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Let us all turn out Sunday
The community mass rally this Sunday evening cpiild turn out to be a standiiig-rbom-Only affair in this community's largest place of assembly. That same sanctuary, it will be recalled, was also the site of packed-to-overflowing crowds concerned for the State of Israel's existence during the momentous hours of June 1967 and Yom Kippur 1973.
Unlike those previousgatheriiigs, however, this Sunday night's meeting comes not duringa time of war, thank Heaven, but at a time when the isolated and beleaguered Jewish stsfte truly needs a meaningful display of support from its friends.
The event this Sunday has historic significance, for never before has a former American Secretary of State addressed our community. Hi& presence is likely to attract the media, wire service reporters and network TV, particularly since his address will deal with the Middle EasT crisis at a time when the incumbent Secretary of S^tateis scheduled to visit that part of the world. .
In recent years, our Vancouver Jewish conimwiity h^^^ to varying-degrees in
numerous demonstrations called to protestg^iM^ as the Soviet Union's
oppression of Jews and the obscene^^
Now, for the first timd in years, wc; are bdng^asJcedTfcrh^ with our presence... just to'
be counted. (There will be no fund-raising and^ere is no pharge for admission at this mass assembly which launches the 1981 Combined Jewish Appeal.)
Let ail of us, young and old, children and grandparents, realize the historic importace of cur being there to display our love and concern for Israel as well as our respect and friendship for a most distinguished friend of Israel, Senator EdniundMuiskie^
SENATOR EDMUNDJMUSKIE, former U.S. Secretary of State, wiB address tbe VjiDebiiver Jewisb commoiutyaia ouss neetingtiusSanday evening, AprOS. Histaft
The evening bsponscNred by the; Combined |ewish Appeal^ qKAesmen of widcb stressed there b no admission ciuurge and no solicitation for funds.
PLO, Vatican meet createsi reaction
NEW YORK - The American Jewish Congress recently sharply criticized a meeting between high Vatican officials and representatives of the PLO. The Congress also expressed particular concern that the meeting at the Vatican is part of an emerging pattern of Church actions that threaten a deterior--ation of relations between the
. Church and Jews.
Henry Siegrnan. executive director, of Congress, termed **biza[re^ a Vatican ^tateihent
- that'^tlie- meeting between Carditial Casaroli. tlie Vatican
Kadoumi. director of the PLO*s political department, was ar^ ranged so the,Vatican could facquaint itself directly whh the PLO*S views. / .on the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict in its various aspects.'T
/'Can it be possible that in all^ of these years the Vatican has not heard of the PLQVview that the resolution of this conflict lies.in the destruction of Israel?" Mr. Seigman;stated.
SHABBAT SHALOM — THURSDAY. APRIL 2,1981 — ADARIL 27,5741    VOL. XLVHI, NO. 14
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The continuation of Jewry as we know it is still question even 30 years after the Hf»locaust. according to an emin^ntJewisb historian.
Lucy Dawido\^icz indicated: **As time passes, the terrible loss of the Six Million loonis even larger in terms of a long histbncal pcrs^ •tive.'' .--'-^^ :;,;:^T5?:^^:v..
The question ;is. she said here during a /If £f iriteryiew last weelc.
whether the two lai^ cres|ivc   wh^ wes^'designated the mortal bodies, in IsraeUnd Nomi^merica^   enethies 4^1fac^ Retch, ^will go off and develop in their own' < Not even the Gypsies can claim cultural way.** that there was a definitive estab-
They no longer^have the ability to . lished pQlicy regarding their status.
draw from the cultural, human and biological reservoir '-'of ^ Eastern Europe because it hds dried-up through the decimation of two-thirds of European Jewry.
She explained that-it is not yet clear whether the Israeh and North
In certain instances if was decided that they were to be part of the populations among whom they lived. In other instances: they were singled outlfor slaughter.
The author disclosed that on the many occasions when the Nazis
The weeka go b/' slowlly for three Moscow Jews sentenciBd to long prison terms for wanting to leave the country. :
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The Helsinki Agreement which the Sovietgovemmenrslftnetf allows for freedora of emigration. Let ourVotces tettdrs. telegrams and phone calls — express pur protj^t to Vtfesterrt leaders to intercede and to the Soviets to set,them free. .
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Uchr51t0/1 VS, Moscow, USSR.
American Jewish populations will be   engaged in the murder of Soviet^
able 4o interact culturally because they no longer have a "common background and con^monroots.^
The richness, creativity and vitality of the two groups is wha,t will ensure whether or not they are, self-sustaining, self-creative and self-reprcducing"
The author of the acclaimed book The War Against the Jews under-^ scored: "The survival of the Jews is in the very long run imperilled bythe murder of the Eutopean Jews.**
Dawidowicz did not include the Soviet Jews in her thesis. Even though they are the third largest concentration of Jews in Jhe world, she believes their future as Jews, even at this siage. is very fragile and uncertain.
The remnants of European Jewry are old and aging, and they have no biological future, the lecturer asserted.
The essential effect of the Nazi Holocaust on the Jewish People (and this distinguishes ihem from other groups that also suffered under the Nazis), is that they were the only ones to have their culture of 1.000 years of AsHkenazic tradition totally wiped out. The Jews were the only people
prisoners of war or the Polish elite, for instance; they did so for reasons of expediency in order to gain political or military advantage.::
There were basically four methods for the Nazis to consolidate power overa region.and leave a people ]^aderless/"They killed the military leaders, the political leaders, the church leaders and the. educators.** Dawidowicz stressed: "No other group: except the Jews, was slated
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TEL AVIV — Tuvia C^hfi, 45. -named by, a court Jast yearas biK,4rf the leaders of organized crime; m. IsraeK has been sentenced to Iffe imprisonment after being convicted of tlie  murder  of two  otiwr ^ i/nderworld figures last July. ' ' '
Evacuate Jews from Temb of Patriarchs
JERUSALEM—Israel Defense Force soldiers evacuated a group oi -Kiryat Arba- residents friunu^the Tomb of the Patriarchs recently. TJbc group had come to pray at theTpjqp$ despite a ban on Friday prayers fcfr Jews. Friday is the Moslem Sabbttb and the day isreservedforthem^Tiie evacuation led to'a scuffle between the soldiers aiid settleis, but no.«ae"-was hurt. JTAl
PERES MEETS KING ittSSAttl
TEL AVIV — Israel Television disclosed recently that Labor Party leader Shimon^Peres held n lengthymeeting with King Hassan of Morocco in Morocco. Peres had earlier niet with a. brother nf Jordanian King Hussein in Londoni The television report said that; Peres met with Hassan atone arid outlined his Labor Patty*s "Jordanian option.** Thekinginquiredabout the status of Jerusalem and Peres reportedly told him a L^bor government would «»ifef4o implement autonomy firstln the Gaza Strip, and would be feady to discuss Jerusalem with Saudi Arabia. :
Peres is reported to have gained the impression'from his talk's with Hussein*s brother that Jordan did not completely reject the Labor Party!s**Jordanian option"'' but would disclose its attitude only-if official talks were held. JTA. -
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