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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1990
Kharkov Returns Shul
After Nearly 70 Years
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New York (JTA) — The
municipality of Kharkov, a
city in the Soviet Ukraine,
returned a synagogue to the
Jewish community there
last week with fanfare and
good wishes.
Present at the Aug. 21
ceremony were Soviet offi-
cials, at least one Israeli and
two American Jews: Sidney
Kwestel, president of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America,
and New York City Coun-
cilman Noach Dear.
The ceremony, televised in
the Soviet Union and an-
nounced in local news-
papers, included fluttering
Israeli flags.
"Glasnost has given us the
ability and the opportunity
to help our Jewish brethren
in the Soviet Union," said
Mr. Dear, who was involved
in efforts to get the syn-
agogue back.
Ivan Kaglov, vice presi-
dent of the Ukraine, prom-
ised the assemblage that the
republic was changing. "One
vital part of that change is to
forever bury the horrid past
that has characterized
Ukrainian-Jewish relations
over the past centuries," he
said.
Kharkov, a center of the
Zionist movement before the
Holocaust, has been the
scene of numerous official
anti-Jewish activities over
the years, including numer-
ous arrest of worshipers, the
closure of a matzah-baking
factory by police in 1960 and
the plowing over of a Jewish
cemetery in 1967 to make a
public park.
Charles Levine, an Israeli
public relations agent who
attended the ceremony, said,
"A very different mood is
prevalent, at least for now,
as a changing Ukraine seeks
overseas Jewish support for
its rapidly evolving poli-
cies."
The Orthodox Union in-
tends to bring the Kharkov
shul under its wings, said
Mr. Kwestel.
Mr. Kwestel, whose organ-
ization represents Orthodox
synagogues in the United
States and around the world,
and Mr. Dear, who repre-
sents a committee to
preserve Jewish places of
worship in the Soviet Union,
are the latest of several
American Jewish activists to
take interest in helping the
Kharkov Jewish commun-
ity, numbering some 70,000,
retrieve the shul, taken from
the Jewish community in
the 1920s.
The quest to take back the
shul has been a special pro-
ject of the Jewish Federation
of Cincinnati, which sent a
delegation to Kharkov in
May.
The Cincinnati federation
adopted Kharkov as a twin
city and offered to help the
city's Jews, several of whom
asked American Jews for
help in renovating the syn-
agogue, which had been used
as a health club and a sports
center.
Rabbi Zev Scharfstein, a
member of the Chabad
movement who is a leader of
the Cincinnati Vaad Hoier,
or community religious
council, said the Kharkov
municipality had offered to
return the synagogue to the
Jewish community if a
replacement for its sports
center would be provided.
Rabbi Scharfstein said the
Cincinnati federation was
trying to raise funds to buy a
prefabricated building,
manufactured in Sweden, to
replace the sports club.
1DF Soldiers
Are Charged
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Thirty-
one members of the Israel
Defense Force were found
guilty of desertion by a
court-martial this week, but
there were apparently
mitigating circumstances.
Punishments varied from
prison to probation.
The soldiers, nearing the
end of their three-and-a-half
years of compulsory military
service in the army, navy or
air force, were sent to a
training base to prepare for
future reserve duty in the
artillery.
They charged that
although IDF veterans, they
were treated like raw
recruits at the training base
and insulted by their in-
structors. They also com-
plained that the food at the
base was unpalatable.
When the base commander
refused their request for an
interview, they walked off
the base but were soon ar-
rested by the military police
and held as deserters.
Three were sentenced to 21
days in military prison.
Three others were confined
to barracks for three weeks.
The rest were released on
promise of good behavior.