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Farrakhan's Efforts
Fail To Impress
New York (JTA) — Louis
Farrakhan, the militant
Black Muslim leader, is in
the midst of one of his
periodic efforts to convince
Jews that he is not as bad as
they think he is.
Every few years the Rev.
Farrakhan makes a spate of
overtures to individual Jews
who he feels can carry a
message back to their consti-
tuents.
In the past few weeks, he
has played the music of
Mendelssohn to try and im-
press the Jewish community
with his good will, and has
entertained a Jewish gossip
columnist at his home for
dinner.
Over the past several mon-
ths, he has tried to initiate
meetings with Jews in
several cities, some of whom
are religious leaders and
some of whom are represen-
tatives of Jewish communal
organizations.
Over the years that he has
been extending similar
offers, a handful of those in-
vited have met with him
over dinner at the Far-
rakhan home in Chicago,
although most have turned
down these opportunities as
well as invitations to appear
with him on stage.
Those who have spurned
his invitations say that his
magnanimous rhetoric
about wanting reconciliation
with the Jews has not been
matched by any changes in
his overt and profound anti-
Semitism.
According to Alberto
Mizrahi, a Conservative
cantor in Chicago, who was
invited to join the Rev. Far-
rakhan in a performance for
the Nation of Islam leader's
60th birthday on May 17,
"This is a classic example of
someone who cries wolf once
too many times.
"Every spring there's an
outreach to the Jews and
then he says 'they don't like
me, they don't want me.' If
he proves, even over a short
time, that he changes his
verbiage, then perhaps we
can participate," said Can-
tor Mizrahi.
The Rev. Farrakhan,
whose Nation of Islam says
it does not give out its mem-
bership numbers, attracts
audiences of tens of
thousands of black listeners
when he speaks at major
venues.
Many say they go to hear
him because they admire his
messages of black self-
reliance, not because they
agree with his.bigotry.
But it is clear the Rev.
Farrakhan has an impact
that reaches far beyond
those who consider them-
selves adherents of his ideol-
ogy.
Last month he made a
splash in the New York
Times by performing
Mendelssohn's Violin Con-
certo at a conference on
classical music and the black
musician that took place in
Winston-Salem, N.C.
His choice of Mendelssohn
was apparently supposed to
be symbolic of his desire to
reconcile with American
Jews, although Mendel-
ssohn's family converted to
Christianity.
But only days before,
Nation of Islam represent-
atives had disrupted an ex-
hibit on black-Jewish histo-
ry in Roxbury, Mass., wan-
ting to include panels of
The Rev.
Farrakhan attracts
audiences of tens
of thousands of
black listeners
when he speaks.
their own on Jewish respon-
sibility for the slave trade
and Jewish spying on blacks.
The mixed message was
typical of the Rev. Far-
rakhan, said Ken Stern,
program specialist on anti-
Semitism and extremism at
the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
"On the one hand he's
playing music and on the
other, he's singing quite a
different tune in promoting
anti-Semitism," Mr. Stern
said.
One Chicago Jew who ac-
cepted a recent Farrakhan
invitation is the popular
society columnist Iry Kup-
cinet, known to readers of
the Chicago Sun-Times as
"Kup."
Mr. Kupcinet joined the
Rev. Farrakhan and his
aides at the Farrakhan
home for dinner in early
May.
Mr. Kupcinet, whose
column has appeared in the
pages of the Chicago Sun
Times five times a week for
the past half-century, was