Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1958-08-01

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Vol. 36, No. 31
dotOK^BUS. OHIO, FRIDAY. AUGUST I, 1958
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O*vot*d t« Amarlean and Jawlih IdaaU
UNEN SHOWER TO
BENEFIT MANY
PROJECTS
Members and friends of tlie Co¬ lumbus Chapter, Mizrachl Wom¬ en, are urged to attend the an¬ nual garden party and linen shower at the home Mrs. Ben Greenberg, 41 S. Broadleigh Ave, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1:30-5 p. m.
The National Organization of Mizrachi Women supports and maintains a vast network of phil¬ anthropic and educational Instl- tutlon?. in Israel. Chief among those Is the famous Kfar Batya, the Children's Village and .Farm School at Rananna, known the world over as a model of Ita kind, caring for hundreds of orphaned I}oys and girls, where a complete program of education and agri¬ cultural training Is given the children, as well as providing them with a home and the warm atmosphere of love so essential to their growth into mature and contributing members of society.
It Is primarily for the Chil¬ dren's Village, built along cottage lines, that linens are needed, al¬ though they are also used in the Girls' Training Schools maintain¬ ed by Mizrachi Women In Jeru¬ salem and Tel Aviv, known as the Beth Tzeiroth, where adoles¬ cent girls are trained In the In¬ dustrial arts. In homemaking, as seamstresses, etc., to prepare them for employment in Industry and as homemakcrs.
Contributions of linens and donations of money with which linens can be purchased will ac¬ cepted at the linen shower.
Refreshments will be provided^ and a full afternoon of enter¬ tainment will be offered.
The arinual dinner, scheduled for Nov. 23, will be held at Beth Jacob Synagogue, instead of at Agudas Achlm, as previously re¬ ported.
THB MEN ABOVE helped organize the new Jewish Ail-Day Sdhool in Columbus. Seated left to right: Fred M. Rolahd, Mitchell D. Cohen, Rabbi David Stavsky, Jerome M. Schottensteln, Joe Swa^z,  Nathan  Lefko,  Joseph Modes.    Standing:
Cantor Irving Schreler, Dr. Marvin Fox, Harry Gil¬ bert, Frank R. Nutls, Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein, Louis M. Levin, Hirry E. Wazer, Robert Paine, Alvln  E. Schottensteln.
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VOLINER SOCIETy HAS BAZAAR AUG. 10
Voliner Society's annual bazaar will be held Sunday, Aug. 10, S-U p. m., at Beth Jacob Synagogue. There will be door prizes, refresh¬ ments and games.
TAC DANCE THURSDAY
Councliettes are sponsoring a Teen-Age Council dance next Thursday evening on the patio at the Jewish Center. Entertain¬ ment will Include square dancing.
RED GROSS GALL
David Cheses, a representative for the American Red Cross, re¬ ports an urgent request for used (but usable) playing cards for men at Lockbourne Air Force Base. Contact the Base or Mr. Cheses, at CA. 4-2231.
REGISTRATION OPEN AT PRE-SGHOOL
Parents with very young chil¬ dren and an cye on the view ahead are discussing the Impend- lijg Inaugur^ of the eighth suc¬ cessive arid successful year of the CJenter Pre-School. Such parents have made themselves heard, ac¬ cording to sporadic but frequent calls to the Pre-School office, Rose Schwartz, director of the program, has advised.
Mrs. Schwartz also Informed The Chronicle that It Is not too early to make arrangements for registration.
In connection with this general Information about plans for the opening of the Pre-School's new year at the Center, It Is announc¬ ed that the Center's committee for the program, headed by Rob¬ ert Aronson, has had Its Initial meeting and has formulated a number of decisions to strengthen staff, program and facilities, in the continual planning for pro¬ gressive training of pre-school aged children  In  our community.
HANDS AROUND THE WORLD — Richard Tucker, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, receives a warm hand¬ clasp from American Ambassador B. B. Lawson as Prime Minister David Ben Gurion looks on.
RIGHARD TUCKER IN CONCERT FOR ISRAEL ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS
Richard Tucker, of the New York Metropolitan Opera, was re¬ cently featured at a concert honoring U. S. Independence Day dur¬ ing his first visit to Israel under the sponsorship of the American- Israel Cultural Foundation. Mr. Tucker made a number of appear¬ ances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Dimitrl HItropoulos. The opera star conducted services at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. A tew hours after the British landed in Jordan, 3,000 Jerusalemites packed the concert hall of the 10th an¬ niversary exhibition.
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, was established in 1939 to further the cultural  and educational  Institutions of Israel.
Jewish All-Day School Created
A meeting of historical significance was held July 23, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Schottensteln, for out of the meeting was created the ¦foundation for the new Columbus Jewish All-Day School. Present among the original group were several men who have dedicated their many years toward the guarantee of the future Jewish education In Columbus.
The meeting culminated years of planning and preparation orj behalf of the many leading members of the Columbus Jewish com¬ munity. Harry Gilbert,, a Ufe-Iong resident of Ctolumbus, philanthro¬ pist and supporter of many Yeshlvas and Day Schools In America, has long been the advocate and champion of a Day School move¬ ment In Columbus. His idealistic dedication for a "Maximum Jew¬ ish Education" has Inspired the many others who have listened to him.
The Jewish Day School is not new in America, The movement of Intensified maximum Jewish education today boasts of over 250 schools in 73 communities and 30 cities In the United States.
THE STATE OF OHIO boasts of at least five different Day Schools, located In Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo. The purpose of the Day School Is to offer a child a maximum Jewish education while simultaneously receiving the highest in standards In secular studies.
The Day School will have acceptance and approval from the Ohio State Board of Education with respect to future acceptance to any high school and college, upon gi'adudtlon from Day School.
Basically, the course of studies will consist of balanced sessions In both English and Hebrew subjects. The child will be dismissed and free for any extra-curricular activities and play dally at 3 p. m.
A national Anglo-Jewish newspaper recently wrote: "In recent tests for admission to colleges in New York State, graduates of Day Schoola far excelled graduates of public schools. Those tests were not in Judaism and related subjects, but in the very studies that the public schools teach."
The initial meeting of the year was held Monday. March 2i, at the home of Joe Swartz, at which occasion Jerome Schottensteln was elected temporary chairman of the group. Another meeting was then held at the home of Harry Gilbert on April 17.
MR. SCHOTTEN'STEIN appointed the following temporary com¬ mittee chairmen:
Mitchel Cohen, Legal; Leon Schottensteln and Harry Gilbert, co- chairmen, Financial; Rabbis S. W. Rubenstein and David Stavsky, co-chairmen, Education; Robert Paine, Building; Qrs. B. W. Abram¬ son and Charles Young, Medical; Joseph Nichol, publicity.
More committees will be appointed and Mr. Schottensteln urged for co-operation and all-out effort from members of the entire Jewish community.
Those parents who will have children eligible for entry into the 1st and 2nd grades this coming tall semester are urged to contact Immediately either Rabbi Rubenstein at BE. 1-2747 or Rabbi Stavsky at CL. 3-7971 for enrollment or information.
Jewish Assimilation Viewed by WJC
GENEVA, (JTA) — Thousands of Jewish youth all over the world are "drifting from Judaism," I. M. Sietf, British Jewish leader and chairman of the European executive of the World Jewish Congress, declared here at the meeting of the WJC executive. Mr. Sieff called for the establish¬ ment of a global Jewish body to tackle the problem of assimila¬ tion and counteract it with a far- flung cultural program.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, former president of the American Jewish Congress, estimated that some 500,000 Jewish children, appro¬ ximately half the school-age Jew¬ ish children In the United States, were receiving some form of a Jewish education. He reported that 40,000 children attended all- day Jewish schools in American cities and that American Jewish' children have "more and better Jewish schools" to attend than their  parents  hod 40  years  ago.
Dr. A. Steinberg, director of the WJC cultural department in Lon¬ don, spoke optimisticeUiy of the religious revival among Amurlcan Jews, asserting that the "over¬ whelming majority" of Jews In the U. S. Is "inclined to Identi¬ fy Itself" as a Jewish religious group.
At the same time. Dr. Steinberg
described the Jews of the Soviet Union as remaining faithful to their Jewish traditions. Though the future of the USSR's 3,000,000 Jews appears "shrouded in mys¬ tery," he said, whenever "a Jew¬ ish eye succeeds In piercing the veil, it meets faithfulness to the Jewish destiny."
Dr. Arieh Tartakower, chair¬ man of the Israel executive of the WJC, analyzed Israel-Dias¬ pora Jewry relations. He warned that Indifference by Israelis to the affairs of Jews in the rest of the world may result In a very definite split between them—to the detriment of both. He sold the responsibility for the present situation rests "to a rather con¬ siderable degree with the spirit¬ ual leaders of Israel's Jewry who have not succee.ded in building a bridge between Israel and the Diaspora and ih only too many Instances are ^ven far from real¬ ly understanding the problem."
Expressing the view that the majority of Israelis "may be con¬ sidered as rather indifferent" to the rest of Jewry and their prob¬ lems, Dr. Tartakower said: "This is especially correct as far as the youngep generation is concerned." While lack of adult interest might be attributed to a degree of ab¬ sorption in the    affairs    of    the
young state and in their dally work, no such explanation can possibly exist with regard to the youth. Young Israelis, born or educated In the country, were mostly far from Interested In Jews elsewhere.
"Their world," Dr. Tartakower corttinued, "Is the world of Israel only, and the danger of their de¬ veloping into another nation which has very little if anything to do with the Jewish people In other countries can be considered as Imminent." He revealed that officialdom In Israel Is also con¬ cerned. "TJiey too are aware of the danger Involved in the pres¬ ent development of affairs and are trying to strengthen the bonds between the youth of Is¬ rael and the Jewish people throughout the world," he said.
A report on the payment by Germany of compensation to Ntizi victims Wfts given at the session by Dr. Nehemian Robinson, World Jewish Congress restitu¬ tion expert, He expressed concern over the pace at which claims are being processed. He and two other members of a special team repre¬ senting the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany recently visited Germany and, after a survey of the compensa¬ tion offices in the various Laen-
der,   offered   certain   suggestions to speed up the processing.
"There's a dearth of personnel in all the Lacnder with large numbers of claims," Robinson re- poEted. He said the slow pace of adjudication could be best Illus¬ trated by the situation In Rheln- land-Pfaz where In the officg dealing with claims for Israel,"KO,- 000 cases ready for adjudication were "lying around." Berlin only claims from persons over 76 had in the main been adjudicated, and In Nordrhelm-Westphalen the body dealing with cases of iojss of life and damage to health was "so understaffed that it could not adjudicate m6re than one-half of the number it should have done to accomplish its task In time."
Dr. Robinson said the number of adjudications "must be Increas¬ ed" to at least 30,000 annually In order to meet the deadline of the law. The WJC export also report¬ ed that there are "large blocks of cases which He idle because they involve a decision in princi¬ ple which is left to a higher court." Such cases include the majority of claims for deporta¬ tion to Transnistria, Hungarian forced labor camps and the in- herltabillty of claims by stateless persons and  refugees.
ATTENDS GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONB
NEW YORK — Dr. Simon Greenberg (foreground, above), vlcer chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of American, left for Israel last week eo participate In a convention at groundbreaking exercises Tuesday for the American Student Center in Jerusalem, a' project of the Seminary.
Accompanying Dr. Greenberg was an American delegation of prominent Jewish communal leaders who also will take part In the ceremonies.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Benjamin Mazar • president of Hebrew University; Zalman Shazar, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem, and other leaders In Xn-, rael academic, cultural and spiritual life participated In the ceremony- les. Also attending were more than 100 Seminary graduates now^Jlv- ing in Israel. '¦''.'.
The American Student Center, to be erected on a 375-acre tract made available by the Jewish National Fund, wUl hou^e Ameri0{^9 , studying In Israel. '",!.
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