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'Don't Judge
By Jackson'
New Orleans (JTA) — A
ranking official of American
Reform Judaism warned
Jews here recently that it is
"sick" and "it is racism" for
Jews to judge all black poli-
ticians by Jesse Jackson.
The speaker, Albert
Vorspan, a senior vice presi-
dent of the Union of
American Hebrew Con-
gregations, spoke to dele-
gates from all over the
United States and Canada
attending UAHC's 60th
biennial convention at the
Marriott Hotel here.
"It is unrealistic and
wrong to expect every black
candidate for public office to
perform a ritual of public re-
pudiation of Jesse Jackson
as the quid pro quo for
Jewish consideration," said
Vorspan, who is director of
UAHC's Commission on So-
cial Action.
"We do not have to support
Jesse Jackson out of some
misconceived Jewish guilt. I
could not vote for him,"
Vorspan said. "But it is sick
to let him become the lens
through which Jews see and
judge all blacks.
"There is a name for that
— it is racism. It is time to
exorcise that dybbuk, lest
Jesse Jackson become the
excuse for racial stereotyp-
ing and hatred," Vorspan
declared.
He said that "because of
our Jackson syndrome, we
permit the most cynical po-
litical scoundrels to play on
our fears like violins."
Vorspan maintained that
blacks and Jews "still work
together on common projects
and common concerns,"
despite the fact that "the
traditional black-Jewish co-
alition has become frayed
and there are those in each
community ready to write it
off."
He noted that the black
and Jewish congressional
caucuses "vote almost inter-
changeably on aid to Israel,
Soviet Jewry, apartheid, and
separation of church and
state.
Split Jerusalem,
Poll Indicates
Jerusalem (JTA) — A ran-
dom poll of east Jerusalem
Arabs has led the pollster to
conclude that time is runn-
ing out for the unified city
and that a revamping of its
political structure is sug-
gested.
The survey, conducted by
Professor Abraham
Ashkenasi, showed that just
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over 50 percent of the
respondents would like the
city redivided into Jewish
and Arab sectors, the situa-
tion that prevailed from
1949 to 1967.
Only 25 percent favor an
open city.
Ashkenasi, who specializes
in minorities and refugee
problems at the Free Uni-
versity of Berlin, where he
teaches international
politics, said the poll made
clear that the overwhelming
majority of Jerusalem's
Palestinian community
desires sovereignty for the
Palestinian people.
The survey showed strong
support for total separation
from any Jewish polity, es-
pecially among the young
and the religious, Ashkenasi
concluded.
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Rabbi Israel Spira
(JTA) — Thousands of Or-
thodox Jews huddled under
umbrellas in pouring rain
recently to pay their last
respects to Rabbi Israel Spira,
the Bluzhover rebbe, who is
believed to have been the
oldest living Chasidic grand
rabbi in the world. He was 99.
A Holocaust survivor, Rab-
bi Spira died Oct. 30. He
spent five years in various
concentration camps, in-
cluding Bergen-Belsen. His
first wife, a daughter of the
Szabner rebbe of Tarnov, died
in the Shoah, as did their
daughter, her husband and
their son.
Spira and his wife, Bronia,
are subjects of several stories
in Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic
Tales of the Holocaust. Many
Jewish deportees entrusted
their children to the rebbe.
Spira came to the United
States in 1946, arriving by
military ship in Atlanta. He
moved immediately to
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Descendant of a long line of
rabbis from the Polish town of
Ribatisch, Spira was a scion
of the Hasidic master Rabbi
Zvi Elimelech of Dinov, who
was known as the Bnai
Yissoschor.
Spira's father, Rabbi
Yehoshua of Ribatisch, was
author of Keren Yehoshua.
His grandfather, the first
Bluzhover rebbe, was known
by the title of his work, Tzvi
LaTzaddik.
He was also descended from
a revered scholarly line on his
mother's side. His maternal
grandfather was Rabbi Yakov
of Delatin, a descendent of
the Baal Shem Tov, the
founder of Hasidism.
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