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KI*Ja,'V.oh;o BiSTofrrT-/- ■- - ywd YEL.M,. AVZ; ' ^^HAa-^. 'P^:.0-P 4321 f E.XCH 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 (CONTINUED ON'PAGE 4) 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-; '., (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 16) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9) 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- 1CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) :.v> W, 1 "fit 'I 7 } A\ AM ■■•:-*| m
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Full Text | KI*Ja,'V.oh;o BiSTofrrT-/- ■- - ywd YEL.M,. AVZ; ' ^^HAa-^. 'P^:.0-P 4321 f E.XCH 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 (CONTINUED ON'PAGE 4) 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-; '., (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 16) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9) 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- 1CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) :.v> W, 1 "fit 'I 7 } A\ AM ■■•:-*| m |
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