Page 1S-THE NEWS-August, 1988
World Beat
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slogans, such as “Death to the
Jews.”
ROME (JTA) — Italian Jew
ry is facing the worst wave of
anti-Semitism since the fascist
regime a half century ago, ac
cording to Chief Rabbi Elio
Toaff of Rome.
Toaff substantiated that
charge by displaying bundles
of hate mail and scores of
photographs of anti-Semitic
graffiti at a news conference in
the Great Synagogue.
•
BONN (JTA) — Rabbi Isaac
Neuman has renewed his
charges that anti-Semitism is
rampant in East Germany and
has taken another swipe at the
leadership of the tiny Jewish
conmiunity there, implying it
is passive in face of mounting
danger.
Neuman is the retired Amer
ican rabbi who took over as
religious leader in East Berlin
ten months ago. He quit in the
midst of a dispute with Hans
Rotstein and Peter Kirchner,
the chairmen respectively of
the East German and East
Berlin Jewish communities.
•
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)
— An upsurge of neo-Nazi and
anti-Semitic activity in recent
weeks has the South African
Jewish community alarmed.
The latest incident was the
daubing of two swastikas in
gold paint on the Torah Center
in Yeoville, a Johannesburg
suburb, where a yeshiva opened
this past spring. Six Israeli
scholars arrived recently to
study there.
•
PARIS (JTA) — The last re
maining synagogue in Algiers
was desecrated by vandals
who tore the Torah scrolls,
ripped prayer books and broke
pews and benches.
Algerian police arrested
eight teen-agers.
•
NEW YORK (JTA) - PoUce
are investigating vandalism
conmiitted against two Jewish
sites in Manhattan. In the
more serious incident, an Or
thodox synagogue in Manhat
tan’s Washington Heights sec
tion was set on fire May 5 by
vandals who stole two Torahs,
four mezuzas and other reli
gious items.
Over half of the congrega
tion’s 200 members are Holo
caust survivors. The
neighborhood is a hotbed of
drug-related activity. In the
second incident, vandals
scrawled two swastikas and
the German words “Juden
Verboten” — Jews not allowed
— on the walls of the head
quarters of the United
Synagogue of America, the
association of North American
Conservative congregations.
Budapest to Get
Holocaust Memorial
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Groundbreaking will take
place in Budapest for the
country’s first public
memorial to the 600,000
Hungarian Jews who perished
in the Holocaust.
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The Hungarian Holocaust
Victims and Heroes Memorial
is being sponsored by the
Emanuel Foundation for
Hungarian Culture, founded
here in 1986 to perpetuate the
memory of the Hungarian
Jewish Holocaust victims as
well as to revitalize Jewish life
among the approximately
80,000 Jews still living in
Hungary.
Andor Weiss, executive vice
president of the foundation,
said the site that was chosen
is a mass grave of about 5,000
Jews from the Budapest ghet
to, which was liquidated Jan.
18, 1945.
Weiss s£iid the monument,
designed by Hungarian sculp
tor Imre Varga, wiU consist of
a tree in the shape of an in
verted menorah, on whose
leaves will be engraved the
names of Hungarian Jewish
martyrs.
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have a special plaque in honor
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