HIGH YIELD
ly o
held.
Argentine President Carlos
Menem had sealed the country's
borders in order to prevent the
escape of any suspected bombers
and had appealed on the air-
waves for calm. And in Israel,
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
called the attack "a cowardly,
criminal, despicable act" and
blamed Islamic extremists spon-
sored by Iran for the attack. He
called on the international com-
munity "to strike at this viper and
crush its skull."
Iranian officials in Teheran
have denied any involvement in
the bombing.
An Israeli air force cargo jet left
Israel for Buenos Aires with 50
members of an emergency disas-
ter rescue unit and their equip-
ment to help Argentineans sift
through the rubble at the bomb
site.
The blast sent ripples of fear
and anger throughout the Ar-
gentine Jewish community of
220,000, the largest in South
America, which had barely re-
"Why us again?"
—Claudio Rosujovsky
covered from the 1992 attack on
the embassy.
Observers noted similarities
between the two attacks, includ-
ing the apparent use of car bombs
in both incidents and the fact that
each building was undergoing
construction work when the blast
occurred, with workers freely
coming and going.
The two blasts also produced
the same anguished shock, the
same acts of good will by mem-
bers of the community and the
same gnawing sense of insecu-
rity. But this time, the mood was
different because the hurt and
the rage was more evident among
some members of the Jewish
community and its leaders.
"Solidarity is not enough. We
demand results. We must know
who is guilty. It's the govern-
ment's duty to catch them," said
Ruben Beraja, president of the
Delegation of Argentine Israeli
Associations (DMA), the um-
brella organization of Argentine
Jewry.
DMA called for a peaceful
demonstration on Thursday to
express the feelings of the com-
munity and repudiate the act.
This time, the bomb struck one
of the community's most impor-
tant addresses, although the
building is in a poor neighborhood
where most Jews no longer live.
Organizations that had been
housed in the Kehilla included
the AMIA; a library of YIVO, the
Jewish Research Institute, where
archives on Jewish life in Ar-
gentina were stored; and the Jew-
ish Community Council.
In New York, Rabbi Leon
Klenicki, interfaith director for
the Anti-Defamation League and
a native of Argentina, especially
rued the loss of the YWO library,
which covered the history of the
Argentine Jewish community.
"I used to spend hours in the
YIVO, reading and reading, and
now everything is gone. Got-
tenyu," he said, using the Yiddish
word for God used in times of
grief.
Rabbi Klenicki was also deeply
saddened by the loss of two
friends.
In the immediate aftermath of
the blast, rabbis and psycholo-
gists began talking with the
wounded and the relatives of
those who are still missing. Clau-
dio Kogan, a medical student who
had been searching for bodies for
more than 30 hours, said, 'There
are still people alive. We can hear
them."
Eduardo Baron, who was
working on the second floor of the
building at the time of the blast,
was able to escape with only mi-
nor injuries through the back of
the building.
"Two-thirds of the building fell
down, but I was in the part that
didn't collapse," he said, his face
covered with bandages.
Shoshana Kreimen-Brill, the
wife of a well-`mown local rabbi,
was among those still missing.
While her husband was com-
posed, one of her three teen-age
daughters was crying loudly.
Throughout the day, people
gathered around synagogues and
community centers waiting for
news. Happiness occasionally
brightened the faces of those who
recognized people who escaped
or were saved. There was a long
line of people in front of the new
AMIA headquarters, their faces
lined with fatigue. With the pass-
ing of the hours, it was evident
that hope was vanishing for
many of those waiting for news
of loved ones.
In three words, Claudio Rosu-
jovsky, one of those standing at
the new headquarters, summed
up the feelings of many here:
"Why us again?" D
Contributing to this report were
JTA Staff Writer Susan
Birnbaum in New York and
correspondent Hugh Orgel in
Tel Aviv.
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