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Soviet Jewry Organization THE An emotional reunion of two brothers who had been separated, at the beginning of their new life in Israel. (WZPS photo courtesy Immigration and Absorption Department, Jewish Agency) tm I3KWTHE Stroum Chair sp Page 21 ommunit ng wo urge or o ewish Page 11 AJConor -on Page 13 XZXZZXZ2XZ *fc Cinema Foods Books 4753 ROOSEVELT wmx WAY N.E. PricPricet s Effective April 10th Thru P Aprill 24,198624 . Retail Quantities only. AT SAFEWAY 547-7667 Food and Family gatherings go hand in • Books hand with the 8-day observance of • Posters the Passover holiday. Safeway has a • Stills wide selection of foods for this special time. From all your favorite movies! Manischewitz £ ^m Wt ft Milium J Your Choice: ••§? 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It would to Rome synagogue consist of three arbitrators — one Israeli, Jerusalem, April 2 (JTA) — The latest one Egyptian and a third party jurist who round of talks between Israel and Egypt by Joseph Polakoff gesture" but that the consequences depend­ would be selected by the other two. The ed on what the Pope says and then does. over arbitration of the Taba border dispute Israelis and Egyptians have been unable to Washington, D.C. — April 13 will be an "It could be a fantastic step forward, or it ended in deadlock in Cairo the night of agree on the third party. historic date in Roman Catholic-Jewish could be a perpetuation of ambiguities," April 1, and not without rancor. Egypt has The talks have been going on for some relations. On that day, Pope John Paul II she was quoted in a Rome dispatch in the repeatedly indicated that resolution of the six weeks, alternating between Cairo and will visit Rome's main synagogue. It will be New York Times. Taba dispute is key to re-establishing full Herzliya. With the stalemate unlikely to be relations between the two countries. the first time in about 2000 years since St. The synagogue was the scene of a ter­ broken, the negotiating teams are expected Peter, the First Pope, that a Pope will set rorist attack in October 1982. A two-year- The chief Egyptian negotiator, Nabil Al- to refer the dispute back to the top foot within a synagogue. old boy was killed and 34 other persons Arabi, accused Israel of footdragging. policymaking levels in their respective Rome's main synagogue, built at the wounded. The synagogue includes a Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir retorted countries. start of this century, is in the Eternal City's museum of religious objects from older April 2 by flaying the Egyptian media for, That could lead to renewed tension in the old Jewish Ghetto that was established by synagogues in Rome and elsewhere in Italy. as he put it, presenting an "anti-peace" im­ Labor-Likud unity coalition government. papal order in 1556 to separate the Jews A plaque on the Tiber River side of the age of Israel. Labor has generally been flexible on the from the Christian population. About synagogue is dedicated to those Jews who The chief obstacles are the terms of Taba issue. Likud prefers taking a tough 13,000 Jews now live in Rome, about 500 of were deported from Rome to death camps reference for the arbitration panel and the line with the Egyptians. • them in the Ghetto's area. during the Nazi occupation in World War The Vatican's announcement said the Two. visit was intended to improve Catholic- Jewish sources in Rome and in Jewish relations and is a historic step. "I Washington noted that the Vatican's an­ UN urged: Disclose all don't really remember a precedent," said nouncement of the visit came at a time of Joaquin Navarro Vails, the chief Vatican growing concern in recent months over the spokesman. Monsignor John Oester- Pope's own statements regarding deicide reicher, director of the Institute of Judeo- and the long-standing impatience by friends documents re: Waldheim Christian Studies at Seton Hall University of Israel over the Vatican's unwillingness to by Kevin Freeman WJC, the former UN leader was an in­ in South Orange, N.J., said "since the first grant diplomatic recognition to the State of telligence officer who delivered daily brief­ Pope Peter, who went to synagogues, this is Israel. New York, April 2 (JTA) — United Na­ ings to Chief of the General Staff of Army the first time." The Jewish Committee on International tions Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar was Group E, commanded by Gen. Alexander Fullia Zevi, president of the Union of Religious Consultations in New York urged April 1 by representatives of four Loehr. Italian Jewish Communities which number criticized last year's statement, calling it "a Jewish organizations to make public all UN Further, Waldheim's signature is also af­ some 40,000 Jews, said the Pope's visit was regressive spirit." • documents and records concerning the war­ fixed to a political intelligence report on the "laden with symbolism" and a "significant time activities of Kurt Waldheim. activities of George Papandreou — the In a letter delivered to the office of the father of the present Greek Premier — who Secretary General after a rally at the Isaiah was then partisan leader before rising to Wall across from the UN, de Cuellar was Prime Minister himself. AIPAC won't actively also urged to "distance the international The documents appear to provide further body of world peace from somebody who evidence that Waldheim was involved in had defrauded the integrity of this noble war crimes. Last week, WJC released in­ lobby against arms organization." formation linking him with atrocities in the In addition, the UN should support ef­ Balkans during World War II and a 1948 forts to strip Waldheim of his UN benefits document showing that after the war both and any other connections and honors the United States Army and the United Na­ for Saudi Arabia which affiliate him with the world tions War Crimes Commission listed organization, the letter said. Waldheim Waldheim as a suspected Nazi war by David Friedman nouncement stressed that Israel continues served as UN Secretary General from 1972 criminal. to be opposed to the sale of weapons to to 1981. His pension and other yearly Waldheim has vehemently denied any Washington D.C. (JTA)-The American countries that are in a state of war with it. benefits from the UN are estimated at near­ Nazi affiliations or activities on his part Israel Public Affairs Committee, while op­ Most observers here see the decision by ly $100,000. and charged that the campaign against him posed to President Reagan's proposed $354 both Israel and AIPAC as aimed at not The letter was signed by Israel Singer, is a deliberate attempt to destroy his million sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia, will wanting to damage the present good rela­ secretary general of the World Jewish Con­ credibility as a candidate for the Austrian not actively lobby against the sale in Con­ tions between Israel and the United States gress; Menachem Rosensaft, founding presidency. Waldheim, the candidate for gress, AIPAC sources said March 25th. over an issue that is considered only chairman of the International Network of the conservative Peoples Party, is opposed The AIPAC decision was officially disclos­ marginal to Israel's security. Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors; by Kurt Steyrer, a Socialist, in the elections ed to Secretary of State George Shultz by The AIPAC sources said they believe Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of scheduled for early May. Thomas Dine, AIPAC's executive director, they could have obtained the votes in both the Jewish Community Relations Council A consensus appeared to develop in the March 20th, according to the sources.
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