On 0.41.'s Team
JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER
D
olores Schle-
singer has
not seen her
daughter in
more than a
year.
Lately, she has
been able to turn on
her television, al-
most on a daily ba-
sis, and her
daughter Sarah Ca-
plan is there.
Ms. Caplan, a 38-
year-old attorney
and Detroit native,
works for Robert
Shapiro as a mem-
ber of O.J. Simp-
son's legal defense
team. Much of her
role involves doing
legal research, but
she often is shown
on TV taking notes
in the courtroom.
Mr. Simpson is Sarah Caplan: Defending O.J.
accused of murder-
ing his former wife Nicole Simp- been broadcast throughout the
son and her friend, Ronald world.
Ms. Schlesinger said her
Goldman.
"I found out she was involved daughter has been working
in the case when some friends around the clock, but enjoys what
. called and said, Did you see youi she is doing.
Ms. Caplan graduated from
daughter on television?' " Ms.
Schlesinger said. "We turned on Groves High School in Birming-
the TV and there she was. I called ham and received a bachelor's de-
her and said, 'Is that really you?' gree in psychology from Wayne
It's unreal to sit there and watch State University, a master's de-
her and think that suddenly the gree in social administration from
rest of the world is watching my the University of Michigan and
a law degree from Wayne State
daughter."
Also watching Ms. Caplan are in 1983. She moved to California
her husband's family, who live in about three years ago. ❑
Israel. News about this case has
-
Two bombs July 27 in London damaged the Israeli Embassy and, above, the Joint Israel Appeal.
Helping Buenos Aires,
But Not London
ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR
T
he American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee
(JDC) is helping the Jew-
ish bombing victims in Ar-
gentina, the Jews and gentiles in
war-torn Bosnia, and the gentile
'cholera
cholera and starvation victims of
the Rwanda civil war.
So why no help for the Jewish
targets of bombs in London last
week?
The dust from the Buenos Aires
bombing had hardly settled May
18 when the JDC in New York an-
nounced that it had opened a
"mail box" to accept contributions.
The bomb killed more than 100 at
he headquarters of Argentine
Jewry's social service institutions,
wiping out whole agencies.
The JDC is. loaning the com-
munity its own experts from its
Latin American headquarters in
Buenos Aires to establish educa-
tion and training programs for
new personnel. The proximity of
JDC programs in Argentina was
key factor, said Amir Shaviv, a
JDC spokesman in New York,
and the main reason JDC is not
involved with the London victims.
JDC is a member of Interac-
tion, an umbrella group of 20 non-
governmental organizations
authorized to collect funds and
relief supplies to help in disasters
of all kinds. As the overseas re-
lief arm of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, the JDC is not designated
to work inside the United States.
"But anytime we can be effec-
tive at a particular site far re-
moved from us and contribute to
the recovery process," Mr. Aviv
said, the JDC becomes involved.
JDC will help families of the vic-
tims if financial aid is necessary.
As of last week, the JDC had re-
ceived $4,000 in contributions
earmarked for Argentina.
B'nai B'rith International also
has moved quickly in Argentina.
Its District 26 has offices in a
building separate from most of the
Jewish communal agencies and it
operated a soup kitchen for vic-
tims and rescue workers out of its
B'nai B'rith Hillel in Buenos Aires.
The bomb killed
The organization has estab-
more than 100 at lished a "bombing fund" to pur-
chase food and medicine for the
the headquarters of victims
and to help the commu-
rebuild its headquarters.
RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
Argentine Jewry's nity "All
of the money we recieve
goes directly to Argentina," said
social service
oel Tauber sat in the mug-
Seymour Cohen, director of com-
gy Washington, D.C., heat
institution.
munity and volunteer services for
to see last week's historic
B'nai B'rith International in
meeting between Israel's
Washington. "The Argentine
In Bosnia, JDC helped trans- B'nai B'rith and the Jewish com- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
port Jews and Muslims out of munity leaders there decide how and Jordan's King Hussein.
"It was a very exciting step for-
war zones and, in some cases, on that money can best be used."
ward,"
said Mr. Tauber, who is
to Israel. It also has helped with To send a contribution make
from
Detroit
and serves as pres-
food and medical care.
checks payable to JDC-Al :gentine ident of the United Jewish Ap-
In Rwanda and Zaire, two wa- &lief Fund, or. Rwanda Re-
peal.
ter purification plants provided by lief Fund, 711 Third Ave., New
On July 25, Mr. Rabin and
the JDC began operating last week York, NY 10017; or to Bombing
King
Hussein joined President
and a JDC medical team was sent Fund, B'nai B'rith, 1640 Rhode
Bill
Clinton
at the White House
in from Adis Ababa.
Island Ave. NW, Washington, DC to make another move toward
In Argentina, Mr. Aviv said 20036. Ats,
peace in the Middle East. Their
Tauber Represents
UJA In Washington
j
■■ •
signing of a peace accord ended
nearly a half-century state of war
between Israel and Jordan.
The scene followed last Sep-
tember's benchmark handshake
between Mr. Rabin and Yassir
Arafat, leader of the Palestine .72
liberation Organization. But Mr.
Tauber, who also attended the f_
peace meeting 11 months ago, 03
said the more recent signing was
less tense.
"In my view, there was basic <
agreement for a number of years
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