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Allied Jewish Campaign
THE COMMISSION ON JEWISH
ELDERCARE SERVICES (CODES)
is researching the need for Jewish adult day care programs for
older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders.
If you are a caregiver or relative of an older adult with a dementia
disorder, living in the Metropolitan Detroit area, we need your input
and opinions. Please join us for a discussion group to talk about the
establishment of a Jewish Adult Day Care Program for
persons with dementia disorders.
Meeting Dates:
Wednesday, April 2
Wednesday, April 2
Thursday, April 3
1:30-3 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
15110 W. 10 Mile
Oak Park
6:30-8 p.m.
Max M. Fisher Building
6735 Telegraph
Bloomfield Hills
1:30-3 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
Maple/Drake Building
6600 W. Maple
West Bloomfield
Refreshments will be served.
Funding is available, if needed, to offset caregiving costs
to enable your participation in the discussion group.
The number of participants per discussion group is limited.
To participate in one of the groups, or for further information,
please call Linda Blumberg 810-642-4260, ext. 140,
by Wednesday, March 19.
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WILEY A. HALL III SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
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to write a formal letter to George
Bush pressing for Mr. Pollard's
release. The government of Is-
rael granted him citizenship.
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres
and Binyamin Netanyahu have
all publicly called for clemency.
So have at least two U.S. sen-
ators, a dozen congressmen, a
number of state and local legis-
latures, a former head of the
NAACP, the European Parlia-
ment, and 85 members of the
Knesset — not to mention the
Conference of Presidents of Ma-
jor Jewish Organizations, and
more than 1,000 rabbis repre-
senting every Jewish religious
movement.
It is nice of Mr. Horwitz to
identify our priorities for us
("please, the American Jewish
community has more important
issues — and rallying points for
justice and equality — than
Jonathan Jay Pollard"). Non-as-
similated Jews recognize older
values as well, such as the mitz-
vah of pidyon shivuyim (re-
demption of a captive) and the
principle that "he who saves one
soul, it is as if he has saved the
world."
Jewish Americans recognize
their responsibility as well to
speak up for American values, if
not to chastise the relatively few
like Mr. Horwitz who are em-
barrassed by "Pollard the poster
boy."
Sadly we must say to them the
same as we say to others on be-
half ofJonathan. Pollard: Enough
already.
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age term meted out to those con-
victed of the same offense as Mr.
Pollard is four years. No one has
ever served longer than Mr. Pol-
lard for a similar conviction. To
the contrary, the government re-
cently has gone to the opposite
extreme: Lt. Cmdr. Michael
Schwartz, a (non-Jewish) 15-year
Navy veteran, was found guilty
of selling data to Saudi Arabia
from November 1992 to Sep-
tember 1994 — and was quietly
discharged without having to
serve one day in prison.
Curious, isn't it, that the
Schwartz case has attracted such
scant public notice, much less ob-
jection from an intelligence com-
munity that has called for Mr.
Pollard's head? (In 1991, former
Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger was widely quoted
as saying that Mr. Pollard should
have been shot for his crimes. In
1995, a Defense Department of-
ficial issued a "confidential"
warning to defense contractors
that Jewish employees might spy
for Israel.) Such is the stuff from
which one might sniff a whiff of
anti-Semitism.
Mr. Horwitz quotes former
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
as saying that Mr. Pollard's
predicament may be a humani-
tarian or moral problem, but not
one for Israel to solve. That was
in 1987. By the end of Mr.
Shamir's term in office he fully
realized that Mr. Pollard had en-
abled Israel to prepare for the at-
tack it endured during the
Persian Gulf War.
Thus his last official act was
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en a New York jury
onvicted two black men
c convicted
of violating the civil
rights of a Jewish man
during the 1991 Crown Heights
riots, it served as a wake-up call
to African-Americans everywhere.
Many of us have become so
comfortable thinking of ourselves
as victims that we are slow to rec-
ognize that we also can be vic-
timizers. We sometimes — no,
why mince words? — we often be-
come so fixated on our own rights
that we trample heedlessly and
carelessly on the rights of others.
It is as though in our minds, the
civil rights laws apply only to
blacks; instead of fighting for jus-
tice, we fight for just us.
No single incident illustrates
the self-centeredness and bigotry
of some in our community as
Wiley A. Hall III is a columnist for
the Baltimore Afro-American,
where this first appeared.
clearly as the Crown Heights af-
fair.
On Aug. 19, 1991, a car driven
by a Chasidic Jew swerved out of
control on a crowded Brooklyn
sLieeet and hit two 7-year-old black
boys. When an ambulance arrived
on the scene, the paramedics al-
legedly showed more concern for
the Jewish driver than for the lit-
tle boys. One of those children,
Gavin Cato, died.
Word of Gavin's death, and the
alleged circumstances surround-
ing it, spread throughout the black
community of Crown Heights. Ri-
oting erupted. Gangs of black
youths roamed the streets looking
for revenge against their Jewish
neighbors.
Why were they angry at Jews
and not the city's ambulance ser-
vice? Aha! There you see the un-
reasoning mask of prejudice.
And why were people rioting in
the first place? Purportedly, be-
cause they felt powerless to affect
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