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W. German Jewish Center symbolizes cultural revival 1 RTC7W 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- Ik , Arthur D. Solus, Manager A 7 ' of Camp Chevrolet I invites you to stop by and visit. CAmp**^ \ New Car Sales/Used Car Sates Commercial & Fleet Sales y Hours.-Mon.-Fri. 9-9; Sat. 9-6; Syn. 1 2.-30 5.30 4897 Buford Hwy., Chamblee, Go. v (Located 2 miles inside 1-285) y 457-8211 w premises was reported booked solid Friedman, a spokesman for the dered anti-Semitic. American Indians thank Israeli Have a Sukkah at your home this Sukkos Holiday for making Painted Desert green j Custom Sukkahs by Marlene Goldman 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. —* »- -ir- 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. pre-fabricated • pre-packaged easy to assemble easy to store Affordable Prices Available in canvas or fiberglass small, medium & large sizes Bamboo “Schach” Also Available Available through Chabad of Georgia Call 843-2464 To insure prompt delivery, orders should be received by September 29, 1986. 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