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VOLUME 47 NO. 51
1993
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESSJAWIN:Tell Us Your Story New Round Of Talks in Oslo
This week’s TJP inside cover story, My Fifty Cent Father, is
from the new Harper-Collins Book Legacies.
The stories were written by seniors over 60 who have had
interesting short short stories to tell. The tales are very nostal-
gic. They make you laugh, cry and tug at other emotions. More
than that the stories aid in development of older Americans and
show a part of life which is truer and stranger than fiction.
As we stated in an editor’s note on Page 2, we will publish
some of the Legacies this coming year. However we are
profoundly interested in your particular short story if you would
be kind enough to share it with TJP readers.
Certainly each of us has a remarkable and memorable story
to relate. Especially the ones which come back again and again
and serve as treasures of the mind. You may want to do that.
Many times when folks gather and relate incidents to one
another or play Jewish Geography a listener will say, “Why don’t
you write about it I"
Now’s your chance. Stories must be true. However if you
desire not to reveal real names of people involved you may
fictionalize them.
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duction rights.
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Fails to Break Impasse Over Pact
By David Landau
JERUSALEM -Top-level Israeli
and Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion officials met over the weekend
in Oslo, Norway, in an attempt to
break the impasse that has stalled
implementation of the self-mle ac-
cord and brought officials here to
say a meeting planned for next week
between Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser
Arafat may have to be postponed.
But Rabin told reporters point-
edly that the “decision-makers are
not in Oslo.”
The prime minister noted that
any agreements reached in Oslo
would have to be referred for a final
decision to Jerusalem and Tunis,
site of the PLO headquarters
The talks in the Norwegian capi-
tal, which convened Saturday un-
der a blanket of secrecy, followed
similar negotiations held in Paris
the day before and appeared to have
not borne fruit.
By Sunday evening, after nego-
tiators had completed their second
day of talks in Oslo, Israel Televi-
sion reported there had as yet been
“no breakthrough.”
But the negotiators tried to be
optimistic by agreeing to meet again
within several days for consulta-
tions.
The talks were a repeat of the
secret negotiations held earlier in
the year in Oslo between Israeli
and PLO negotiators that led to the
Palestinian self-rule accord signed
in Washington in September and
were led, as before, by Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and
Ahmed Khoury, finance manager
of the PLO.
Despite pessimistic reports,
Rabin told reporters Sunday he was
“trying through contacts in Oslo
and elsewhere” to ensure that an-
other summit meeting between him-
self and Arafat would end success-
fully.
A meeting between the two lead-
ers held in Cairo on Dec. 12 — the
eve of the deadline for beginning
the implementation of the accord
— ended without agreement on
several key issues, chief among
which were the boundaries of PLO
IMPASSE p. 23
Clinton to Set Personal Example
obtained in Moscow by ai Gore Of Tolerance to Fight Hate Crimes
Lubavitcher Rebbe Gets Tome
By Susan Birnbaum
NEW YORK - After years of legal battles and political interces-
sions, a revered volume from a large library confiscated before the
Russian Revolution has been returned to the Lubavitcher Chasidim.
The book — a 90-year-old copy of the “Tanya" presented to the
rebbe’s predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhok Schneersohn, by his stu-
dents before he became rebbe — was obtained by Vice President Al
Gore especially for the ailing 92-year-old rebbe, Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, in Brooklyn.
The ‘Tanya," which means “teaching," was written nearly 200
years ago and is the basic philosophy of the Lubavitchers.
Gore received the gold-embossed, printed copy last Thursday from
LUBAVITCHER p. 24
By Deborah Kalb
round-table discussion
to a question from the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency.
spoke seriously about his efforts to
involve the religious community in
reporters fighting crime and societal prob-
small group of reporters
Crime has become a crucial is-
sue here in Washington and around
set a personal example of tolerance cussion on crime, religion and the the country in the wake of a series
in order to combat hate crimes and
prejudice in this country
from religious news services, Presi- him al the While House last Friday
dent Clinton said he was trvine to mominc for a wide-ramnno dk-
state of society. of violent incidents — including
The meeting, held around the the massacre of passengers on a
I think I should set an example large oval table in the Cabinet commuter train and the abduction
to try to talk about these things
the president said.
He said he wants “to
respect and diversity,” in
Room, lasted 45
decorated
and killing of a 12-year-old Cali-
fornia girl — and a growing sense
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children’s drawings of snowmen, of national unease
Mil
se stockings and candles, Clinton
EXAMPLE
Battle Lines Drawn on Funding for Private, Parochial Schools
By Steven Weiss
WASHINGTON - The Orthodox
Jewish community stands across
the divide from most Jewish groups
on a method of school financing
that also raises the potential for
state involvement in religion.
At issue is whether the govern-
ment should finance private and
parochial school education, thus
giving parents the choice to pull
their children from public schools
that already receive government
funds.
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Parental choice initiatives have
struggled onto several state ballots
in recent years, and although they
have been defeated, the idea is re-
taining support as several states
prepare to consider iL
The Jewish community is split
over the issue, which would allow
government funds in the form of
vouchers to be used to finance pri-
vate and parochial school educa-
tion
If enacted, school voucher pro-
posals would dramatically change
the way schools are funded in
America, calling for some govern-
ment funds normally directed to
public schools to be given instead
to private schools.
‘This is an expanding issue —
it’s not going to go away,” said
Jerome Chanes, co-director for
domestic concerns for the National
Jewish Community Relations Ad-
visory Council.
Indeed, while school voucher
proposals have already been de-
feated in California, Colorado, and
Oregon, observers expect the issue
to be considered in states including
Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, and New
Jersey in the near future.
California hosted the most re-
cent fight over parental choice,
which saw Proposition 174 attract
nationwide attention before No-
vember voters sent it to defeat.
Jewish groups participated ac-
tively in the California race, often
facing each other across the battle
lines amid arguments over church-
state separation and parental choice
over which school their children
attend.
The school voucher idea was
borne out of discontent for
America’s public schools, which
many believe have deteriorated to
the point of ineffectiveness.
Under proposed voucher plans,
government money would be allo-
cated in the form of vouchers to
parents, who could then choose the
FUNDING p. 24
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