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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). The Southern Israelite WeVe got what you’re looking foil t'o hAaoSSLx mi'ilii u ou to iiUimt Uin Ctiiui’i'nnifit Ct isVinl -1986 irvneA, (vcm-a/t/WUjp 0TLt/. JC. 0TLaii/uj/, president §ea^ CCF£/(^0 3 uetuLcu^, (Detail^ 28, 4 986 Cit&wvta/, @ea/ujia/ 9vec«pium, 6:30 p.m. £D um«a, 7.30 n. m. * 150 pea person *1,500 pei Laiiie aj ten tman tetepfi one 873-3950 |oi in^nvmaLao and xeaidaiduu ^ews Briefs 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 ^ rr , MR