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Jerusalem (JTA) — As a result
of recent tensions between reli-
gious and secular Israelis, a foun-
dation has launched a mailing
campaign calling for tolerance.
The Avi Chai foundation kick-
ed off the effort with the mailing
of 1.7 million postcards to Israeli
households for the Rosh Hash-
anah holiday.
One side of the postcard de-
picts the backs of two young
men's heads — one of them with
a traditional skullcap, the other
bareheaded — with the state-
ment: "An order for reconcilia-
tion."
The flip side of the card allows
recipients to fill out a pledge that
they identify with the campaign's
slogan: "Honoring tradition, pre-
serving democracy." Recipients
then mail the card back to the
foundation.
The campaign comes at a time
when the relationship between
secular and religious Israelis is
strained. One example of the ten-
sion is the ongoing legal battle in
Jerusalem about Sabbath traffic
on a main thoroughfare through
religious neighborhoods.
Israeli President Ezer Weiz-
man lent his support to the effort
at a reception at his Jerusalem
residence, where the campaign
was officially launched.
Education Minister Zevulun
Hammer of the National Reli-
gious Party, who took part in the
opening, said, "If we want to live
together, we have to first build a
common language."
Legal Adviser
With Nazi Past
Buenos Aires (JTA) — Rodolfo
Barra, who resigned as Argen-
tine justice minister in July after
a local magazine exposed neo-
Nazi ties in his youth, has become
a legal adviser to the country's
Senate.
Jorge Yoma, an Argentine sen-
ator who used to be President
Carlos Menem's brother-in-law,
said that Mr. Barra is "one of my
most trusted advisers."
Mr. Barra is now advising Mr.
Yoma on the composition of a
future body charged with the
supervision of the Argentine ju-
diciary. Yoma oversees the in-
fluential Senate Constitutional
Affairs Committee.
Mr. Barra gave up his post af-
ter the magazine Noticias ex-
posed him as a former member
of a right-wing youth organiza-
tion affiliated with the extremist
group Tacuara and, later, as a fol-
lower of Argentina's most promi-
nent fascist, Alberto Ottalaganno.
Tacuara was responsible for
hundreds of anti-Semitic attacks
in the early 1960s and for the
murder of a local Jewish lawyer.
In response to the revelations,
Mr. Barra denied being a Nazi
but admitted to "the mistake of
being against Jews."
"I was taught that all Jews
were Communist, and I was
against communism," Mr. Barra
wrote in an open letter to the Ar-
gentine Jewish community or-
ganization DATA.
After leaving his post, Mr.
Menem presented Mr. Barra
with a memorial medal as a "to-
ken of thanks."
At the time of his resignation,
Mr. Barra had been overseeing
the investigations of the 1992
bombing of the Israeli Embassy
and the 1994 bombing of the Jew-
ish community headquarters.
Mr. Barra was replaced by
Elias Jassan, a former deputy
justice minister who is Jewish.
Birobidzhan Jews
Are Emigrating
Moscow (JTA) — The town of
Birobidzhan, the center of an area
of the same name, may soon have
no Jews.
The percentage of Jews emi-
grating from the town of Biro-
bidzhan, located in the area also
known as the Jewish Autonomous
Region, is one of the highest in
Russia.
The area in the Russian Far
East, which was a destination for
Jewish immigration since 1928
and officially designated the Jew-
ish Autonomous Region by Stal-
in in 1934, was long touted by the
Soviet authorities as an example
of flourishing Jewish life in the So-
viet Union.
In 1989, the town of Biro-
bidzhan had a Jewish population
of about 9,000. By 1996, 7,500
Jews had left Birobidzhan. Most
of them went to Israel.
But David Vaiserman, spokes-
man for the local administration,
said at least 15,000 people of the
town of Birobidzhan's population
of 75,000 might be able to "claim
that they have Jewish ancestry."
Most of the families in which
both parents are Jewish left Biro-
bidzhan in the first wave of emi-
gration in the late 1980s.
In the next wave, from 1990 to
1993, many families with one Jew-
ish parent emigrated.
Now, some of those leaving the
area for Israel are people with
Jewish grandparents.
"A wish to emigrate is the only
thing that binds them to Jewry,"
Mr. Vaiserman said.
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