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child, a daughter. "When I had this
child," she said, she wondered "how I
was going to answer the questions, Is
there a God?' and, 'Why can't I go to
church with my friends?'
"God didn't ever enter into it," she
said. "I just wanted to see answers."
Newmark investigated many reli-
gions in search of those answers, but
opted for her own in the end. "I fig-
ured I might as well remain Jewish.
As for Newmark's original ambiva-
lence toward God, she now feels differ-
ently. "Hopefully, I can role model what
I believe in so strongly — one God and
that there is a future for Jews."
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Holocaust survivor Helga Newmark
with Hebrew Union College —
Jewish Institute of Religion president
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman at her
rabbinic ordination ceremony on
Sunday in New York.
Shoah Survivor
Ordained A Rabbi
New York/JTA — The Holocaust
destroyed any notion of God that
Helga Newmark may have previously
contemplated. But more than 50 years
later, Newmark, 67, has been ordained
a rabbi, marking the end of a long
journey riddled with hurdles.
She joined the rabbinate on May
21, when the Reform movement's
Hebrew Union_College-Jewish
Institute of Religion, after rejecting
Newmark's first application for admis-
sion in 1987, made her their oldest
female graduate.
An only child born in Essen,
Germany, Newmark moved with her
parents to Holland when she was 1.
Her family lived a secular lifestyle.
When the Nazis occupied the
Netherlands during the war, Newmark
and her family were sent to the
Westerbork concentration camp.
"That was the last time I saw my
father," she said.
Newmark was imprisoned in
Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Terezin.
She and her mother survived, but
they lost most of their extended fami-
ly "I came out of the camp and my
mother said, 'There's no God. If there
was, then things wouldn't have turned
out this way,'" Newmark recalled.
At 16, Newmark and her mother
immigrated to America. Throughout
her adolescence, Newmark never iden-
tified as a Jew.
"I never gave God a thought," she
said until she gave birth to her first
Accused Killer
Ruled Incompetent
Pittsburgh/JTA — A judge in
Pennsylvania ruled that the man
accused of killing five minorities,
including one Jewish woman, last
month near Pittsburgh is incompe-
tent to stand trial.
Doctors will report in 90 days on
the mental state of Richard Scott
Baumhammers, who was transferred
to a state hospital for treatment. If his
condition improves, Baumhammers
could face trial at a later date.
Sex Slaves
Haunt Israel
London/JTA — Israel does not pro-
tect the rights of women who are
brought from the former Soviet Union
to work in the Jewish state as sex
slaves, according to Amnesty
International.
The London-based hdrnan rights
group said in a report issued last week
that hundreds of women a year are
kidnapped or lured into Israel's sex
industry, where they are bought and
sold, imprisoned, deprived of their
travel documents, raped and tortured.
Hebrew U. Cites
Greek Leader
Jerusalem — Greek President
Constantinos Stephanopoulos called
for strengthening academic coopera-
tion between Greece and Israel.
The first Greek head of state to
make an official visit to Israel, he
made his remarks after receiving an
honorary doctor of philosophy degree
from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
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