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VOL.C2   NO. 14
APRIL5.1984-NISAN3
Devofcd to American
and Jewish Ideals
UNRWA Official Praises Israel
BONN (JTA)—A ranking official of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has publicly praised Israel
for its treatment of Palestinian refugees in areas under its
control, including parts of Lebanon. The remarks by Olof
. Rydbeck, a Commissioner of UNRWA, at a press conference
here surprised observers inasmuch as the UN agency often
has been accused of anti-Israel bias.
Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Air Views
On U.S.-Soviet Relations, Helsinki Accords
Shamir Sends Greetings To Mubarak
JERUSALEM—Premier Yitzhak Shamir sent a message
of warm greetings last week to President Hasni Mubarak of
Egypt to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Shamir expressed his hope for
"development" of the relations between the two countries
and also expressed his confidence that the treaty would be a
"cornerstone" for broader Middle East peace.
Move On To Improve Franco-Israeli Ties
1 ARIS (JTA)—Laurent Fabius, the French Minister of Industry, recently returned from a visit to Israel which he believes will improve relations between the two countries and
reinforce bilateral cooperation in various fields, informed
sources here said. Fabius met with the Israeli Minister of
Commerce and Industry, Gideon Patt. They agreed to establish a Franco-Israeli association for the development of
scientific and technical research, leading to joint projects.
Fabius expressed the hope that this type of cooperation would
benefit the industry and commerce of both countries, the
sources said.
NEW YORK (JTA)-Both
former Vice President Walter Mondale and Senator.
Gary Hart support tying
Soviet-American trade relations to free emigration of
Soviet Jews, while the Rev.
Jesse Jackson believes this
policy—known as "linkage" .
—would not be necessary "if
we could-create an atmos-'
phere of solution with regard
to arms control and reduction."
Hart: "The Soviet failure
to comply should not be
interpreted as a failure of
the Helsinki process. If anything, it has allowed the U.S.
and other countries to focus
their attacks on Soviet
human rights violations.
Even bearing in mind the
many obstacles facing attempts at assurance of compliance, we have to maintain
vigilant efforts. As President
I would use all the powers of
that office to remind the
Soviet leadership of our con
stant attention to this issue.
"The U.S. should continue
to particiapte in follow-up
conferences on the Helsinki
Accords. Any perception on
the part of the Soviets that
we are inconsistent in our
belief in the legitimacy of an
.international monitoring
role will be a sign that the
U.S. is not truly committed
Amnon Shamosh Visits Columbus
As Federation Scholar-in-Residence
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
Editor's Note: See related article an
page 2.
The prize-winning author
of many short stories, poems
and novels, one having been
made into a much acclaimed
mini-series for Israeli television, Amnon Shamosh
should be a wealthy man.
But Israel is not America
and Israeli TV is not commercial but government
funded. Moreover, Shamosh,
a founding member of
kibbutz Maayan Barukh on
the Israel-Syria border, is
committed to the communal,
share-the-wealth concept of
the Kibbutz movement.
All these conditions contribute to the financial problem
he is currently having
getting his best known work
("You will noMind a single
person in Israel who hasn't
read it or seen it on T.V.,"
Shamosh notes.), Michel
Ezra Safra and Sons, translated from Hebrew into
English. "It's a 'Catch-22'
situation," Shamosh explains. American Publishers
are interested in the novel
and will reimburse him for
its translation if they publish
it; however, they need to be
able, to read it first and he
cannot afford to have the
translation completed.
Michel Ezra Safra and
Sons, one of the best received dramas ever televised in Israel, explores a recurrent theme in Shamosh's
writings, the conflict between East and West, between the Sephardic and
Ashkenazic cultures. "The
process of adjusting but not
losing one's own values" is a
universal one, Shamosh
points out, one with which
many people can identify.
Adding to the interest and
broad-based appeal of the
novel are the all-too-familiar
conflicts present within the
multi-generational Ezra
Safra family.
Amnon Shamosh
The plot line revolves
around the life, struggles
and dispersion of a well-to-do
Syrian Jewish family during
Jhree generations, beginning
in the mid-1930s. Shaken by
local and global upheavals,
the family, headed by Michel
and his wife, Linda, is driven
from their home in Aleppo,
Syria during rioting in the
aftermath of the United
Nation's decision to establish a Jewish state in Pales-
to basic human rights as a
primary tenet of our foreign
policy."
Mondale said that as
President, "I would reinforce our support of human
rights principles by introducing the subject (of Soviet
Jewish emigration) at all bilateral meetings between the
U.S. and the USSR."
Congregation Tifereth Israel
Schedules Spring Concert
tine. The family scatters to
Israel; Brooklyn, N.Y.;
Mexico City" and the Far
East, facing unique problems in each locale.
Shamosh writes about
Sephardic life from experience, his own family having
emigrated from Aleppo to Israel in 1938. The recipient of
the Jerusalem Agnon Prize
for Literature and the Prime
Minister's Award for Creativity, he has become a
prominent figure in Israel's
new wave of Sephardic
writers.
What makes his literary
career particulary interesting is that Shamosh began
it at the age of 40, after work-
. ing as a district high school
principal and kibbutz officer. "It is quite a problem to
be a member of a kibbutz
and write at the same time,"
he notes, and many writers
are forced to leave the
kibbutz. Shamosh, however,
didn't want to sacrifice his
happiness or that of his
family for literature and so
put his writing off "again
and again."
When he did start writing,
the kibbutz found that it
made a greater contribution
to kibbutz life than his
former jobs and now allows
him the freedom necessary
to pursue his new career,
which includes extensive
travel. "Travel is a stimulus," Shamosh explains,
"like the factory in the
kibbutz needs raw materials
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 9)
World renowned cellist.
Yehuda Hanani will appear
in recital in "A Celebration
of Jewish Music" at Congregation Tifereth Israel on
Tuesday, May 8, at 8 p.m.
The program selected by
Hanani, specially chosen to
celebrate Jewish themes and
composers, will include
works by Bloch, Beethoven,
Mendlersshon,,Burch, Dvorak and Paganini. Bruch's
"Kol Nidrei," one of the best
known and best loved works
for cello; will be featured
along with Beethoven?s-
Variations on a Theme from
Handel's Judas Maccabeus."
Sponsor tickets are available at $100 per couple. Sponsors will receive special
seating and will be invited to
attend a post-concert reception to meet the artist.
The New York Times describes Hanani as "one of
the most polished performers of his generation." He
has performed with the
Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony and many
other orchestras all over the
world. He appeared as a
soloist with the Columbus
Symphony Orchestra during
the 1982-1983 season. In the
United States, he is a permanent member of the musical staff at Aspen and has
collaborated in performing
with Itzhak Perlman.
This is the second year for
Tifereth Israel's cultural
series, which is coordinated
by Renee Levine and Geri
Ellman along with Cantor
Jack Chomsky. Other volunteers working on these projects include Janet Yaillen,
Marilyn Skilken,. Joan Wallick, Myrna Brandwein,
Jennie Zeidman, Ruth Portugal, Judy Blair and Jerry
Fineberg.
Yehuda Hanani
Individual concert tickets
are $7.50. All seats are
reserved. For information,
call 253-8523 or make a check
payable to Congregation
Tifereth Israel, 1354 E.
Broad St., Columbus, Ohio
43205, indicating the number
of tickets desired. Tickets
will be mailed out upon
receipt of checks.
'Jews In Germany' Exhibit
Will Tour Major U.S. Areas
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
exhibition, "Jews in Germany," illustrating the persecution of German Jews
after 1933, culminating in
murder and genocide, will be
touring the country through
1985, it was announced here
by the German Information
Center.
The exhibition, originally
called "Jews in Prussia,"
opened in September 1981 in
West Berlin and has since
appeared throughout West
Germany. It comprises numerous photos, documents
and illustrations recounting
the history of Jews in Germany.
It focuses on the significant contributions made by.
Jews, highlighting many
examples of exceptional
individuals in all areas of intellectual and cultural life, in
science, art, industry and
trade. It tells the story of the
gradual legal and social
emancipation of the Jews
while documenting on the
other hand the survival of
prejudice  and  discrimina-
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Hart said, "I would call for
a discussion on Soviet Jewish emigration issues and individual cases at all levels of
official contact between the
two governments, whenever
appropriate." Jackson said
that the issue of Soviet
Jewish emigration "should
be raised within any broad-
based discussion between
the U.S. and the USSR."
Their answers came in
response to a questionnaire
about. U.S. human rights
policy and Soviet Jewry issues, which was released
last week by the Greater
New York Conference of
Soviet Jewry.
Herbert Kronish, chairman of the Conference said,
"Our organization does not
endorse candidates for public office. However, with
Jewish emigration from the
Soviet Union at a virtual halt
— only 1,314 Jews were
allowed to leave the USSR in
1983, compared with more
than 51,000 persons just five
years ago—we feel it is important for people in our
area to know where the can:
didates stand'on issues that
affect Soviet Jewry."
Among the issues the
candidates were asked to
discuss, Kronish said, were
the linkage of U.S. trade
policy to human rights
violations, the success or
failure of the 1975 Helsinki
Accords  and  whether  the
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Appeal Issued
For Liver Donor
NEW YORK (WNS) —
Chaya Cohen, 19-months-old,
of Netanya, Israel, has cancer of the liver and the
baby's parents, Israel and
Nurit Cohen, are appealing
for help in getting a suitable
donor, it was announced by
Rabbi Chaim Zelikovitz of
Long Beach, N.Y., who along
with a number of rabbis and
doctors in Long Beach and
the New York metropolitan
area have established the
Baby Chaya Fund to defray
costs for the operation and to
find a suitable donor.
Liver transplants are not
done in Israel. The baby and
her parents arrived here
March 25 and will fly to the
University of Minnesota
Hospital in Minneapolis for
an operation. Chaya was referred by Hadassah Hospital
in Jerusalem after all
attempts at treatment in Israel were unsuccessful. No
suitable donor could be
found in Israel.
The Baby Chaya Fund is
located at 31 E. Penn St.,
Long Beach, N.Y. 11561.
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