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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1990
ove over, Brenda
Starr! Wipe those
tears, Mary Worth!
Go back to medical school,
Rex Morgan, M.D.!
You've all been scooped by
a relative newcomer! Last
week's Doonesbury strip
(which runs in the Detroit
Free Press) was devoted to
the marriage ceremony of
Gail Colby and convicted
stock manipulator Philip
Slackmeyer. He is Jewish;
she is not.
Interfaith vows were prob-
ably never before on the
comics pages. And if they
had been, who would have
had the chutzpa except
Doonesbury artist Gary
Trudeau to have the wed-
ding guests shout out, when
asked by the presiding
clergyman, whether anyone
objected to the wedding:
"They look absurd
together!"
"He's got a record!"
"She could do better!"
What next? Will Dennis
the Menace nail a mezuzah
GARRY TRUDEAU
GO SIT
YOU MU57- 55
R./ITH THE
7H FATHER
OF 7745 ?KG 1 E! CATERER,
GUIU-YA,
LOVE THE
PADRE?
BEAN/E!
Doonesbury nuptials:
What next? Will Blondie and
Dagwood make aliyah?
Reprinted with permission of Universal Press
Syndicate.
on Mr. Wilson's front door?
Will Dick Tracy nab a phony
koshering ring? Will Blondie
and Dagwood make aliyah to
Israel? Will good ol' Charlie
Brown find out that the cute
redhead he's had a crush on
for years is studying after
school for her . . . bat mitz-
vah?
Stay tuned .. .
Jewish Reactions Mixed
On Reunited Germany
In a roundtable in B'nai
B'rith International's Jew-
ish Monthly on German
reunification, Israeli
historian Moshe Zimmer-
man said Diaspora Jews are
more concerned about
reunification than Israelis
"because Israelis have
always been more concerned
with political and economic
ties, rather than with the
moral ramifications of these
ties."
As an example, Zimmer-
man said boycotting Ger-
man-made goods is "much
more widespread" among
Jews who do not live in
Israel."
Reunification, he advanc-
ed, "will likely be good for
Israel . . . If West Germany
is now Israel's largest Euro-
pean trading partner, then a
larger Germany will mean
more trade."
As if to confirm Zimmer-
man's hypothesis, virtually
every other writer on
reunification voiced con-
siderable qualms about it.
Mark Epstein, a Washington
foreign policy analyst, urged
Jews to ask whether a new,
uni-Germany will have
commissions "to suggest a
common approach to history
in Germany textbooks? Will
the West German govern-
ment and corporations con-
tinue to pay cash to Israel
and to Jews as reparations
for the war? Will the coffers
of the West pay Jews and
others on behalf of the East
so that everyone's share will
be paid? Will the new regime
in the East even have time
to take a more benign at-
titude toward the Jews than
its predecessor before disap-
pearing as the German
Democratic Republic is sub-
sumed in the Federal Repub-
lic?"
Georges Bloch of
Strasbourg, France, ac-
knowledged that "the Jew-
ish community in France is
not happy about reunifica-
tion."
Bloch, chairman of B'nai
B'rith's international coun-
cil, asserted that "a strong
Germany might become a
threat . . . Franco-German
suspicions are coming up
again. The scars are only
skin deep."
Interestingly, the only
non-Diaspora Jew not ruf-