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VOL.65   NO. 25
JUNE18.1987-SIVAN21
Devoted to American
and Jewish Idea's.
Arad Confirmed
As Ambassador
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The Cabinet confirmed the
nomination of career diplomat Moshe Arad to be Israel's next Ambassador to
the United States. Arad, 52,
who is presently Ambassador to Mexico, was summoned home recently for
meetings with Premier Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres.
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At|The Center  18,19
At The Federation 6,7
piassifled  17
Editorial Features .., i
50 Years Ago ,...-.,-i.v.' i
■Here and There....,...;. I3j
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pfattuaries ....;,.... 17
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ADL Reports Far Right Extremists'
Membership And influence Down
Bella Wexner reviews an architect's sketch of the
dining rooms planned for the Wexner Heritage House,
with Gerald N. Cohn, executive vice president
(center), and Vice President Robert Glick.
June 28 Groundbreaking Set
For Wexner Heritage House
Synagogue Services
17,
Louis Robins, president of
Heritage Village, announces
that the Groundbreaking
Celebration for the creation
State Dept. Official Says
New Soviet Regulations
Scare Prospective Emigres
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
State Department official
predicted last week that
within a year Soviet Jewish
emigration "may start drop:
ping agian and the Soviets
will be able to say, correctly,
that there is no backlog of
unprocessed applications."
Richard Schifter, assistant
secretary of state for human
rights and humanitarian affairs, warned that despite
the recent relaxation of Soviet emigration curbs on
Jews, Moscow has announced new policies which
are "scaring off prospective
applicants" for emigration.
The Kremlin's eventual .
goal is to end Jewish emigration entirely, Schifter told a
meeting of the National
Commission of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith at the .Grand Hyatt
Hotel here. He said that despite the atmosphere of "glasnost" (openness) in the Soviet Union and the fact that
871 Jews were allowed to
leave in May, the highest
monthly total, since 1982,
"there is no evidence of a
significant change in the status of Jews as second-class
citizens."
The new Soviet policies,
according to Schifter, are
apparently aimed at allowing most of the estimated
more than 10,000 refuseniks
to leave the country while
discouraging new applications. Refuseniks are those
Soviet Jews who have ap-
- piled for — and been denied
a*- permission to leave the
. country before the new de-
..-. cree on emigration went into
effect Jan. 1,1987.
Under the new decree, he
noted, applicants for exit
visas are limited to persons
who are. sponsored by,
spouses, parents, children or
siblings abroad. "Publication of the new decree was
greeted with a great deal of
dismay by many, of those
concerned with th£ cause of
Soviet Jewry," he said.
Schifter told the ADL leaders that the U.S. has learned
that applicants who have
sponsorship from close relatives abroad have been told
they would hot be allowed to
emigrate without the consent of all siblings who remain in the Soviet Union, including their spouse's bro-'
thers and sisters.
Ghetto Uprising
Sculptor Dies
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nathan Rapoport, a sculptor
whose monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is probably the best known work of
its kind, died here June 4 of
an apparent heart attack. He
was 76.
Funeral services were
held Monday at the Magen
David Adorn Blood Center in
Ramat Gan, Israel. There,
his latest work, "Brotherhood of Man," a nine-foot-
high bronze statue, was dedicated May 7.
Rapoport received the Polish government's Polonia
Restituta Medal for his
"Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"
.monument erected in 1948- - >
of the expanded Heritage
House will be held on Sunday, June 28, at 7 p.m, in the
Village Gardens. The
groundbreaking will be featured as one of the highlights
of the 1987 Heritage Village
Annual Meeting.
A champagne reception
will follow the Annual Meeting and Groundbreaking
Celebration:    ■«•:■
Robins additionally noted
that the Village Board of
. Trustees unanimously
agreed that the name of the
expanded facility would officially be changed to the
Wexner Heritage House.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
The most sweeping federal
crackdown since World War
II against criminal actiyities
of far right extremists,
including the Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis and other organized hate groups, has
helped reduce their membership and influence to the
lowest point in ten years, according to a report issued
last week by the Anti-Defa-
matioh League of B'nai
B'rith.
The report, "The Hate
Movement in America: A
Chronicle of Violence^ and
Disarray," revealed that
KKK membership now
stands at approximately
5,000 — down nearly 20 percent from its estimated total
of more than 6,000 in 1984.
The current membership is
about half of what it was in
1981. The ranks of neo-Nazis
in America have also shown
a 10 to 20 percent decline
since 1984 to between 400 and
450.    '.,
'The League, which has*
mpnitored Klan and hate-
group activity for decades,
also reported that violence-
prone, anti-Semitic and racist groups, such as The Order and Aryan Nations, have
been seriously weakened
with many of their leaders in
prison or awaiting trial for
criminal activity.
The report was made public by Burton S. Levinson,
ADL's national chairman, at
a session of the League's annual National Commission
meeting at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel, June 10-13.
Criminal prosecutions of
the organized hate movement in America have been
triggered by a wave of extremist criminal violence in
the past three years, which,
Levinson said, has exceeded
the amount perpetrated over
the past 20 years. The recent,
record of prosecutions includes the following:
o Convictions, and imprisonment of key members
of The Order, Aryan Nations, as well as the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm
of the Lord, which are members of the so-called "Identity" movement that claims
Anglo-Saxons are the "true
Israel" and Jews are "of the
devil." Their leaders have
been prosecuted for crimes,
including several murders,
the bombings of two synagogues, the attempted bombing of a natural gas pipeline
and numerous armed robberies.
• Indictments and pending
trails of ten hate-movement
leaders charged with plot-
Over 300 At JC Annual Meeting;
President David Milenthal Installed
More than 300 Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center members and
friends attended the Center's
Annual Meeting on Tuesday
evening, June 16, in the Center's Roth / Resler Theatre.
Highlighting the meeting
was the installation of the
1987-88 Center Board of Trustees and officers; awards
presentations to outstanding
Center leaders, programming and volunteers; a tribute to Saint Anthony Medical Center; musical numbers from Gallery Players'
Oliver!, which opened June
13, and a dessert reception.
David Milenthal was installed as Center president.
"I have the pleasure of inheriting an agency full of
positive accomplishments
and remarkable growth," he
said in his acceptance
speech.
"My challenge and yours
is to build on the best in us,"
he addressed the audience.
"(The challenge is) to make
a Center, already ripe with
new ideas and a brighter
spirit to grow even stronger
in building the future for
- Jews,'from eight days old to -
80 years old; in every corner
of central Ohio.
"To meet that challenge, I
want to see us enhance our
efforts in several ways," he
verse, it is equally vital to
the total Jewish community
itself in that the Center can
provide a comfortable outreach to the hundreds of
Jewish families that can
make our total strength in
numbers grow significantly.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 9)
ting to overthrow the U.S.
government.
• Pending prosecutions of
members of two violence-
prone Identity groups in
Arizona and Nevada on
Charges that include conspiracy to commit armed robbery and issuance of death
threats against federal officials.
• Convictions of members
of the Florida Realm of the
United Klans of America for
conducting illegal paramilitary training.
• Convictions of leaders
and other members of the
White Patriot Party, a Kiy-
brid Klan and neo-Nazi
group centered in North
Carolina — also in connection with proscribed paramilitary training and for"
cpnspiracy to acquire military weapons stolen from the
U.S. Army. The group has
recently changed its name to
the Southern National Front.
In addition, there was a $7
million damages award
against one of the largest
Klan factions in this country,
the United Klans of America, resulting from a civil
lawsuit brought on behalf of
the family of a black teenager murdered by members
of the organization in Alabama in 1981. As a result,
recruitment has come to a
halt.
• The report, which was prepared by ADL's Fact Finding Department under the direction of Justin'J. Finger,1
director of the agency's Civil
Rights Division, said the extremists' criminal activity
has stemmed in part from
their sense of desperation
over their failure to grow
through propaganda techniques." The extremists' violence, in turn, has led to even
greater isolation.
•
David Milenthal
continued. "First, I stand
firmly and strongly directed
to building a global presence
for the Jewish Center in centra) Ohio. I want the Center
to serve as a magnet to the
growing number of Jews
who call another part of this
county their home. Our mission in growing north is first
to provide the best in services and recreation to the
whole community. But in re-
dorvt Miss Trie-Opportunity
,To wish The Community
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