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...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...
...place where the Nazis created Auschwitz, we have young Jews trying to reclaim their heritage,'' said Rabbi Michael Schudrich of the American Lauder foundation as he opened the latest youth center last week in Cracow, Poland. ``Many did not even know five years ago that they were Jewish.'' In Budapest the 118-year-old Rabbinical Seminary, the only one in Eastern Europe, is training a new generation of religious leaders for Hungary. One young believer is student Rafael Rohrig, 27, who says he came from an orthodox family--orthodox communist, that is. ``It wasn't until I traveled to America...
Perhaps there should have been no shock. Long before last week's meeting in Budapest of the 53-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, there had been abundant warnings that U.S.-Russian relations were turning sour. Russian officials had tried unsuccessfully to get the U.S.-designed embargo on Iraq's oil sales lifted and had resurrected Moscow's veto in the U.N. Security Council to block an American-backed resolution on Bosnia...
...exchanges in Budapest joltingly escalated the tensions to the heads- of-state level. This time it was Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin who dropped the big-grin, buddy-buddy act of their previous six face-to-face meetings and traded barbs. Clinton chided Russia indirectly for opposing NATO's plans to define the criteria for admitting Moscow's former satellites Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 1995. NATO is the "bedrock" of European security, said Clinton, and expanding it will make "new members, old members and nonmembers" safer. And if Russia thinks otherwise? Well...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher veered off from the European security summit in Budapest to meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, resuming the Administration's attempt to force a Mideast peace breakthrough. In a four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Christopher pressed Assad to make a public declaration denouncing terrorism, but merely received a promise from Assad that he'd think about it. The Secretary then shuttled to Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders blamed Syria for the deadlocked peace talks and expressed little hope that Christopher's trip would jar loose an impasse over the disputed Golan Heights. (Also...