THE Volume LXII, eattle, Washington Pub. No. ISSN 0021-678X 75c 21 Elul, 5746 September 25, 1986 \J I • / HAPPY NE Clockwise from top left: Mary Travers; Anatoly Shcharansky; King Hassan of Morocco with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres; Rabbi Raphael Levine; Rabbi Solomon Maimon; Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzak Shamir. YEAR 5746 — The Year In Review over 1985 pledges. The trial began Sept. 9, 1985, and more Record year for Federation celebrated its 60th anniver­ than 1,500 pieces of evidence were in­ sary at its annual dinner meeting May 22 at troduced and scores of witnesses called to Federation the Westin Hotel. testify. Federation has set a goal of $4.7 million Eleven defendants pleaded guilty before The year was a record one for Federation the trial began. The others were found guil­ fundraising efforts in Seattle. to be raised during the 1987 campaign, an increase of nearly $800,000. • ty on all counts on Dec. 30 after a nine-day The Jewish Federation of Greater Seat­ jury deliberation. • tle's 1986 Federation/United Jewish Ap­ peal Campaign closed after having raised a Guilty verdicts record $3,934,549 to meet Jewish needs Rabbi Raphael here, in Israel and around the world. rendered against Campaign officials said 46 percent of the Levine dies at 84 funds raised will go to support Jewish needs The Order Rabbi Raphael H. Levine, one of Seat­ in Israel and overseas, an amount in excess tle's most well known and best loved of $1.78 million. Guilty verdicts were rendered by a Seattle spiritual leaders, died Nov. 4, 1985 from in­ The Major Gifts Dinner held Nov. 10, jury against 10 members of The Order, a juries suffered in an Oct. 26 automobile ac­ 1985 raised some $2.4 million. Senator violent and anti-Semitic Northwest-based cident on the Mercer Island floating bridge. Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey sect. He was 84. Republican, spoke at the dinner. The Order members were accused of car­ Rabbi Levine served Temple De Hirsch In his remarks, Lautenberg predicted rying out 67 racketeering acts, including Sinai for 27 years before becoming rabbi that the day is drawing near when a Jew will two murders, three armored car robberies emeritus in 1969. be elected President. and counterfeiting — as part of a plot to He was perhaps best known for his The Super Sunday V phone appeal raised kill Jews, deport nonwhites and overthrow more than $240,000, a 23 percent increase the federal government. 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Join Jewish Family Service now. 1214 BOYLSTON SEATTLE, WA 98101 PHONE: 447-3240 EASTSIDE OFFICE: 11101 NE8TH BELLEVUE, WA 98004 PHONE: 447-7831 Page 2A The Jewish Transcript September25, 1986 National/International Shamir to launch peace Plight of Ethiopian initiatives but rejects Jews continues, international forum conference told by David Friedman by Gil Sedan the PLO." He said that under no cir­ are no longer on the agenda of American cumstances would he agree to negotiations Washington (JTA) — Since "Operation Jewish organizations," Berger said. "The Jerusalem (JTA) - Deputy Premier Yit­ with Palestine Liberation Organization Moses," the secret airlift which brought impression has been created that they have zhak Shamir told reporters that after he chief Yasir Arafat, even if the PLO ac­ some 10,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel be­ all been saved," he said. "We know this is becomes Prime Minister next month he will cepted UN Security Council Resolution tween November 1984 and January 1985, not true." Berger said that since Operation launch new peace initiatives. But he said he 242, which implies recognition of Israel. there has appeared to be a public percep­ Moses AAEJ has brought 285 Ethiopian remains unalterably opposed to the idea of Shamir will take over as Prime Minister tion that the plight of Ethiopian Jewry has Jews to Israel. an international conference for Middle East on Oct. 14, under the rotation of power been solved. Berger urged the audience to "reawaken peace which Premier Shimon Peres agreed agreement of the Labor-Likud unity coali­ But some 100 persons attending a Na­ the flagging interest of the Jewish world, to at his summit meeting with Egyptian tion. He expressed hope that the unity tional Conference on Ethiopian Jewry here America, overseas and Israel to the relief of President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria. government would continue with the same were told that there are still some 7,000- their (Ethiopian Jews) serious and con­ Shamir, who is also the Foreign Minister, policies and structure after the rotation. 10,000 Jews in Ethiopia, most of them the tinuous plight." He also urged working insisted that an international conference "We shall overcome any existing dif­ elderly, women and children. with members of Congress, something the could serve neither the cause of peace nor ferences," he said. They suffer from the problems that all participants were doing Monday by visiting the interests of Israel. Peres, however, has But there are differences between the two Ethiopians do, hunger and drought, but Congressional offices. assented to the establishment, with Egypt, partners more fundamental than the idea of also persecution as Jews, speakers said at Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-NY, told the of a preparatory committee to consider the an international conference at some future the conference which is sponsored by the audience that Jews must work to help the nature, composition and timing of an inter­ date. Even Peres sees the latter as simply a American Association for Ethiopian Jews plight of all Ethiopians. But at the same national conference. framework for direct negotiations between (AAEJ). time they have a "specific obligation" to But Shamir, leader of Likud, indicated Israel and its Arab adversaries. "Instead of holding a final meeting as I save the Jewish community which is "on there would be no crisis confrontation bet­ However, while Labor seems amenable had hoped we could do in 1986 where we the verge of annihilation." He added: ween himself and Peres. "Both of us will to some territorial compromises for peace might have celebrated what has been ac­ "Those of us who 40 years ago said 'never discuss it again in Jerusalem and I think we — as in the Camp David process — Likud complished, we must, instead, find ex­ again' must spread the word that again is will arrive at an agreed conclusion," he is fiercely opposed to any concessions, peditious means of bringing about another just over the horizon." Ackerman said. although it upholds Camp David as the on­ massive rescue operation," said Graenum presented an award from members of the Peres visited Washington last week to ly viable framework for peace talks. Berger, founder of AAEJ and its former Congressional Caucus for Ethiopian Jewry discuss the peace process among other Shamir sounded the Likud-Herut line in president. to Henry Rosenberg, a New York lawyer issues with the Reagan Administration. a recent speech to veterans of the pre-State "Regrettably, 18 months after the who has helped bring hundreds of Ethio­ Shamir, who will be in the U.S. this week, Irgun and Stern groups. He told them, dramatic rescues in Sudan, Ethiopian Jews pian Jews to Israel. • agreed that the peace process is the most "The national unity government is built on important item and said he too would be compromise among its components" and discussing it with the Americans. would last only "as long as the Arabs do Holocaust memorial to be He said if there are developments in the not propose a political settlement that is ac­ peace process, "one should take into con­ ceptable to the adherents of territorial com­ sideration a peace conference between promise." Israel and her neighbors, but under dif­ He maintained that "everything being erected in New York City ferent conditions than those presented proposed to us in what is called the peace now." process is nothing but a comprehensive and New York — A museum that will serve as The museum — designed by architect Shamir cited the Peres-Mubarak summit absolute ceding of Judaea and Samaria, the a memorial to the Holocaust and to the James Stewart Polshek — will be built in as proof that there is no substitute for Gaza District, even the Golan Heights and Jewish culture that was destroyed by conjunction with a 34-story residential direct negotiations.