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"Please, my little girl
needs blood'.'
"I believe in personalized service"
Jews — in 1965 they sang
their allegiance to the Jewish
people before the Kremlin!'
Wiesel is proud of the Dec.
6 rally in Washington, but
gently admonishes that
massive support for Soviet
Jewry should have been
available years earlier. "I
came here, to this same
synagogue, ten years ago and
begged for your help with
Soviet Jewry. What changed?
Your children brought you" to
Washington.
"Now we are all here,
together. There is only one
destiny for the Jew and that
is a Jewish identity," he says,
and "a Jew not ready to help
another Jew can not be ready
to help anyone else!'
Turning to the subject of the
Holocaust, Wiesel is skeptical
of America's ability to prevent
a Holocaust from happening
here. He points to the 20-year
campaign of revisionists
"denigrating our martyrs, our
victims"; the question being
asked in America why the
Jews did not fight back
against the Nazis; the rise of
anti-Semitism in Japan.
Many of the factors that
produced anti-Semitism in
Europe are now present in
America: corruption in
government, Jews involved in
anti-national activity
(Jonathan Pollard), crooked
financiers (Ivan Boesky). "In
Europe this would have caus-
ed a wave of anti-Semitism?'
In response, Wiesel
demands a closer-knit Jewish
community. "If there was no
Holocaust, where are our
parents, our brothers, our
sisters, our children? How can
they ask such questions while
we (the survivors) are still
here? To be a loyal Jew does
not only mean being loyal to
the living, but loyalty to the
dead as well.
"A Jew is part of a huge
community — it begins with
Abraham and ends with the
Messiah. Of all the people of
antiquity, only the Jewish
people survived. How?" he
asks. "Not only did we sur-
vive, we drive the rest of the
world crazy!'
Jewish survival is based on
this sense of community, on a
sense of loyalty to the Jewish
community.
"Gorbachev came to
Washington for a nice time
and there were 200,000 Jews
there ... It was just beautiful!"
Wiesel calls for a sensitive
Jewish community through
"study of our past, to be more
fervent in our present," while
looking to our future. He says
the opposite of beauty, love,
faith, peace and life is indif-
ference, and Jews must
forever guard against
indifference.
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