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From, of all people, the New
York Times' A.M. Rosenthal
— one of the most country's
unflagging, unwavering pro-
Israel columnists — comes
an idea that some Jews may
label heresy:
Trim U.S. aid to Israel.
Israel is now receiving $3
billion a year in aid — $1.8
billion to buy U.S. weapons,
$1.2 billion to pay interest on
past military loans — as the
U.S. is cutting back on aid to
some nations and facing new
costs in Bosnia and Somalia.
Insisting on continuing the
same level of aid to Israel
"does not seem fitting" and
also "hands her enemies in
the U.S. a nice new political
bat," cautions Mr. Rosenthal.
But primarily, he wants
aid to consist only of loans for
weapons so Israel's "pride, in-
dependence and self-confi-
dence" can be boosted and
the extra expense of paying
interest on old loans "might
inspire Israel to move away
faster from the musty So-
cialist dogma that has held
back Israeli governments
past and present."
Life After
`Messiah'
Just for the 9Lst birthday of the
Lubavitch rebbe, Rabbi Men-
achem Schneerson, comes a
7,000-word article in Moment
magazine: "What Happens If
the Rebbe Dies?"
Since many Lubavitch
Chasidim either say that the
rebbe has the potential to be
the messiah or is the messi-
ah, the Lubavitch movement
is split about what will hap-
pen to it after the rebbe dies.
No plans have been made
about who will succeed him,
and some Lubavitchers insist
that there can be no succes-
sor since he is the messiah.
The rebbe has been par-
tially paralyzed and unable
to speak since suffering a
stroke in March 1992.
Moment predicts that, af-
ter his death, "a power strug-
gle" will ensue "over who will
interpret the rebbe's words,
who will provide the theo-
logical reason for the rebbe's
death, and who will deter-
mine where the rebbe will be
buried. Chasidic burial sites
become holy sites for their
followers and will, in the case
of Lubavitch, determine if
the power center will be in
Crown Heights with the
mainstreamers [who don't
publicly proclaim that the
rebbe is the messiah] or in Is-
rael with the radicals [who
do make such announce-
ments.]"
Moment hints that the rad-
icals will prevail. Although
the rebbe's predecessor, Rab-
bi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson,
as well as the rebbe's wife,
are buried in Queens, N.Y.,
the magazine reports that
New York City police say
Lubavitch has not drawn up
any plans to control the "pan-
demonium" expected to erupt
around the rebbe's funeral
nor have they asked the po-
lice to prepare any.
Instead, Moment states
that the Lubavitch cemetery
on Jerusalem's Mount of
Olives — the site where tra-
dition says the messiah will
first appear —"is undergoing
some light construction." Ell
Latvian Leader
Honors The SS
New York (JTA) — A Simon
Wiesenthal Center official
has sent a letter to Latvian
President Anatolijs Gor-
bunovs protesting his par-
ticipation in ceremonies this
week marking the 50th an-
niversary of the estab-
lishment of the Latvian SS
Legion.
These included a wreath-
laying ceremony at the
Freedom Monument in cen-
tral Riga and a moment of si-
lence in Parliament.
The Latvian president
signed a declaration in-
dicating that the Zemes-
sargi the Latvian armed
Home Guard, is the heir of
the SS Legion, and its com-
mander was officially hon-
ored.
There is now "a tremen-
dous amount of sympathy"
in Latvia for right-wing na-
tionalistic fervor, Efraim
Zuroff, director of the
Wiesenthal Center's Israel
office, said in a telephone
interview from Jerusalem.
In his letter to Gorbunovs,
Mr. Zuroff wrote, "It was
with a sense of shock and
outrage that we learned of
the recent events com-
memorating and glorifying
the anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Latvian
Legion, in which you per-
sonally participated.
"Given all we know about
the horrors of the Nazi
regime, it is shocking to see
homage paid to those who
willingly joined the ranks of
the German military
machine in an effort to
achieve a Nazi victory."