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Vyasheslav Molotov Re-admitted To Soviet Communist Party
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
Chief Correspondent TJP
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Shun
ned by the Kremlin for 35
years after his Jewish wife
had talked with Golda Meir
during Dictator Josef Sta-
lin’s period of anti-Semi-
tism, Vyasheslav Molotov
has been rehabilitated by
the Moscow powers at age
94 and re-admitted to the
Soviet Union’s Communist
Party, news dispatches have
made known.
Molotov is globally known
as “Iron Pants” and “Old
Stonebottom” because of his
technique of prolonging dip-
lomatic negotiations with-
out making concessions and
for the easily made gasoline
bombs known as “Molotov
cocktails.” According to the
Dictionary of American
slang, the home-made bombs
were originally used by
Russian civilians in fighting
the Nazi invaders. Such
bombs were effective
against tanks. Molotov was
then the Soviet foreign
Computer Creates Skills Directory
BY BEN GALLOB
[Copyright 1984, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.]
A computer has been used
by the Coalition for Alterna-
tives in Jewish Education
(CAJE) to create a directory
through which CAJE mem-
bers can quickly find help
from other educators who
have skills the member may
lack for a particular area of
learning.
Eliot Spack, CAJE direc-
tor, said the directory, called
“Mekasher” — the Hebrew
word for “connection” — is
the product of the a comput-
er which recorded and
printed the name, address,
telephone number and cate-
gories of expertise of mem-
bers.
He said that by use of a
simple code in the directory,
a CAJE member who needs
help in a particular subject
can usually find an appro-
priate resource. The direct-
ory lists 87 categories,
ranging from anti-Semitism
in history (biblical, medieval
or contemporty); from Yid-
dish language instruction to
women in Judaism; and from
summer camping to micro-
teaching. The CAJE nation-
al office is in Manhattan.
Spack described CAJE as
a national organization of
more than 2,000 persons
active in every aspect of the
educational scene, providing
a system of mutual help-
fulness among those who
have accepted the responsi-
bility of transmitting Ju-
daism’s historic and cultural
heritage.
Members include teach-
ers, administrators, rabbis,
community leaders, youth
directors, social workers,
camp personnel, cantors,
librarians and parents, who
include the full range of
ideologies — Orthodox Con-
servative, Reform, Recon-
structionist, Yiddishist and
secular Jews, living in 42
states and five Canadian
provinces.
Another new CAJE pro-
ject is the Curriculum Bank,
operated in cooperation with
the University of Judaism in
Los Angeles. Spack said
members make “deposits” in
the Curriculum Bank by
contributing information on
particularly successful les-
son plans, bibliographies,
program suggestions for
Jewish holidays and even
new designs for school
report cards.
A CAJE member who
wants help to prepare a
particular lesson or program
may make a “withdrawal”
by calling a toll-free number
that connects with a special
team of librarians, educators
and curriculum designers. If
the bank has the requested
information, it will provide it
to the caller by telephone or
mail. If no suitable material
is available, the caller may
be referred to other sources.
The diverse materials in
the Curriculum Bank include
lesson plans on the life and
learning of Yochanan Ben
Zakkai, a leading rabbi and
teacher of the first century
of the common era; on
Jewish attitudes about
death, burial and mourning;
on aspects of Jewish mysti-
cism; on the rationale of the
Jewish dietary laws; and on
games and other activities to
help very young students
learn the Hebrew alphabet.
Each item has a designa-
tion indicating the age group
for which it was prepared.
Spack said CAJE also
helps members not only to
learn how to use computers
but also to explore the many
ways computers can be used
in creative teaching and in
school administration.
CAJE also produces a
variety of teaching aids. It
has prepared a series of
model lessons, known as
“Crisis Curriculum” to help
teachers deal quickly and
effectively with important
current issues not generally
included in current Jewish
textbooks.
These have included les-
sons on anti-Semitism,
Ethiopian Jews, Tzedekah
and a discussion/leader’s
guide to the film, “The
Chosen.”
Other services include
“Marketplace,” a listing of
jobs wanted and jobs avail-
able, issued three times a
year; a quarterly newslet-
ter; a health insurance pro-
gram; and reports of com-
mittees on member-chosen
topics. Reports have been
issued on Hebrew names
mikveh education, cults anc
missionaries, and microcom-
puters in Jewish education,
Spack said._
minister.
Historically, however, he
is remembered as the signer
with Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop in
1939 of the Soviet-German
pact that led to the invasion
of Poland by both countries
and the start of World War
Two. That treaty lasted less
than a year with war
between them. Molotov also
signed the Soviet-Japanese
non-aggression treaty in
1941. That pact lasted until
the Nazis were conquered in
1945.
Molotov, who took part in
the overthrow of the provi-
sional government in Mos-
cow in 1917, served as
Stalin’s premier from 1930
to 1941 and again for three
years as foreign minister
after Stalin’s death in 1953.
However, Nikita Khruschev
dismissed him from office in
1957 and he was expelled
from the party in 1961
during the anti-Stalin era
and had become virtually
forgotten.
His rehabilitation recalled
Stalin’s rage at the Soviet
Jews for their enthusiastic
welcome to Golda Meir when
she came to Moscow in 1948
as Israel’s first ambassa-
dor. His known anti-Semi-
tism exploded into a fury
and countless Jews in high
political positions perished
in the following years, many
of them reportedly executed
in the Kremlin’s cellars.
Despite his loyalty to Stalin
since the Lenin years,
Molotov could not save his
wife, Paulina Zhemchuzhina,
from the dictator’s obses-
sion against Jews. She was a
cabinet minister and a
veteran party member but
she was fired without notice
from her post and exiled to a
Gulag in Siberia after she
had met with Meir. Molotov,
who was reportedly humil-
iated by Stalin as “a most
reliable file clerk,” continued
to serve Stalin as foreign
minister even with his wife
in exile. After Stalin’s
funeral in Red Square that
coincided with Molotov’s
63rd birthday, Georgi Mal-
enkov, who succeeded Stalin
in Soviet leadership, and
Khrushev, who took over
from Lalenkov, asked Molo-
tov what he wished for his
birthday. Molotov was said
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his wife back. Two days
later she was in Moscow
with him, the story goes.
Despite Stalin’s hostility
towards his wife and the
Malenkov-Khruschev favor,
Molotov continued loyal to
Stalin and opposed the
Khrushev denigration of
Stalinism. Khruschev accus-
ed Molotov, Malenkov and
Lazar Kaganovich, a Jew
who remained in Stalin’s
high favor, of opposing his
anti-Stalinism and ousted
them from the Politburo and
the Central Committee. Con-
tinuing as party members,
they were assigned to minor
posts, ' Molotov becoming
ambassador to Mongolia. In
1962, he and the others were
dismissed from the party.
Molotov went in to obscurity
and reportedly made his
only public appearance in
1970 at his wife’s funeral in
1970. She is reported buried
in Novodyevichi Cemetery,
graveyard of Soviet elite.
The story is told that
when Leon Trotsky made a
sarcastic remark to him,
Molotov replied “very well,
Comrade Trotsky, we can-
not be all geniuses but we
should see who lasts the
longer.” Trotsky, unable to
counter Stalin’s hostility and
ambition, left the Soviet
Union in 1929. In Mexico
City in 1949 he was
assassinated by a Soviet
agent. Molotov continues in
some activity in Moscow, a
survivor of many historic
contemporaries.
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