4 — THE BULLETIN^ Thursday, September 14, 1978
ENCOURAGE ALERTNESS
TEL AVIV — A public commit-tee comprising veterans of War for Independence and lOlst Unit, the first Israeli army conimando unit which carried out raids agaisnt terrorist bases across border in 1950s, has been established to encourage public alertness against acts of terrorism.
Relatives and Friends are advised that the
HEADSTONE
in loving memory of the late
HELEN BUCTHMAN
will take place Sunday, September 17| 12:15 p.m. at the
Schara Tzedeck Cemetery
RabbrV. Winebeii^ and Cantor Nixon will official^
Rel^tiVejs and Friends, are advised that the
in loving memory of the late
will take place Sunday, September 17 at 12:00 p.m. at the
Schara Tzedeck
Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M; Nixon will officiate
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NAOMI TAUSSIG; 16-year-old daughter of Karl and LenI Taussig of Vancouver, visits the Jewish National Fund Martyr's Fores^ memorial plaque placed in the grove established by her parents^i^ memory of her grandparents, Emii and Irma Taussig of Czechoslovakia, who were victims of the Holocaust in 1941. Miss Taussig spent her grkde 10 year at the Hula Valley High school. Kibbutz Kfar Blum. She states: "I very much i^njoyed my year in Israel. My longest lasting singular memory probably is the celebration of Vom Ha'Atzniaut aUdthe real joy and truly personal exhilaration demonstrated by everyone on that very special day."
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"Foreign Miiiister," Archbishop; AgostinoCasaroli^:! seems to imply the continuation fOr the time being of the present Vatican liiie on the Middle East — including friendly though unofficial, relations with Israel.
However, in his first speech. Pope John Paul I said he was**particularly thinking of the tortured land of Lebanon" and also oif **the situation in the land of Jesus."
His predecessors, too, carefully avoided referring to the State of Israel by name, generally referring to it as"Palestine," or"the Holy Und,*' thus implying its sacred connotations for Judaism and Islam, as well as for Christianity.
The term "land of Jesus" has been interpreted by some observers as a more exclusive reference to its significance for Christianity.
This term, considered by many to be over-cautious, lends n touch of
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wishful thinking to the message of good wishes sent to the new Pope by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Israel's Ashkehazi Chief Rabbi, in which he expressedi^he hope that Pope Jolin Paul would riecoghize the State of Israel. ^ .
Members of the small Jewish community in Venice do not recall having had many opportunities to meet the Pope when he was the city's archbishop; They remember him as a benevolent main entirely absorbed by his ptastpral duties.
However, he Was a friendly guest of honor at a reception given in Venice ia April, 1977 by the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison committee.
Pope J ohn Paul, who has never been out of Italy, is expected to be a pastoral Pope rather than concentrate on ideological matters as did his two predecessors. He was born in the village of Forno di Canale, in northeast Italy, where his father, a Socialist, was for years a migrant worker before he got a job as a glassblower in Venice.
He worked as a parish priest and then as a teacher on the local leyel and in a seminary. Pope John made him a Bishop and Pope Paul named him Patriarch of Venice in 1969.
In Venice, he allowed thechurches to sell their jewels and precious stones to help the poor. He refused to wear the customary precious ring that went with his office. He recoipmended disciplining priests who spojce out in favor of the Comihunist party or other leftist groups.
Pope John Paul said last year that he had always felt friendly towards the Jews. His mother had once worked as a maid for a wealthy Jewishv familyi' who had always treated her very well, he stated.
Following the election of the new. Pope, the Israeli afternoon paper, "Maariv," republished an interview ■with him in 1972 in which he stated that he "regarded favorably the return of the Jews to Palestine."
He also told his interviewer, Mrs. Geula Cohen, how a Likud Knesset member, that he believed that "after being dispersed for all these years, they (the Jews) are at last entitled to a State of their own."
ALEXANDER PLEADS FOR FATHER
Dear Mr. Kaplan:
I am writing to ask if we can borrow your "GULAG RECORD" to print on the front page of the Calgary Jewish News during the next year. The idea is superb and we would really like to use it.
Thank you for being one of our best sources of information.
Following also is a letter I received recently from Alexander Slepak which I think you and your readers might find interesting.
RENA COHEN, Calgary, Alberta
" Dear Friends, I am writing to you to express my dismay over the present lack of attention and actiop on my father's behalf. All the latest events in the Soviet Union concern-ing the trials were set up by the government in a very calculated way. ■
Taking into account the mentality of Western societies, the Soviets arranged one trial immediately after another, leaving Sharansky's as the last. The West had no tithe to react or protest any of the earlier trials, as with eveiy new trial the attention was moved.
Indeed the West has reacted exactly the way the Soviets had planned. Now we hear only about Sharansky and Ginsburg, and people have already forgotten about preceding sentences, including that of my father, Vladimir Slepak.
He is the one who was helping other Jews for many years. He is the one who was the constant support and a symbbl of the Jewish Emigration Movement in the Soviet Union. People trusted my father and followed him.
All these years, and especially now, one thing keeps him and gives him strength: the knov^ledge that he is not alone, that all people of
YAD VASHEM HONORS SWISS
GENEVA — YadVashem medals were awarded to two Swiss citizens who helped rescue Jews during World War Two.
One medal was awarded to Mrs. Gertrud Lutz, widow of Cari Lutz, who was Swiss Consul General in Budapest during the war. Lutz saved thousands of Jews by giving them Swiss identity papers. Mrs. Lutz helped him in this task. Carl Lutz was awarded the Yad Vashem medal in 1958.
The second medal was given to a Yugoslav now living in Lausanne, Milor Tocitz. During the war, Toeitz was an active member of the Yugoslav resistance movement. He succeeded in evacuating numerous Jewish families from Yugoslavia to Hungary where, at that time, Jews were not yet persecuted.
The ceremony, which was attended by the families of Lutzand locitz and leaders of the Jewish communities in Bern and Lausanne, received wideeoverage in the Swiss press.
VLADIMiR SLEPAK . Isn'tit enough"
goodwill all over the world are standing behind him.,
What can we tell:HiinnOw?:;That his sentence is not as cruel as Sharansky's? That Kisca^e is not so dangerdus? That he- can wait iii prison?
From the moment Antbiy Sharansky became active, and even before that, from the day he decided to emigrate, he >yas always together with my father. They had the same fight and they have the same fate^
These two cases are impossible to separate, because it is the same case.
Therefore, I strongly urge you to contact all organizations, committees, communities and government officials, throughout thcwbrld, with the insistance to raise the case of Slepak together with that of Sharansky. .
After eight :years of' "internal" imprisonqient, to get five years of internal exile. Total: 13 years of suffering, hoping find fighting. Isn't it enough?
He needs ydiir help now.
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