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President Clinton lays a wreath at the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw.

Germans Greet Clinton
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Berlin (JTA) — Leaders of the
German Jewish community laid
out the red carpet for President
Clinton when he visited a Berlin
synagogue that survived German
arsonists in 1938 and Allied
bombs during World War
Accompanied by German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl during
his visit to Berlin's New Syna-
gogue, Mr. Clinton appeared
moved as he toured the red brick
building whose golden dome tow-
ers over the Jewish Quarter in
the former East Berlin.
"It's a miracle it survived," Mr.
Clinton said as he toured the
synagogue.
Mr. Clinton's visit came on the
last leg of a six-day European
tour that included a meeting in
Naples with leaders of the Group
of Seven industrial nations.
Among those on hand to greet
Mr. Clinton at the synagogue
were Ignatz Bubis, chairman of
the Central Council of Jews in
Germany; Jerzy Kanal, chairman
of the Jewish Community in
Berlin; and Berlin Mayor Eber-
hard Diepgen.
Renovations on the ruined syn-
agogue structure began in 1989
when the then East German gov-
ernment was intent on improv-
ing its relations with Israel. They
are expected to be completed next
year.
Mr. Kanal, a Holocaust sur-
vivor, welcomed Mr. Clinton to
the synagogue and thanked the
American people for "defeating
Nazi barbarism" and for their
support in introducing democracy
to Germany in the postwar years.
Of the approximately 40,000
Jews currently living in Ger-
many, about one-quarter live in
Berlin. Before the war, there
were some 530,000 German
Jews, 160,000 of whom lived in
Berlin.
Mr. Bubis said it had been Mr.
Clinton's wish to visit the syna-
gogue.

"He is interested in Jewish life
in Germany," Mr. Bubis said,
adding that the rise of anti-Semi-
tism and xenophobia in Europe
played an important role in Mr.
Clinton's decision to visit the syn-
agogue.
Mr. Bubis noted that during a
visit to Warsaw last week, Mr.
Clinton also visited the Jewish
community and the former
ghetto.
While in Warsaw, Mr. Clinton
laid a wreath at a memorial to
the Jews who died in the Warsaw (
Ghetto uprising of 1943.
Prior to visiting the Berlin syn-
agogue, Mr. Clinton spoke at the
Brandenburg Gate, which had
separated West and East Berlin
prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall
in late 1989.

Vandals Bomb
Synagogue

Chicago (JTA) — In the latest of
several recent incidents of van-
dalism at Jewish facilities on
Chicago's North Side, a syna-
gogue founded by Holocaust
refugees from Tiktin, Poland, was
hit this week by a makeshift
bomb.
According to bomb and arson
detectives, a Molotov cocktail-
type device was lobbed through
a basement window of Mikro
Kodesh Anshei Tiktin Syna-
gogue.
It was reported by congrega-
tion member Arnold Miller, who
said he arrived at the shul that
morning and "saw smoke coming
from the basement."
Mr. Miller said the bomb
charred the window sill and side
of the building and started a
small fire, which caused minimal
damage before burning itself out.
Morning services at the syna-
gogue were canceled.