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including items from top designers — to make room for
additional inventory. Some sale items are brand new and not
from our rental collection. Some were gently worn for just
a few hours. Alterations available at reasonable charge.
Used Formalwear
New Formalwear
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
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hen Jonathan and
Anne Pollard were
sentenced almost
two years ago — he to life im-
prisonment on charges of spy-
ing for Israel, she to five years
as an accessory — many peo-
ple thought the case would
fade from public sentiment.
Instead, it has continued to
grow.
And with it has come a
remarkable reversal of at-
titude. American Jewish
organizations that initially
defended the stiff verdict
Jonathan received are now
calling for a commutation of
his sentence and a pardon for
Anne, who has been ill. In
Israel, the country that refus-
ed Pollard entrance to its
Washington Embassy when
he was about to be arrested,
the Knesset last week
unanimously called on Presi-
dent Bush to pardon Jona-
than and Anne on humani-
tarian grounds. And around
the United States, grass-roots
organizations have sprung up
— led by members of the
Pollard family and their at-
torneys — in fervent support
of the couple, calling for bet-
ter prison conditions, reduced
sentences, a new trial or some
form of pardon. These groups,
spanning all religious bran-
ches, cast the case as a
morality play between the
forces of good (namely,
Pollard) vs. the forces of evil
(former U.S. Secretary of
Defense Caspar Weinberger
and other high government
officials).
In Baltimore, Hannah
Storch, a businesswoman and
well-known philanthropist in
the Orthodox Jewish com-
munity, has embraced the
Pollard cause, spending
money and countless hours on
their behalf and staying in
daily contact with the Pollard
family. The more she learns
about the case, the more con-
vinced she is that Jonathan
has been made a scapegoat by
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
individuals within the U.S.
government who wanted to
prevent Israel from maintain-
ing its military and in-
telligence superiority over the
Arab states.
She and other supporters of
the Pollards acknowledge
that Jonathan committed a
crime in spying for Israel and
say, as he himself does, that
he should be punished. But
they assert that the punish-
ment far exceeds the crime,
pointing out that John
Walker, who sold secrets to
the USSR for 17 years, will be
eligible for parole in 10 years
while Pollard, who they main-
tain was only providing an al-
ly with information it should
have been receiving from the
United States anyway, is jail-
ed for life.
Supporters have raised
money for legal expenses by
bringing members of the
Pollard family — his parents
and sister, as well as Anne's
father — to various com-
munities around the country
for speaking engagements
during which they present
their side of the case. (The
family has spoken in
Baltimore twice in the last
For many
American Jews, _
the case provides
a kind of
Rorschach test
about their own
feelings about
anti-Semitic
sentiments in this
country.
two years, addressing large
and sympathetic audiences in
two Orthodox synagogues.)
"Justice For The Pollards,"
now a network of more than
40 grass-roots groups, has
won increasing support in
local Jewish communities.
The arguments one hears
are startlingly similar to
those being heard in
Washington these days regar-
ding the trial of Oliver North.
For both North and Pollard
are seen by their supporters
as -heroes who may have
broken the legal boundaries
for the greater good, taking
the law into their own hands
only because the U.S. govern-
ment was delinquent. (North
faulted Congress for not
aiding the contras, Pollard
the Pentagon for not sharing
intelligence information with
Jerusalem.) Both men appear
to have a clear conscience
because they were acting on
a higher authority than U.S.
law.
What are we to make of all
this? Is the- U.S. government
out to get the Pollards or are
we being paranoid? For many
American Jews, the case pro-
vides a kind of Rorschach test
about their own feelings
about anti-Semitism and
anti-Israel sentiments in this
country.
Many of the Pollards' most