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her congregation's timidity. A state
office building was lit up in the shape
of a cross at Christmas a few years
ago and the issue was raised at a
temple board meeting. One new-
comer to town suggested that the
congregation engage the American
Civil Liberties Union. In the end, the
majority opted for silence.
A more extreme case cropped up
during the 1981 re-election of I.A.
Rosenbaum, the tough, competent
Jewish mayor of Meridian. The city
editor of the Meridian Star, running
the paper while editor and publisher
were in Europe, repeatedly referred
to Rosenbaum in news stories and
op-ed pieces as a "wealthy Jewish
businessman." The paper ran car-
toons that likened the mayor to Col-
onel Klink, the Nazi concentration
camp commandant on TV's "Hogan
Heroes."
According to Rosenbaum, who
had gotten accustomed to shrugging
off abuse, even death threats, when
his wife chaired the town school
board 'in the 1960s, "Nobody in the
Jewish community said a word about
it."
Rosenbaum apparently believed
that silence was the better part of
valor. A group of gentile
businessmen came to his office and
asked him about the best course of
action. He chose to ignore the Star's
slurs and was reelected with 73 per-
cent of the vote.)
One development that may give
the Jews of Mississippi even more
cohesion is the establishment of the
Henry S. /Jacobs Camp. It was estab-
lished 13 years ago in Utica, Missis-
sippi, as part of the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations' network.
It gives Jewish children from Missis-
sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and west-
ern Tennessee an opportunity to do
something rare: To be in the major-
ity.
They also study Hebrew and
religious ritual, knowledge camp di-
rectors hope the campers will bring
back to their parents.
Adults are reached directly
through speakers and weekend
workshops. There are two annual
singles weekends, a celebration in
December for college students home
for the holidays and discussion
groups for interfaith couples. The
camp has given Mississippi Jews a
hub that never existed before.
Erik Hearon, a Jackson ac-
countant who has converted to
Judaism, is trying to turn this con-
sciousness into political clout with
Mississippians for Responsive Gov-
ernment (MRG), a political action
committee formed in 1982 to lobby
the state's congressional delegation
on behalf of Israel.
Hearon said that 20 percent of
Mississippi Jews belong to MRG,
which has sent three Congressmen
from Mississippi to Israel. Upon re-
turning, two of them voted for last-
year's foreign aid package — an im-
pressive turn-around in light of the
Deep South's traditional opposition
to that program.
Mississippi Jews' increasing sol-
idarity with Israel has increased their
desire to assert their Judaism at
home — and vice versa.
But anxiety is still not far from
the surface. When Israel invaded
Lebanon, according to a Jew in
Jackson, "Everybody was worried."
Then, a few Lebanese Christian
businessmen in town said that "Op-
eration Peace for Galilee" was the
best thing that ever happened to
their country.
Population loss is also a concern,
as younger Mississippi-born Jews
settle elsewhere. Although the B'nai
B'rith says that new arrivals just
about offset the number of Jews who
move out of the state, the Jewigh
population in Mississippi seems to be
made up mostly of people over 50.
Intermarriage seems to be occurring
at about the same high rate as
elsewhere.
All the same, the overriding im-
pression is that Jewish roots have at-
tached themselves to the Mississippi
soil with uncanny tenacity. Jewry is
quite alive in Mississippi — and it
may be getting better.
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