COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
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Israeli, Palestinian
Teens Tour Austria
A
mong the stops of a
group of Israeli and
Palestinian teen-
agers visiting Europe last
month was Mauthausen,
the Nazi death camp.
Yoav Peck,
an Israeli par-
ticipant on the
team, said the
visit to Mau-
thausen. "im-
pressed upon
the Palestin-
ians the depth
of the Israeli
commitment
to a secure
Israel."
The trip was
an outgrowth of a series of
meetings Peace Now held in
Jerusalem between Pal-
estinian and Israeli youths
which, "allowed both groups
to enjoy a freedom from the
occupied-occupier roles and
in
, \, ' beg
clegin to learn about the oth-
( ers in some depth," Yoav
said.
At Mauthausen, both
(-D Israelis and Palestinians
participated in a memorial
ceremony.
_. Yoav said the trip also
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gave him a better under-
standing of the Palestin-
ians' situation. "Spending
10 days with Palestinians
our own age brought into
renewed focus the agony of
living under
occupation."
The Israel
delegation
comprised 14
Peace Now
Youth activ-
ists. The 15
Palestinians
were students
from the Ram-
allah Friends'
School or from
Bir Zeit Uni-
versity.
Meanwhile, the first
Israel-Palestinian Inter-
national Academic Con-
ference on Water ended
late last month in Zurich,
with a call for the estab-
lishment of an academic
information center of
Israeli, Palestinian and
other experts in the field.
Surveys, research projects
and future joint meetings
also are planned.
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Food for Thought
L
os Angeles (JTA) —
Take 260 quartered
chickens, 132 pounds
of finely chopped onions
and 88 pounds of long
_,
/-- grain rice, and you have
some of the basic ingredi-
ents for more than 1,000
portions of Chicken Pilaf,
' as prepared at the Hirsh
F-' Family Kosher Kitchen on
Fairfax Avenue.
Cooking starts at 5:30
/— a.m. every weekday. Three
hours later, drivers pick
up individual hot meals
\-- for delivery to 350 home-
bound elderly and dis-
? abled; and at noon, ambu-
latory seniors gather at 12
/ sites throughout the city
for communal hot lunches.
At one of the sites,
dubbed the Fairfax Cafe
/— by its patrons, seniors not
only get glatt kosher and
nutritious dishes at mini-
mal cost, but also a dose
of companionship.
"This is a godsend for
the older people because
we have company and we
don't have to stay home
and eat alone," said 70-
year-old Ina Kent. The
formal dedication of the
Kosher Kitchen last fall
was one of the few bright
spots at a time when the
Los Angeles Jewish
Federation Council has
been forced to drastically
slash its social and com-
munity programs.
The kitchen project,
run by the Jewish Family
Service, had been strug-
gling for years to provide
meals to its clients under
the modest government
subsidy pegged to the
lower cost of preparing
non-kosher food.
Salvation arrived earli-
er this year, when busi-
nessman Stanley Hirsh
and his family donated
$600,000 to install what
its sponsors hail as a
state-of-the-art kitchen,
capable of preparing 2,000
meat meals daily.
Do You Believe
Your Eyes?
O
ne guess as to where
this sign appears
(on both the front
and back doors, no less).
The offices of (drum roll)
— the Jewish Federation.
Need we say more?
Good News
Chadashot Tovot
f you say tomato, your
Israeli husband says
I agvanyah, and your
Yiddish-speaking mother
(who is always over at the
house) says pomedor, will
your child grow up multi-
lingual or only confused?
Rest easy.
A recent issue of Baby
Care magazine reports
that a baby as young as 1
year old can understand at
least two languages spo-
ken in the home. And by
the time he is three, he
likely will be able to speak
both himself.
Of course, no matter
what language it's uttered
in, babies will never
understand the word "no."
Zulu King
Visits Alyn
A
mong the most
recent visitors to
Alyn, which aids
disabled youth in a reli-
gious atmosphere in
Israel, were the king and
queen of the Zulu Tribe of
South Africa.
King Goodwill Zweli-
thini Kabhekuzulu and
Queen Thandikele Jane
were in Israel to study the
country's expertise in such
fields as health care, agri-
culture and education, and
to discuss mutual projects
for the future.
Their visit to Alyn was
prompted by Queen Jane's
special interest in public
health.
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is the -focus', of a
book, Trerit . 1475 Stories;
of a' Ritual Murder' Trial ,
by New York U nivers i . t y
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siness; a
physician
who visited many
ristian patients in
their homes. Yet these
seemingly close ties
ended the moment
Simon's body was discov-
ered.
The initial arrest of 18
Jewish men and one
Jewish woman was swift.
A Christian convert
repeated rumors of the
"need for Christian
lood” in Jewish ritual
ractices. Other witness-
es told tales of missing
children during other
Easters and of "child's
cries"
coming from
ewisiv 'homes,. Under
extreme physical torture,.
the physician "confessed"
to e crime
Greece Grows Greens
T
he miraculous work
of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund in Israel
was the inspiration for us
to cultivate barren and
arid land in Greece," says
Mark Siegal, president
and founder of the Plant
Your Roots in Greece
Foundation.
An American, Mr. Siegel
started the foundation
after he witnessed stretch-
es of arid land in Greece
similar to the land in
Israel. "The foundation
will mobilize the Greek
diaspora to reforest their
Greek homeland as the
Jewish people did in
Israel," he said.
The foundation also
intends to emulate JNF's
practice of raising funds
to be applied toward
planting trees in the name
of loved ones. It will dedi-
cate a Holocaust Memorial
Forest in Salankia in
memory of the 50,000
Salanikan Jews who died
at Auschwitz.
Izmir School Seeks Funds
The Jewish School of
Izmir will not be able to
continue without immedi-
ate donations.
The American Association
of Jews from Turkey is
sending "an urgent appeal
for donations. This is lit-
erally a matter of the sur-
vival of the school which,
though generously sup-
ported by the small com-
munity, is not able to
meet its expenses."
Make checks payable to
Joseph Cikurel, and mail
to him at Belmar A.S.,
Akdeniz Cad., No. 1/705,
35210 Izmir, Turkey.