Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1960-10-28

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Vol. 38. No. 45
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28,  I960
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Da'ottd to Ani»rIe«B and Jawlin  Idcali
EDITORIAL
Time To Act
It was our privilege to sit in on a committee meet¬ ing for the new Jewish Home for the Aged a short time ago. We were extremely stimulated to see and feel the tremor and vibrations of the group that has brought this project to its present stage. The committee is led by Aaron Zacks, chairman, with William Kahn, Jack Resler and Ralph Rosenthal as vice-chairmen.
An adequate Home for the Aged certainly fits into the picture of Columbus' growing community. As in Jewish basic training and teachings, we are taught to respect and honor our elders, to help those who need help and to do good for all. The future of our aged is our first responsibility.
It wiil be a blessing to many in the community to know that when Ihcy reach their later years, there will be a beautiful Home, wilh well equipped personal, physical and recreational facilities and a synagogue, where either by desire or necessity, one may go to live out his pr her years.
This project will cost approximately $850,000, of which $650,000 has been raised to date..This sum waS pledged by only 42G individuals, which we feel is a positive sign. This leaves a balance of approximately $200,000 to be raised before the Home can be completed.
A concentrated effort to obtain the balance of the money was kicked off today. The committee is going to make every effort lo contact each and every individual in the community so that he or she may give whatever possible to make this dream a reality. Pledges are pay¬ able over a three-year period.
There are many fine memorials which can be pur¬ chased in memory of loved ones. This project, as all money-raising projects, is a large one. We feel that any¬ one who has not been contacted, should contact Zacks or other members of the committee. They can be reach¬ ed at CA. 1-5181. Don't wait for the committee to call on you.
The committee has done a most complete and effi¬ cient job of planning, their research was tremendous and their decisions, we feel, sound. Every effort was made for the necessary facilities. More important, every effort has been made in planning, so that additional fund-raising will not be necessary to add a wing or make other enlargements, due to the lack of foresight of the committee.
This type of silualion,i;infortunately, has happened many times in the past. Every step to eliminate such a possibility has been taken in this case.
The community as a whole should fall in line and make this dream a reality. The ground-breaking for the new Home is schetluled for this Sunday, Oct. 30. This project is a most worthy and wonderful one for anyone to be able to say, "I am part of this community insti¬ tution."
We take this opportunity to urge the community to give a 100 per cent response to this need. Let our High Holyday prayers, "Do not cast us away in our old age, and when our strength fails, do not forsake us," become more meaningful with the erection of this much heeded institution in our community. Support the new Jewish Home for the Aged by making a pledge now.
ATTITUDE OF BOTH CANDIDATES TOWARD MINORITIES VIEWED
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has warned lhat "un¬ substantiated rumors" concerning the attitudes of the two major Presidential eandldates toward minority groups are "a major dis¬ service to the nation."
Henry Edward Schultz. the League's na.tional chairman, as¬ serted that both major parties have been "victimized" by "false charges of bigotry against their candidates" for "political advan¬ tage with somo minority group."
HE DEXiLAKED that questions have been raised with the League concerning the attitude of both Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy toward Jews.
"We believe," Schultz said, "that both men (are) free of anti- Semitic bias. Nor is there any doubt but that the two Vice Presi¬ dential candidates are free of such  prejudice."
Schuitz's statement in full fol¬ lows:
"AN UNHAPPY phenomenon of Presidential election campaigns In our time is the unsubstantiated rumor circulated concerning the attitudes of the principal candi¬ dates toward one minority group or another. The Antl-Defamatlon League believes it to be a major disservice to the nation to raise false charges of bigotry against a candidate so as to gain political advantage with some minority group. This kind of defamation has  victimized both  parties.
"Questions have been raised with the League, and are likely to continue to be raised, about the attitude of Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy toward Jews. We believe both men to be wholly free of anti-Semitic bias. Nor Is there any doubt but that the two Vice Presidential candi dates are free of such prejudice.
"Our responsibility over nearly half-a-century of public service has been to expose bigotry and anti-Semitism. We believe It equally important to denounce charges of antl-ScmitIsm that are false. We find It necessary to do so at this time In order to check the rising tide of false rumors that may divert the electorate from the legitimate Issues of the Presidential  campaign."
Blood Is Needed! Give On 'B* Day Next Wednesday
BLOOD SAVES LIVES
These are bottles of blood, one full and one empty. Will you be one who wiil flit this empty bottle and many Uke it? You can be—at Blood Day, which will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Jewish Center, noon to 6 p.m. A full bottle may save a life and it could be yours. Be like the donor who filled this full bottle and schedule an appointment now.
Donor Dinner To Be Held Next Tuesday
fho Hadassah 32nd Annual Donor Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Jewish Center, will climax the fund-raising ac¬ tivities of Hadassaii members.
Hadassah of Columbus will then be able to contribute its quota in helping to maintain the pediatric surgical department of the Hadassah-Hebrew  University Medical  Center.
MHS. NOBBEKT Kruger, program chairman, will introduce the film,   "A  Book,   An   Egg  And   a
Bell," the story of a doctor's case book.
The film will show medical re¬ search at the Hadassah Hospital in action. It will show a process for developing trachoma vaccine; the use of radio-gold therapy; the cobalt bomb and how it is  used.
SCENES AND sounds of the August, 1960 dedication ceremonies of the Hadassah-Hebrew Uni¬ versity Medical Center are also I>art ot tiie film. David Ben-Gurl¬ on's voice will be heard In ex¬ cerpts  from  his speech and  the
Construction Will Begin On New Home
Final plans for the groundbreaking ceremony that marks the be¬ ginning of construction of the new Columbus Jewish Home for ihe Aged have been completed.
The entire community Is invited to attend the ceremony, Sunday, Oct. 30. at 1:15 p.m. at the site of the new home, which is Immediately south of the Jewish Center on College Avenue.
ROBEKT WEILEB, SR., chairman of the building committee, Is also  serving as  chairman  of  the
CONTRACT SIGNED
The Columbus Jewish Home for Aged officially completed contract arrangements for the construction of Its new Home with the Morris Skilken Construction Company. Seated above beginning at the left are Morris Skllken, president Morris Skllken Construc¬ tion Company, Robert Weller, Sr., chairman of Home's building committee and Mark D. Feinknopf, president of Mark Feinknopf Associates, and the architect responsible for the plans and super¬ vision of construction. Standing, left to right, are Robert Mellman, vice president and attorney for the Home, Aaron Zacks, treasurer and campaign chairman for the Home, William V. Kahn, presi¬ dent ot the Columbus Jewish Welfare Foundation and the United Jewish Fund and Council, Troy A. Felbel, attorney for the Foun¬ dation which has assumed responsibility for arranging all matters on the financing of the construction, and Abe Wolman, president of the Home.
groundbreaking ceremony. He an¬ nounced the following program.
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer of Temple Tifereth Israel will deliver the In¬ vocation. He will be followed by William V. Kahn, president of both the United Jewish Fund and Council and the Columbus Jewish Welfare Foundation, who will f, greet  the   assemblage.
TBPE PROORAM will also be shared by Abe A. Wolman, presi¬ dent of the Columbus Jewish Home for the Aged, and Aaron Zacks, campaign chairman, both of whom will speak briefly on the history of the home, current progress and future plans.
A highlight of the program will occur next when leaders In the drive for the new home wield shovels in a formal groundbreak¬ ing. As the first spadesful of earth are turned, the dream of provid¬ ing the best possible care for the sommunlty's aged and making their  golden years  truly  golden
will  have taken a giant  step to¬ ward reality. RABBI   SAMUEL   W.    Ruben (Continuad   on   paga   A)
voice of the American Ambassa¬ dor Ogden Reld will be heard addressing the assemblage in Hebrew.
Viewing the film, the Donor Dinner guests will share the Ha¬ dassah pilgrimage of viewing the completed City of Science with Its Wall of Healing and the Poun¬ ders' Wall. All brought through symbolic Images of the book, the doctor's case book; the egg, for tests; the bell, signifying the sound of telephone and door bells of   Hadassah   workers.
THE FUM produced by Hazel Greenwald and the script pre¬ pared by J. E. Raeven Is an actual on the scene reproduction of a great moment In larael, a great moment In Hadassah.
The showing of the film will give Hadassah members and their guests a view of the results of the dedicated Hadassah work.
JACKIE MASON, famed comic, will highlight the program. He Is considered "a refreshingly dif¬ ferent comic, because of his dis- armlngly simple sort ot delivery, which hides razor-wit and keen observaUon, of the foibles of hu¬ man   behavior."
After his appearance at the famed Concord Hotel he appeared tor 12 weeks at the prominent Slate Brothers night club In Holly¬ wood. Comedian Phil Silvers, Jan Murray and Alan King raved about this performer when they saw his act.
HE WAS recalled twice to the Steve  Allen Show  after his first performance.    The   los   Angeles  §^i Examiner wrote of him "We've a
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This Is an api>eal! Yes, this is an appeal, an appeal to every member of the Jewish Community from the age of 18 to the age of 60. This is not an appeal for money nor Is it an appeal for time nor for services. It Is an appeal for the one commodity that costa nothing—^but can coat a person his or her life if It Is not given.
This most precious commodity which neither money, begging, cajoling, nor pleading can buy Is blood, pure human blood which only members of the community can give. Every pint of blood is used for one purpose and one purpose only— to save a life.
THB BLOOD Donor Day is Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Jewish Center, 1125 College Ave., from the hours of noon to 6 p.m. Com¬ ing to "B" Day is what Is desired. The Jewish Community needs blood vitally, more drastically than ever before, more so than even during the last two wars, and It was desperately needed th6n.
The quota, which has been rais¬ ed by the Red Cross due to the Increase of the Jewish population over the-past few years, must be met, and it can only be met If all cooperate and come to the Center for those few minutes it takes to give a pint of blood.
NO PROSPECnVB donor will give until he or she Is first exam¬ ined by the attending physician and found to be physically fit to give. After donating, the donor Is treated to refreshments, and if needed, transportation and nurs¬ ery service Is also available.   >
A hard working voluntary staff of over 300 telephone workers have contacted over several thousand prospective donors to give this "B" Day. It Is Inevitable that someone might be missed who can give and wants to give. Anyone In this category should call BB. 1.4892 and make an ap¬ pointment. Those who have been called and have said "yes" to the worker must be sure to keep ths appointment and give aa in tine past.
There Is no substitute for blood. It is essential to life and an amount as small as a "pint" if not available when needed can mean the difference between "life" and "death." Heed tho appeal and give because the gift of one pint of blood will save someone's Jife, perhaps yours.
Jaclde Mason
nol>ert WeUer, Sr.
ANOTHER CHRONICLE FffiST
This week begins another first for the (3hronlcle. Inside today's paper Is the first in a new series on Jewish Hollywood personalities. This new column Is written by Barney Olazer, a Boston native.
His wife Is Columbus born and has family residing In Columbus. They are Louie Robins, Max Robins and Nate Robins.