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you LX. NO. 25
THURSDAV, JUNE24; 1993
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'NO MANDATE. SA V SEHLERS
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SCREAMING *'MOSH/ACH, MOSH/ACHI" (Messiah, Messiah!"), baslcetball fans In Kfar Blum hail Rabbi MenachemSchrieer8bn,theLubavitcherrebbe,forHapoel-UpperQalilee^^^ over Maccabi^tel Aviv, Israel's top team for 23 years. Hapoel went from the cellar to champion almost overnight after faxing the rebbe for blessings beifore each game, promising in return to publicize the coming of the Messiah. After the first win^ team menibers — indudlng many noh-believers--<Jonhedtefililn and Insisted on Chabad's presence at the games. They put liiezzuzot on stadium doors and decorated walfb with banners proclaiming "Welcome King Messiah." Their theme sonig is how the Mordechai Ben-David hit "Moshiach!", which they chant whenever tiiey scbre.Araar/vcalled the victory celebration a "SidfichatTbrah," When thousands of fans>— including those of the losers— danced with the rebbe's picture. "This shows MoshiachliB really about unjty,"
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By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA)-^ As a new of Middle East peace talks began in Washingforiy a public debate emerged here oyer the authority and mandate of the current government to inake territorial concessions as part of a land^for-peace settlement.;^
''Rabin, you have ho mandate- has become the motto of right-wing settlers and supporters who are staging a sit-in
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TEL AVrV — Israel has revealed for the first time thd^t a former majdr in its army intelligence corps is serving a prison sentence for spying oh behalf of an unnamed country believed to be the United States.
Israel reportedly had offered to exchange this man for Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence analyst convicted and sentenced to 1 ife in pri-
son for spying on behalf of Israel. But Washington was re ported to have rejected the deai.
Israeli sources said Maj. Yossi Amit, 48, was accused of providing information to the UiS. and possibly to a European NATO country. First details of an espionage case , involving the officer were published after Israel's Supreme Court lifted a secrecy ban that had been in effect since Amit's arrest in 1986. •^•■..v;..-'^''^:^
American authorities said there is ho exchange planned between Pollard and an "unnamed convicted spy," although such action had : once been speculated. Many Knesset members are urging that Pollard and Amit be freed by their respective. nations in a mutual goodwill gesture.
Amit, a former Haifa resident, was apparently tried by Haifa, District Court in 1987 and sentenced to a 12-SPY EXCHANGE- Page!
In a show of strength, hundreds of protesters set up tents, huts, telephone and fax lines, as well as improvised offices of the municipal arid regional councils in the Territories. The encampment has sent a clear signal to Rabin and the Knesset that the protesters intend to stay where they ate for a long time.
The demonstrators pror tested against territorial concessions at a . rally addressed by their old champion, semir re tired former prime minister Yitzhak Shamiri J
Shamir spoke of the "great fear that this government of calamity will surprise us" in the peace talks "and we shall suddenly find ourselves with borders which do away with our security^"
Shamir's handling of the peace process, when he led the government at the head of the Likud party, has been
commended by present Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu for presenting a tough stance to the Arabs.
Netanyahu has complained bitterly that Rabin is giving away too much and not. getting anything in return.
The demonstration by Settlers at the Rose Garden has as£its main message a clairii that Rabin lacks authority from the people to give up land under Israeli control, particularly the Golan Heights.
A giant"Rabin, you have no mandate" * was smeared overnight on the helicopter landing site near the Knesset, much to the dismay of Knesset guards. Posters with the same slogan were placed all over the small park.
In a Knesset debate dur-inganother failed attempt to topple the coalition, Netanyahu echoed the p rotes te rs' message, warning Rabin
against making concessions.
And despite the lack of any indication in the peace talks that territorial concessions wouldtake place in the hear future, the issue has come to the forefront of public debate.
Ypel Markus, a respected columnist, suggested in Ha'aretz that the settlers might be out in force now because they may be aware of secret behind-the-scenes-negotiations with the Arabs, which could bear fruit, ear-. lier than expected.
"It is not coincidence that the settlers are getting ready for a violent struggle and have already come out in demonstrations," wrote Markus.
It remains to be seen what kind of support the political right enjoys and whether it is powerful enough to influence the peace process and block the implementation of
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By ETHAN MINOVITZ
Steven Cynader admits that his personality takes some getting used to.
As an autistic person and self-styled ''recovering sports addict," he is trying to participate fully in the Vancouver Jewish community.
He attends Vancouver Jewish Folkdarice Society classes, but says candidly that many pep-ple who aren't disabled shy away from him. "I made trouble for people who had no serious interest in sports!" the 35-year-old acknowledged at a JewistnFederation of Greater Vancouver forum last week.      -   ;       ■■ —■';
Sponsored by Federatiori'S Task Force on Disabilities, the forum —which focused on including disabled people in the Jewish community -trJdrew about 45 people to Temple Sholom,. It followed
However, othersmaintain their irivoivemeni, ne pointed oiit.
Forum facilitatbr Michael Goldberg, research director of the Social Planning and Research Council of B.C., believes that the disability rate
Greater Vancouver JcVt's compares v,'ith
by two weeks a symposium on integrating the disabled into Jewish communal life, attended by representatives of 25 Jewish organizations.
One of thousands of disabled Jews in B.C;, Cynader has gone public with his difficulties. Episodes of depression, he said, have made even steady volunteer work impossible for him to find.
Alan Posthuma, chair of the two-year-old task force, acknowledged that some in the audience might be alienated from the Jewish community.
other ethnic groups, although the percentage of seniors who are more likely to have limitations — is generally larger in the Jewish community.
He emphasized that the estimates are based on census figures for Jews by ethnic group. But "I would lay odds that there are over 3,000" disabled among British Columbians who are Jews by reli-gion, he said.
The gathering broke up into small discussion groups, with many participants relating both ^problems and solutions. T.S. vohmteer Isabelle Somekh has directed a ski school for disabled children at Grouse Mountain.
However, she said, bringing services to those requiring them remains a drawn-out process. "We keep hearing that people want and need help, but we don't know what specifically is needed."
Bill Benjamin- arid Grace McNab-Benjamin conceded they weren't involved with the Jewish
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