Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1961-06-16

              COLUMBUS EDITION
COLUMBUS EDITION
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Vol. 39, No. 24
FRIDAY, JUNE  16,   1961
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Simcha Of Israel Can Be Seen
What is modem Israel?
The rebirth ot Israel as a State Is perhaps the greatest Simcha for Jewish people since the golden age ot David and Solomon, 1000 years BCE.
AND LUCKY Chronicle readers can see this Simcha by taking ad¬ vantage ot the Chronicle's Exodus Tour to Israel, which leaves New York City on Sunday, Aug, 6 via EI Al Ai lines, AU Travel arrange¬ ments have been made by the Richard Lewia Travel Service, 142 B, Gay St,, Columbua, and com¬ plete details of the planried exo¬ dus may be obtained by writing or calling Richard Lewis Service, CA, 1-6577, Out of town readers should cal! ooUect,'
A brochure describing every phase of the trip will be sent to ail interested parties, A descrip¬ tion of the extenaion tour to Europe is also included,
WHAT IS THERE to aee in la¬ rael? The answer to this question Is so large that It cannot be answered In simple terms There are thousands of things to see and do.
Just to mention a f«w of the many wondei'tul sites to be seen in larael. First, there is the new Hebrew Univeralty, The campus waa built at Givat Ram, Jerusa¬ lem, after the 1948 War of Inde¬ pendence, The finest institution of its kind In the Middle East, the University has-over 5000 students with schools of Arts, Science, Medicine and Dentistry, aiong with Law, Agriculture and Social Sciences.
ANOTHER SITE ia the Ha¬ dassah Medical Center, Dedicated in August ot last year, this ia one ot the world's great medical cen¬ ters, Oniy in the United States are there comparable fticiUties,
At the Center there Is simultan¬ eous training for 800 undergradu¬ ate students of medicine, dentis¬ try, pharmacy and microbiology, as well as post graduate study and reaearch. The hospital has 530 beds, and an out-patient depart¬ ment which is able to deal with some 200,000 visits a year,
THE WEIZMANN Institute of Science opened in 1949 at Rehovot
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Cornerstone Of Heritage House Is Laid; Reveal That $41,000 Is Still Needed
The cornerstone for tho now Columbus Jewi,sh Homo tor the Aged waa laid in nn impressive coromony Juno U before a large gathering in thc almo.>!t completed ,')truoturo .it  1151 College Avo.
As it it were an omen of the good life the homo will bring, iunny skies broke through previously heavy rains to provide a bright setting for the ceremony,
IN A BRIEF address, Aaron Zacks, pro.sidont of tho new home, thanked   the   community   for   its
'HERITAGE HOUSE'
Robert Weiler, Sr,, chairman of the building committee of the new Je'wish Home for the Aged is shown on the left walking with Aaron Zaclts, president of tho Homo and carrying the time capsule which wiil be scaled in the cornerstone of the Home on June 30, Thoy are walking under thc archway which boars thc official new namo for tho Homo, Heritage House,
splendid support in raising funds for tho new facility. He revealed that 1164 pledges totaling $757,000 had been received thus far witli $,41,000 still needed to complete tho home,
Zacks also predicted that the home will be too small within a year to accommodate aii who wish to live there. He said thc new home will receive the 14 in¬ habitants of the old home and already has 32 applications tor admittance. Tho average current resident is 83 years old and with¬ out a family.
THERE ARE, Zacks declared, 1100 Jews aged 65 or more In Columbus. Fortunately, he pointed out, land exists for expansion and the new home's facilitica can bo broadened.
Abe A. Wolman, honorary chair-
DISTRICT MEET SLATED
Moru than 50O delegates from eight states will meet in Denver, Colo., June 24-27, tor tho joint meeting ot thc Men's Lodges and Women's Chapters of District No. 2. B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Cov¬ enant),
They will represent lodge's and chapters in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and New Mexico,
REPRESENTING Columbua at the Convention will be the follow¬ ing delegates from Zion Lodge, No. 02: Meyer Mellman, Irwin Wolf, Hari-y S, Goldstein and Harry Schwartz, Delegates at large. District past presidents, wiil be RabbI Jerome D, Folkman, I, W. Garek, Justin L. Sillman and Allan Tarshlsh.
From Zion Cliapter, No. 127: Mesdames Louis Levin, Itobert Bender, Ike Cohen, Alex Clowson, David Handler, Ben Caplan, Jack Schilling   and   AI   Becker.   Dele¬
gates at large, District officers, will be Mrs. Dorothy Yassenoff, executive board member; Mrs. Milton J. Leeman, past president; Mrs. Joseph D, Schecter, past president; and Mrs, Harry Schwartz, past president,
DliRlNG THE sessions they will join in workshops, at which the vast program of Citizenship and Civic Affairs, Veterans' Af¬ fairs, Social Welfare and Pliilan- thropios of the B'nai B'rith, both in   this  country and  abroad,  will
be discussed and plans made for intensification.
Speakers on the Convention pro¬ gram will include Label Katz, Now Orleans, president of the Supremo Lodge of the B'nai B'rith, and Lester Waldman, national director of Organization and Plan¬ ning of thc Anti-Defamation Lea¬ gue ot B'nai B'rith. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. William Haber, a member ot the Department of Economics at thc University ot Michigan. Ho is national chairman ot the B'nai B'rith HiUel Foundations, which maintain "homes away trom home" for Jewish students on campuses in more than 250 col¬ leges in this country and abroad.
EJraanuol Spack and Mrs. David Sporn, both ot Kansas City, Mo., are presidoxits, respectively, of the Men's and Women's districts, and will  preside at tho sessions.
man ot the home and master of ceremonies at the dedication cere¬ mony, announced that the new iiomo wiil now be known as Heri¬ tage House. The name, submitted by Mrs. Morris Taxon, was ap¬ proved by the name selection committee,
WOIJWAN REVIEWED the de¬ velopment of Heritage House from the 1958 study of the pathetic conditions for Jewish aged in Coliimhu.f, which dramatized the need for a new home, to thc dedi¬ cation ot the cornerstone,
"The home means an end to a rocking chair existence for the agod," ho said, "It wiii mean new life and spiritual growth,"
ROBERT WEILER, SR„ chair¬ man of the building committee, thanked members of the various committee for tho "excellent un¬ selfish" jobs they did in providing a "beautiful and practical home,"
Wiiiiajn V, Kahn, president ot United Jowish Fund and Council and Columbus Jewish Welfare Foundation, cited Heritage House OS an example of "what a com¬ munity can do for its people in a common   cause,"
Thc cornerstone setting was per¬ formed by Aaron Zacks, Abe A. Wolman and Robert Weiler, Sr, Prior to tho ceremonial setting, a time capsule was filled with documents symbolic of the suc¬ cessful drive and sealed in the cornerstone. Various dignitaries wore called upon to place docu¬ ments   in   the   capsule.
A MOMEIVT OF silence was observed for the late Mra, Mendel Finkelstein, a charter founder of tho old home, and the late Louis Mcilman,
Mayor William Schneider of Bexley extended that community's greetings to tho gathering, How¬ ard John.son, director of city utili¬ ties,   ri'prcscntod  Mayor W, Ral-
Lou Ackerman
STATE COMMANDER
Lou Ackerman of Columbus was elected Department of Ohio Commander of the Jew¬ ish War Veterans at the State Convention held last weekend in Columbus, Others elected to top posts include Frank Lane, senior vice-commander, Eu¬ clid; Jack Ross, junior vice- commander, Dayton; Al Her¬ man, inspector general, Cin¬ cinnati; Dr, Sidney Franklin, deputy Inspector, Youngs¬ town, Complete details of the covention will appear in next week's Chronicle,
ston Westlake of Columbus, who was out ot the city.
PLACQUES honoring their ded¬ icated service to Heritage House were presented to Abe A, Wolman, Don Erkis and Robert Mellman,
It was announced that a list of contributions was aealed In the corneratone. It will be possible to add names of additional con¬ tributions to that list untU June 30, according to Aaron Zacka, After that, he said, the pace of construction will force permanent sealing  of   the   cornerstone.
Court Bars Admission Of Full Text Of Recorded Memoirs
THIS IS SAFED, ISRAEL
This is Sated, larael with Its Galilee Mountain, This site is associated with the novel, "Exodus" in the llberatien battle of Safed, Thia and many other sitea in Israel will be visited by Chronicle tourists if they take advantage ot the Chronicie sponsored Exodua Tour to larael. The tour leaves
New York City on Sunday, Aug, 6, An extension tour to Europe la avaUable and complete detaila may be found in a brochure which can be yours for the aaking. For details, call tho Richard Lewis Travel Service, Columbus, CA. 1-6377. Out of town  readers call collect.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -- After a lengthy argument between At¬ torney General Gideon Hausner for thc prosecution, and Dr. Robert Servatiua for thc defense in tho Adolf Eichmann trial, the three-man court rojoctod, by a vote of 2-1, tiio admissibility of all but certain parts of Eichmann's tapo-rccordod momoirsi
The ruling came at an afternoon sos.sion, when tho prosecution — instead of closing its case as previously expoctod continued present¬ ing   further   testimony,   including
records showing detaila ot Nazi confiscation ot valuables from Jewish victims.
ATTORNEY (JENERAL Gid¬ eon Hausner submitted to tho court a Nazi directive, marked "secret," which instructed Ger- nian authorities to regard Jewish property as "stolen goods," One report, by a Nazi district com¬ mander, Odilo Globotchnlk, men¬ tioned the figure of 100,000,000 reichsmarks as the estimate of the valuables takeh by him from the Jewish victims in Poland, Hausner told the court that the figure was "nominal."
The Globotchnlk reiwrt stated that the liquidation of Jewish valuables had been "completed as planned, except for some damage In Warsaw resulting from a mis¬ take  In  tactics," That  "mistake"
roforrod to tho revolt by tho Jews in tho Warsaw Ghetto in 1943,
HAD.SNEK TOLD the court that, when Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, visited War¬ saw, ho was asked about how to dispose of 33,000 women's watches taken from Jewish victims. Dur¬ ing that visit Hausner said, Glo¬ botchnlk boasted that about 100,- 000 men's watches taken trom the Jewa had been distributed to Nazi fighting unita and concentration camp personnel.
The prosecution showed that millions ot items of Jewish wear¬ ing apparel had been distributed by the Germans who had received 823, train loads of "assorted ef¬ fects" taken from Jews. He show¬ ed thc eyeglasses were given to the German medical corps, while foreign currency waa given to the Government Bank.
THE ARGUMENT between Hausnar and Defense Counsel Robert Servatius, about the tape recordings of Eichmann's mem¬ oirs, took up much of the session. Dr. Servatius complained bitterly that the recordings amounted to "forgorios," saying that Willem Sassen, the Dutch Nazi journallat who had interviewed Eichmann in a Buenos Aires tavern, had piled Eichmann with wine, and had violated an agreement wherc- by Eichmann was to have initialed oach page of the transcript. Sas¬ sen subsequently pold part of this material for two articles in the American Life Magazine,
When the afternoon session opened. Presiding Justice Moshe Landau and Justice Itzhak Raveh ruled that only those parts of the transcript are adrolssable which were annotated by Eiohmann, Justice Binyamin Halevy held that the entire transcript, includ¬ ing the portions carrying Eich¬ mann's corrections, were admla- alble. However, the majority rul¬ ing prevailed,
BEOAUSE    THE    proaecutlon
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