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The Talmudists Noted artist Max Weber captures the spirit of scholarship and disputation that marks the learned men of Jewish tradition. The Talmudists, completed in 1934, is part of a new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum entitled “Treasures of the Jewish Museum.” The exhibit will run to the summer of 1987. Conflict continues over bathing suit ads in Israel by Yaacov Ben Yosef Special to 1 he Southern Israelite RO M E—Violence between ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews reached a new intensity this week as Prime Minister Shimon Peres urgently sought to cool tempers. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek said the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community had begun a civil revolt. Sparking the latest conflict was ultra-Orthodox displeasure with bathing suit billboard advertising in Jerusalem, which they consi dered immodest and insensitive. The large color posters show women models wearing one-and two-piece bathing suits; the ads have been placed on bus stop shel ters, some in religious neighbor hoods. The posters were more widely distributed and the models’ poses more provocative than in the past year. To the ultra-Orthodox commu nity, which comprises 10 percent of Israel’s 3.5 million Jews, it issinfor a man to look at women. In the past week ultra-Orthodox Jews turned on the billboards, spraying paint on them, and burning entire bus stations at which the advertis ing appeared. Some 100 of Israel’s bus shelters have been either burned ordamaged by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the past. “We are on the verge of a kul- turkampf,” asserted Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz. the interior minister, head of the Ultra-Orthodox Shas party in the Knesset. After calling in national figures Thursday, on the eve of Shavuot, in an effort at reconciliation, Peres announced he had formed a special council to foster religious-secular harmony. Sitting on the council are leading members of both com munities. Among those present at the Peres meeting were Cabinet ministers, Knesset members, the two chief rabbis, mayors, the police chief and representatives of the Israeli media. The Peres conclave Thursday had almost no effect in the short term. Vandals on Saturday des troyed prayer books and scrawled graffiti at the Hedushei Harim Yeshiva in the Ramat Hahayal neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The yeshiva is run by the Gur Hassidim. The Ark of Torah was damaged; tezylin (phylacteries) were torn and thrown on the floor. The attack occurred while the yeshiva’s stu dents were visiting the Gur in Jerusalem. The attack on the synagogue seemed to be the first secular re sponse to the growing dispute foc using on the bathing suit ads: a note pinned to the door of the syn agogue threatened to burn more synagogues if the ultra-Orthodox continue to deface and burn the ads. It said: “For every bus station burned, we will burn a synagogue.” It was signed: “People Against the See Conflict, page 19. f ■ - The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry 'Since 1925' k LXII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 20, 1986 No. 25 Report that Herzog spied for Israel called ‘baloney’ by Joseph Polakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON- Allegations published in a Washington Post survey stemming from the Pollard espionage case that officials sym pathetic to Israel passed U.S. clas sified information to Israelis were denounced by Israelis and Ameri cans. A front-page report headlined, “Israel uses special relations to get secrets,” said “a widespread feel- ing”exists in “U.S. intelligence and diplomatic circles that Israel, to learn American secrets, doesn’t need a ring of paid spies like Navy ana lyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, who pleaded guilty June 4 to participa ting in an espionage conspiracy. “For decades, the Israelis have targeted and have been able to learn virtually every secret about U.S. policy in the Middle East, according to a secret 1979 CIA report on the Israeli intelligence services and recent interviews with more than two dozen current or former U.S. intelligence officials,” the Post said. “This remarkable intelligence harvest was provided largely, not by paid agents, but by an unofficial network of sympathetic American officials who worked in the State Department, Pentagon, congres sional offices, the National Secur ity Council and even in U.S. intel ligence agencies, according to the officials interviewed for this article.” Among the allegations was that Chaim Herzog Israel’s President Chaim Herzog, who was an attache at the embassy in Washington, “left the country hurriedly in 1954 after learning from a friendly State Department employee that the FBI knew about his recruitment of a Jordanian mil itary officer, according to Wilbur Crane Eveland III, a U.S. military intelligence officer at the time.” The Israeli Embassy here termed the report “baseless.” A statement, provided by the embassy to The Southern Israelite, said: “The alle gation published in an article in the Washington Post June 15, 1986, associating the president of Is rael Chaim Herzog—during his service as military attache in Wash ington in the 1950s with illegal espionage operations is false, mali cious and tendentious. “Col. Herzog concluded in 1954 his extended service as defense at tache in the United States with all the honors accorded to a military attache upon departure,” the Israeli statement said. “This is not the first time that this false, baseless allega tion has been made by the same irresponsible source whose moti vation raises many questions.” While the article did not specify Jewish officials with sympathizers, the feeling derived from at least some of them indicated that Jews were targeted by implication and specificity was not needed to create a climate of suspicion and intimi dation. When the Pollard case first broke late last year, innuendos appeared that Jews in government were sus pected of informing Israelis. A highly-placed former State De partment officer, when interviewed about such reports, dismissed them sharply. “Blaming Jews for espi onage is an old story. Anti-Semites created such fiction in generations past,” he said. Another official recalled the Dreyfuss case that rocked France when the French officer was falsely accused. Regarding the allegations in the survey, a congressional source said, “I have no time for such lying, period.” "That story is baloney,” another said at the Capitol. “This is utter nonsense of the dual loyalty type.” PARIS (JTA)—Kurt Waldheim, Austria’s newly elected president, plans to pay a visit to the site of the former concentration camp Mau thausen in “homage to the victims of Nazism.” The former United Nations secretary-general who was elected June 8 in spite of revelations con cerning his own role as a German officer in the Balkans and Greece, said in a French Radio interview here Monday that he wants to “show his good will and good intentions.” Waldheim did not say when he will visit the site of the notorious concentration camp north of Vienna but said “it will be soon.” Waldheim says he plans vii to Mauthausen death camp si by Edwin Eytan [ Austria’s policy of servir Kurt Waldheim He also said he will “fight against anti-Semitism in all its forms” and pledged to continue supporting Austria’s policy of serving as a transit point for Jews leaving the Soviet Union. Asked whether he will visit Israel, Waldheimsaid he will do so “once spirits will have calmed down.” He added that he wants such a visit, should it take place, to be tho roughly prepared. The Austrian president-elect welcomed Nazi hunter Simon Wie- senthai’s suggestion, saying he welcomes setting up a commission of military experts to look into his past. "All I want,” said Waldheim, “is that the commission should include real experts familiar with German army practices at the time and the roles connected to the various ranks serving in the Wehrmacht.”