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VOL.C5   NO. 9
FEBRUARY 26,1987-SHEVAT 27
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Supreme Soviet
Pardons Begun
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Soviet Jewish dissident Iosif
Begun received unconditional pardon and was released from Chistopol prison
last week.
Begun, a 54-year-old electrical engineer and mathematician, was an activist for
Jewish emigration rights, a
long-time refusenik and a
clandestine teacher of Hebrew, which is outlawed in
the Soviet Union. In 1983, he
was sentenced to seven
years in prison and five
years exile to to Siberia for
allegedly slandering the
Soviet State.
Begun was pardoned by
decree of the Presidium of
the Supreme Soviet, the
highest state body in the
USSR, which has pardoned
more than 140 other dissidents, including several
Jews, over the past few
weeks.
Beverly Minkoff
Dead At Age 60
NEW, YORK (JTA) —
Funeral services were held
last week for Beverly Minkoff, the immediate past
president of Women's
American ORT and a vice,
president of the World ORT
Union. She died Feb. 15 after
a long illness.' She was 60
years old.
Minkoff joined American
Women's ORT in the early
1950s and became president
of the Long Island region in
1965. In 1967 she was named
to the national executive
committee of the organization and from 1979 through
1983 she served as its national president.
A native of New - York,
Minkoff was a graduate of
Ohio University where she
earned a B.S. in education.
Her undergraduate work
and interest in world history
led to her initial interest in
the ORT programs.
During her long career in
the Jewish community,
Minkoff was vice chairwoman of the National Jewish Community Relations
Advisory Council, a member
of the Board of Trustees of
Bramson ORT Technical
Institute, an executive committee member of the Na-
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'Ivan' Trial First Week Features
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Attorneys' Clashes, Dispute Over
Identity Of American Defendant
£&
; Fund-raising Chair man, Harvey Goldman of Wester-
ville, holds an example of the art work that will be
available at the Eleventh Annual Art Auction to be held
on March 7 by Congregation Beth Tikvah at 6121 Olentangy Riyer Rd. in Worthington. ",
Beth Tikvah Schedules
11th Annual Art Auction
';■" Art work by Dali, Delacroix, Lee, Miro, Chagall,
Boulanger, Rockwell, Bab-
nigg and many other award-
winning artists will be available at Beth Tikvah's Eleventh Annual Art Auction on ,
March 7, 8 p'm. at the Temple at 6121 Olentangy River
.Rd/   | ."•,-
Limited edition original
graphics, oils, watercolors,
etchings and fine art prints
will be presented at prices
ranging from $35 to several
thousand dollars with the
median range from $50 to
$150.
Patrician Galleries of Atlanta, Georgia will provide
the art work and conduct the
Auction. Each work is custom framed and certified
and carries a fifteen year exchange guarantee.
Preceding the Auction,
from 7 to 8 p.m., there will
be a Wine and Hors
d'Oeuvres Preview for viewing and selecting.
The public is invited and
tickets are $4 per person, in
advance, or $5 at the door.
All proceeds go toward Beth
Tikvah's educational and
religious programs. Tickets
are available by calling the
Beth Tikvah office at
885-6286.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The first week in the trial of
John .Demjanjuk, the only
suspected Nazi war criminal
ever extradited to Israel,
ended last week with defense
counsel challenging the abil-
lity of witnesses to identify"
the Ukrainian-born former
automobile worker from
Cleveland. He is said to be
the Treblinka death camp
guard known to inmates as
"Ivan the Terrible" because
of his brutality.
The trial opened before a
three-judge panel of the
Jerusalem District Court
convened in a converted
cinema. Much of the week
was devoted to testimony by
Yitzhak Arad, a historian of
the Holocaust and chairman
of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial1 in Jerusalem. He presented a detailed picture of day-to-day
life at. Treblinka,- where
nearly'900,000 Jews'perished.
In contrast to the first
three days of the trial,
Thursday's session was electric with tension, marked by
frequent sharp exchanges
between the prosecution and
defense that drew exclamations from the spectators.
The court intervened
several times to reprimand
one of the parties for unseemly behavior. At one
point, it ordered the micro-
Arthur Kobacker To Receive
Temple's Humanitarian Award
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Annuql QJC Wprdworks.
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Mark Feinknopf, Jr.,
chairman of Temple Israel's
Honors Committee, announces that Arthur J. Kobacker has been chosen as
the recipient of the 1987
Humanitarian Award. Kobacker will be honored at a
special Shabbat Service at
the Temple on Friday,
March 13 at 8 p.m.
For 38 years, the Temple,
through its Community
Humanitarian Award, has
recognized individuals living
in central Ohio who have exhibited outstanding service
and dedication to the community and who are fine examples of brotherhood.
Kobacker has shown his care
and concern for his fellow
man not only locally, but nationally and worldwide,
Feinknopf said.
Kobacker, chairman and
chief executive officer of the
Kobacker Corporation, has
been involved in the
American Red Cross and
. Boy Scouts of America; he
has been a trustee on the
Council of Religion and International Affairs (CITA),
the Employment and Education Commission of Franklin
phone removed from the
table of Yoram Sheftel, an
Israeli lawyer who is assisting Demjanjuk's American
attorney, Mark O'Connor.
Sheftel frequently interrupted the proceedings,
The cross examination of
Arad Thursday, focussed on
whether inmates could identify those who Carried out the
extermination process. The
Treblinka Ivan, and another
guard, Nikolai, ran the gas
chambers. O'Connor questioned how an inmate who
was "traumatized beyond
belief in the history of man"
could "look in the eye" and
"stand and observe" the person who was beating him or
operating the gas chambers.
Arad responded that he
"had no doubt" that inmates
used "in this terrible work
for weeks or even months
Arthur Kobacker
County, the Franklin County
Metropolitan Human Services Commission, the Coalition for Cost Effective
Health Services and the
Temple Israel Foundation.
He has also served as chair-
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had the opportunity to look
at the faces of the Germans
and Ukrainians who enslaved them." He said inmates in the lower camp at
Treblinka were aware of the
events and people active in
the upper camp where the
gassings took place because
they moved from one camp
to another.
The court banned Arad
from making a statement at
the close of his testimony. He
told the Army Radio later
that he had intended to say
that hot all Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis and
that many joined anti-Nazi
resistance forces and saved
Jews.
Throughout the proceedings, Demjanjuk, 66, sat in
the prisoners dock, stone-
faced.
Agudas Achim To Present
Shifman Brothers Concert
. In honor of Jewish Music
Month, the Agudas Achim
Congregation will present
the Shifman Brothers in concert on Monday, March 30 at
7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of
the  synagogue.   Cantor
'Cantor Baruch Shifman
Baruch Shifman and Cantor
Yehuda Shifman, accompanied by Maestro Shmuel
Fershko, will perform selections from a varied range of
Jewish music.
. Cantor Baruch Shifman is
a composer, cantor and concert artist. He served as can-
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Waverly Synagogue in
Johannesburg, South Africa
for 15 years. He is presently
serving as cantor of the
Agudas Achim Congregation. He frequently appears
in concerts and has written
numerous liturgical and
chassidic compositions.:
Cantor Yehuda Shifman is
a composer, cantor and concert artist. He has held positions of cantor in Israel, in
the Central Synagogue of
Sydney, Australia (largest in
the southern hemisphere),
and in Johannesburg, South
Africa. He is presently cantor of Temple Emanu-El of
Greater Miami. He has appeared in numerous concerts
and on television and radio
shows. He is a signed artist
with CBS Internationa] and
has released seven LP
records.
Cantor Yehuda Shifman
Maestro  Fershko  is  a
graduate  of  the   Conser-
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