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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. Publicity Deadlines The normal deadline for local news and publicity items is noon Thursday, eight days pri- or to issue date.