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No Breakthroughs
In Papal Meetings
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
A Michigan representative at last
Friday's meeting in Miami between
Pope John Paul II and American
Jewish leaders described the historic
session as "no blockbuster."
Temple Beth El member Spencer
Partrich saw the meeting as "very in-
teresting and positive," but "exactly
what we expected." Partrich was ask-
ed to attend the session as a delegate
of the Synagogue Council of America.
He has been involved with the SCA
for several years, and went to the
Vatican in 1985 with Rabbi Alex-
ander Schindler, president of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations (Reform), to arrange a
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display of Vatican Judaica in the
United States. The exhibit is now on
display in Miami.
The only other Michigan
representative at the meeting was
Michael Pelavin of Flint, president of
the National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council.
Partrich takes a pragmatic view
of the Sept. 1 meeting in Rome and
the Sept. 11 meeting in Miami bet-
ween the Pope and Jewish represen-
tatives. On the two major issues of
Vatican recognition of Israel, and
Church policy on the Holocaust in the
wake of the Pope's meeting last spring
with accused Nazi Kurt Waldheim,
Partrich sees little movement. "The
Vatican will issue an official paper on
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Ed Koch Digresses
On 'Jews In Politics'
LILA ORBACH
Special to The Jewish News
Only weeks after suffering a
stroke in the backseat of his car,
Mayor Ed Koch is back on tour, travel-
ing to speaking engagements around
the country, including a Sunday stop
in Ann Arbor, and making plans to
lead a delegation of New York civic
leaders on a peace mission to
Nicaragua.
Not even a stroke could slow down
the energetic and outspoken mayor
from the Big Apple.
After listening to the 62-year-old
Koch voice his opinions rather
boisterously for more than an hour
last Sunday, it is clear that had Koch
lost the gift for gab, it would have
meant the loss of Ed Koch.
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The feisty and controversial
mayor of New York for the last ten
years remained true to form when he
addressed a nearly full house in the
1,400-seat Power Center at the
University of Michigan. Koch was the
keynote speaker at a conference on
"Jews in the Political World" spon-
sored by the U-M and the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
And in an attempt to keep his
remarks in line with the conference,
Koch entitled his speech, "Nicaragua
as Seen by a Jew in the Political
World." After brief opening remarks,
Koch took the opportunity to an-
nounce that, stroke or no stroke, he
is in good health and plans to lead a
delegation to Central America in
November in hopes of helping to bring
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Dilemma
For
Students
Rising
From
Failure
Adat Shalom is experiencing
phenomenal growth 14 years
after near-bankruptcy