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APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY

This stirring portrayal of the history of the Jewish
people, which includes the intifada and the aliyah of
Russian Jews, dramatizes the history of Zionism in a way
that will make one feel a part of Israel's destiny.

It reveals the sad history of the Christian denominations
in persecuting Jews and indicts the Christians for their
share of responsibility in the Holocaust.

ISRAEL: APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY challenges
Jews not to assimilate and it makes one proud to be a Jew
and proud of the State of Israel. It urges Christians to
respect the separate and unique destiny of the Jewish
people and to support the Israeli State.

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all Jews and Christians to see this challenging
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SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

he journalistic world
was transfixed last
week as the staff at the
New York Post tried to
avert what it said would be
a newspaperman's night-
mare: A "kapo" as publisher
and an "anti-Semite" as edi-
tor.
That's the scenario — nay,
the soap opera — that politi-
cians, journalists and Jewish
leaders envisioned if real es-
tate mogul (and perennial po-
litical candidate) Abraham
Hirschfeld became publisher
of the New York Post and Bill
Tatum became editor.
During his tenure as chief
editor of the black-oriented
Amsterdam News, Mr. Tatum
"has published more anti-Se-
mitic drivel than anything
since [the Nazi newspaper]
Der Stuermer,' " said Pete
Hamill who was ousted –
then rehired – as the
Post's top editor.
The Amsterdam News has
defended Leonard Jeffries,
the City University of New
York professor widely de-
nounced as anti-Semitic. At
the height of rioting in 1991
between blacks and Jews in
Brooklyn's Crown Heights,
the paper ran a headline,
"Many Black, No Jews Ar-
rested in Crown Heights."
This, said Abraham Fox-

man of the Anti-Defamation
League, was "racist. It cre-
ate[d] the idea that Jews were
getting special privileges."
Even the New York Times,
which ordinarily doesn't call
other publishers names, said
the Post had "rightly up-
braided [Mr. Tatum] for race-
baiting and anti-Semitism at
the once-proud Amsterdam
News."
In an issue of the Post —
once a revered liberal paper
with overt leanings toward
New York's Jews — devoted
almost entirely to shrill,
mocking diatribes against Mr.
Hirschfeld and Mr. Tatum, an
editorial said of Mr.
Hirschfeld: "Given that he is
a Jew and that his new busi-
ness partner is notorious for
his animus toward Jews,
Hirschfeld might well be clas-
sified as a `self-hater' — or
even a kapo."
Kapos were Jewish over-
seers in concentration camps.
Elsewhere in the Post, Mr.
Hirschfeld was called a "nut,"
"slumlord" and "screwball;"
Mr. Tatum was tagged a "dis-
grace to journalism" and a
"champion of racist crack-
pots."
Other than that, it was a
normal day in the world of
New York tabloid journalism.

Should Soviet Jews
Stay — Or Go?

Paternalism or hard-headed
reality? That's the sticking
point the Chronicle of Phil-
anthropy anticipates will
dominate negotiations that
start this month between the
Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and the United Jewish
Appeal (UJA) over the for-
mula that determines where
funds raised by UJA will go.
Such negotiations occur
every five years, but this
year's, says the Chronicle,
will be especially intense be-
cause of the schism within
the Jewish world over
whether more funds should
go to Jews who want to stay
in the former Soviet Union or
to those who want to emi-
grate to Israel.
The Chronicle says the
dominant view among Jew-
ish leaders is that the "vast

majority" of U.S. donations
should encourage and aid
Jewish emigration to Israel.
Current funding reflects this
sentiment: Last year, about
$150 million of the $475 mil-
lion the UJA raised for over-
seas aid helped Soviet Jews
move to Israel. Only about
$10 million helped Jews still
in the former Soviet Union.
Others, who say its "pa-
ternalistic" to tell Jews they
should emigrate, argue, ac-
cording to the Chronicle, that
it "may indeed be possible for
Jews to live safely in the
newly independent states."
Although no one is certain
how many Jews remain in
the Soviet Union — esti-
mates range from 1.6 million
to four million — Albert
Chernin, executive vice-
chairman of the National

