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VOL.64   NO. 14
APRIL 3,1986-ADARII23
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Rabbi feinstein
Dead Af Age 91
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sea related article
— "Thru the Rabbi's window" —on
page 2.
NEW YORK (JTA) -Tens
of thousands of Jews converged on the Lower East
Side last week to pay their
last respects to Rabbi Moshe
Feinstein, one of the world's
outstanding authorities on
Jewish law and author of
multi-volume texts of re-
sponsa and Talmudic commentary, who died March 23
at the age ol 91.
At least 50,000 mourners
packed the streets outside
Tifereth Jerusalem, the
yeshiva where Feinstein
served as dean since he
came to the United States in
1937. Afterwards, a long
cortege followed his casket
to JFK Airport. His body
was flown to Israel for burial
at Har Menuchot cemetery
in Jerusalem.
Leading rabbis spoke of
Feinstein's prodigious
scholarship and stressed as
well his piety, humility and
sense of mission. He made
himself accessible to all people with problems, seeking
his counsel and.blessings; to
. young scholars who heeded
clarification of difficult Tal-
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Controversy Over Waldheim's Past
Reaches Fever Pitch in Austria
Community Invited To Enjoy
Jewish Center Matzoh Bakery
People of all ages are invited to stop in and enjoy the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center's Matzoh Bakery, to be '
held April 13-20, which just precedes Passover. For the
second year, the Center will offer Center members,
youth groups, schools and the public the experience of
matzoh baking. Each visitor will wear a baker's hat
and help to create a matzoh with specially prepared
dough, as well as learn about the holiday of Passover.
Hours for the bakery are Sunday through Thursday, 1-8 :
p.m., and Friday, 1-5 p.m. The event is free and open to
all. Group appointments are recommended. For more
details, call Gail Feinstein, Israel/Judaic Program
supervisor, at the Center, 231-2731.
VIENNA (JTA) - The
heated controversy over
Kurt Waldheim's alleged
Nazi past reached a new
pitch here last week when
former Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky denounced as "monstrous meanness" charges
brought against Waldheim
by the World Jewish Congress and wider circles in
the United States. WJC officials, meanwhile, vowed to
pursue their investigation of
Waldheim even after he becomes President of Austria,
assuming he is elected.
Kreisky, who is Jewish
and a Socialist, came to the
defense of Waldheim, a
Catholic conservative, in an
interview published in Die
Presse.Waldheim, the Presidential candidate of the con:
servative Peoples Party v/ho
served two terms as Secre-
William Goldsmith Named
Jefferson Award Winner
- William Goldsmith has
been chosen one of five Columbusites to receive the
Columbus Torah Academy Boasts
Record Enrollment for Sept. 1986
A record number ol students for the school year beginning in Sept., 1986, has applied for enrollment, according to an announcement by
Dr. Irving Fried, principal of
Columbus Torah Academy. ,
For the second successive
year, kindergarten enrollment has reached the maxi-
R. David Thomas
To Receive Award
R. David Thomas, founder
and senior chairman of the
Board of Wendy's International,  will  receive  the
mum level, making it necessary to begin a waiting list of
all further applicants.
For the first time in several years, the Torah Academy will have two first
grades. The establishment of
the additional first grade
class has been necessitated
by the large number of students applying. The extra
first grade will enable CTA
to accept all of these students and provide them with
a more personalized private
school education.
Limits for class size have
been set by the Board of
Trustees to guarantee, that
the Torah Academy continues to maintain its high academic  standards.   Recent
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Jefferson Award at a banquet Aprii 3 at the Jai Lai
Restaurant.
The Jefferson Awards are
sponsored by WTVN-TV,
WTVN-610 Radio and
Q-FM-96. They are presented each year for outstanding
service to the community.
Originally from Minsk,
Russia, Goldsmith came to
the United States from Israel
in 1954 and became a naturalized citizen in 1960. At
that time, he decided to
repay this country for the joy
and freedom he found here.
He began giving talks in
schools, telling children
what a privilege he felt it
was to live in this country.
He also spoke to P.T.A.
groups, Scouts, service clubs
and many others, giving up
most of his free time and
neyer charging a fee. His
barber shop on Main St. in
Whitehall was filled with
flags, historical papers, letters from Senators, Congressmen, city and state offi-
William Goldsmith
cials.
Over the years, he has
been very active in the Masons, attaining the 32nd degree as well as lodge trustee,
and the Boy Scouts, earning
the Shofar Award, the Dis-
: trict Merit Award and the
Silver Beaver Award, the
highest honor in scouting.
His other achievements include earning the Agudas
Achim Brotherhood "Flowers for the Living Award,"
presented annually to the
person who has contributed
the most to making this community a better place to live,
and  proclamations  from
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Peres Supports U.S. Action In Gulf Of Sidra
R. David Thomas
Americanism Award from
the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith in its first Cincinnati dinner on Monday,
April 14, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Jay B. Schloemer, presi-
.   (CONTINUED ON PAGE 111
MMM.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The U.S. Navy's exercise of
the right octree passage in
the Gulf of Sidra was hailed
by Israel last week as the
correct way to deal with Libyan leader Muarnmar Qad-
dafi; American and Libyan
forces clashed in the disputed waters March 24 and
again on March 25.
Premier Shimon Peres declared in an official statement that'll was the right of
the U.S; to defend maritime
routes. Libya claims the entire gulf is., its, territorial
waters. The U.S. and virtu-
._.;y_.
ally every other country recognize only the 12-mile limit.
Peres denounced Libya as
the spearhead of international terrorism, a source of
violence and a threat to its
neighbors. Only action such
as that initiated by the U.S.
can cope with such behavior?
he said.
Kiryat Shemona Hit By Katyusha Rocket
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A
Katyusha rocket exploded in
a school yard in Kiryat Shemona March 27, slightly injuring three students and a
teacher. Shortly afterwards,
. Israel Air Force jets bombed
two targets in Sidon, south
Lebanon, said to be installations of the Palestine Libera
tion Organization. Beirut
radio said six Israeli planes
carried out the raid, which
lasted 15 minutes and caused
heavy casualties.
The 122 mm. rocket struck
the school yard at 9:30 a.m.
local time. Two of the injured were hit by flying glass
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tary General of the United
Nations, has been accused of
concealing for 40 years alleged membership in the
Nazi SA (Brown Shirts) and
a Nazi student organization
before World War II. He is/
also accused of possible
complicity in the deportation
of Greek Jews while a/netx-
tehant in the Webraiacht
during the German occupation of Greece. ■/.
Kreisky warned of a backlash in Austria against Jews
abroad who are sefen as trying to dictate who will be
Austria's next? President. In
that connection, he referred
to an interview in the Austrian magazine Profit with
Israel Singer* secretary general o£ the WJC, and Elan
Steinberg, its executive
director.
Singer was quoted as saying that if Waldheim is elected, Austria would have to
bear the consequences. "I
can tell you that the next six
years.with Waldheim (as
President) will not be easy
years," Singer said.
Profil is the magazine
which first published documents indicating that Waldheim joined the SA and a
Nazi student group shortly
after .the Anschluss in 1938.
Waldheim had denied these
charges. But he did serve
during the war on the stall of
Gen. Alexander Loehr who
was hanged in 1947 for war
crimes. U.S. Army documents released recently
listed Waldheim as "suspected" war criminal at the
time.
Inquiries To Continue
Steinberg told Profil that
the WJC would not end its inquiries if Waldheim is elected. "We will continue to research, together with specialists in the U.S., in Germany, in Yugoslavia, in the
Soviet Union and in Austria," he said, adding, "Until
now this has been a matter of
Mr. Waldheim. Then it will
be an Austrian problem."
Ivan Hacker, president of
the Austrian Jewish community, warned that the election of Waldheim would bestow legitimacy on Brown
Shirts and anti-Semites. In
an apparent response to
Kreisky, he said the community condemned language
that disqualifies documented
evidence as defamation,
criticizes the researchers
and makes Jews scapegoats.
He mentioned "certain Socialist politicians" who play
down any kind of documents.
Michael Graff, a spokesman for the Peoples Party,
warned against "emotions
none of us want to rise." So
far, the Freedom Party, a
coalition partner in the Socialist-led government with
a strong.right wing has refrained from comment on
the Waldheim affair. But one
of its members broke ranks
to warn of an anti-Jewish
backlash.
.Mario Ferrari-Brunnen-
feld, Secretary of State in the
Health Ministry, said the
Jewish community should
have remained silent at least
until a link between Wald-
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WJC Provides More Evidence
That Kurt Waldheim Was Nazi
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
World Jewish Congress last
week provided what they referred to as a "surprise witness" in the Kurt Waldheim
affair — Waldheim, himself.
The WJC presented captured
Nazi documents obtained
from the National Archives
in Washington which Waldheim himself had signed in
the capacity of senior intelligence officer reporting directly to the General Staff of
•Army C, Group E ("Heeres-
gruppe E"j, the occupying
force in Yugoslavia during
World War IL It was headed
by Gen. Alexander Loehr
who was extradited to Yugoslavia after the war and executed in 1947 for war crimes;
Tuesday's disclosures appear to refute Waldheim's
claim he was only an interpreter for the Wehrmacht in
Yugoslavia. The evidence
produced was discovered
and researched by  Prof.
\
Robert Herzstein of the University of South Carolina,
who recently served as an
expert witness for the U.S.
Department of Justice.
The photographic documents released show that
Waldheim was a senior intelligence officer. The tasks to
which he was assigned, according to Herzstein, went
beyond responsibility for interrogating prisoners of war
and included capturing civilians aged 14 and above from
whom information "was extracted by ihe most brutal
methods of torture."
In the documents he
signed, Waldheim reports on
what were called "cleansing" ("Sauberung") operations in Boxnia, Yugoslavia,
in 1942, "cleansing" being
the Nazi term for mass murders. The documents refer to
the killing of about 5,000
"parti$aiis" with a loss to
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