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PAGE 24 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 12, 1986
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Temple Beth David
joins family and friends
in mourning the death of
Rabbi Alfred L. Goodman
He will be greatly missed.
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Meet A
Real Jewish Hero
You are cordially invited
to hear
JOSEF
MENDELEVICH
Former refusnik and prisoner
of Zion
at a fundraising brunch reception
on behalf of the
Soviet Jewry Education and
Information Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Mr. Mendelevich, a prisoner in Soviet
Russia for eleven years made A/iyah in
1981 and has been chairman of the Center
since its inception in 1983.
Sunday, September 21, 1986
10:00 a.m.
Congregation Beth Jacob
1855 LaVista Rd., N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30329
Memorial service held
Approximately 100 people
gathered in the Council Chambers
at Atlanta City Hall at noon Wed
nesday for an inter-religious mem
orial service for victims of the ter
rorist attacks on the Neve Shalom
Synagogue in Turkey and the Pan
American plane in Pakistan.
Convened by the American Jew
ish Committee, Atlanta’s religious
community was represented by the
Rev. Walter Kimbrough, Ben Hill
United Methodist Church; the Very
Rev. John C. Sanders, dean of the
Cathedral of Saint Philip; Rabbi
Harvey Winokur, Atlanta Rabbin
ical Association; the Rev. Robert
Dalton, National Conference of
Catholic Bishops and the Rev.
Clinton Marsh, Christian Council
of Metropolitan Atlanta. There
were also remarks by Mayor Andrew
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presidents of Turkey and Israel.
The State Department declared
“attacks like this deserve the con
demnation of all civilized coun
tries.” Department spokesman Ber
nard Kalb, replying to this reporter,
said he did not think the Depart
ment would keep a check list of
how countries would respond to
that statement.
Senate Minority Leader Robert
Byrd (D-W. Va.) told the Senate,
“We should deepen our resolve to
act in concert with our friends and
allies to combat international ter
rorism.” He urged Reagan to con
sider proposing a special anti-ter
rorism summit meeting,” noting
the attack in “Turkey, a NATO
ally, should demonstrate to the
alliance the need for such a forum.”
The Senate immediately after
wards adopted a resolution along
those lines with all 93 senators
present supporting it.
Turkish Prime Minister Turgut
Ozal, emphasizing change in pol
icy on international retaliation
against states supporting or encou
raging terrorism, said following
the synagogue massacre that those
who back terrorists “should know
that the world will unite against
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past the vegetable vendors with
their decorated pushcarts, past
the electrical shops, past a small
mosque and large trucks, past
throngs of humanity flowing along
the streets. Some people were
dressed as though this might be
any side street in a busy European
city; others looked exotic, espe
cially the religious Muslim women
in their black carsaf (cloak).
We were in a neighborhood called
Kuledibi (“the bottom of the
tower”), after the Galata Tower
(built by the Genovese in the 15th
century). This neighborhood is one
of several centers for the Jewish
community ol Istanbul. From the
1920s through the early 1960s,
almost every Jewish family lived
there.
Today it is a business district
Young.
Marvin Weintraub, AJC presi
dent, said, “Clearly we are facing
another wave of Islamic fanaticism
and violence. Both these tragedies
have one theme in common—these
murderers have utter contempt for
the value of human life.” He called
on the international community to
“strengthen their resolve and join
forces to assure that this criminal
element is brought to justice for
their murderous deeds” and added:
“These tragedies of Karachi and
Istanbul, if they are to be more
than senseless carnage, must bring
all nations to a firmer resolve to
contain this epidemic of violence
and hatred before it destroys civili
zation as we know it.”
A statement from James E.
Andrews, Stated Clerk of the Gen-
-Massacre—
them and they will pay heavily.”
Ozal, who said he believed the
terrorists did not come from Libya
but from Lebanon, added that “we
will not be upset” by actions taken
against states engaged in interna
tional terrorism if those actions are
based on “the legal right of defense”
and “in accordance with the prin
ciples of the United Nations.” Ozal’s
comments were described by West
ern diplomats as the strongest ever
made about terrorism by a Turkish
government and that it contrasts
sharply with its ambiguous state
ment after the U.S. bombing in
Libya.
The Turkish government in
formed Israel that it would not
object to the presence of a high-
ranking Israeli official at the mass
funeral of the murdered Jews “but
we told them,” a senior Turkish
official said on background, “we
are grieved by their deaths but first
of all they are Turkish citizens.”
His comment referred to a re
ported Israeli proposal to have a
delegation led by Religious Affairs
Minister Yosef Burg attend the
funeral. Instead, Israel’s Sephardic
chief rabbi, Modechai Eliyahu, and
Yehuda Millo, Israel’s charge d’af
faires in Ankara, were named to
—Istanbul—
where many Jewish communal
buildings still remain, and a place
where a few less affluent Jewish
families still maintain residences.
Most of the 20,000 Jews who remain
Istanbul (a city of 5.5 million) have
moved to more fashionable neigh
borhoods, but they hold a nostal
gia for Kuledibi, as it is sort of their
“Lower East Side.” They return to
the area for weddings and to visit
one of the last Jewish kasap (butch
er) whose shop is right next to
Neve Shalom.
Neve Shalom is marked by a
grey stone frieze above the entrance
of interlocking Magen David stars.
Usually there is a small crowd
around the entrance, the yasakeis
(hangers-on)—a few Jewish street
people. The kapiei or sanmaz
(doorkeeper) and his wife distrib
ute prayerbooks and remind women
to cover their hair before entering.
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church (USA), said, “May our
revulsion over this act of violence,
like our outrage over the assaults
of the passengers aboard a crowded
airliner earlier this week, lead to
increased determination to end the
last vestiges of anti-Semitism in
our own nation and throughout
the world and unite us in even
stronger support for justice and
peace.”
Betty Jacobson, president of the
Atlanta Jewish Federation, lead
the group in a responsive reading
of Psalm 27 and Cantor Isaac
Goodfriend chanted the memorial
prayer, El Maleh Rachamim. The
names of those killed in the Tur
kish synagogue were read by Rabbi
S. Robert Ichay of Congregation
Or VeShalom.
attend. The attack was described
by the New York Times as “the
first major act of anti-Semitic vio
lence in Turkish memory.” It also
reported community leaders say
ing they continued to fear nothing
from their neighbors. In Western
Europe, Jewish leaders were plan
ning to ask their governments to
provide security for houses of wor
ship during the High Holy Days in
October.
Their reunion at the Statue of
Liberty blighted by the terrorism
in Karachi and Istanbul that claimed
39 innocent lives, some 3,500 Holo
caust survivors and their children
heard their leaders say the only
response to terrorism is force. “You
answer force with force,” said Ben-
jamin Meed, president of the
55,000-member American Gather
ing and Federation of Jewish Sur
vivors. Army Secretary John Marsh
told the often weeping audience
that the “tragic episode” in Istan
bul “reminds us constantly of man’s
inhumanity to man.”
Barnet Zumoff, president of the
Workmen’s Circle, said that the
use of Soviet and Czechoslovak
weapons in the synagogue “clearly
indicates who arms and supports
world wide terrorism.”
The reading of the men inside the
kehillah flows in the sweet melody
of the Sephardic rite.
The first person 1 encountered
was the young rabbi, Haham Avram
Kohen, who was only 16 years old
at the time of my research. He
spoke to me in perfect French:
“Neve Shalom is a very modern
synagogue, Madame. It is built on
the European model.” I noticed
that the tavela or reader’s deak is in
the front of the synagogue, quite
unlike the majority of synagogues
in Istanbul built in the Sephardic
mode with the reader’s desk in the
center.
Neve Shalom is a magnificent
building. The women’s gallery up
stairs, the azerah, is spacious and
not hidden by any lattice work.
Large chandeliers of crystal illum-
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