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W. German Jewish Center
symbolizes cultural revival
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by David Kantor
BONN (JTA)—The largest Jew
ish community center in West Ger
many was officially opened in
Frankfurt last Sunday, symbolic
of the revival of Jewish life and
culture in the country where the
Holocaust was planned.
The $50 million edifice was
funded by the Jewish community,
the Frankfurt municipality and the
Federal State of Hesse. It houses a
synagogue, a school and kinder
garten, a home for the aged and a
youth center, offices and meeting
rooms.
There is also a sports arena
which will serve as headquarters
for the local Maccabi club and a
training center for athletes. The
large kosher restaurant on the
lor the next lew weeks because of
the International Book Fair in
Frankfurt which attracts hundreds
of Jewish publishers from all over
the world.
Salomon Korn, the architect who
designed the center, said it was the
first ever built in Frankfurt where
Jews have lived for 800 years. The
structure has Jewish motifs. The
entrance is dominated by a huge
decalogue. There are large slashes
across the twin tablets which Korn
said symbolize the past rupture
between Jews and Germany.
The school and kindergarten will
enroll non-Jewish children up to a
quarter of capacity. Community
officials said the purpose is to
avoid isolation and to promote
understanding. “We do not want
to live in a ghetto,” said Michel
Jewish community. He said the
center as a whole would be open to
the general public.
About $7 million was spent on
security devices which include bul
let-proof windows and a closed
circuit television monitoring sys
tem. The community, however, re
jected a proposal to surround the
building with a high wall.
The center is located in Frank
furt’s residential West End and
there is a certain irony in its locale.
The neighborhood was the scene of
leftwing demonstrations in the
1960s and 1970s, some of them
directed against the alleged wrong
doings of Jewish real estate devel
opers. The latter were castigated in
the play “Garbage, the City and
Death” by the late Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, which is widely consi-
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Two years
ago, American Navajo Indians
doubted the promise of David
Mazigh, an Israeli agronomist who
said he could transform areas of
the barren Painted Desert in Ar
izona into fertile stretches of farm
land.
But Mazigh allayed the Navajos’
disbelief by producing fields of
corn, potatoes, melons and other
fruits and vegetables on experi
mental farms across Navajo reser
vations in Arizona. He earned their
respect so much so that they named
him Nihikaoojeeh, a Navajo word
meaning “one who comes to help
us." and insisted on honoring him
at a farewell party on a Navajo
farm he founded 60 miles northeast
ot Flagstaff.
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Between 75 and 100 Navajos and
dignitaries joined the celebration,
including Peterson Zah, chairman
of the Navajo Tribal Council, and
Wilma Mankiller, principal chief
of the Cherokee Nation in Okla
homa. The feast featured samples
of Mazigh’s hard labor—onions,
tomatoes, melons, squash, pota
toes and corn—and the Navajos
presented him with gifts.
“Mazigh was very special and
was not afraid to dig into the earth
with his hands,” said Lois Rois-
man, executive director of the
Washington-based Jewish Fund for
Justice, a national Jewish founda
tion which funds efforts that pro
mote social and economic justice
in the United States.
“He worked from dawn till dusk,
side by side with the Navajos, and
they treated him like a brother,”
she added.
These impoverished American
Indians extended their gratitude to
Mazigh with turquoise Indian
jewelry and a Navajo blanket. But
the occasion was not completely
joyous, as it marked the close of
Mazigh’s two-year stay.
While Mazigh returns to his posi
tion in Israel as director of the
Avdat Experimental Farm on the
Sde Boker campus of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, his re
placement, Ron Scherzer, a 36-
year-old expert in the field crops
and fish pond culture, will move
his family from Kibbutz Sde Boker
to the Navajo Nation for two years.
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