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ing the Mideast, are sleeping more soundly today, secure in UNITED NATIONS [JTA] — • the knowledge that this parti-Israeli foreign minister cular reactor has been re-Yitzhak Shamir declared last moved." week that the. Camp David Shamir said the only way to accords "have been and reniove the nuclear threat to remain the only feasible'path   the Mideast can be found in
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Shown at ground-breaking for newJ!Qreen Family building for Jewish Community Sctrvices in Toronto, are, from left: North York Mayor Mell^tman, Jack Rose, MP Jim Peterson, MPP David Rotenbergi and AI Gi^
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TORONTO —
The new centre for Jewish comihuiiity services moved a step closer last week as 200 guests witnessed the. official grpund-breakirig ceremony on the.site, just north of the Jewish Community Centre building on Bathuirst St.;
The centre will be known as the Green Family Building for JeAvish Coinmunity Services, Toronto Jewish Congresis president. Wilfred Posluns announced. He said the name was decided oh '/in grateful acknowledgement of the vision and moving spirit behind the culmination of. this • dream* building chairman Al Green and his brother Harold."
Posluns said that "for too long, the heart has been separated from the body. For too long now, the population centre of Toronto Jewry has been north while its communal soul, its instrument of service, culture and education, have remained elsewhere."
The first part of the morn-. ing ceremony was held in the Leah Posluns Theatre, with > Jack Rose acting as chairman of the proceedings. Dignitaries on hand representing . . the three levels of government were Jim Peterson, MP for Willowdale, David Roten-
berg MPP, who spoke on behalf of Premier William Davis vi'ho wias in Australia, and Mayor Mel Lastman of NorthYork.
Al Green pointedbtit that a number of years ago, after coming to 150 Beverley on many occasions, "it suddenly dawned on me how the district had changed. The area had;become highly ethnic with very little Jewish input. Even the street signs werein Chinese."
He shared his thoughts with a group of pieople and "before I knew it, a committee was formed called 'find a site committee' " to locate a suitable alternative spot. After many disappointments ?nd letdownsj approval was given for the final site, he said.
"I remember when my father (Lipa) was renovating the Jewish Public Library at Harbord and Markham,'.' Al Green Recalled. "He was constantly concerned with the younger generation. "Somehow his children and our generation remem^ bered their roots. But we must remember it took a Holocaust to help us remember. We have no guarantee our children will remember, but 1 am sure this building and all it stands for will help ustoward that goal." :
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Toronto emv extended in north-east section
TORONTO —
Toronto's long-standing eruv has been extended to incorporate the Steeles Ave. area between Bayvlew and LesUe.
The announcement: was made last week by^Rabbi Moshe Bomzer, whose synagogue, tEie ShaareiZion Congregation, lies within the enlarged area. "Now,'Vhe said, "we and other observant Jews in this newly developing section of Metro Toronto wiU be able to avail themselves of the emv's benefits.''      . ~
The eruv is a halachic boundary around Toronto's conimunity. Within this area Jews can carry, ion Shabbat, siddurs, tallithim, handkerchiefs/ house keys and anything else necessary directly or indirectly required in ;the walk between the home and synagogue. .:__(Jhe Bible forbids carrying of any kind on
Shabbat outside the private domain or home, including on streets or rights-of-way. Violation of this prohibition is considered a serious religious offence.)
The eruv. arranged by leadilig~Toronto rabbis and engineers,, is a boundary based"on Hydro and phone lines5_ creating a "Jewish domain'.' for Shabbat. use. Jews living outside the area bounded by the eruv are not permitted to carry anything beyond their homes on.Shab-. bat. In this case, siddurim, tallithim and other such items must be provided at the synagogue. Keys are worn, not carried. Babies may not be carried or carriages pushed.
The last major extension of the eruv was in 1965, when it wasexpandedtoinclude North York, Rabbi Bomzer said."It was first organized 40 years [Cont'd, on page 16]
By WOLF BUTZER
WASHINGTON -
; Secretary of State Alexander Haig has told, the U.S. Congress that President Reagan is not going to cha.nge his pr opo s e d S a u d i AW A G S package.
"I think the President is going to do what he thinks is right; win or lose," Haig declaimed at a senate foreign relations committee hearing.
The; hard-lined Haig testimony angered several ranking senators, who vowed to continue their fighf against . thesale.
Haig for the first time last week outlined what he described as '"firm" Saudi assurances on the "proposed sale. But he appeared singularly unsuccessful in finding supporters.
Earlier, on Oct. 1, the Reagan administration formally notified Congress of the $8.5 billion package, some 24 hours behind the original schedule. Congress has now until Oct. 31, to defeat the sale by passing resolutions of disapproval in both houses.
The delay was required, U.S. officials said, as the new U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Richard Murphy, negotiated last minute details with the Saudis on the way in which the assurances would bemadepublic. ' Initial reaction to the Haig testimony before the foreign relations committee was largely negative, as senator after senator continued to express deep concern over the sale. It became even worse later when defence secretary Casper Weinberger appeared before the same panel.
Thus, Democratic senator John Glenn oif Ohio, a leader in the effort to reach some ' sort of acceptable compromise, said he remained unsatisfied by the latest Hst of Saudi assurances.
Other senators, including Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware, and Republican
By BEVERLEY STERN
TORONTO —
R e f u s e n i k s V1 a d i m J r Tsukerman and Ossip Lok-shin were each sentenced to three years in labor camp on Sept. 25 in the Kishinev .supreme court for "violation of public order" and "defamation of state." News'of the sentences was, reported here by Jeanette Goldman, chairman ofthe Ontario Committee for Soviet Jewry.
Goldmah^lald the trial was held In a: ciased ^onrt in which only the tnHmedlate family - was allowed to attend. She . revealed that about 17 of the , 30 witnesses who were called were pajlicipants of the May 30 march through Kishinev streets which was iield to protest kremlin refusal to gi^t more emigration visas. Tsukerman and Lbkshin were arrested following their par-! ticipation in the march.
The arrest of the two Re-fuseniks is a stunning blow to their farnilies, she said. Tsukerman's wife. Faina, and son.; Alexander, 7, have been in Israel for the last four years. Lokshin's wife, Luba, and 10-year-old daughter are stin in Kishinev.,
Goldman said she learned of the sentences after a week in which she was "constantly . frustrated" in getting her calls through to her Kishinev contacts.
"1 tried front 4 a.m. until midnigliT for'.""^'.^iik to reach my usual ccniactsin Kishi-i.ev, and finally had to go through a soi:r;e in the United States. There is ho doubt that Soviet operators were warned not to let me reach my contacts," she said.
Goldman said a campaign of protest  over the stiff , sentences is being assisted by Liberal Willowdale Member of jParliament Jim Peterson.
Peterson revealed there were iour different ways he intended to indicate concern over the. two Kishinev Re-fuseniks: contact with Soviet ambassador Alexander
to peace," in the Mideast-.-No other viable solution appears on the hbnzon, he said;
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, ' Shamir expressed confidence that the negotiations : for autonomy for the Palestinian Arabs living in- Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district will be concluded successfully In the hear future.
He reiterated, however, Israel's position that the Palestinian Arabs "do have a state on ti major part of the territory of Palestine," namely Jordan, which Is already a Palestinian state "by virtue of Its geography,. demography, history, culture, religion and language."
Therefore, Shamir stated, "there is no need to speak further of self-determination for the Palestinian Arabs r^.. their homeland is already In existence.". .
In his 18-page speech to the assembly, the Israeli foreign minister outlined his country's position on major Mideast questions: the situation in Lebanon, nuclear proliferation and the arms race and other issues of concern for the Jewish state, such as the fate of Soviet Jewry and the treatment of Israel by the United Nations.
Shamir said that Israel had to destroy Iran's nuclear reactor, "before it was to become operational, for its destruction at a later date would have- brought about radioactive fallout endangering the civilian population of Baghdad."
Charging that Iraq planned to produce an atom bomb to be used against Israel, Shamir said that "people in all parts of the world, includ-
the establishment of a nuclear weaponrfree zone, "freely arid directly negotiated among the countries ofthe region and based on mutual assurances on the pattern of a treaty that exists m Latin America."
As for the Lebanese situation, Shamir said that "some 120>600 Lebanese civilians have been the victims of Syrian and PLO activities" In recent years. He said Israel .hopes an independent and free Lebanon will soon re-emerge "and maintain good relations with all its neighbors, including Israel."
But Shamir warned that; "ihis will be very difficult to achieve as long as the PLO Is allowed to nest in Lebanon" and plan its terrorist acts from there and "as long as the Syrian occupation of Lebanon continues."
Referring to the situation of Soviet Jews, Shamir accused the Soviet Union of preventing "many thousands" of Jews from emigrating to Israel.''Over the past year,'' he said, "we have been watching with growing anxiety the steady decrease in the number of Jews leaving the Soviet Union, to the lowest number for the last 10 years." •
Shamir appealed to the Soviet Union "to reopen its gates for Jews who wish to return to their homeland and to cease persecution of Jews In the Soviet Union."
Shamir also expressed concern over^the harassment of Syrian Jewry" and called on the Syrian government "to respect the basic human rights of its Jewish community which it holds as hostage."
[Uzi Keren photo] IsraeU Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamh-
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JERUSALEM [JTA] —
Foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir said his recent 90-minute meeting with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gro-myko (CJN, Oct. 1) was of value but "there is no change" in the Soviet attitude toward Israel.
"1 arn sorrj' Icannot herald any end to the freeze," Shamir said in a radio interview heard in Israel. (Shamir met , with Gromykp at the United Nations.)   . .
Nevertheless, members of the Krfesset delegation just returned from an Inter-Parliamentary Union cohfer-erice in Havaiia, said they found evidence of a thaw in the Communist bloc toward
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-As released by Haig before. the committee, the Saudi assurances  include . agree-
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• To share all intelligence information gathered by the AWACSwiththeU.S.
. • To insure security of the equipment/
• To bar any unauthorized transfer of the intelligence data or equipment to Third World countries without prior U.S. approval.
• To operate the AWACS only within the geographical borders of Saudi Arabia.
• To permit only U.S. and Saudi nationals to-workon the AWACS plane.
The secretary, in his opening statement, said that an American presence "in the aircraft or on the ground;'' will continue "well into the 1990s."
In urging congressional approval, he said the "package of safeguards addresses the most serious concerns expressed in the Senate." .
Haig drew a dire scenario if the. Congress should veto the sale. He warned of a severe setback to U.S.- strategic in-
least 20 MPs; a request to External; Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan to bring up the matter with Soviet counterparts; and a letter to R. L. Rodgers. who is serving as Canadian ambassador-at-large for the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe where human rights has been a controversial item on the agenda.
Peterson told The CJN: "Anyone who believes in the rule of law and human rights will be concerned not only about the two Refuseniks who have been sentto labor camp, but all those others who are also being denied fundamental rights."
By DAVID BIRKAN
TORONTO —
An anonymous survivor has paid more than $50,000 to Inform Canadians of the horrors of Auschwitz.
. Citing only his — or her — prisoner number, B-6418, the former Auschwitz Inmate financed five full pages in Toronto's Globe and Mail last Friday reproducing an article entitled The Kingdom of Auschwitz, written by Otto Friedrich.
' "The cost of running the article nationally with us was more than $40,000." the Globe's advertising director told The Canadian Jewish News. "In, addition," Jim Robertson added,"there were a number of cross-reference promotional ads that cost another $5,000. We placed promotional ads in the Toronto Sun, which totaled $4,000 more.
"We also tried to place the promotional ads.in the (Toronto) Star, but they were refused," said Robertson.
The Star's advertising, director, Norman Kirk, told The CJN that the Globe's ads
were not accepted because "we're not in the business of promoting oiir competitors. It was not because of their content."
Robertson said publication of the Auschwitz article was initiated about a month earT lier with a telephone inquiry. It and the subsequent negotiations two weeks later were conducted by ah intermediary, who also wished to remain anonymous.
Why was the Globe chosen for the article?
"We're read by the intelligentsia, and by people who influence others," said Rob-: ertson.
(Various Jewish and non-Jewish organizations have been increasing their call to have the federal government prosecute Nazi war criminals living in Canada. But the Canadian -Jewish Congress, for one, had nothing to do with the Globe story, according to Yehuda Lipshitz, of the CJC's Ontario Region. "We don't know who placed the ads and the story," said Lipshitz. "But it certainly shows there are some very concerned people.")
Otto Friedrich's article on Auschwitz was originally published in the September issue of The Atlantic Mtnth-ly,.a U.S. magazine of liteirary and political analysis. It was run as .an editorial feature over 30 pages, and not as advertising.
According to Auschwitz commander SS Major. Rudolf Hess, more than 2.500f000 people were killed at the extermination camp. In graphic, detailed! form, Friedrich describes:
• Its transformation from an abandoned Austrian artil-: lery barracks in the sleepy Carpathian foothills of southern Poland into the Nazis* largest extermination camp.
• The role of Hess and his superior Heinrich Himmler.
•:,The introduction of Zyk-lon B gas.
• The social structures of the camp.
• The awareness of what was going on there by 1942 by • the White House, Vatican, Red Cross and Jewish community leaders.
Friedrich's article bears an ■ Atlantic. Monthly copyright.
relations with Israel.
Moshe Shahal. a Labor-Alignment member of the delegation, said that delegates from East Germany and Hungary told the Knesset members that their countries were pressing strongly in. eastern bloc institutions for the restpration of diplomatic relations with Israel which were severed during the Six Day War in 1967. '
Shahal. said these dele-. gates had been "eixplicit in their statements'' which were made in co-ordination -Aith the Soviet Union and that Shamir's meeting with Gro-myko was evidence of such. co-pi:dinatioh.
Shamir said the main value of his talk with Gromykd was the fact that contacts between Israel and the USSR on the ministerial level were renewed after being halted five" years ago. The last Israeli foreign minister to meet with Gromyko was the late Ylgal Allon who served in the Labor-led government.
Shamir said his conversation with the Soviet diplomat "gave the Russians a chance to hear our point of view once ajgain, at first hand." He said the Russians regard Jewish emigration and the "Prisoners ofZion" to be part of thelr ■ policy toward Israel. He said he raised the question of direct air flights from Moscow to Israel for emigrants. Groinvko did not reply direct-
greeting
TORONTO -
Among the Rosh Hashanah greetings to the Jewish community published in the Sept. 28 classified section of the Toronto Star was one from Ernst Zundel and Samisdat Publishers.
Last May, a community-wide protest meeting was held in front of Zundel's premises on Toronto's Cari-ton St. Zundel is claimed to tie an international purveyor of anti-Jewish literature.
Top criminal lawer says;
Can V convitit Ncms thing here
By ARNOLD AGES
terests in the region. TORONTO —
- He quoted at length ft-om      Edward Greenspan, one of
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's latest statement favoring the AWACSdeal. .
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Reagan warning: no interference
President Ronald Reagan's sharp attack against Israeli opposition to his proposed sale of AW^CS-radar aircraft to Saudi^Arabia hasvaroused U.S. Jewish leaders) members of 'Congress and Israeli officials here.
The dramatic Reagan warning at a nationally televised . news conference on Oct. 1, underscored the des-
perate nature of the administration's battle to win congressional approval for the sale.
Only a few hours after the administration formally submitted tiie $8.5 billion package to Congress earlier that morning, all 50 orlgbial co-sponsors of a resolution of disapproval against the sale ' [Cont'd, on page 16]
Canada's top criminal lawyers, has come down Hard on the Liberal government for non-prosecution of Nazi war criminals who reside in Canada. . .i— .
Speaking at a recent prog-' ram sponsored by the Men's Club at Beth Tzedec Synagogue. Greenspan pointed out that 36ycars have elapsed since theendof Worid Warll and yet not one criminal prosecution of the 200 Nazis believed living here has occurred. -■ "Canada's honor has been reduced by the presence of these people holding Canadian citizenship,"Greenspan declared.
. He placed the blame for government inertia squarely on  the  governing Liberal
Party because, he claimed, legislation to act against the Nazis might be interpreted as a gesture against ethnic, groups such as UkrainiansT" . Lithuaniansartdotherminorities. Greenspan claimed the Liberals depend heavily on the minorities for political support.
He said new legislation is required because existing Canadian laws are hiade-quate as, mechanisms tat the successful prosecution of Nazi war criminals. Greenr span said be has come to this conclusion on the basis of Us study of statutes that have been suggested as possible sources for the indictment of Nazis in Canada. ,
He rejected outright that provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1949 could be applied.. Greenspan offered the view that the. Geneva document could be applied
only, prospectively to the-commission of crimes; it has no retroactivity, and is therefore of no use in the"piirsuit of Nazis.
A private member's bill proposed by Robert Kaplan in 1979 to effect an amendment-in the Citizenship Act was , dismissed by Greenspan as a futile attempt to legislate backward. Anyone prosecuted under the provisions of that bill could have the indictment quashed in 10 minutes, according to Greenspan. The Citizenship: Act is useful only in prospective cases, not ones before 1949,. he said.
Greenspan also indicated that the War Crimes Act of 1946 (whicKhe described as more of a. "cabinet regulation" than an^ctual act of Parliament) was couched in terms which preclude its precise application to Nazi
war criminals.
He said the act refers to war crimes but not to genocide or crimes against humanity. The distinction is a very impoTtant one,. expMh-ed Greenspan. The tribunal at Nuremberg-, understood this when it introduced the concept of " crimes- against humanity" in its prosecution of Nazi criminals. : Challenged by a member of the audience on his interpre-tion of the War Crimes Act, Greenspan responded by alluding to the principle that, in thecase of ambiguity in the law, preference is always given to the accused.
According to Greenspan, the Canadian Jewish community has no recourse under our present criminal statutes to move towards the indictment of some Nazi criminals living within our midst. The only legal means would be
through the enactment of a law designating "crimes against humanity" as—an indictable' offense.
Since no criminal sanction IS available against Nazi war: criminals. :_Greenspan suggested that only civil action is possible. He said that Nazis should be identified and publicly exposed.
. Nazis living in Canada should be subject to boycott, he sald^ Companies employ-hig them should be targeted for similar boycotts. A book should be published with photographs and descriptions of the crimes committed by-the Nazis hi question. Neighbors should be apprised ofthe background of theh- Nad neighbors. Leaflets should be circulated totals end even at.the risk of libel action, he suggested. ^
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