Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1963-09-19

              1963 - L'Shonah Tovah Tikosevuh - 5724
Servii^g Columbus. Day ton. Cefitrai and Southwester
Vol. 41. No. 39
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963 — I TISHRI, 5724
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Rosh Hashonoh Has A Stirring Message
By DR. HELEN HIRSCH (Standard Feature Syndicate)
The High Holy Days form the culminating point o( the Jewish Religion. Nearly everyone observes them. As such, they are providen¬ tial. For were ilL not for these solemn days — the Days ot Awe — Judaism by this time may long have been forgotten.
BUSINESS LEADER TO SPEAK AT PAflTY FOR ISRAa BONDS
Jack Mandel of Cleveland, promi¬ nent business leader who plays a major role in the activities of a wide variety of communal organi¬ zations, will speak at a cocktail party, at the hom^of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard R. Ruben, 2525 Berwick Blvd., on Tuesday evening, Sept. 24, at 8:30 p.m.. in behalf of the State of Israel Bond drive.
Rut)en, who is presently serving as chairman of High Holiday Ap¬ peals for State of Israel Bonds, said, "Mr. Mandel is a leading figure in Israel's economic upbuilding, and has for many years been in the forefront of the Israel Bond Cam¬ paign. I am very proud to have a man of Mr. Mandel's capabilities speak to us in my home."
Mandel is a member of the Na¬ tional Board of Governors of the Israel Bond Organization, and a former chairman of the Cleveland Committee for State of Israel Bonds. He services as National vice-presi¬ dent of the Friends of Israel and as associate campaign chairman of the Jewish Welfare Fund ot Cleve¬ land.
Active in many civic and Jewish organiations, Mandel is vice-presi¬ dent of the Heart of Euclid Associa¬ tion, a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Confer¬ ence of Christians and Jews, and a member of the Board oPMonte- fiore Home.
Mafldel is chairman of the Board, of Premier Industrial Corporation, Cleveland, with subsidiary plalits and business interests in various parts of the country.
HAD THIS HOLIDAY season car¬ ried such vitalizing importance all through the millennia since Moses, the institutionalizer of Rosh Hash¬ onah and Yom Kippur? The answer is yes! For with the centuries both holidays rose to the tiighest re¬ ligious level despite their sad, som¬ bre and serious aspect since time immemorial.
The rabbis linked Rosh Hashonah up with Yom Kippur as a unit of repentance and spiritual regenera¬ tion. To understand the history qf these holy days, we must view it against the autumn background which preaches such a mighty les¬ son of the evanescence of human life.
Do not our individual lives, re¬ semble the leaves? Like them, we too, come, unfold in a short spring¬ time of life, grow old and fall off the tree of human life.
DURING THESE awe-inspiring days, each person passes the judg¬ ment seat of the Almighty, for on Rosh Hashonah they are written down and on Yom Kippur their fate is sealed. According to an old Jewish legend, even the fish in the water shiver t)efore judgement which the Lord is meting out dur^ ng these days to all hia creatures. Tbe Three Books In Tractate Rosh Hashonah 16:2, we read; "Three books are opened before the Lord at the advent of Rosh Hashonah — one for the out- and-out righteous; one for the dyed- in-the-wool wicked; and the tiiird is reserved for the .middle-of-the- road people. The righteous are fore- with recorded for life; the wicked are immediately written down for death; as for the members of the third group, they are kept suspend¬ ed from Rosh Hashonah to the end of Yom Kippur. If they make them¬ selves deserving by trye repent¬ ances, they are recorded for life; if not, their fate is sealed for death. The Riddle of Life What is it all about? This is a question asked by many people bowed down by grief and suffering. But when you delve deeper into life's seeming mysteries, you will discover that it is love that life is all about, "The love of God and man and the love of man to man." For dod is not in search ot robots (contlnuid on ptgi i|
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IN LONDON, a Moscow Appeals Court has rejected an appeal \yy tiiree Moscow Jews from convictions of selling matzoth, it was reported here from the Soviet capital.
IN NEW YORK, a spokesman for the American Jewish "Congress urged enactment "without any changes or amend¬ ments" of a City Council bill to exempt Sabbath observers from the State Sunday<loslng law.
IN BERLIN, a 41-year-old West Berlin businessman, Hermann Henke, was fined 300 Deutschmarks ($75) and was given a four-month suspended sentence for making an anti-Semitic comment. Henke was found guilty of remark¬ ing to a nurse employed by a Jewish family in West Berlin: "It is a pity there was not enough gas to kill all tlie Jews."
IN TBBNTON, NJ., officials went Into court to halt the defiance of a local school board, which has ordered continuance of the practice of Bible reading in its schools.
IN LONDON, a French film company has acquired the motion picture rights to "The Deputy," German playwright Rolf Hochhut's controversial play about the late Pope Pius XII. The play charges that the late Pontiff was silent in the face of the Nazi murders of European Jewry.
IN WASHINGTON, Congressman Leonard Farbstein, New York Democrat, in a statement on the Floor ot the House of Representatives called upon Congress to act favor¬ ably on his resolution, introduced earlier this year, to have the U.S. Mission to the Uiiited Nations seek adoption by the United Nations of a resolution condemning manifestations of anll-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
Leadership Award To Be Given Oct. 6
The fifth Tiierese Stern Kahn Memorial Leadership Award will be presented to some young adult, whose name.is kept secret until the award Is made, on Sunday, Oct. 6, at the annual United Jewish Fund and Council dinner meeting at the Winding Hollow Country Club,
The Therese Stern Kahn Leadership Award was.established several years ago to provide recognition by the UJFC for young adults of eithefetsex, preferably be-  ' '
ROSH HASHONAH EV AN OLD SYNAGOGUE
PictAored above with Rabbi David Stavsky, (left) spirit¬ ual leader of Beth Jacob Gpngregation, are the abbis who will speak at Religious Emphasis Week. They ,ie (left to right), Rabbi Morris Max, Rabbi Mordecai Glfter and RabbI Shubert Spero.
Beth Jacob's REW To Start On Sunday
Plans have been completed for the fifth annual Religious Emphasis Week program to begin this Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Beth Jacob Synagogue.
The first session will begin with the prayer service of the Talis and Tiphilin Club group at'8:30 a.m.
At 8:30 p.m.. Rabbi Mosheh Max of the Queens Jewish Cen¬ ter will be the guest speaker. Rabbi Max is an eloquent author-
f— ity on Jewish family life. His topic is "Mikveh," The Source ot Morali¬ ty in the Jewish Home. Such ques¬ tions as "The Jewish attitude to¬ ward family planning," and the sta¬ tus of the Jewish woman in re¬ ligious life will be discussed and answered.
DR. MAYNARD Goldmeier, gen¬ eral chairman of REW wUl open the program. The chairman for the evening is Bernard Gerson, and the opening prayer will be given by Louis M. Levin.
A prayer-breakfast session will be held on Monday morning at 6:45 a.m. Julius Weintraub is chairman ot this session.
THE TEEN-AGERS will have, a program of their own at 8:30 p.m. An exciting and thought provoking film from the "Look Up and Live" series will be presented. Rabbi Stavsky will act as resource per¬ son on the film.
Dr. Shui)ert Spero, brilliant lec¬ turer and member of the philosophy department at Western Reserve will discuss "Muktza," TTie Sanc¬ tity ot the Sabbath. Mrs. Milton Leeman will be chairman for the evening, and the opening prayer will be given by Mrs. Irving Gut¬ ter, president of  the  Beth Jacob
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tween the ages af 25 and 35, who have taken an active interest in either the UJFC or its related agencies, and who show a definite potential for leadership in the Jew¬ ish community.
SPONSORED BY William V. Kahn, a past president of the United Jewish Fund and Council, in loving memory of his wife, the former Therese Stem Kahn, the award is in the nature of a grant which makes it possible for one or two young adults to attend the an¬ nual four-day General Assembly of the Council ot Jewish Federa¬ tions and Welfare Funds. It pro¬ vides the total transportation cost, hotel expenses and a per diem al¬ lowance for the duration of the conference.
Since the inception of the award, four young adults have been honor¬ ed as its recipients. They are Mar¬ vin Glassman, Mrs. Bernard Yen¬ kin, Edwin Ellman and Gordon Zacks. Each of these award win¬ ners had, over a period of years, demonstrated qualified community leadership, in helping to build 6nd maintain a meaningful Jewish com¬ munity in Columbus.
BY THEIR participation on many levels of community activity;^ by serving on committees and boards of synagogues, social agencies and other communal institutions; by de¬ voting time and effort to the com¬ munity's fund-raising campaigns; and by participating in the shaping and moulding of community poli¬ cies and programs, they were deem¬ ed to have rendered exceptional service which deserved the recogni¬ tion they received.
The ''.ature ot the award is such that it tries to provide the honored young adult with the opportunity to acquire greater insight into the various tasks ot Jewish communal endeavor in the wider focus of the total American Jewish scene, and (contlnuid  on  paga  4)
Leon  Richman
UJFC Group WiU Hear Bellefaire Director At Sept. 25 Meeting
The Leadership Development Group of the United Jewish Fund and Council^ will hear Leon Rich- man, director of Bellefaire Insti¬ tute' for Children in Cleveland, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. at the home of WUliam V. Kahn, 2746 Brentwood Rd.
RICHMAN, who received his Mas¬ ter's Degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, has 35 years of experience in child wel¬ fare work in New York, Chicago and Cleveland. For the past 20 years he has been executive di¬ rector of the Jewish Children's Bureau and Bellefaire.
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FIRST WORK STARTS FOR COMPLETION OF NEW CONGREGATION AHAVAS SHOLOM
Work crews undertook the first labors leading to construc¬ tion of the new Congregation Ahavas Sholom, 2568 E. Broad St., on Sept. 9. Mitchell Cohen, president of the Congregation, an¬ nounced that these first steps directed towards completion date In early spring of 1964 consist of the levelling of part of the present structure.
The organization o^ a synagogue building campaign in¬ volves the cooperation and effort of
large numbers of individuals. Sol Rising, chairman of the Board of Directors, is in the process ot en¬ listing the members of the congre¬ gation in a committee structure to accomplish this effort.
He has announced that Irving Baker has agreed to serve as chair¬ man of the Building Committee, and that Cy Tanenbaum will act as co-chairman. These two men, both active and. prominent in the construction industry in Columbus, will t)ear primary responsibility for the erection of the new structure.
Mrs. Harry Matliless, president ot the Ahavas Sholom Sisterhood, has organized a Women's Commit¬ tee, which will serve in as many capacities as it is needed. Mrs. Harry Lakin, Mrs. Sol Rising, Mrs,
William Givets, Mrs. Don Zeldin, Mrs. Cy Tanenbaum, Mrs. Si Lakin and Mrs. Mary Friedman constitute the first members of this group.
Pearson Press has consented to serve as chairman ot the Finance Committee. William Givets, George Goodman and Bernard Cohen will act as his co-chairmen. Don Zeldin and Edward Neusgart have been appointed co-chairmen of the House Conunittee. Harry Bruce and M?s. Marvin Fox are acting as co-chair¬ men for publicity.
A committee-at-large, which will
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See pages 10 and 11 for In¬ spiring Holiday messages from local spiritual leaders and greal- Ings from members of the com¬ munity.
We Wish You A Happy, Healthy And Prosperous New Year