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WASH INGTON (JTA) - U.S. ge rating the country's economic " It raises questions about the .J ewish groups welcomed the resig woes . way (Bush) makes his decisions, nations in the past week of seven Stephen Silbiger, Washington representative of the American t he people he picks, what he looks members of Vice President George for," the New Orleans Times Bush's ethnic coa lition. .Jewish Congress, disputed Malek's contention that he was just fo llow Picayune quoted Dukakis as say But one .Jewish leader said an ing orders, saying that " is not an ing. other Republican Party aide acceptable excuse in the Jewish A Bush campaign spokesman, should not have had to do so for his community." David Sandor, said that "the mat 197 1 compilation of data on Jews Abraham Foxman, national di ter is closed and we are going on." in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. rector of t he Anti-Defamation Foxman sa id that Bush's et hnic The seve n resignations began League of B'nai B'rith, defended advisory panel has been purged of September 8 with ,Jerome Brentar. Malek, saying he should not have all "true-blue anti-Semites" or sup co-c hairman of the Coali tion of been forced to resign. Foxman porters of Holocaust revisionists. American Nationalities, a cam called Malek "a man with no Besides Brentar and Slavoff, the paign ethnic outreach committee, record of bigotry." five other. ethnic committee mem fo ll owing a story by Larry Cohler ~' oxman added that the record bers who resigned are: in the Washington J ewiBh Week shows that Malek refused on three • Florian Galdau, an honorary detailing the individuals in ques occasions to compile the data be chairman of the panel and a Roma tion. fore finally doing so. and that nian Orthodox priest, who the Brentar has been active in Malek should not be ousted simply Jewish Week said was a New York groups that deny the Holocaust because a "stronger man" may member of the Iron Guard, "war took place, including the Institute have totally refused to heed time Romania's virulently anti fo r Historical Rev iew. Nixon's orders. Semitic, pro- Nazi movement." Sixty-seven young men and women age 18-24 from 23 Jewish On September 11, Frederic Five other members of Bush's • Philip Guarino, a Catholic Federations recently left for a year of service in Israel as part of Malek resigned from his post as ethnic coalition resigned on priest who has been listed as a Project Otzma. Sponsored by both the Council of Jewish Federa deputy chairman of the Republi September 12, while another, Radi member of P-2, led by longtime tions and local Federations, the two-track program includes a can National Committee, following Slavoff, resigned the next day. fascist Licio Gelli. year of service to the Jewish community upon returning home. Washington Post revelations that Slavoff, national co -chairman of • Laszlo Pasztor, a Hungarian Following an orientation and training program in New York, ' he obeyed President Nixon's 1971 Bulgarians for Bush, reportedly American who, as a young man, participants left for a Kibbutz Ulpan to acquire the fundamen order to compile data on the num served in a national front aligned served in Hungary's pro-Nazi, tals of the Hebrew language and to acclima te themselves to Is ber of Jews in the upper echelons of with Nazis, the N ew York Daily anti-Semitic Arrow Cross regime raeli culture. Representatives of the Israel Forum, t he Jewish the Bureau of Labor Statistics. News reported. as a junior envoy to Berlin, accord Agency and the WZO w ill monitor the pr ogram in Israel. President Nixon reportedly had Reacting to the resignations, ing to the J ewish Week. Pictured here with Theodore Comet, Na tional Coor dinator of ordered Malek to do so out of a fea r Democratic presidential nominee • Ignatius Bilinsky, president of P roject Otzma, is Ken Halpern of Rhode Island. t hat Nixon was being hurt by a Michael Dukakis said in Chicago, t he Ukrainian Congress Commit- ",Jewish cabal," who were damag- "I think this raises continuing ,=i= Rural Jewry: The Struggle Of A Diminishing Community by Steven Pressman factories and have become the Lehman, nearing 70, bristles a hit Eventually, however, the teacher items back with them from a trip Part II dominant employers. But the when a visitor asks about last took up her suggestion that the to Columbus, Cleveland or any Forty years ago, Jewish company workers are more year's KKK rally and the subject of prayers at least be recited silently. other city likely to have them~ merchants made up a large part of transient than the merchants who local anti-Semitism. Despite the Simms and her husband, Alan, Finding any kosher food is out of downtown Parkersburg. They controlled the Jewish community Klan's presence, Lehman insists an attorney, live near Creston, a the question. owned furniture stores, clothing for 80 many years. that Parkersburg always has tiny town more than 30 miles Occasionally, there is someone stores, shoe stores and other A handful of other Jewish welcomed its Jewish residents. "I south of Parkersburg. She in the area who tries to keep a businesses, and became the families, like the Bernsteins, are have always felt, and I still do feel, coordinates B'nai Israel's Sunday kosher home. "We had a - I hate ringleaders, the organizers, the here as part of the college very much a part of the overall school and likes participating in to use the word meshuggeneh - a , machers of the Jewish community. community in Marietta. They community. To me, Parkersburg is other activities, though admits guy who happened to be in the • " If you wanted to have a meeting, belong to the same temple, but one community. There are no that the two-hour roundtrip drive electrical business," says Gottlieb. you could walk down Market don't otherwise have much contact barriers between Jews and gets to be a nuisance. "He had a milchig and a fleishig Street and get everybody together with Jewish families in Gentiles." The Simms gave up urban life in refrigerator. He had a milchig and in 10 minutes," says Leo Levey. He Parkersburg. But Jews once were barred from northern New Jersey 12 years ago a fleishig dishwasher. I think this describes himself as a "refugee" "The merchant class was what becoming members of the local for a couple hundred acres and a is becoming a lost art in these small from Brooklyn who came here in made the community so cohesive," Elks lodge or joining the town's welcomed opportunity to live in towns. I just don't want to base my the 1940s to work in the Jewelry says Doug Kreinik. "Now, we're country club. And while that overt the country. With it, however, religion on what I put in my business. Now 75, he later worked the guys coming up, but we're not discrimination has ended, more came the oddity of being the only mouth. I'm more interested in until his retirement at· the in touch with each other that subtle forms of prejudice still seem Jews living in the two counties that what comes out of it.'' furniture store that Jimmy much. It makes it much tougher to to linger. are straddled by Creston. "For Years ago, a small but thriving Applebaum now owns. keep the community together." During his nearly 10 years of most people around there, I'm the Orthodox congregation in Back then, the Jewish ... practicing law in Parkersburg, first Jewish person they've ever Marietta supported its own kosher merchants spread out the welcome As a youl)g man, Eric Lehman Robert (Bo) Ellison, 33, says he seen." She now teaches first grade butcher. Ella Hersch, whose father ; mat as soon as a new Jewish family fled his native Austria for has not encountered - without prayers or hymns. came from Latvia to Marietta in arrived. "They knew you were in Palestine in 1939 just as the Nazis anti-Semitism in his work. "But if In his furniture store, Jimmy 1904 and then moved to town the day you got here,'' recalls were tightening their stranglehold you want me to answer the broader Applebaum says he doubts that Parkersburg nine years later, Gottleib, the pharmacist. on Europe and scheming over the question whether I think there is most of his customers even know .remembers a shohet traveling "Somebody came over to see you. Final Sqlution. Some family some amount of reluctance by that he's Jewish. "I mean, I don't down the Ohio River every so often Somebody took ·you to lunch. members made their way to some in dealing with Jewish people say, 'I'm Jim Applebaum, the to properly kill fresh chickens.