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Lodge President Confirms TJP Charge On B. B'rith Advertising Percent. . .See Jess Jawin and Page 19
VOLUME 42 NO. 7
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1987 13 SHEVAT 5747
20 PAGES 50tf PER COPY
jess jawin California Connection
The Texas Jewish Post has been conducting an aggressive and infor-
mative series of news stories concerning practices of B’nai B’rith District 7
and their solicitation of advertising for the B’nai B'rith Voice through a con-
tractual arrangement with the Howard Publishing Company of Los
Angeles, California.
B’nai B’rith is a charitable fraternal non-profit organization. It's District 7
publication which, previous to the fall of 1986, did not solicit advertising, is
circulated under a special non-profit mailing privilege with the United
States Post Office.
The District and the publication also has a tax-exempt status as a non-
profit charitable organization and the B’nai B’rith Voice has the same ad-
vantage.
In essence, District 7, which condones the practices of its publication,
B’nai B’rith Voice, has engaged in a contract which gives Howard
Publishing Company 80 percent of the gross proceeds from the solicitation
for B’nai B’rith. This leaves 20 percent of the gross for B’nai B’rith. B’nai
B’rith has to pay for publishing, printing and a host of other expenses from
the 20 percent, the bottom iine of the operation amounts to a scam
because B’nai B’rith has contracted to let a private profit-oriented
promotional organization use the treasured name of a worthy organization
to raise money under the guise of advertising.
The Texas Jewish Post has illustrated communities which have fewer
than 100 members in which thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of
advertising have been sold under the B’nai B’rith banner to unsuspecting
advertisers who thought the bulk of the funds were going to B’nai B’rith.
Moreover, these people were told they were talking to 'B’nai B’rith” in
Dallas when they were actually talking to the promoters of the souped-up,
high pressured sales presenters who were in Los Angeles, California. One
advertiser was told B’nai B’rith gets “100 percent” of the proceeds.
The Texas Jewish Post has asked for copies of any contracts and details
of the B’nai B’rith Voice-Howard Publishing Company operation. It has also
asked for copies of the B’nai B’rith District 7 and the B’nai B'rith Voice
charter, constitution and by-laws. These requests have been refused not
See Jess Jawin Page 19
House Speaker Jim Wright To Address
Fort Worth Action Alert On Soviet Jewry
The Honorable Jim ^ Wright,
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, will be the
guest speaker in Fort Worth
this Sunday, Feb. 15, following
the Soviet Jewry Action Alert
sponsored by the Isadore Gar-
sek Lodge of B'nai B'rith. The
program will begin with "A
Walk To Freedom,” starting at
INDEX
2 p.m. at The Mollie and Max
Barnett Apartments, 6555
Danciger Jewish Community
Center.
Jews and non-Jews are urged
to participate in the "Walk”
which will express their
solidarity with Jews in the
USSR denied their human
PAGE
rights. Participants and spon-
sors will also be asked to write
two letters: one to a public of-
ficial, Congressman, president
or Premier Gorbachev, and the
second to a Russian citizen
who has expressed a desire to
leave the Soviet Union but has
been denied this request.
The "Walk” will conclude at
approximately 3 p.m. at the
Westcliff United Methodist
Church, 4833 Selkirk Drive
where Speaker Wright will par-
ticipate in the program.
Sponsors of the program are
B’nai B’rith, National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews,
Westcliff United Methodist
Church and the Jewish
Federation of Tarrant County.
Additional information is
available from Ron Stocker,
923-9684; Jeff Gilbert, 294-
9333 or Herbert Berkowitz,
626-3766.
The Cutting Edge - Shamir Interview................2
Cantorial Diploma Granted To Women................3
Postorials, Opinions, Etc.......................... 4
Dallas Doings.................................5
Weddings, Engagements.........................6
You and Your Health...........................10
Delicious Recipes.............................12
Financial - The 80% Rule.......................13
Around The Town............................. 16
Soviet Jewry Report...........................18
Hostages Exchange
For ROW'S Nears
Although Israel continued to
deny it was playing a part in
negotiations to free three
Americans and one Indian
national who were kidnapped
and were still being held
hostage Wednesday, seasoned
observers believe that Israel is
involved in that attempt
coupled with an exchange for
an Israeli aviator now being
held prisoner.
Beirut Radio has repeated
that the Islamic Jihad has been
negotiating with the Israelis.
Reuters news agency reported
(from Beirut) that the kidnap-
pers, whose name means Holy
War, have given the Inter-
national Red Cross a list of 400
prisoners Israel is holding
which the Jihad wants ex-
changed.
Israeli officials are also
denying that a list has been
presented. Ironically, if the In-
ternational Red Cross is being
used as a go-between, the IRC
still does not recognize the Red
Magen David, Israel’s domestic
counterpart as a member of
their global organization.
The kidnappers are suspec-
ted to be either Lebanese
Shiite Moslems or Palestinians
who believe in the Iranian
brand of fundamentalism, or a
combination of both.
The latest quartet of hos-
tages were kidnapped from
the Beirut University Col-
lege campus January 24. The ter-
rorists had threatened to execute
the prisoners by Monday, Feb.
9 if their demands were not
met. They cancelled that
ultimatum.
The United States has divor-
ced itself from any surrender to
See Hostages page 20
Inna Begun Fears For Husband' s Life
As He's Still Held Captive In USSR
BY DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Inna
Begun urged Americans to help
her husband, Iosif, who is now
on a hunger strike in the Soviet
Union’s Chistopol prison. ”1
am very afraid for my
husband's life,” she said over
the telephone from Moscow to
some 100 Jewish leaders
gathered on Capitol Hill for a
Capitol Hill Action Day for
Soviet Jewry, sponsored by the
National Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ). They were in a
room in a Senate office
building dominated by
photographs of Begun and
other Jewish Prisoners of Con-
science.
Begun, 54, was sentenced in
1983 to seven years in a labor
camp and five years internal
exile for "anti-Soviet agitation
and propaganda” for teaching
Hebrew. He had served two
previous terms of internal
exile. He and his wife have *
been seeking to emigrate to
Israel since 1971.
Inna Begun said she had last
seen her husband in August
1985 and his last letter to her
was in December 1986. She
said he has been on a hunger
strike for three months.
Noting that some political
prisoners have been freed, Inna
Begin said she did not believe
her husband would be
released, as he will never agree
to the demand that he admit
that he is guilty of the charges.
She said she and her son,
Boris, accompanied by other
long-time refuseniks, would
begin picketing Monday for two
hours a day to demand that her
husband be set free and that
they be allowed to immigrate
to Israel.
U.S. To Raise Begun's Plight
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), co-
chairman of the Commission
on Security and Cooperation in
See Wife Of Page 20
Shirman Cancer Researcher, Receives
Bone Marrow Transplant, Outcome Dim
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Soviet
immigrant Michael Shirman,
whose battle against leukemia
captured headlines worldwide,
has been released from the
Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center after receiving
a bone marrow transplant.
Doctors at the Medical Cen-
ter were guarded in assessing
Shirman's chances for total
recovery after he received bone
marrow donated by his sister,
Inessa Fleurova, in a complex
transplant operation January 3,
although they described his
initial response to the
procedure as "amazing” and
said that his white blood cell
count is normal.
But Dr. Shimon Slavin, head
of the Medical center's Bone
Marrow Transplant Depar-
tment, cautioned that in dif-
ficult cases such as Shirman’s
the disease is likely to return.
It will be at least six months.
Slavin said, before doctors can
accurately predict his chances
for a full recovery.
Shirman, a cancer resear-
cher, attracted world attention
when Soviet authorities denied
his sister permission to im-
migrate to Israel to attempt to
save her brother's life. Doctors
feared her arrival in November
was too late to help Shirman,
whose condition had
deteriorated over the inter-
vening months.
Medical Center specialists
will keep Shirman under close
watch over the coming months,
they said. The Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical
Center is Israel’s official bone
marrow transplant center, and
its physicians and researchers
have won international
recognition for their advances
in matching donors and
recipients and in preventing
rejection and post-operative in-
fections.
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