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UN Opens Files
On War Crimes
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— United Nations Secretary
General Javier Perez de
Cuellar announced recently
the opening of files on more
than 40,000 suspected Nazi
war criminals to governments and scholars.-
His announcement was immediately hailed by Israel,
long a proponent of the
opening, as "an historic and
couragoues decision."
Perez de Cuellar said in a
statement read by his
spokesman that the decision
followed consultations with
the 17 former members of
the U.N. War Crimes Commission (WCC) between
Sept. 22 and Oct. 30,1987, regarding wider access to the
archives;
Until the announcement,
the files of the long defunct
WCC has been accessible
only to the governments ol
United Nations member
states. The files are currently located in the U.N.
archives in Manhattan.
The secretary general announced that "under the new
rules and procedures now
approved, the charge files
, and the related papers will
' be available to governments
for official research into,
and investigation and prosecution of war crimes.
"Access for governments
has been broadened. Not
only may governments continue to request information
on specific individuals, but
they now may ask for access
for general research."
Conductor's Comment
Gets Bad Reviews In Poland
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A reported remark by the conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), now touring
Poland, appears to have struck a sour note in the delicate
task of restoring diplomatic relations between the two countries, which Poland broke 20 years ago. Ambassador Mordechai Paltzur, who heads the interest section Israel opened
in Warsaw only last summer, was forced to apologize for the
remark, which had incensed Polish leaders and Americans of
Polish origin, Davar reported. According to ari American
news report, the IPO conductor and musical director, Z.ubin
Mehta, arid one of the musicians, told a'reporter that tlie IPO
was'tyisiting Poland with "mixed feelings" because of the
treatment of Jews by Poles during World War II and the collaboration by many Poles with the Nazis at that time.
Herzog Marks White House
Appearance With A Blessing
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Chaim Herzog marked the
first state visit by a president of Israel to the United
States by reciting the traditional Jewish prayer of "she-,
hecheyanu" at a White
House ceremony preceding
his hour-long meeting with
President Reagan last week.
"At this moment as I stand
here as the president of a
country born of the prayers
of a nation over the centuries
and a 2,000-year-old struggle
against adversity, and view
this event in true perspective
against the background of
our long history, I cannot but
give expression to the age-
old Jewish prayer,",he said.
Herzog then recited in
Hebrew and English,
"thanks to the Almighty for
having kept us alive and
maintained us to reach this
time."
The ceremony was held in
Agudas Achim To Present Shifman Brothers Concert
In celebration of Chanukah, the Agudas Achim
Synagogue will present Uie
Shifman Brothers in a Gala
Chanukah Concert on Monday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in
Synagogue Sanctuary. Cantors Baruch and Yehuda
Shifman will offer cantorial
selections, Israeli songs,
Yiddish music and American-Jewish favorites.
"The Agudas Achim looks
forward with pleasure to the
third appearance in three
years of the internationally
famed Shifman Brothers in
concert. Capacity audiences
in Columbus "and Miami
Beach have thrilled to their
state of the art concerts
which include a full range of
Jewish music," noted. P.J.
Maybruck, chairwoman of
the Concert Committee.
Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame
To Induot Three On Nov. 29
Three local Jewish athletes will have their names
added to the list of Jewish
Sports Hall of Famers at a
ceremony and luncheon to be
held on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 1
p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center.
The Jewish Center Sports
Hall of Fame Committee
chairman, David Valinsky,
announces this year's inductees: Dr. Ivan Gilbert,
Sanford Stern and Harold
Ziegler.
Dr. Gilbert was an accomplished fencer. While attend-
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ing The Ohio State University, Dr. Gilbert compiled
many awards in both foil and
epee fencing. Some of his accomplishments include
being a member of the 1942
NCAA National Championship Team, placing third in
1942 NCAA Individual Epee,
being named to the 1942 Ail-
American Collegiate Fencing Team, placing second in
1942 Big Ten Individual Epee
and placing third in 1941 Big
. Ten Individual Foil. In addition, he won numerous
awards as an AAU fencer,
including Mid-West Foil and
Epee Champion in 1943, Mid-
West Foil Champion in 1944
and competing in the six-
man round-robin final in the
.1942 AAU National Championships.
Dr. Gilbert has been and
continues to be involved in
community service. He has
been active in the development and continuation of Columbus Torah Academy, has
served as commissioner of
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Cantor Baruch, Shifman is
a composer, cantor and concert artist. He served as can-
Cantor Yehuda Shifman is
also 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
Cantor Baruch Shifman
tor in Israel and at 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." His powerful voice
and sensitivity to liturgical
music have made him known
among his colleagues as a
'cantor's cantor,'" Maybruck stated.
Cantor Yehuda Shifman
and on television and radio
shows. He is a signed artist
with CBS International and
has released seven LP
records.
Columbus Jewish Community
Preparing To Join Dec. 6 March
"Members of the Columbus Jewish community will
join over 100,000 other concerned people from across
the United States in a
demonstration for Soviet
Jewry on Dec. 6 in Washington D.C," announced Miriam Yenkin, Columbus Jewish Federation immediate
past president and local
Washington Mobilization
chairwoman.
Yenkin will lead the Columbus contingency in the
march to the nation's capital
which is scheduled on1 the
eve of the Reagan/Gorbachev Summit meeting.
To accommodate the early
response from the community, the Community Rela
tions Committee of the Columbus Jewish Federation
has chartered a jumbo jet
with roundtrip fares of $99
for adults and $49 for students. The flight will leave
Columbus at 10 a.m. and
return at about 7:30 that evening.
Bus transportation can
also be chartered at a round-
trip fare of $40. The buses
will leave Columbus at
4 a.m. and return at 11 p.m.
In addition to Columbus
Jewish community leaders,
participants include Ohio
Governor-Richard Celeste;
Amos Lynch Sr., general
manager of the Columbus
Call and Post; the Reverend
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Tickets are available in
the synagogue office.
General admission is $7,
senior citizens and students
are $5. A preferred seating
patron's ticket is $12.50. A
sponsor of the concert is a
$50 minimum contribution
arid includes two preferred
seats.
the East Room of the White
t House because the heavy
rain here precluded the
traditional South Lawn welcome for foreign heads of
state.
Reagan also noted the
"historic" occasion, pointing
out that Israel was observing
its 40th anniversary and reminding the audience that
the United States was the
first country to extend it
diplomatic recognition.
Both presidents pointed
out that this occasion coincided with the anniversary
of Kristallnacht, on Nov. 9
and 10, 1938, when Jewish
synagogues'Vschools, homes
and stores were attacked by
the Nazis in Germany. Reagan also spoke of the "obscene" resolution equating
Zionism with racism
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on
Nov. 10,1975.
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Vandals Strike Jewish Sites
In Chicago, New York Area
NEW YORK (JTA)-Vandals struck Jewish sites in
two major U.S. metropolitan
areas on the 49th anniversary of Kristallnacbt, when
hundreds of synagogues and
Jewish-owned businesses
were destroyed in Austria
and Germany.
Chicago police are investigating what appears to be an
organized attack early Nov.
10 on Jewish-owned shops
along the 2900 block of Devon
Street and in the city's Albany Park neighborhood and
on three synagogues in the
predominately Jewish West
Rogers Park area.
The Chicago attack
"seems to represent a deliberate attempt to mimic Kristallnacht," the night of Nov.
9-10, 1938, according to
Michael Kotzin, executive
director of the Greater Chicago region of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith (ADD.
According to Kotzin, storefront windows were smashed,
and swastikas were drawn
on the walls of Congregation
KINS and Temple Beth-El
sometime between 1 a.m.
and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Both
synagogues also had windows and glass doors
smashed, as did Congregation Poalie Zedeck.
Theswastikas were drawn
with what seemed like chalk,
according to Rabbi Paul
Greenman of Congregation
KINS, who was able to wash
off the swastikas.
The four vandalized stores
in the Albany Park area included ^two kosher meat
markets, a bagel bakery and
a Judaica shop and bookstore. Along Devon .Street,
the targets included the ABC
Fashion shop, Robert's Fish
Market, the Kosher Karry
delicatessen and Rosen-
blum's Hebrew Book Store]
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