Anti Semitic Acts

And so we find that it is not poverty or illiteracy that begats bigotry. Take USC's Kappa Sigma fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority--tragic proof that knowledge does not begat wisdom. My parents taught me that no whole ethnic or religious group was to be applauded or condemned, but rather that one must judge humanity one by one. Too bad some of Kappa Sigmas and Pi Beta Phis parents didn't do likewise. ILEYNE SUGARMAN FLEISHER Encino

You don't have to be a professional psychologist to know that a "slip of the tongue" often reveals one's true feelings, which one would rather conceal. The TV film clip of Dornan ranting his passionate hatred of Soviet-Communist Posner clearly indicates that--under time pressure and his own high emotion--Dornan's anti-Semitic feelings overcame him, and--his inner censor asleep--he "slipped" and screamed the words ". . . disloyal, betraying little Jew." I believe that Lehrer's defense of Dornan, even citing the "presence of a Jewish member of Congress from the Democratic Party at Dornan's side at his press conference" as evidence that Dornan's intent was "not bigoted" . . . I believe that this defense was absolutely pathetic . If Lehrer truly speaks for the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, it appears to me that he has embraced Dornan simply because he is so radically against the Soviet Union, whose past anti-Semitic practices have prevented so many Jews from emigrating, and encouraged other anti-Semitic acts.

A fraternity and a sorority have been suspended by USC officials after members of both houses, angered by their loss in a Greek Week competition to a predominantly Jewish fraternity, chanted anti-Semitic remarks and painted "Jew Week" on the sidewalk outside the winners' house, school officials said Friday. USC President James H.

The Jewish Defense League this week will begin patrolling two San Fernando Valley neighborhoods that have been the scene of recent anti-Semitic incidents, JDL leader Irv Rubin said Tuesday. Rubin said that the activist Jewish organization decided to start the patrols after the burglary and vandalizing last month of a Van Nuys Hebrew school and the recent painting of swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the Panorama City home of Russian-Jewish immigrants.