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Argentine Jewry
Faces Many Changes
.
Buenos Aires (JTA) — Nothing
will ever be the same for Ar-
gentina's Jews after last week's
bomb attack on the community's
headquarters.
When the winter holiday is
over, children were scheduled to
return to school, and pupils at
Jewish schools were to face
tighter security than ever before.
For the first time, police cars
are being stationed at the school
doors, and as the children go in-
side, their school bags are being
examined one by one.
And parents will soon hold as-
semblies in Jewish schools and
clubs to decide what additional
measures should be taken to beef
up security. -
Diana Katz, the mother of a
girl who goes to the Scholem Alei-
jem School in Buenos Aires, said
she will send her daughter to a
non-Jewish school next year.
"I cannot live in fear. You nev-
er know what murderers may
do," she said.
But Juana Kilzi, whose two
grandchildren also go to a Jew-
ish school, thought otherwise.
"We must not creep into base-
ments" out of fear, she said.
But fear was, nonetheless, felt
by many here in the wake of the
July 18 bomb blast, which com-
pletely leveled a seven-story
building housing the Jewish Ke-
hilla, or Jewish community or-
ganizations.
The bomb struck one of the
community's most important ad-
dresses. The building housed the
DMA, the umbrella organization
of Argentine Jewry; the AMIA,
the community's 100-year-old
main social service agency for the
poor and aged; a library of YIVO,
the Jewish Research Institute;
the archives on Jewish life in Ar-
gentina; and the Jewish Com-
munity Council, among other
organizations.
At least 59 people are known
to have died in the blast, and
Jewish leaders are saying the toll
may rise as high as 100.
The blast echoed the one that
demolished the Israeli Embassy
here in March 1992. No one was
ever tried for that attack, which
killed 30 and injured 250.
Ruben Beraja, president of the
DATA, has announced that Israeli
companies and experts will be en-
gaged to provide security for the
200 Jewish institutions in the
country.
Delia Dordon, the head-
mistress of a Jewish school, ex-
plained what her first security
measures will be.
"Even the crates with vegeta-
bles we receive will be opened.
We will ask the janitors of the
neighboring houses to cooperate
so that no unfamiliar cars are al-
lowed into garages. We will study
the history of each one of the per-
sons that we hire.
"Parking will be prohibited on
the block where Jewish institu-
tions are located, and every school
and club will be searched four
times daily, inch by inch," she
said.
In spite of all the fears and dif-
ficulties with security, the Jew-
ish community has made a
unanimous decision: All Jewish
institutions in Buenos Aires will
open their doors for business as
usual this week.
The Jewish resolve was bol-
stered after more than 150,000
people gathered last week in the
city's Congress Square to repu-
diate the act of terror that had
claimed so many lives.
The July 21 rally, occurring
three days after the bombing took
Parents will soon
hold assemblies in
Jewish schools and
clubs to decide
what measures
should be taken.
place, was described as the
largest mass demonstration to
take place in Argentina in the
last 10 years.
Six blocks in one direction, two
in the other, three blocks behind
the platform, shoulder to shoul-
der, Argentineans from all walks
of life stood, mostly silent, many
under umbrellas, in a cold and
steady rain.
Banners of extraordinary
length reading "Hoy somos todos
Judios" — "Today we are all
Jews" — were unfurled above the
heads of scores of demonstrators.
Posters proclaiming the rally
and urging all to attend and
"stand up against violence" had
been placed in stores throughout
Buenos Aires.
"The trade unions collectively
called for a work stoppage so that
people could come to this event,"
according to Jason Isaacson, an
American Jewish Committee of-
ficial who had flown here to ex-
press solidarity with Argentine
Jews.
The Argentine government
was shut down that day at 2 p.m.
by presidential decree so that peo-
ple could attend the rally, which
began at 3:30 local time and last-
ed 90 minutes.
While the entire Jewish com-
munity seemed to be there, they