Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1992 — Page 40
Where Jesus found his famous sayings Israelis have little love
for her Arabs, poll says
NEW YORK — A book showing that 100 of the beloved sayings of Jesus and dozens more were extracted from the Hebrew Bible has been advertised in a full page in The New York Times Book Review Sunday. It is entitled, "You Are Not Far From the Kingdom of God" and is published
by Second Creation Press.
The advertisement states that the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, love your enemies, etc. all originated from Jewish sources. Editor of the volume is Eugene Schwartz and the advertisement contains "plugs" from Jerome Shestack, past president of the
Peace talks resume, little progress is seen
Jewish Publication Society, Samuel Pisar, who is well-known in Jewish leadership circles, and Alan Segal, Professor of Religion at Barnard College of Columbia University and others. Credited to King David in 1 Chronicles 29.10-11 is "Our Father...in the heaven" which Jesus used as the opening of the Lord's Prayer, and "My holy name....will be hallowed” as God speaking to Moses, which the second phrase of the Lord's Prayer answers with, "Hallowed by thy name,"
etc. etc.
Hanukkah items go to Somalia
NEW YORK — An addition to the bases where the Jewish Chaplains Council of the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America has sent Hanukkah packages this year is the Jewish men in the armed forces now in Somalia. The
WASHINGTON — The peace talks resumed in the face of the kidnapping of an Israeli border guard whose life is at stake and the new ingredient in the cauldron of mideast animosities led Israel's chief negotiator Elyakim Rubinstein to remind the Palestinian delegation that the renewed vio-
lence is directed at them as well as at Israelis. He said the packages and other religious only alternative was to continue the negotiations to a sue- supplies were dispatched to
cessful peace.
Syrian President Hafez Assad put in his two cents worth, contending that Israel was not offering any new pro-
posals.
The chance that the U.S. might get involved was considered slim, although President Bush has offered to address the two sides, a step which Israel opposes, pointing to the agreements launching the talks. Israel has announced that it is willing to discuss the territory on the Golan that it would return to Syria, but expected similar concessions from her. What has stalled the talks heretofore is no doubt what will prevent much progress this time — waiting until the president-elect takes office.
JERUSALEM — A poll that shows anti-Arab racist tendencies among Israelis has stirred up contention, and now a poll with similar results made four years ago and held secret has been disclosed, adding to the discomfiture of everyone. Avraham Burg reported that the poll taken among 500 Israels by the Tel Aviv firm, Teleseker, showed that 40 percent of the respondents condone violence against Arabs and f?vo: activities designed to induce Arabs to leave the country. The older poll, taken among 5000 teenagers, was also damaging. It showed higher levels of hatred in state-run religious schools than in the secular schools. Hatred was lowest in kibbutz schools. There developed an immediate attack on the accuracy of the polls. A group of leading sociologists and pollsters in a joint statement said that the only three questions in the poll were not enough to test opinions on "a very complex issue". Burg had to retreat on his first statement which compared Israeli racism and the current wave of violent hatred in Germany against foreigners. He backed off, but not without getting in the last word. "Forget about .Germany," he said, "forget about France, about the U.S. or any other place, what we have here is a major problem."
First deaf Jewish seminary launched with first student SKOKIE, II. — The first ever seminary to train rabbis for deaf and hearing-impaired Jews has opened here under the direction of Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, the founder of Skokie’s Congregation Bene Shalom, Hebrew Association of the Deaf. The Seminary will be housed at the synagogue, although there is no direct affiliation. "Our purpose is to educate the Jewish deaf so that they can go out to the various Jewish deaf communities in the country and the world and serve as educators in these communities," Goldhamer explained. Also, it gives the opportunity for Jewish deaf to serve as fducators in hearing communities." The faculty includes eight local rabbis, all affiliated with the Conservative movement, except Goldhamer, who is Reform. The first student is a hearing son of deaf parents and is a member of Bene Shalom. Two students from Israel and one from Paris are expected to join the class later this year. Although tuition will be charged, there are arrangements for financial aid. Founded 20 years ago. Bene Shalom is one of the nation's few integrated congregations of deaf and hearing people.
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Camp Pendleton, Ca., for immediate airlift. The Council also sent Hanukkah candles, gifts and menorahs to Korea and other bases, both overseas and domestic, in response to requests from Jewish chaplains and lay
leaders.
Postman fights yarmulke ban SAN DIEGO — A lettercarrier who likes to wear his yarmulke while delivering mail has been told that he must cover it with a cap when on the job. Howard Singer pointed out that many of his colleagues wear Santa caps with no interference from their superiors. "The postal service has been so anti-Semitic toward me for the last 11 years that I just decided to take a stand," he said. Bill Avrunin, 81, federation exec DETROIT — Bill Avrunin, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit from 1964 to 1976, died at the age of 81. He served as executive director of the federation in Ft. Wayne from 1943 to 1945 and was regional director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds for the East Central States Division for the following two
years.
Obituaries Stanley Myers dies at 87 in Miami, headed the CJF MIAMI — Stanley Myers, a past president of the Council of Jewish Federations and the founder of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in 1925, died here at the age of 87. An attorney, he was one of the founders of the Dade County Bar Association. At funeral services, his rabbi. Jack Riemer, was joined by Rabbis Irving Lehrman and Rex Perlmuter in eulogizing the man who unquestionably was a major factor in the development of the local and the national Jewish communities.
Rabbi A.M. Shapiro; was R.A.
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.— Rabbi Alexander M. Shapiro, who served Congregation Oheb Shalom for 20 years and is a past president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, died at the age of 63. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1955, he first served as a chaplain with the U.S. Armed Forces, then took the pulpit of Temple Beth Tikvah, Erdenheim, Pa., before coming to South Orange. He spent two years in Israel, teaching at the BenGurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew Univer-
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