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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 Editor and Publisher Leonard Goldstein Advertising Director Luna Levy Associate Editor Eschol A. Harrell Production Manager Lutz Baum Business Manager Published every Friday by The Southern Israelite, Inc. Second Class Postage paid at Atlanta, Ga (ISSN 00388) (UPS 776060) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Southern Israelite. P O Box 77388, Atlanta. GA 30357 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 77388, Atlanta, Georgia 30357 Location: 188 15th St., N.W., Atl., Ga. 30318 Phone (404)876-8248 Advertising rates available upon request. Subscriptions: $23.00, 1 year; $41.00, 2 years Member of Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Religious News Service; American Jewish Press Assn.; Georgia Press Assn.; National Newspaper Assn. 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.