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Gola^s ad campaign has hit the wrong spot with aharedi (ultra-Orthodox) court, threateniiig the soft^rink company with loss of its kashrut certificate on the eve of its Israeli premiere.
The advertisemerit, headlined "10 million years of evolution led to this," featured a row of creatures; fromanape to a caveman to a modern athlete, holding a can of the American soft drink, which had been
licensed to the local Tempo beverage company.
The Eda Haredi rabbinical court in Jerusalem, which, along with the chief rabbis of Holon and Neta-nya, had granted the kashrut certificate, denounced the ad and threatened to- revoke the certificate and excommunicate the company. The Eda Haredi, which believes in the biblical version of creation, called the Darwinian ad an "abomination,"
'blasphemy" and "catas-
. Tempo owner Avraham Bornstein, himself Orthodox, quickly apologized and said he would withdraw the ads, But it was top late to pull them, froni weekend papers, which had already been printed. The ads also appeared on billboards.
However, Tel Aviv advertising professionals speculated that Pepsi would be willing to forego certifica-
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SYRIA WARNED ON HEZBOLUIH
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Reminding Syria that it is part of the current peace process, Israel has demanded that Damascus restrain Hezbollah and other "warlike" elements in Lebanon from attacking Israeliand allied targets or face a ''dangerous situation."
The warning wa^^^^^ Minister David Levy as the
Israeli air force and Israel Defence Force artillery continued to pound Hezbol^ lah targets. He said Israc;! demanded an '"unequivocal statement" from Damascus as a first step, to be followed by concrete action.
According to the Israelis, Syria is in de facto control in Lebaiipn, and activities of Islamic fundamentalists there, such as the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, could not take place without its "backing and protection." . Lieyy spoke to reporters after news agencies reported that Syriaii groundfire wa§ aimed at IsraeH aircraft strafing Hezbollah positions
tipn.in order to stay with its "New Generation" image, the Jerusalem Post reported. "This campaign ignores the sensitivities of a good 20 percent of the Israeli consumer market," said a /iflr^fi/ marketing advisor.
For the Gitan advertising agency, which created the ad, there was one piece of good news: Pepsi headquar-teirs in the United States expressed interest in the IsraeH-madead, Israel radio reported.
in southern Lebanon. Israeli military sources quoted by the army radio denied knowledge of such ground-fire. V ;\;
But the.Israeli air force reported anti-aircraft fire
from Syrian-controlled batteries at planes flying over Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. The air force said a 11 planes returned safely to their bases.
In Washington, the state department said that it/was. "deeply concerned about the
recurrence of violence in southern Lebanon." Said Richard Boucher, the department's deputy spokesman: "We are in touch with the Israeli, the Lebanese and the Syrian governments on this latest escalation of violence, and we have onc^e again reit^ erated the need to exercise maximum restraint"
Boucher said the reqiiest for restraint is also being passed through third parties to the Hezbollah. He urged SYRIA- Page 15
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The second fatal stabbing of a Jew by an Arab last week has setoff a new wave of fury in Israel, adding to the anti-Arab rage that followed the first murder.
The latest victim was Rabbi Shimon Biran, rabbi of Kfar Darom, a Jewish.settlement in .the Gaza Strip. Biran, 32, the father offoui-, was attacked as he left the settlement gates and was about to cross the street.
His assailant, identified as Ahmad Ibrahim Ahmed, 19, a reisident of the nearby Arab town of Deir el-Balah, was captured after a brief chase in which he was STABBING - Page 15
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By KAREN SLOAN
V Domestic violence occurs as frequently in the Jewish community as outside it, but Jewish victims are far less likely to report abuse than non-Jews, says Neri Braverman Tischler of Vancouver's Jewish Family Service Agency.
"A Jewish woman is stuck," she explained. "She*s ashamed to go to someone in-the community, since abuse isn't supposed to happen here. And she's even more hesitant to go outside the community for fear of bringing shame to Jews and fuelling anti-Semitism."
Tischler led a workshop entitled "Domestic Violence: Abuse of Jewish Women" as part of
League for Conservative Judaism, Pacific Northwest Branch.
About 100 women of all ages from B.C., AJberta, Washington and Oregon attended the May 4 session at the Sheraton Plaza 500.
Many victims feel that abuse is a self-reflection^ and this feeling is even more common among Jewish women, Tischler remarked. "If I'm a battered woman^ how can 1 possibly
believe that there's any other reason for this abuse except that there must be something wrong with me? Je)vish men don't do this — I'm responsible."       ^r—;
Tischler, who received her Bachelor's degree in Social Work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Master's at McGill in Montreal, told her audience that her aim is to increase awareness of domestic violence in the cojnmun-ity and to dispel myths surrounding it.
She defined abuse as any behavior by a woman's parther designed to threaten, control or intimidate her, "It's primarily based on the inducement of fear."
^ Abuse can be emotional, physiical or sexual, she explained, and includes insults, threats, control of social life and/or finances, injury, destruction of property, withholding of sex and
The JFSA counsellor pointed to studies claiming that among nori-Je\ys, an average of one in seven vyomen is abused by her partner. Among Jews, the averaged ratio is the same.
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