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News Briefs Ex-Nazi fights deportation order NEW YORK(J I A)—A defense attorney for accused Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas argued before an appeals court this week that a lower court decision ordering that his client be deported to the Soviet Union for war crimes would amount to pushing “him over the border to be shot." Linnas has been sentenced to death in absentia by the Soviet Union for his war crimes. The Appeals Court reserved decision on the case. 1 he attorney, Ivars Berzins, spoke before the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, hearing arguments in the case of Linnas, a 66-year-old Long Island resident accused by the U.S. government of being a former commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Tartu, Estonia, who was ordered deported in 1985. Yordim finding way hack home NEW YORK (JTA)—A growing number of Israelis who have resided in the United States and Canada for a number of years are returning to Israel, despite the precarious economic situtation there. According to Israel's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, 1,700 Israelis returned home in 1985. Consul Amos Haddad, head of the Ministry of Labor’s delega tion here, said in a summary report on 1985 to Moshe Katzav, Israel’s Labor Minister, that amongthe Israeli’s returningto Israel are individuals who left excellent high-paying jobs in the U.S. or Canada “for more satisfying jobs in Israel, although the pay is considerably lower.” According to Haddad, the yordim, Israelis who left Israel, who are returning home resided in North America between two and 11 years or more. Soviet Jews honor Maimonides JERUSALEM (JTA)—A large group of Jewish scientists recently gathered in a private home in Moscow to commemorate the 850th anniversary of the birth of Maimonides, Soviet immi grants in Israel were informed. The gathering, attended by 82 Jewish scientists, was the largest of the sort in the past six years. Among those present were well-known refusniks as well as guests from abroad. The participants extended greetings to Anatoly Shcharansky. Forty-two of the scientists signed a petition appealing to Soviet authorities to release all Prisoners of Zion and to allow all Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel to do so. A copy of the petition was sent to the Public Council for Soviet Jewry in Tel Aviv. Le Pen’s party gains seats PARIS (JTA)—The ultra-rightwing National Front Party, whose leader, Jean Marie Le Pen, has been denounced as a racist and an anti-Semite by Jewish community leaders, elbowed its way into Parliament last week in national elections that left the winning center-right coalition four seats short of the majority they need to form a government. Le Pen, whose party won 35 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly—and nearly 10 percent of the total vote compared to one percent in the last elections—promptly declared he would not support a new center-right government unless he is part of it. The possibility looms that he well may be. Only last week a court sentenced Le Pen to a symbolic fine after finding him guilty of racist remarks when he insulted four Jewish reporters who had been critical of his party’s activities. Israeli troupe visits Treblinka TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli ballet company. Bat Dor, paused in its highly successful tour of Poland last week to recite kaddish at the site of the Treblinka death camp. Barry Swersky, manager of the company, led the dancers in placing a wreath at the foot of a stone plinth which marks the site. Treblinka was demolished by the Nazis after a prisoner revolt in August 1943. Rumanian rabbi raps apartheid HARARE, ZIMBABWE (JTA)—Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania, in the keynote speech before a national assembly of Zimbabwe Jewry, condemned all forms of racism and anti- Semitism and on behalf of the Jewish people expressed specific condemnation of apartheid in South Africa, the World Jewish Congress reported here. Rosen, as a member of the WJC governing board, was the guest of honor at the 24th biennial congress of the Central African Jewish Board of Deputies. The Jewish community of Zimbabwe, the largest in black Africa, numbers some 1,300 members. Kahane’s ‘rescue’ menaces all Jews? Editor: At the time when a sliver of Palestine had not yet been recog nized as the State of Israel, even then, Jews were harassed and fre quently murdered. The British, who were the occupying power, used all possible means to bring the early settlers under submission while doing little to dissuade mur derous Arab tendencies. No one need be informed of the infamous British White Paper, which pre vented hundreds of thousands of Jews from emigrating to Palestine and thereby avoiding death in the Holocaust. Ever on the alert against attack from both without and within, an added dimension of evil within Israel has now become evident. Sadly, much of it brought about by Jews themselves under the leader ship of a misguided zealot, Meir Kahane. While Kahane has learned to temper his rhetoric, his actions and those of his followers, a group known as Kach, present a frighten ing challenge to the security of the state. Not satisfied with threatening to throw the Arabs out of Israel, cleansing the West Bank and Gaza of Arabs, he has now taken a further step that horrifies not only Israelis but people the world over. Goaded by this menacing per sonality, some of his cult have taken upon themselves the task of salvaging the souls of Jewish women who dared marry Arabs and birthed children. They have literally invaded Arab settlements and kidnapped these women and their children, bringing them back to Israel and depositing them in decrepit shelters far worse than the conditions under which they pre viously lived. True, some women did not strenuously object. Most, however, did. They were seized under duress. Can we envision how this action affects the thinking of the average Arab? Their hostility toward Israel can only be increased. Yet, there are those Israelis who condone and sanction this horrendous per formance. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Chances of the unthinkable probability that the Kach party will gain popularity and increased seats in the Knesset are highly possible. Unfortunately, some benighted individuals reside in our midst here in Atlanta. What will it take to convince them of Kahane’s menace not only to Israeli Jews but to all Jews. Max E. Robkin AJC to probe Jewish family planning Editor: The American Jewish Commit tee is launching a pilot research project to examine decisions relat ing to Jewish family planning. In this research, we will be attempting to establish what fac tors actually motivate Jewish cou ples to have or not have children. The findings of this research will provide the Jewish community with the information we need to develop appropriate responses to current population trends. For this ground-breaking re search project, we are looking for couples in their child-bearing years who have selected to have three or more children, only one child, and those choosing not to have child ren. If you fall into one of these three categories, call Ronnie Editor: Those of us at the Hebrew Academy of Atlanta were very pleased to see the article about Brian Epstein, a 1981 graduate of the Academy, in The Southern Israelite last week. Brian was an outstanding student and was one of the first Academy students to take part in the Duke University search for gifted seventh grade Henderson at the AJC office 233- 5501 by April 11. Sherry Frank, Area Director, American Jewish Committee students. We were also pleased with the recognition given to Rita Tuvlin, who has been the science teacher at the school since 1979 and has been instrumental in inspiring not only Brian, but many other Academy students. Martha Sanders, Assistant headmaster Article pleases Academy Kids to refusnik: We care “Dear Mr. Lifshitz, I am very concerned about your problems. 1 just wanted you to know that I am concerned and wrote to Mikhail Gorbachev. I am an 11-year-old Jew. I hope you can go to Israel very soon.” So wrote Cheryl Fields, one of the eight children in the fifth and sixth grade class of Temple Kol Emeth’s religious school. These students recently ex pressed their concern for noted refusnik Vladimir Lifshitz, who was arrested Jan. 8 allegedly for “defaming the Soviet State.” The children, in addition to writing to Lifshitz, wrote letters of protest to Mikhail Gorbachev. “I am sorry you are in prison,” wrote Jamie Parker to Lifshitz. “I and the rest of our class are trying to do everything we can to get you out of jail.” Michelle Weinberg, the chil dren’s religious school teacher, commented that “this project is one of the best ways to help our children understand the plight of Soviet Jews and, as Jamie’s letter points out, to take an active role in the worldwide effort to secure Vla- - 4111 -jCi I y I : yjj Jdr ' • Tore . - -- V/ v .'Ofia. i -y — s di +s i?r ,i -*■: 3c* as i 4 yo-f-tce a- o-Ls/Tdi a A. j r ' a J,(r\ ,/ev) ^ r )' /cf) T. I i S(? -+ jc'Jd 7 )0 > • p tr \M air c dimir Lifshitz’s release.” The feelings of the entire class were reflected in Hilary Cohn’s let ter which stated: “Here in Amer ica, we Jews can practice our reli gion freely.” Other students who wrote letters are Adam Parker Nelson, Jason Smith, Tracy Planer, Mike Mayes and Heather Shidel. In addition to advocating on behalf of Lifshitz, Temple Kol Emeth has “adopted” former Prisoner-of-Conscience, Osip Lokshin, as part of the communi tywide Jewry refusnik “adoption” program, which is sponsored by the Worldwide Jewish Affairs Sub-Committee of the Atlanta Jewish Federation’s Community Relations Committee. —Haifa sells cable car system TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Haifa municipality’s new cable car system linking the top of Mt. Carmel with the beach at Bat Galim, has been sold toa private consortium for $1.4 million. The purpose of the sale was to circumvent the ban on Sabbath operation of the facility imposed by the government under heavy pressure from the Orthodox religious establishment. Saturday is the only day off for Israeli workers who might like to use the cable car to go to and from the beach. But the Orthodox say they will not tolerate a Sabbath desecration no matter who owns the cable car. They are supported by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who like all past prime ministers has complied with Orthodox demands rather than risk a coalition crisis. PAGE 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986