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Jewish Hostage Describes Ordeal... See story Page 2
Texas Jewish Post
VOLUME 39 NO. 31
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1985 14 AV 5745
20 PAGES 50/ PER COPY
jess jauuin
Retribution
Retribution — requittal according to merits or deserts, esp. for evil.
"I will sleep a lot better now,” said 58 year old Mel Mermelstein. In fact,
I will even die easier.”
Mermelstein’s battle with insomnia and death without vindication was
caused by the Institute for Historical Review and Liberty Lobby which
claimed the Holocaust never happened.
The Institute had been publishing material saying that the Nazis had no
extermination Dolicv for Jews. Head honcho for the parent group, which
includes The Legion For Survival of Freedom and its subsidiary, Liberty
Lobby, is Willis Carlo.
The Legion, under Carto’s auspices had been publishing their cannards
which rather than exposing the ravages of the Nazi Holocaust tended to
glorify them and insisted that the entire genocidal program, especially the
gassings and killing of six million Jews, was a myth and a figment of
imagination.
See jess jawin page 19
Rabbi Urges Evangelical Christians
Join Jews In Opposing M.E. Terrorism
Rep. Steve Bartlett Tells ADL-JCRC
Russian Jews Denied Human Rights
Rabbi A James Rudin, the
American Jewish Commit-
tee’s National Interreligious
Affairs Director, urged
Evangelical Christian lead-
ers to join with the
American Jewish commun-
ity in opposing the spread of
religious extremism and
terrorism in the Middle
East.
Speaking in Austin July
25, to an audience of 500 at
the annual meeting of the
Center on Judaic-Christian
Studies, Rabbi Rudin said:
“That area of the world, now
gripped by the rising tide of
fanaticism, could become a
creative center of religious
pluralism for Jews, Chris-
tians, and Muslims.”
“Religious extremism and
terrorism are threats to men
and women who cherish
pluralism and the rich
diversity it represents,”
Rabbi Rudin stated. “The
Middle East is sacred space
for the three monotheistic
faiths, and there must be
ample room in that space for
many religious expressions.”
Evangelicals must not fall
victim, he asserted, to the
anti-Semitic charge that
Zionism is a form of racism.
“That vile canard,” he told
his audience, “was given
sanction ten years ago in the
United Nations, and it has
unfortunately poisoned the
attitudes of some people.”
Evangelical Christians,
the American Jewish Com-
mittee spokesman told the
audience of both cllrgy and
laymen, while deeply affirm-
ing their theological and
religious commitment to the
security and survival of
Israel, should also view
Israel as a potential model
for solving some of contem-
porary society’s most vexing
problems.
Israel, as a democratic
nation, he said, is attempt-
ing to absorb and integrate a
diverse population that
comes from nearly 100
different countries. It is
striving, he added, to pro-
vide quality education, em-
ployment, housing, and med-
ical care for its citizens.
Evangelicals, Rabbi Rudin
said, can assist Israel in its
enormous effort by “looking
behind the headlines,” and
by not viewing Israel solely
in theological terms or cate-
gories. He praised the
growing Evangelical-Jewish
encounter throughout the
United States, and wel-
comed “the many construc-
tive programs and dialogues
that are currently taking
place.”
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Freed Jewish Hostage Describes Ordeal.....................2
Robert Segal: Syria Gains By Hijack Role...................2
Dallas Doings......................................3
Postorials, Opinions, Etc..............................4
Smolar: Between You and Me: The Fight For Re-Election in '86____5
Singles........................................6,15
Dr. Michael Kohleriter Honored By JFS.....................7
Financial: New Law Takes Some Pain Out Of Divorce...........9
Winning Recipes From Winn-Dixie....................10/11
Around The Town..................................16
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MOSCOW MEETING - Dallas Cong. Steve Bartlett met recently in Moscow with Professor
Alexsander Lerner, (left) and Lev Ovsishcher (right). Lerner has been waiting 14 years for
approval to leave the U.S.S.R. while highly decorated Col. Ovsishcher, who was stripped
of his rank, is still waiting after applying for exit permit 13 years ago.
The United States, the
Soviet Union and other
nations who signed the
Helsinki human rights ac-
cord ten years ago are
celebrating that anniversary
in the Finnish capital this
week.
But, insofar as the Soviet
Union is concerned its
Jewish citizens and other
political and religious dissi-
dents are still being batter-
ed, brutalized and as a last
resort imprisoned because
they do not believe the
U.S.S.R. is really living up
to the codicils of the historic
document.
Jewish activists and dissi-
dents are still ostracized in
the Soviet Union. Represen-
tative Steve Bartlett of
Dallas 3rd Congressional
District spoke last Sunday
night before a combined
meeting of the Anti-Defama-
tion League’s Regional
Board and the Dallas Com-
munity Relations Council.
Bartlett, who admitted he
“carried books into” the
Soviet Union that would be
good reading material for its
citizens predicted that “So-
viet Jewry and Human
Rights under the “Helsinki”
agreement would be taken
up by President Reagan and
Soviet Premier Gorbochev
when they meet this No-
vember in a Summit consul-
tation.
Bartlett and his wife, Gail,
were among a small group of
Congressmen and their
wives who visited the USSR
recently under ADL spon-
sorship.
He said Soviet Jews told
him not to let up the
pressure on the Soviet
Union by the United States
government and the Ameri-
can people. The Bartletts
also visited with dissidents
who have been prevented
from being reunited with
their families. Bartlett said
the leaders of the U.S.S.R.
understand personal com-
munications from individ-
uals protesting treatment
and violations against Hu-
_ See Bartlett page 20
U.S. Evaluating Arabs Named
By Jordan and PL0 For Talks
About Future Of West Bank, Gaza
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
Chief Correspondent
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The
State Department is eval-
uating Arab candidates pro-
posed by the Kingdom of
Jordan and the Palestine
Liberation Organization for
participation in a Jordanian-
Palestinian delegation with
which the United States
would meet for discussions
designed to lead to negotia-
tions with Israel about the
future of the West Bank and
Gaza.
The Jordan-PLO list was
said here to contain ten
names of whom four report-
edly would be named to the
delegation. Neither Secre-
tary of State George Shultz,
who revealed while in
Canberra during his Asian-
Pacific tour that he has a
list, nor State Department
sources afterwards would
disclose the names on it or
their number. However, it
has been reported that they
include Elias Freij, mayor of
Bethlehem; Hannah Nasser,
former head of Bir Zeit
University on the West
Bank; Nabil Shaath, of the
Palestine National Coun-
cil who lives in Cairo, and
Rashad Shawa, former may-
or of Gaza. It was under-
stood that Edward Said, of
Columbia University in New
York who is on the PNC,
also is a candidate.
Shultz said Jordan pre-
sented the list to him and
that any U.S. meeting with
the joint delegation would
be a step forward towards
talks between that delega-
tion and Israel. However,
See U.S. Evaluating page 19
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