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IN OUR 53RD YEAR OF WEEKLY SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
NOLI ML 53 NO. 13 PASSOVER ISSI K
THI RSI)AY, APRIL I. 1999
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28 PAGES S1.50 PER ISSUE
less jawin:
My Oklahoma Redbud
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pnng started bursting out earlier than usual because of our
mild winter.
I’ve been watching with delight the early performance
of the Oklahoma Redbuds. Their pink color brightens
everything advertising the beauty and essence of life and
nature. We love Texas Redbuds but our own Oklahoma Redbud was
rather special.
I’ve been looking in our backyard daily to see how it was progress-
ing. This week 1 discovered the bad news. Our beautiful but fragile
Redbud was dead.
I went out in the rain the other morning to check its progress. It was
brittle, the bark was almost shorn and where previously there would
have been bright buds fighting to explore the sun there was the stark
reality of death.
I agree with Joyce Kilmer that "poems are made by fools like me but
only God can make a tree. ”
Our Redbud had a significant history. When we moved up to the
high hill on Hildring Drive Bast we planted great live and red oaks
which are still thriving We also planted some beautiful Magnolias
which arc more than three stories tall and burst out in splendor with
their green leaves punctuating their bright white blossoms with their
well-oiled shiny look We had two pine trees that grew like twins.
These were poisoned by the Texas Electric Service Company when
they cut them arbitrarily One had a sudden death billowing the
shearing. 'The official explanation was that they were “interfering
with the electric company’s wires.*’
I don’t know if that s a viable reason to murder a tree but the job was
done while we were absent. The other pine was nursed back to life and
still endures.
But now my Redbud is gone and it makes me feel sad because it has
a certain history to it. Did you know that trees have history like
humans?
Before we moved to the Hill we had a beautiful Texas Redbud on
South Adams When springtime came it flowered all over our drive-
way and gave it a pink glow that brought warmth to your heart and
creased your lips into a welcome smile,
as if you were saying "hello” to the
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INSIDE
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EI-AI Celebrates 50 Years..................................2
How New Will The New UJA Be?.....:.................3
Washington Watch.............................................4
Dallas Doings.....................................................5
President Clinton's Passover Message..............6
Rep. Frost Named To U S. Holocaust Council.....7
Letters To The Editor..........................................8
Yom Hashoah 1999 At S. Israel, April 13...........9
Yom Ha'Atzmaut At Dallas JCC, April 11......... 11
My Father, The Publisher............................14,15
You and Your Health....................................16,17
Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion.........................18
Synagogue Services..............................20,21,27
TJP's Flavorite Recipes...................................22
Around the Town..............................................23
FW Yom Ha’Shoah At Beth-EI, April 12............25
About 190 Jews Evacuate Serbia As
NATO Bombing Attacks Continue
NEW YORK— As NATO
strikes continue in Kosovo and
Yugoslavia, some Jews are
choosing to leave the war-torn
areas.
About 190 Jews from Belgrade,
Novi Sad and elsewhere in Yu-
goslavia have made their way to
Budapest in recent days and are
being cared for by the Budapest
Jewish community, according to
the American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
They are being housed tempo-
rarily in a boarding school and a
Jewish community center, while
plans to move them to a Budapest
hotel are being considered
Jews remaining in Belgrade —
where the Jewish community
numbers roughly 1,200—report-
ed over the weekend that life con-
tinues as usual, except for longer
bread lines, according to a JDC
official
PAUSE IN ESCAPE: A former Kosova Albanian resident pauses
to rest as he pushes his aged grandmother in a wheelbarrow
toward Morini, Albania earlier this week. Airstrikes continued
by NATO planes while the cleansing by the Serbs against
ethnic Moslems continues unabated.
But Jews in Kosovo have de- see NATO p. 19
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Lessons Of Holocaust Demand
Action In Kosovo, Many Jews Say
By Daniel Kurtzman
WASHINGTON — When
President Clinton seized on the
lessons of two world wars and
the Holocaust as he made the
case for U S military interven-
tion in Kosovo, he was laying
out an argument that many
American Jews and Holocaust
survivors would have been hap-
py to have made for him.
Explaining the rationale be-
hind the attack launched by the
United Slates and its NATO al-
lies aimed at forcing Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic,
Clinton invoked the appease-
ment of Hitler and the Allies
failure to act sooner in World
War II
"Just imagine if leaders back
then had acted wisely and early
enough, how many lives could
have been saved? How many
Americans would not have had
to die?” Clinton said in a na-
tionally televised address on
March 24. amid the first wave of
bombings against Serb targets
in Yugoslavia.
For American Jewish groups
and Holocaust survivors, the
moral imperative to end Serb
atrocities against ethnic Alba-
nians in Kosovo is clear.
“We must come to the defense
of defenseless victims," Nobel
laureate Elic Wiescl said in ex-
pressing his full support for the
NATO action.
“We cannot allow people like
Milosevic to go on killing men
and women and children.” he
said in a telephone interview
“We should have done it earlier,
but it’s not too late.**
Although there can be no com-
parison between the atrocities
committed by Serbia against eth-
nic Albanians and the Nazis’ sys-
tematic extermination of 6 mil-
lion Jews. Holocaust survivors
and scholars say the Jewish ex-
perience and the lessons of the
Holocaust helps to shed light
on what is at issue in Kosovo.
"I don't like to compare any-
thing to what we have been
through, but if the world had
reacted then the way we are
reacting now. many tragedies
would have been prevented,”
Wiesel said.
Hyman Bookbinder, a long-
time Jewish activist in Wash-
ington and a member of the
Committee on Conscience of
the U S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, agreed.
“As Jews we dare not be in-
different to mass tortures like
we’ve been seeing here." he
said.
For its part, the organized
Jewish community has declared
unwavering support for U S. in-
tervention in Kosovo.
The Jewish Council for Pub-
lic Affairs, an umbrella group
representing national Jewish or-
see ACTION p 19
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