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ORTHODOX JEWISH ARCHIVES Agudath Israel of America 84 William Street, New York, N.Y Jewish history may be lying around in your baseme • Don't let it be lost to the world. Thousands of documents and photos are languishing in trunks, attics and forgotten drawers in private homes and basements. Now is the time to retrieve this precious material­ before it becomes dust instead of history. Your help-the public's help-is needed in this effort. 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If you have any items in the above categories in your possession, or know where they can be obtained, please write or phone: ORTHODOX JEWISH ARCHIVES Agudath Israel of America 84 William Street, New York, N.Y. 10038, 212-797-9000 R 4 The New Ethiopian Aliya Yonasan Rosenblum THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN) 0021-6615 is published monthly except July and August by 11 the Agudath Israel of America, 84 William Street, A Matter of Life and Death New York, N.Y. 10038. Second class postage Chaim Dovid Zwiebel paid in New York, N.Y. Subscription$22.00per year; two years, $36.00; three years, $48.00. Outside of the United States (US funds drawn on a US bank only) $10.00 surcharge per year. Kids on the Fringe: Single copy $3.00; foreign $4.00. Send address CRISIS IN THE COMMUNITY, PROBLEMS IN THE SCHOOL changes to The Jewish Observer, 84 William Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10038. Tel: (212) 797-9000. Printed in the U.S.A. 21 Seeds of Teshuva RABBI NISSON WOLPIN, EDITOR Yaakov Astor EDITORIAL BOARD DR. ERNST BODENHEIMER Chelrman Reminiscences of a "Shaliach" to the Soviet Union, RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS Mendel Goldberg JOSEPH FRIEDENSON RABBI NOSSON SCHERMAN MANAGEMENT BOARD P.S. Summertime - Color War, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum NAFTOLI HIRSCH ISAAC KIRZNER RABBI SHLOMO LESIN 39 NACHUM STEIN Books in Review: Halacha in English TORAH GUIDE FOR TIIE BUSINESSMAN/ JEWISH OUTREACH, RABBI YOSEF C. GOLDING Business Mamiger .. HALACHIC PERSPECTIVES/ FAITII AND FOLLY/ CONCERN FOR THE LIVING/ KTZOT HASHABBAT ON "MUKTZEH" / TIIE LAWS OF MEAT AND I 1 Published by MILK/ A PARENTS GUIDE TO TEACHING CHILDREN MITZVOT Agudath Israel of America RABBI MOSHE SHERER PRESIDENT Poetry: Dear Mom, Bracha Druss Goetz THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responslblllty for the Kashrus of any product, publlcatlon, or service advertised In Its pages Letters to the Editor ©Copyright 1991 JUNE 1991 Dateline: 84 William Street VOLUME XXIV I NO. 5 Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources COVER CREDIT: WlDE WORLD PHOTO Yonasan Rosenblum The New Ethiopian Aliya ACHALLENGEOFMANYDIMENSIONS I. THE GREATEST EUPHORIA namese boat people. for instance, famine, brigands, or in anti-Jewish SINCE ENTEBBE was stark. riots in the Sudanese capital of And why? For no other reason Khartoum. o single event since Entebbe than that this people has suffered for Out of respect for Beita Israel's so electrified Israel as last at least half a millennium because of dogged insistence on their Judaism, N month's Operation Solomon, their identification with the House of Israel was willing to undergo much the dramatic rescue mission in which Israel. Out of their conviction that sacrifice to save them. The direct cost over 14,000 members ofBeita Israel they are descendants of the ten tribes of absorption of the latest group of were brought to Israel over a 33-hour dispersed during the First Temple Ethiopian immigrants is likely to period, and a palpable sense of exul­ period, they fought vicious wars. in reach hundreds of millions of dollars, tation gripped the nation. which their ranks were decimated by apart from the tens of millions of dol­ Operation Solomon gave the lie their Christian and Muslim neigh­ lars spent on the rescue mission it­ once and for all to those who slander bors, and they endured the humilia­ self and on bribing the crucial Ethio­ Judaism or Jews as racist. Here was tion of being landless "falashas" in an pian officials. a country already bursting at the agrarian society. Their communal The logistics of the entire opera­ seams with new immigrants - 40 songs and stories are filled with long­ tion were awe-inspiring. In all, 33 students to a classroom, over­ ing for Jerusalem and the planes, ranging from Boeing 747 crowded hospitals, unemployment regathering of HaShem 's people from jumbo jets to lumbering propeller­ over 10% and predicted by many to the four corners of the earth. driven Hercules transports, were double in the near future - mount­ When rumors began to spread in pressed into service. Observers used ing an operation requiring months of 1985 that one could reach the Holy to the bedlam that can prevail on 747 intricate planning and tremendous Land via Sudan (until premature commercial flights, even with all the resources to save a people physically publicity from the Jewish Agency and passengers ensconced in comfortable indistinguishable from their Ethio­ certain Jewish newspapers brought seats. were astounded to see three pian neighbors. The contrast to the the whole operation to a halt), nearly times the "maximum" number of callousness of the far richer and 10,000 members of Beita Israel set passengers crammed, like so many larger Western nations to the Viet- out from fertile Gondar province to sardines in a can, into the planes cross a vast drought-stricken desert, from Which all seats had been re­ Yonasan Rosenblum, who studies in a kollel in Jerusalem, is a free-lance wrtter. His "Jerusa­ filled with marauders. to reach Su­ moved. Nary a word of complaint was lem War Diary'' was featured in JO, March '91. dan. Half lost their lives en route to heard over the four-hour journey to 4 The Jewish Obseroer, Summer 1991 Bush (especially in winning the co­ they were by the sight of an old man operation of the Ethiopian govern­ clutching his only remaining posses­ ment), on behalf of the thousands of sion - a worn Haggadah-or of Beita Israel who had flocked to Addis young boys capable of reciting chap­ Ababa - many trekking 280 miles by ters from Torah by heart in Amharic. foot. Others were touched by the modesty At the other end of the journey­ and gentleness of the Ethiopians, in Israel - 40 completely new ab­ and wondered openly whether these sorption sites had to be found within traits can survive the exposure to the a three-day period to house the new coarseness oflsraeli society. arrivals - and all in absolute se­ David Grossman, Israel's leading crecy. young novelist, found himself pro­ For days after the operation, the voked to search for an answer to the newspapers were filled with heart­ "eternal question - Who is a Jew," warming stories of reunited families, by the sight of "a Jewry that survived as Ethiopians who arrived in 1985 2, 000 years of the vicissitudes of his­ combed the country in search oflong tory.... We observe them with won­ lost relatives. A public opinion poll drous eyes to peek for a brief moment taken two weeks after the mission behind a raised curtain to the alter­ showed 93% of!sraelis had a favor­ native biography of our fathers, to see able or very favorable impression of in the clear light the negative of our the Ethiopians. history." But behind all the personal con­ II. CONFRONTATION WITH A fessions, one senses an unwilling­ NATIONAL IDENTITY CRISIS ness to pursue the inquiry to its logi­ cal conclusions. Why, for instance, did Grossman choose to see the "road Out of respect for Beita From Exclamation Points not taken" by his Zionist forefathers to Question Marks in the arriving Ethiopians rather Israel's dogged than in the 100,000 religious Jews vents in Israel have a way of living in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, insistence on their forcing one to consider the whose ancestors' history was pre­ E meaning of Jewish identity. cisely the same as Grossman's and Judaism, Israel was Operation Solomon, too, proved to be whose religious observance today is a catalyst for a great deal of reflection virtually identical to that which, no willing to undergo much on the meaning of Jewish identity. doubt, characterized Grossman's For all who are deeply troubled by ancestors three or four generations sacrifice to save the ever-increasing religious disaf­ back? fection of Israel's secular majority, One suspects that it is the exotic them .
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