If Only the Ministers Would Come For 15 years, an American PR guru has been running workshops for young Israeli envoys. The massive annual influx of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Catskills has upset the serenity of the famous New York getaway. As summer nears, a new hotline hopes to ease tensions with the neighbors. Eleven men are about to stand trial in Buenos Aires for involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community s main offices, in which 86 people died. But everybody knows they are not the main culprits.
Most experts point the finger of blame at Syria.
And the Jewish community is only now waking up to the incredible dimensions of this Latin American disaster. Be Damned Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein successfully courts the cash of evangelical Christians. And he s outraged at charges they want to convert the Jews. Now the former school principal plans to teach her latest charges how to reach out to the young, respect women s rights and talk to each other. The American students found their Jewish roots.