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Ghali’s Jewish wife could be a factor? UNITED NATIONS — By an odd reversal of logic, fear is being expressed that the next secretary-general of the U.N. may wish to show his strong Arab allegiance and thus lose the impartiality his office requires as he fulfills his duties because he is married to a woman who was born Jewish. Bhutres Ghali, the first Arab in that post, was born in 1922 to a family with a strong tradition of government service. He was a Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, and met his wife, Leah Nadler, while earning a doctorate in international law in Paris. She later converted to Christianity. Ghali accompanied Sadat on his visit to Jerusalem and was involved at Camp David and the peace treaty. Ghali told Yediot Acharonot, the Israel daily that "in the office of the UN Secretary General your loyalties as obligations to your homeland vanish, adding that "on the Israeli issue, it's definitely possible that I can improve the ties between Israel and the U.N. From my position in the past 14 years, I recognize well the problem of the Middle East." Reading newspapers Is banned by Yosef chief rabbi of Israel, proclaimed a ban on the press. He called on pious Jews to refrain from reading newspapers because they contain "heresy and contempt for the Torah and the sages."

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Facing up to anti-Semtism prevails at Committee meet PITTSBURGH — If the program of the American Jewish community in fighting anti-Semitism that was discussed at the annual national executive council meeting here of the American Jewish Committee were to be adopted it would be to fight the problem frontally while also redoubling efforts to resolving the social tensions that produce urban tensions. While not a new program, its importance rests in the acceptance of fighting anti-Semitism with everything possible as the priority. Meanwhile Sanford Solender, executive vice-president of the UJA-Federation of New York, told the meeting that New York "can anticipate more racial unrest during the next 18 to 24 months" when it will be hosting the 1992 Democratic presidential convention and a potentially divisive mayoral election in 1993. Robert Rifkind, chairman-elect of the Committee's board of governors, said that "Crown Heights was not an isolated affair, but a dramatic instance of threat that we have been hesitant to face — a threat to Jews, a threat to blacks and a threat to America." Gary Rubin tied the problem together when he said that "First the violence and anti-Semitic ravings must be denounced by all communities in the U.S. Public antiSemitism is intolerable." Rubin is the Committee's director of national affairs. Israel badly mismanaging absorption of Russian Olim JERUSALEM — The plan that the Jewish Agency had announced to settle Soviet olim in four new farm communities in the Negev was demolished by Natan Sharansky as "absolutely irrelevant" to the needs of the Soviet immigrants. The leader of the Soviet Jews in Israel pointed out that "Soviet newcomers will go wherever jobs are available, but few are interested in becoming farmers and how many can be employed growing tomatoes?" The Jewish Agency plan calls for each of the new settlements to house 250 families. Sharansky, who heads the Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum, blamed Israel for grossly mismanaging the aliyah process. "Deepening unemployment, soaring costs of commercial mortgages and lack of basic cash to pay for daily necessities," he said, "are placing impossible strains on Soviet olim who are gripped by growing disillusion and despair." Sharansky didn't mince his words. He described the government as a collection of uncoordinated fiefdoms. "The government’s left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing," he said.

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