Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1963-01-11

              nrU/      Serving Columbus, Dayton, Central and Southwl
Vol. 41, No. 2
FRIDAY.   JANUARY    II,    1963
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Jewish Study Inst. Will Open Jan. 21
Members of the Columbus rabbinate are combining with faculty members of The Ohio State University to serve as the faculty of the new Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Center which opens on Monday evening, Jan. 21, according to a statement by Walter Robinson, Institute committee chairman.
"We are most pleased to assemble a brilliant group of edu¬ cators," said Hobinson, "to help us launch our first Institute since 1961." trior to that thie In- | stitute  of Jewish Studies bad a
continual record since 1961 at pre¬ senting fine educational topics to the conununity.
ROBINSON WENT on to state that the new Institute wilU be an adsU activity of Informal educa¬ tion planned n the desire to of¬ fer the oommunlty the opportuni¬ ty tx3 gain "Insight and enjoyment by exploring the panorama of Jewish  existence."
The scheduling ot classes for the. new institute will be done Jji a different manner than was done In the paist when they were confined to a Single evening per week. Under the new arrange¬ ment each subject will be pre¬ sented by an experienced lectur¬ er, an expert In Ills field, in three evenings, on the same day for three consecutive weeks.'
DURING THE FIRST three week session bginning Jan. 21, Monday evenings will be devoted to "What Are Baislc Jewish Values?" At these meetings, Rab¬ bi Harry Kaplan, distinguished spiritual and educational leader of Jewish college youth, and RaWbi Martin Kowal, graduate of the Jewlah Theologlcai Seminary of America and former student at Hebrew University in Jerusa¬ lem!, will discuss historic Jewish values, their survival In the non- Jewish vrorld and their future in America and Israel.
On Tuesday evenings the topic "Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists" will l>e presented by Milton Kessler, teacher, poet and author of 'A Road Came Once," a book of poetry wiiich is being pub¬ lished later this month. Kessler will Introduce, read from and dis¬ cuss the works of Bernard Mala¬ mud, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth and Herman  Wouk. ,
On Thursday evenings Dr. Mark Lefton, teacher and research specialist in mental health, will speak on "The Jewish Dilemma
Identification or Alienation." Dr. Lefton, author of numerous professional publications, will dis¬ cuss the effects of historic pre¬ judice, discrimination, "second class citlzenshiip" and external in¬ fluences on the mentality and be¬ havior of Jews in America.
Each session will start prompt¬ ly at 8 pjn. and wUl consist of a lecture, a coffee break and a discussion period. The evening will terminate at the pleasure of the lecturer and his group, but at no time later than 10 p.m.
ALL LECTURERS will suggest
additional   readings   that  should
be of Interest  to the participant
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UJFC's 1963 Goal Adopted By Board
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the United Jewish Fund and Council held Sunday morning, Jan. 6, a 1963 campaign goal of $774,001 was unanimously adopted. The goal, Herbert S. Levy, chairman of the Allocations Committee stated, represented the valid reasonable needs of the more than 40 local, national and overseas agencies and institutions supported by the UJFC in its annual drive which will soon be under way. The  board   also  approved  the
RICHARD AfiEL AND MELVILLE D. FRANK HELP ADL FINANCES
Richard J. Abel and Melville D. Frank have been appointed mem¬ bers of the regional finance coun¬ cil of tire Anti-Defamation League. The announcement waa made hy Louis A. Matusoff of Dayton who is council chainnan. The regional finance council wUl direct the fund raising efforts of the league in tlie states of Oiiio and Kentuclty.
Al>el will aerve as the repre¬ sentative of the council in the olty of Columbus.
Editwr's   Note:  In Golumbus
,'funda for the Antt-Defamatlon
League are  secured   from   the
Columbus United Jewiah Fund
and Ooimcll.
FRANK HAS assumed the re¬ sponsibility for the fund rajalngr- efforts of the ADL In several cities in this section of the state outside of the city of Oolumbus. \v {cootlnu»d on paqa 4)
PLAN LAS VEGAS NIGHT
Seated in the atwve picture are (left to right): Mrs. David Roth, cp-chairman of "A Night in Las Vegas"; Mrs. JEUlott Grayson, president of Columbus Chapter of Women's American ORT, and Mrs.  Herbert Weiner, co-chairman.
ORT SPONSORS 'LAS VEGAS NIGHT' AT COLUMRUS RIDING CLUD ON JANUARY 19
Columbus Chapter of Women's American ORT, will present, "A Night In Las Vegas," at the Columbu.s Ridifig Ciub, 5293 E. Main St., Saturday, Jan. 19, from 9 p.m. to i a.m.
Tickets are .$5 per person, which includes drinlts, a midnight dinner and a night of exciting entertainment.
CO-CHAIRMEN OP the affair for ORT members and their guests are Mrs. David Roth and Mrs. Herbert Weiner.
The  fabulous  grand prize will t>e 100 sliver dollars and the sec
ond prize will be 50 silver dol¬ lars. Many other wonderful prizes will l>e awarded throughout the evening.
CHAIRMEN POR the affair In¬ clude Mra. David Madison, ar¬ rangements; if.TB. Burton Berk, tickets; Mrs. ffebert UreM, pub¬ licity and decorations, Mra. San¬ ford Glide, hostesses; and Mrs. Robert Schiff, telephone. Other chairmen are Mrs. Jerome Schiff, Mrs. Millard Cummins ahd Mrs, Qftrdon Zaciu.
ORT (Organization for Reha¬ bilitation through Training) ia a program   for   reibuilding   human
lives tiirough vocational educa¬ tion. The recognized vocational training agency for the Jewish ipeople, ORT has as its central creed that man is best aided by being helped to become indepen¬ dent, aelf-aupporting, and self- respecting.
The ORT program is financed by the World ORT Union and its aflfiliates; by the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee, a memiiier agency ot the United Jewish Ap¬ peal, and hy governments, foun- dB-tiona, etc., throughout the world. Women's American ORT contributes to the program through its membership dues.
The World's Week
Compllsd from JTA R*porh
In New York; the conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced its annual program of Inter¬ national scholarship and fellowship grants for the academic year of 1963. The announcement was made by Jacob Blau¬ stein, senior vice-president of the Conference.
In Jerusalem, Shalom Shtarlces was sentenced in Jeru¬ salem Distict Coiurt to three years' Imprisonment for kid¬ napping his nephew, Yosseie Schumacher, and 16 two years -for perjury in connection with the case. Then sentences, which win run concurrently, will be reckoned from August, 1961, when Shtarkes was first jailed in London on an extra¬ dition request by the Israeli Government. The sentences
are subject to appeal.
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In Bonn, the West German Government this week formally requested the Government of Chile to extradite Walter Rauff, a leading Gestapo officer and former general of Hitler's SS, who is under arrest in Chile on German . charges of having partfcipated in the wartime murder of 90,000 Jews.
In Philadelphia, It was announced that a grant of $636,000 has been awarded by the United SUtes Govemmetit undpr the Hill-Burton Act to help build a new, three-story, $1,300,000 research center at the Albert Einstein Medical Center here. Matching funds will be supplied by the hos¬ pital. Max William Korman announced simultaneously that the Korman Family Foundation will "donate a large portion of the money which must be raised to meet the Govern¬ ment's matching grant."
In Montreal, Dr. Abraham Stliman, physician-author, of this city, was awarded the H. M. Caiserman Award for 1962 for his two t>ooks, "Healer of All Flesh" and "Marlette." Dr. Stliman has been for many years the medical columnist of "The Eagle," a bilingual Yiddish-English daily newspaper here.
KEYNOTER'S LUNCHEON WILL FEATURE LOUISVILLE AHORNEY AS SPEAKER .
The Keynoter's Luncheon, the first event sponsored by the women's division ofthe United. Jewish Pund and Council, will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 12:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Robert Lazarus, 2015 Fair Ave. The guests will consist of those women who have contributed .$365 or more to the cur¬ rent campaign.
The speaker at the luncheon wlil be Bernard H. Barnett,
of   Louisville's   outstanding  . , ^.     _,^.,    ^   ,    ,.„ _,
°  l>er  of the UJA's Study Mission,
he accepted the co-chairmanship of the Louisville Campaign's Ad¬ vance Gifts Committee, and per¬ sonally aiccounted for 93 per cent of the gifts credited to tliat group, all of them for substantial in¬ creases over the year before
Bamebt just returned eight weeks ago from the eighth Is raeii study mission celebrating the 25th anniversAry of the United Jewish Appeal. He toured the many new developments in Israel with Columbus representatives.
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coimmunal leaders, who will talk on behalf of the 1963 campaign story. A memiber of national United Jewish Appeal cabinet, Barnett is an attorney who has l)een in practice in Louisville ever since ills graduation froim the law schools of Vanderbllt University and Oliio State University. -He Is a- Inember'of the Louisville, Ken¬ tucky and American Bar Asso¬ ciations.
BARNETT     HELPED      make
fiindralslng history in Louisville in 1960, when, following his visit to EJurope and Israel as ^ raem-
inclusion  In   the   campaign  of   a special   emergen<iy fund for   the United   Jewiah   Appeal    in    the amount of $7P,000. A special emer¬ gency  fund  for' UJA   had   been provided for in the 1962 campaign. It was ejcplained that last year's high rate of immigration to Is¬ rael   and   Prance   is   continuing. This   influx   makes   even   more critical  the Jewish Agency's ur¬ gent need for funds to meet two most urgent problems — housing and' the   economic  absorption  of scores of thousands of newcomers. THE FUNDS SOUGHT for the reguiar   campaign   total   $699,001. In    Explaining   Itie    increased needs for 1963, Levy jpointed out that for the local agencies addi¬ tional funds are required for the Oolumbus  Hebrew  School,  Heri¬ tage House and capita] improve¬ ment of the Jewiah Center. Addi¬ tional funds are annually sought in behalf of the national agencies but  unless   additional  funds are raised none   can  be given.  Levy waa hopeful this could be provid¬ ed tills year. The overseas prol)- icm   and    its   needs   still    loom large  and   every  effort  must be made   to   achieve  maximum re suits.
HERMAN M. KATZ, general campaign chairman, stated that the goal of $774,001 was an in¬ crease of nine per cent over last year's campaign achiev^ent. It was a reasonable and valid one and, in his opinion, was achieve- aibie. Although the goals of past years, he stated, represented valid needs they were not within the realm of being achieved. He had every confidence that the 1963 goal could be achieved. He ex¬ plained that the campaign pledge tsiil^ would have t'Vo lines; one for*the Regular Camipalgn, and one for the Special Emergency Fund of the UJA.
Approximately six and one half per cent more money was needed for the regular campaign and 41 per cent for the special emergen¬ cy fund. No one could make a contribution to the speoial fund without at least equaling last year's gift to the regular cam¬ paign. L
HERBERT H. SdnFF, presi dent of UJFC, explained that the only way io preserve the integrity and effectiveness of the UJTO when a two line campaign was Involved   was   that   more   funds
must be given to the Reguiar Campaign first and then a gener¬ ous gift to the Special PVnd.
The goal of $774,001 Was arrived at through a very carefully screened process. Bach of tlie UJirOs six budget subcommittees reviewed the needs of all the agencies and upon the lieat avail¬ aible information arrived at their estimates. These reports were suiunitted to a Steering Commit¬ tee consisting of aJl the budget committee chairmen, the General Canupalgn Chairman and the Chairman of the Allooations Committee. The report of this Committee was In turn submitted to a joint meeting of the«Execu- tive and Allocations Committee and finally to the Board of Trus¬ tees.
Benuird U. Bamett
HIS OTHER OOMM^WAL ac¬ tivities have been equally note¬ worthy. He served as chairman tor non-Jewish solicitations for successful building fund drives which the Louisvilie Conference of Jev/ish Organizations conduct¬ ed on behalf of the local Jewish Community Center and the Jew¬ ish Hospital; co-chairman of the Salvation Army building fundi the March of Dimes special gifts committee, the Kentucity Heart fund, the Koaair Crippled Chil¬ dren's Fund special gifts com¬ mittee, and aiso as chairman of the Louisville F^ind, a oampaign which embraced all of tiie city's major cultural groups, including the Louisville Orchestra,
He was a member of the ad¬ visory grouip to the joint com¬ mittee on Internal Revenue Tax¬ ation of tbe Congress tor three years. During World War H, he (contliuMd on p<g* (|
LEADING LADIES TO LAUNCH FUND DRIVE AT UJFC LUNCHEON
The Leading Ladies of the young matron's division will launch the young matron's 1963 camipalgn for the United Jewlah Fund and Council Jan. 17 at 12:30 p.m. at the home o- Mrs. Thomas Kaplin, Jr., 393 N, Columbia Ave.
Chairman of the Leading Lady luncheon, Mrs. Leonard Wasser¬ strom, and her co-chairmen, Mrs. Jaok Walliok and Mrs. Mitclieli Goodman, have announced that Bernard Barnett, prominent at¬ torney and one of Louisville's out¬ standing communal leaders, will speak on ttebalt ot the United Jewish B^nd and Council and 'ts major beneficiary agencies. Bar¬ nett is a member of the National United Jewish Appeal Cabinet.
Mra. Bernard Yenkin, who will giVe the opening prayer, is ciiair¬ man of the sollcltationa and res¬ ervations for Uie luncheon. Work¬ ing with her are Mrs. Martin Ad¬ ler, Mra. Irving Fireman, Mra. Gerald M. Friedmaji, Mrs. Mi¬ chael Karr, Mrs. George M. Le¬ vine, Mrs. Leon Mendel, Mrs. Mei¬ vin Raokoff, Mrs. Gordon Zacks and.Mrs. Bernard  Frank.
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Invitations Mrs. Millard
"Never since Eve have leading ladles been so In de¬ mand," say the young matrons in charge of the Leading Ladles Luncheon for the United Jewish Fiind and CouncU. The luncheon will be held Jan. 17 at 12:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Thomas Kaplin, Jr., 393 N. Columbia Ave. Plctiu-ed are (left to right): Mrs. Jack Wallick, co-chairman of the luncheon; Mrs. Bernard Yenkin, solicitation and reservations chairman; Mrs. Mitchell Goodman, co-chairman of the lunch¬ eon; and Mrs. Leonard Wasserstrom, cludrman.