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Looking Back Over
A Decade Of Change
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* Vegetarian Chopped Liver * Chicken Soup With Matzo Ball OR Mushroom Barley Soup
* French Cut Beans Almondine * Potato Kugel OR Farfel With Mushrooms OR Potatoes Anna
* Challa (Loaf serves 6)
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some of our specialities
Trout Florentine
Chicken Marengo
Fresh trout stuffed with
herbed vegetables du
chef, roasted garlic &
white wine, then oven
baked to perfection.
This famous French classic is named
so because it was first eaten by
Napoleon after the battle of
Marengo in 1800. Chicken
Medallions roasted to perfection,
served with a generous portion of
mushroom wine sauce.
All Dinners Come With Soup,
Classic Beef Stroganoff
A 19th century dish created for
Count Pavel Stroganoff, a dignitary
and a noted gourmet at the court
of the Russian Czar Alexander
Lean sirloin beef pieces sautéed
and then simmered in sour cream,
Madeira wine, mushrooms, onions,
parsley and dill.
Salad, and Antipasto Plate
closed Mondays • Open at 5:00p.m. everyday
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Every Monday:
Free 2" Portion With Purchase*
Crabfest at the Maples
Includes: Juicy Snow Crab,
Redskin Potatoes, Corn on the Cob,
Salad & Bread Basket,
Hot Drawn Butter.
All for only
$ 1495
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Every Wednesday:
Free 2" Portion With Purchase*
Tender Baby Back Spare Ribs
Every Friday:
All you can eat
Enjoy juicy, fallin' off the bone slow roasted baby
back spare ribs, cooked with chef Matt's special
BBO sauce and grilled on an open flame. Includes:
French Fries, Creamy Cole Slaw, Fresh Bread Bas-
ket and all you can handle BBO sauce.
A.Y.C.E. Succulent Icelandic Cod, dipped in
Matt's own special beer batter, fried to a crisp
golden brown. Served with Cole Slaw,
French Fries and Fresh Bread Basket.
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rmiversaries produce the
almost-irresistible impulse
to sum up, an affliction
that particularly affects
journalists — including this one,
whose Washington column is en-
tering its 11th year.
Jewish political activism in
Washington has changed dra-
matically in that time, and yet, in
some fundamental respects, it is
strikingly similar. The Jewish
presence in Washington, which
grew steadily in the days after the
Six Day War in 1967, has bur-
geoned in the past decade, but
there are disturbing portents on
the horizon.
Here are some of the changes
of the past 10 years:
1. Israel has diminished sig-
nificantly as a priority for the
American Jewish communi-
ty.
In 1987, Jewish activism in
Washington was dominated by
the pro-Israel effort, driven by an
endless series of crises, ranging
from arms sales to Arab countries
to demands for an international
peace conference.
Those crises galvanized the en-
tire Jewish community, tran-
scending deep political and
religious differences.
Today, a core of Jewish ac-
tivists still slog in the pro-Israel
trenches, but there is a growing
disconnect among ordinary Jews,
many of whom — Jewish leaders
worry — simply are losing inter-
est.
There are many causes, in-
cluding a peace process that of-
fers at least the hope of a
negotiated settlement, Israel's
undisputed military supremacy,
the robust Israeli economy and
rising anxiety about closer-to-
home problems.
The growing disenfranchise-
ment of Reform and Conservative
Jews in Israel — the Jewish ma-
jority in America — and disillu-
sionment with an Israeli political
system in which Cabinet positions
are bought and sold like wares in
the souk, have accelerated the
drift from pro-Israel commitment.
Pro-Israel groups here remain
strong, but their leaders worry
about the next generation.
2. With the decline in inter-
est in Israel has come an up-
surge in interest in critical
domestic issues, especially in
the unraveling of the nation's
social safety net.
This process began with the
1980 election of Ronald Reagan,
but accelerated with the arrival
of Bill Clinton in 1993.
Increasingly, the big political
battles for Jewish activists involve
changes in such entitlement pro-
grams as Medicare and Medicaid,
cuts in subsidized housing for the
elderly and the elimination of es-
sential services for immigrants
and other needy populations.
With that change has come the
increasing importance of such
groups as the Council of Jewish
Federations, whose Washington
office has been in the thick of the
budget wars.
The Jewish
presence in
Washington has
burgeoned in the
past decade, but
there are disturbing
portents on the
horizon.
At the same time, Jewish fed-
erations and other groups have
rushed to expand their presence
in statehouses around the coun-
try, as vital federal programs are
handed over to the states.
3. Opposition to the pro-Is-
rael agenda has almost dis-
appeared in Congress.
Effective pro-Israel lobbying,
and the spectacular growth of
Jewish political fund-raising,
played significant roles in this de-
velopment; so did a Mideast peace
process that was supported by leg-
islators in both parties, despite
the continued popularity of con-
gressional bashing of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization.
Ten years ago, many legisla-
tors were willing to use American
aid as a lever to change Israeli pol-
icy; today, despite painful budget
cuts, Israel's aid is almost sacro-
sanct.
In 1987, pro-Israel power was
weak on the Republican side of
the aisle; now, GOP leaders are
enthusiastic supporters, in many
cases pushing hawkish Mideast
positions that put them more in
sync with the current Likud gov-
ernment than their liberal De-
mocratic colleagues.
4. The rationale for the
strong U.S.-Israel relationship
has become murkier.
In 1987, U.S.-Israel relations
were solidified because of the Rea-
gan administration's decision to
regard Israel as a strategic part-
ner in the fight to contain the So-
viet Union.