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JANUARY 18, 1985 30C PER COPY Church & State: Controversy Ensues Over Separate Or Equal? 1'2 ~Bl . h Historical R. I. Jewis 11 Inside: Associat~on street Special Report - 130 sessions 02906 A Visit with Ethiopian providence , RI Jews In Israel, pages 6-7 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. VOLUME LXXII, NUMBER 7 FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1985 30C PER COPY Church & State: Controversy Ensues Over Separate or Equal? "Operation Moses" by Robert Israel by S. Mitchell Weitzman Jews. The Heraid was con~cted by the of evalti:ating church-st-ate separation The Government of Israel Jewish Federation of Rhode Island and (JSPS) ~ During this election year, cases is "undergoing pervasive changes acknowledged for the first time on told of this embargo after the November as prayer in school, religious issues such that permit increasing erosion of the prin­ January 3 that it has been secretly 30 issue described the disruption of the ciple."· • silent meditation, and equal access, often airlifting Ethiopian Jews from their CJF assembly. This writer was told the took center stage in the American political The constitutional base of the church­ country to Israel. To date, more than embargo had been agreed to by all the arena. state separation doctrine is derived from 10,000 people have been brought out of the major news services and the Israeli press. At the Republican convention, the the First Amendment to the Constitution drought-stricken country. By Two days after the Herald received Republican position on religion in schools which states that "Congress shall make no acknowledging the airlifting of the word of the news embargo, news of the was incorporated into the party platform: law respecting an establishment of Ethiopian Jews ·via the Belgian Trans airlift. began to leak to the daily press and "We support the rights of students . .. to religion, or prohibiting t.he free eJCercise European Airways since Thanksgiving, the Jewish press. The editors of the New engage in voluntary prayer in school." thereof." This is commonly referred to as the Government of Israel has validated York Jewish Week reported in a front Some Republicans also firmly censured the establishment clause and free exercise what had become a series of controversial page story "Reveal plan for rescuse of what they cite as the current "outlawing" clause, respectively. stories leaked to the press regarding this Falashas: Israe!J>repares for absorption of of God from our public schools. According to John Sexton, professor of heroic mission. thousands of Ethiopian Jews." This was Other Americans are expressing increas­ law at New York University School of Law, Also on January 4, Yehuda Dominitz, a followed by the Washington Jewish Week ing concern with the new religious fervor in the Supreme Court has softened this doc­ key figure in the rescue effort and head of story about the tiirlift on December 6, this country and what is perceived as a trine since its 1947 decision in Everson vs. the immigration department of the Jewish "The Ethiopian Exodus Has Begun." weakening of the constitutional wall Bd. of Education and have "tolerated Agency in Jerusa1em, was ordered to take Then the New York Times published a separating church and state. Senator greater interaction" between church and a leave by the head of the agency because story, "Airlift to Israel ls Reported Taking Edward Kennedy, commenting on the state. In that case the Court stated that he was accused of leaking information Thousands of Jews From Ethiopia". religious nature of t-he campaign issues, neither a state nor the federal government about "Operation Moses" to the press. Mr. Several other daily newspapers, including stated that the " 1984 campaign is a race could pass laws which "aid one religion, Dominitz refused to take the leave, telling The Boston Globe, published reports on for the White House, not for the mandate aid all religions, or prefer one religion over the New York Times "I will not be made a December 11. Because of what seemed like of Heaven." another." Yet this year the Court upheld scapegoat. We made every single a lifting of the embargo by the Jewish The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai the constitutionality of a Nativity scene professional mistake in the book. There press and the daily press, the Herald, in B'rith, in a report issued shortly before erected by the city ~f Pawtucket, R.I. was no coordination at any time. Nobody the issue of December 11, published a election day titled " Church-State Separa­ which was purchased with municipal knew what or how much they were front page report on the airlift taken from tion: Recent Trends and Developments," funds and displayed on private land as supposed to say." wire service reports. warned that the Supreme Court's method (Continued on page 9) The Ethiopian Jews, who are often "Editors Baffle~• referred to as "Falasha," a term which is According to Robert Cohn, editor of the considered deragatory meaning "stranger" St. Lou.is Jewish Light and president of Dramatic Mime Has A Lot To Say in Amharic, have been sent to absorption the American Jewish Press Association, centers throughout the country. Many of "a vast triajority of editors were completely by Susan Higgins them have needed hospitalization. They baffled about how much, if any, to Vladis!av Tenebaum never wore a white also have difficulties with the language publish." There was no organized effort by face until he came to this country. He and have demonstr11ted a lack of exposure Israeli or American Jewish organizations didn't need one. In Russia where he perfor­ to modern society, requiring the Israeli to inform Jewish newspaper editors about med with t he Moscow Ensemble of Pan­ government to extend the normal the rescue, or what to write and what not tomine, people crowded the theatres to see six-month absorption to a year. to write about it and why. him present a very respectable and pop­ Origins Of ControVersy "Perhaps if the American Jewish ular art form, mime. In performances Tracing the roots of the controversy newspapers had been apprised of the lasting two hours or more, audiences takes us back to November, 1984, when a details of the rescue beforehand," wrote watched intensely as Vladislav and other · group of young activisits led by journalist Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the Baltinwre mimes acted out imaginative and serious and filmmaker Simcha Jacobvici Jewish Times, "and told of the grave risks dramatics. T ypical shows were story distrupted the Council of Jewish involved, the way the Jerusalem enactments of the life of Michelangelo and Federation assembly in Toronto. The government briefed Israeli editors, there the music of Gershwin. The mime in activists carried signs reading "Action would have been a similar agreement to Russia has dignity asan art ist. Here, in the Now" and "More Can Be Done." They embargo the story. What it needed now is United States, mimes are forced to per­ succeeded in disrupting the session and sharing, communication and trust among form most often in the streets. Vladislav forcing its cancellation. lsreli officials, American Jewish leaders explains, "People here think of mimes as The clash underscored a feud between and the Jewish press. Only in that way can pesky clowns Who 6other them when the activisits, who maintained that Israel a future tragedy be prevented." they aie trying to wa lk alon g the had not done all it could to rescue the Special Report In This Issue street. Because they are not up on a stage Ethiopian Jews, and American and Israeli Prof. Michael Fink of the Rhode Island mimes must distinguish themselves by Jewish leaders who insisted that Israel had School of Design traveled to the painting on a white face." Vladislav, the made heroic efforts resulting in the absorption centers in Israel to visit the artis1, wants a chance to elevate the settlement of 7,000 Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopian Jews last month and has filed a honour of his profession. Israel. special report with the Herald in this Yes, it is true he studied with Marcel Vladislav Tenenbaum, a r ecent Shortly after the CJF convention, an issue, beginning on page 6. His report is Marceau, but he knew long before, at the emigre from Moacow, and pupil of embargo was placed on all news stories accompanied by photographs by former age of 11, that he wanted to be a mime. He Marcel Marceau brings European style ~garding the airlifting of the Ethiopian RISD student Y"ron Meshorer. was performing serious mime when he was mime to America. 13 years old. On his 20t h birthday he was touring Russia and drawing crowds with and fear spread. J<' rightened, many Jews the best mime company in the cou ntry. To passed through the town as they took fli ght combat complacency, thet roupe would in ­ from the impending oppressive conditions. troduce virgin material, changing the com­ Vladislav's father was consulted by a plete performance every two or t hree grou p of J ews who wished to escape over months. Russian audiences delighted in the Russian border. Vladis\av shakes his the innovative spirit of the ensemble. An head. "By the time my father brought artistic success at 20, Vlad isl av discovered them to the border, he reali zed there was his skill as an accomplished mime was one no way he cou ld go back . He didn't mean of the few things he was able to take with to escape. He didn't even say good by to his him when he left Russia. But if spirit can parents or his friends. But he just knew be cou nted along with the fa mily jewels what he had to do." The group was cap­ then the Tenenbaum fam ily is indeed rich.
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