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our integrity, of what it
means to be humane.
"Imagine parents actually
encouraging their children
to steal. It's frightening to
think about what our next
generation will be like."
Oak Park native Mark
Goldenberg is a dentist in
Los Angeles. He was on his
way to a wedding in
downtown Los Angeles when
the violence began.
It was 6:30 p.m., not long
after the King verdict was
announced. A few small fires
had been set. City Hall was
being picketed.
"It became evident it
would be a long night," Dr.
Goldenberg said.
Like Dr. Platt, Dr.
Goldenberg said he was
shocked at the verdict and
disappointed Los Angeles
was not more prepared for
the aftermath.
"It's going to take the city
a very, very long time to
physicially and spiritually
get over this," he said.
Many local residents
wondered whether the
violence that struck Los
Angeles • and other cities
around the country would
hit Detroit as well. It did not,
in large part because the city
government has much better
communication with its
population, according to
Brian J. Kott, a member of
the Jewish Community
Council board and its do-
mestic concerns committee.
Mr. Kott credited Mayor
Coleman Young, along with
the integrated police and fire
departments, as reasons
Detroit did not follow in the
violent footsteps of other
communities. Here, he said,
"there's no white power
structure imposed on a
minority."
Stuart Pieczenick watched
the riots on television from
his Southfield home. From
1977-1980, Mr. Pieczenick
was a student at UCLA; his
wife, Brenda, is a Los
Angeles native and much of
her family still lives there.
Mr. Pieczenick said he was
not surprised that Los
Angeles was the site of such
terrible violence.
"California is a land of the
`haves' and 'have nots,' " he
said. How could one not ex-
pect trouble when, within
the space of a few miles,
there exists such diverse
places as the swank Rodeo
Drive and Watts, which Mr.
Pieczenick described as
"long stretches of liquor
stores, check-cashing
facilities and boarded-up
buildings — an area dying
because of a lack of hope."
Rabbi Elimelich Goldberg
of Young Israel of Southfield
.
taught Talmud at the
Yeshiva University of Los
Angeles. He telephoned
friends out of concern to find
out what was going on.
"We heard our friends tell-
ing their children to stay
away from the windows of
their homes," Rabbi Gold-
berg said. "Unlike one
wanted to imagine, the
looting and rioting were not
just isolated outside of the
Jewish community. There
were corner businesses in
Jewish neighborhoods that
were on fire as well."
Rabbi Goldberg said that
neighborhoods arranged it
so at least one adult would
stay awake through the
night and early morning
watching for fires. He, too,
knew of synagogues that
removed Torah scrolls at
night.
David Kotzen-Reich, a
Farmington Hills writer,
returned to his parents'
Beverly Hills home for a
Passover visit. He arrived
the day after the most recent
earthquake and left the day
before the Rodney King ver-
dict was announced.
"I was glad to be back in
Detroit," he said. "The riots
are no surprise to me. They
are reflective of the
difficulties of living in a -
crowded, populous, dog-eat-
dog type of place.
"I can remember the._
Watts riots in the 1960s," he
continued. "But there's a big
difference with this rioting
because this time everyone
in this country is involved in
this. What affected me more
than the rioting was the
verdict itself. That a jury of
12 people can't see that was
police abuse is an indication
of incredible racism."
Mr. Kotzen-Reich drove a
cab in Los Angeles for four
years in the mid-1980s. He
said that when orders came
to pick up customers in
South Central L.A., he
would refuse.
"When you'd drive
through South Central, you
could feel your shoulders get
tight," he said. 0
Cemetery
Is Rebuilt
Lipnik, Czechoslovakia
(JTA) — A historic Jewish
cemetery destroyed by the
Nazis in 1 94 2 was
rededicated here last week
in the presence of Orthodox
Jewish leaders from the
United States who under-
took its restoration and
descendants of a famous
Talmudic sage who is buried
there.