wide anti-terrorism plan, and believes
those who harbor terrorists are ene-
mies of the U.S.
"Eight years ago, the same diaboli-
cally evil people tried to bomb the
World Trade Center," he said. "They
killed six people, and as a nation we
shrugged our shoulders, moved for-
ward and did nothing.
"Now they've killed 6,000 and if
we stand here this evening and if we
do nothing, within a few years they'll
be able to kill millions."
If not halted, he believes terrorists
will gain increased ability to deliver
biological weaponry. "So we have no
choice but to go after them," he said.
The senator suggested that some
countries may give up support of ter-
rorism. He mentioned Iran, Syria and
Saudi Arabia. With reference to Iraq,
he said, "I guess in a year, we'll have
to go in and finish up the job we did-
n't do in 1991."
"I think everyone at the dinner
supported Sen. Schumer chastising
any position that exempts Palestinian
terrorists, such as Hamas and
Hezbollah, from the war against ter-
rorism," said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld,
Yeshiva executive director.
Addressing the dinner attendees as
"proud Americans who love Israel,"
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Sen. Schumer said, "We should not
forget there is one country that will
benefit even more than us should we
succeed and wipe out world terror-
ism, and that is Israel." He suggested
Israeli leaders may have to tighten
their belts, tone down rhetoric and
maybe speak with those they don't
want to confront.
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"We can't say there are two forms of
terrorism — the kind that Al Quaida
does and the kind Hamas and
Hezbollah does," Sen. Schumer said.
Sen. Schumer is circulating a bipar-
tisan letter on Capitol Hill.
Addressed to the State Department, it
says making a distinction between
terrorists is harmful to both the war
on terrorism and the United States.
To great applause, he said, "It is
our job as Americans and friends of
Israel to make sure to finish off Al
Quaida, and go after Hamas,
Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad with the
same venomous force.
"The only thing that can defeat us
is that we fail to persevere — to give
up — or start fighting among our-
selves, which is what [Osama] bin
Laden and his evil band wish."
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Schumer, D-N.Y., who addressed
the event at the Marriott Hotel
Renaissance Center in Detroit.
School President Gary Torgow
saw the record-breaking nearly
2,200 attendees as "a sign of deter-
mination to strengthen and guar-
antee the future of our nation and
our people." Torgow lauded the
Yeshiva's newest additions: the
Meer Family Gymnasium, under
construction at the Sally Allan
Alexander Beth Jacob School for
Girls in Oak Park, new play-
Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld with Yeshiva Guardian
grounds to be installed in
recipients Miriam and Fred Ferber
December at the Boys' Division
and the Meer Early Childhood
Development Center, both on the
Judge Avern Cohn, the evening's
Southfield campus. He also applauded
general chairperson welcomed Miriam
the Yeshiva's successful Partners in
and Fred Ferber as Yeshiva Guardians.
Torah program, which has grown by
"This is a group recognized as mem-
over 25 percent in the last year, with
bers of the Yeshiva family who are pil-
125 partners studying weekly.
lars of the school, supporting it on a
A scholarship fund, in memory of
day-in, day-out basis," says Rabbi Eli
long-serving Yeshiva Executive Vice
Mayerfeld, executive director of the
President Rabbi Norman Kahn, who
Yeshiva. "They were presented with a
died in December 2000, was
globe that is supported on three legs
announced. It will be chaired by Bill
— three pillars — with a quote from
Sherr, Mickey Shapiro, Spencer
the Mishnah (Torah commentary) that
Partridge, Harold Beznos and Alvin
Reifman.
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