Wagesloirely fight on definit|on of Jew
BY RABBI MARVIN HIER Special to The Bulletin
LONDON — Perhops one of the more importont legal cases of the decade affecting World Je^ry was tried ot the London Law Courts in the Queen's building in the presence of only three British Jews, your correspondent, and two students from the Yeshiva University Summer Tour who were passing through London on their way to Israel.
RABBI MARVIN HIER . . covers London trial
Marcus Shloimovitz, a small elderly, courageous British Jew, who has undertaken to challenge the Clarendon Press (publishers of the Oxford Dictionary) definition of a Jew, appeared before a bewigged justice to plead for ttie removal of a definition which debases the name Jew. Shloimovitz, a small, conservatively dressed man, was more than delighted to see me. He shook my hand with warmth and
remarked, "Isn't it strange that North American Jews appear more interested than my own British Jewry."
Shloimovitz was incensed over the former Oxford Dictionary definition of Jew as an "Extortionate usurer; driver of hard bargains, incredulous person; v.t. (colloq.) cheat, over-reach." He is equally infuriated by the new
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GAIN MORAL VICTORY IN DEFINING JEW DISPUTE
LONDON — The foiu'-year-old legal fight by a Manchester businessman to have the Oxford English Dictionary drop what he considered derogatory definitions of the word "Jew" has been lost. But a moral victory was won when Robert Burchfield, editor of the dictionary, said the 1975 supplement would include an historical note explaining the origin of the disputed definitions. Rumanian-born Marcus Shloimovitz had objected to definitions of Jew as "to cheat or over-reach in the way attributed to Jewish traders or usurers" and "a grasping or extortionate usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains and deals craftily."
High Court Judge Sir Reginald Goff ruled that the 66-year-old textile merchant had not proved he suffered personally from the definitions. Shloimovitz said he would not appeal the ruling. Clarendon Press, publisher of the dictionary, promised not to collect the $3,000 in costs the court awarded against Shloimovitz.
ISRAEL BRIEFS
SHABBOT SHALOM, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1973—-TAMMUZ 20, 5733
Soviets plant spies amoiifi Jewish eiiiigres
WASHINGTON — Authorities in Jordan have found documents showing that the Soviet government is using Soviet Jewish emigrants to establish a spy network in Israel, according to the Beirut newspaper L'Orient-De Jour. The documents were ibund in the Soviet Aeri^lot^ aijcliner .^hat crashed Tnnp m at Anmiah airport. "These^M-cuments are reported to deal vrith a network of Soviet agents implanted in Israel through the channel of Jewish immigration," the newspaper reported.
Baghdad regime still murders, tortures Jews, refugees assert
HKOINIK SENTENCE EDUCED TO 7 YEAIS
LONDON — A Soviet Supreme ourt has reduced the sentence f Isaac Shkolnlk from ten to seven ears, Jewish sources in the Soviet nion reported recently.
The sources said that Shkolnik's ppeal was heard in closed ession.
The 37-year-bid Jewish mech-nic from Vinnitsa, Ukraine, was entenced   on  April  11 after
closed trial found him guilty f spying for Israel and anti-Soviet ropaganda.
No proof was presented at the 'al thathe was ever in possession f secret information he allegedly assed to Israel.
NEW YORK — The widow of an Iraqui Jew hanged in Baghdad four years ago, charged here recently that Jews in Iraq continue to, be murdered, kidnapped and tokttred by the iTaqi government.
Mrs. Adile Dafel. 38, who said she managed to escape from Iraq a few months ago, appeared at a private press conference arranged by the Committee of Concern for Jews in Arab Countries, an organization headed by Gen. Lucius Clay. U.S. Army Ret.
Appearing with Mrs. Dalai was an Iraqi Jewish youth in his 20s who said he was spirited out of Iraq recently by a professional smuggler who charged him $500.
The young man identified him.-self as David Abraham, a pseudonym he assumed to protect members of his family still in Iraq.
He and Mrs. Dalai said they were here to "tell the world about the worsening condition" of the remaining 350 Jews in Baghdad.
Mrs. Dalai, speaking fluent English, described her personal ordeal. She said the harassment of Iraqi Jews started im.mediately after the Baa'th regime took power in July, 1968. She said her husband, Yitzhak Dalai, was arrested on
OPPOSE TESTS
JERUSALEM — Premier Golda Meir replied to a telegram from Premier Norman Kirk of New _ Zealand that Israel backs his
Vol. XL, No. 28-^$10.00 per year, this issue 25c   country's opposition to French
nuclear tests in South Pacific.
FULL lOLIVIA ENVOY
JERUSALEM — Israel is upgrading its representation in Bolivia from Charge d'Affaires to full Ambassador and the Bolivian government has sent a resident Ambassador to Jerusalem.
GREET BAHAMAS
JERUSALEM — Premier Meir extended Israel's felicitations to Premier Lyndon 0. Pindling of the Bahamas, former British Crown Colony which recently achieved independence.
MACCABIAH
TEL AVIV — Eighteen hundred Jewish athletes from all over the world paraded before 50,000 spectators in Ramat Can stadium as President Ephraim Katzir officially opened the ninth Maccabiah — the world Jewish Olympic games.
BUFFALO PLAYS DOWN ALLEGED NAZI PROBLEM
BUFFALO, N.Y. ~ A Jewish community spokesman dismissed as exaggerated recently a local press "report that Buffalo faces "a serious Nazi problem."
The spokesman told reporters that while there had been "two or three cases" recently of Nazi activity, only a tiny number of people were involved and "the matter is well in the hand of Buffalo County and federal law enforcement authorities."
Jan. 4, 1969 by "four people with tommy-guns who knocked on our door in the evening of that day."
She said she had no word from her husband from that time until Aug. 24, 1969 when she heard on tine raidio that-he was about-to be hanged.
Dalai was 43 at the time of his death.
"I was not allowed to see him before he was executed, No rabbi was called to the death scene. He did not get a proper burial," Mts. Dalai said.
She said that when she visited the supposed site of his grave two days later, she found it vanda-
lized.
Mrs. Dalai and her two sons and David Abraham arrived in the U.S. from London recbntly.
Abraham said tiiat a few months ago X$ members of his family -(tirsappeared in Baghdad and the rest of his family has had no news of their fate since then.
According to the two refugees, the oiily way to aid Jews in Iraq is by the pressure of world opinion in the Iraqi government.
They said the harassm.ent of Jews is a tactic of the Baghdad regime "to divert the attention of the public from the conflict within the Baa'th regime."
U.K. claims Royal Visit to UAR no slight to Israel
LONDON,— A Foreign Office spokesman said that Britain's bid for closer ties w^ith Egypt and other Arab states was not at the expense of friendship with Israel. The spokesman referred to the recent announcement that Princess Margaret will visit Egypt next Nov. 5-9 — a trip she will be making at the Foreign Office's behest. Israel, the spokesman said, "need not assume that this gesture, and close relations with Arab countries in general, are at the expense of Anglo-Israel friendship." He said it was British policy to maintain friendly ties with both sides in the Mideast conflict and to work for reconciliation.
ifOm URGES AHHHiSTY FOR VIETHAHH DISERURS
ATLANTA — Delegates to the 'entral Conference of American abbis, here recently for the 84th nnual   convention,   overwhelm-
gly adopted a resolution calling pon Congress to grant uncon-'tional amnesty to those men who efused to serve in the Vietnam ar either by accepting prison entences,   deserting  or going
underground.
The. Reform rabbis, who have a long record of opposition to the Vietnam war, called upon Congress "to grant unconditional amnesty as an act of reconciliation and compassion that can help to speedily reunite the American people for the key tasks of justice and peace which lie ahead."
Iraq, Syrian Jewry face extinction unless aided
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LAUSANNE — The international president of B'nai B'rith, the worldwide Jewish service organization, expressed concern here over the increasingly desperate plight of Jews in Iraq and Syria and called for the massive intervention of world leaders.
David Blumberg of Knoxville, Tenn., addressing the annual meeting ofthe International Council of B'nai B'rith, declared that unless there is outside intervention, it is only a question of time before both of these beleaguered communities — hostages of the Middle East conflict—disappear.
"There is incontestable evidence," he said, "that the barbaric anti Jewish policies of these governments stand in clear violation of the provisions of article 2 of the U.N. Genocide Convention, which defined genocide as acts committed  with  the  intent to
destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group."
Blumberg made an urgent appeal to the U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and all friendly governments" to intercede immediately on behalf of the Jews in these countries.
About 50 delegates, representing 40 countries, attended the two-and-a-half-day session. It was the first time in nearly a decade that the Council has met on the European continent.
Dr. William A. Wexler of Savannah, Ga., chairman of the Council, urged the U.S. government to exercise caution in its planned sale of Phantom jets to Saudi Arabia and possibly Kuwait.
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DAVID BLUMBERG . . . urgent appeal
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