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^^f\^ Iyar-Sivan 5749 June 1989 THE X SHOFAR A PUBLICATION OF THE CHATTANOOGA JEWISH FEDERATION Free Mission to Israel The Chattanooga Jewish Fed eration is planning a first-class An organization and informa refugees in Ladispoli, Italy. subsidized mission to Israel from qualified participant and meets the minimum gift requirement, they go tion meeting will be held on Tues Participants also have the op September 16 - 24, announced Jack day, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the tion of extending then stay in Israel Baras, Mission Chairman. free. CO HALF PRICE Jewish Community Center. At that or visiting another country on the The Mission is open to all time copies of the itinerary will be An individual may go without return. The airfare does not in members of the Chattanooga Jew available and all questions an crease for Israel extentions, how recruitinga qualified applicant and ish Community who pledge a mini swered. Please R.S.V.P. to the ever, fares for extentions in Eu pay 1/2 price (approximately $1000) mum of $1000 to the 1990 Federa Federation at 894-1317. rope are dependent upon the coun tion Campaign. by meeting the pledge requirement. Options try which is visited. 2 ways to go ORGANIZATION AND Mr. Baras announced that we For additional information call GO FREE INFORMATION MEETING are exploring a pre-mission option Lou Solomon at the Federation - If an individual recruits another June 13, 7:30 p.m., JCC to Rome to visit the Soviet Jewish 894-1317. VS Hirschfeld Hired As New Ipkit Assistant Director •«... J Community and Federation Barbara Wiston, Chairman of Chattanooga Jewish Day School the Joint Federation and JCC Per With 8 years in the Jewish sonnel Committee, announces the Community Center field, experi Annual Brunch and Fundraiser appointment of David Hirshfeld as ence in the implementation of New Joint Assistant Director of the Programming and Program Direc Jewish Community Center and tion are but a few of the many gifts Invest in our children's The change is - this year we will not Federation effective July 1989. and talents Mr. Hirschfeld brings be holding a RAFFLE. As always, A graduate of Yeshiva Univer to the Chattanooga Jewish Com future we want to thank Marjorie Gold sity, Wurzweiler School of Social munity. It is time again for the Day berg and her committee of Gail Work (M.S.W.) and Lehman Col Lou Solomon, Joint Executive School's major fundraising event. Dzik and Helen Perry for their lege (M.S. Recreation), Mr. Hir- Director of the Federation and Our Brunch will be held Sunday, wonderful bookkeeping talents. shfield comes to us from the Allen- Community Center stated, "We are June 11 - 10:30 a.m. at the Jewish Each ticket sold will give the town (Pa.) Jewish Community pleased to have recruited a candi Community Center. buyer a chance to win one of many Center where he has been Program date with David's qualifications. We Due to recent changes in the VERY NICE PRIZES. Please Director for the last three years. interviewed a number of candidates Tennessee law, our format will be continue to support the Day School, He is sensitive to the values, cul and felt he was the most qualified slightly changed this year. We will as you have in the past, when you ture and practices of the commu applicant for this important posi still serve our delicious Brunch, are called upon by one of our par nity he serves and is highly quali tion. I look forward to David's graciously chaired by Mary Susman ents. fied in the area of Programming. arrival. His first priority will be to and Judy Stahl and we will still be We look forward to seeing you Prior to his serving the Allen- augment the Programming in all giving out "FANTASTIC PRIZES!" and your family on the 11th. town JCC, Mr. Hirschfeld was areas of the JCC." Director of Teen and Young Adult Born in the Bronx, New York, Departments for the Sephardic Mr. Hirschfeld and his wife, Caren Community Center in Brooklyn, have a daughter and are expecting N.Y. their second child in August. Chattanooga Jewish Federation Bulk Rate P.O. Box 8947 U.S.Postage PAID Chattanooga, TN 37411 Permit No. 63 (Address Correction Requested) Chattanooga, TN I I • A Page 2 The Shofar June 1989 Shamir Won't Make Peace Reprinted from the New York by Menachem Z. Rosensaft Times, February 28,1989 The Bush Administration is In my case, there were concerted, being urged to respond swiftly to a albeit unsuccessful, efforts to oust recent Soviet Peace plan for the me from a number of posts that I Middle East. The fear is that, with hold in Jewish and Zionist groups, out a dramatic proposal of its own, and to bar me from meetings of the the United States will cede the ini Conference of Presidents of Major tiative to Moscow. American Jewish Organizations, of Mr. Bush can relax. As long as which I am a member. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and These attempts to ostracize his Likud Party control Israel for anyone who even sits in the same eign policy there won't be any ini room with members of the PLO tiative worth seizing. epitomize the psychological bent those Palestinian nationalist aspi constituency back home that the Mr. Shamir and other Israeli of the Israeli right. Beneath a thin rations that are incompatible with entire Land of Israel "belongs only hardliners reject any plausible peace democratic, Western-style veneer, their absolutist vision of a "Greater to the people of Israel." overtures. This is evident in their they are strict political fundamen Israel." That is why they tryh so It is therefore naive to think shabby treatment of Israelis and talists for whom any ideological hard to de-legitimize those of us that Mr. Shamir will present a cred diaspora Jews who have had any deviation is tantamount to treason. who recognize the Palestinians' right ible peace proposal. More likely dealings with members of the Pal Israelis like Prime Minister to both self-determination and a he will put forward yet another estine Liberation Organization. Shamir and Foreign Minister Moshe leadership of their own choosing. public relations scheme designed Recently, the Deputy Foreign Arens believe that the Jewish people Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin to deflect attention from his intran Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have a God-given right to all of the ?• d Finance Minister Shimon Peres, sigence. Indeed, Mr. Arens has can^'4d a dinner in honor of for Biblical "Land of Israel," whichj^y Swong others, support the prin already admitted I ^he "wouldn't mer Foreign Minister Abba Eban define as including the West Bank ciple of trading land for peace with call it a peace plan. It would be bec^se Mr. Eban had attended a and Gaza Strip. Their hard-line security as the basis for any resolu more accurate to say - a diplomatic coik „-nce at which PLO repre views have little to do with sec>«**y tion of the Israeli-Palestinian con- initiative." sentatives were present. concerns. The principles and ptSt- ^S£. In sharp contrast, Mr. Shamir Neither the P^a^liians nor the When five American Jews, form of their Likud Party preclude vehemently opposes giving up a Bush Administration should be myself among them, met last De even the slightest compromise with single inch of the territories under misled into believing that Mr. Sha cember with Yasir Arafat and other respect to any part of the land be Israeli occupation. While he disin mir's views accurately reflect Is PLO leaders in Stockholm, right- tween the Mediterranean and the genuously tells Washington and raeli public opinion. He became wing Israelis and their acolytes in Jordan River. American Jews that he wants "di prime minister as the result of elec the American Jewish establishment They also understand that the rect negotiation without precondi tions that took place before Yasir immediately denounced us as "will very act of talking to the PLO implies tions" between Israel and the Pal ing dupes," renegades and worse. an acknowledgment of precisely estinians, he reassures his Israeli SHAMIR, seepg. 7 VlEWDoilMT Do you feel Israel should trust Arafat and negotiate with the PLO? (This month's Viewpoint comes from the general Chattanooga community). mm —•Jill J§3 Ron Hubbard, Salesman, Christian Dan Creed, Sales Rep. - Christian George N. Taylor, Jr., Personnel Judy Bacastow,Waitress,Christian NO - No Arab can be trusted. I NO - His track record speaks for YES - They should trust Arafat - NO -1 don't think we should put lived in Turkey in a city that mass itself and based on that I would say the PLO is a valid organization. any faith in what he says. I believe murdered all Christians in 1928. no. Whatever Israel decides to do After Israel resolves this problem, the Palestinian refugees should be However, negotiations must begin the U.S. should support them. Moyshe Dayan should return to free to elect their own representa and the PLO should be recognized. Whatever Israel decides to do they power. I believe in God and all His tive. War because of religion is blasphe will be a winner politically, eco religions. mous. All religious factions should nomically and scripturally. have the right to exist with each Page 2 The Shofar June 1989 Shamir Won't Make Peace Reprinted from the New York by Menachem Z. Rosensaft Times, February 28,1989 The Bush Administration is In my case, there were concerted, being urged to respond swiftly to a albeit unsuccessful, efforts to oust recent Soviet Peace plan for the me from a number of posts that I Middle East.