FOCUS: GERMAN NEO-NAZIS to Zaire

■ HIZBOLLAH THREAT "He was hit on the forehead with INSIDE: Lebanon's pro-lranian Hizbollah something, we don't know what," FAKE AD group vowed its Muslim militant said Haus Plat, police spokesman in BOOK SLASHER fighters would wage suicide raids Zoetermeer, a western Dutch city. HITLER'S BIRTHPLACE on Israeli targets worldwide. "He didn't discover the swastika LEBANESE JEWS Hizbollah chief Sheikh Nasrallah until he looked in the mirror at told militants and supporters at a home." Beirut mosque: "The Zionists are beginning to understand that they ■ SENTENCED are fighting a kind of people who Three squad members who in 1993 are not afraid of death." attacked Jak Kamhi, a Turkish busi- ■ nessman and prominent figure in EINSTEIN the Jewish community of Istanbul, The latest postal stamp showing have been sentenced to 15 years in JANUARY 1995 Albert Einstein was issued this year prison and fined 415 million Turkish by Turkey, and it is the 50th portray- pounds each. The squad fired rock- ing him—in countries from Aitutaki ets at Kamhi's car while he was FOCUS: GERMAN NEO-NAZIS to Zaire. The artists sometime give driving to work in Istanbul. him an exotic air—African on the stamps from St. Thomas and ■ SPY HUNT ■ SOARING HATE ■ CONVICTION Uganda, Asiatic on those from China and Vietnam—and they adorn him Argentine President Menem, speak- Anti-Semitic attacks by neo-Nazis One of Germany's most influential with light beams, laboratory equip- ing to reporters on his return from and other rightists in Germany neo-Nazis and a driving force ment and the famous E=MC2. a visit to Syria, said that a top soared in the first nine months of behind efforts to create a national Argentine spy is in Lebanon hunting 1994, according to government neo-Nazi network has been jailed ■ WRITER ATTACKED the perpetrators of the car-bomb figures. by a Frankfurt court. A Norwegian-born Jewish writer attack on the Jewish center in Buenos Aires last July. Menem also 937 attacks directed at Jews or Christian Worth, who has already slashed in an apparent anti-Semitic said that he had sought help track- Jewish property were recorded by served time in jail for incitement to attack last year was beaten in her ing down the terrorists in his discus- federal police up to the end of violence and racial hatred, is credited home in Italy by three assailants. sions with President Hafez-al-Assad. September, as compared with 656 with masterminding the use of hi- Police are investigating whether anti-Semitic recorded offenses tech electronic links and mailboxes the assault on Maria Thaeilman ■ STAMP ACT during all of 1993. to connect extreme right-wing groups Geelmuyden-Bodil was religiously while keeping them out of the reach A Brazilian Jewish institute has U PROTEST of police and intelligence services. motivated. She told authorities the been honored by the Post Office. attackers appeared to be neo-Nazi About 2,000 people have protested ■ HITLER SALUTE skinheads, who harbor anti-Semitic For eight days last month all the in Sindelfingen, Germany, against a and xenophobic views. correspondence distributed by congress of the far-right Republican Prosecutors in eastern Germany the Central Post Office in Belo party, one of the country's largest have charged nine suspected right- ■ SWASTIKA ATTACK Horizonte, capital of the Brazilian right-wing groups. wingers for giving the stiff-armed Dutch police were hunting for three state of Minas Gerais, carried a The owners of the convention center Hitler salute and distributing men who reportedly branded a special cancellation on the occasion where the congress was being held banned neo-Nazi propaganda. swastika into the forehead of an of the tenth anniversary of the had at first refused to rent the hall to The spokeswoman for the prosecu- Iranian after he stopped to help founding of the Jewish Historical the Republicans, but a court had tor's office in the eastern city of them push their stalled van. Institute of Minas Gerais. ruled that because the party was not Weimar said the nine were believed banned, the owners had to allow the Dateline: World Jewry is issued by the Institute of the World Jewish Congress, the research and to be members of the far-right publication arm of the WJC, 501 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA.1 Evelyne Kayess, Editor congress to go ahead. Viking Youth. ■ VIKINGS OUT The report said that Bonn would E MOVING IN The German Federal Minister of ask the courts to outlaw the groups, Several multinational firms have AROUND the Interior has announced that he which "ranted against Jewish announced they are setting up shop outlawed the right-wing extremist capitalism." in Israel. & ABOUT organization Viking Youth. Among them are Del Monte Foods ■ The group, the oldest right-wing International and healthcare giant HYPNOSIS extremist youth organization in U.S.A. Johnson and Johnson, which are Witnesses of the Panamanian air- Germany, is estimated to have 400 establishing Israel subsidiaries, and crash which occurred one day after members, mostly over the age of 21. the New York based international the bombing of the Jewish commu- ■ NOW YOU SEE IT investment firm Merrill Lynch, nity center in Buenos Aires will be ■ FIREBOMB TRIAL New York State prison officials which plans to set up an Israeli hypnotized and questioned by U.S. Four German youths went on trial agreed to accept a computer image office in 1995. agents as part of the investigation. accused of firebombing a synagogue of a clean-shaven Hasidic rabbi Twelve of the 21 victims of the crash in Luebeck last March. Court sources instead of forcing the imprisoned II MOSAIC DOVE were Jewish and it has been sug- said the defendants, aged between 15 Orthodox Jew to shave his beard A rare color mosaic has been dis- gested that they may have been the and 20, were charged with arson and and sideburns. covered by the Israeli Antiquities target of the bombing. five counts of attempted murder in Authority in a Byzantine church Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, 32, claimed IN LEBANESE JEWS the attack. shaving his facial hair to satisfy dating between the fourth and seventh centuries in the center of A delegation of French Jews made ■ CRACK DOWN prison requirements for photos of inmates violated his religious Beersheba. The mosaic depicts a an appeal to the Lebanese govern- German police have cracked down beliefs. After reviewing computer dove with an olive leaf in its beak. ment to disclose the fate of seven on far-rightists in Saxony-Anhalt, Lebanese Jews abducted between images in court, prison officials ■ RELIGIOUS RIGHTS raiding numerous homes and determined the images could accu- 1984 and 1986, during the civil war seizing weapons and neo-Nazi rately depict Helbran.s as he would The Jordanian government has in Lebanon (1975-90). The group, propaganda. appear without his facial hair. agreed to allow worshippers and from the Representative Council students of Jewish religious schools of Jewish Institutions in France, The police operation was directed MI MENORAHS VANDALIZED to make regular visits to Jewish received a promise from Foreign at 25 members of a rightist group U.S. authorities are investigating sacred sites in Jordan. Minister Faris Bouez that he would calling itself the "Middle German disclose any information that the Assistance," which had renamed the destruction of two public The Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty, menorahs at the Jewish Community government receives about the itself "Wittenberg Fellowship" after signed on October 26, underlines missing Jews. a ban imposed by state justices. Center and Keneseth Beth Israel the right of Jews to visit all tourist in Richmond, Virginia. Police have attractions in Jordan. ■ SYNAGOGUE FIRE ■ DESECRATION stated that they will consider this a hate crime if they find it "was done ■ TOP TOMATO Arson squad detectives in Australia Suspected neo-Naxis vandalized are investigating a fire which a 160-year-old historic Jewish in a malicious manner directed The price of tomatoes has sky- against a particular group." severely damaged a Melbourne cemetery in Busenberg, in south- rocketed in Jordan after Israel synagogue early New Year's Day. western Germany. About 50 grave- started importing them from the stones were toppled, and swastikas E FAKE AD Kingdom. In Israel, the price of Senior Station Officer Colin Bibby and slogans like "Jews should die" A full-page ad that ran for four tomatoes had reached almost $1.50 of the fire brigade said investigators were sprayed. days in the Miami Herald and a pound, five times their normal called in the arson squad after ■ solicited money for a Jewish organi- price. discovering broken windows and HATE BAN zation, called FLAME, was a fraud, accelerant in the altar area. Police The German government plans the newspaper said. FLAME (or are believed to be investigating to ban several far-right groups, Facts and Logic About the Middle links between this fire and a fire according to a report in news East) said that they knew nothing attack on a library for religious 9 magazine Der Speigel. about the ad. books in November last year. a =I

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secondary schools in Britain have

government performance table. With few exceptions, the 17 Jewish

been highly placed in a 1994 comprehensive school placings Hasmonean, which was 10th in Among the scorers were London's

suspected neo-Nazi extremists

nationwide, Manchester's King

and Liverpool's King David High,

David High, which placed eighth,

Austrian anti-terrorist police which placed fifth.

During a search of the homes of

personnel carrier. The discovery was discovered a tank and an armored

Goepfritz an der Wild. The vehicles

sives and rifles were also found.

order, and large amounts of explo- were reportedly in good working made on a farm in the village of

11 HITLER'S BIRTHPLACE

Town councilmen in Adolf Hitler's

birthplace have rejected plans to

devout Roman Catholic who was name a street and fountain after a executed in 1943. Jaegerstaetter

Hitler's army. became a symbol of resistance to

IN POPE PLANS resistance, Franz Jaegerstaetter, a key figure of Austria's anti-Nazi

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon

the Nazis for refusing to serve in

of the century, following a meeting

Peres said that Pope John Paul with him in Vatican City. Peres

plans to visit Israel before the end also spoke about extending the

Christian-Jewish dialogue to

effort to combat fundamentalism.

include the Islamic world in an

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Christian David is to be tried before

a Paris court for premeditated mur-

der following last year's shooting of

12,000 Jews by French police in 1942.

accused of being responsible for a wartime chief of the French col- Rene Bousquet. Bousquet was the

laborationist Vichy police, and was combat far-right groups spreading

has opened a 24-hour hotline to two-day round-up of more than

and gays on campuses. The union, propaganda against Jews, Blacks,

student following to help sustain believes groups such as the British whose campaign is supported by Britain's National Union of Students the Union of Jewish Students and

credibility. El SOCIALIST PLEDGE

the anti-fascist magazine

National Party are keen to create a

The Chairwoman of the Socialist

Group of the European Parliament,

opposed to those who advocate the ing in Brussels that the Group "is

politics of hate" and that it would

fight to stem the rise of fascism in on to say that "The European Union and anti-Semitism, and let's not

the coming years. Mrs. Green went ■ was built on the ashes of fascism Pauline Green, declared at a meet- The Belgian Jewish community, forget that."

Contemporary Memory" to collect Europe, and Italy in particular, in which lacks archives of its history,

has created a "Foundation of

and establish written evidence of

events of this century.

HOTLINE

MEMORY

Searchlight,

The foundation will assemble oral

occupation of Belgium.

period, including the years of Nazi

histories and documents from the

which helps to close wounds in less capacity for self-healing.

The equipment, which stretches Haifa have developed equipment Researchers at Israel's Technion in healthy skin from the outer edges of a wound over the wound, is being American firm. than an hour, utilizing the skin's

water filtration system that operates marketed as "Sure-closure" by an 11 EYE TRY a central power source. The device, which is capable of IN on solar energy. Israel's Amiad Filtration & Fertiliza-

tion Systems has manufactured a surgical complications. a new procedure for the treatment not supplied by electric cables from filtering highly contaminated water, of glaucoma which avoids the is especially useful for remote areas Institute of Science have developed creation of scar tissue and post-

ally available.

Researchers at Israel's Weizmann

It is expected to take several years for the procedure to become gener-

SCIENCE

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NOLOGY

HEAL THYSELF

SOLAR WATER

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The Israeli firm Holo-Or has

The innovation will aid people,

developed a new trifocal contact

lens.

lost the eye's natural abilities to mostly 45 years and up, who have focus. Si APOLOGY

United States, paid tribute to Holo-

Second World War. Kuchma met Kuchma, on a state visit to the over Ukrainians who collaborated caust victims and expressed regret

with the Nazi occupiers during the

Czech Jewish leaders have com- with Jewish leaders in New York Ukrainian President Leonid

and Washington and also toured seized during the Nazi occupation

Jiri Danicek, said that the Jewish •

and by the Communist rulers of delaying the return of property credited with saving Jewish lives during the war. side is "obliged to submit to all

the Holocaust Museum, which he eration of Jewish Communities, man of the Czech Republic's Fed-

quirks of bureaucracy and forced to presented with a list of Ukrainians prospect of success." former Czechoslovakia. The chair- plained that the government is

hold endless talks with an unclear

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nity of 31 Jews. Jews. 31 of nity member state in the Arab League. League. Arab the in state member edly persuaded the mother of Brian Brian of mother the persuaded edly

in 1705 and now serves a commu- a serves now and 1705 in Mozambique, are the smallest smallest the are Mozambique, Hammerskins. Frankhauser alleg- Frankhauser Hammerskins.

measuring 33 by 30 feet, was built built was feet, 30 by 33 measuring halfway between Madagascar and and Madagascar between halfway group called the New Dawn Dawn New the called group

population of 400,000, the islands, islands, the 400,000, of population is still in use. The small synagogue, synagogue, small The use. in still is in the investigation of a neo-Nazi neo-Nazi a of investigation the in

synagogue in the Netherlands that that Netherlands the in synagogue established diplomatic ties. With a a With ties. diplomatic established

evidence, including Nazi material, material, Nazi including evidence,

11 Middelburg Synagogue, the oldest oldest the Synagogue, Middelburg Israel and the Comoro Islands have have Islands Comoro the and Israel

witnesses to destroy or conceal conceal or destroy to witnesses 11

to mark the restoration of the the of restoration the mark to Roy Frankhauser with inducing inducing with Frankhauser Roy Jews during the Holocaust." Holocaust." the during Jews 1111

III COMORO KNOT KNOT COMORO III

111 Ceremonies were held this week week this held were Ceremonies A Boston grand jury charged charged jury grand Boston A

and killing of 600,000 Hungarian Hungarian 600,000 of killing and 1111111111111

against the deportation, persecution persecution deportation, the against Belgium and Denmark. Denmark. and Belgium

RESTORATION RESTORATION INDICTMENT INDICTMENT ■ ■

of the Christians who "failed to act act to "failed who Christians the of

in taxes behind Switzerland, Switzerland, behind taxes in

SYNAGOGUE SYNAGOGUE 111 ■ ■

and political elites. elites. political and 1111111

also asks forgiveness in the name name the in forgiveness asks also Israel is ranked fourth in the world world the in fourth ranked is Israel

more of America's social, economic economic social, America's of more

the 20th century." The statement statement The century." 20th the I I

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1992. 1992.

of all Americans) still make up far far up make still Americans) all of

Holocaust "the biggest shame of of shame biggest "the Holocaust 11

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1993 taxation of 40% and 39.6% in in 39.6% and 40% of taxation 1993

mainline Protestants (less than 5% 5% than (less Protestants mainline

Hungarian Churches calling the the calling Churches Hungarian I

reached 41.2% compared with the the with compared 41.2% reached

and Catholics in the last years, years, last the in Catholics and tion, should he be found guilty. guilty. found be he should tion, and the Ecumenical Council of of Council Ecumenical the and

The total 1994 Israeli tax burden burden tax Israeli 1994 total The

that despite small gains by Jews Jews by gains small despite that

the Hungarian Catholic Bishops Bishops Catholic Hungarian the

of his U.S. citizenship and deporta- and citizenship U.S. his of .

A study by Purdue University said said University Purdue by study A 1 TAX TIME TIME TAX A declaration has been issued by by issued been has declaration A Archives. Dailide faces revocation revocation faces Dailide Archives. ■ ■

in the Lithuanian Central State State Central Lithuanian the in III ELITE STUDY STUDY ELITE III

CHURCH CALL CALL CHURCH ■ ■

country's needs. needs. country's .

Dailide is based on records found found records on based is Dailide

and fired Jewish employees. employees. Jewish fired and 11111111

to Israel, supplying 60% of the the of 60% supplying Israel, to and the world Jewish community. community. Jewish world the and Officials said the case against against case the said Officials

a bank unless they paid a ransom ransom a paid they unless bank a

been the major exporter of coal coal of exporter major the been 1

establishing closer ties with Israel Israel with ties closer establishing 111

Lithuanian security police force. force. police security Lithuanian

ened to bomb the universities and and universities the bomb to ened 111 Until recently, SouthAfrica has has SouthAfrica recently, Until

group, Lithuania will benefit from from benefit will Lithuania group, 1111

Nazis during World War II in a a in II War World during Nazis ecutors allege that Womack threat- Womack that allege ecutors quality has been found to be good. good. be to found been has quality 11

to the secretary of the working working the of secretary the to 1M1

living in Cleveland, of serving the the serving of Cleveland, in living against Boston-area schools. Pros- schools. Boston-area against

of coal from China, where the coal coal the where China, from coal of 1

Lithuania and Israel, as according according as Israel, and Lithuania 11

Algimantas Dailide, presently presently Dailide, Algimantas

making anti-Semitic bomb threats threats bomb anti-Semitic making 1

is importing another two shipments shipments two another importing is 111111111111111111

wants to expand relations between between relations expand to wants

The Justice Department has accused accused has Department Justice The period, is being held on charges of of charges on held being is period, Israel National Coal Corporation Corporation Coal National Israel

other objectives, the group also also group the objectives, other

ern Universities over a four-year four-year a over Universities ern

NAZI CHARGE CHARGE NAZI Following successful trials, the the trials, successful Following

■ ■ issue of the Holocaust. Among Among Holocaust. the of issue

libraries at Harvard and Northeast- and Harvard at libraries 11

CHINA COAL COAL CHINA 11 Jewish cultural heritage and the the and heritage cultural Jewish

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outrageous conduct. conduct. outrageous 11

of slashing thousands of books in in books of thousands slashing of 1

nate state policies dealing with with dealing policies state nate III rights, assault, civil conspiracy and and conspiracy civil assault, rights,

Stephen L. Womack, 42, suspected suspected 42, Womack, L. Stephen ' living in their buildings. buildings. their in living special working group to coordi- to group working special

interfering with civil and property property and civil with interfering .

BOOK SLASHER SLASHER BOOK and 25% were against immigrants immigrants against were 25% and Brazauskas has established a a established has Brazauskas ■ ■

of ethnic intimidation, slander, slander, intimidation, ethnic of 1111111111111111111111111111111 I

family with its initial absorption, absorption, initial its with family Lithuanian President Algirdas Algirdas President Lithuanian

their neighbors, the Quigleys, Quigleys, the neighbors, their in cancer patients, and other issues. issues. other and patients, cancer in

unwilling to help an immigrant immigrant an help to unwilling

COORDINATION COORDINATION home. The Aronsons are accusing accusing are Aronsons The home.

plantation, the treatment of pain pain of treatment the plantation, ■ ■

53% said they could not, or were were or not, could they said 53%

campaign to drive them from their their from them drive to campaign

the Bible and Talmud, organ trans- organ Talmud, and Bible the

being essential to the State of Israel, Israel, of State the to essential being

of the FSK. FSK. the of

bors launched an anti-Semitic anti-Semitic an launched bors

countries to discuss medicine in in medicine discuss to countries

that immigration had top priority as as priority top had immigration that rather than in his position as head head as position his in than rather

federal lawsuit claiming that neigh- that claiming lawsuit federal

berg and participants from other other from participants and berg 11

Although 41.5% of those polled said said polled those of 41.5% Although 11111 dignity had been publicly insulted, insulted, publicly been had dignity

Candice Aronson have filed a a filed have Aronson Candice

will join Nobelist Dr. Arthur Korn- Arthur Dr. Nobelist join will 11 1 111 111111

private person whose honor and and honor whose person private

In Denver, Colorado, Mitchell and and Mitchell Colorado, Denver, In grants themselves. themselves. grants physician in the Sultanate of Oman, Oman, of Sultanate the in physician

Stepashin sued Zhirinovsky as a a as Zhirinovsky sued Stepashin

tion, they are not so keen on immi- on keen so not are they tion, Professor Abdallah Daar, the senior senior the Daar, Abdallah Professor

I ANTI-SEMITISM SUIT SUIT ANTI-SEMITISM I

the Israeli intelligence agency. agency. intelligence Israeli the

Israelis love the idea of immigra- of idea the love Israelis 11111111111111111

Medical Ethics. Ethics. Medical calling him "an agent of Mossad," Mossad," of agent "an him calling

Jews and Blacks. Blacks. and Jews

Agency has confirmed that while while that confirmed has Agency

tional Conference on Jewish Jewish on Conference tional Vladimir Zhirinovsky for allegedly allegedly for Zhirinovsky Vladimir

advocating violence to drive out out drive to violence advocating A survey conducted by the Jewish Jewish the by conducted survey A

February's sixth annual Interna- annual sixth February's case against ultra-nationalist ultra-nationalist against case

pleaded guilty in October to to October in guilty pleaded

II MIXED RESULTS RESULTS MIXED II 111 Prize winner in San Francisco at at Francisco San in winner Prize Sergei Stepashin, has brought a a brought has Stepashin, Sergei

desecration of synagogues. Clayton Clayton synagogues. of desecration 1111

physician will join a Jewish Nobel Nobel Jewish a join will physician 1111 Counter-Intelligence Service (FSK), (FSK), Service Counter-Intelligence

newspaper clipping reporting the the reporting clipping newspaper

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ISRAEL ISRAEL For the first time, a leading Arab Arab leading a time, first the For 111111M11111 The head of the Russian Federal Federal Russian the of head The supremacist group, to destroy a a destroy to group, supremacist

Clayton, the founder of the white white the of founder the Clayton, II MEDICAL ETHICS ETHICS MEDICAL II ZHIRINOVSKY SUIT SUIT ZHIRINOVSKY ■ ■