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News Briefs Rabbi slain in Pittsburgh TORONTO (JTA)—Some 1,000 persons attended the hastily called funeral April 18 of 24-year-old Rabbi Neil Rosenblum, killed by an unidentified assailant while visiting his wife’s parents in Pittsburgh for Passover. Reports indicate that Rosenblum, dressed in traditional Ortho dox garb, was approached by a white man driving a dark colored automobile who stopped to ask for directions. The assailant is said to have gotten out of the car and fired six bullets into the victim at close range. Rosenblum reportedly gave police some information before his death. Rosenblum, father of a 4-week-old daughter, was attending the graduate school of the Her Israel Yeshiva in Toronto and it was there that the funeral took place. Goldstein brothers arrive in Israel TEL AVIV (JTA)—Isai and Grigory Goldstein, brothers who waited almost 15 years for visas to leave the Soviet Union, have arrived in Israel last Friday with a plea that the Jews they left behind in the U.S.S.R. not be forgotten. Isai, accompanied by his wife, Elizabeta and their 15-year-old son, Avi, said at Ben Gurion Airport: “Our dream has at last come true. We want no more publicity. All your attention must now be given to those who have been left behind. There are still hundreds of thousands wanting to leave." Exit visas were granted them earlier this year after Sen. Edward Kennedy intervened on their behalf during a visit to Moscow. Ultra-Orthodox Jews riot in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA)—Three soldiers and three policemen were injured by rioting ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Mea Shearim quarter last Saturday night. Eight religious zealots were arrested after several hours of violent demonstrations. Ultra-Orthodox Jews also clashed with police in Petach Tikva last Friday night when they were prevented from marching on the Heichal Cinema to stop a Sabbath performance there. One of the marchers was arrested for assaulting a policeman. Scientists see progress on AIDS CARACAS, Venezuela—New progress in the battle against AIDS and other diseases of the body’s immune system was reported by scientists from Israel, the United States and Venezuela at an International Conference on Developments in Immunology. The conference was co-sponsored by Bar-Ilan University of Israel, the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute of Washington, D.C., and the Ministry of Science of Venezuela. It was attended by nearly 500 researchers from the three countries, making it one of the largest scientific conlerences on immunology ever held. WJC wants Waldheim to testify NEW YORK (JTA) — An official of the World Jewish Con gress has proposed that Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim should come to the organization’s Geneva office to give testimony under oath of his war-time activities. The proposal came as a counter-offer to Waldheim’s invitation, in an interview published in an Austrian weekly magazine, to meet, in Vienna with WJC Secretary General Israel Singer. Egypt cuts oil prices to Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) —Egypt, which supplies Israel with one quarter of its oil, has reduced prices by approximately 25 percent, thus saving the Israel Treasury over $50 million a year. Israel will pay $8.75 for a barrel of heavy crude oil, down from $12.10; and $10.75 for light crude, down from $13.25. Energy Minister Moshe Shahal said he hoped the price cut will be passed on to consumers immediately after Passover. Nazi jailed to keep him in U.S. NEW YORK (JTA)- Karl Linnas, a Nazi concentration camp commander in Estonia during World War II, is being held at a federal prison in Manhattan because of concern that he might flee the country. Linnas, who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981, is appealing a 1982 deportation order issued because of his participa tion in war-time atrocities. S Poignant P.S. to ‘Was it Editor: On March 14, 1986, you had a guest column “Was it by chance," about two people, Gerda Haas and Jerry Siegel, who met at a Elder- hostel up in Maine. Gerda was the instructor on a course on the Holocaust Jerry was one of her students. These two people, Gerda, a Holocaust survivor — Jerry, a young GI, had met in 1945 to spend Yom Kippur at the home of the Erlanger family in Lucerne, Switzerland. When I read the article, my curi osity was aroused and immediately I cut the article and wrote a letter and sent the clipping to a cousin of mine nee Erlanger in Lucerne. By return mail I had an answer from her. It was one of her nephews in whose house these two people spent that Yom Kippur in 1945. Now...“Was it by chance” that I, in Atlanta, Ga., should read that by chance’ article in The Southern Israelite, send it on to Lucerne, Switzerland, and make this kind and so religious man once more happy after 40 years, when he helped two young people to spend our holiest day in the midst of his family? I believe strongly in “the other force,” which is mentioned in the article. Liese B. Kaufmann Libyan raid elicits U.S., Israel parallel Editor: The dilemma of finding both an active and humane way of fighting terrorism is not new to the State of Israel. 1 am sorry for every innocent man, woman and child who lost his or her life in the American attack upon Libya, but I am not sorry for the fact, that now America, reeling in shock from world criticism is able to empathize with the pain Israel feels when the entire world turns against her whenever she tries to actively defend her inno cent citizens from terrorist attacks. E. Ben Yaacov Jerusalem AlPAC’s impact on student by Jennifer Laszlo When the American-Israel Pub lic Affairs Committee held its 27th annual policy conference in Wash ington last month, more than 500 students of all races, religions and regions of the country, sat in on the deliberations. One of those stu dents, Emory University senior Jennifer Lazslo, describes her reac tions below. —Editor. In Tom Dine’s (the executive director of A1PAC) address, he spoke of “the vanguard of a new generation that appreciates the im perative for political involvement and for political activism.” I, proud ly, am one of the Jewish-American college students to which Mr. Dine was referring. This was my first AIPAC policy conference. Yet, I am no stranger to activism, no stranger to AIPAC. I am a senior at Emory Univer sity and will graduate with degrees in both Judaic and international studies. 1 have been active in Hillel, written more newspaper articles than I can count, worked part-time as a Hebrew school teacher, gone to sorority meetings, committee meetings—you name it. But parti cipating in AIPAC is an experi ence for me, and 1 consider my po litical activism to be my most im portant extracurricular activity. Let me explain how I got in volved in AIPAC. I was a student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem when Jonathan Kessler, leadership coordinator for AIPAC, came to our campus to mobilize activity to fight the Jordan arms sale. He’d no sooner started when my friend Frankie Goldberg picked up the ball and started running with it. Frankie got a group of us to get American students in Israel to sign a petition against the proposed arms sale. 1 don’t know anyone who didn’t sign it! We got over 1,000 signatures from all 50 states. Don't forget this was done thou sands of miles away from Washing ton in just a few short days! When I came back to America my dedication to the survival of Israel was still as passionate and powerful as ever. But how could I translate this intense dedication into productive and concrete ac tion? From the back of a tunnel came the powerful call that Israel has over me as a Jew, as an Ameri can, as a student, and yes, as the daughter of a Holocaust refugee. AIPAC was the answer. From a standpoint of cost benefit analysis there is no better organization to get involved in than AIPAC. Why? It does not take much time to have an impact with AIPAC. One does not need to donate a lot of money to make a mark. AIPAC is exciting, well-organized, and most importantly, effective. The caliber of the people involved is extraor dinarily high. . The AIPAC Policy Conference was in itself exhilarating. The speeches were inspiring, even if some of them were less than infor mative to those of us who keep up to date on political activity. 1 was utterly struck by the sincere pro- Israel statements of those such as CIA Director William J. Casey, Attorney General Edwin Meese, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. John Heinz. My personal conver sations with our elected govern mental officials left me impressed with their clear understanding of the issues. A1PAC is largely respon sible for all this. Over 500 students attended the conference. Unfortunately, over 200 of them had to leave after the first day since there were not enough scholarships around to cover all the students who needed them. This is a real shame for AIPAC. since the representatives from so many campuses around the coun try went home that much less in formed. Fortunately, I was able to attend the full conference. I came home to Atlanta truly motivated by the conference. I was nothing less than inspired by the adult membership of AI PAC. Now I’m working on a letter drive to support the foreign aid package. Israel needs those dollars. PAGE 5 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE May 2, 1986