Friday, October 16, 1987/The Jewish Floridian of Tampa Page 3
How Hillel Got Its Sukkah
By DIANE TINDELL
What do you get when you
take 10 men, a beautiful Sun-
day afternoon and the NFL
Football strike? A minyon?
Not quite ... a Sukkah?
Absolutely.
The motivating factor that
led to this activity was a phone
call by Hillel Headmaster
Joachim Scharf to Dr. Robert
Goldstein informing him that,
"It was time for the Sukkah to
be built!"
It took Dr. Goldstein only
nine phone calls to round up
the team that would coor-
dinate, oversee and build the
timely project. Those included
were: Michael Eisenstaedt,
Allen Feldman, Elliott Green-
baum, Steve Marcus, Rick
Oberne, Yehoshua Peled,
Michael Ross, Michael Michael
and Sidney Schuster.
1 p.m. Sunday afternoon, ra-
diant sunshine tempered by a
gentle breeze, seemed to be
ideal conditions for the
"Sukkah-raising."
The wood and mesh had
been stored on the roof of the
school since last Sukkot and all
the men provided were some
screws, muscle, and most of all
their time.
To anyone unfamiliar... the
Sukkah is a booth that the
Jews were commanded to live
in for seven days in remem-
brance of the Israelites who
resided in booths during their
exodus from Egypt. Itjmay be
made of any material land at
least 10, but no more than 20
cubits high; the roof must be
covered with boughs, through
which the stars are visible, ac-
cording to the Dictionary of
Jewish Religion.
"Unfortunately no one
remembered how to build the
The Hillel Sukkah building team (left to right) Rick Oberne, Dr.
Robert Goldstein, Allen Feldman, Yehoshua Peled, Ian Ross,
Michael Ross, Sophia Greenbaum, and Elliott Greenbaum.
Sukkah. Mike Eisenstaedt had
gone over some specifications
and had some experience
through Congregation Kol
Ami. We essentially had to
reinvent and design the struc-
ture," remarked Goldstein.
"Basically we nailed some
2'x4's together and attached
mesh with a staple gun. It
sounds easy, but I wonder why
it took us until 5 p.m?" he
laughed!
Coincidentally, Sunday was
Family Fun Day at the JCC
and cold drinks were provided
to the Sukkah workers!
The structure is standing
next to the school building and
will be decorated by the
children with fruits,
vegetables and artwork!
Truly a labar of love. Todah
Rabah!
Hate Crimes Bill
Continued from Page 1
last year. But David Brody,
Washington representative of
the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith who worked
closely with the Congrega-
tional committees that drafted
the legislation, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
several changes were made.
He said the earlier bill made
any damage to a religious pro-
perty a federal offense. But it
was decided that the federal
government should only be
brought in for a major offense
causing at least $10,000 in
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damages, rather than desecra-
tions like daubing a swastika
on synagogues which can be
handled by local authorities.
The current bill also makes it a
federal crime to use a vehicle
that could be used in interstate
commerce, for commission of
hate acts whether or not it
crosses a state line, Brodv
said. He said he plans to work
with Sen. Howard Metzen-
baum (D., Ohio), who is
scheduled to introduce a "hate
crimes" bill in the Senate, in
an effort to ensure his pro-
posal would coincide with the
bill adopted by the House.
Up to now, religiously-
motivated violence was not
subject to federal prosecution
except in the cases of arson or
where explosives were used.
The defacing of property,
which is one of the most com-
mon acts against synagogues
and black churches, was not a
federal crime.
Extremists Convicted
Of IRS Agent
Death Threats
Continued from Page 1
Butler, leader of the Aryan
Nations-Church of Jesus
Christ Christian in Hayden
Lake, Idaho, to the Identity
movement.
In addition, Gale was long
viewed as a leader of the Posse
Comitatus, an organization of
loosely affiliated bands of arm-
ed vigilantes. The Posse gain-
ed national recognition in 1983
when one of its members, Gor-
don Kahl, was indicted for kill-
ing two U.S. marshalls and
later killed himself in a shoot-
out with police in Arkansas.
Gale, as a Posse evangelist,
supplied tapes for broadcast to
radio station KTTL-FM in
Dodge City, Kansas, in 1983.
He, along with James
Wickstrom, another Posse
evangelist, also spoke at at
least one meeting of local
farmers stricken by the in-
tense farm crisis and prone to
scape-goating Jews and others
in a conspiracy against them.
In his broadcasts, Gale
espoused violence while invok-
ing God's name, and urged the
collection of dossiers on
"every damn Jew rabbi in this
land, and every Anti-
Defamation League leader or
JDL leader in this land." He is
alleged to hold paramilitary
training operations, Rosenthal
said, adding that Gale had
written training manuals for
the Posse. She said he is
reportedly in poor health.
An assistant to prosecuting
attorney Pocker said that Gale
is currently free on bail,
although Rosenthal said the
prosecution had argued that
he, and the others, were
dangerous and should be
imprisoned.
Trials are still pending for
other affiliates of the Identity
movement, including 11 na-
tionwide leaders of the Aryan
Nations, who were indicted on
charges of sedition by a federal
grand jury in Fort Smith,
Arkansas, about a half year
ago and who are scheduled to
stand trial in federal court
there next year.
Indicted for sedition was
Robert Miles, a leader of the
Aryan Nations and also involv-
ed in other neo-Nazi activities.
Miles, who calls himself a
minister, was originally con-
victed of burning school buses
during integration of schools
in Michigan in the 1960s, for
which he served jail time.
Miles' trial is scheduled for
next year.
Other members of the Aryan
Nations were convicted in re-
cent months in TJucson,
Arizona, on charges of
counterfeiting and attempting
to pass counterfeit notes at a
state fair in Spokane,
Washington. Trials were
scheduled last week for Ed
Hawley and David Dorr, im-
plicated in the bombings of
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