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Peruvian Minister
Takes National Role
New York (JTA) — In Peru, a
predominantly Catholic country,
it is a time-honored tradition that
when Cabinet members take
their appointed places, they kneel
before the president and a large
crucifix.
So when Efrain Goldenberg-
Schreiber was named foreign
minister last August, he offered
to step to the end of the line of
new appointees so as not to in-
terrupt the flow of events.
Mr.Goldenberg, a Jew, was not
going to kneel before the cross.
President Alberto Fujimori
would not hear of it and removed
the cross especially for Mr. Gold-
enberg, replacing it for the ap-
pointees coming next in line.
This past February, Mr. Gold-
enberg was named prime minis-
ter, the first Jew to hold the post.
Since he was first in line this
time, the president withdrew the
cross at the beginning of the cer-
emony, probably a first in Peru's
history.
The story was one of several
tales of being Jewish in Peru that
Mr. Goldenberg told here to a
gathering of the American Sec-
tion of the World Jewish Con-
gress.
And among his accounts were
assurances that Peru appears to
be moving toward stability after
years of military rule, economic
woes and murderous terrorist at-
tacks by two powerful indigenous
groups, Sendero Luminoso (Shin-
ing Path) and Tupac Amaru.
Mr. Goldenberg, a striking-
looking 65-year-old former busi-
ness executive, spoke confidently
about Peru's future.
He said that President Fuji-
mori, a Japanese-Peruvian, had
"done two good things for the
country — acted against hyper-
inflation and against terrorism."
He said "it is now safer to walk
on any street in Lima than in
New York."
Mr. Goldenberg, who is on the
board of the Lima Jewish com-
munity association, is the son of
Russian-Jewish immigrants who
came impoverished to the coun-
try.
He was born in the small Pa-
cific Coast city of Talara, where
there were only two Jewish fam-
ilies, and he was the only Jewish
child. He attended primary school
there, but his family moved to
Lima in time for him to celebrate
his bar mitzvah in the Peruvian
capital.
Asked about anti-Semitism,
Mr. Goldenberg said it was not a
major problem in Peru. In fact,
he pointed out, the government
is quite mixed in this multieth-
nic nation.
Not only Mr. Fujimori, but
Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka, the
very popular speaker of Congress,
come from non-indigenous eth-
nic groups — in their case, Japan-
ese families.
And he rattled off a list of
names of government figures
with clearly non-Hispanic names.
He acknowledged that about
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half of Peru's former Jewish pop-
ulation of 5,000 had left the coun-
try in recent years following a
series of kidnappings by terror-
ists, after which families paid
large ransoms. But he said he
had heard that many of those
who fled are now considering re-
turning.
And he reminded those at the
meeting that "Peru was always
very friendly to Israel."
Peru was "among the first to
agree to vote to rescind the U.N.
measure equating Zionism with
racism, and the first to vote" at
the United Nations in Geneva to
consider anti-Semitism a human
rights violation.
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Jewish Leader
Paris (JTA) — The French gov-
ernment has appointed Jean
Kahn, the leader of the European
Jewish Congress, as the French
representative to the newly cre-
ated European Consultative
Commission on racism and xeno-
phobia.
The appointment of Kahn, who
is also head of CRIF, the um-
brella of France's Jewish organi-
zations, was announced by
French Minister for European Af- .
fairs Alain Lamassoure.
The member states of the Eu-
ropean Union ratified the cre-
ation of the new anti-racism
commission, at the suggestion of
France and Germany, during the
latest E.U. summit, which was
held June 24-25 on the Greek is-
land of Corfu.
Each member of the E.U. — in-
cluding the four newest mem-
bers, Austria, Finland, Norway
and Sweden — will have one rep-
resentative on the new commis-
sion, which is charged with
assessing national and commu-
nity policies in the struggle
against racism and xenophobia.
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