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in Detroit - now WWJ-TV - arguing that the network was not fit to receive

the license because it had aired a distorted news program.

Serafyn, an American of Ukrainian ancestry who is retired and living in

Detroit, had submitted evidence to the FCC involving his allegation about

the broadcast, entitled, "The Ugly Face of Freedom." The FCC denied

Serafyn's petition for a hearing, saying it would not investigate an

allegation of news distortion without "substantial extrinsic evidence."

The court said the FCC misapplied its standard for holding a hearing

because it required Serafyn to demonstrate that CBS intended to distort

the news rather than merely requiring that he "raise a substantial and

material question of fact" - a less demanding test.

CBS attorneys asserted there was no evidence the network intentionally

distorted the segment. In addition, they said the FCC has never revoked

a broadcast license on such grounds.

The broadcast angered some viewers who believed that parts had been

designed to give the impression that all Ukrainians harbor a strongly

negative attitude toward Jews, the court said.

"This is basically an effort on the part of the Ukrainian community,"

said Arthur Belendiuk, Serafyn's attorney. "The case is not so much

about Mr. Serafyn as it is about a community that felt horribly maligned

by what was said."

After the FCC revisits the case, the commission has several options: It

could issue a new order that basically upholds its 1995 order but

provides more details on how the decision was reached; it could order a

hearing on the matter; or it could ask interested parties to comment and

then it could issue a new order, the FCC attorney said.

Whatever the commission ultimately decides is likely to be appealed by

the losing party, Belendiuk and other attorneys said.

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Rabbi David H. Lincoln Ukrainian Weekly 30October94 A New York rabbi's response

Rabbi David H. Lincoln of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York was among the first to object to the 60 Minutes

broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom of 23Oct94. Rabbi Lincoln has had a longstanding interest in Ukraine, inherited

from his father, as is explained in the discussion of The Ukrainian Question in 1935.

Everything below is from the Ukrainian Weekly.

A New York rabbi's response

Following is the text of a letter sent on October 25 to the CBS program "60 Minutes" by Rabbi David H. Lincoln of

the Park Avenue Synagogue. The letter is reprinted here with the permission of Rabbi Lincoln, who last year traveled

to western Ukraine.

Park Avenue Synagogue

50 East 87 Street

New York, N.Y. 10125

Mr. Jeffrey Fager, Producer

CBS "60 Minutes"

524 West 57th Street

New York, NY 10019

Dear Sir:

I feel that your program on Lviv and Ukrainians was most unfair.

To show boy scouts and say they are Nazis marching, to translate "Zhyd" as kike (in western Ukraine Zhyd is the

word for Jew), to infer that the word for nation - "natsiya" - might mean Nazi etc., etc.
– is most upsetting to many

of us who know today's Ukraine.

It really is time for us to enjoy the resurgence of Jewish life in Ukraine after the horrors of the German

occupation and communism, and to appreciate the heroic efforts of the Ukrainian people and government to assist the

Jewish community in all their endeavors.

The history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations often tragic is a complicated one, but you would have done well to have

informed the public of the better aspects of those contacts. For instance, Ukraine was the sole independent nation

that had complete Jewish national autonomy (1917) and had Yiddish-speaking ministers in the government representing

the rights of minorities.

Today, when Russian Jews send their children to Ukraine for safe keeping in times of danger, no good can come

from distortions such as those portrayed in your program.

Yours faithfully,

Rabbi David H. Lincoln

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Jerzy Kosinski: Grand Calumniator of Poland

Jerzy Kosinski

who the world understood to have been To Hell and Back

The Audie Murphy of the Holocaust

turned out to be little better than the

Grand Calumniator of Poland

Holocaust Witness Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski was once to Poland what Simon Wiesenthal is today to Ukraine. Jerzy Kosinski was the grand calumniator of Poland;

Simon Wiesenthal is the grand calumniator of Ukraine. The Poles have been successful in discrediting their grand calumniator; the Ukrainians

are too timid to attempt to discredit Simon Wiesenthal. The present web page is dedicated to understanding Jerzy Kosinski, to

congratulating the Poles, and to giving courage to Ukrainians.

Who was Jerzy Kosinski? Jerzy Kosinski was born Jerzy Lewinkopf to Mojzesz (Moses) Lewinkopf and Elzbieta Lewinkopf (maiden name

Elzbieta Wanda Weinreich). Six significant dates in Jerzy Kosinski's life were:

1933 born in Lodz, Poland

1959 entered USA on a student visa

1960 published The Future is Ours, Comrade, under pseudonym Joseph Novak

1968 won the National Book Award for The Painted Bird

1982 veracity challenged in Village Voice article, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words"

1991 committed suicide

Biographer James Park Sloan

I quote from two sources by the same author. I quote below from two sources, both written by James Park Sloan: (1) the magazine

article, Kosinski's War, The New Yorker, October 10, 1994; and (2) the book, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996. The