LETTERS

LETTERS FROM PAGE 39

Destructive Hatred
Comes From Within

WHO: Lauren Schanes, Future Student, Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit, Class of 2004

AGE: 13

ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT: Member of the JAMD steering committee

(involved with academic planning & initiatives for the school)

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INTERESTS: Vacationing, volleyball, tennis, shopping

IN HER OWN WORDS: "I'm thrilled to be one of the first students to attend the Jewish Academy.

My parents and I chose this school for many reasons. The Academy will help prepare me for college,

allow me to continue my Jewish education and provide the chance to form lifelong friendships.

I think the Academy will make a difference in my education".

An opportunity to attend the Jewish Academy of

Metro Detroit.

Open the doors to an education that
will touch your mind and heart.

Open the doors to
the Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan
Detroit.

'JEWISH
A CADEMY

M etropolitan Detroit

THE ACADEMY OFFERS:

• A dual curriculum committed to academic
excellence in both Jewish and general studies.
• Extensive extracurricular activities.
• Innovative experiential learning opportunities.
• An environment in which students are
challenged to be the best they can be.

For further information, contact Head of School, Rabbi Lee Buckman at 248.592-JAMD (5263).

JOIN US FOR THE JEWISH ACADEMY KICK-OFF EVENT!
Sunday, January 9, 2000, at 12:30pm
Jewish Community Center — D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building • 6600 W. Maple Road

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Four years ago on the 4th day of
November, Israel's Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin ("Oslo Atmospherics,"
Nov. 5) was assassinated. Since then,
the Israeli society has been trying to
deal with the event, its consequences
and its implications.
We are still at the early stages of
understanding just what happened.
The story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza
can help. The story tells us about a
certain man, who had a friend named
Kamtza and an enemy named Bar
Kamtza. He once arraigned a banquet
and told his servant to invite Kamtza.
The servant mistakenly went and
invited Bar Kamtza.
The host, upon seeing his enemy,
sent Bar Kamtza out of his house. Bar
Kamtza sought revenge. He went to
Caesar and said to him, "The Jews are
about to rebel against you." Caesar did
not hesitate to use this as an opportu-
nity to conquer Jerusalem and to
destroy the Temple.
When reading this story, one can-
not stop thinking about how much
hatred and desire for revenge one
must have in order to commit such an
act against a fellow Jew. It was not the
enemy who brought us low but the
horrifying hatred from within.
Rabin dedicated his last years to the
peace process and was honored with
the Nobel Peace Prize. In the last years
of his life, Israelis were optimistic
about Israel's foreign relations. But, it
was also one of the most controversial
times. All energies were focused on the
peace process, leaving the strains in
the domestic relations to work them-
selves out as time went by.
But that did not happen. Instead,
Yigal Amir shot Rabin. Life seemed to
stop for all Israel. Israelis thought such
a tragedy would never happen there.
But Amir's shot was Bar Kamtza's
shot. Rabin's assassination brought the
absence of shalom bayit, domestic
tranquillity, to the nation's awareness.
The enemy was no longer found on
the outside, but within.
No bomb shelter could protect us
this time.
Shalom bayit — peace within our
home as a nation is something we can-
not wait for time to bring about. It is
a national mission, a mandate we
must pursue, so we are never again
pay the price we did.
Esti Moscovitz

Scholar in residence,
American Friends of Melitz
Baltimore

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