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VOLUME 50 NO. 8
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1996 2 ADAR 5756
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Jess Jawin: King of the Wild Political Frontier
atrick J. Buchanan, king of the wild political fron-
tier, came closer
Tuesday to grab
his long sought
the Republican
Party’s nomination for the
presidency.
Appealing to citizenry
who believe they’ve lost
their right share of the
American Dream. Buchan-
an raged and flailed his
voice and body excoriating
his fellow Republicans to
raise himself as the New
leader of the GOP. It sound-
ed and sounds more like the
see JESS JAWIN p. 18
Buchanan in front of the Alamo in
Texas. When he returns Gov.
George bush, brother Jeb and
Senator Phil Gramm will be waiting.
ADL Audit Shows Decline
in Anti-Semitic Incidents
By Heather Camlot
New York - Anti-Semitic inci-
dents in the United States declined
in l995,adropcommensuratc with
the trend in crime rates across the
country, according to the Anti-
Defamation League’s annual au-
dit of anti-Semitism
The ADL recorded 1.843 inci-
dents last year, a decrease of 11
percent from 1994. and the first
decline in three years.
In 1995, 108 arrests were made
for anti-Semitic hale crimes, down
from 141 in the previous year.
Forty-seven suites and the District
of Columbia have hate-crime stat-
utes.
"Through the intensified efforts
of law enforcement and continued
educational outreach, we hope this
is the beginning of a trend away
from anti-Semitic acts,” Abraham
Foxman, the ADL national direc-
tor, said in a statement, “But, we
must remain vigilant.”
see AUDIT p. 14
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Oscar-Winning Marvin Hamlisch to Star at Vogel Alcove Arts Performance .........2,3
TJP's James Besscr’s Washington Watch....................................................................4
Dallas Doings..........................:..................................................................................5
NCJW Greater Dallas Sat ion to Celebrate SMttAity...................................6
Female Jewish Soldier Joins Force in Bosnia
Synagogue Services.........................................
Noted Philanthropist. Sheldon Bcrcn Dies at 73...................................................
New Head of Texas Region Stale of Israel Bonds, Nate Levine,
Reports on World Wind Survey Visit to Israel...............................................
Dr David Feinstein Named General Chairman Dallas Israel Bonds...................
Dr Murray Berger Speaks to Jewish War Vets Sunday......................................
.Match Maker. Match Maker Make Me a Match FREE ADS see........................
You and Your Health - New Drug Effective in Treating Spasticity...................
You and Your Health - Improved Surgery Can Help Patients With Emphysema
You and Your Health - International Medical Symposium Focuses on
Environment and the Brain............................................................................
Punm to Be Celebrated by Area Congregations
Ohev Shalom Tribute Dinner............................
Around the Town..............................................
New Chavurah Group at Ahavath Sholom.......
Argentine Rabbi Ignites Furvor in Cuba ..........
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion Temurah.......................
TJP's Ravoile Recipes Salmon a Great Deal for All Seasons
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Concern Mounts Over Success of
Buchanan in Early GOP Races
Patrick J. Buchanan, feisty
pseudo-facist, who worried the
Jewish community by hisadvanc-
es in Alaska, Louisiana and Iowa
has climbed another rung in his
race to grab the Republican nom-
ination for president with his one
0
point New Hampshire Tuesday
win over veteran Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dole.
Jewish Republicans as well as
non-Jewish Party members are
wrongly seeking distance from
the vitriolic Buchanan who is al-
legedly accused of fomenting race
hatred into the Louisiana cam-
paign by the appearance of defa-
matory circulars about Senator
Phil Gramm’s marriage to his
American wife who is Korean by
birth.
Coupled with this is, one of his
four main campaign aides, Larry
Pratt, who has allegedly associ-
ated with and spoke before racist
right-wing groups.
While a Buchanan nomination
remains a longshot, his strong
showing early in the race has mod-
erate Republicans rushing to
loudly denounce him.
"Pat Buchanan has a very strong
hale message and message of
class warfare and unfortunately,
a number of Republican lowans
bought it," said Bud Hockenberg,
a Jewish Republican activist in
Des Moines. "Pal Buchanan pos-
es a grave danger for the Jewish
community."
Matt Brooks, executive direc-
tor of the National Jewish Coali-
tion. the pre-eminent Jewish Re-
publican organization, said, "Pat
Buchanan's views are so far out
of the mainstream of the Repub-
lican Party today that they are
practically out of the Republican
tent."
Brooks added, "He is a rather
large nuisance, like a little dog
who is constantly barking at your
heels."
Fearing that there will be a re-
peat of the 1992 convention de-
bacle, when the parly appeared
intolerant and exclusive. Repub-
licans pledged this year to keep
the OOP's far right wing in check.
“We’re not stupid. We learned
from our mistakes in 1992,”
Brooks said. “We have a much
stronger party chairman and will
have a much stronger nominee
who will stand up to the extreme
forces in the party. There will be
a series of ground rules precisely
to avoid what happened in ‘92."
Buchanan has shunned the Jew-
ish community during this cam-
paign. The former presidential
speech writer who turned talk
show commentator to presiden-
tial aspirant was the only declared
Republican candidate to decline
an invitation to speak to a Na-
tional Jewish Coalition forum last
year.
Buchanan has championed a
socially conservative platform
with an emphasis on policy goals
advocated by the religious right.
He has promised to propose a
consiiioiion.it amendment to out-
law all abortions in the United
States, to lake steps to end immi-
gration and to bring prayer into
the nation's public schools.
In his current campaign. Bucha-
nan has stayed away from the
fiery rhetoric that led American
Jewish Committee’s Kenneth
see RACES p. 14
NJCRAC’s Future on the Minds
of Community Relations Experts
By Cynthia Mann
ST. LOUIS-This year’s annual
conference of the Jewish commu-
nal world's national public affairs
body was marked mostly by what
did not happen.
There was precious little of the
contentious debate over substan-
tive policy issues that has charac-
terized and enlivened previous ple-
nums of the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory Coun-
cil.
Also, scant attention was paid in
the formal agenda to a newly re-
leased, controversial plan to re-
form NJCRAC to increase servic-
es to the 117 local community rela-
tions councils. Proponents say not
making the changes risks render-
ing NJCRAC irrelevant.
But a vote on the plan originally
slated for the plenum was post-
poned in the wake of intense pro-
test by the Anti-Delamation
League, the American Jewish Con-
gress and the American Jewish
Committee — three of NJCRAC’s
13 national member agencies.
Instead, only two hours of dis-
cussion in small groups were de-
voted to the plan, with a vote ten-
tatively scheduled to lake place by
June.
Nonetheless, the overarching
theme of the plenum, which drew
about 4(X)delegates here from Feb.
II to 14, remained NJCRAC's ef-
forts to recast itself and its direc-
tion inachangingcommunal land-
scape.
"Have we stood still?” Lawrence
Rubin, NJCRAC executive vice
chairman and an ardent advocate
of internal reform, said in his ad-
dress to the plenum.
."Have we allowed ourselves to
grasp the comforting cliches and
bromides of past positions and pol-
icies, ignoring changes in our coun-
try and their consequences for our
field?”
Despite “monumental changes
in the world,” Rubin said,
NJCRAC’s annual policy-making
process has "appeared bland and
samti/cd" in recent years.
"The instrument needs refining”
for NJCRAC to make a difference
and help shape “a communal vi-
sion of a just society,” Rubin said.
For Rabbi Douglas Kahn, exec-
utive director of the JCRC of San
Francisco, the mandate for change
in the community relations field is
evident in the "diminished urgen-
cy in the issues typically associat-
ed with the CRCs: the Middle East,
see RELATIONS p. 22
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