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Jewish Americans were extremely instrumental in establishing the recognition of a Jewish homeland. When U.S. Chief Justice Louis Brandeis — who was considered one of the finest minds in America — learned about the work of Theodor Herzl and the plight of the European Jews, he proceeded to establish onism nationally. He became the Iirst American Zionist president. He was a close adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, who gave his immediate support to the role of a Jewish homeland. In 1918, the peace conference was conducted in Paris. Brandeis sent Felix Frankfurter, his protege and friend, to represent Zion. At this time, the Balfour Declaration was issued, after detailed consultation and changes in the phrasing. Frankfurter worked closely with Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann. American Jews who have con- tributed greatly to our society include physicist Albert Einstein and Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. Today, the most important need is that Jewish American children are taught about the fabulous role American Jews have played in American history and democracy. Therefore, we hail the organizations that are proclaiming and celebrating Jewish Heritage Week, May 4-11. Ann Barnett Southfield i Survivor Faults Shoah Education I am a survivor of seven extermina- tion camps and a lecturer about the Holocaust. I am in constant touch with Jewish and non-Jewish children. I find their knowledge about the Holocaust is almost non-existent. They do not know the importance of the Nuremberg laws, the. destruction of Jewish communities and tragic mur- der of the Jewish people. Millions of dollars have been spent in the United States building Holocaust museums and supplying schools with Holocaust learning material. I wonder, with sadness, why our children are still so lacking in education about the Holocaust. I can foresee, within a certain time, the Holocaust museums in the United States will become relics of the past, as are now the extermina- tion camps in Europe. Heaven help us all in whose hands we leave the teaching about the Holocaust. Henry Friedman West Bloomfield Ultimate Goal Of Terrorists Despite the alertness of the Israel Defense forces, another Arab bomb exploded in Haifa on March 5, mur- dering or wounding untold numbers of Jews. We wonder, is it the responsibility of individual Jews to protect them- selves from Arab explosions that deci- mateJsrael? Are Jews supposed to plead with the Knesset to permit armed Jews to check any or all Arabs in Israel, or are Arabs supposed to be free of deliberate searches for bombs and weapons by Jews? Does the ISraeli government hope and pray that, Arab bombs aside, Palestinian statehood will not be denied? But then, how far would the Palestinian Authority extend? To the Mediterranean Sea? After all, Israel does sit on so-called Palestinian land. 'All of it," according to stateless Arabs. Many in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government hope that Arab bombs and terror will stop when another Arab state- is founded. But destruction and leveling of former Jewish land in Judea-Samaria is not a point that will hold government attention. A second Arab state carved out of Israel means that Arabs will sit in Amman, Ramallah, Hebron and what is left of Jerusalem with bombs exploding in the midst of Jews because having gained part of the land, only the coastal plain will remain to be taken under the Palestinian wing. Michael Drissman Executive director, Committee for the Jewish Idea Detroit