Newspaper Page Text
a
*
‘Simchat Torah, 1959
Jewish Museum.
N CE
o
c
(VJ
tx
r\i
\ OQ
in
*—4
SZ
.
X
_l
o
O
CJ LU
Z2
Z Z
O LU
•—i L>
Z <
H
3
<
z
z
^ o
z
'Jj(-
1—1
X LL
o
cc
z
l-U _)
>—1
X o
o
The Southern Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
VOL. LV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 12, 1979
No. 41
Atlanta Jewish Federation
To Our Sister in Zion, Ida Nudel—
Dear Ida:
Many members of the Atlanta Jewish Community were
privileged to meet your wonderful sister, Elena, when she
visited our town last month. Elena told us of your strength
and resistance.
It has become our tradition to hold a march and rally on
Simchat Torah to let the world know of our oneness with our
Jewish brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union. At the rally
we present a plaque of honor to a member of the world
community whose spirit has contributed to our knowledge
and understanding of the plight of Russian Jewry. It is our
privilege this year to honor you with this plaque. We invite
you to come to Atlanta, Georgia, USA on October 14,1979, to
accept this award.
We admire you and salute you for you have truly become a
symbol of the courage of the Soviet Refusenik movement.
We believe that you do not suffer in vain. In your resistance,
you have joined the ranks of Deborah and Esther, who have
inspired our people and led us forth out of oppression.
We only hope and pray that next year on Simchat Torah you
shall be in Jerusalem.
Yours in Zion,
The Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jewish Community
Terrorism to
--.. ..•**•.
The above letter, sent on behalf of the Atlanta Jewish community,
may never reach Ida Nudel. But there is always a chance.
A copy of the letter was sent to Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin,
asking his assistance by forwarding the letter and helping Nudel to come
to Atlanta to accept the community’s award in person.
For more on Ida Nudel, sec page I4.
Fauntroy withdraws
invitation to PLO chief
by Joseph PolakofT
WASHINGTON (JT A) —
Walter Fauntroy, one of the prime
movers among American black
leaders toward inducing the U.S.
government to deal with the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion, has announced that he has
withdrawn his invitation to PLO
chief Yasir Arafat to visit the U.S.
and has also cancelled a series of 10
“educational forums” on the
Middle East and the Palestinian
question scheduled by the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC).
Fauntroy, who is chairman of
the SCLC board and the District
of Columbia's delegate to the
House of Representatives, and
Rev. Joseph Lowery of Atlanta,
president of the SCLC, had both
met with Arafat in Beirut last
month and indicated that they
would receive from Arafat a
promise that the PLO will cease its
terrorist activities. Fauntroy's
announcement Sunday followed a
six-point message to the SCLC
from Arafat indicating that the
PLO would observe a cease-fire in
south Lebanon but would engage
in renewed hostilities against
Israel.
The PLO statement was issued
after Rev. Jesse Jackson left Beirut
last Friday after an I l-day five-
Yasir Arafat hosts
nation Mideast tour which
included Israel, Egypt, Jordan.
Syria and Lebanon. Before leaving
Beirut, Jackson, who is the head of
Operation PUSH, claimed that the
PLO had “seized the initiative" by
declaring a cease-fire in south
Lebanon. The declaration,
however, made no mention of
ending terrorist activity against
Israel.
Fauntroy said Arafat's cease
fire declaration was inadequate
and that it does not guarantee an
end to terrorism in Israel or on the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
black leader said on a local radio
interview that “I intend to
withhold any invitation to Mr.
SCLC leaders in Beirut.
Arafat until there is some clear
indication that he is prepared to at
least respond to our initial request
to a moratorium on violence
everywhere, including inside the
nation of Israel."
Fauntroy also said the SCLC
would not launch its education
forums on the Mideast until “we
get a clearer understanding of what
their (PLO) intentions are in
respect to the moratorium."
Regarding the Lebanon cease-fire,
he added, “That for me is not
adequate. It has to be a unilateral
and across-the-board moratorium
including acts of violence inside
Israel." There was no immediate
See Fauntroy page 21
