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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 24, 1986
Waldheim expert featured
at B’nai B’rith Nov. meeting
Dr. Robert Herzstein, the
U niversity of South Carolina pro
fessor of history who was respon
sible for uncovering many of the
archival documents concerning
Austrian President Kurt Wald
heim’s alleged Nazi past, will be
the keynote speaker at the B’nai
B’rith District Five annual mid
winter board of governors meet
ing here early next month.
The community is invited to
attend Dr. Herzstein’s luncheon
session on Sunday, Nov. 2, at
noon at the Gwinnett Place Mar
riott Hotel.
Dr. Herzstein will discuss “Kurt
Waldheim: A Historian’s Search
for the Missing Years.”
The professor supplied much
of the information released by
the World Jewish Congress prior
to Waldheim’s election to the
Austrian presidency earlier this
year. He also has served as a con
sultant on Waldheim for numer
ous publications and television
programs, and his revelations
from archival documents about
Waldheim were front-page news
in the New York Times and
Washington Post.
Dr. Herzstein also is the author
of many scholarly works. He is
writing a book titled “Waldheim:
The Missing Years. A Histori
an’s Search for a Hidden Past.”
Seymour Reich
The annual mid-winter meet
ing, scheduled for Nov. 1-2, will
bring in top B’nai B’rith District
Five leaders. The district encom
passes seven southeastern states,
including Georgia.
Joining Herzstein on the agenda
is Seymour Reich, the newly
elected international president of
B’nai B’rith. Reich, a senior part
ner in the New York law firm of
Dreyer and Traub, has held many
leadership posts in his 25 years
with B’nai B’rith. He assumed
the presidency last month during
the international convention in
Las Vegas.
Other top leaders from around
the district will include Kent
Schiner, international senior vice
president; Tommy Baer, interna
tional vice president and chair
man of the national membership
committee; Judge Paul Backman,
Lou Hymson and Philip Kershner,
members of the international
board of governors; Bernard
Friedman, District Five president;
and Neil Rosen, District Five
executive vice president.
Those invited to attend from
Georgia are Ron Chanin, Arnold
Ellison, Bruce Gaynes, Danny
Gross, Richard Horn, Nathan
Jay, Philip Karlick, Dr. A.J.
Kravtin, Stuart Langer, Steve
Levetan, Jerry Shure, Maurice
Steinberg and Jerry Sugarman.
Cost of the luncheon session at
which Herzstein will speak is $25
a person. For reservations, pay
ment should be mailed to B’nai
B’rith District Five, 7001 Peach
tree Industrial Boulevard, Suite
401, Norcross, Ga. 30092 and
should be received by that office
no later than Oct. 28.
For more information, call Bo
Levine at 662-8505.
Leo Frank ball to benefit schools
Atlanta’s four Jewish day
schools—the Hebrew Academy,
Epstein School, Yeshiva High
and Torah Day School—are the
beneficiaries this year of a fund
raising event organized by the
Leo M. Frank Lodge of B’nai
B’rith.
“Education is expensive, but
the cost of ignorance is far more
costly,” said Mark Kopkin, Leo
Frank’s co-chairman of the
Charity Ball. Co-chairman David
Diamond added, “The price of a
ticket to this event is an invest
ment in the future of this com
munity. This is a fund-raiser for
the forward-thinking Atlantan.”
Proceeds raised from ticket
sales and corporate sponsorships
will be divided equitably among
the four schools; with half of the
profits being divided equally and
the other half divided according
to school population.
The Charity Ball will be held at
the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1.
Celebration of Atlanta’s future
will be the theme at the formal,
black-tie optional fund-raiser.
Music will be provided by Eli
Frisch and The Tempos. Kosher
desserts and a cash bar will be
available.
Ticket prices are $18 (spon
sor), $36 (donor) or $54 (patron).
Tickets can be purchased by send
ing a check payable to Leo Frank
#3216 to Robert Augenstein, Suite
246, 2480 Briarcliff Road N.E.,
Atlanta, Ga. 30329. Tickets will
also be available at the door.
For more information, call
Mark Kopkin (262-3070) or David
Diamond (266-1601).
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Demjanjuk appeals to high court
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Nazi war crimes suspect John Dem
janjuk has appealed to Israel’s High Court of Justice against the
decision by a lower court to hold him in custody until the end of
legal proceedings against him.
The Jerusalem District Court rules that Demjanjuk would
remain in detention after the state charged him last month with
murdering thousands of Jews at the Treblinka death camp in
Poland during World War 11.
Harvard write-in conducted
BOSTON (JTA)—About 100 people gathered at Harvard
recently and wrote approximately 2,000 letters in support of
Soviet Jewry. They were participating in the second annual
Write-a-thon, a 12-hour letter-writing campaign organized by
Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, according to a report in
The Jewish Advocate.
Israel observes ICRC
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A top-level delegation of Israel’s Magen
David Adorn went to Geneva last week for the 25th quadrennial
conference of the International Committee for the Red Cross
(ICRC). But their status was only as observers.
The ICRC has refused, for political reasons, to recognize
the MDA, which is Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross. Israel
has repeatedly sought full membership in the ICRC, which
recognized the Moslem Red Crescent shortly after the Red
Cross was established in 1907. Israel’s first application was
submitted in 1949.
Paraguay Jews ‘alarmed’
NEW YORK (JTA)—Paraguay’s strongman, Gen. Alfredo
Stroessner, has ordered an end to the wave of anti-Semitic
outbursts which had swept his country in recent weeks, the
World Jewish Congress reported. “There is not nor will there be
anti-Semitism in Paraguay,” the General stated in a letter to
WJC president Edgar Bronfman.
Stroessner’s letter was in reply to a cable from Bronfman on
Sept. 12, which asked the General to intervene and put a halt to
the anti-Semitic wave which had left the Jewish community of
Paraguay “living in a state of alarm.”
On Sept. 10, posters appeared throughout Asuncion, capi
tal of Paraguay, calling on the population not to patronize
shops owned by Jews because “they rob the country and send
the money to Tel Aviv and Moscow.” The posters listed 20
shops with the names of their Jewish owners.
Some 1,000 Jews live in Paraguay, out of a general popula
tion of nearly 3.5. million.
Brandeis divests holdings
WALTHAM, Mass. (Oct. 15 (JTA)—Brandeis University
has sold its stock in three U.S. companies that were found not
to be in compliance with university policies governing invest
ments in firms doing business in South Africa, Brandeis presi
dent Evelyn E. Handler has announced.
The three companies whose stocks were sold are Reynolds
& Reynolds Company, Schlumberger Ltd. and Union Camp
Corp. The total value of the stocks is approximately $200,000,
about 6.5 percent of the university’s holdings in companies
doing business in South Africa.
The action is the result of a new policy on South Africa-
related stocks adopted by the university’s board of trustees this
summer. I he policy requires that companies in the Brandeis
portfolio with South Africa operations subscribe to the ex
panded Sullivan Principles, which call for activities beyond the
workplace in ameliorating the plight of South African blacks.
Number of Boston Jews rises
BOSTON (JTA)—The Jewish community of Greater Bos
ton increased in population by 13 percent from 1975-85, reach
ing 228,000, according to an estimate contained in a demogra
phic survey released last month by the Combined Jewish
Philanthropies.
Meanwhile, the general Boston community has held steady,
while the state of Massachusetts has increased by 10 percent,
according to Dr. Sherry Israel, senior planning associate at
Even with the increase, the Boston Jewish community
lemams the sixth largest North American Jewish community,
behind those of New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami
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