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to conjure in the hall a near-
sacred vision of Jerusalem for
an audience for which the
Holy City had been as distant
as the moon.
Turning in his seat, this
reporter saw an elderly
World War II veteran, his
mouth filled with gold teeth,
and his chest ablaze with
service medals, crying un-
controllably. A cultural ac-
tivist reached out and half
embraced me, saying simply,
Toy lihiyot Yehudi ("It's good
to be a Jew"), a three word
mantra that aptly and fully
summed up the transcenden-
tal Jewish magic unleashed
that night in Thhaikovsky
Hall.
The evening was concluded
in smashing fashion by Dudu
Fisher, a cantorial style
singer with a clear and power-
ful voice who announced at
the outset, "I am sure these
walls have never heard chaz-
zonis (cantorial music) before,
so I will sing chazzonis."
Which he did for some 90
minutes to the delight of the
crowd.
After the curtain went
down on the nearly four-hour
extravaganza, large num-
bers of Soviet Jews
clustered in the lobby to
discuss the experience,
She once had
feelings of shame
in being Jewish,
explaining that, "I
felt that if
everyone disliked
Jews, there must
be a good reason
for it."
reluctant to leave the
building. Among them I
spied Sveta, a vivacious 24
year old who had served as
my translator during several
interviews during my week
in Moscow.
On the first night of our
acquaintance she had told
me that she once had feel-
ings of shame in being Jew-
ish, explaining that, "I felt
that if everyone disliked
Jews, there must be a good
reason for it." Even though
she had begun to attend a
Jewish students group out
of curiosity, she said she still
related much more to the
culture of Soviet Georgia
than she did to Jewish
culture. "I don't think a per-
son's identity is necessarily
determined by the blood in
his veins," she had said em-
phatically.
Now in the lobby of
Tchaikovsky Hall, Sveta's
eyes were ablaze with ex-
citement as she raved about
how wonderful the music
had been. Sveta had briefly
met Yarkoni backstage
before the concert, and had
watched the singer perform
with a kind of naive hero
worship. I noticed that
Sveta had fastened a tiny Is-
raeli flag pin to her shirt
front.
I asked Sveta whether she
felt more positive about be-
ing Jewish than she had a
few days before. "Yes, I
think so," she said. "I had
not known that Jews had
such wonderful music and
such a rich culture."
Would the experience lead
her to commit herself more
deeply to her Jewishness
and to the Jewish move-
ment? Sveta shrugged her
shoulders, stating, "I need
to take some time to reflect
upon what I have seen and
heard, and try to figure out
how all of this is going to
impact the way I live." ❑
NEWS I
U.S. Calls U.N.
Ways Orwellian
Geneva (JTA) — The United
States, voting against
another U.N. body's resolu-
tion condemning Israeli ac-
tions in the administered ter-
ritories, made a statement
deriding the organization's
view of Israel as one of a
make-believe world.
Marshall Breger, a member
of the U.S. delegation to the
U.N. Human Rights Commis-
sion meeting here, said after
the vote Tuesday, "In dealing
with the Arab-Israeli conflict,
this and other United Na-
tions bodies have created an
artificial language having lit-
tle, if any, relation to reality.
"A semi-official Newspeak
reminiscent of George Orwell
has grown up, an Alice in
Wonderland language, in
which the world is turned in-
side out."
The resolution, which once
again called on Israel to
withdraw from the territories
and welcomed the Palesti-
nians' declaration of an in-
dependent state, was adopted
by a roll-call vote of 31 in
favor and one — the United
States — against. There were
two abstentions.
Breger, an observant Jew
and former White House
liaison to the Jewish com-
munity in the Reagan ad-
ministration, said in explain-
ing the U.S. vote, "My delega-
tion cannot accept this effort
to recognize by resolution an
independent state of
Palestine or to ratify by in-
ference the decision by the
Palestine National Council of
Nov. 15, 1988, establishing a
Palestinian state in exile.
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