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VOL.64   NO. 38
SEPTEMBER 18,1986-ELUL14
Devoted (o American
and Jewish Weals.
AJCongress Fund
To Aid Families
Of Istanbul Victims
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
American Jewish Congress
announced last week the establishment of a fund to assist the families of the victims of the Neve Shalom
Synagogue massacre in
Istanbul anoV help rehabilitate the damaged synagogue.
Henry Siegman, executive
director of the AJCongress,
who attended the mass funeral service in Istanbul as
representative of both the
AJC Congress and the Conference - of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations, announced from
Turkey that the new American Jewish Congress Istanbul Fund has been set up
with an initial gift of $18,000
from an anonymous donor.
Israel To Revive""
Project Exodus
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The recent thaw in relations
between Israel and the Black
African nations that broke
diplomatic ties.with it after
the1973 Yom Kippur'War will
revive a project undertaken
by Israeli opthalmologists 27
years ago to eradicate eye
diseases common to tropical
Africa.    ;
Four Israeli ophthalmologists will establish eye
clinics in Africa shortly.
Their work is a continuation
of Project Exodus, established in 1959 by the late
Prof. Isaac Michaelson of
Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem to fight such eye diseases as trachoma and
river blindness.
BACKGROUND REPORT
Turkish Government Alarmed
By Terrorist Attack on Sept. 6
Planting peach trees in front of Heritage Tower are:
Don Erkis (right); Bonnie Fass, Tower administrator;
the late Pearl Browne, Tower resident, and Gerald N.
Cohn, executive vice president of Heritage Village.
Heritage Village To Dedicate
Don Erkis Bridge On Sept. 22
For decades the name of
Don Erkis was associated
with Heritage House. Many
of the home's innovations
which became nationally
recognized were directly attributed to his foresight and
leadership. One of the first
recipients of the Eleanor and
Jack Resler "Life With Dignity" Award, Erkis was
committed to improving the
quality of life for the Village
OJC New Year Edition To Feature
Timely Article On'New Colossus'
By Judith Franklin
News Editor
Nineteen \aighty-six was a
big year for the Statue of
Liberty. A 100th birthday is
certainly something to celebrate and that's exactly
what the nation did on July 4,
Liberty Weekend, in New
■ York Cityf
Not to be left out, the Ohio
Jewish Chronicle will be.
publishing, in its annual New
Year Edition, a special feature article about the
inscription on the base of the
Statue and Emma Lazarus,
the woman who wrote those
immortal, oft-quoted lines:
 "Give me your
tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of
your teeming shore.
1    Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the
j golden door!"
The article's author, local
resident Bette Roth, submitted the piece in response
to the Chronicle's third annual Wordworks last spring.
" 'The New Colossus' was
chosen from among many:
fine submissions," according to Publisher Milton J.
Pinsky, "because it was not
only interesting and well
written but it was especially
timely as well."
Roth, a Ph.D. candidate at
the University of Michigan
and an acknowledged expert
on Emma Lazarus is currently writing her dissertation on Lazarus and is preparing an edition of Lazarus'
letters for publication next
year.
> In addition to "The New
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residents.
On Monday, Sept. 22, at 7
p.m., a reminder of his contributions will be dedicated
in his memory. Located between Heritage House and
Heritage Manor, the Don
Erkis Memorial Bridge provides both a walkway for Village residents and family
members during strolls
through the gardens and an
important link between Heritage House and the Manor.
The bridge, weathered to
blend with the surroundings,
was created in 1981 as a component of the Therapeutic
Landscaping. Under Erkis'
chairmanship of the Heritage Village House Committee, the entire Heritage Village campus  was "trans-;
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Editor's Note: George Gruen Is
director of Israel and Middle Easf Affairs for the American Jewish Committee.
"NEW YORK (JTA) - The
brutal and sadistic massacre
by "Arabic-speaking" terrorists of more than a score
of Jews attending services at
Istanbul's refurbished Neve
Shalom Synagogue has
shocked and horrified the
civilized world. For the 20,00
Jews of Istanbul, Neve Shalom, the venerable "Abode
of Peace" in Hebrew, was
suddenly transformed into a
charnel house and conflagration.
The attack was all the
more disconcerting because
the Jewish community had
become accustomed to living
in tranquility and peace
under the new democratic
institutions reestablished
after the Turkish military
authorities had intervened in
September 1980 to end the
terrorist violence that had
disrupted the country.
Bpt Jewish religious, institutions never became targets even at the height of the
domestic turmoil. Leftist
terrorist groups, such as the
Turkish People's Liberation
Army (TPLA), which had
assassinated Israeli Consul
General Ephraim Elrom in
Istanbul in 1971, had received training in Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
Their anti-Israel violence
was motivated by their radical view of Israel as the ally
of Western imperialism.
They also attacked British
and Canadian as well as
American officials in Turkey. The Turkish authorities
had caught, convicted and
hanged three TPLA leaders
in 1972.
In the resurgence of violence that gripped Turkey in
the late 1970s, leftist groups
again targeted Israeli diplomats, employees of El Al,
the Israeli airline which provides direct flights between
Istanbul and Ben Gurion airport, American and other
Western diplomats and some
prominent Turks.
A few Jewish industrial
and commercial leaders
were reportedly also on their
hit list, but it is not clear
whether they were targeted
because of their Israeli connections or simply because
they had become part of the
Turkish business establishment.
After Egypt negotiated
peace with Israel, the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara became a target for radical
Palestinian terrorists. Rela
tions between the Turkish
government and the Palestine Liberation Organization
became strained when evidence that came out that the
head of the PLO office in Ankara, which was opened in
1979, may have aided the terrorists.
The strains were heightened in 1982, after Israel provided Turkey with fresh evidence it had captured in PLO
bases in southern Lebanon of
the presence there of Turkish urban guerrillas, as well
as. anti-Turkish Armenian
and  Kurdish  secessionist
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Jewish Grandchildren Dependent
On Having Jewish Grandparents
By Judith Franklin
News Editor
' 'Will our grandchildren be
Jewish?" was the question
posed by Rabbi Reuven Kimmelman, chief program associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and
Leadership  in  New   York
Rabbi Reuven Kimmelman
City, to those attending the
opening Community College
for Adult Jewish Studies lecture at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center last Sunday
night.
In an interview before the
lecture, Rabbi Kimmelman
noted that "creating a Jewish child is a biological
achievement but' creating
Jewish; grandparents is ,a
cultural one:"
Manifestations of Jewish
life have, up to now, been
kept primarily in the private
realm, he said, but "the
family and synagogue can't
compete with the public nature of American life."
Therefore, to guarantee continuity of the religion, Judaism must come out of the private realm and into the
public arena and the Jew
must become comfortable
with a public Jewish identity!
In the past, Jews had to
make a choice between their
religion and success, Rabbi
Kimmelman explained.
Now, it has become imperative to take away that choice
and make success dependent
on being Jewish.
The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), formerly the
National  Jewish  Resource
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Peres, Mubarak Hold Summit Meeting
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The long awaited summit
meeting between Premier
Shimon Peres and President
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt began in Alexandria last
Thursday, Sept. 11. The
Israeli leader was received
at the airport by Egyptian
Premier Ali Lofti and then
flew by helicopter to the Ras
el-Tine Palace for his first
working session with Mubarak, which began at 4 p.m.
local time.
The reception for the Israeli leader was low key and
security was  expecially
tight. The meeting is the first
Israeli-Egyptian summit in
five years and until late last
Wednesday it was uncertain
it would take place.
The chief obstacle, an accord between the two countries on how to arbitrate
their border dispute over
Taba, was signed after midnight, ending 18 months of
off-again, on-again- negotiations.
This drew high praise
from the U.S., which had
been applying pressure to
both aides for an agreement.
"We extend our congratula
tions to the two governments
and their negotiating delegations, which have engaged in
long, hard discussions over
the past year and a half," the
State Department said in a
statement released in Washington last Wednesday night.
"We are confident that
completion of the agreement
on Taba arbitration will significantly further Egyptian-
Israeli relations and enhance the atmosphere for
the broader peace process.
This agreement reached between close friends of the
United States, proves that
negotiations  work,"   the
statement said.
Peres: Summit Not Merely
Media Event
Peres told reporters'
aboard his plane during the
short flight to Alexandria
that he rejected the notion
that the summit was nothing
more than a media event. He
said he anticipated serious
discussions of both bilateral
issues and the broader peace
process.
He received a courteous
send-off by his Likud colleagues of the, unity govern-
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