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ark that is large enough to do
this is the entire planet.
And who is Noah? No ex-
pert in ship-building, or
weather prediction, or animal
care. Just "a righteous per-
son." The story is teaching us
that when all life is in danger,
not only generals, diplomats,
scientists, lawyers, physi-
cians, and rabbis must act but
also any of us who want to see
ourselves as decent people.
Not once does the story call
the destruction a "war." Is
this despite its total violence
or because its violence is
total?
Perhaps we must learn
there is no such thing as
"nuclear war" or "nuclear
weapons." For these words
lull us into a strange securi-
ty. We know about wars. We
know how to win them, even
how to lose them. And wars
have an "us," a "them."
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In the flood story there is no
"us," no "them." All humans
were responsible for letting
violence overflow into a flood.
The ancient rabbis warned us
that even though God would
never again send a flood of
water we might bring upon
ourselves a flood of fire. That
equals "holocaust" — the "all
burning." Each H-bomb is not
a "bomb," not a "weapon," but
a portable Auschwitz.
Those who have witnessed
H-bomb tests say that in the
mushroom cloud there is a
terrifying beauty: sparks and
flashes of all the myriad col-
ors. A rainbow shattered.
Our generation must make
perhaps the greatest of all
human decisions: whether
once and for all to shatter the
rainbow promise by destroy-
ing life on earth or to give
new life to the Torah,
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NEWS I
Anne Pollard Returned
To Connecticut Prison
New York (JTA) — Anne
Henderson Pollard, wife of
convicted Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard, was
transferred back to Danbury
Federal Prison Camp last
week after spending four
months at the Federal
Medical Facility in Rochester,
Minn.
Pollard, who has served
more than 30 months of her
five-year sentence for being
an accessory to her husband,
was moved abruptly from
Danbury to Rochester on Jan.
14.
Although a federal
magistrate recently declined
Pollard's request for a
transfer, ruling that the
medical treatment she was
receiving at the Rochester
facility was adequate, her
lawyers were able to reach an
agreement with prison
authorities to have her
returned to Danbury.
Pollard was the lone female
inmate at the Rochester
prison.
The Danbury prison is a
minimum-security facility.
According to the agreement
attorney Nathan Dershowitz
reached with prison
authorities, Pollard must eat
as much as possible. Her
weight had dropped to below
90 pounds.
Pollard's family attributes
her inability to eat solid food
to a digestive disorder. But
prison authorities have
charged that Pollard
sometimes refuses food and
medical treatment.
The Jan. 14 transfer to
Rochester was prompted by
her medical condition, prison
authorities contended.
Pollard's father said he was
happy with the "better condi-
tions."
Dershowitz said Pollard
may now be eligible for "all
kinds of furloughs, including
medical."
"My hope is that now that
she is back, she will have that
determination made, and that
she will be in the process of
relatively quick release," he
said.
Soviet Jewish
Troupe Is A Hit
Rome (JTA) — The Jewish
Musical Theater of Moscow,
young, energetic and speak-
ing Yiddish, is thrilling Italy
in its first-ever tour this
month.
The show, Turn Balalaika,
opened in Milan on May 4
and went on to triumphs in
Turin and Florence. It was to
open in Rome on Wednesday
night.
The critic of the Milan
newspaper Corriere della Sera
waxed ecstatic. He comparing
the performance of the Yid-
dish troupe to a canvas by the
late artist Marc Chagall.
Artistic director Mikhail
Gluz described the production
as "a cross between the an-
cient and the modern, bet-
ween joy and melancholy.
"We have recovered the
music of our parents and
grandparents," he said.