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/Bombings By Iraq
'" Almost Destroy Tomb
Of Mordechai, Esther
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
'   traditional  tomb  of  Mordechai and Esther in Iran
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bombings, and the ancient
Persian town of Shushan,
scene of the Purim story, has
been almost completely destroyed in the Gulf war, according to a report in the
ultra-Orthodox  Jerusalem
weekly Erev Shabbat.
The newspaper's correspondent, reporting from
Cairo, quotes an Egyptian
source who often travels to
Iran and is familiar with the
tomb in Hamadan, a site
venerated by Jews and
Moslems alike. According to
the Egyptian informant, an
Iraqi bomb which fell near
the tomb caused the collapse
of some of its internal structure.
Despite the damage, the
informant, said, pilgrims
continue to visit the shrine.
Whereas formerly the pilgrims were mainly Jewish,
they are now almost entirely
elderly Moslems. The report
says that the shrine is now
endangered by the open
antagonism of young Shiites
towards anything Jewish.
Street Renamed To Honor Theologian
BONN (JTA) — The municipal council of the university
town of Marburg, overriding objections by local residents,
voted unanimously recently to re-name a street in honor of
Leopold Lucas, a Jewish theologian who died in the There-
sientadt concentration camp in 1943.
Racist Party In France Wins
Almost Ten Percent Of Vote
PARIS (JTA) —The ultra-rightwing National Front Party,
whose leader, Jean Marie Le Pen, has been denounced as. a
racist and an anti-Semite by Jewish community leaders,
elbowed its way into Parliament recently in national elections that left the winning center-right coalition four seats
short of the majority they need to form a government.
Pope To Visit Rome Synagogue
ROME (JTA) — The Jewish community has warmly welcomed the Vatican's announcement that Pope John Paul II
will visit Rome's main synagogue next month. But while this
is viewed as a "historic gesture" which may well be the first
Papal visit ever to a Jewish house of worship, the feeling
among Jewish leaders is that it will be up to the Pontiff
whether the occasion is merely "symbolic" or contributes
substantively to Catholic-Jewish relations.
Israeli Killed, Three Wounded
By Terrorists In Cairo, Egypt
TEL AVIV (WNS) -
Egyptian terrorists fatally
shot an Israeli woman and
wounded three other Israelis
in Cairo on March 19. The
victims were members of
the Israel Embassy staff.
The gunmen opened fire on
their car as it left the parking lot of the International
Trade Fair where the four
had been working at the Israel pavilion. Premier
Shimon Peres expressed
"deep shock" over the incident but vowed that terrorists will not stop Israel's
search for peace.
The slain woman was identified as Ettie Tal-Or, 24,
wife of an Embassy official.
The wounded were flown to
Israel shortly after the
shooting and were reported
to be in stable condition at
the Sheba Government Hos
pital in Tel Hashomer. They
were identified as Esther
Yefet, David Droya and Uri
Siev.
According to reports from
Cairo, the killers were driving in two cars when they
ambushed the Israelis' car.
Police cordoned off the area
and set up road blocks but as
of March 20 no arrests had
been made.
The Israel pavilion reopened March 20 under
tightened security. Attendance was reported brisk. It
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Dead At 71
NEW YORK (JTA) - Bernard Malamud, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning American
Jewish author, died in his
Manhattan apartment last
week of what police described as natural causes.
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Congressman Tom Kindness Named
Co-Chair Of Call To Conscience Vigil
The Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews announces that
Congressman Tom Kindness
(R-Ohio) has agreed to serve
as co-chair of the Congressional Call to Conscience
Vigil for the second session
of the 99th Congress.
Begun in 1976 by the UCSJ,
the Congressional Call to
Conscience is one of the best
mechanisms for members of
Congress to speak out on behalf of Soviet Jews seeking
freedom of religion and the
right to emigrate. Every
day, when Congress is in session, statements on specific
Soviet Jewry cases are inserted into the Congressional
Record by members who
have adopted an indiyidual
refusenik or family.
Congressman  Kindness
has represented Ohio's
Eighth Congressional District since 1975. A resident of
Hamilton, Congressman
Kindness   serves   on  the
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BBW Selling Roses
For Mother's Day
B'nai B'rith Women once
again will be selling long
stem red roses for Mother's
Day. The price will remain
$21, which includes delivery
anywhere on the east side.
To order, call Jean
Robbins, 237-7068, or Christie
Kaufman, 486-3057, or any
BBW, member by May 3.
Delivery will be made Saturday, May 10.
He was 71 years old: '
Malamud was the author
of eight novels and four collections of short stories,
which, critics noted, showed
the influence of both the 19th
century Russian masters of,
fiction and the traditional
Jewish story tellers. Permeating many of his works
was the concept that human
salvation came from adherence to a strict code of personal morality in the face of
life's overwhelming despair
and oppression.
His best-known and most
controversial novel, The
Fixer (1966), was the story of
a handyman, Yakoy Bok,
falsely accused by Czarist
officials of a ritual murder.
The story drew very loosely
on the notorious Mendel
Beilis case of 1911-1913,
which ended in Beilis'
acquittal.
In Malamud's book, Bok
emerges from the Kafka-
esque labyrinth of the degrading Czarist penal system with his integrity intact.
He declares at the end of the
novel that there is "no such
thing as an unpolitical man,
especially a Jew."
Malamud won a Pulitzer
Prize as well as his second
National Book Award for
The Fixer, in 1967. His first
NBA was for The Magic Barrel, ■ a collection of short
stories, in 1958. Other honors
included election to the Na;
tional Institute of Arts.and
Letters and the American
Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
Malamud was born April
26,  1914 in Brooklyn,  the
elder of two sons of Max and
. Bertha Fidelman Malamud,
poor immigrants from Czar-
v istv*Rtissiaf ^%ho worked
16-hour days in their small
grocery store.
The author later described
the environment of his childhood as Jewish though non-
religious. Yiddish was spoken at home, and some of his
mother's family performed
on the Yiddish stage.
He graduated Erasmus
Hall High School, where he
was the editor of the school
magazine, going on to receive a B.A. from City College in 1936, and — after
stints working in the family
story, factories, and the census bureau— his M.A. from
Columbia University in 1942.
Teaching English at night
is his old high school and
others, Malamud continued
in his spare time the short
story writing he had begun
as a boy in the back room of
his family's grocery store.
The rise of Nazism and
Stalinism, the coming of
World War II and the Holocaust helped Malamud de-
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Conference Addresses
Topic Of Jewish Unity
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA)
— Leaders of four major national groups — Conservative, Reconstrtictioni^t, Re-
. form and Orthodox — were
among the featured speakers at a two-day conference
here last week on the subject
"Will There Be One Jewish
People by the Year 2000?"
Each addressed the issues of
Jewish unity and diversity.
Some observers termed
the conference "historic"
not  only   because  of  the
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had been visited the day before by Israel's Minister of
Tourism, Avraham Sharir,
who was on an official visit
here as a guest of the Eygp-
tian Tourism Ministry.
There ,were no indications
that he had been an intended
target.!
The attack was the third
against Israeli diplomatic officials in the Egyptian capital and the second to result in
a fatality. Last August,
Albert Atrakchi, an admini-
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Rabbi W. Gunther Plauf To Deliver
'Arthur E. Loeb Memorial Address'
At Temple Israel Annual Meeting
Tanny Feerer, chairman
of Temple Israel's Annual
Meeting, announces that
Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut,
senior rabbi at Holy Blossom
Temple in Toronto, Canada,
will deliver the first
"Arthur E. Loeb Memorial
Address." The Annual
Meeting will be held Sunday,
April 13, at 6 p.m. at Temple
Israel.
The sister and children of
the late Arthur E. Loeb have
provided funds for the Annual Meeting speaker,
Arthur Loeb followed the
tradition set by his parents
and grandparents: he saw
Temple Israel as central to
his life. As secretary to the
Temple for more than 30
years, he succeeded his
father and grandfather who
served in similar capacities
for four decades. As
president of the Temple Israel Foundation, as chairman of the Temple's 125th
Anniversary Observance
and as a Board member,
Arthur's counsel was sought
and respected.
In establishing the new
fund, Charles Loeb, Arthur's
son, stated ".. , my father
believed that the Temple
should not only provide its
members a spiritual, experience, but an environment where all viewpoints,
whether they be controversial or not, could be aired
and discussed. We hope that
our Annual Meeting
speakers will continually
broaden our perspectives."
Rabbi Plaut is considered
one of the major, spokesmen
in the Reform Movement
today. He has recently concluded his two-year term as
president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
HeK has also served as
national president of the
Canadian Jewish Congress,
co-chairman of the Canada-
Israel Committee, vice-
chairman of the Ontario
Human Rights Commission
and serves on the Governing
Board of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism.
Rabbi Plaut's topic will be
"Reform and Orthodoxy:
Will Either Go It Alone?"
Cost for the Annual Meeting
and dinner is $9 for adults ($1
less for people over age 60)
and $4.50 for children 12
years and under. Checks can
be mailed to Temple Israel,
5419 E. Broad St., Columbus
43213. For additional
information, call the Temple
office, 866-0010.
Jewish Scientists
In USSR Celebrate
Maimonides' Birth
JERUSALEM (JTA) - A
large group of Jewish scientists recently gathered in a
private home in Moscow to
commemorate the 850th anniversary of the birth of Maimonides, Soviet immigrants
in Israel were informed recently. The gathering, attended by 82 Jewish scientists, was the largest of the
sort in the past six years.
Among those present were
well-known refuseniks as
well as guests from abroad.
The participants extended
greetings to Anatoly Shcharansky, who was freed last
month from the Soviet Gulag
in an East-West prisoner exchange and was reunited
with his wife Avital in Israel.
Forty-two of the scientists-
signed a petition appealing
to Soviet authorities to release all Prisoners of Zion
and to allow all Jews who
wish to emigrate to Israel to
do so. A copy of the petition
was sent to the Public Coun-
, cil for Soviet Jewry in Tel
;Aviv.
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