In Memory of WILLIAM HOWARD SIPORIN
September 26, 1963-February 14, 1993
Beloved nephew, cousin, friend
For Billy
Billy, brightest shooting star
Born to light a tainted sky,
Fell far too soon and far too far.
Blessed with your baby kisses,
My young eyes meeting your blue eyed gaze.
From you, my tiny teacher
I learned what it is to be amazed.
Time left is less now.
Our shared history twisted, scarred.
For your tender care of Grandma and Papa
A Ml long life would have been just reward.
What use now to hear once shared prayer
or melody;
To retrace those winter walks when
together we pushed their wheelchairs
by the California sea.
This first cursed year
There is no solace in memory.
This world could not contain
The part of you destroyed by pain
and crudeness.
Will Paradise be vast enough
to hold all oyour goodness?
I earthbound, weary, leaden sigh,
Life sentenced to miss you -
No possibility of parole.
Never to know why
Never to be whole.
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Rest easy, precious boy,
To know you is an eternal gift
Not revocable, not diminished
Our love for you flows on and on
never finished.
Perhaps one small hope remains,
That we will meet again
in our true home, a safe place
where heartbeats are not measured,
where gentle souls like yours
are known and treasured;
Beyond rage, rancor, blindness.
Where the Emahote share wisdom and courage
And Avenu shows only His kindness.
Nancy Solomon-Josef, Amy Schwarz, Amalia,
Ed, Cynthia, Kate, Robert,
Los Angeles, California.
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Yeltsin Aide's Remark
Sparks An Outcry
New York (JTA) — An anti-
Semitic remark made by a
senior aide to Russian Presi-
dent Boris Yeltsin has
prompted criticism by mem-
bers of Russia's largest polit-
ical party and by American
Jewish organizations.
The comment was made on
Russian television last week
by Mikhail Poltoranin, the
leader of a parliamentary
committee on information
and communications.
Condemning Russian
media criticism of govern-
ment policies, Poltoranin
said his country's journalists
had developed a new lang-
uage, "prison camp Heb-
rew," which he described as
"an explosive mix of
Russophobia, hate for tradi-
tions, lies and contempt for
traditions."
"If this continues," Mr.
Poltoranin said, "we will
simply blow up the country
and trigger a colossal wave
of anti-Semitism in return."
Russian anti-Semitic.
groups had coined the word
"Russophobia" during the
1960s as a catchall term to
describe alleged Jewish plots
to take over the country.
Mr. Poltoranin subse-
quently was criticized by
members of his own party,
Russia's Choice, which won
the largest bloc of seats in
the lower house of Parlia-
ment in last December's
elections.
The surprisingly strong
showing of nationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky's so-
called Liberal Democratic
Party in the elections made
Mr. Poltoranin's remarks
particularly sensitive.
The members of Mr.
Poltoranin's party did not of-
ficially rebuke him, but in-
stead called on party mem-
bers to "choose their words
especially carefully when
talking about the national
problem," according to
Russia's Interfax news
agency.
Mr. Poltoranin later
apologized for the remark.
According to Jewish
organizations in Russia, an-
ti-Semitism has steadily in-
creased as the country's liv-
ing conditions have declined
during the past two years.
The Washington-based
Union of Councils, long an
advocate for Soviet Jews,
has condemned Mr.
Poltoranin's comments,
which the organization's na-
tional director, Micah Naf-
talin, described in a state-
ment as "an index of just
how polluted with anti-
Semitism the general polit-
ical atmosphere and rhetoric
in Russia is becoming."
The incident, according to
the statement, "highlights
the need for President
Yeltsin to exert positive
leadership by speaking out
vigorously against
dangerously rising anti-
Semitism, as well as other
forms of ethnic and national
enmities and hate crimes."
Mark Levin, executive di-
rector of the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, said
the quote was very distress-
ing.
And he said it does not ap-
pear to be an isolated inci-
dent.
Mr. Levin said the NCSJ's
Moscow representative be-
lieves such remarks reflect a
reaction to Zhirinovsky's
success.
Western Wall:
`Place Of Peace'
Rome (JTA) — Pope John
Paul II hopes the Wailing
Wall in Jerusalem would
become a "place of peace and
reconciliation" in the Middle
East, rather than a place of
tears.
He also hinted again this
week that he hoped to make
a trip to the Holy Land soon.
Last week the pope said he
wanted to make a
pilgrimage to major biblical
sites, and he has spoken fre-
quently about his desire to
visit Jerusalem.
Israel and the Vatican
formally recognized each
other one month ago, mak-
ing such a trip probable.
"Everyone wants
(Jerusalem) to become a
significant center of peace,"
John Paul said in his sermon
during a mass in St. Peter's
Basilica.
"May that wall, the re-
mains of the ancient temple
of Solomon, stop being the
Wailing Wall and become a
place of peace and recon-
ciliation for the believers in
the one true God," he said.
In Israel, the wall is
known as the Western Wall.
The pope said he carried
the thought of Jerusalem
with him during his many
trips around the world. ❑