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good for all, because we have
a common goal. It is this
shared destiny that binds
Israelis together, no matter
how different the ethnic and
cultural background may be.
When we made+aliyah 16
years ago, the poster in our
ulpan_classroom stated: "We
never promised you a rose
garden!" True, there have
been thorns and the past year
has had its share of scandals,
bitterness and violence. But
when I make my annual bal-
ance sheet, I place on the
credit side all the assets of
living in my own land, among
my own people.
Then I realize how much I
personally have profited and
that Israel has survived
another year. Finally, there is
always the hope and prayer
that more Jews will come
home — making good their
Passover pledge "Next year in
Jerusalem!"
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The Most Potent
Of Jewish Holidays
On Wednesday evening, the
High Holidays began, the
most solemn and compelling
of the Jewish holidays. They
will continue through next
Saturday when, upon dusk,
Yom Kippur ends. For virtual-
ly every Jew, these holidays
represent their deepest an-
nual calling to Judaism. Even
for the most lackadaisical
Jew, for the least observant,
for the most marginal, the
High Holidays is a time when
the Judaic umbilical cord is
strongest, when a latent
sense of being Jewish
awakens, when habits of
prayer and conscience,
perhaps long forgotten,
become insistent and em-
phatic. These holidays are a
time of introspection, of gaug-
ing of deeds and values, of
thoughts and actions. They
are a time to weigh who we
are.
On Rosh Hashonah, a
prayer cites God's power —
and ours — in molding the
present, past and future:
The power God gives us to
make fresh every living pre-
sent moment;
The power God gives us to
remember, sorrow over, and
forgive ourselves and others
the mistakes we have made in
the past;
And the power God gives us
to imagine and transform the
future.
Thus, God has given us the
responsibility to determine
our own lives. Our fate lies
not only with Him, but with
ourselves; our destiny lies not
only with divine authority;
but with personal autonomy.
Our future is a product of our
present and our present is a
function of our past. It is we,
whose lives are created by
God, who are the creators of
our days.
As we hear each eerie,
almost primitive blast of the
shofar, let us remember what
our ancestors said at Mount
Sinai as Moses returned with
the Torah: "We will act and
we will hearken." What we
will act upon is the sense of
awe that we have a final
authorship over our lives —
and the sense of joy that we
have a chance to redeem
ourselves through penitence
this season.
L'shanah Tovah!
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Rabbi Assumes
German Pulpit
New York — Rabbi Isaac
Neuman, East Berlin's first
resident rabbi in nearly two
decades, officially met his
new congregation at dedica-
tion services . for the re-
opening of East Berlin's only
synagogue, just in time for
Rosh Hashanah.
Rabbi Neuman, a Holocaust
survivor from Champaign,
Ill., recently arrived in East
Berlin to assume his new
post, a result 'of four years of
efforts initiated by the
American Jewish Committee.
An AJC leadership delega-
tion was on hand to greet
Rabbi Neuman upon his
arrival.
Joining Rabbi Neuman will
be Dr. Peter Kirchner, presi-
dent of East Berlin's Jewish
community, Cantor Ingster of
the GDR and Cantor Fried-
man of Budapest who will
carry in the Sifrei Torah,
young members of East
Berlin's Jewish community,
high ranking East German
government officials, and
various ambassadors who re-
opened the Rykestrasse
Synagogue.
The synagogue, constructed
in 1903, was once one of the
main temples for East
Berlin's 175,000 Jews.
Damaged in November 1938
during Kristallnacht (Night
of Broken Glass), it was then
taken over by the Nazis and,
used as a horse stable and
storage area for military
equipment. In 1945 the
synagogue re-opened.
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