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The spiritual prevail- ed — at least for one more day. I missed the famous broad- cast when Chrles Mitchell, Ireland's leading newscaster, read with tears flowing down his cheeks the news. of Ken- nedy's death. Thus we remained in- sulated in our little world of the Sabbath. In the morning, the paper arrived, but already we sens- ed it was out of date as events tumbled hectically one after the other and speculation ran rife. The day passed slowly and with dread. Being Orthodox we walked everywhere, so I had the chance to gawk fleetingly in shop windows and briefly hear sounds, from the televisions and radios. But nothing was clear. We waited with impatience for the Havdalah ceremony which marks the end of the Sabbath — just in time for the 6 p.m. news. As usual, we gathered around my father. He held an overflowing wine cup in his hand; the lights of the room were put out and we could on- ly see by the flame of the braided candle that I held as "high as I wanted my bride to be!" We sniffed a box full of spices to revive our spirits which, according the mystics, were weakened by the depar- ture of the extra soul that had joined us for the Sabbath. The words of the service had a peculiar ring that I was absorbing subconsciously for the first time. The words of the Havdalah prayer stuck with a new and darker mean- ing: Hamavdil beyn kodesh lechol, beyn or lechoschech — "He who divides between the sacred and the profane, and between light and darkness!' Somewhere deep down — further down than I could possibly comprehend at that moment — as the light of the candle was extinguished in the wine, I sensed that those words no longer contained the whole story. There was no easy way to block out the physical, to make a simple distinction between the forces of good and evil. All that followed in that decade, therefore, all the other cruel blows to our hope and faith, seemed inevitable and even necessary — certain- ly lacking in surprise. No wonder. An emptiness had begun to creep in — a feeling that only those who had hoped for so much only to have it wrenched away could ever understand. NEWS immim's Anti-Zionist Changes Tune New York (JTA) — A top of- ficial of a Soviet propaganda organ long critical of the Jewish emigration movement has repudiated his group's work. But a Jewish New York City councilman nevertheless is under fire for welcoming him at a reception here. Councilman Noach Dear on Sunday strongly defended his decision to host a reception for a visiting Soviet delega- tion that included Samuil Zivs, co-chairman of the Anti- Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public. In past visits to the United States, Zivs has been shunned by Jewish groups because of his support of previous Kremlin policies considered to violate the rights of Soviet Jews. The reception, which took place Saturday night at the Park Avenue Atrium in Manhattan, included a visiting Soviet delegation of five, as well as three represen- tatives of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations and Soviet Embassy in Washington. Zivs, who was asked to re- nounce the Anti-Zionist Com- inittee, did so publicly at the reception and by telephone to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major Anierican Jewish Organizations. Plane Crash Is Investigated Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Civil Aviation Administration has appointed an investigation team to look into the fatal crash of a light plane in the Negev Monday. The pilot, Boaz Haderi, 24, and his passenger, Yitzhak Vaaknin, 56, were killed when the Cessna aircraft they were flying in crashed after taking off from Eilat.