Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 2003 — Page 16

NAT 4 January 22. 2003

Boycott call spurs backlash

Obituaries Sigal B. Wilzig; founding director of Cardozo Law

NEWARK, N.J. - Sigal B. Wilzig, a Holocaust survivor who became president of the Wilshire Oil Company of Texas and was a supporter of many Jewish causes, is being mourned. He was founding director

and fellow of the Cardozo School of Law and of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial. The Wilzig Family matched all donations to the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and The Shoah Foundation of Los Angeles.

LONDON — A backlash has begun among scientists who oppose calls for a boycott of Israeli academics. The journal Nature was to publish an article this week in which a group of Oxford University scientists condemns such boycotts. The issue exploded into

public concern when Mona Baker, a professor of translation studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, fired two Israelis from the editorial boards of journals she edits. The British Medical journal condemned the boycott in the strongest possible

terms in its first issue of the year. Baroness Susan Greenfield, who heads the Royal Institution, Britain's oldest independent research body, warned last month that a successful boycott actually could cost lives by impeding medical research.

Albert Edelman, 86; former Javits partner

New Jewish lawmaker savvy

BRONXVILLF, N.Y. - Albert I. Edelman, former law partner of Senator Jacob J. Javits, died at the age of 86. He was an international attorney and had served as a lieu-

JFRUSALEM — Ann Roth Weinreb, veteran New York City lecture agent, died here at the age of 85. Ms. Weinreb had retired to Jerusalem in 1996. She had operated the Public Affairs Lecture Bureau from 1960 to 1980 and represented such notable personages as Angie Brooks, former president of the UN General Assembly; former senators Eugene McCarthy

tenant commander in the Navy in World War II. He was a taistee and general secretary of the Benjamin Franklin Foundation, which was formed to assist in the reconstruction of Germany.

and Estes Kefauver; former congressman James Roosevelt; presidential aspirants Harold Stassen and Norman Thomas; educator Ernest van den Haag; Bible scholars David Neiman and Rabbi Seymour Seigel; foreign policy specialists Hans J. Morgenthau and Don Peretz; musician Siegfried Landau; journalist Edward Wakin; New York Times psychology writer Lucy Freeman, and many others.

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois is a House freshman, but much more than a novice when it comes to Washington politics, as he showed in the first meeting of the Democratic caucus. Democrats were pondering the best path to oppose the economic stimulus package President Bush has proposed. Emanuel, who was a longtime Clinton aide-turned-congressman, put the argument simply: "The Republican program is all about the stock market, and the Democratic program is all about the job market," he said. His

phrasing has been often reiterated by others since then. With 20 years of experience in national politics, Emanuel, 43, showed he has learned his lessons well. He and his wife, Amy, are active members of a modern Orthodox congregation, Anshe Shalom, in Chicago. He traces his political start from his days at Sarah Lawrence College, when he joined the congressional campaign of David Robinson of Chicago. He was a top aide to Clinton on Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign at age 32. Later, as a top White House aide, Emanuel's take-

no-prisoners attitude earned him respect and the nickname "Rahm-bo." A nasty primary battle included a rare public case of anti-Semitism when the president of the Polish American Congress, Ed Moskal, who was supporting candidate Nancy Kaszak, claimed that Emanuel was an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli army. Emanuel had served a noncombat stint as a volunteer in the Israeli army during the Gulf War, but had not held Israeli citizenship. He responded by assembling a coalition of Chicago clergy to denounce the slurs.

Israeli politics do-it-yourself

Ann Roth Weinreb dies in Jerusalem

Saul Amarel, 74; a leader in computer development

PRINCETON, N.J. - Saul Amarel, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, died at the age of 74. Amarel founded the computer department at Rutgers University, then took a leave

from Rutgers for a few years to direct a computer science program at the Pentagon. He was a graduate of the Israel Institute of Technology and fought in Israel's War of Independence.

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NEW YORK — Israelis are in the midst of their political season — but this time with scant American participation. In the past Americans have participated as consultants, activists, and campaign donors. They've helped Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak. This year Israeli candidates have become wary of soliciting foreign contributions — which are illegal under Israeli law

once the election date has been determined. Media reports indicate would-be contributors or activists from the United States have been discouraged by skittishness over scandals relating to foreign financial contributions, which Israeli authorities have investigated more aggressively in recent years, among other factors. While the foreigners' contributions generally didn't break

any laws at home, they might have been illegal at the receiving end, so this has changed the situation. According to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, it's better that foreigners are not intervening in Israeli elections — just as we would not want foreigners intervening in American elections.

Astronauts seek pollution solution

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — By producing soot in space, air pollution and less lung disease. Israeli Ilan Ramon joined an they eliminated the rising of The astronauts also made American astronaut Sunday in hot air and slowed the reac- photographs of Earth's oceans setting small fires inside their tions inside flames. to get images of dust plumes orbiting laboratory for a scien- Hopes are that better under- and donated blood for other fifip study of soot. standing of soot c^n lead to less studies. ' 'A < r i <- >i c .. . .1 f’ ■ i'v'/ -v • < j ,f. •' ■ • r', r'f /t - ' r . . , . . ‘ 4 I •