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THE

JEWISH NEWS

Your Purim Spoof, 'The Jewish
Nu?," was not funny. I refer to
your inclusion of "Puerto Rican
gangs" in the article 'Temple Is-
rael Opens its Doors to Gangs."
As a former longtime resi-
dent of Mexico, I am compelled
to explain that the vast major-
ity of Latin Americans, both in
the United States and abroad,
are hard-working, studious and
honest. They do not condone or
aspire to gang membership.
While living in Latin Ameri-
ca, I was frequently asked
whether Americans are racist.
This article, poking fun at an
ethnic group, only perpetuates
the idea of the Ugly American.
If you insist on publishing a
spoof, don't base your so-called
humor on negative stereotypes.
The Jewish News owes an
apology to Hispanics every-
where.

Ellen Kominars

Southfield

Cowering
And Cringing

Now, with the incident at the
mosque fresh, all of the cower-
ing Jews and cringing Jewish
organizations (safely in Amer-
ica) can race each other to see
who will distance themselves
furthest from the Israeli who
could no longer stand for the
daily murders of his fellow Jews
and took out his revenge as he
saw it.
They can join in with the sad
spectacle of the prime minister
of Israel prostating himself and
apologizing to such an arch-
criminal as Arafat.
Beat your breasts, instead,
for all the Jews who have been
hacked to death and for all
those who, assuredly, will short-
ly be additional victims of an
Arab ax. Save your compassion
for the West Bank settlers who
are being abandoned by Ra-
bin/Peres, already in the process
of caving in to the Clinton ad-
ministration's intensified pres-
sure for Israel to placate the
Arabs and to accede to every de-
structive demand from the
malefic PLO.
Use your strength to put your
shoulder to the task of success-
fully deterring Yiddishkeit's
Hiders.

Abe Medwed
Detroit

Mis-Stating
The Case

As I see it, the film Freedom to
Hate and the UJA's full-page
ads in the New York Times and
The Jewish News, "For Jews in

the former Soviet Union, the
exit signs are clearly marked,"
are like a flashlight in a dark
room. It lights up only a small
portion of the room and leaves
the rest in darkness.
The result, in effect, is mis-
representation, though what is
shown in factual. It would be
like a flashlight on the United
States showing only Louis Far-
rakhan.
First, about the film Freedom
to Hate. It was shown at the
Jewish Community Center on
Dec. 1 and now on PBS. It gives
the impression of widespread
rabid hatred toward Jews in
Russia.
Why not say something, at
least a word, about the many
Jewish professionals in Russia?
On average, Jews in Russia live
far better than non-Jews. I have
many cousins in Russia and all
of them, every one of them Jew-
ish, are professionals with high-
er education.
There's a tendency among
Jewish emigres from Russia to
blame anti-Semitism as the rea-
son for leaving the country. For
example, in a case well-known
to me, a mother of a son who
was killed in St. Petersburg tells
people in Germany, where she
now lives, that her son was
killed by the anti-Semitic orga-
nization Pamyat. As so many
other emigres, she claims anti-
Semitism to gain sympathy and
support. In truth, her son was
killed by another Jew in a quar-
rel over a woman.
The real reason that Jews
leave Russia is that they feel
they waste their lives struggling
for every little trifle. For that
reason, one of my cousins left
for Israel.
The UJA advertisement says
that the right-wing extremist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky rants
against Jews and "Zionist plots"
and his party wins more votes
than any in Russia. But that's
not why people in Russia voted
for Zhirinovsky. They voted for
him to express anger at the im-
poverishment, mismanage-
ment, insecurity and crime that
have marked recent years.
The UJA advertisement is an
exploitation of fear. Under a
photo showing 17 people in a
Nazi-like salute, it says, "Please
give generously to the Opera-
tion Exodus and the Annual
Campaign. This time we can
clearly see what's happening
over there."
Understandably, after Hitler,
antennas are up, and the UJA
needs donations. But will the
film and the UJA advertise-
ment prove to be self-fulfilling
prophecies?
Ralph Slovenko

Professor of Law
and Psychiatry,
Wayne State University

