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The news wasn't as good on the question
of the S800 million supplemental aid bill,
requested originally to help Israel meet
the costs of last year's Lebanon withdraw-
al, but later to help with beefing up secu-
rity against an assortment of threats.
Congressional and administration
I sources say the measure is on ice, with
no thaw in sight.
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Law of the Letter
It seemed like the kind of resolution
that should sail through Congress with
barely a murmur.
A bill by Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, D-
RI., merely highlights the famous letter
by President George Washington to the
Touro Synagogue in Newport, the nation's
first synagogue, and says that the historic
missive "should be widely circulated, serv-
ing as an important tool for teaching tol-
erance to children and adults alike."
No sweat, right? After all, the letter,
which is on display at the B'nai B'rith
Klutznick National Jewish Museum in
Washington, is widely seen as one of the
earliest statements about the principle of
religious freedom in the new democracy.
But the measure ran afoul of Rep.
Melvin Watt, D-N.C., who abstained
when the Judiciary Committee voted
oh the measure because Washington
was a slaveholder.
In an interview, the lawmaker said
his objections had nothing to do with
the Jewish content of the legislation.
"George Washington is my
American founder, too," he said. "But
for me to sit there and listen to words
on bigotry written by someone who
owned slaves would be the equivalent
of a Jewish person sitting there listen-
ing to someone praising someone who
was involved in atrocities against
Jews." Watt said he was just "trying to
put this discussion in context."
A B'nai B'rith official pointed out that
despite Watt's challenge, the Kennedy
measure remains mostly uncontroversial.
"The Washington letter is and will
remain a landmark in American reli-
gious freedom," said Eric Rozenman,
editor of the B'nai Brith International
Jewish Monthly. "In it, our first presi-
dent expressed a spirit of interreligious
tolerance and an ideal of universal citi-
zenship that has made this country
then, and for the 225 years since, a
beacon of freedom around the world."
The fact that Washington and other
founders owned slaves "does not detract
from the precedent-setting nature of
the Touro letter, and in fact the ideal of
equality in the letter helped make the
idea of slavery untenable."
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