e - - - ---- - Inside: Local News, pages 2-3 Opinion, page 4 Around Town, page 8 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WE,EKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. , VOLUME LXXV, NUMBER 51 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1988 35C PER COPY Times Gone By Analysts Bemoan Israeli 1938: 50 Years Ago This Week Election Results NAZARETH UNDER 24-HOUR CURFEW JERUSALEM, Nov. 4 (JTA) - Nazareth was put under 24-hour bv Andrew Silow Carroll based their opinions on early another schizophrenic unity curfew today following bombing of military billets in which two Arabs NEW YORK (JTA) - Israeli projections of a virtual dead heat government, or Labor would sit in were wounded. A British soldier and an Arab were killed in a clash and American observers offering between Likud and Labor, with the opposition to a Likud government between troops and a rebel band south of Haifa. instant analysis of the Israeli religious parties holding the ruling by the narrowest of margins. election results bemoaned the fact balance of power. But the vote appeared decisive 21 REFUGEES BARRED FROM MEXICO LAND IN HAVANA that neither Likud nor Labor had The program, sponsored by a to one expert. In New York. Yusef HAVANA, Nov. 6 (JTA) - Cuba has accepted 21 German-Jewish received a clear mandate from the coalition of American Zionist Olmert, an analyst at the Shiluah refugees turned away from Mexico last week. The group arrived here electorate last Tuesday. organizations, was aired in 32 Institute at Tel Aviv University. Friday on the S.S. Orinoco and was permitted to land following appeals Even Likud supporters appeared cities in the United States and said the election results are to the authorities by Cuban newspapers, labor unions and political parties. subdued discussing the results on a Canada. portentous for Labor. special post-election broadcast For North Americans, the '.'They appear to be at the end of POLISH-JEWISH YOUTH, 17, SHOOTS NAZI EMBASSY over the Council of Jewish program offered a rare glimpse of the road, even after makin~ some OFFICIAL IN PARIS Federation's closed-circuit satellite Israeli politics in action. Footage of internal changes," said Olmert. PARIS, Nov. 7 (JTA) - A German Embassy official was shot today network just a few hours after the both major party headquarters whose brother, Ehud, was and seriously wounded by a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Israeli polls haci closed. showed no revelry or re-elected to the Knesset on the Feivel Grynszpan in what the Embassy said was an act of vengeance for Although they felt confident American-style hoopla, but an Likud list. "They need an the mass expulsion of Polish Jews from the Reich. The wounded official, that party leader Yitzhak Shamir atmosphere of gloom that infected extensive soul-searching. Among Ernst vom Rath, 32, was third secretary of the German· Embassy and a could piece together a ruling panelists in both countries. Israeli Jews, a decisive majority nephew of the late German ambassador to Paris, Roland Koester. coalition with the cooperation of In Jerusalem, none seemed as have swung to right-wing parties." the religious parties, the Likud dismayed as Hirsh Goodman, the Samuel Lewis, who served as analysts joined others in talk of former military correspondent for U.S. ambassador to Israel from REICH BANS JEWISH CHILDREN FROM SCHOOLS IN reforming Israel's parliamentary the Jerusalem Post and a strategic 1977 to 1985, also believes that, REPRISAL FOR PARIS SHOOTING election system, to allow voters to fellow at the Washington Institute based on historical precedent. an BERLIN, Nov. 8 (JTA).- Making good its threat of reprisals for the send a clear signal to their leaders for Near East Studies. Israeli government could act attempted assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris by a and the world what course they "I'm disappointed, but I suppose decisively with only a slim young Polish Jew yesterday, Nazi Germany today delivered a swift suc­ want to see charted in foreign and we should have seen the writing on majority. cession of blows at German Jewry. domestic policy. the wall;· said Goodman. For Lewis, that possibility could While anti-Jewish excesses flared in Kassel, provincial capital of .. It is a pity from our point of There exists, he said, a potential have a significant effect on "the Hesse, and Vienna, the Nazi authorities banned all Jewish children from view that people did not give a very fo r a national consensus, but Israel fundamentals of U.S.-lsrael attendance at public schools and suspended all Jewish newspapers clear vote," Jewish Agency .. lacks the leadership able to deliver relations." throughout the Reich and all branches of the Nazi-supervised Jewish Treasurer Meir Sheetrit said in an it. The future is decided by If Likud makes good on promises Cultural League. interview from Tel Aviv. minorities," meaning the smaller of using harsher measures to put Once a rising star in Likud parties, he said. down the nearly 11-month-old 25,000 JEWS UNDER ARREST IN WAKE OF WORST ranks, Sheetrit said that while ... You won't fund my yeshiva, Palestinian uprising, or pumps POGROM IN MODERN GERMAN WSTORY Israelis seemed to have shifted you won't give me money for new life into the settlement BERLIN, Nov. 11 (JTA) · An estimated 25,000 Jews were under arrest clearly to the right, "it may be time another settlement, I'm leaving the program in the territories, said today in the wake of the worst outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in mod­ to act seriously to change the government,"' he said the religious Lewis, .. that sort of policy has the em German history, which left throughout the nation a trail of burned elections." parties might threaten. potential of stirring up quite a lot synagogues, smashed homes, wrecked and pillaged shops, and at least four More than a dozen Israeli and Goodman had scorn for two of static in Jerusalem and known dead. Police seizures of Jews continued throughout the night and American experts were interviewed scenarios that he said could shape Washington." this morning. during combined broadcasts from up in back rooms over the next few Joining Lewis in New York was New York and Jerusalem. They . weeks. Either Shamir would head (Continued on page 19) Unity Is Still The Jews' Chief Strength by Andrew Silow Carroll proud of, being unable to agree on In a recent interview at UJA Diaspora Jews. different Jewish cause, they are not anything else, Jews have headquarters here, he welcomed a But criticism of Israel's security lost to the Jewish community. NEW YORK (JTA) - Two nevertheless agreed that the UJA discussion that went beyond the policies is another story. Their efforts are highly valid, and milestones - one tragic, the other is the central address for fund day-to-day operation of the He belie.ves, as do other Jewish their individuality is something we joyful - are being marked this raising on behalf of world Jewry. organization to include a broader leaders, that criticism can better be want to encourage." year: the 50th anniversaries both But in recent years, fund raisers look at an institution in flux. conveyed to Israeli leaders in Nevertheless, Horowitz said the of Kristallnacht and the founding have begun to wonder whether that "No doubt that the next 50 years private, and not in a forum where it UJA apparatus and its relationship of the United Jewish Appeal. unity can survive . a series of are going to see the UJA engaged in may be seen and distorted by true with other institutions within its It is not coincidental. Prompted changes inside and outside of a far more mature relationship enemies of Israel. constellation may require some "fine tuning." by the terror inflicted upon Israel. with Israel," he said. "We have an obligation to let "Whether that means change of Germany's Jews on the night of In· the United States, "That will mean more Israelis know our views. I have the a revolutionary kind, I don't November 9-10, 1938, leaders of competition from non-sectarian reciprocity, and more utmost respect for those who have know," he said. the American Jewish Joint and even alternative Jewish understanding and respect for one spoken out in public. No American One thing that won't change, he Distribution Committee, the philanthropies has drawn off some another's point of view." Jew is an enemy of Israel," said said, is the UJA's "single-minded · United Palestine Appeal and the of the dollars of philanthropic But there are limits to that Horowitz. concentration on advocating the National Coordinating Committee young Jews. reciprocity, he said. Horowitz On another topic, Horowitz was cause of Israel and overseas Jews." for Aid to Refugees agreed to And since the Lebanon War, defended the advertisements taken asked.if he agreed with sociologists, combine their separate some American Jews have shown a out in the Israeli press in June by like those at the CJF-sponsored That mission, he said, is above fund-raising drives into one united willingness to question internal the UJA and the Council of Jewish North American Jewish data bank, appeal. the "vagaries" of Israeli or Israeli policies and to disagree on Federations, urging Knesset mem­ who have concluded that young For Stanley Horowitz, president what role, if any, Jews of the bers not to amend the Law of Re­ Diaspora politics. Jews are increasingly disaffected He gestured to a photograph and chief professional officer of the Diaspora should play in their turn. from traditional Jewish fund that rests on an easel in a comer of UJA, there is a lesson to be learned formation.