Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1997 Page: 1 of 24
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IN OUR 51 ST YEAR OF WEEKLY SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
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jess jawm
The Verdict
he verdict against accused Timo-
thy J. McVeigh was loud and clear
in Denver Monday. He was found
guilty of the Oklahoma City bomb- 9
ing of the federal building which killed 168 T’*'
human beings, injured another multitude and «r-
brought grief and havoc to family members of .
the deceased and to countless millions across
America.
Guilty on all counts. To wit: Conspiring to
use a weapon of mass destruction; Use of a
weapon of mass destruction; Destruction by
an explosive; and eights counts of first-degree r
murder of Federal law-enforcement agents. *
When the dynamiting of the Alfred P. Mur-
rah Federal Building on April 19, I995,
stunned an entire nation, McVeigh was glibly
coasting along the highway, far from the dev-
astation, in a vehicle without license plates
and was stopped and arrested by an alert
police officer.
Since then we have seen the mechanics of
justice move swiftly. This was not a replica of
*•*
Timothy McVeigh
Live by the Sword...
see Jess Jawin p. 21
Alleged War Criminal Faces
Canadian Court Proceedings
By BiU Gladstone
TORONTO—Canada* s federal Jus-
tice Department has accused Eduards
Podins, a 78-year-old resident of British
Columbia, of being a former SS guard at
the Valmiera concentration camp in
Latvia
As a result of its charges, the Justice
Department is preparing denatural iza-
Don and deportation proceedings against
Podins that aredue to be heard in court this
week.
Podins allegedly lied to Canadian im-
migration officials about his activities in
the Latvian auxiliary police from 1941 to
1943.
He has been known to Canadian fed-
eral Nazi hunters at least since 1990,
when he attempted to enter the United-
tee PROCEEDINGS p. 24
INSIDE
Former Farrakhan Aide Blasts Jews..................3
Washington Watch
Dallas Doings.....................................................5
30 Years After The Six Day War.........................6
PBS’s Frontline On Nazi Gold To Air June 17 ... 7
Success Is NOT The Outcome Of Our Actions . 8
Shearith Israel to Celebrate Shavuot.............. 10
Metroplex BBYOers On Poland-lsrael Trip...... 12
My Father, The Publisher.................................13
TJP’s Free Matchmaker Ads............................14
You and Your Health.........................................16
Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion..........................18
Synagogue Sen/ices..................................19, 22
Around the Town.................. 20
TJP’s Flavorite Recii
Confronting Wartime Past
Consumes Swiss Daily Life
By Mitchell Danow
BERN — The tidy Swiss people
are trying to cope with a decidedly
untidy situation.
Monthsof mounting accusations
about how their government and
banks conducted business with the
Nazis during World War II —and
how the banks refused to return the
assets of Holocaust victims after
the war — have taken a toll on the
Swiss.
On the one hand, they are slung
by the accusations and revelations
based on a growing slack of re-
cently declassified wartime docu-
ments, and they are searching for a
way to protect their country’s rep-
utation.
But along with what they per-
ceive as an external attack, they
arc facing an "internal front” as
well: The governmental responses
to those accusations arc forcing
the Swiss to re-evaluate what they
had long considered the truths of
their wartime history.
For many, it has been a wrench-
ing process to realize that much of
that history was little more than a
myth.
Swiss newspapers are filled al-
most daily with accusations about
the active trade in gold between
the central banks of Switzerland
nalvsis
and Nazi Germany, or about how
Swiss governmental and business
leaders blithely overlooked ques-
tions of morality as they main-
tained close links to the Nazis un-
der the cloak of neutrality.
The papers also devote page af-
ter page to letters from readers,
who use the opportunity to vent
their anger at their accusers — or
toexpress embarrassment that their
country had collaborated with the
Nazis and had profited handsome-
ly from those lies.
In a reflection of how all-con-
suming the issue has become for
the country at large, Swiss Televi-
sion devoted three hours of air time
on a recent night for a debate of the
issues.
Filled with angry outbursts,
charges and countercharges, the
debate was not the sort of gentle-
manly airing of views the fastidi-
ous Swiss are used to.
In interviews after the debate,
several of the participants described
it as a difficult night before the
cameras. They stopped short of
admitting that they were sorry they
had subjected themselves to it. but
they clearly were.
Rolf Bloch, president of the Fed-
eration of Jewish Communities in
Switzerland, explained the Swiss
reaction to the torrent of accusa-
tions and revelations by compar-
ing them to another people — the
Jews.
see SWISS p. 24
Rabbis Visit Catholic Schools
In Program To Clear Up Myths
By Lesley Pearl
SAN FRANCISCO — The ques-
tions shot off like rapid gunfire.
“Whafsthat ihingsomc Jews wear
on their heads?” "What about the
shawl?” "Why do some Jewish kids
not like Hebrew school?" "Do you
believe in Jesus?” "Do Jews feel bad-
ly about what they did to him?”
Standing before a Catholic high-
school class. Rabbi Robert Daum
welcomed the challenge
He smiled and offered up answers
like “kippah” and "tallit ”
However, in response to the ques-
tion, “Have you ever been to Pales-
tine?” the San Rafael, Calif, rabbi
hesitated.
"That depends on what you mean,"
he said. “If you mean the state of
Palestine, the answer is no. There is
no state of Palestine However, if you
arc referring to areas of the West
Bank that may one day constitute an
entity known as Palestine, I have
been there. If you mean all the lem lo-
ry of Israel — no. I have not.”
The studenLs seemed satisfied.
Most of them had never met a rabbi
before, so they were thrilled to have
their curiosity addressed by a Jewish
source.
In an effort to increase understand
ing between Catholics and Jews, the
American Jewish Committee created
a Jc w i sh and Cathol ic c ler gy c xc han gc
program called C-JEEP (Catholic
Jewish Educational Enrichment Pro-
gram).
Launched nearly I0 years ago in
Los Angeles, the program brings rab-
bis to teach Jewish theology and his-
tory in Catholic schools.
C-JEEP came to the San Francisco
area in 1996 It is co-sponsored by the
Catholic Archdiocese of San Fran-
cisco.
"The Vatican has reached out in
numerous ways to establish a better
relationship with the Jewish commu-
nity,* ’ said Rick Jaeger, AJCommittcc
regional president. "It is important that
it filters down to die parish level "
Jaeger said C-JEEP "promotes un-
derstanding and relationships at an
early age. People get to understand
more of each odier at a time when
they are receptive to taking in ideas ”
Last spring Rabbi Henry Shrcib-
man, head of Brandeis Hillel Day
Schools in San Francisco and San
Rafael, led four C-JEEP pilot ses-
sions During die I996-I997 school
year, Daum visited three schools in
the San Francisco area for a total of 22
sessions.
In all three schools, Daum dis-
cussed basic Jewish history, culture
and religion, and highlighted the sim-
ilarities and differences between Ju-
daism and Catholicism.
In addition, Daum addrevsed in-
quiries about Jewish responsibility
for the crucifixion of Jesus and why
Jews find the terms "Old Testament”
and “New Testament” offensive.
"The idea is to give students an
opportunity to meet a rabbi face to
face and ask questions—about Jews,
practices and beliefs,” said Daum,
who serves as part-time rabbi at Con-
gregation Shir Shalom in Sonoma,
Calif. "The face-to-face contact is
Myths p. 24
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