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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle,
Sewing Columbus and the Central Ohio
Jewish Community since 1922
VOLUME 72
NUMBER 31
AU0UST 4,1994
27 AV 5754
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British authorities ignored
warnings about terrorism
page 2
Integration and survival.
Are they compatible?
page .4
Hadassah to present
High Holidayfashions
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Neil Moss appointed
to chair '95 Campaign
page 7
Temple Israel names
new executive director
page 9
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ANOTHER HISTORIC HANDSHAKE
Ushering in a 'new era of peace,'
Rabin and Hussein leek to future
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By Matthew Dorf
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Moments after Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Jordan's King Hussein, signed
a declaration ending the 46-
year state of war between their
two countries, ' the leaders
stepped off the stage on the
South Lawn of the White
House to greet a handful of
guests at the ceremony.
Indicative ofthe new era of
peace, Rabin pulled Steve
Grossman, president of the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, close to his side
and introduced Hussein to the
Jewish lobby's leader.
"In my wildest imagination
I never imagined I, as president of AIPAC, would be introduced to the king of Jordan
by the prime minister of Israel
with the president ofthe United States watching," Grossman said later, still beaming
from the encounter.
Although the July 25 White
House ceremonies lacked the
drama of the signing of the
declaration of principles between Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization ten
month ago, the public meeting
was deemed a significant
breakthrough by most Jewish
leaders.
"This is a different kind of
enthusiasm," Malcolm Hoen-
lein, executive vice chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said after
the White House ceremonies,
echoing the sentiment expressed by many Jewish leaders in town for the ceremonies
surrounding the summit.   ,.
"People were very moved,
but this coming together is less
dramatic and more substantive," Hoenlein said.
Rabin and Hussein signed
what they termed the "Washington Declaration," pledging
to settle all disputes peacefully.
Although what they signed
was shy of a full peace treaty,
both leaders said full normalized relations are only months
away.
The White House ceremonies under a sweltering Wash- .
ington sun-splashed summer
day also lacked the careful
choreography of the Rabin
meeting with PLO Chairman
Yasser Arafat at the same site
last September.
Senior White House offiy
cials had reportedly rehearsed
the Rabin-Arafat handshake,
carefully planning where the
participants would stand, and
giving the media the best possible vantage point for the historic moment.
In sharp contrast last week,
a White House aide scurried to
lay name cards on the podium
only minutes before President
Clinton, Hussein and Rabin
took the stage in a Rose Garden
introduction ceremony.
The two leaders shook hands
the'moment they took to the
stage in the Rose Garden. And
Rabin, in his introductory remarks, said he anxiously
awaits the day when greeting
Hussein becomes so routine
that "no one will want to take
pictures of us shaking hands."
The only minor glitch in the
production came when Jordanian officials protested the
plan to fly the Jordanian flag
behind the Israeli flag, hoisted
in alphabetical order, according to an official involved in
planning the ceremony.
Members of the Jordanian
delegation reportedly reminded administration officials of
the country's official name,
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The order was reversed
and a Marine band played the
Jordanian national anthem before Israel's "Hatikvah."
The signed document strikes
at the heart of what has proven
to be one ofthe thorniest issues
in the Arab-Israeli conflict: the
question of Jerusalem.
The agreement affords Jordan "high priority" and
pledges respect in maintaining
Jordan's "historic role" in administering Muslim holy sites,
in Jerusalem.
The declaration also guarantees Hussein a role in final-
status negotiations for Israel's
capital scheduled to begin
within two years from now.
Officials here have confirmed that Israeli negotiators
insisted oh adding the language concerning Jerusalem
following emotionally charged
remarks by Arafat.
Arafat,, with U.S. Secretary
of State Warren Christopher
at his side at a news conference in Gaza, lambasted the
Israeli government for inviting
Hussein to pray in Jerusalem.
"They have no right to issue
any invitations," Arafat said,
"It is my duty and my respon
sibility to invite my brothers
and friends to come visit the
holy Muslim and Christian
sites, which are under Palestinian jurisdiction."
Jordan has administered
control ofthe Al Aksa Mosque
and the Dome of the Rock
through its Religious Affairs
Ministry since Israel captured
Jerusalem during the 1967
Six-Day War.
Hussein has spent over $8
million of his personal wealth
to fund the restoration of the
sites. Israeli negotiators gave
the king a photo album during
his visit here detailing the progress of the work.
At the same time, Arafat has
repeatedly expressed his desire to rule a Palestinian state
from eastern Jerusalem.
The agreement "puts the
PLO on, notice that there is
another significant, serious
player which didn't exist be-
, fore," Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-
Defamation League, said during an interview at a reception
sponsored by the Israeli Embassy after the signing ceremony.
In the wake of death and destruction,
Argentine Jewry faces dramatic changes
By Saul Kollmann
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —
Nothing will ever be the same,
for Argentina's Jews after the
bomb attack on the community's headquarters two weeks
ago.
On July 25, with the winter
holiday over, children returned to school on schedule,
with pupils at Jewish schools
facing tighter security than
ever before.
For the first time, police
were stationed at the school
doors, and as the children
went inside, their school bags
were examined one by one.
•While the community had
considered delaying the reopening of its 44 schools, it
ultimately decided to go ahead
on schedule.
Many parents had originally
thought not to send their children to Jewish schools, but
most changed their minds.
But some, like Diana Katz,
the mother of a girl who goes
to the Scholem Aleijem School
in Buenos Aires, said she will
.send her daughter to a non-
Jewish school next year.
"I. cannot live in fear. You
never know what murderers
may do," she said.
But Juana Kilzi, whose two
grandchildren also go to a Jewish school, thought otherwise.
"We must not creep into
basements" out of fear, she
said.
A team of psychologists has
been sent into the Jewish
schools to work with the children. Psychologists from both
Buenos Aires and Israel are
helping the children and relatives ofthe victims cope with
the traumatic aftershocks of
the bomb.
Fear has been prevalent
here in the wake of the July 18
bomb blast, which completely
leveled a. seven-story building
housing the Jewish Kehilla, or
Jewish community organizations.
The bomb struck one of the
community's most important
addresses. The building housed
the DAIA, the umbrella organization of Argentine Jewry;
the AMIA, the community's
100-year-old main social service agency for the poor and
aged; a library of YTVO, the
Jewish research Institute; the
archives on Jewish life in Argentina, and the Jewish Community Council, among other
organizations.
At least 96 people are
known to have died in the
blast, and Jewish leaders are
saying the toll will likely reach
100. Of 157 injured in the explosion, 112 have been released from the hospital. A
few remain in critical condition.
Rescue workers ceased their
efforts July 25.
"The state of the bodies we
have recovered means there is
no hope of finding anyone else
alive," said Gen. Meir Livne,
who headed an Israeli rescue
team on the site. <
Livne confirmed theories
that the explosion was caused
by a car bomb driven by a
suicide bomber.
The blast echoed the one
that demolished the Israeli
Embassy here in March 1992.
No one was ever tried for that
attack, which killed 30 and injured 250.
Ruben Beraja, president of
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