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ome (JTA) — A
group of elderly
Jewish refugees
from Sarajevo, living in tem-
porary housing on the Croat-
ian coast, has started a
handmade yarmulke business
called the Menorah Club.
About 20 refugees knit
yarmulkes, which they sell for
10 Deutschmarks (about $6)
apiece, plus postage. The
refugees receive 5 Deutsch-
marks for each yarmulke, with
the rest of the money going for
materials and community ex-
penses.
Most of the yarmulkes are
blue with a metallic thread bor-
der, but other color combina-
tions are available on request.
'The Menorah Club is work-
ing nonstop," said club mem-
ber Lenka Montiljo Bilalagic.
"Our members are delighted
because we are busy, we are

useful, we can earn for our fu-
ture."
The project was started with
the encouragement of the
American Jewish Joint Distri-
bution Committee to help what
a JDC representative called
"enterprising and deserving
refugees from Sarajevo" help
themselves put their lives back
together.
"If these items catch on," a
JDC representative said, "we
may extend Menorah to the
Svarc (Jewish) Old Age Home
in Zagreb, which has so far
welcomed about 18 elderly
refugees among its 78 resi-
dents."
Individuals or organizations
wanting to place bulk orders
should contact Montiljo Bi-
lalagic, do the Jewish Com-
munity of Split, Zidovski prolaz
1, 58000 Split, Croatia, or call
385-58-45-672.

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ickey Katz, the man
who made "April in
Portugal" into "Pesach
in Portugal" and sang "Davey
Crockett" in Yiddish, and who
spent his summers at Woodhull
Lake, is back.
Clarinetist Don Byron has
just released, "Don Byron plays
the Music of Mickey Katz" and,
with his band, is performing
Katz's klezmer tunes through-
out New York. His dreadlocks
swaying as he plays, Mr. Byron
"is a virtuoso, and only improves
on Katz's merely adequate clar-
inet work," according to the Jan.
16 New York Times Magazine.

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A New Light On Strobe

trobe Talbott, the former Time magazine columnist re-
cently appointed to the number two position in the U.S.
State Department, is widely regarded as an expert on Rus-
sia. During his Time tenure, he also opined on Middle East pol-
itics.
In the Oct. 29, 1990,
Time, Mr. Talbott
ithrczd
wrote an essay called,
Strobe Talbott
"How Israel Is Like
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How israei is Like Iraq
Iraq." Here, he char-
acterized Israel's poli-
cies in Judea and
Samaria as filled with
as much "irreden
tism" (claiming own-
ership of a land that
belongs to another)
as Iraq's in Kuwait,
and stated the
founding of Jewish
settlements was
l
equivalent to Sad-
dam Hussein's "sys-
tematic obliteration
Kuwaiti nation-
I hood."
Mr. Talbott pre-
dicted that Israel's
"irredentism"
would cost the
Jewish state its
status as "a light
unto the nations,"
its democracy
and "certainly its
support from the
rest of the
world."

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he American Zionist
Movement (AZM) is
sponsoring the first
North American Zionist Song
Competition, open to musicians
of all ages and backgrounds.
Entries must be previously
unpublished and unrecorded
compositions that celebrate
Zionism and IsraeL They should
be two to four minutes long,
with either original lyrics or
adaptations of traditional
source material. Lyrics may be
in English and/or Hebrew. Only
one entry may be submitted per
person, in the form of an audio
cassette recording. Composi-
tions should be appropriate for
group singing.
"Music is a wonderful moti-
vating instrument for spread-
ing Jewish values to our entire

community," said former De-
troiter Rabbi Daniel Syme,
chairman of AZM's adult Zion-
ist education committee and se-
nior vice president of the Union
of American Hebrew Congre-
gations, which initiated the
competition. "It is a way to
teach Jews about Israel, its his-
tory, heroes and precepts."
Finalists will perform their
songs at the 1994 conference of
the Coalition for the Advance-
ment of Jewish Education,
which is sponsoring the event.
The deadline for entries is
April 25. Finalists will be in-
formed by July 1. For an entry
form, write Fred Greene, Amer-
ican Zionist Movement Nation-
al Office, 110 E. 59th St., New
York, NY 10022, or call (212)
318-6100.

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A jazz musician whose bands
include the Don Byron Quin-
tent; Semaphore, a classical mu-
sic quintet; and Music for Six
Musicians, an Afro-Cuban en-
semble, Mr. Byron says he plays
klezmer music simply because
he likes it. He quickly tires of
everybody referring to him as
"that black guy that does
klezmer" and hates stories
about him headlined, "Bagels
and Dreadlocks."
"That stuff is offensive in so
many ways, some not even eth-
nic," he said. "It's just way too
cute."
A Boston resident, the 35-
year-old Mr. Byron also is a
baseball fan and is teaching
himself tennis. Atlantic Month-
ly jazz critic Francis Davis la-
beled him "easily the most
interesting and technically ac-
complished clarinetist to come
along in a very long time."

Religious Leaders
Meet In Jerusalem

eading rabbis are set to
meet early next month
with Christian leaders
from throughout the world for
a four-day conference on "Reli-
gious Leadership in Secular So-
ciety" in Jerusalem.
Among the participants will
be Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
president of the Vatican Secre-
tariat for Doctrine and Faith;
George Carey, head of the An-
glican Church; the Very Rev.
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es; Chief Rabbi Rene Samuel
Sirat, president of the Council
of European Rabbis; Michel
Sabbah, Latin patriarch of
Jerusalem; and Rabbi Shlomo
Goren, emeritus chief rabbi of
Israel.
The program will feature
workshops and speakers
addressing institutionalized re-
ligion and science. Topics
include fertility, abortion and
death.