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taurants which have been the
targets of anti-Jewish terrorism
in the past. Or I can stay home.
I have always enjoyed traveling
within the United States. New
Orleans, San Francisco, Las
Vegas, Miami Beach are charm-
ing, exciting, beautiful. Here at
home. I can use my own name,
wear my Jewish star, attend
synagogue services, and eat in
kosher restaurants with confi-
dence.
But if I limit my mobility be-
cause of terrorist activities
abroad, the terrorists have suc-
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master chary
ceeded in•limiting my freedom to
travel. And worse yet, they have
made me uneasy here at home too.
After the hijacking of the
Achille Latin, Middle Eastern
terrorists issued threats that
Americans will no longer be safe
in their own country. It can hap-
pen here! and if it does, I feel more
vulnerable than other Americans.
It's an age-old reflex. And even if
there are no terrorist attacks in
this country, the ice cold finger of
fear has reached across the oceans
to touch me in my Safe Haven, my
Promised Land.
conceived and often superstitious
notions of endangerment by that
group. It is definitely not the con-
sequence of stereotyping a group
based on the questionable be-
havior of a few.
Hitler did not hate Jews in gen-
eral because of a dislike of a few.
He hated all Jews as a matter of
basic premise. I submit this situa-
tion is entirely different from the
one Mr. St. John described.
The Hamans of the world have
always felt threatened by the
Jews as a whole, and have at-
tempted their mass destruction.
We should not oversimplify this
matter by drawing the Italians-
vs-Mafia-syndrome or similar
examples. After all, despite Al
Capon6, no one as ever suggested
a "final solution" for all Italians.
In my opinion, the concluding
remarks by Esther Allweiss
Tschirhart (March 7) in her re-
view of Shoah — ". . .if you miss it,
you may be saving yourself a
nightmare" — is irresponsible
and plays into the hands of our
enemy, ignorance.
The real nightmare would be to
deny oneself the opportunity to
learn a most valuable lesson from
Claude Lanzmann's film. We
learn and gain insight into
human nature, ours and theirs.
When a Polish woman is asked
how her life is now, that the Jews
are not around, she answers by
saying, before she picked potatoes
and now she sells eggs and she
Richard Braun
likes her life better. Should we
condemn her honesty? Or should
we admit that wp too can feel Yeshiva U. Date
envy, jealousy and want the com-
forts we see others' enjoy. She Is Corrected
viewed "Jews" as the reason her
In your March 7 Purely Com-
life was what it was and used us as mentary you attribute to Jacob
her scapegoat. If we cannot learn Marcus some historic facts re-
about human behavior and learn garding Yeshiva University
how and what to educate and ir- which are incorrect. Yeshiva Eitz
radicate in the baser human emo- Chaim came into being in 1886
tions, then we indeed have and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
learned nothing from the Theological Seminary in 1896,
Holocaust.
but was chartered by the State of
The most important lesson to
York in 1897.
learn, in my opinion, is how we New
These two institutions merged
are most like our enemies, and
1915 under the aegis of Dr.
how we are most different from in
Bernard Revel. In effect YU
them. If we really mean "never traces its origins to Eitz Chaim
again," we cannot and should not
and hence will mark its Centen-
avoid learning all we can about nial Sept. 15, 1986.
the Holocaust and the lessons it
Sam Hartstein
teaches.
Director, Public Relations
It is interesting that the show-
Yeshiva University
ing of Shoah at the Detroit Art
Institute was sponsored by the
Holocaust Memorial Center. ' If M. Darawshi's
they (the survivors who came) can
New Reality'
stand to see the film, then cer-
tainly, the rest of ifs can show the
Mohammed Darawshi, the "so'
same courage.
cial activist," is so clever (Marcl
14). Applauded by the Jewisl
Dorothy Mahlin
progressives, he decries the fate o
live
the suffering Arabs who must
under a Jewish government. Hi
Anti-Semitism Not
people's children don't have lib
Based On The Few.
rules or kindergartens, and be
Robert St. •ohn's analysis of come educationally disadvan
anti-Semitism, in his column of taged. That and more is the resul
the March 14 issue of The Jewish and fault of their second class citi
zenship under the Israeli occupe
News, reflects unfortunate error:
Anti-Semitism, whether it be tion.
Behind his' sweet reasonable
religious, economic or social is a
deep-rooted antagonism toward a nessfor the confused and guilt}
whole group based on pre- stands the truth of reality.