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Hispanic-Jewish Connection
NEW YORK His-
nics and Jews have many
mmon goals, problems
id interests and ran bene-
|t from frequent and open
iscussions of their mutual
and sometimes varying
concerns, according to a
Met just published by
ie American Jewish Com-
ittee.
Edited by AJC's Institute on
luralism and Group Identity,
if booklet. "Jews and Hispanics
America: The Meeting of Two
islorie Cultures,*' is a report of
two-day Hispanic-Jewish Con-
prence on Immigration and Ac-
Ituration held in 1981 in Hous-
n. TX. Co-sponsors of the
leeling were the Houston Chap-
r of AJC and the Immigrant
id Society of the Americas.
PARTICIPANTS in the meet-
iiH included leaders of the His-
mic and Jewish communities,
;ovcrnment officials involved in
Immigration policy, and
icademic and other specialists in
illiiiicily. pluralism, and related
killers.
"Both Hispanics and Jews,"
it booklet points out. "retain a
jimimmnlity of experience in
[lnii sdong desire to retain their
ni<|iif cultural and historical
lenlity. while at the same time
licv strive for absorption into
lf economic and cultural main-
New Study Shows
stream of American life. Both
share religion as a foundation
upon which they have built their
values and institutions in this
country."
Discussing one of the central
issues of the conference, Irving
M. Levine, director of IPGI and
one of the conference partici-
pants, said: "This notion of
pluralism is very complicated. It
is based on a realistic view of
what this country is about. Our
country is not only'about indivi-
dualism. One of the essential in-
gredients in the way this country
was formed was by cohesive
groups creating a community."
"WE MUST get away from
this concept of extreme indivi-
dualism," continued Levine,
"and understand the concept of
personal identity as the indivi-
dual within the core of the com-
munity. We must realize that
group identity is as important as
individual identity. You cannot
be a healthy personality unless
you can recoup your tradition 
your racial, ethnic, communal
tradition and integrate all that
into your personality. You must
know about your background and
be ready to use it honestly,
without shame.
"Identity means much more
Hum individual self-actualization
iikmc. which can lead to narcis-
Amendment to Law of Return
Defeated by Knesset Vote, 58-50
JERUSALEM (JTA) A bill to amend the Law of
ileturn to recognize as converts to Judaism only persons
Uverted according to halacha reljgiou8ilaw asad-
ministered by Orthodox rabbis was defeated by a vote
f 58-50 in the Knesset. The Liberal Party faction of Likud
Joined the Labor opposition in rejecting the measure
Yhich had the support of Premier Menachem Begin.
I Action on the bill, which has been a source of bitter con-
troversy for years, was pressed by the Agudat Israel Par-
ty, a member of Begins coalition. Although Begin
promised he would do all he could to ensure its passage
liberal Party MKs were released from party discipline
and allowed to vote freely on the issue.
sism. Identity is always related
to one's family, community, and
history."
Another conference partici-
pant. Dr. Lawrence Fuchs,
former director of the Select
Commission on Immigration and
Refugee Policy, maintained that
"we are living in a time of grow-
ing xenophobia," adding:
"At least for the next few years
we are going to hear people talk
against immigrants and refugees
somewhat more than they did in
the seventies. One of the reasons
is that our economic situation is
difficult and uncertain for many
people. There is a mistaken idea
that immigrants are simply
mouths to feed, that they take
something from the U.S.
"THERE IS a feeling that the
economic pie is fixed: there are
only so many jobs, and immi-
grants take away jobs from
Americans. It is not realistic or
accurate, but it is there. That is
why. particularly among the un-
employed or among those who
are entry level workers, there is
the most skepticism and most
hostility toward immigration.
There is not a sufficient apprecia-
tion of the strengths that immi-
grants bring to this country 
not only culturally but in terms
of their spirit. They bring much
as contributors to economic
growth and development of so-
ck'ty."
Turning to a problem of par-
licular concern to Mexicans,
1 .coneI Castillo, former Commis-
sioner of the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, said
that "the Mexican has the addi-
tional problem of facing a very
unresponsive Federal
bureaucracy There is no ef-
fort in the U.S. to Americanize
Mexicans, as there was with
some other groups."
Continued Castillo: "Today, if
someone from Houston wants U>
become an American citizen, it
will take approximately 22
Continued on Page 12
NEW YORK- (JTA)-
The head of the world's lar-
gest Jewish fraternal order
charged that two Polish
Communist organizers
arranging the 40th anni-
versary commemoration of
the Warsaw Ghetto up-
rising on Apr. 19 are still
leaders of a political faction
in Poland responsible for
anti-Semitic purges and
assaults during 1968-69.
Dr. Israel Kugler, president of
the Workmen's Circle, said that
he was communicating with
American Jewish leaders and
their counterparts abroad and in
Israel who might be "lured by
decent instincts" to participate in
the Polish government-sponsored
Warsaw Ghetto commemoration
uprising "to renounce this event
for the cynical insult it has be-
come to all those martyred and
who have survived the Holo-
caust."
KUGLER SAID that the prin-
cipal organizei of the Apr. 19
Warsaw event was a post-World
War I organization known as
BOW ID Association of Fight-
ers for Freedom and Democracy
 and that Mieczyslav Moczar,
chairman of its central council,
and Vlodzimierz Sokorski. presi-
dent of its board, were both lead-
ers during 1968-69 of a special
political faction of the Polish
Communist party which bears
Moc/.ar's name that engaged in
wide-spread anti-Semitic propa-
ganda activities.
BOWID, itself. Kugler
charged, was notorious after
World War I for anti-Semitic in-
citements, and during World War
11 its members aided and abetted
the Nazi occupiers by hunting for
Jews in the forests.
"The incongruity of this whole
affair is that Sokorski joined the
Moczar faction in 1968 and, as a
journalist, was director of the
Polish government's Committee
of Radio and TV. During this
period, as perhaps none other in
Poland's otherwise sordid anti-
Semitic history, anti-Semitic pro-
paganda, often using texts lifted
from the Nazi publication Der
Sturmer, reached all-time highs.
Sokorski. who is ironically orga-
nizing the Warsaw Ghetto upris-
ing event, and is listed as one of
the principal speakers, as Moc-
zar's intellectual leader, was part
of the Gomulka regime's plan to
make Poland Judenrein Jew-
Free.
THE EDICT against Jews
under the regime of Wladyslav
Gomulka began immediately
Continued on Page 15-
Charges Vendetta
AIPAC Official Takes
Out After Weinberger
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON -
(JTA) An official of the
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee (AIPAC)
has charged that Secretary
of Defense Caspar Wein-
berger is conducting a
"vendetta against Israel"
which has resulted in what
he termed "something just
short of an arms embargo."
But only hours after the
charge was made, AIPAC
dissociated itself from any
personal attacks made on
Weinberger.
The official. Steven Rosen,
AIPAC director of research and
information, told a press con-
ference here for the Israeli and
Jewish media last Thursday that
while President Reagan is con-
sidered friendly toward Israel,
Weinberger's close relations with
the President has resulted in an
Administration policy that has
"tilted" toward the Arabs and
against Israel.
WEINBERGER puts every
act by Israel "in the worst light,"
not only in his mind but also in
Continued on Page 15
Former Secretary Haig.