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Page 2-B The Jewish Floridian of Tampa/Friday, September 18, 1987
5747 ... The Year In Review
By ANDREW MUCHIN
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jews argued throughout 5747,
perhaps more than during any
recent year. As individuals and
organizations, Jews took on
adversaries and perceived
adversaries of Israel and
Jewry, and no less
vociferously each other.
Some of the talk only
threatened action, such as
Israel's oft-endangered na-
tional unity government that
held together through the
rotation of the premiership,
and afterward despite con-
flicts over the budget and the
proposed international
Mideast peace conference.
Other talk was in reaction to
events. Pope John Paul was
said to be good to the Jews,
then bad, then was willing to
converse, although to whom
was the subject of well-
publicized U.S. Jewish in-
fighting through most of
August. It's not yet wholly
clear what the papal meeting
with Jewish delegates finally
accomplished.
Still other talk during 5747
was intended to spur action.
Diaspora Jewish leaders,
asserting themselves in Israel
more than ever, successfully
lobbied against changing laws
that define Jewish identity for
fimposes of Israeli citizenship,
ndeed, the debate over what
 or who defines
Jewishness continued to vex
the Jewish world.
Many other events took
place despite what Jews had to
say. More Soviet Jewsi 
4,696 than at any time over
the last five years emigrated in
just the first eight months of
1987, but tens of thousands
more, perhaps 400,000, wish
to join them, and Soviet
repression continues against
religious and cultural
expression.
Of course, the news of the
Jewish world concerned far
more than all this, as a month-
by-month description
demonstrates:
October, 1986
NEW YORK Robert
Pires, 22, and an alleged
member of the white
supremacist Aryan Nations,
was charged with three counts
of bombing and one count of
attempted bombing in Coueur
d'Alene, Idaho.
JERUSALEM The first
Israelis of diplomatic rank to
be posted in Poland in nearly
20 years were applauded by
about 130 Rosh Hashanah wor-
shippers at the Warsaw
synagogue.
WASHINGTON U.S.
Jewish representatives .urged
human rights be discussed at
the U.S.-Soviet summit in
Iceland. Secretary of State
Goerge Shultz promised it
would be at the top of the
agenda. Outside the summit
meeting, Jewish activists and
families of refuseniks from a
half dozen countries pleaded
the cause of Soviet Jewry.
JERUSALEM A grenade
attack on Israeli soldiers and
their families in the Old City
killed one person and wounded
69 in the bloodiest terrorist
foray here in more than two
years.
NEW YORK Long-time
Jewish refusenik Davjd
Goldfarb left his hospital bed
and then the Soviet Union with
his wife Cecilia aboard the jet
of industrialist Armand
Hammer.
NEW YORK Nobel Prize
winners included three Jews:
author Elie Wiesei of New
York, for Peace; and Dr. Rita
Levi-Montalcine of Rome and
the U.S. and Dr. Stanley
Cohen of Nashville, Tenn.. for
Physiology and Medicine.
JERUSALEM Pundits
ate their words as Israel's uni-
ty government rotated the
premiership from Shimon
Peres to Yitzhak Shamir, as
promised, 25 months into the
government. Peres took
Shamir's job of Vice Premier
and Foreign Minister. Other-
wise, the Cabinet remained
nearly identical.
BONN The legislature
5748
CONGREGATION
KOL AMI
Wishes to extend to the entire
Jewish Community a
"L'Shanah Tovah Tikatolvu."
May we all be inscribed in the "Booh of Life'
for a healthy, good, and sweet year.
which resumed diplomatic
relations with Israel a year
mandated that victims of Nazi
persecution be accorded the
same status as war victims and
wounded veterans with regard
to pensions and welfare.
ROME Chief Rabbi of
Rome Elio Toaff headed the
Jewish delegation to the
12-religion day of prayers for
peace at Assisi.
VIENNA Austria recalled
for consultations its Am-
bassador to Israel, Otto
Pleiner, over Israel's failure to
replace its retired Ambassador
to Austria, Michael Elizur.
Israel's move was seen as a
reaction to the election as
president of Austria the
previous summer of Kurt
Waldheim, allegedly involved
in Nazi crimes.
GENEVA The Interna-
tional Red Cross Movement
changed its name to the Inter-
national Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement.
Neglected was the Red Magen
David, Israel's health
organization.
JERUSALEM Women
gained ground in religious af-
fairs with the appointment of
two women to the Labor Party
delegation to the 96-member
electoral college that would
choose the next Ashkenazic
Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.
PARIS Ivory Coast,
ago, said it would move its
recently reopened Embassy
from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in
accordance with a UN
resolution.
PARIS Britain was unable
to convince its 11 fellow
members of the European
Economic Community to join
the British dissolution of
diplomatic relations with Syria
over the latter's alleged in-
volvement in world terrorism.
November
WASHINGTON Two
Jewish incumbents were
reelected to the U.S. Senate,
Arlen Specter (R. Pa.) and
Warren Rudman (R. Vt.),
meaning eight Jews continued
to serve in that body. A
number of Israel's best Senate
friends also were re-elected.
Twenty-nine Jews were
elected to the House, one less
than in the previous Congress.
No candidate affiliated with
extremist Lyndon LaRouche
won.
NEW YORK The New
York Marathon was reschedul-
ed from Oct. 2, SimchatTorah,
to November 2, allowing an
estimated 2,000 Jews to par-
ticipate guilt-free.
JERUSALEM The Chief
 
 
ef. Happy New Year from Barbara, Anne and Bernie 
Wishes You A Happy and Healthy Year.
From the Families of:
B. Terry Aidman
Sandy Sher
Steve Oscher
JeffKalwerisky
OwenBeitch
Douglas J. Brown