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VOL.63   NO. 29
JULY 18,1985-TAMMUZ 29
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Israel, W. Germany Discussing Scientific,
Technological Cooperation
BONN (JTA) — Israel and West Germany are discussing
various avenues of scientific and technological cooperation
including establishment of a joint German-Israisl industrial
group which each government would assist in research to
develop products that could be marketed commercially.
Anti-Semitic incidents Occur In Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile (WNS)-A ranking member of Chile's
military government has promised the Jewish community
that every effort will be made to apprehend the persons responsible for a rash_of anti-Semitic incidents in recent
months. Gen. Rodolfo Paredes, director general of investigations, condemned the incidents and conveyed assurances
that a determined effort would be undertaken to find the perpetrators, according to two Jewish community leaders with
whom he met.
Israeli And Jewish Women Hope To
Avert Confrontations At NGO Forum
French Jewish Journalist Named
Envoy To Tunisia
PARIS (JTA)—French Jewish journalist Eric Rouleau has
been appointed France's ambassador to Tunisia. As ambassador, he will also be in charge of French relations with the
PLO and the Arab League as both these organizations have
their headquarters in Tunis. Rouleau, 58, a veteran correspondent, has been covering the Middle East for the last 20
years and is considered a specialist on the subject. Born in
Egypt, Rouleau first worked for the French news agency
Agence France Presse and joined Le Monde in 1962. Jewish
organizationsin France and Israeli diplomats^avg^tenac-,
cused him oJF being anti-Israeli and biased in his writings."
NAIROBI, Kenya (JTA) -
Israeli Labor Party Knesset
member Tamar Eshel is
leading approximately 40
women from Israel at the
-Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) gathering
here which is meeting in
conjunction with the world
conference ending the
United Nations Decade for
Women.
In addition, Eshel is spearheading a group of Jewish
women from all over the
world in an attempt to avert
the, confrontations that
marked the earlier conferences in Mexico City in 1975
which contained the "Zionism is racism" resolution
and in Copenhagen in 1980
which accepted a "radical"
resolution on the Palestinians.
At a meeting last week in
the -Nairobi Synagogue
Community Center, 200 Jewish women and a handful of
men me't to develop strategy
on how. to handle hostility
toward Jews and Israelis. It
was decided to send groups
of Jewish and, Israeli men
and women to workshops
that could be potentially
explosive. Many of these
individuals have attended
pre-conference meetings in
Israel, Europe and the
United States that were
specifically designed to help
them respond to attacks.
Many Jewish women are
participating this time,
Eshel said, with the intention
of offsetting any attacks by
Arabs, Communists and
other groups that are not
friendly to Israel. Nonetheless, Eshel said she is skeptical about the effectiveness
B'nai B'rith Children's Home Day To Mark
20th Anniversary At State Fair On August 5
Monday, Aug. 5, marks the
20th anniversary- of B'nai
B?rith's Children's Home
Day at the Ohio State Fair.
Over 2,000 children residing in orphanages and-children's homes in all 88 counties of Ohio have been
invited to participate. This
year, B'nai B'rith hopes to
have response from a record
number of homes in honor of
the event's 20th anniversary.
"For 20 years, we've been
f sponsoring this event, hoping to make a positive
impact on the lives of needy
children," Rick Handler,
chairman of Children's
Home Day, said. "But this
year, we want to emphasize
that B'nai B'rith is a1 friend
to these children more than
one day out of the- year.
These kids can count on us
all year long.
"We have several new pro
grams we are initiating to
help the young people of
today. Our main project will
hopefully be the installation
of a career and counseling
program in the State of Ohio.
Other states sponsor such
programs and we hope to
establish one here in Ohio
soon," Handler said.
This year, gifts for the
children include Rubik's
Cubes, donated by Odd Lots
Stores, comic books, pens
and other items collected by
B'nai B'rith.
Wendy's International Inc.
will provide lunches to all
participants and their chaperones for the tenth consecutive year. A special presentation will be made at the
Richard F. Celeste and
Columbus Mayor Dana B.
Rinehart will give proclamations along witlr WCMH's
Jimmy Crum. Archie Griffin
and Clark Kellogg will sign
autographs.
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Jimmy Crum
fair Aug. 5 to R. David
Thomas, founder of Wendy's, in honor of -Wendy's
support for the last ten
years.  Ohio  Governor
Clark Kellogg
The theme of this year's
20th anniversary is "20
. Years, 30,000 Smiles."
In addition to Wendy's and
Odd , Lots, other sponsors
include Sharp Contemporaries, Eleanor, John and the
late Jack Resler, Mel Schottenstein, Gordon Zacks and
Bella and Leslie Wexner.
"B'nai B'rith believes that
its Children's Home Day provides Ohio's less fortunate
children with the opportunity to visit one of Ohio's
most educational, exciting
and fun events," Handler
said. "We hope to do this for
another 20 years — and
longer."
of these plans. Theory and
reality are worlds apart, she
noted. Furthermore, the
PLO and other delegations
sympathetic to their cause
far outnumber those sympathetic to Israel.
But Eshel said it is important for Israel to attend these
conferences. "If we didn't
attend this meeting, we
would be doing the best service to our enemies," she
said. "They want to oust us
from all meetings and to
make us pariahs. They want
to question whether we
belong to the family of
nations. We have an opportunity to raise our voice, to
give our side of the story" by
attending the conference.
Jewish organizations represented at the ten-day NGO
conference, which began
July 11 and will overlap the
official UN Decade for
Women conference which
began July 15 and will end
July 26, include Hadassah,
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, American
Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress,
Na'amat/Pioneer Women,
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council,
National Council of Jewish
Women, WIZO, the New
Jewish Agenda and Jewish
groups from Europe.
Jewish Hijack Victim Says His Ordeal
His Religious Convictions
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Richard Herzberg, the one
Jew among the four Americans -held separately^from
the other hostagtesfafter a
TWA plane was hijacked last
month, said last week that
the ordeal strengthened, his
religious convictions.
The 33-year-old Norfolk,
Va., insurance salesman,
said that he had always -
attended services on the
High Holy Days but during
his 17 days of captivity in
Beirut by. the radical Shiite.
group Hezbollah, he prayed
constantly. "It deepened my
conviction, that there is a
God," he said, adding that
prayer gave- him the
"strength to just endure."
His wife, Susan, 28, said
that she always had planned
to raise their children in a
traditional Jewish home and
now with her husband's
deepened convictions, this
would be easier.
The Herzbergs were returning from a honeymoon in
Greece when the plane was
hijacked enroute from
Athens | to'- Rome. They
appeared recently at a press
conference at B'nai B'rith
International headquarters
here, in part, Herzberg
explained, to thank the
American people and the
Jewish community here and
in Paris for their support '
during the hijacking.
Warren Eisenberg, direc-
. tor of international affairs
for B'nai B'rith, said that
after the hijacking, Mrs.
Herzberg's father, Ted
Deutsch, a member of B'nai
B'rith in Virginia Beach,
telephoned B'nai B'rith to
ask help in getting information which the organization
sought to do on a daily basis.
Herzberg said that neither
he nor the other three Americans who had been segregated were mistreated by
the Hezbollahfe tie said he
tried to convince them that
he was not Jewish and that
his father was German and
his mother Greek, something whic,h he said he was
not now "proud" of doing.
vThe two terrorists, after
hijacking the plane, asked if
there were any Israelis
aboard. They then asked for
diplomats, military personnel and Jews in that order.
Herzberg said that reading
from "Jewish sounding'"
names on passports, they
called his name but couldn't
pronounce it and so forced
Uli Derickson, the plane's
purser, to call out his name.
Czech Jewry Sent
One Volume Torahs
NEW YORK (JTA) -With
the approval of the government of Czechoslovakia,
2,000 copies of a one volume
edition of the Torah — the
first five books of the Jewish
Bible—in Czech and Hebrew
have been printed in New
York and shipped to Prague
as a gift to the Czech Jewish
community by the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation.
Foundation President
Rabbi Arthur Schneier announced last week that the
356-page hardcover book is
the first of its kind to be published since the 1930s and
fills an important need for
Czech Jewish ^.community,
He added that the project
was carried out with the
cooperation of Czechoslovakia's Council of Religious Affairs.
Schneier, spiritual leader
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"I would do the same thing
if someone held a gun to my1
head," Herzberg said. The
hijackers then also took.
Richard Troutmann, Jr., of
Norfolk, Va., because they
thought he was Jewish although he is a Catholic;
Jeffrey Ingalls, a Navy
seabee, and Robert Brown of
Salem, Mass., a former
Navy man. Also taken was a
man with a Greek name,
who was released after the
Greek government released
a third hijacker captured in
Athens.
Another Jew aboard the
plane, Michael Brown, 27, of
North Miami Beach, who
was also returning from his
honeymoon, was not taken
because he did not have a
Jewish-sounding name and
does not look Jewish, according to Herzberg.
Both the Herzbergs said
that Derickson behaved
heroically during- the incident, taking blows meant for
passengers. Mrs. Herzberg
said that Derickson told her
that she had hidden Mrs.
Herzberg's passport which
contained her marriage certificate signed by a rabbi.
Removed Ring With
Hebrew Inscription.
Mrs. Herzberg said she
took off a ring with a Hebrew
inscription which she hid.
The hijackers found the ring
and searched for its owner.
They did find a woman wearing a Magen David and she
and her husband were
beaten until they were able
to convince the terrorists
that they were Catholics.
The Herzbergs said they
will always have the trauma
of the ordeal with them, "We
are just normal people,"
Herzberg said. "We got on
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