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Members of the Coiunibib Board of Hab'oib, which bpoiiboretl the Apul lu Cuimmimi)
Yom riasnoan Service at Beth Jacob Synagogue, are pictured above: (1. to r., back
row) Rabbi Hirsh Chinn, Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld, Rabbi Jerome Folkman, Rabbi Alan
Ciner, Rabbi Harold Berman, Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein, Rabbi Steven Abrams, Cantor Yitzchak Epstein, Cantor Baruch Shifman, (front row) Rabbi David Stavsky, Rabbi
Howard Apothaker, Rabbi Sanford Akselrad and Rabbi Gary Huber, president of the
' organization (top left photo). Rabbi Stavsky (top, middle photo) and Rabbi Huber (top,
right photo) addressed the over 500 people who attended the service. Holocaust survivors, (bottom left photo, 1. to r.) Sonia Zelmanovich, Alfred Tibor, Irvin Szames, Irv
Miller, William Goldsmith and Eli Bruck and Children of Holocaust Survivors (bottom
right photo, 1. to r.) Mark Ebner, Barry Gletzer, Eric Hoffman, Masha Bodas, Esther
Weissman and Henry Schwartz participated in candle lighting ceremonies for those
killed in the Holocaust.
Yom HaShoah Service Recalls Holocaust
By Judith Franklin
News Editor
"Why am I here tonight?"
keynote speaker Rabbi
David Stavsky asked the
over 500 people who
gathered Sunday evening,
April 26, at Beth Jacob Synagogue to commemorate the
Holocaust with a community
Yom HaShoah Service.
"Not to add to your pain or
mine," Rabbi Stavsky answered, but "because I believe we have a mission."
Rabbi Stavsky went on to
explain that the mission to
which he referred is threefold. Most important, he
said, is ".. .never to remain
silent when Jewish life hangs
in the balance."
Second, he stressed, "We
must be a people who move
forward, achieve and create
and leap and jump forward
sale. It's not negotiable. It
cannot be bartered ... the
State of Israel and Jerusalem are ours forever and
ever."
The Yom HaShoah Service
was sponsored, as in the
past, by the Columbus Board
of Rabbis and was co-ordinated by the Beth Jacob
Holocaust Committee,
chaired by Irvin Szames, a
Holocaust survivor.
In addition to Rabbi Stavsky, who with Ben Grinblatt
began the local Yom HaShoah   program   in ,1963,
Rabbi Gary 'Huber, president of the Board of Rabbis,
(Beth Tikvah); Rabbi Hirsh
Chinn   (Ahavas  Sholom);
Rabbi Alan Ciner and Rabbi
Samuel Rubenstein (Agudas
Achim); Rabbi Howard Apothaker   (Beth  Shalom);
Rabbi Harold Berman (Congregation Tifereth Israel);
caust Survivors: Mark Ebner, Barry Gletzer, Masha
Bodas, Eric Hoffman, Henry
Schwartz and Esther Weissman, lit candles in memory
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NEW YORK (JTA) —The
latest wave of indictments
and arrests of anti-Semitic
hate group members in Fort
Smith, Ark.,  and Denver,
Colo., is part of one of the
Federal government's most
aggressive crackdowns on
criminal activity among extremists in decades, according to an expert of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith;
Three federal indictments
handed up two weeks ago
charged  15  members   of
white-supremacist  hate
groups -with the murder -of
Denver talk show host Alan
Berg, plotting to murder a
federal judge and engaging
in conspiracy to overthrow
the American government.
All those charged are affiliated with one of two hate
groups, the Aryan Nations
and 7 or the Covenant, the
Sword and the Arm of the
Lord (CSA), according to Ir-
' win Suall," ADL fact-finding
. ..director.     -
Two of the most powerful
national leaders of the extremist movements were
among those charged and arrested, "Reverend" Richard
Butler, head of Aryan Nations, arid Robert Miles, a
former Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
member and Midwest coordinator of Aryan Nations.
Butler, 67, is the "pastor"
of the vehemently anti-Semitic Church of Jesus Christ
Christian in Hayden Lake,
Idaho, the headquarters of
Aryan Nations. Miles is a
one-time Grand Dragon
(State leader) of the KKK in
Michigan,
Four indicted in Murder of
Berg -
A federal grand jury in
Denver indicted four people
under  the  Federal  Civil
Rights  Act  in  connection
with the machine-gun slaying of Berg, a Jewish radio
talk show host who provoked
racists during his program.
Berg was gunned down outside his Denver home in
June 1984
The  four  indicted,   all
members of The Order, an
Aryan  Nations   splinter
group,  were  David  Eden
Lane, 48;  Richard Joseph
Scutari, 39; Bruce Carroll
Pierce, 32, a leader of The
Order, and Jean Margaret
Craig, 53. Lane and Pierce
are both affiliated with the
Church  of  Jesus  Christ
Christian in Hayden Lake.
Federal authorities allege
that Pierce carried the sub-
machinegun used to murder
Berg and was accompanied
by Scutari and Lane. Craig
allegedly followed Berg and
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Russian Pianist To Perform
At Jewish Center On May 20
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The Cultural Arts Department of the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center announces
that pianist Dmitry Paperno
will be presented in a concert at the Center's Roth/
Resler Theatre on Wednesday, May 20, at 8 p.m.
bers include Diane Cummins, Muriel Derrow, Sara
Jo Kobacker, Eleanor Resler, Bea Roth and Lenore
Schottenstein. ,
"We are pleased and privileged to present an artist of
this caliber to the Columbus
community," says Frank.
"We invite the entire community to join us in our
excitement and be a part of
this delightful evening."
Tickets are now on sale at
the Jewish Center for $15
(Center tnembers), $17.50
(non-members) and $7.50
(students/seniors). The ticket price includes a "Meet
The Artist" reception immediately following the performance, to be held in the
Schottenstein Auditorium.
and l«f*a»S^ Sm» Abrams (OSU
emphasized the necessity of
remaining steadfast in one's
beliefs^".'. .we are not going
to crawl when it comes to
intervening in behalf of our
dignity and pride -r we are
not going to crawl and hide
when it comes to defending
Jewish honor or Values," he
said.
Finally, Rabbi Stavsky focused on the State of Israel,
. promising,  ".. .Jerusalem
' and all< of Israel- is not for
feld, Rabbi Sanford Akselrad and Rabbi Jerome Folk-
man (Temple Israel), and
Cantor Yitzchak  Epstein
(Beth Jacob) participated in
the original service, developed by the Board of Rabbis.
In addition, six Holocaust
survivors,  including Eli
Bruck, William Goldsmith,
Irv Miller, Irvin Szames, Alfred Tibor and Sonia Zelmanovich, and six represen-
tatives>of Children of Holc-
Jewish Center Leadership Mission
To Return From Israel May 7
The 26 members of the "Yachad" Leadership Mission — Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center Board members,
committee chairpersons and their spouses — are
shown at Port Columbus On Saturday evening, April 25,
on their way to New York City and then on to Israel.
The group returns to Columbus today (May 7). Pictured (1. to r,., front row): Anne Mirman, Ruth Ann
Blank, Judy Blair, Elsie Krause, (second row) Helen
Nutis, Diane Tyroler, Bonnie Milenthal, Esther Pass,
Sunny Masser, Jackie Benis, Jerry Benis, Bonnie
Finkelsteiri, Joyce Erkis, Marcia Fox, (third row) Al
Tyroler, Allan Blair, Barbara Herstig, Al Herstig, Irwin Pass, David Milenthal, Norman Krause, Ron
Blank, Mark Masser, Allan Finkelstein, Ron Erkis,
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Dmitry Paperno
The program is scheduled
to include works by Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert.
Paperno, who the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes
as   "clearly  remarkable,"
came from Russia to the
United States in 1977 to perform and teach. His career
began in the mid-1950s when
he was a prizewinner in the
fifth  International  Chopin
Competition in Warsaw. He
was trained in the Russian
tradition at the Tschaikow-
sky Conservatoire in Moscow and taught at the Gnesin
Moscow Institute.
His concert tours took him
through Russia, Eastern and
Western Europe and Cuba.
Now concertizing widely in
the United States, Paperno is
a member of the faculty of
the DePaul University
School of Music.
A committee has been
formed to present this special evening at the Center.
Chaired by Augusta Frank,
who originated the idea for
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Mel Dodge
To Receive
JNF Award
The Jewish National Fund
will bestow its highest national award, "The Tree of
Life," on Melvin B. Dodge,
president, Greater Columbus Convention and Visitors
Bureau. This honor will take
place at a dinner on Thursday, May 14, at the Hyatt
Regency Columbus.
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