Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1993 Page: 23 of 24
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IN OUR 47TH YEARI-FORT WORTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1993, TEXAS JEWISH POST
Recipes
continued from p. 8
1 to 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon or chives
Preparation:
Clean mushrooms very gently with a damp paper towel. If
using shitake mushrooms, cut off stems, which are tough. If
mushrooms are large, cut into bite-size pieces, following the
mushrooms shape. Heat oil and butter in a heavy skillet over
medium-high heat. Add mushrooms, salt, and pepper. Saute
about 3 minutes. When liquid is released, raise heat to high
and saute, tossing often, for 2 minutes. When liquid has
nearly evaporated, add shallot and saute 1 -2 more minutes or
until mushrooms are lightly browned and tender. Add
parsley and tarragon or chives. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Serve hot. Makes 4 appetizer servings.
TANGY NORTH AFRICAN SWEET POTATO
SALAD
Ingredients:
1 pound orange-fleshed sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 large onion, chopped
salt
1/8 teaspoon saffron threads
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
6 pitted black olives, halved
2 tablespoons strained lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (fresh coriander) or
fresh parsley
cayenne pepper
Preparation:
Peel sweet potatoes and cut into 3/ 4 inch dice. Heat oil in
a heavy, medium saucepan, add onion, and saute over
medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Add salt, saffron, ginger,
and water. Add sweet potatoes and bring to a boil. Cover and
cook 10 minutes or until nearly tender. Add cumin, paprika,
and olives. Simmer uncovered about 2 minutes or until most
of liquid evaporates and potatoes are tender. Off the heat,
stir in lemon juice and 1 tablespoon cilantro. Season to taste
with salt and cayenne pepper. Serve at room temperature,
sprinkled with remaining cilantro. Makes 4 appetizer serv-
ings.
WINTER SQUASH WITH SWEET SPICES
Ingredients:
2 pounds winter squash, such as butternut, acorn, or
sweet dumpling
2 medium garlic doves, peeled
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
salt to taste
Preparation:
Cut off 1 squash peel, remove seeds and strings, and cut
flesh into 1-inch pieces. Combine remaining ingredients in a
large saute pan and bring to a simmer. Add squash and stir
until coated. Sprinkle with salt and heat until sizzling. Cover
and cook over low heat, occasionally stirring gently, for 30
minutes or until squash is tender Remove garlic, chop, and
return to pan. If sauce is too thin, uncover and cook 2 to 3
minutes or until it thickens. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Serve hot Makes 3 or 4 side-dish servings.
Impasse
continued from p. 1
rule over the West Bank
town of Jericho.
When that meeting
fizzled, Arafat and Rabin
agreed to meet again within
lOdays, in hopes that imple-
mentation of the pact could
begin.
But according to Israel
Radio, senior Israeli officials
have said Rabin and Arafat
will not meet this week be-
cause the impasse has not
yet been broken.
It appears that the pur-
posely vague wording of the
Sept 13 accord has led to
loggerheads.
Other Israeli representa-
tives currently in Oslo in-
clude Minister of Environ-
ment Yossi Sarid, Israel De-
fense Force chief of staff
Amnon Shahak, Foreign
Ministry Director General
Uri Savir and the ministry’s
legal adviser, Yoel Zinger.
The PLO negotiating team
includes Hassan Azfour, who
worked with Khoury in the
earlier Oslo talks, and Nabil
Sha ath, senior Arafat ad-
viser who is chief PLO rep-
resentative in Cairo.
Rabin’s admonition that
the decision-makers were not
in Oslo was echoed by Hanan
Ashrawi, spokesperson for
the Palestinian negotiators
until last week.
“The serious decision-
makers are in Tunis and
Jerusalem,” she told Israel
Television.
The key issues still to be
resolved include who will
control the border crossing-
points between the Gaza S trip
and Egypt and between the
West Bank town of Jericho
and Jordan; the size of the
autonomous Palestinian en-
clave in Jericho; and the num-
ber of IDF troops that will
remain in Gaza and Jericho
to protect Jewish settlers.
In a separate development
Sunday, Israel began releas-
ing scores of the 197 Pales-
tinian deportees who were
allowed to return from south-
ern Lebanon at the end of last
week and had been held in
custody since then.
The deportees, members
of the Islamic Fundamental-
ist groups Hamas and Islamic
Jihad, had been part of a
larger group of 415 Palestin-
ians deported from the terri-
tories a year ago following a
wave of attacks upon Israe-
lis.
A first group of deportees
had been allowed to return in
September. The remainder
of the group, who returned
last week, faced questioning
by Israeli authorities before
being allowed to return to
their homes in the territo-
ries.
Precise totals of those who
were released Sunday were
not immediately available.
But buses were seen trans-
porting the deportees from
jails in the West Bank to
their home towns in the West
Bank and Gaza.
In Gaza, their arrival was
scheduled for after 9 pm.,
when the nightly curfew
goes into effect, to mini-
mize demonstrations sur-
rounding the homecoming.
Israeli sources said the
deportees had been ques-
tioned in recent days about
their contacts with
Hezbollah and other Pales-
tinian extremist groups dur-
ing their yearlong exile in
Lebanon.
David Landau is a JTAJ
TJP correspondent.
Wash Watch
continued from p. 4
to get it back. A series of
Russian courts ruled in their
favor, and both Soviet Presi-
dent Mikhail Gorbachev and
Russian President Boris
Yeltsin promised to release
the books.
But still, Russian authori-
ties have continued to stone-
wall requests for their re-
turn.
Last year, Gore, while sail
in the Senate, spearheaded a
letter signed by all 99 of his
colleagues; last week, he
made it a part of his official
dealings with the Russian
government.
Gore’s staff was briefed
before his trip by Rabbi
Shlomo Cunin, a Lubavitch
representative in California,
who has been leading the
fight to get back the library.
Activist Turns to ‘Letters
to God:’
The much-discussed Data
Superhighway may be open-
ing a channel to a Higher
Authority—and a longtime
Mideast expert in Washing-
ton is taking ume out to
document it
Joyce Starr, a Carter ad-
ministration appointee and a
founder of the Near East pro-
gram at the Center for Strate-
gic and Intemattonal Studies
in Washington, is known
Joyc« Starr
mostly for her pioneering
work as on the economic and
political impact of water re-
sources in the Middle East
But recently. Starr has been
working on a more spiritual
kind of project.
Starr, with the cooperatton
of the Israeli telephone com-
pany Bezek, is assembling a
book based on faxes sent
from around the world to be
inserted in Jerusalem’s Wail-
ing Wall.
“I was very excited when I
heard about the fax service,’’
she said. “I saw real spiritual
potential for both the Jewish
and the Christtan communi-
ttes; I thought it would be
wonderf u 1 to do a book abou t
the messages people sent.”
But there was a hitch; on
the original fax line, set up
with almost no fanfare by the
Israeli phone officials last
February, the messages were
confidential. So the phone
company set up a second line;
in announcements of the ser-
vice, they make it clear that
messages to that special line
may be used as part of a
book.
“The response has been
wonderful,” she said. ‘There
are people from all over the
world, from all walks of life.
Some are funny, many are
straight from the heart.
So far there hasn’t been a
single crank fax."
About half the messages
come from Jews, she said,
half from Christians
Some ask God for help
with mundane things; one fax
asked for divine interventton
on behalf of the New York
Giants in their game against
the Atlanta Falcons.
Others reveal pain and
longing. A couple wrote a
note to their dead child; a
young man pleaded for a
male.
One contained a direct ad-
monition: “Dear God, don’t
call me, I’ll call you."
Her collecuon of mes-
sages, she said, is “a won-
derful, inspiring indication
of what Israel can mean to
the world."
Israeli authorities insert
the faxes into crevices on
the wall; messages that come
in on her special number are
copied and faxed to Starr in
Washington before being
deposited.
Even the intemauonal fax
number—011-972-2-235-
555—is significant, she said.
“The numbers are very in-
teresting," she said. “In both
Hebrew and Arabic, there’s
a traditton that the number 5
wards off the evil eye," she
said. “It’s intriguing that we
have this modem technol-
ogy—but that old tradiuons
are still part of it."
Starr expects her new
book to be published some-
time in 1994.
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