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September 29,2005 Rosh Hashanah Issue
Texas Jewish Post
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another reportedly was David Sat-
terfield, at the time the State
Department's deputy assistant sec-
retary for Near Eastern affairs, while
the third has not been named —
since 1999. They're accused of
passing details to a political officer
at the Israeli Embassy who recently
returned to Israel and two other
embassy officials who have not been
identified.
The indictments may force
lewish groups and their peers to
analyze the methods they use to
receive information from govern-
ment sources, as well as their
information-sharing with Israeli
counterparts.
AIPAC already has launched a
campaign to re-brand itself, high-
lighting its American grass-roots ties
instead of its cooperation with
Israelis. The group also has hired out-
side lawyers to review its practices.
But when it comes to political
influence, said Larry Sabato, the
director of the Center for Politics at
the University of Virginia, the
AIPAC story ought not to worry
American lews unduly. Indeed, he
said, lews would do better to look at
the attention paid to them in the
recent presidential election as an
indicator of their persistent clout.
"You have to screen out the back-
ground noise and see whether the
basics have changed," he said,
"lewish Americans have a pretty
good position. When Democrats are
in charge, they automatically have a
lot of influence. And when Republi-
cans are in charge, they have a lot of
influence because Republicans have
to be responsive to their fundamen-
talist Christian constituency. In that
ideology, Israel is very important.
"It's kind of win-win" for U.S.
lews, Sabato said. "A lot of groups
don't have that."
Another thing a lot of groups
didn't have this year was kosher
salami. As high political drama
unfolded in American halls of
power, kosher restaurants and food
distributors across the country were
suffering under the weight of a
Hebrew National salami shortage,
forcing some to fill the gap with
other meat products.
The shortage, which also put the
Hebrew National salamis on display at
Ben's Kosher Delicatessen in Man-
hattan on Feb. 8. The deli has struggled
to keep Hebrew National salamis in
stock during a shortage of Hebrew
National products.
Photo: Melissa Wong/JTA
squeeze on luncheon meats such as
turkey, hurt sales at U.S. eateries as
customers blanched at the prospect
of consuming what one kosher deli's
counterman called "inferior product."
As the stuff of political intrigue,
though, 5765 — luncheon meats
aside — was anything but inferior
product. It all goes to show, as the
old saying goes, that politics are a lot
like sausage: watching how either is
made is no picnic.
Now, please pass the mustard.
JTA Washington correspondent Matthew
E. Berger contributed to this report.
RITA
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A large percentage of the temple's
160 families left town before Hurri-
cane Rita arrived in Southeast Texas,
including a few families who ended
up in North Texas, said Rabbi Met-
zinger, who set up a temporary work
space at the Union for Reform
ludaism office here.
"lewish Family Service is putting
on a coffee for us on Thursday
[Sept. 29], and we're using e-mail to
stay in touch with members in other
cities," she told the TJP. Several
members homes were damaged and
won't be habitable without major
repairs, and others have returned
briefly to pick-up clothes and other
essentials she told the TJP. The
rabbi's own home was spared any
storm damage.
Congregants were looking for-
ward to High Holiday services in
their sanctuary, part of a restoration
that began after last year's Yom
Kippur observance.
Camp Young Judaea hosts
When Camp Young ludaea
decided to open the Wimberley,
Texas, facility to Jewish evacuees
from Hurricane Rita, Camp
Director Frank Silberlicht first had
to politely ask a local men's Chris-
tian group of 80 if they would mind
postponing their planned weekend
at the 240-acre facility.
!'It would have been a little chal-
lenging" to have both groups at the
same time, Silberlicht explained this
week. The men's group readily
agreed to the plan.
"We had a lot of food in the freezer
when Hurricane Katrina was
approaching, but it turned out that
those evacuees [from Louisiana] went
to other communities, so we had the
food available," said Silberlicht.
In the place where about 500
7-to-14-year-olds gather near San
Marcos during the summer, there
were about 125 South Texans over
the weekend, most of whom
endured a high-traffic 200-mile
drive from Houston. "We got staff
together, set things up, and began
welcoming our guests. There was
lots of pool time," recalled the
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