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Friday. December 24,1982
Volume 4
8TEVETH5743
Number 45
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A Test of Morality
Once again. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum
has hit iton the head. The Rabbi noted the
other day that the full-scale inquiry of the
Palestinian massacre going on in Israel
"proves the opposite of what anti-Israel
propagandists and anti-Semites have been
blathering for months."
Even though, says Tanenbaum, the
Christian Phalangists pulled the triggers
and killed several hundred Palestinians,
"that did not stop the vicious condemna-
tion of Israel as being allegedly Nazi-like,
immoral, and what not."
The central question, of course, is to
note exactly how that "immoral" Israeli
government is behaving.
A panel of two Supreme Court justices
and a former general have summoned the
highest officials of the government and
army to give an account of what they knew
and did to stop the massacre. No one in Is-
rael who was in a decision-making position
is exempt from public scrutiny.
Argues Tanenbaum: "Even the United
States, one of the greatest democracies in
human history, took years to overcome the
obstacle to a Watergate inquiry. It took Is-
rael but one week. During the inquiry on
the ML Lai massacre, not a single general
was held accountable, although it was done
by an American battalion."
It is a fantasy to insist that Israel
must be perfect, must never do wrong. No
other state in the world is asked never to do
wrong; no other state is asked to justify its
existence by being morally superior.
Declaring that Russian Jews are running for
their lives, participants in the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry's Run for Freedom
exit Columbia University on their way to
Central Park and a final destination of the
USSR's UN Mission. Their focus was ona\
trio of hunger strikers: Prisoner of Con-j
science Anatoly Sharansky, Kharkov ac-1
tivist Yuri Tarnopolsky, and Moscow]
refusenik chess Grandmaster Boris Gulko.
Headlines
Theater Folks Win AJCong. Awards
Two ranking officials of the Shubert theatrical
organization received the 1982 Cultural Achieve-
ment Award of the American Jewish Congress at
a dinner Wednesday evening at the Pierre in New
York. The award winners are Gerald Schoenfeld,
chairman of the board, and Bernard B. Jacobs,
president of the Shubert Organization.
Chairman of the dinner was actor-singer Theo-
dore Bikel, a senior vice president of AJCongress.
Schoenfeld and Mr. Jacobs, both native New
Yorkers, were honored for "distinguished contri-
butions to the rebirth and renewal of the Ameri-
can theatre."
described Latin America as "a society in ferment,
facing unprecedented challenges of social justice,
freedom and violence, along with ongoing terror-
ism and repression."
Jews are especially vulnerable in unsettled
conditions such as exist in Latin America today,
Mr. Kovadloff pointed out. Often, he said, they
are victims of endemic anti-Semitism and nec-
racism.
Discussing "Current Political Trends in Latin
America," Kovadloff stated that the gap between
classes, the friction between developed and unde-
veloped countries, and the ongoing clashes be-1
tween guerrillas and armies were among tl<|
major problems facing Latin America.
Dr. Alvin I. Sen if t. executive vice president of
the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New
York has been elected chairman of the newly I ^^ 40 |eaderg of the American Jewish Con-
formed Conference of Jewish Lducation Orgam- J w0J take in a missk)n ^ CosU Ricain
rations. Dr. Sthlff heads the worlds largest nnllllrv as ,h,. fir*. nn in n nnnin nmmm
central agency for Jewish education and is a
noted educator and the author of over 100 articles
on Jewish education and a book. "The Jewish
Day School in America CO.] KO was established
last spring in Miami Beach.
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"Dore Schary Awards for Film and Video Pro-
ductions" for college and university students
have been established by the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith in honor of the late film-
maker who was affiliated with ADL for more than
40 years.
Dore Schary, a writer, director and producer
who once headed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,
served as ADL's national chairman from 1963
through 1970 and as honorary national chairman
until the time of his death in 19N).
In his long career as a screenwriter and motion
picture executive, Schary had 372 film credits
The ADL competition is open to students
majoring in film-making or television. Four
monetary awards will be presented annually for
the most creative fiction or nonfiction film and
video productions on human relations themes.
To be eligible, entries in the Schary competition
must have been completed during the 1982-83
academic year and be submitted on or before
April 30, 1983. Judging will be done by a commit-
tee of notables in film, video and human relations.
Prizes will be awarded and the winning produc-
tions shown at an ADL Festival in September,
1983.
Richard J. Scheuer of Larchmont, N.Y., has
been elected chairman of the Board of Governors
of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion for 1983, Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, president
of the college, announced.
Scheuer, prominent in Jewish communal and
cultural affairs, is chairman of the board of East
River Management Corporation.
Scheuer has been a member of the Board of
Governors since 1962. He succeeds Abraham S.
Braude who has been serving as acting chairman
since the death in March of Dr. Jules Backman
an economist who resided in Scarsdale.
Jacobo Kovadloff, director of South American
Affairs for the American Jewish Committee, has
January as the first step in an ongoing program
to strengthen ties between the Costa Rican and
' American Jewish communities.
The mission, which will include meetings with
Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge. his]
wife and other government officials, is also de-
[signed to demonstrate "the gratitude of theI
> American Jewish community to the Costa Kican
} government for its courage and consistency in
maintaining long-standing friendship for Israel,
said Chile Herzig, a national vice president of
AJCongress. who is leading the mission with
Esther H. Kolatch. assistant executive director of
the orgnization.
Costa Rica is one of the few countries with
diplomatic tits to Israel that has moved its em-;
busy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in spite of j
pressure from Arab and communist countries.
Major Jewish leaders from 33 communities
across the country pledged more than $1.5 million
to the United Jewish Appeal 1983 Regular Cam-
paign and Israel Special Fund during the UJA
"Inside Washington" mission to the nations
capital, UJA National Vice Chairman Jerome J
Dick, mission chairman, announced.
Dick, of Washington, D.C.. said the total in-
cludes $1,224,500 pledged to the 1983 Regular
Campaign, an increase of 18.3 percent over giving
by the same donors a year ealier and $294,500 for
the Israel Special Fund, making an aggregate in-
crease of 48.6 percent over gifts by these donors
in 1982.
Rabbi Benjamin Z. Kreitman, executive vice
president of the United Synagogue of America,
has announced the appointment of Victoria Free
to the newly-created position of public relations
director.
Free, who will serve in the position as a consul-
tant, was previously assistant to the director ot
public relations at the American Jewish Con-
gress.
A graduate of Brandeis University and the
Columbia University Graduate School of Jour
naliam, Free has served as assistant press secre-
tary to the Bronx Borough President and as Me
York correspondent for Washington lnte"*
tional Report, a syndicated radio news round-up
for the Jewish community.