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VOL.67   NO.4
JANUARY 26,1989-SHEVAT 20
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Jewish Leaders Call Off Zurich Meeting
With Vatican Officials
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish and Catholic leaders have
called off a conference on anti-Semitism that was scheduled
to take place in Zurich in February because there has been no
definite commitment to remove a Carmelite convent from
the site of the Auschwitz death camp. The conference, originally scheduled for Feb. 20T24, was contingent on a request
made by the International Jewish Committee for Interreli-
gious Consultations that the Auschwitz convent be removed
to a site outside the camp before the meeting.
ush Expected To Follow
oreign Policy Line On Middle East
B'nai B'rith Canada Protests On Behalf
Of Shechifa In Sweden
TORONTO (JTA) - B'nai B'rith Canada's Institute for
International Affairs has expressed its concern to the government of Sweden over legislation making it impossible to perform the kosher slaughtering of poultry in that country. On
Oct. 1, Sweden passed an amendment to its civil law making
the stunning of poultry; prior to slaughter mandatory in all
slaughter houses. Sweden also prohibits the importation of
poultry, leaving the country's Jews, who number around
15,000 without any source of kosher fowl. Chairman Ralph
Snow and Director Ellen Kachuk urged Ola Ullsten, Sweden's ambassador to Canada, to request an amendment to
the law to permit the kosher slaughtering of poultry.
Central African Republic Resumes Ties
With Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Central African Republic's decision to resume diplomatic ties with Israel has been well received in Jerusalem, especially in light of the political
momentum gained by the Palestine Liberation Organization
in recent weeks. The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign
Ministry were reported especially pleased, even though the
republic only a month ago recognized the independent Palestinian state proclaimed by PLO chief Yasir Arafat. Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir's media spokesman, Avi Pazner,
expressed hope Monday, when the diplomatic move was announced, that other African states would follow the examples
of the Central African Republic and Kenya, which resumed
ties with Israel on Dec. 30.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
George Bush, who was inaugurated as president last
Friday, is expected to continue the Reagan administration's basic foreign policy
line in the Middle East.
At least this is what Secretary of State-designate
James Baker III appeared to
imply during confirmation
hearings last week before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
When Sen. Rudy Bosch-
witz (R-Minn.) made this appraisal, Baker agreed,,with
a caveat. "Generally speaking I think that's correct;"
Baker said, "although this
administration will of course
feel free to supplement and
modify those parts as the circumstances might require."
Baker also told Boschwitz
he would not change two U.S.
policies: that Jerusalem
must remain undivided and
that Israel does not have to
return to its pre-1967 bor-'
ders.
' In a part of his prepared
opening statement to the
committee, Baker outlined a
continuation of the basic
Reagan policy in the Middle
East. .
"As President-elect Bush
has described it, we have a
solid consensus on the objectives and means of making
peace between Israel and
her Arab neighbors," Baker
said.
"These include the purpose of the negotiations,
which is above all a just,
Bexley Kosher Market, Martin's Merge
Bexley Kosher Market,
Inc., has merged its existing
operation with Martin's
Kosher Foods, Inc. and has
moved from its location at
2996 E, Broad St; into the
newly remodeled Martin's
facilities at 3685 E. Broad
St., across from the Town
and Country Shopping Center.
Irvin Szames, owner and
operator of Bexley Kosher
Market, is the new owner
and president, of Martin's
Kosher Foods.
Szames, known to the community as "Irv," brings with
him an extensive background in the kosher food
business, having worked in
Columbus for over 30 years.
During that time, he has also
been active in community affairs, founding the Columbus
Chapter of the Children of
Holocaust Survivors.
Bexley Kosher Market
was started nearly two years
ago by Szames, who notes,
"I felt that Columbus was
ready for a strictly kosher
market and time has proven
me correct. Our business has
grown to the point where we
felt we needed to expand,
and our merging with Martin's Foods gives us that opportunity. With the facilities
Irvin Szames
they have, I feel Columbus
can have a kosher outlet
second to none in the Midwest. We want every Jewish
person to feel comfortable in
knowing that they will be
able to pick up anything on
our shelves and not have to
worry about its being
kosher. We hope to expand
our product line to include
the widest variety of kosher
products possible."
Shames also plans to maintain the kosher restaurant
and bakery which opened recently at Martin's.
"My goal," Szames explains," is to make this a
store that the entire community can be proud of. We are
very pleased with the
smooth transition to the
Martin's location and have
transferred all existing orders for the convenience of
our customers. I invite
everyone to come in to the
new Martin's Kosher Foods
to say 'hello' and give me
your ideas, and I assure you
the same fine personal attention we have always provided to our loyal patrons,"
Szames, who says he hopes
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enduring peace that ensures
Israel's security and satisfies the legitimate rights of
the Palestinians."
Baker said the administration will advocate "direct
negotiations based on U.N.
(Security Council) Resolutions" 242 and 338, which include the exchange of territory for peace.
"Realistically, Jordan
must play a. part in any
agreement," he said. "The
Palestinians must participate in the determination of
their own future."
Baker told the committee
that the Bush administration
will oppose a separate Pale:
stinian state. Under questioning, he said that the final
status of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip will have to be
determined by the parties
themselves through direct
negotiations.
But he indicated support
for "some sort of confederation with Jordan," adding
that there would first have to
be a.transitional stage,
The Bush administration
also will support an international conference if it is
structured right and would
lead the way to direct
negotiations, Baker said.
He expressed support for
the Reagan administration's
decision to open a dialogue
with the Palestine Liberation Organization and said
that he would continue the
policy that the only channel
for such talks is the U.S.
ambassador in Tunisia, currently Robert Pelletreau.
Baker said one purpose of
the talks is to ensure that the
PLO does not resume ter-.
rorism. The other is to "see
if the dialogue could facilitate a move toward direct
negotiations."
Perhaps more reassuring
to supporters of Israel than
Baker's statements were the
appointments by Bush of two
key aides to the new secretary of state: Lawrence
Eagleburger as deputy
secretary of ktate and Dennis Ross as director of the
Jewish Cultural Center To Open
In Moscow Feb. 12 With Festival
NEW YORK (JTA) -The
Solomon Mikhoels Center,
the Soviet Union's first officially sanctioned Jewish cultural center in more than a
half century, will open in
Moscow oh Feb. 12, Edgar
Bronfman, president of the
World Jewish Congress
announced last week.
It will offer books and
films on Jewish history ahd
culture, an art gallery: of
Jewish artists, lectures, concerts, special exhibitions,
seminars and Hebrew
classes.
The opening is part of a
"Festival of Jewish Culture"
in the Soviet capital to run
from Feb. 12 to 22.
Bronfman stressed the historic significance of the
event, "The Soviet, government has given official
recognition to the right of
Jews to participate in their
national cultural heritage,"
he said.
The new center is named
for Solomon (Shlomo) Mikhoels, the Jewish actor and
cultural leader murdered at
the orders of Josef Stalin in
1948. It is housed in what was
formerly the Yiddish State
Theater of which Mikhoels
was the director.
The Mikhoels Center was
established with the approval of the Soviet Ministry
of Culture following nego-
. tiations with WJC Vice President Isi Leibler on Oct. 21.
Leibler is head of the
Australian Jewish community in Melbourne.
Confirmation of a liberalized Soviet policy toward its
Jewish community was
given to Bronfman during
his meetings in November
with Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze and
other senior officials in Moscow.
Bronfman, speaking
recently in Columbus, said,
"This new development offers a great window of opportunity that Jews in the Diaspora and in Israel mus£ take
advantage of now, for no one
can tell how long the window
will remain open."
He noted there "are new
opportunities to practice the
Jewish faith and express
Jewish culture that the
Soviet regime has recently
made possible.
"The law against teaching
Hebrew is no longer being
enforced, and Jewish religious instruction and cultural expression is now permitted," he said.
Bronfman will be joined by
Nobel,Peace Prize winner
-EHe Wiesel, who will deliver
the-major address at the official' opening  ceremonies
;fbf the center next month.
Another participant will be
the prominent Israeli poet,
Yehuda Amichai.
policy planning staff.
Ross, who is Jewish and an
expert in Middle East and
Soviet affairs, served two
years on the National
Security Council staff before
becoming Bush's senior foreign affairs adviser for his
presidential campaign.
Eagleburger was undersecretary of state for political affairs, the third-ranking
post in the State Department, until 1984, when he retired after 27 years in the
Foreign Service.
Like Brent Scowcroft,
whom Bush has named as
national security adviser,
Eagleburger was closely associated with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and has been president of Kissinger Associates
Inc., a consulting firm, since
leaving the government.
Ross was associated, with
the pro-Jsrael Washington
Institute for Near East
Policy. Eagleburger, along
with former Vice President
Walter Moridale, was co^
chairman of a bipartisan
study by the institute on U.S.
stratgegy for the Middle
East, "Building ter Peace."
The study, released last
fall, recommended that the
next president make no new
initiatives on the Middle
East. Instead, it urged that
one of the new president's
first acts be the appointment
of a special emissary to the
region to help Israel and the
Arab countries reshape the
political environment, so
that direct negotiations become possible.
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Dictionary To Modify
Definition Of'Jew'
LONDON (JTA) - The
.next edition of the Concise
Oxford Dictionary will continue to carry an offensive
definition of "Jew" but it
will add an explanation in
precise terms why it is considered offensive,
S.K. Tulloch, the dictionary's senior assistant editor,
gave that assurance in a letter resonding to representatives from the Council of
Christians and Jews.
The  dictionary  contains
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