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IN OUR 45TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
Texas Jewish Post
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VOLUME 45, NO. 49
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1991 28 KISIEV 5752
HANUKA ISSUE
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE.
JESS JAWIN
The Kid From Brooklyn
Kaddish for Tom Brady
This Saturday will be the fiftieth anniversary
of Pearl Harbor.
Do you know where you were on that “day of
infamy?”
Most of the people reading this weren’t born
in December, 1941. Certainly not on December 7.
For those who were, jog your memories. What
were you doing and where were you doing it on
that tranquil day when at 7:30 a.m., Hawaiian
time, the Japanese sent an armada of airplanes
and a fleet of naval ships and submarines to
bomb and destroy the naval base at Pearl Harbor
and many other nearby military installations.
This old jaw was at the United States Post Of-
fice facility in Fort Worth “candling sacks.” As a
member of the Railway Mail Service, when the
mail was slack and we had no assignment on a
railway mail car, we would be dispatched to the
basement of the post office facility to examine
each sack for sleeper mail or packages by hold-
ing the large sack open to make certain no piece
of mail would be overlooked. Almost like one
candles eggs.
We were playing sack poker which meant that
each piece of found mail had a value. A post
card was five cents, a letter ten cents, packages
brought 15 cents. Airmail got 25 cents. A
registered letter was a bonanza of $1.00. Each of
the players had to give the lucky participant
money for his find.
We were the best sack-candlers in the nation
with that incentive. Deeply immersed in the
game, we were shocked when one of the postal
clerks ran down the stairs to the basement and
breathlessly shouted: “They’re bombing Pearl
Harbor. Right now!”
We soon got close to a radio and heard the
historic account of how Pearl Harbor was being
bombed.
(Now, less than a year ago, one could flip on
the TV and not only hear the account but almost
fly in the cockpit with the pilot and see bombs
go down open chimneys or through doors.
So much for progress in the art of dealing
death to humanity. Though we had war, we still
are gratified that Saddam Hussein was not
allowed to reach his totalitarian goals).
After we heard those shrieking bombs and the
announcer’s crying report of how the Japanese
were destroying this Pacific outpost of the
United States it took about six months for us to
be inducted into the army.
Once in the army I started to receive letters
regularly from an old friend: Tom Brady.
Tom Brady goes back to my Brooklyn and New
York City days.
see JESS JAWIN page 7
IMODERN MACCABEES—Shown are five of six
former Russian boys who were brought to Dallas
within the last two years by Operation Exodus. Denied
religious training in the Soviet Union they will have a
B'nai Mitzvoth (.joint Bar Mitzvah) at Tiferet Israel
Congregation Saturday morning. (E-R) Eeon Mandel,
Igor Rakovshik, Ilya Shpolyansky, Roman Borodyan-
sky and Zinovy Pugach. Not shown is Gregory Kut-
senok. See story page 16. Postphoto by Sharon VVisch-
Ray.
Procedural Issues And The Middle East Peace Process
By James David Besser
As the fragile Middle
East peace process hung
in the balance, officials in
Washington and
Jerusalem spent last week
bickering over the details
of how that process
should work.
Israel’s leaders, bruised
by what they saw as. the
heavy-handed distribution
of invitations to the
Washington conference,
argued that critical proce-
dural issues were not ad-
dressed in advance — in-
cluding their insistence
that the talks quickly
move to sites in the Mid-
dle East.
The administration, on
the other side of the
chasm, saw clear signs ol
an Israeli stall.
All the niggling over
venue, they implied, was
only the most obvious
manifestation of the
Israelis’ unwillingness to
negotiate seriously on the
only question that counts
— the exchange of land
for peace.
The curious thing about
these opposing arguments
is that — in a way —
they’re both right.
ANALYSIS ~
For the Israelis, all the
quibbling is really about
the growing role of the
United States in the peace
process.
Israel has always reject-
ed any kind of interna-
tional forum for the
serious negotiations that
might resolve the seeming-
ly endless Middle East
conflict.
Only direct, one-on-one
ta-lks with their Arab ad-
versaries can lead to a set-
tlement, the Israelis have
argued all along; any at-
tempt to impose a
solution would jeopardize
Israel’s security and com-
promise her standing in
the family of nations.
Last week’s spat was
really a visceral reaction
INDEX
Seymour Hersh's “Angry Search for
Truth’’.....................2
Chanukah Gelt for the Children of
Chelm......................3
Dallas Doings................... 5
Manuka Tradition—Italian Style .. 12
Synagogue Services.......... 18, 23
Around the Town............... 19
Light Sabbath Candles 5:04 p.m.
Israelis Support Shamir's Handling
Of Peace Talks, But Favor Compromise
ByHughOrgel cent prefer other govern-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — ments.
While a majority of the Fifty-eight percent
Israeli public supports the agree that Shamir is
Prime Minister Yitzhak leading the peace negotia-
Shamir’s Likud bloc as tions well, while 21 per-
the parly best suited to cent do not believe so.
negotiate peace with the But contrary to these
Arabs, a majority of statistics, 54 percent of
Israelis also support terri- those polled agreed that
torial compromise to there will not be peace
reach that end, in con- without a return of terri-
travenlion of Likud’s tory; 33 percent disagreed
current policies.
The contradictory find-
wilh that statement.
Fifty-one percent
ings emerged from a agreed that now that
Gallup Institute telephone peace negotiations are un-
poll of 513 Israeli Jewish der way, the building of
adults taken last week and Jewish settlements in the
published Friday in the administered territories
Israeli daily Hadashot. should be frozen, while 40
The poll found that 44 percent disagreed,
percent of Israelis prefer a The Shamir gover-
Likud government lead- nment has opposed calls
ing the peace for a settlement freeze,
negotiations. Eleven per- while the opposition
cent prefer a Labor Labor Party has backed
government, and 37 per- it.
agamsi the fact that the
administration has left
Israel no choice but to ac-
cept a process that will
make Washington a third
party in the one-on-one
negotiations that com-
prise the second round of
James Baker’s intricate
peace process.
Israel’s resistance to
holding talks in
Washington — at least on
the administration’s time-
table — reflected a deep-
seated fear that the pro-
cedures hammered out by
Baker will create, by
default, exactly the kind
of peace process that the
Israelis most fear.
There is some validity
to that suspicion.
More and more, the
Israelis see an American
government that is willing
to use a carrot-and-stick
approach to Middle East
peace talks.
But from their perspec-
tive, the “stick” has been
applied exclusively to the
Israelis, the “carrots” of-
fered primarily to Arab
nations.
So while Israel has been
castigated for expanding
Jewish settlements and
chastised for its sluggish
approach to the peace
process, various Arab
participants have been
coddled and indulged.
Syria, in particular, has
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