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Giving New Meaning
To 'Jewish Princess'
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
T
his column rarely
stoops to tidbits from
supermarket tabloids,
but an item from Star was too
juicy to keep under wraps:
Monaco's Princess Stephanie
is planning to convert to
Judaism before marrying an
American Jewish record pro-
ducer. '-
Star, which is available at
checkout counters every-
where, stated that the
princess' fiancee, -Ron Bloom,
34, had been "dragging his
heels after agreeing to
become a Catholic to please
[Stephanie's] father, Prince
Ranier, so Stephanie decided
conversion would speed up
her path to the altar."
Stephanie, 24, reportedly
told her father, "I can't force
Ron to embrace a religion he
doesn't believe in. I admire
him for clinging to his
beliefs."
"As I am hardly a devout
Catholic, I prefer converting
to Ron's religion to ensure our
children will be brought up in
a harmonious way."
At first, said Star, the
princess dismissed changing
her own religion as "impossi-
ble?' But she agreed to con-
vert to Judaism after Bloom
"explained to her what
Judaism meant to him and
what a solid base it is for a
family," a "friend" of the
princess told Star.
Stephanie's conversion will
essentially mean that she
will lose her royal position.
"It's out of the question,"
stated Star, "that a Jewish
princess could take part in of-
ficial royal life in Monaco, nor
would her children have royal
titles."
The tabloid did not indicate
whether the princess will
seek a Reform, Conservative
or Orthodox conversion.
Street, is particularly intrigu-
ing. Sonnenberg told Peretz
that he and a small group
were interested in purchasing
The New Republic and
"restore its credits as a liberal
journal. We suspect that you
may be ready to sell from the
vacancy and desperation of re-
cent articles, which I at least
associate with the moral and
material bankruptcy of the
state of Israel."
The letter was reprinted in
Alexander Cockburn's col-
umn in The Nation, whose
politics are significantly to
the left of The New Republic's.
Cockburn gloated that "the
sorry state of The New
Republic" arouses natural
emotions of pleasure and
relief."
Cockburn mentioned that
Peretz told Newsday that The
New Republic is not for sale.
Kollek Could
Lose Control
Of City Council
The municipal elections in
Jerusalem in 11 days could
spell the end of Mayor Teddy
Kollek's 22-year control of the
local City Council, according
to the New York Times.
In a front-page news story,
Sabra Chartrand of the
Times' Jerusalem bureau at-
tributed Kollek's expected
'New Republic'
Not For Sale
Since The New Republic
was purchased a few years
ago by Harvard professor
Martin Peretz, it has devoted
an extraordinary amount of
space to the subject of Israel.
From time to time, the
magazine has been critical of
Israeli policies, but it has
-never wavered from its firm
belief in the Jewish state —
and its opposition to terrorists
and others who would do it in.
In that context, a letter that
Peretz recently received from
Ben Sonnenberg, editor of the
New York magazine Grand
Kollek:
End of two-decade reign?
council defeat to the Palestin-
ian uprising. The city's Pales-
tinian residents' boycott of
the municipal election, she
said, is a response to a call
from the intifada's under-
ground leadership not to vote
on Feb. 28.
In recent elections, Kollek's
"One Jerusalem" party has
relied on the support of
Jerusalem Palestinians to