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Shavuot Starts Thursday at Sundown. . .see page is
VOLUME 43, No. 22 THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1989 27 IYAR 5749 24 PAGES 75 CENTS PER ISSUE
JESS JAWIN
Another Spirit Of St. Louis
There is a surge of affirmation emanating from Germany
about the possibility of a “reunification” of East and West Ger-
many.
Lest we forget too soon, the martial potential of the Germans
kept Europe in a spate of wars for over an hundred years with
millions of lives lost.
Most recent of course were two world wars, which because of
their monumental history have been catalogued in numbers.
Jews cannot forget numbers, either. World War II decimated
more than one-third of the then existent Jews of the world. Six
million were snuffed and turned into ashes by a madman’s beat
of the drums which the vast majority of the German people not
only applauded but obediently obeyed and carried his orders of
the “final solution” to their macabre conclusion.
There was one episode, which preceded the depths of the
Holocaust which now is observing its fiftieth anniversary. We
call it the spirit of St. Louis and though the story has been told
and retold it bears repeating again.
We’ve an important dispatch from the American Joint Distribu-
tion Committee which describes the plight of the passengers of
the ill-fated liner. Here it is:
see JESS JAWIN page 4
The Bible Backs the Death Penalty
But Should the Jews of New York?
BY ANDREW SHOW
CARROLL
NEW YORK CJTA) — On
Feb. 11, 1988, a 32-year-
old Hasidic man was
found murdered in the
warehouse of the whole-
sale stationery concern
he owned in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month,
police arrested the for-
mer employee who they
say stabbed Mendy
Feldmouse 16 times in
the face and neck.
New York state has no
death penalty. But local
leaders say that in the
wake of the murder of
Feldmouse and other
brutal crimes, the
residents of the heavily
Orthodox Jewish neigh-
borhoods of Borough
Park and Crown Heights
are among those sending
a clear message to state
lawmakers.
New York City Council-
man Noach Dear sum-
marized that message in
an interview. Speaking of
Feldmouse's alleged mur-
derer, he said, "There is
only one thing to do with
this animal. If proven
guilty, the guy has got to
die. This is not a religious
issue, not a Jewish issue
This is justice and proves
whether there is anarchy
or not."
A vote in the New York
State Assembly next
month could reinstate
the death penalty, which
has not been used here in
two decades.
The intensive lobbying
that has preceded the
vote has received
national attention, since
New York is the largest
and among the most
liberal of the 13
remaining states without
the death penalty.
see PUNISHMENT page 15
INDEX
Features..................................2
Opinion..................................4
Dallas Doings.............................5
Personalities........................10-11
Food........ 12-13
Dining/Entertainment..................15-17
Synagogue Services 18,19
Around the Town.......................20
LIGHT SABBATH CANDLES
8tl 1 P.M.
U.S. Agrees Details of Elections
Can Wait until Arabs Back Plan
BY DAVID
FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
The Bush administra-
tion appeared to support
Israel's position that de-
tails of the proposed
elections in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip
should be discussed only
after Palestinian par-
ticipation is assured.
The "details can ■ be
worked out once Pales-
tinians and Israelis
engage in the process,"
State Department spokes-
woman Margaret Tutwil-
er said at her daily news
briefing last Thursday.
Israeli Defense Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin re-
peatedly asserted during
his visit to Washingtoo
that decisions on such
questions as who is
eligible to vote should
not be made until Israel
has a Palestinian partner
for its peace initiative.
And both Rabin and
Israeli Foreign Minister
Moshe Arens, who visited
Washington recently,
.urged the Bush adminis-
tration to give full
backing to the Israeli
peace plan, so it would
have a better chance of
winning international
support
Tutwiler said that the
United States "whole-
heartedly" supports
Israel's proposals for the
Palestinian elections in
the territories, which
would lead to
negotiations for
Palestinian self-rule.
Both this and the state-
ment on working out the
details of the elections
later appeared to be
see BUSH page 23
Israel Faces Greater Threats
Than Uprising,Rabin Asserts
BY ANDREW SILOW
CARROLL
NEW YORK (JTAJ— Is-
raeli Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, report-
ing on his trip last week
to Washington, remind-
ed American Jewish
leaders that the Palestin-
ian uprising is not the
only security threat nor
even the largest, facing
Israel.
In fact, he listed the
uprising last among three
choices, after the
military build-up being
undertaken by surround-
ing Arab countries and
the continued terrorist
threat from Israel's nor-
thern border with
Lebanon
Rabin spoke May 25 at
a breakfast meeting of
the Conference of
Presidents of Maior
American Jewish Organi-
zations at the Regency
Hotel.
Focusing on the
broader military picture
is a familiar tack for the
defense minister, who
since the beginning of
the uprising has said it is
less a military than a
political crisis, deman-
ding political solu-
tions.
see RABIN page 24
House Approves Extra $75 Million
To Admit More Soviet Refugees
BY HOWARD
ROSENBERG
WASHINGTON (JTAJ—
The House of Represen-
tatives approved a $3.7
billion supplemental
spending bill May 24
containing $75 million to
admit an estimated
18,500 additional Soviet
refugees to the United
States this fiscal year
The Senate will not act
on the bill until after it
returns from the
Memorial Day recess.
On a parallel front,
key lawmakers are ex-
pected to formally notify
President Bush within a
week that they approve
an administration plan to
raise the Soviet refugee
quota by 18,500 for this
fiscal year, which ends
Sept 30, a Senate source
said.
The lawmakers, who
are the chairmen and
ranking Republicans on
the House and Senate
Judiciary subcommittees
on immigration, met on
May 17 with Attorney
General Dick Thor-
nburgh, who formally
notified them of the ad-
ministration's intention
to raise the refugee
ceiling.
The congressional and
administration moves are
an attempt to respond to
the hugh influx of Soviet
Jews seeking to enter the
United States.
More than 40,000 are
expected to emigrate
from the Soviet Union
this year, and there is
already a backlog of
several thousand waiting
in Italy for permission to
enter the United States.
The U.S. quota of
Soviet refugees for this
fiscal year has already
been exceeded. As a
result, the Hebrew Im-
migrant Aid Society and
the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Com-
mittee last month accep-
ted a longstanding ad-
ministration offer to ad-
mit an additional 5,000
refugees with only partial
U.S. funding.
Under the agreement,
HIAS and the JDC are
paying the costs of
refugee processing, tran-
sportation and initial
resettlement, costs nor-
mally absorbed by the
State Department, said
Phillips Saperia, HIAS
assistant executive vice
president.
Saperia said HIAS has
used about 2,500 of the
refugee slots, with the
other 2,500 to be used by
mid-June He said HIAS
hopes to be reimbursed if
and when the sup-
plemental spending bill
passes.
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