I NEWS I
SHEARSON
LEHMAN
BROTHERS
Keep The Lights Burning
For Jewish Servicemen
SHELDON ENGELMAYER
Special to The Jewish News
C
We are please• to announce that
Leslie E. Posner
Financial Consultant and Second Vice President,
is now associated with
Shearson Lehman Brothers
(313) 358-5000
(800) 482-1493 Mich.
(800) 321-2985 Nat'l
(313) 358-4791 Fax
4000 Town Center
Suite 1600
Southfield, MI 48075
THREE WAYS TO
BUY A CAR
Right in Your
Own Driveway!
/ THE
TUNE
-UP
MAN
Certified by the National
Automotive Institute of Excellence
Comes to your home or office
with the garage-on-wheels
Valet service that doesn't
cost one penny extra
AL HARRIS
ARNIE WEISS
MIKE GERMANSKY
TAMAROFF
BUICK • HONDA • NISSAN • IZUZU • YUGO
New Used or Leasing
Open Mon. & Thurs. Til 9
28585 TELEGRAPH ROAD
ACROSS FROM TEL.12
Southfield
60
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1990
Open Tues., Wed., Fri. Til 6
353.1300
• Expert diagnostic tune-up
• Electronic analyzer -
all engine systems
• Professionally trained
mechanics
• Perfect results assured
Expanded Services
Call Sanford Rosenberg
for your car problems
4 3
= 398-36051
CLASSIFIED
GET RESULTS!
Call The Jewish News
354-5959
.
hanukah celebrates
freedom. This year,
Jewish soldiers along
with their non-Jewish corn-
rades, are dug into the sands
of Saudi Arabia or sit on
ships off its coast. They are
there to defend oil-rich
sheikhs who prefer to avoid
Jews, who sponsor terrorists
who shed Jewish blood, and
who have used the oil
weapon against the West be-
cause the United States is
allied with Israel.
There is no question of
giant menorot in Operation
Desert Shield. There will be
none. The only question is
whether Jewish soldiers will
be prohibited from lighting
menorot of any size. After
all, to do so would offend
their Saudi hosts.
The Pentagon has gone so
far in its efforts not to offend
the Saudis that such films as
The Owl and the Pussycat
and Cleopatra are banned
from being shown to our
troops. According to
"Customs and Culture," a
troop-information pamphlet
distributed by the U.S. Cen-
tral Command to all U.S.
armed forces in Saudi
Arabia, military personnel
cannot show "films or news
clips featuring pro-Zionist
actors and actresses (e.g.,
Barbra Streisand, Liz
Taylor)."
In another Pentagon move,
chaplains of all religions
have been renamed "morale
officers" and have been in-
structed to remove their
crosses and Stars of David.
If Jewish soldiers are
allowed to light their
menorot, they will have to do
so in secret. The light from
the tiny candles will be too
bright for Saudi eyes.
However the problem is
worked out, there is some-
thing all of us can do to bring
some Chanukah light to the
Jewish servicemen who,
along with their Christian
and Muslim comrades, may
have to put their lives on the
line.
We can write to them at
the addresses which follow.
Better still, we can get
together with our friends
and send packages contain-
Sheldon Engelmayer, the au-
thor of seven books, is a three-
time winner of the American
Jewish Press Association's
award for distinguished edito-
rial writing.
ing books, non-perishable
foodstuffs and the like.
Any Jewish Soldier
do Capt N. Romer
378-60-3165-274 Support
Battalion
24th Infantry Division
Operation Desert Shield
APO-NY, NY 09315
Any Jewish Airman
c/o Chaplain Mitchell
Ackerson
Office of the Jewish
Chaplain
18th Airborne Corps
Ft. Bragg, NC 28307
Any Jewish Sailor (or
Marine)
do Jewish Chaplain
The Religious Ministry
Department
USS Saratoga (CV-60)
FPO-Miami, FL 34078
Any Jewish Sailor (or
Marine)
do Jewish Chaplain
Com-6th Fleet (014)
Box 6
NSA, Naples, Italy
FPO-NY, NY 09521
Maybe they will not be
permitted to light their
candles, but at least every
Jewish service member will
know that, back home, we
are keeping the lights burn-
ing for them.
❑
Paper Claims
Secret Meeting
Jerusalem (JTA) — Plans
were made and then unmade
last year to bring Iraqi Pres-
ident Saddam Hussein and
former Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin together in a
secret meeting, according to
a report in the newspaper
Ha'aretz.
The efforts to bring the two
men together — after both
agreed in principle to meet
— eventually foundered and
were followed by Mr. Hus-
sein's public saber rattling
against Israel.
The story was reported ex-
clusively in Ha'aretz by its
veteran military correspon-
dent, Ze'ev Schiff.
The middlemen in the
plans, according to Mr.
Schiff, were Israeli-
American businessman
Azriel Einav, who is close to
the Labor Party, and an
American businessman de-
scribed as "one of the leaders
of the oil industry and the
head of a major bank, a man
of Arab origin."