Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1963-03-22

              UJFC Launches Campaign For More Than 40 Beneficiaries
Serving Columbus, Dayton, Cenfral and Southv
Vol.41. No. 12
FRIDAY.   MARCH   22.    1963
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The World's Week
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In Jerusalem, Mikhail Bodrov, the Soviet Ambassador to Israel, said he would look Into the matter of the refusal of Soviet authorities to allow import of matzoths for Soviet Jews for Passover.
The envoy made the statement In reply to a question under unique circumstances—while he was wearing a skull¬ cap during a two-hour visit to the Helchal Shlomo, the home of Israel's Chief Rabbinate. He was received by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim.
In Paris, the Algerian Parliament adopted a new na¬ tionality law which was described by legal experts here as "discriminatory against non-Moslem residents" of Algeria, who Include some 15,000 Jews.
The experts also asserted that the new law was "con¬ trary to the spirit and letter of the Franco-Algerian Evian agreement" by which Algeria won independence from France after many years as a French colony.
In Tel Aviv, Syrian gunners opened fire on three trac¬ tors working In the demilitarized zone between Ein Gev and Tel Katzir In the Lake Tiberias area in the first border incident since the latest coup in Syria.
The shooting against the tractors, which were prepar¬ ing fields for siunmer crops, lasted about 10 minutes. Then when the tractor drivers were preparing to leave the area, the Syrians again started shooting. The firing was not retiu-ned and the tractors were finally removed from the danger area.
In New York, four major American life Insurance com¬ panies have signed an agreement with the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., which will facilitate the construction of homes for over 8,000 Immigrants expected to arrive In Israel In 1963. The four companies are: The Penn Mutual Life In¬ surance Co. of Philadelphia, The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.,of Springfield, Mass., The State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America, Worcester, Mass., and the Phoenix Mutual Life insiu-ance Co. of Hartford, Conn.
In Vienna, a Wost German court-ruling that the "for¬ mer German Reich" must pay compensation for jewelry seized from an Austrian Jewlah family by the Gestapo was seen here as opening the way for recovery by many Austrian Jewish families for such seizures.
In Jerusalem, Abba Eban, Israel's Minister of Educa¬ tion, took issue in Parliament this week with Prime Mini¬ ster Ben-Gurlon on the question of "compulsory and free high school education" in this country. Eban proposed in¬ stead a policy of "free secondary education for those who are adept and who wish It."
Eban stated his views as he discussed before the Knes¬ set his ministry's 1963-64 budget, calling for 200,000,000 pounds. He described the Ben-Gurlon formulation on high school  education as "both impractical  and unnecessary."
WOMEN'S DIVISION NAMES TARGET DATE OF 1963 UJFG CAMPAIGN SOUGITATION
Target Day for the campaign' of the Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council. Is set for Wednesday, Mar. 27. On that day, all general solicitations campaign worker? will report at The Jewish Center with the results of their ef forts for the previous week.
The General Solicitations campaign was launched at a meet¬ ing held at the home of Mrs. Leon Schottenstein on Mar. 20, at which time the workers were pre¬ sented with their solicitation ma¬ terial and kispired .to do their best to achieve success.
AS THE WORKERS go out into the community to receive pledges and contributions to the 1963 Cam¬ paign, they will repeat the needs for support of the increased immi¬ gration into Israel, for support of local agencies that are vital to the Columbus residents, and the vast amount of monies needed for the rescue of displaced Jews from Tun¬ is, Algeria and Morroco. The com- '¦¦'ned pledges of every Jewish wo-
an in Columbus will make many .escues possible.
Mrs. Jack Wolman is chairman for General Solicitations and her co-chairmen are Mrs. Maurice ' Bleich, Mrs. Herbert Linick, Mrs. Mayer Rosenfeld and Mrs. Arthur Westerman.
Mrs. Alvin E. Schottenstein la chairman for Target Day when all of the area chairmen will be on hand to receive the completed cards. Mrs. Gernerd Cohen and Mrs. Theodore Schlonsky were In charge of kits.^ Mrs. Bernard Ment- zer serves as Office liaison. Zoning is under Mrs. David Levison and Mrs. Sam Valeov.
The chairman of the Women's Division Is Mrs. Leon Schottenstein and her co<hairman is Mrs. Louis •Krakoff.
Dr. M. Friedman To Head Hillel Series
Dr. Maurice Friedman, professor of philosophy and religion at Sarah Lawrence College and America's foremost interpreter of Martin Bu¬ ber, will speak on "Martin Buber— The Life of Dialogue" on Sunday, Mar. 31, al 8 p.m.
On Apr. 7 the Hillel Forum wili present Dr. Anthony Nemetz, as¬ sociate professor of philosophy al Ohio State, who will speak on "Suffering and Sacrifice — lu Meaning Today."
The final speaker on the Spring Quarter program will be Dr. Maur¬ ice Sigmond, Hillel Director at Har¬ vard University. A former mem¬ ber of Yale's department of anthro¬ pology, he will speak on "An An¬ thropologist Looks at Judaism." This forum, which la on Apr 21, Is open to the public as well as all the others. The public is invited. BRUNCH SERIES
Hillel's Brunch series for the Spring Quarter will  include;
March 31. Toviah Ben Hdrhi, rab¬ binical student from Israel study¬ ing at Hebrew Union College- Jew¬ ish Institute of Rellgipn, speaking on "The Future of Liberal Judaism
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UJFC TRADES AND PROFESSION GROUP
At a recent meeting of the .chalripen and 23 separated section chairmen of the Trades and i*r6fessions divisions of the United Jewish Fund and Council, final reporu were heard about the colnpletlon of the campaign organization and the implementation of canipalgn plans for this year. Seen in the top photo explaining the 1963 campaigrn plans are (left to right): Herman M. Katz, general campaign chair¬ man, and Sol D. Zell, chairman of the overall Trades and Professions division.
In the middle picture seen reviewing these campaign plans of each section are (left to right): Joseph L. Eisenberg, attorney's chairman; Harold Schottenstein, advance gifts chairman; Martin Gold, Metropolitan section chairtnan, being sponsored this year by B'nai B'rith Buckeye Lodge; Morris Swedlow, member of the Frontrunners campaign planning committee; Jules Garel, member of the Century Club plan¬ ning committee; George Levine, Trades and Professions asso¬ ciate chairman; Allen Gundersheimer, Jr., chairman. Trades and Professions "M" Day; Murray I. Daninhirsch, chairman, community workers section; and Arthur Isaacs, Jr., member of the Century Club planning committee.
In the bottom picture, seated are (left to right): Herbert Weyl, chairman for the accounts section; Albert II. Greene, Trades and Professions associate chairman; Walter Robin¬ son, co-chairman for engineers; Philip'Bornstein,. food sec¬ tion chairman; Hy Weinberg, Trades and Professions asso- ci£|te chairman; Fred Levi, vice chairman for .icrap and steel section; Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Ohio State University section chairman; Herbert Wagner, Battelle section chairman; George Rosenberger, chairman of depanmen". stores section . and Julius Margulies, vice chairman for the miscellaneous sections.
Many of these sections In the Trades and Professions Division have already held their fund-raising functions and have begun their solicitations The General Campaign will begin on Sunday, Mar. 31, with a Klck-Off Ra.lly at The Jewish Center. This will mark the traditional opening of the Trades and Professions Campaign with tho "M" Day Solicitations.
Negro Newspaper Reports On Jews
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The New York Amsterdam News, a leading Negro weekly newspaper, was sharply criticized here this week for a report In Its current Issue alleging that "a highly confidential study" had established that "Jews control New York City's top jobs." The weekly also asserted that the study demonstrated that Jews hold 53 per cent of top positions" In city government though they constituted only 26.4 per cent of the city's population.
The newspaper did not specify the sponsorship of the "secret" sur¬ vey beyond implying that it was done by Protestants. Subsequently it developed that such a study had been made under the sponsorship of the Protestant Council of the aty ot New York.
THE    PROTESTANT    COUNCIL
issued a statement "profoundly" regretting the bnplications in the Amsterdam News version of the survey, which the Council said It had never intended to publish be¬ cause it was loo "tentative and In¬ conclusive." The Council also as¬ serted lhat the weekly's version "distorts the purpose of the study." The Amsterdam News version also was condemned by the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the American .lewish Committee, and the Urban League, a Negro organization.
THE AMSTERDAM NEWS re¬ ported the survey had "tar reach¬ ing racial implications" since It had been indicated that about 85 per cent of the city's Protestants are Negroes. According to the Am¬ sterdam News version, one of the survey's conclusions was that "Jews tend to get jobs far in excess of their percentage of the population" and that Jews "are overrepresented in 31 categories and underrepre- sented in five categories" in city positions. The Amsterdam News re¬
port said that the "results and conclusions" were based on a study of "the 2,444 top city positions, with a total of 2,161 persons re¬ porting their religious affiliation." Among "specific recults" cited by the Amsterdam News as aris¬ ing from the study were that "in the city and borough administra¬ tive offices, of 656 persons'who re¬ ported a religious affiliation, 310 were Catholic, 260 were Jewish and only 75 Protestant."
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PUNS COMPLETED FOR B'NAI B'RITH WOMEN EARLY BIRD LDNCHEON MARCH 26
A new and special collection of International traditional festival costumes from 15 foreign countries will be shown for the first time in Columbus at the Early Bird Luncheon of the Zion and Candlelight Chapters of B'nai B'rlth Women, Tuesday, Mar. 26, at The Jewish Center. The luncheon will begin at 11:4.^ a.m., with serving continuing until 12:45 p.m., to accommodate late-comers.
Membership dues of $6 will be payable at this meeting and will entitle those who attend to receive Early Bird Gold Honor Member ship Cards. A $1 fee for the lun¬ cheon cosl will also  be  charged.
THE LUNCHEON wUl be prepar¬ ed by a large committee of B'nai B'rith Women, headed by Mrs. Jack Kooperstein and Mrs. Abe Pollack, assisted by Mrs. Albert Becker, Mrs. H. Ucko, Mrs. Ben Rehmar, Mrs. Ernest Stem, Mrs.
Mitchell Goodman, Mrs. Robert Friedman, Mrs. Harry Bruce, and a group of volunteer cooks from both Zion and CandleUght Chapters. Mrs. Samuel Schwartz and Mrs. Herbert Urell are co-chairmen In charge of arrangements for this meeting, and they have announced that the following women will mo¬ del the costumes flown here for showing by Trans Wprld Airlines, with Mary Gordon, Travel AdWsor (contlnuad on pa^o 4)
Candlelight Chapter To Hold Installation
Installation for the newlyelected officers of Candlelight Chapter, B'nai B'rith Women, will be held at a luncheon at Del Matto's restau¬ rant on Thursday, Apr. 4, at 12:30 p.m.
Serving again in her capacity as president will be Mrs. Abe Green. First vice president (fund raising) wili be Mrs. Leon Blaugrund; sec¬ ond vice president (membership), Mrs. Murray Edison; third Vice president (orientation), Mrs. Phil¬ lip Gurwin; fourth vice president (philanthropies), Mrs. Martin Gold; financial secretary, Mrs. Marvin Katz; recording secretary, Mrs. Robert Emmerman; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Benton Block; treasurer, Mrs. Saul Izeman; guardian, Mrs. Jack Shatz; con¬ ductress, Mrs. Herbert Urell; life¬ time trustee and United Jewish Fund and Council, Mrs. Eli Gold; trustee and. Bonds for Israel, Mrs. (contlnuod on  paqa  4)
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BLOOD DONORS DAY SEI FOR APBiL 24
Columbus is one of the few com¬ munities in the country which en¬ joys a participating agreement with the American Red Cross. Al¬ though the word "enjoys" may seem strange when used in connection with the giving and use of blood, it is important to remember that tiecause of this agreement, and be¬ cause the citizens of Columbus have pledged themselves to con¬ tribute blood on an on-going annual basis to the Red Cross, that organi¬ zation in turn has pledged to furn¬ ish all the blood needed for Colum¬ bus area residents in any of the hospitals  in our community.
The Jewish Community is a part of this participating arrangement, and through the Blood Donor Coun¬ cil of the Council of Organizations which is part of the United Jewish Fund and Council, every member of the community can help main¬ tain and strengthen the blood pro¬ gram through which they are en¬ abled to "enjoy" the protection of getting blood when it is needed, in case of sickness, for an operation or for an emergency situation.   .
The Blood Donor Ouncil, headed by Leonard Quinn, has set Wed¬ nesday, Apr. 24, from noon to 6 p.m. at 'The Jewish Center, as the date of the Spring Blood Donor Campai^.
Drive chairman is Sanford Fish¬ man with Rudolph Stem, Jr., Dav¬ id Canowitz and Dr. Aaron Katz serving as majors.
CUBS READY FOR BLUE Am GOLD
Above are members of Cuto Scout Pack No. 128, sponsor¬ ed by the Columbus Jewish Center, which will hold Its an¬ nual Blue and Gold dinner on Sunday, Mar. 24, at 5 p.m. at The Jewish Center.
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