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Rabbi Proposes Summit Conference Of
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Leningrad Hebrew Teacher Sentenced
To Three Years In Labor Camp
NEW YORK (JTA)-Roald Zelichonok, a 49-year-old Hebrew teacher from Leningrad who has sought to emigrate to
Israel since 1979, has been sentenced to three years in a labor
camp on charges of allegedly "defaming the Soviet state and
social system," it was reported here by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ).
Religious Leaders From Around World
Two Remembrance Memorials
Erected In East Berlin
EAST BERLIN, East Germany (JTA)--Two major
Gedenkstatten (remembrance memorials) have recently
been put in place here, the capital of the German Democratic
Republic (GDR), that specifically commemorate the great
Jewish leader, philosopher and mathematician, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), and those "thousands of Jews" who
were deported from Hitler's Berlin to their deaths in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
Israeli School Teachers To Work
In New York
TEL AVIV (WNS)—Thousands of Israeli school teachers ■
registered here to teach in New York public schools for a
year or two in response to an advertisement in Israeli newspapers placed by Richard Wollin, principal of the Taft Public
School in The Bronx. Wollin said he interviewed about 1,000
applicants for 100 jobs. AH of them said they,would like to
teach in New York for a year or two and then return to Israel
when.the economic situation improves.  .      	
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Rabbi Arthur Schneier,
president of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation, proposed last week a summit
conference of religious leaders from throughout the
world to help - stem the
spread of religious fanaticism which is causing intolerance, terror and persecution.
"The purpose of such a
conference would be not to
discuss theology but rather
tolerance and respect for differences — how to seek it,
how to teach it, how by precept and example, to practice it," he told reporters at a
breakfast meeting at the National Press Club.
"The growing polarization
of faiths and peoples and nations that afflicts our world
today thrives on intolerance," Schneier declared.
"We need ways to stop it. It
leads to bloodshed. We need
ways to prevent it."
Schneier said , that the
Appeal of Conscience Foun-
Temple Israel Announces Guest Rabbi And
Cantor To Assist At High Holy Day Services
Robert Aronson, president
of Temple Israel, announces
that Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks
will be assisting' Rabbis Sanford Akselrad and Jerome
Folkman during the High
Holidays and that Sheila
Akin Pearl will serve Tem
ple Israel as guest cantor.
years before moving to Temple Israel in Omaha.
While in Omaha, Rabbi
Brooks received numerous
awards and recognition for
his leadership and spiritual
guidance. He was presented
the Plaque of Integrity and
Excellence by the Omaha
Metropolitan Association of
Churches, received the Humanitarian Award from the
National Council of Christians and Jews and the
George Washington Award
of Honor from the Freedom
Foundation.    '
Rabbi Brooks' present ac-.
tivities include serving on .
the National Pulpit Placement  Commission  of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis; director of the
Omaha Institute on Judaism
for Christian Clergy; board
member of the Boy's Club of
Cantor Sheila Pearl
Omaha, Omaha Food Board
and  Planned  Parenthood;
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Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks.
Rabbi Brooks has been senior rabbi at Temple Israel
in Omaha, Neb., frdm 1952 to
the present. .:    '    ;
Rabbi Brooks is no
stranger to the state of Ohio.
Originally from Buffalo,
N.Y., he earned his B.A. in
English literature from the'
University of Cincinnati and
later was ordained as rabbi
from Hebrew Union College
in Cincinnati. His first pulpit
was as an assistant rabbi in
Richmond, Va!, but he soon
became senior rabbi at Temple Shalom in Springfield,
Ohio, where he served for six
Gerald Cohn Appointed Chairman
Of Alzheimers Disease Commission
Gerald N. Cohn, executive
vice president of Heritage
Village, has been appointed
to the chairmanship of the
. newly formed Ohio Advocacy Commission on Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders.
Cohn, who also serves on
the National Commission on
Nursing Homes and Health
Care Facilities of ADRDA
and is vice president of the
Columbus Chanter, announced the eight goals for
the coming legislative year
include strengthening support for medical research,
Federal disability programs, meeting Jong term
care needs, respite care services to families, incentives
for home care, consistent
policy towards veterans,"
meeting training needs and
promoting education and
awareness.
Alzheimers Disease is the
fourth leading cause of death
among older Americans!-In
one third of all American
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dation, which seeks to promote religious freedom
throughout the world, would
set up a 12-member steering
committee by the end of the
year to organize the conference which he hopes Woiild
be held in 1986. '
"I believe such a religious
summit is urgently necessary, now more than ever,"
he said. ''From it, I would
hope, will come a cry demanding a halt to the killings
and bombings and acts of
terrorism that are being carried out daily in the name of
religion."
'An American Selihot Service'
To Premiere At Tifereth Israel
"An American Selihot Service," a new musical work
for synagogue by Broadway
composer   Gary   William
chose to call the work 'An
American Selihot Service'
because we think that it has
succeededin fusing the melodic upbeat feel of the American musical theatpe with
the deep lyricism of tradi-
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He added that if the conference succeeds, it "could
become a permanent institution in the . international
political landscape, meeting
perhaps once every five
years, to deal with new
issues and speak out on new
crises that arise."
Schneier, an Orthodox
rabbi who is spiritual leader
of the Park East Synagogue
in Manhattan, said "that
there is a religious revival
throughout the world partly
because of "the fear of nuclear destruction." While he
welcomes this trend, he said
it has also sparked an increase in religious fundamentalism' which he noted
always means "less tolerance." .
FCC Ruling On Kansas Radio
Station Is Assailed By ADL
Cantor Jack Chomsky
Friedman,  will  have  its
world premiere at Selihot ,
services at Congregation Tifereth  Israel  on  Saturday
night, Sept.- 7. The composer >
will  conduct  the  performance during the service,
which begins at midnight,
and will also discuss the
work in a coffee hour which
begins at 10:30 p.m.
The work is scored for bar-„
itone, choir, violin, cello,
bass, clarinet, harp and
. vibes and percussion and
will feature Cantor Jack
Chomsky and the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Choir along
with other area music professionals.
"We are very excited
about this musical service
and hope that many members of our community will
be able to share in this beautiful .event," commented
Cantor Chomsky, who has
worked closely .with the com-,
poser from the beginning of
the project six months ago.
"Ina sense, this began as
a community project, since
my first exposure to the music of Gary William Friedman came when I was asked
to sing the premiere of his
Haskalah Suite in 1983 at the
Jewish Center with the Cor
Iumbus Symphony Chamber
Orchestra under Gary Sheldon's direction. I came to
know Gary William Friedman through Gary Sheldon,
and it was natural that when
• we chose to seek a new work
fbr 'Selihot, we would approach Mr. Friedman. We
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NEW YORK (JTA)-The
Federal ; Communications
Commission ruled last week
that the license renewal
hearing involving a Dodge
City, Kansas radio station,
KTTL-FM, will not include
consideration of the station's
anti-Jewish anti-Black,
broadcasts in 1982 and 1983.
Kahane Quits
As JDL Chief
- NEW YORK (JTA) -
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder
of the Jewish Defense
League, and presently a
member of Israel's Knesset,
has announced his resignation as head of the JDL.
He said he had named as
his successor Irv Rubin, who
lives in Los Angeles where
he has been JDL West Coast
coordinator: A splinter
group, the Jewish Defense
Organization, was * formed
here and has been hostile to
Rubin and his followers.
Kahane, in announcing his
resignation here, said he did
so partly because he could
not give enough time to'the
JDL and partly because he
felt his resignation would
.make it easier for him to
visit the United States,
should he be required to. give
up his United States citizenship. He said legislation is
under consideration in Israel
declaring that no member of
the Knesset can have dual
citizenship.
The 54-year-old Brooklyn-
born Orthodox rabbi moved
to Israel in 1971 and later
formed the Kach Party. He
was elected to the Knesset
last year on a platform of
driving all Arabs out of Israel.
The FCC ruling was immediately assailed by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, whose director, Ttfa-
than Perlmutter, said the
FCC's decision "strains
credulity. By any standard
of public interest, of democratic fairness, of plain common sense, KTTL does not
merit a broadcast license."
The FCC ruling was a formal order, and reiterated
the Commission's April 26
action that broadcasts such
as Uiose aired on KTTL-FM
fall within the First Amendment guarantee of freedom
of speech. The next step will
include a hearing before an
administrative law judge.
The hearing, for which no
date has yet been set, will in-
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Cracow To Celebrate
First Bar Mitzvah
In Thirty-Five Years
NEW YORK (JTA)-On
Sept. 7, the Jews of Cracow,
Poland, will celebrate their
first bar mitzvah in 35 years.
The bar mitzvah boy will be
Eric Strom, an eighth-
grader from Stamford,
Conn.
Eric, his family, and their
rabbi will make the journey
to Cracow because of a request from the'leader of the
Jewish community there:
"Send us a bar mitzvah,
Send us life," the Cracow
Jewish leader said.
That was in April, when a
group of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies trustees
and leaders visited Cracow
on a UJA-Federation Campaign of New York trip. "I
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