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2008 honorees
Monday, October 6, 2008
Congregation Shaarey Zeclek

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Iranian Connection
Surrogates from both campaigns
appeared to agree on the need to fur-
ther isolate Iran until it stands down
from its suspected nuclear weapons
program. Each side emphasized that it
would keep the military option on the
table and enhance sanctions.
It was clear that each campaign had
devoted a great deal of attention to the
issue. Officials from both campaigns
signed on to a Washington Institute
for Near East Policy paper this sum-
mer that called for closer U.S.-Israel
coordination on Iran, borne out of
concerns that Israel's leadership was
getting closer to contemplating the
option of an air strike.
Williamson and Richard Clarke,
the former top anti-terrorism official
in both the Clinton and current Bush
administrations who spoke for Obama,
described the near impossibility of
taking out a weapons program that is
believed to be diffuse and hidden in
population centers. Clarke added the
possibility of covert action against
Iran, without details — a first for
either campaign.
The sole difference was over
Obama's pledge not to count out a
meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the Iranian president who has denied
the Holocaust and rejected the legiti-
macy of Israel's existence.
"What could such a meeting pos-
sibly accomplish?" Boot challenged.

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Danzig replied that it would make it
easier for Obama to rally worldwide
support for sanctions. "These things
require a community of nations:' he
said.

At Stake
Danzig cast Obama's emphasis on
sanctions and diplomacy in terms of
Israel's security, a pitch tuned to the
Washington Institute's pro-Israel ori-
entation. "The threats and dangers are
more substantial than they were eight
years ago:' he said.
McCain's advisers attempted to
deflect comparisons between McCain
and Bush. In trying to turn such com-
parisons against the Obama campaign,
Boot noted that eight years ago he
favored "another presidential can-
didate with not much experience in
national security policy" — George W.
Bush — "and we've seen the implica-
tions!'
The Washington Institute crowd,
hawkish in its outlook and likelier to
favor McCain's foreign policy, would
nonetheless only allow the McCain
surrogates to take the character and
experience issue so far.
Fred Lafer, the institute's presi-
dent emeritus, pressed Boot on why
McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin,
a foreign policy novice, as his running
mate if he was committed to national
security.
Boot said "she has as much" foreign
policy experience as Obama, prompt-
ing cries of "No!" and "what?"

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Yiddish Limerick

Hot geven a mol* a Yid fond of
liquor
Who ate nor** traif and was
shiker.***
When Yom Kipper arrived,
oy vay,
Ehr hot gefast and hot
gedavent **** all day.
Then resumed sinning till next
year's Yom Kipper.

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***
****

Hot geven a mol — there
once was
nor — only
shiker — a drunk
Ehr hot gefast and hot
gedavent — he fasted
and prayed

Rachel Kapen of West Bloomfield pre-

pared this limerick in memory of the

late Mary Jo Fleischmann, longtime JN

Yiddish limerick writer.

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