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PAGE 4 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 25, 1986
The Southern Israelite
The Weekly Newjpoper For Southern Jewry
Since 1925
Vida Goldgar
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Vida Goldgar
Schools on the move
There is so much going on with Jewish day schools in Atlanta
these days that it’s hard to keep up.
Three of our major institutions are on the move. The Hebrew
Academy announced several months ago that it has secured prop
erty to build a new school.
Now comes word that the Yeshiva High School, long in need
of its own building and enough room to grow, has an option on a
public school building.
And to top in off, the Epstein School, has completed negotia
tions which will enable it to move from the Ahavath Achim
Synagogue to Underwood Hills Elementary School next year.
All this is exciting.
When we recall the days when Jewish day school education
was frowned upon by many in our community, it shows how far
we have come.
We wish all the schools well.
If at first...
The talks in Morocco between Israel’s Prime Minister Shimon
Peres and Morocco’s King Hassan II ended with seemingly little
accomplished.
But the word “seemingly” is the key point here. The fact that
the talks took place at all and the fact that they were openly
announced is a forward step in the ongoing effort toward achiev
ing peace.
Coming so soon after King Hussein of Jordan came down
firmly on El Fatah in his country and hints that the talks took
place with the foreknowledge of Saudi Arabia lead one to believe
that there is more motion going on than has been seen for a long
time.
Whether this represents some sort of breakthrough that could
lead to more concrete discussions is still unknown.
But it’s a start.
Know your candidates
The recent incident at the Atlanta airport, where
an altercation between a member of the Jewish com
munity and a follower of right-wingextremist Lyndon
H. LaRouchc Jr. ended up in court
brings me once again to the issue of |
LaRouche and his ilk.
LaRouchies'spewing theirl
venom and hawking their hate
sheets from booths in our coun-j
try’s airports are bad enough. But
worse is the possibility that un
informed voters in many parts of j
this country could conceivably elect
candidates whose views the voters would find com
pletely antithetical if they knew' what these people
stand for.
We may think it can’t happen. It already has. In
Illinois, several LaRouche candidates were victorious
in the Democratic primary because “their names
sounded right” and because—let’s lace it —the media
and the Democratic Party fell asleep at the switch.
Forewarned, the Georgia Democratic Party is vot
ing this weekend on a proposal to change its bylaw's to
bar followers of LaRouche from its state convention
and other roles in the party operation.
What confuses a lot of people is that the LaRouche
political organization is named the National Demo
cratic Policy Committee, just close enough to make it
seem that it is part of the national and state Demo
cratic parties.
If 1 accomplish nothing else in this column all year,
I will have considered it worthwhile to alert you about
the philosophy of Lyndon LaRouche and those who
espouse his causes. According to an ADL report,
there are more than 700 LaRouche-afliliated candi
dates in the field nationwide in 1986. At least five are
on the ballot in Georgia.
In a pamphlet entitled “The LaRouche Cult’s Fan
tasy World," ADL has quoted from various LaRouche
publications. The quotes speak for themselves:
• Rothschild agent, Bernard Baruch Sr. helped
arrange the assassination of President Lincoln and
then laundered the funds from London banks that
were used to found the first Ku Klux Klan imme
diately after the Civil War’s conclusion.
• Henry Kissinger, since the early 1950s, has been a
British agent and traitor to the United States...
• In a neat division of labor, the U.S. State
Department, the International Monetary Fund, and
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith
have worked out an arrangement to hand Israel’s
economy over to the Dope Inc. narcotics-trafficking
cartel.
• Dissident Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov
actually is an agent of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s
secret police force, and is part of an effort to manipu
late the United States.
• Israel is ruled from London as a zombie nation...
Zionism (is) the state of collective psychosis through
which London manipulates most of the international
Jewry ... If international Jewry were significantly freed
of the grip of the Zionist psychosis, Israel w ould cease
to be a puppet of London (and) then, the problems of
the Middle East could be resolved.
The LaRouche people are also big on the “Holo
caust is a hoax" thesis.
What brings support to LaRouche from the unin
formed are the titles of some of his front groups. Who,
unless they knew, would question the National Anti-
Drug Coalition, the Fusion Energy Foundation or the
Schiller Institute? These sound pretty official, don’t
they? Even his weekly magazine, the “Executive Intel
ligence Review," sounds impressive.
But let’s get back to Georgia and our Aug. 12
Democratic Primary. The LaRouchies have at least
five candidates on the ballot.
The follow ing names of LaRouche supporters w ill
be on the ballot:
Gerald Belsky is running for the Senate.
Congressional candidates are: John Chaney, 4th
District; Andrew Holstein, 5th District; Janies K.
Olson, 9th District.
Billy Andrews Odom is their candidate for Com
missioner of Agriculture.
Don’t be misled!
The blessings of liberty
by David Amato
I he (Mexico) News
Americans returning to normal
daily living schedules after w itness
ing the spectacular celebrations of
Independence Day and the rc-dedi-
cation of the Statue of Liberty in
New York Harbor on the Fourth
of July may soon forget what they
saw' and heard.
But many Jewish immigrants in
the United States who have been
showered with the blessings of lib
erty are not likely to forget this
extravaganza, because, with the
advantage of being able to com
pare the Old World they left behind
with their adopted New World,
they experience similar exhilarat
ing feelings almost daily as they
enjoy the benelits of this free nation.
Although the contrast between
the two may not now be as great as
in the past, there are many who feel
an irresistible urge to celebrate 365
days of the year for the virtues of
liberty the}’ now enjoy.
J here are still immigrants in the
United State!; who can recall being
awed by the sight of a sewing
machine, farm machinery, automo
bile, radio and X-ray machine (to
clothe, feed, transport, inform and
heal themselves), as well as having
lived to see the invention of televi
sion, miracle medicines, computers
and new loods to improve the qual
ity of life.
In the past 50 years, they have
seen the pulse of the United States
quickened in its battle for human
rights and the elimination of racial
and religious prejudices. The con
tagious influence of American
science and technology has also
benefited many nations, some more
than others.
The American people have
demonstrated eagerness to share
their good fortune with others
throughout the world, friend and
foe alike. Since immigrants main
tain constant contact with relatives
and friends in countries of origin,
they are kept informed of economic
and social progress in such coun
tries stemming from the American
spirit of sharing. Their remittances
to relatives help in achieving such
progress.
Truly worthy of notice is the
remarkable loyalty immigrants
demonstrate with their countries
of origin and at the same time with
their adopted land, without signs
that such duality has been prejudi
cial to the United States. On the
contrary, there is abundant evi
dence that immigrants from all
lands have helped make the United
States great.
The American tradition of leav
ing it to individual discretion and
responsibility as to how to enjoy
life, liberty and the pursuit ol
happiness has encouraged immi
grants to give freely the best ol
themselves to this adopted land.
I w as only 9 years of age when 1
first caught a glimpse ol the Statue
of Liberty, as my parents and 1
were approaching Ellis Island in
1921 in a boatload of immigrants.
Since then, I have learned and
never forgotten the uplifting mean
ing of liberty.