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TJP V59-11 03-17-05 p01-04 3/15/05 5:12 PM Page 1
Thursday, March 17,2005
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North Texans invited
to 'Eat for Israel' at Cafe
Fino on March 21
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'The Book of Customs:
A Complete Handbook
for the Jewish Year'
reviewed
15
Older adults and
survivors benefit
from Purim sights,
smells and memories
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Survey
shows
Americans
like Israel
Poll of U.S. and British
views on Israel suggests
ways to spin
By Rachel Pomerance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Publicizing
Israel's plan to withdraw from the
Gaza Strip may hold the key to win-
ning public support for the Jewish
state, according to a new survey
In the post-Yasser Arafat era,
Americans generally still side with
Israel, considered a like-minded
ally, and show hostility toward the
Palestinians, according to The Israel
Project, a group working to pro-
mote Israel's image.
In the survey, 58 percent said
they had "warm" feelings toward
Israel, with 11 percent expressing
"cool" feelings. The comparative
numbers for the Palestinians were
35 percent and 24 percent, respec-
tively.
Also, some 40 percent of Ameri-
cans sided with Israel over the
Palestinians. Only 10 percent took
the Palestinians side, and 50 percent
would not choose a side.
But perceptions of the Pales-
tinians under new leadership have
improved drastically — and Amer-
icans think Israel should
compromise to advance the peace
process, according to The Israel
Project, a group working to pro-
mote Israel's image.
The Palestinian Authority's pres-
ident, Mahmoud Abbas, "has a suit,
a smile and a snappy soundbite,"
said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, presi-
dent of The Israel Project. "In a
world where people want to hear a
message of peace, he's giving one."
At the same time, "we cannot
underscore enough how7 special this
moment in the peace process is, as
see SURVEY p. 3
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Sen. Florence Shapiro as they tour the Dallas Holocaust Museum during an open house at the interim downtown location
last week. Photo: Steve Israel
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naming of female rabbi
By Chanan Tigay
NEW YORK (JTA) — Twenty years
after the Conservative movement
began ordaining women as rabbis,
a large New Jersey congregation has
chosen a woman to fill its top rab-
binic post, a development
movement leaders are hailing as
"groundbreaking."
The board of Congregation Beth
El in South Orange voted on March
7 to appoint Rabbi Francine
Roston, 36, as the synagogue's spir-
itual leader.
The shul boasts 575 families.
Once it becomes official — the
contract has not yet been finalized
— Roston's appointment as senior
rabbi will be the first of a woman to
such a post at a Conservative syna-
gogue with more than 500 families.
"We see this as groundbreaking,"
said Rabbi Perry Raphael Rank,
president of the Rabbinical
Assembly, the Conservative move-
ment's rabbinical arm.
"It's groundbreaking from the
perspective that we have been
talking about a glass ceiling, and
she has broken that glass ceiling
and risen to a much larger congre-
gation than women have risen to
until this point," said, Rank, who is
the spiritual leader of Midway
Jewish Center in Syosset, N.Y.
Roston, who since 1999 has been
rabbi of Congregation Beth Tikvah
in New Milford, N.J., will be
replacing the synagogue's longtime
rabbi, Jehiel Orenstein, who held
the pulpit for some 35 years.
Roston is married and has two
children.
"Our feeling was, all things being
equal, we would probably have
hired a male rabbi — but all things
Rabbi Francine Roston
weren't equal," said Aaron Nieren-
berg, co-chair of Beth El's search
committee.
"Rabbi Roston impressed us
with her knowledge, sense of
energy, sense of humor, warmth.
Most specifically, she has a record
of achievement. When she sets her
mind to doing something, she
makes it happen."
Asked whether the committee
views itself as having done some-
thing pioneering in hiring Roston,
Nierenberg said, "We really don't
see it that way. We really don't."
see RABBI p. 2
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Museum
brings
Holocaust
message
downtown
By Steve Israel
Staff Writer
DALLAS — The Dallas Holocaust
Museum "made a profound impact
on the heart of this city" by officially
completing its move from the sub-
urbs to downtown's West End and
opening its doors to a flood of visi-
tors on Sunday, Executive Director
Elliott Dlin said.
"We are already booked [with
school children] through the end of
the school year - we're sad to say
but we're also happy to say,"
museum board president Michael
Schiff announced at a formal
opening ceremony last Thursday.
The new facility can accommodate
nearly 4,000 students a month on
guided tours.
Mayor Laura Miller and Texas
Senator Florence Shapiro cut a blue
ribbon and drew applause from a
crowd of over 300 museum and
community leaders and Holocaust
survivors at the Thursday event.
For 20 years, the Dallas Holo-
caust Memorial Center operated
from the 3,600-square-foot base-
ment of the Aaron Family Jewish
Community Center on Northaven
Road. Directors voted last year to
change the facility's name and bring
its expanded exhibit to 5,200 square
feet of leased space at 211 North
Record St. and Pacific Avenue.
Fundraising is underway to build a
permanent 35,000-square-foot
home in several years on a land
parcel two blocks away.
"We're bringing the message to a
larger audience - a message of tol-
erance and hope and what happens
when people turn their eyes and do
the wrong thing. It is really a mes-
see MUSEUM p. 2
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