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Spain Sets Maimonides Commemoration
MADRID (JTA) —Formal commemoration by the Spanish
government of the 850th anniversary of the birth of Maimonides will be marked by a series of events which will include
conferences by academic specialists, concerts of Sephardic
music, performances by an Israeli dance group, and Jewish/Moslem philosophical encounters, the World Jewish Congress reported.      .
Uruguay Ready To Move Embassy To Jerusalem
NEW YORK (JTA) — Uruguay stands ready to move its
Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the World Jewish Congress
disclosed last week, and American Jewish leaders told Egyptian President Hosni Mubark during their recent meeting of
their dissatisfaction with Egyptian efforts to block the move,
the WJC further reported. Uruguay, like the majority of nations having diplomatic relations with Israel, currently
maintain its Embassy in Tel Aviv. Following the recent elecT
tion of a democratic regime in Uruguay, the government privately indicated through diplomatic channels that it would
soon transfer its Embassy to Jerusalem.
Green Party Faction Endorses
Holocaust Memorial
BONN (JTA)—The Green party faction in the City Council
of Bonn, in a surprise reversal, has agreed to'join a local
association formed to resist anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
and to erect a memorial here to Bonn Jews who perished in
the Holocaust. But the national organization of the Green
Party, an opposition party in the Bundestag, is standing by
its original refusal to endorse the memorial. The reason, according to observers, is that the Greens are loath to align
themselves with a group fighting anti-Zionism in the Federal
Republic. Several influential party leaders have gone on
record as being anti-Zionist although they insist they are not
anti-Semitic.
N.Y. Stole Supreme Court Hearing
Slated On SuitTo Have An Eruv
Removed From Queens Community
mated to total 450 families—
has snowballed, creating
animosity toward the Orthodox community and divisiye-
ness among many long-time
residents.
An eruv under Jewish law
is a device which may be a
natural boundary, monument or wires strung across
utility polls that allows for
an observant Jew to carry
objects from their residence
into a common street or
courtyard which they would
otherwise be banned from
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The
State Supreme Court will
hold a hearing "early- next
month on a suit filed to have a
newly constructed eruv removed from the residential
seaside communities of Belle
Harbor and Neponsit, on the
western end of the Rockaway
peninsula in Queens.
The suit was brought by a
local resident, Joseph Smith,
who charges that the eruv, a
religious device consisting of
a physical boundary enclosing an area, violates the constitutional requirement of
church-state separation.
Smith contends that the
city improperly gave permission for construction of
the eruv because it placed
the "prestige and power of
the government in the service of a particular faith"
and that the eruv would
result "in the creation and
establishment of the area as
a designated religious
area."
Animosity Toward The
Orthodox Community
But what began as an
attempt by four Orthodox
area synagogues to seek
what is described as an
"accommodation" for their
religious mejpbership—esti-
Israel Visit Planned
By Schulfz For May
"Steppur Out," a musical revue teaiuring ueora
Lewin and Pat Mazzarino, will entertain at the Annual
Hadassah Donor Event which will be held on Sunday,
April 14.
Chapter Hadassah Donor Dinner
Scheduled For Sunday, April 14
The Annual Hadassah
Donor will be held on Sunday, April 14.'.,
The evening's activities
will begin with a Champagne
Buffet Supper at 7 p.m. at
Winding Hollow Country
Club, 3900 Westerville Rd.
. Highlighting the evening's
program will" be "Steppih''
Out," a musical revue,
which recently played to
sell-out audiences at the
Chagrin Valley Theater in
Cleveland. "Steppin' Out"
stars Debra Lewin and Pat
Mazzarino. Debra has appeared in productions of Putting on the Ritz, Cohan and
Hair. Mazzarino has been in
show business for 16 years,
touring with Fiddler on the
Roof, has appeared in Bos
ton, Las Vegas and the Front
Row.
Convert is $10.50 per person! Husbands are invited.
The minimum donor pledge
is $65. Anyone who has
pledged less than donor minimum and wishes to increase
her pledge to make donor
"should: call Helen "Nutis,
chairwoman, at 231-8887.
Closing date for reservations is Monday, April 8. To
make reservations, send a
check for $10.50 per person to
Mrs. Martin Hassell, 4842
Crazy Horse Lane, Westerville, Ohio 43081.
The donor funds go toward
supporting Hadassah Medical Organization's facilities
at Kiryat Hadassah and Mt.
Scopus in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Secretary of State George
Shultz will visit Israel briefly
in May to attend ceremonies
marking the 40th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi
Germany in World War II,
officials here said.
Although the visit apparently evolved from discussions in Washington of how
the Reagan Administration
would participate in international observances of the
anniversary, Shultz will use
the occasion for political
talks with Premier Shimon
Peres and Foreign Minister
and Deputy Premier Yitzhak
Shamir, the officials said.
Shultz's visit to Israel is
also seen as a means of
easing the disappointment
expressed in Jewish circles
in the U.S. and elsewhere
over the Administration's
rejection of proposals that
President Reagan visit the
site of the Dachau concentration camp when he is in
West Germany in May.
Reagan and his spokesmen maintained that such a
visit might injure the sensi-* .
bilities of the Bonn government, although it was the
government which originally
proposed it.
It is not known whether
Shultz plans to visit other
countries in the region. His
talks in Jerusalem are
expected to focus on the
diplomatic momentum stimulated by Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak's recent
peace initiative.
In that connection, the
Reagan Administration's top
Middle East aide, Richard
Murphy, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs,
is due to the region shortly to
assess the extent of'Support
for Mubarak's undertaking.
The Prime Minister's
Office, meanwhile, has published a statement reaffirm-.
ing Israel's opposition to Mubarak's proposal that the
Reagan Administration meet
with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation for preliminary discussions. The
statement stressed Israel's
insistence that it be involved
directly in such talks from
the outset.
It affirmed Israel's willingness to negotiate with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation but only if it contained no
representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Community Plea For Soviet Jewry Set For April 10
This year's Plea for Soviet
Jewry will be different in
two respects: First, the
event is being moved from
December to April, to capitalize on the theme of Passover, a festival of freedom.
Second, it is being changed
from the Women's Plea of
the past to a Community
Plea.
In the 14 years since the
UAHC Publishes Guide Alerting Parents
To Dangers Posed By Equal Access Act
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
guide alerting parents and
community leaders to the
dangers posed by the 1984
Equal Access Act to Jewish
children in secondary
schools has been published
by the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations
(UAHC), the association of
American Reform synagogues.
The act, which became
law last August, permits
extracurricular activities —
including religious and political meetings—to be held on
public school property before and after class hours.
Cult and missionary groups,
the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi
and other extremist or
"hate" organizations could
thus meet in the schools, the
booklet explains.
Although these meetings
must be initiated and led by
students, outsiders are permitted to participate on an
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first Women's Pleas were
held to demonstrate solidar- -
ity with the wives of the
Leningrad trial defendents,
Women's Plea has evolved
into the major annual Soviet
Jewry event in most places
around the country.
The planning group for
this -year's efforts, co-
chaired by Norma Robbins
and Sylvia Mellman of
Hadassah, felt that it was
time to reflect the breadth of
concern over the issues
involved and renamed the
plea a Community Plea for
Soviet Jewry.
This year, the Plea will
feature Jerry Goodman,
executive director of the
National Conference on Soviet Jewry, whose talk will
be entitled "Soviet Jeivry
Under Gorbachev: New
Leader, New Hope?"
In 1984, the number of emigrants declined to only 896
from a high of 51,000 in 1979.
Some analysts believe that
new Soviet Secretary General  Gorbachev's  recent •
remarks supporting a return
to detente and the resumption of arms control talks in
Helsinki signal the potential
for increased emigration.
The 1985 Community Plea
for Soviet Jewry will take
place on Wednesday, April
10, at 7:30 p.m., at Tifereth
Israel. This year's convening organization will be
Hadassah.
For further information,
phone Federation's Community Relations Committee,
237-7686, ext. 49.
JDC Receives
$1.9 Million
For Ethiopia
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
has received so far $1.9 million in cash donations for its
relief program in famine-
stricken Ethiopia, according
to Dr. Saul Cohen, executive
vice president of the JDC.
Speaking at a press conference at the Harley Hotel,
Cohen said that in addition,
the JDC has received donations of 80 tons of goods, such
as clothing, medicine and
medical supplies, for distribution in Ethiopia. He
estimated the value of these
goods as being over $1.1
million.
Cohen said that about
$250,000 was used by the JDC
to purchase "Faffa," a high
energy food supplement for
starving children. The first
delivery was made in the
Ibenat feeding station in the
Gondar region of Ethiopia on
March 4, Cohen said. He
added that subsequent deliv-
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Authorities Divided On Smoking Issue
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Modern commentators on
Jewish law are divided in the
issue of whether smoking
should be banned, according
to an Ottawa rabbi who has
made an extensive examination and evaluation of Jewish
sources.
Rabbi Basil Herring, rabbi
of Congregation Beth Shalom in Ottawa, mentioned
that issue among a variety of
more specific ones in a new
book, Jewish Ethics and Halacha for our Times, published by Yeshiva University
press.
I considering the problem
of smoking, about which
secular medical experts
have expressed increasingly
alarmist views in recent
years, Rabbi Herring declared that,  halachically,
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