'nai B'rith Women will
culminate their winter membership campaign witlMheir
Annual Paid-Up Membership Event on Sunday,
March 25, at 10:30 a.m. at
Players Theatre.
The history of B'nai B'rith
Women dates back to 1847r
when it was formed as a '
women's social auxiliary of
B'nai B'rith. Soon it moved
into the serious work of
philanthropy and community service, however. B'nai
B'rith Women mobilized for
the war effort-and when the
State of Israel was-established., they were there t^-OU,.
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any State to compose the
words of a prayer. But under
this amendment, the federal
government could not forbid
voluntary vocal prayer in
our schools. And by reasserting our children's freedom of
religious expression, the
amendment would help them
to understand the diversity
of America't religious beliefs and practices," Reagan
said.
Some supporters of the
amendment in the Senate
are suggesting that prayer
should be silent rather than
vocal. But Weicker and other
opponents of the amendment
have argued that children
can pray now in school, but
they are opposed to an organized prayer period.
The House is not expected
to bring up the amendment
until after the Senate, with a
vote expected to be close,
acts.
National Jewish organiza-
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Abraham Karp To Participate In
Conference On American Judaism
The Melton Center for
Jewish Studies at the Ohio
State University announces
a conference, American Judaism Since the Tercentenary: 1954-1984. This conference will bring together, for
the first time in three decades, a group of scholars
who have been studying religious trends in the American
Jewish community.
Central District of California.
The survivors have asked
the court for a jury trial with
the hope that the final judgment will enable them to recover compensatory and
punitive damages for personal loss and injury sustained by them, as a result of
ArtukoviC's crimes- against
humanity and other violations of international and
Yugoslavian law. The suit
also seeks a declaration of
rights on behalf of the class
members, so they can establish, in the litigation, the fact
that Artukovic is legally responsible for those war
crimes.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean
of the Wiesenthal Center,
said that "this new initiative
- in the ongoing legal battle
against the Nazis among us,
if successful, will send a
message to former Nazis re-
sidjnghere thaj they will no
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Dr. Abraham Karp
The conference will beheld on Monday, April 9, and
Tuesday, April 10. Daytime
sessions will be in the Ohio
Union on the campus of The
Ohio" State University. Monday evening's session, "Beliefs and Challenges: Conservative, Orthodox, Reform," will be held at the
Jewish Center.
Session I of the conference
will begin Monday morning
at 9 a.m. This session will ex
plore Conservative Judaism
since 1954 and will have Professor Abraham Karp as the
keynote speaker.
Dr. Karp is professor of
history and religious studies
and the Philip S. Bernstein
Professor of Jewish Studies
at the University of Rochester. He is the author of many
books on American Jewish
history including A History
of the United Synagogue of
America; The Jewish Way of
Life and Thought; Golden
Door to America: The Jewish Immigrant Experience;
To Give Life: The UJA in the
Shaping of the American
Jewish Community and a
forthcoming Work, Haven
and Home, A History of the
Jews in America. In addition, Dr. Karp has edited a
five volume work on The
Jewish Experience in America, and co-edited Texts and
Studies in American Jewish
History.
Prof. Karp received his
B.A., magna . cum laude,
from Yeshiva University
and ordination, MHL and DD
from the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. He is
presently corresponding
member of the Institute of
Contemporary Jewry of the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Presentation of papers will
follow Dr. Karp's lecture.
These papers include work .
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