project. But it determined that
his "contributions of time and
savvy were at least as impor-
tant: He set the project's basic
fundraising strategy; he led the
fight to change the museum's
design to a utilitarian building...
that chillingly evokes the Nazi

death camps; he helped oversee
the construction financing; and
he personally brought in 16 of
the 'lead' gifts."
"No one," stated Town &
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credit for the museum's com-
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as that psychodrama
or an enlightened de-
bate about pressing
civic issues on last
Sunday's "Bottom Line," the
hour-long talk show on WBAL-
TV moderated by Rep. Kweisi
Mfume?
Billed as a discussion of
black-Jewish re-
lations in Balti-
more, the show
quickly became
a heated argu-
ment in which
both sides inter-
rupted the oth-
er: Jamal
Muhammad,
imam of the Na-
tion of Islam's
Baltimore
mosque, vs.
Arthur Abram-
son, executive
director of the
Baltimore Jew-
ish Council, and
Sol Goldstein,
president of the
BL-EWs, Balti-
more's black-
Jewish alliance. Louis Farrakhan:
Fueling the Fuel for fight?
argument was
whether Minister Louis Far-
rakhan, head of the Nation of
Islam, is anti-Semitic. Mr.
Abramson referred to the Na-
tion of Islam leader calling
Hitler a "wickedly great" man
and portraying Judaism as "a
gutter religion."
With much vehemence, Mr.
Muhammad especially denied
that Mr. Farrakhan had ever
called Judaism "a gutter reli-

gion," as Mr. Abramson assert-
ed. (In August, Mr. Farrakhan
told the Baltimore Jewish Times
he had called Judaism "a dirty
religion" — not "a gutter reli-
gion." He admitted that using
this somewhat milder phrase
was "not appropriate,... a mis-
take." Judaism, he said, could
not be "dirty" be-
cause "Islam
came from the
same God.")
When Mr.
Muhammad lat-
er called Mr.
Farrakhan the
"most powerful
black leader in
America," Rabbi
Floyd Herman
of Har Sinai
Congregation,
who was in the
studio audience,
retorted that
blacks' true pow-
er laid in the
hands of such
men as Rep.
Mfume, not Mr.
Farrakhan.
"We tried to
play it cool on-
the show," said
Mr. Goldstein. "I have no argu-
ments with Louis Farrakhan
until he starts talking about my
people."
The show proved to Mr.
Abramson that "you can't have
a substantive dialogue about
black-Jewish relations if one of
the participants is a member of
the Nation of Islam because, by
nature, everything they say be-
comes a diatribe."

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Palestinians didn't get an
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accord, editorial writers are still
cheering for the peace process.
The Washington Post called
the delay "disappointing, but
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nerable to spasms of doubt

triggered by excessive incidents
of terrorism" and that "Yassir
Arafat's increasingly evident
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disabilities, Mr. Arafat remains
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representing the mainstream.
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