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Coupon Expires 5-13-85 • ♦ ••••••••••••••..... L IMPORTED BY: KEDEM WINE COMPANY NEW YORK. NY --MEDEK WINE AND SPIRITS CORP., BROOKLYN NY 36 PROOF MON FORT This year it will be on Friday evening, April 5, when Jews in the free world will Lather around their resplendently bedecked Seder tables to celebrate Passover, the Festival of Free- dom; to recount and vicariously join their ancestors in the rapture-laden liberation march from Egyptian bondage, across the wilderness to the Promised Land. Who more than the human rights-deprived Jews behind the Iron Curtain can empathize with the tyrannical and abusive treatment the ancient Israelites endured in Egypt for over 400 years? This identity assumes an even grimmer reality for the Jewish prisoners of conscience, languishing in the notorious labor camps in the remote regions of Siberia. How can it be rationally ac- counted , for that these post- Revolutionary born young adult Jews, raised in a religiously sterile environment, bereft of even a modicum of Jewish educa- tion, have risen in open defiance and strident protest against the Kremlin's anti-Jewish policies? The widespread and popular an- swer is that the establishment of the State of Israel and her bril- liant victory of the Six-Day War were chiefly responsible for this phenomenon. Both these events of contem- porary vintage undoubtedly con- tributed in no small measure to reawakening, the heretofore dor- mant national consciousness of Russian Jewry which was forcibly anaegthetized'in the wake of the Communist takeover. However, in and of themselves, they fall short of rendering a full account of the sustaining character of the dissident movement whose objec- tives strikingly resemble those which brought the Exodus from Egypt into being. No other single event in the col- lective Jewish experience than the breaking loose from the chains of enthralment in tandem with receiving the Decalogue at Mt. Sinai,splayed a more decisive role in casting the national reli- gious character of the Jewish people. And since it is a well es- tablished, historically proven principle--that-no--occurrence- of a momentous nature is ever entirely lost on future genera- tions, it becomes clear why a na- tional rennaissance has taken place among Soviet Jews. All that was necessary to reactivate it was a potent shot in the arm and that was provided by the creation of the Third Jewish Commonwealth in 1948. Although Passover is a dis- tinctly Jewish festival, in its broader scope, it had what is now called the "ripple effect." It was not only the progenitor of Jewish Although Passover is a distinctly Jewish festival, it had what is now called a cripple effect.' nationhood and independence but had begotten in the course of time three other far-reaching, freedom-ridden political and so- cial changes in the Old and New Worlds: the Magna Carta in England (1215), the American Revolution (1776) and the French Revolution (1789). It seems that the authors of the Haggadah, endowed with a keen and almost uncanny insight of the historical process, were also aware of the ripple effect as it op- erates in directing the destiny of human society. And this may be inferred from the following Hagadah passage: "It is incumbent on every Is- raelite in every generation to look upon himself as if he personally had gone forth from Egypt, . . . It is not our ancestors alone that the Most Holy, blessed be He, re- deemed from Egypt but also us did He redeem along with them as it is written. And he brought us forth thence that He might bring us to the land which he swore to give to our fathers." Copyright 1985, Worldwide News Service - Seven Arts Features. matok yin Rotige C1 80 4.- 0R t The Pride of Israel MONK) KOSHER ■ _ - ) -/ FOR PASSOVER To send a gift of Kedem, call 1.800-L'C-H-A-Y-I-M (524.2946). In New Jersey call 1-201-370-8877. Ask for a free catalog. Void where prohibited. Saudi Arabian defense minister Prince Abderrahaman Ben Abdel Aziz accepts a rifle from his French counterpart, Charles Hernu, during a Paris visit to finalize the Saudi purchase of 46 Mirage 2000 jet fighter planes. dl -411 dl