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The Set-Up
Hamid Tefileen, one of the 13 Jewish men
accused of spying for Israel by talking to Iranians
and “gathering information” from them about
conditions in Iran. He is shown with police officer
after his court session in Shiras, Iran. He
“confessed” to charges in a closed court hearing.
Those who have not seen “The Witness” on PBS
Monday night missed a telling story of the Holocaust
relayed by actual survivors of humanity’s most atrocious,
see JESS JAWIN p. 10
Pittsburgh’s Jews Shaken by Shooting Spree
By Peter Ephross ty measures following last
NEW YORK, (JTA) — week’s shooting rampage
Jewish facilities in Pitts- that killed five minorities,
burgh are increasing securi- including one Jewish
Ahavath Achim was one of two synagogues shot at
during last Friday's spree in suburban Pittsburgh that
left five minorities, including one Jewish woman, dead.
Credit: Deborah Knox/Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
woman.
Security
guards and
city police
officers
patrolled the
city’s JCC
building in
see Shooting
Spree p. 23
INSIDE
Repairing the World on Spring Break......2,3
Washington Watch .....................4
Dallas Doings.........................5
Gore’s Ear: Who’s Whispering in It? ........6
Israel Passes Women’s Rights Law.........7
Opinion: Nuclear Comic Opera ........ .8
Jewish Mothers: Pictures Portray Diversity . . .8
Bagel Becomes Victim of Success .........9
Obituaries...........................10
Unknown Fate Awaits Iran 13 ............11
New Citizens ......................11,21
Engagement.........................11
My Father, The Publisher ...............12
Pre Bar Mitzvah Boy Determined
To Bring Torah Scroll To Dallas..........13
Flavorite Recipes .....................15
The Heart of the Matter.................15
You and Your Health...................16
Jerusalem ‘On Line’ to Begin in Big D......17
Gay Couples Fight Yeshiva..............17
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion ...._.. .18
Synagogue Services ................19,22
Around the Town......................20
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Scouts
By Lev Gorodetsky
MOSCOW, (JTA) — Neo-Nazi youth
groups in Russia are becoming more
organized, according to Jewish offi-
cials and human rights activists.
Teen-age street gangs that through-
out the past decade were known for
their use of Nazi symbols, anti-Jew-
ish slogans and assaults on African
students are turning into tightly knit
and well-armed criminal groups with
Nazi ideology.
“These youth clubs are prospering,
especially in the provinces, because
in provincial cities they are not repu-
diated. On the contrary, the authori-
ties in many places support them,”
said Alla Gerber, a Moscow Jewish
leader.
Russian police and security agents
recently arrested 13 people after they
found neo-Nazi materials during a
crackdown on a group specializing in
illegal trade in arms and explosives.
The search was part of an anti-cor-
ruption crackdown tied to local elec-
tions, according to Yakov Zukerman,
a Jewish activist in St. Petersburg
who studies the phenomenon.
The group in St. Petersburg, led by
neo-Nazis, operated under the cover
of one of the city’s youth scouting
clubs.
Participation in black marketeering
is accompanying — and perhaps con-
tributing to — these groups’ prosper-
ity, particularly in St. Petersburg, the
hotbed of the Nazi revival.
These clubs are officially permitted
to search for the remains of World
War II soldiers in order to bury them.
According to unofficial reports,
roughly 1,000 diggers are searching
in the St. Petersburg metropolitan
area, which contains many weapons
and relics from the war.
“It has become a developed busi-
ness here. Lots of young people are
digging out and selling German and
Soviet arms, decorations and World
War II medals on the black market.
Some of the guys make good money.
Most of them are united in gangs and
it is quite dangerous to get in their
way,” said Vladimir Briskman, a uni-
versity student in St. Petersburg.
It makes sense that the youth
groups have served as a breeding
ground for neo-Nazism, Zukerman
said.
Neo-Nazis are ready consumers of
the newly found Nazi relics and
sometimes of weapons, Zukerman
said. They then use their contacts to
infiltrate the clubs, turning a phenom-
enon that the KGB tried to infuse
with Soviet patriotism into a font of
racism and anti-Semitism.
During the recent searches in St.
Petersburg, police discovered both
old and new weapons, which the
“scouts” were apparently planning to
sell.
The going rate for an old German
submachine gun is $200, whereas a
new Kalashnikov assault rifle goes
for $500. Some well-preserved tanks
were also found.
Meanwhile, neo-Nazi activity
linked to organized crime and cov-
ered up by corrupt police is occurring
throughout Russia.
“Many of the members of the
organizations are former policemen,”
said Antoine Arakelyan, a human
rights campaigner in St. Petersburg.
Neo-Nazi activity has apparently
reached higher branches of Russia
society as well.
The Federal Security Bureau, the
successor to the KGB, recently
arrested 12 members of the Omsk
branch of the neo-Nazi Russian
National Unity group. One of those
arrested had a document showing
him to be an aide to a member of Par-
liament.
Leo Gorodetsky is a TJP-JTA cor-
respondent.
Barak May Turn to Israeli People
to OK Framework for a Peace Deal
By Naomi Segal
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak is consid-
ering holding a national referendum
when and if Israel and the Palestinian
Authority agree on the framework of
a final peace accord.
Sources close to Barak said the
prime minister discussed the idea
with Cabinet members from his One
Israel bloc.
First, however, Israel and the
Palestinians must agree on the frame-
work — no small task in light of the
slow progress in talks so far.
On Sunday, the two sides launched
accelerated talks aimed at reaching
the broad outlines of a final accord.
Negotiators face a mid-May dead-
line for agreeing on the framework,
but the sluggish pace of two previous
rounds of talks held in Washington
have prompted speculation that the
target date may be again postponed to
June. '
After agreeing on the accord’s
framework, the two sides will then
have to conclude the accord itself by
Sept. 13 to meet a self-imposed
deadline.
The negotiators have four thorny
issues topping their agenda —
Jerusalem, Jewish settlements, final
borders and Palestinian refugees.
In an effort to help speed the pace
of the talks, U.S. Middle East envoy
Dennis Ross was expected to join the
negotiators, who are meeting in the
Red Sea resort of Eilat, on Tuesday.
According to Israeli media reports
on Sunday, Barak may soon transfer
security control over three Arab towns
near Jerusalem to the Palestinian
Authority as an “advance” on a plan-
ned further pullback in the West Bank.
Barak would reportedly seek
approval from his Security Cabinet
for such a move, which is intended to
build confidence in the talks with the
Palestinians.
The villages — Abu Dis, Al-
Azariya and Sawahara — are current-
ly under Palestinian civil control and
Israeli security control.
Arab towns near Jerusalem were
initially to be included in an Israeli
redeployment carried out several
weeks ago.
But Barak came under political
pressure from hawkish members of
his government, and at the last
minute the towns were excluded from
the redeployment maps.
Barak began consulting Sunday
with members of his coalition to see
how they would react to his plans for
advancing the negotiations.
Interior Minister Natan Sharansky,
of the Yisrael Ba’Aliyah Party,
adamantly opposed the idea of trans-
ferring to the Palestinians areas that
“kiss Jerusalem.”
“I consider this a terrible mistake,”
Sharansky told Israel Radio.
“I truly hope we will be able to
remain in the government,” he added.
Barak’s proposals drew criticism
from the Palestinian side as well.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
said the Palestinian Authority would
see Barak p. 23
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