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Abu-Hatzelra will resign
JERUSALEM (JTA) Aharon Abu-Hatzeira said Tuesday
thal he intends to resign from the Cabinet but will remain in the
Knesset pending the outcome of his appeal to the Supreme Court
against his conviction Monday on three counts of larceny, fraud
and breach of trust. He told reporters, as he emerged from a
meeting with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, that he was sure
the high court would overturn his conviction because he is
innocent.
U.S. vetoes Arab resolution
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The United States vetoed an
Arab-sponsored resolution in the Security Council Tuesday
strongly condemning the April 11 shooting on the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem. The vote was 14-1 in favor of the draft which was
introduced by Jordan and Morocco.
U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick explained afterward that
although her government condemns the incident, it could not
support the resolution because it was not objective and contained
implications that responsibility for the crime lies with the Israeli
government.
Begin meets Egyptian namesake
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Menachem Begin was
introduced recently to his Egyptian namesake, Begin Hanafi, aged
3. The two met at Begin’s office in Jerusalem and posed
together for media cameramen.
Little Begin was named in honor of the Israeli leader in the
wake of the first Israeli Sinai withdrawal. His father, Samir
Hanafi, was watching the withdrawal ceremonies on TV just as his
wife gave birth to their son.
The family’s neighbors did not approve of the idea. The Hanafis'
home was burned and Samir found himself ostracized socially and
ousted from his place of work. He nevertheless refused to revoke
the child's name, believing it to be an omen of peace.
Goodman to undergo tests
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jerusalem District Court issued
an order Sunday for Alan Harry Goodman to undergo psychiatric
observation. Goodman, the American-born Israeli army
reservist, was arraigned last week for the shooting
spree three days earlier at the Temple Mount in which two Arabs
were killed and 30 were wounded. The district psychiatrist will rule
on whether Goodman was sane when he committed the alleged
crime and whether he is fit to stand trial..
A Jewish first for Costa Rica
MEXICO CITY (JTA)—With the scheduled inauguration of
Dr. Luis Alberto Monge to the presidency of Costa Rica on May 8,
a Latin American republic will have a Jewish first lady for the first
time in history, according to a report by the American Jewish i
Committee's Mexico and Central America office.
Doris Yankelewitz Berger de Monge was born in San Jose, i
Costa Rica's capital city. Her family is part of the small j
Costa Rican Jewish community which, with almost 2,500 j
members, has been an integral part of this democratic country j
since the first arrival of Jews in the 1920s.
Dr. Monge, a lawyer, was the first ambassador of Costa Rica
to Israel in 1962.
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ATLANTA JEWISH FEDERATION
$6,200,000—1982 CAMPAIGN GOAL
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HELP THE COMMUNITY MEET ITS COAL
Vetters to tlie editor
We lost a dear friend
Editor:
Last week our Jewish
community lost one of the dearest
friends we have ever had. Dr. Fred
Crawford, who took his own life
because of intolerable pain and not
wanting others to suffer for him,
will be missed by us all.
Dr. Crawford devoted his entire
life to fighting bigotry. He was
personally concerned with every
minority group in the city. But his
overwhelming compassion,
understanding, and love for the
Jewish people and their heritage
was his life and his work.
He devoted his last painful days
to his “Witness to the Holocaust"
program at Emory University. I
shall always remember Dr.
Crawford holding my mother in
his arms as she tearfully said to him
“I want to talk about the
Holocaust but I can’t”; he replying
with as much pain in his eyes as
hers, ‘‘My dear, dear one, if you
don’t tell us—who else will? I know
it hurts!”
As Children of Survivors of the
Holocaust, we must now help
complete what Dr. Crawford
started. His work will always bean
everlasting testimony to us.
As I watched this wonderful
soul being put to rest this past
Easter Sunday, one of the holiest
Christian days, because his family
felt they would rather give up their
day than the Jewish Sabbath so
that Dr. Crawford’s friends could
be at his last tribute, I wanted to
scream out “Remember.” The
words from the “Odessa File”
came to my mind: “You must live,
so that you can tell them, outside in
the other world, what happened to
our people here.”
But as 1 bid a final farewell I
knew it was up to us, the children,
to keep his spirit alive forever.
Saba Silverman
President
Children of Holocaust Survivors
...a noble and remarkable man...
Editor:
The prayers and psalms were
recited, the hymns were sung and
on Easter Sunday afternoon a
multitude of mourners at Glenn
Memorial Church bid a tearful
farewell to a noble and remarkable
individual. Dr. Fred Crawford,
who exemplified all the
compassion and dedication of
which man is capable, would no
longer be among us to inspire us
and to renew our faith in
humanity.
Here was a man who never
spared himself in his efforts to
denounce bigotry, to still the
voices of anti-Semitism. One of the
first to enter Auschwitz at the war’s
end, he documented the horrors
that took place there as well as in
the other infamous concentration
death camps. He rammed the lie
down the throats of those who
would deny that the Holocaust
never took place.
Always on the alert to man’s
inhumanity to man, in the final
years of his life, though bone weary
from a disease that he was all too
aware would strike him down
sooner rather than later, Dr.
Crawford nevertheless summoned
his remaining strength to appear at
convocations to bear witness to the
monstrousness of the Holocaust.
We here in Atlanta, Jew and
...Dr. Fred
Editor;
“The good die young” is not
merely an adage. Unfortunately, it
is a reality. This adage most
definitely applies to the tragic
death of Dr. Fred Crawford,
professor at Emory University,
and a very special friend of the
Jews, who worked so very hard to
bring the atrocities of the
Holocaust to the attention of the
world.
Dr. Crawford spent a great part
of his life working toward the goal
of making certain that people are
not blind to what happened under
non-Jew alike, have lost a man of
consummate goodness and
decency. An individual of his
stature comes along all too seldom
and his passing will be keenly felt
by all who knew, admired and
loved him. May his memory be for
a blessing.
Max E. Robkin
Crawford
Hitler’s rule, and educating people,
Jews and non-Jews, so as to
prevent a Holocaust in the future.
Dr. Crawford’s death is a great
loss to the Jewish people. As good
friends are a scarcity among the
Jewish nation, Dr. Crawford will
be greatly missed by us all. Most of
us will never forget what he had
done for us during his lifetime, and
he will continue to live on in our
hearts, always. My deepest
sympathy goes to his family for
their great loss....
Retina Abrams
Campaign nears $5 million mark
The Atlanta Jewish Federation’s
1982 Campaign is approaching the
$5 million mark. The campaign
represents the joining together of
Atlanta’s Jewish community for
the common purpose of
sustaining, supporting and
enhancing the quality of life for
Jews everywhere.
Funds raised through individual
commitments to the campaign
support all of the programs that
are integral parts of Atlanta’s
Jewish community: health care
for elderly people; recreational and
social programs for youth and
adults; educational programs;
vocational counseling; social
services for individuals and
families.
While Atlanta enjoys the
benefits of a thriving Jewish
society, there are thousands of
Jews in other parts of the world
living as victims of oppression. In
the Soviet Union, despite the
government’s participation in the
Helsinki Accords which recognize
basic human rights, including
freedom of religion and the right to
emigrate, more Jews were arrested
in 1981 than in any year in the past
decade. Emigration has been all
but shut off. Jewish culture classes,
education and, in fact, all
gatherings of Jews, have been
disrupted.
In Ethiopia, Falashas struggle
for life itself in the face of violent
oppression, harassment and
sometimes torture at the hands of
military governments in isolated
territories of that land Life is
uncertain for these Jews escape
seems to offer their only hope.
A commitment to the existence
of Jewish life carries with it the
commitment to the goal for
freedom for every Jew, everywhere.
A moral commitment to Jewish
life can be fulfilled when it is
translated into action and into dollars.
A financial commitment to the
1982 Federation Campaign
supports efforts that willjattempt
to enable all Jews everywhere to
enjoy the freedoms and the sense of
community that Atlantans
experience daily.
Burton Gold, 1982 Campaign
general chairman, said, “We have
planned a series of intensive
campaign activities to enable us to
complete the campaign by the
target date at the end of April. I
want to express my appreciation to
all those who have worked so
tirelessly and who have given
generously even stretched to
make a commitment to the
campaign. I am confident that
those whom we have not yet
reached who wish to do their part
to support this effort will continue
to respond generously to enable
this campaign to reach its $6.2
million goal.”
PAGE 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 23. 1982