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Where’s Noah’s Ark? There’s something for everyone in The Southern Israelite. Youthful “reader” Stephen Joseph Ross is the son of Douglas and Robyn Ross of Marietta. Photo was submitted by proud grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warren Ross of Boston. Jewish vandal is held in anti-Semitic spree on Avenue J in the adjoining Midwood section of Fiatbush, also heavily populated by Orthodox Jews. Bromberg noted in a prepared statement that Dworkin came under suspicion as a result of information supplied by members of the public and that his arrest was based on that information and on statements by the suspect. He said police found rocks in the trunk of Dworkin’s car similar to the rocks thrown through the shop windows. The vandalism gave rise to tension in the tightly knit Jewish communities of Boro Park and Fiatbush where racial incidents have been rare in recent years. A new wave of anti- Semitism was feared, especially because the date of the first rock throwing coincided with the 47th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938, when rampaging Nazis smashed the windows of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues all over Germany, littering the streets with broken glass. The attacks in Brooklyn were carried out on Sabbath nights when the streets of the Orthodox neighborhoods were deserted. The rocks apparently were thrown from a passing car. The windows of non- Jewish shops were spared. But one ingredient common to anti-Semitic vandalism was missing: There were no swastikas or anti-Semitic graffiti and no anonymous telephone calls to the police or the media boasting of the deeds. Nevertheless, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Boro See Vandal page 20. by William Saphire NEW YOR K (JTA)—A 38-year- old Jewish man charged with smashing the windows of 21 Jewish- owned shops during two rock throwing sprees in the Boro Park and Fiatbush sections of Brooklyn last month was arraigned in Criminal Court Tuesday on 13 counts of felony and misdemeanor, a spokes person for Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. If convicted on all counts, the suspect, Gary Dworkin, could be sentenced to up to 18 years in prison, according to the D A’s office. One of the misdemeanor counts is violation of civil rights and discrimi nation because Dworkin’s alleged vadalism was carried out specifically against Jewish property. He was arrested at his Boro Park home Monday and reportedly confessed. Capt. Donald Bromberg, commander of the N.Y. P.D. bias unit which was assigned to the case because of its anti-Semitic implica tions, said Dworkin “is Jewish and has a history of psychological problems.” He is accused of throwing rocks through the windows of 13 Jewish- owned shops during the nights of Nov. 9-10 along a seven-block strip of 13th Avenue, the main shopping center of Boro Park where the population is 80 percent Jewish, mostly ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic. He is accused of repeating the act two weeks later, during the night of Nov. 23, when five more shop windows in Boro Park were smashed and three shop windows e Southert Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jevs 'Since 1925' Vol. LXI Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, December 13, 1985 No. > - C l r~ 2 : — o' — ( a: X 2. ( t/ o : C. X (_ c. > c - > c_ 2 G Kj L C 1 Sofaer appointment g< scrutinized; U.S. is firm by Joseph Polakoff TSI's Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—The State Department has denounced implied doubts about the suitability of Abraham Sofaer, its legal adviser who is Jewish, to head the team of U.S. officials that went to Israel this week to “determine the facts” in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case “through discussion and other forms of cooperation” with Israelis. Charles Redman, the Department spokesman, declared “there’s absolutely no question” Sofaer and other members of the U.S. team “will conduct their business in a thoroughly professional manner.” The reporter questioning Sofaer’s background said “it is clear” from Sofaer’s “official biography he is Jewish. Can you tell me if he is a Zionist or a member of a Zionist organization?” “No, I’m sorry,” Redman replied. “It is not my role to comment on those kinds of questions.” “Wait a minute, wait a minute,” the reporter continued. “Don’t brush it off. Does the State Department not believe it’s significant if a head of a delegation on a mission of this kind might be a Zionist?” “The State Department feels that officials of the State Department will conduct their business in a professional manner and there is absolutely no question whatsoever that Judge Sofaer and other people participating in this delegation will not do so on that basis,” Redman replied. “You have no information about that point,” the reporter continued. “Is that true?” Redman answered: “Next question.” Sofaer, who was born in Bombay in 1938, is a graduate of Yeshiva University in New York. He was a law professor at New York U niversity, Columbia and Duke, and was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in New York and a federal court judge there. He presided at the celebrated trial of the libel suit of Ariel Sharon against Time magazine. Last spring he was appointed legal adviser in the State Department and confirmed in that post by the U.S. Senate. Besides Sofaer, the U.S. team consists of Mark Richard, deputy assistant U.S. attorney general; John Mart in, chief of the Justice Depart ment’s internal security section; Joseph DiGenova, the U.S. attorney See Sofaer page 20. Lights of Freedom embody ’85 ‘Plea’ for Soviet Jews The 1985 Women’s Plea for Soviet Jewry was a major success, according to Irene Berson and Ellen Goldstein, co-chairwomen. More than 100 people attended the event which took place at the Tower Place Hotel on Friday, Dec. 6. Women’s American ORT served as the sponsoring organization for the 1985 Women’s Plea and Mrs. Jean Childs Young acted as this year’s honorary chairwoman. Beth Gluck opened the ceremony with an invocation, and read from a letter written by female Soviet Refusniks she recently visited in Russia. The central part of the ceremony was a candle lighting service involving the more than 50 Jewish and non- Jewish organizations represented by the Plea. Each organization has “adopted” a refusnik—a Soviet Jew who has applied to immigrate to Israel, but has been denied by Soviet authorities. Representatives of these organizations lit menorahs they made especially for the occasion, associating this year’s Plea with the holiday of Hanuka, the Festival of Lights and Freedom. The menorahs will be housed at the Atlanta Jewish Federation in a wooden menorah display case, to symbolize this year’s plea. A letter received from a pro minent Soviet refusnik, Lev Elbert, who was “adopted” by Congregation Etz Chaim, was read expressing gratitude to all in Georgia who have been supportive of his—and his fellow Jews’—cause for freedom. Beth Smith, president of the Atlanta Region Women’s ORT, closed the ceremony with a prayer. “It is through public ceremonies that the community will be aware of the plight of the 2.5 million Jews in the Soviet union, 400,000 of whom are in the process of applying for exit visas. Programs, such as the Women’s Plea, call attention to the 30,000 refusniks, and to the 22 Jewish Prisoners-of-Conscience who are serving prison terms for the crime of being Jewish and wishing to practice their Judaism. Finally, public advocacy lets the Soviet authorities know that the Western world expects them to honor their commitments to the Helsinki Accords, which calls for the right of Soviet Jews to seek repatriation to their national homeland, Israel,” says Mrs. Berson. “The Women’s Plea,” adds Mrs. Goldstein, “will keep the flame of hope and of commitment alive for our community as we join hands in solidarity with the thousands of other women participating in Women’s Plea events that will take place this month across the nation and around the free world..”