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To Recall Shoah
London/JTA—British officials issued
guidelines on how to mark the coun--
try's first national Holocaust
Memorial Day on Jan. 27, the
anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz.
The Board of Deputies, British
Jewry's central body, welcomed the
guidelines, but emphasized that
Holocaust Memorial Day is not a
Jewish-led event and does not replace
Yom Hashoah as the primary Jewish
commemoration of Holocaust vic-
tims.
Haider Visit
Prompts Clashes
Rome/JTA — Violent clashes erupted
Saturday in Rome as Austrian far-
right politician Jorg Haider took part
in a ceremony to light the Vatican
Christmas tree.
Earlier, during a Vatican ceremony
in which Haider presented the tree to
Pope John Paul II, Haider and his del-
egation received copies of a papal
speech condemning racism and xeno-
phobia.
KKK Marches
In Skokie
Chicago/JTA — Police in Illinois
arrested 10 counterdemonstrators who
attempted to break up a Ku Klux
Klan rally in the Chicago suburb of
Skokie.
The rally in Skokie, home to many
Holocaust survivors, took place 22
years after a neo-Nazi rally was held
there.
Mandela Opens
Jewish Museum
Johannesburg/JTA — Former South
African President Nelson Mandela
attended the inauguration of a new
South African Jewish museum in
Cape Town.
Speaking at the Dec. 13 dedication
ceremony, Mandela said the museum
would play a vital role in ensuring
that the Jewish contribution to South
Africa's liberation struggle would not
be forgotten. The museum traces the
history and contributions of the
nation's Jews.
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legislative moves that in normal times
might have failed.
Shas spokesman Itzik Sudri is partic-
ularly proud that his party has secured
preliminary legislative approval for a
bill endorsing a state-sponsored pen-
sion plan for every citizen. This may
be a welcome move for Israel's poorer
populations, but it would cost the
treasury — which fiercely objects —
about $5 billion a year.
"It is definitely easier for us to push
these moves through," says Sudri, cit-
ing a series of hushed-up victories in
the Knesset in recent weeks.
He noted that the outbreak of vio-
lence in late September led Barak to
shelve his plans for a "secular revolu-
tion" that had angered Israel's
Orthodox parties. Shas members, who
hold 17 seats in the 120-member
Knesset, said they would back Barak
only if he abandoned his proposals to
weaken the hold of the Orthodox
establishment over such matters as
Sabbath observance.
"It was buried because of the security
crisis — and because we promised the
government a safety net," Sudri says.
Rabbi Uri Regev, director of the
Reform movement's Israel Religious
Action Center, agrees on this point.
"The whole area of religion and state
is still very much on people's minds,"
he says. "Every week, you see references
to various issues — funding, the aban-
donment of the civil agenda, the draft
of yeshiva students," as well as the
"Who Is A Jew?" issue that has colored
Israel-Diaspora relations in recent years.
But he said they can't now compete
with the "reality of great security pres-
sure and political instability."
There are signs that the ongoing
violence has not destroyed the public's
appetite for religious and social issues.
For example, a landmark bill to ensure
religious freedom passed a preliminary
Knesset vote recently.
Naomi Chazan, a member of the
liberal Meretz party who initiated that
bill, noted that polls show the Shinui
Party, which has an overtly secular
platform, likely would get a big boost
if new Knesset elections were held
even though it has no clear positions
on the peace process.
It is not surprising, Chazan explains,
that domestic issues get less attention
during difficult times.
"It's totally predictable," she says. "But
issues of religion and state, and social
justice and equality, are major issues, and
they are not going to disappear."
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To G-d, the staff of USC University Hospital and especially to
Steven Traison (right lobe) and Dr. Jeffrey Devries (left lobe)
who gave part of themselves to help save the life of their
sister, wife and our daughter, Sheri.
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and taken care of the children. You are truly an Eishes Chayil.
To our many friends who through their phone calls, prayers and
tributes, have supported us during these difficult days.
Our eternal love and thanks,
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