Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1963-09-06

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Vol. 41. No. 36
FRIDAY,   SEPTEMBER   6,    1963   ^   17   ELUL,   5723
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Community Mourns Loss Of Dr. Gordon
Tidings of sadness came upon Columbus Jewry Monday afternoon at the announcement of the death of Dr. E. J. Gordon, for many years a venerated leader and civic worker in many worthwhile e'ndeavours in this city. His devoted wife "Reva," who also contributed greatly to numerous humanitarian efforts, passed away last May.
Funeral services, held at the Snider Funeral Chapel Wed¬ nesday  afternoon,   were officiated
by Rabbis Jerome Folkman, Sam¬ uel Rubenstein and Harry Kaplan, with an overflow attendance of men and women trom every walk of life. In their eulogies they spoke ot the deceased as being a conse¬ crated toiler in God's vineyard and that there was no more faithful Jew and loyal American than he. "DR. GORDON," the Rabbis add ed, "was the living embodiment of the  Jewish  community   which   he
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so appropriately and admirably served. The finest in Judaism and the best in Americanism were his lifelong ways ot life. The entire community of Columbus as well as the whole ot American Jewry, to which he brought incomparable gifts ot mind and spirit, are all sorely bereft by his demise. Inde¬ fatigable in his labors for every worthy cause, Dr. Gordon carried on despite tailing health as a stal¬ wart and sacrificial servant ot God and Man."
Cantor P. H. Gellman chanted the "El Mole" memorial prayer. Due to the Labor Day early pub¬ lication deadline, the editorial- tribute to Dr. Gordon will appear In next week's Issue of the Chronicle.
DR. GORDON came to this country trom Lithuania in 1888 as a child of five years and settled tor a brief period in Parkersburg, W. Va. Three years later he moved to Columbus where he received his early education at Capital Universi¬ ty and his medical degree from the College ot Medicine at Ohio State University, He also did some post graduate work at Harvard University Medical School.
Later he served as assistant in¬ structor ot anatomy, 1905-09; in¬ structor ot  medicine,   1910-17;   as-
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IN IjOS ANGELES, failure ot the Board of Education to act on a plea on behalf of Jewish teachers in the public school system will mean the loss of two days' salary for hundreds of such teachers planning to absent themselves for the Jewish High Holy Days next month.
IN BRUSSELS, an exhibition dealing with Nazi con¬ centration camps has been opened in Ostende under patron¬ age of the Bishop of Bruges and the Governor of West Flanders "not to maintain hatred or rancor, but to stress events that happened only a few years ago that many adults have already forgotten and youngsters are com¬ pletely unaware of."
IN GENEVA, the Association of Swiss Banks circu¬ lated a memordandum to member banks asking them to "do their utmost" to trace deposits, which might have be¬ longed to depositors who perished in Nazi concentration camps and other victims of "racial, religious or political perescution" during the Hitler era.
IN JERUSALEM, the Israel Chief Rabbinate issued its expected protest against the decision of the Zim-Shoham Lines to Install a second non-kosher kitchen on its luxury liner, the SS Shalom, now nearing completion in a French shipyard.
IN TEL AVIV, 14 East African air force men ;-eceived their wings at a special ceremony at an Israel Air Force base in northern Israel after completing special nine-month training courses.
IN AMSTERDAM, a Dutch citizen convicted by Egypt of espionage for Israel returned to Amsterdam after three years of detention in Cairo after lengthy negotiations by the Dutch Embassy for his release. Meewuis Goudswaqrd, 70, was convicted in October 1960, by a state security court in Cairo which sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment. He allegedly confessed to transmitting military informa¬ tion Israel "frequently."
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ADL Director Visits Germany In Mission To Combat Bigotry
Seymour Gorchoff, executive director of the Ohio-Kentucky Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League and director of the Columbu.s Communily Relations Committee i.s one of 12 American civil rights specialists who arrived in Bonn, Germany, today on an exchange mission concerned with the problems of democracy.
The group, representing the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. will work with Ger
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Label Katz To Talk At Annual Meeting Of UJFC In October
Ben Yenkin, chairman ot the An¬ nual Meeting ot the United Jewish Fund and Council, which will be held on Sunday. Oct. 6 at the Wind¬ ing Hollow Country Club, has an¬ nounced that the guest speaker tor this occasion will be Label Katz, president ot the International Order of B'nai B'rith, and a leading spokesman for the entire Jewish community in national and world affairs.
PLANS for the annual meeting are in the process of completion, arid invitations and announcements will soon be sent to all members of the community who by their contributions to the United Jewish Fund have indicated .their interest in- and support ot the many agencies and beneficiaries, local, national and overseas, of the UJFC.
Herbert Schiff, president ot the United Jewish Fund and Council, has announced that presidents of all local community organizations will be honored at the annual meet¬ ing, by serving as hosts ahd host¬ esses tor the dinner which will pre¬ cede the program.
man civic officials, youth and com¬ munity leaders, at the invitation of the Federal Republic, in an effort to explore how American experi¬ ence in combating bigotry can be applied to the German scene.
GORCHOFF, formerly of Chicago, 111., moved to Columbus to estab¬ lish the Regional ADL Office in 1948. He has since directed the ex¬ tensive activities of the ADL in combating anti-Semitism and pro¬ moting intergroup understanding throughout the states ot Ohio and Kentucky.
As the Director of the Columbus Community Relations Committee, he is responsible tor the profession¬ al direction ot the community re¬ lations activities in the Columbus area on behalf of the United Jew¬ ish Fund and Council.
GORCHOFF received his educa¬ tion at the University ot Chicago where he received the degree ot Bachelor of Arts and Doctor ot Law degrees. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar and practiced law in Chicago tor several years until he entered the armed services. Upon his retirement trom the service, he became associated with the ADL in 1944.
The exchange program is unique in that it is sponsored jointly by the Bonn govemrtent and an American Jewish organization. Moreover, to obtain personal un¬ derstanding of post-war problems in Germany, the League group will live with German' families in the cities they visit. Headgd by Benja¬
min R. Epstein, ADL national di¬ rector, it includes educators, law¬ yers, social scientists and public affairs  specialists.
THE PROGRAM is a continua¬ tion of an exchange inaugurated in 1960 after a visit to Germany by Epstein and Nathan C. Belth, a League executive, to study the causes of swastika smearings which had broken out in Cologne and spread to the United States and elsewhere in the world. The West German foreign office accepted the League's   exchange  suggestion   as
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HERBERT H. SCHIFF IS FIRST SPEAKER OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Lawrence D. Schaffer, chairman, and Mrs. Leonard Was¬ serstrom, co-chairman, of the Leadership Development Program have announced that Hertjert H. Schiff, president of the United Jewish Fund and Council, will be the first speaker of the 1963-64 season. The topic for the evening will be "The Community In Which We Live — Locally, Nationally and Overseas."
In addition to his present position, Schiff has served the UJFC as chairman ot Special Gifts,
Allocations and General Campaign and currently as president of the Columbus Jewish Welfare Founda¬ tion,
AT PRESENT, he a Board mem¬ ber ot Heritage House, Hillel Foun¬ dation, The Jewish Center and Jewish Family Service, having served as its president.
On the national level, he has served as chairman of the Nomi¬ nating Committee of JDC, is on the Bard ot United HIAS, a member ot the UJA Cabinet, a Board mem¬ ber ot the National Council ot the American Jewish Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee and the Council ot Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
THE OPENING discussion wiii be held on Wednesday, Sept. ll, at 8 p.m. at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Schiff, 1620 E. Br^ad St. Refresh¬ ments will be served following the meeting.
All who were invited to partici¬
pate  in  this series  are   urged attend this opening session.
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Mrs. Joseph D. Schecter (right) shows the new emblem for Heritage House volunteers to (left to right) Mrs. M. Gilbert Knolls, Mrs.  Jule  Mark and  Mrs-. Mdrris  Polster.
'INVESTITURE DAY' AT HERITAGE HOUSE ON SEPT. 12 WILL HONOR VOLUNTEERS
"The Woman in the Smock" will he honored by Heritage House Auxiliary in a special Investiture Service on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon, according to Mrs. Jack S. Resler, president of the Auxiliary.
Chairman of this special service for volunteers who have been working at Heritage House, and for all who would like to work,  is Mrs. Joseph D. Schecter, who has been heading the program of  volunteer  service  for j   , . ,^      ,,       ,    ^ the auxiliary since the new home  which    all   volunteers   wiH    wear
was built. Assisting her in plans for the meeting on Sept. 12 will be Mrs. Jule Mark.
EVERY WOIVIAN who has been involved in volunteer service at the Heritage House during the past year is urged to attend, and an in¬ vitation is being extended also to any one who wishes to become in¬ volved in the important program tor the residents at the Home. A coffee hour at 9:30 a.m. will pre¬ cede the meeting.
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while giving service at Heritage House will be distributed at this time, as well as the distinctive and distinguisliing emblems. A new training manual for volunteers, en¬ titled "Woman in the Smock," will be available tor all who attend. In addition, there wiii be a full dis¬ cussion and evaluation ot the Vol¬ unteer Service Program as it has developed during the past year, and suggestions for improving the service of voiilnteers in the best (continued on  page  8)
BERNARD RUBEN ACCEPTS CHAIRMANSHIP FOR HIGH HOLIDAY ISRAEL BOND EFFORT
Bernard Ruben, outstanding Columbus developer, has ac¬ cepted the post of chairman of the special High Holiday Israel Bond effort that will be held in Columbus synagogues during Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur, it was announced by Alvin B. Schottenstein, general chairman of the Columbus Israel Bond Committee.
In accepting the post of High Holiday chairman, Ruben emphasized the role of the redemp
tion of the first Israel Bonds this year as a stimulus to greater re¬ sponse to the Bond program.
"We anticipate a record result in our High Holiday effort this year," he said. "Israel's encour¬ aging progress and the redemption of the first Israel Bonds have brought about an upsurge of en¬ thusiasm and confidence in the economic future ot Israel.
"From its inception, the Israel Bond campaign has provided the pioneering capital to finance the expansion ot Israel's economy, not only through the establishment of new industrial facilities, but through the exploration and exploit¬ ation of natural resources and. through the introduction of nSw industries and new agricultiVEll products.
"At the present time Israel Bonds provide the capital invest- rflents Israel needs to extend its economic development in the desr ert region ot the south known as the Negev. On the basis of an esti
mated population growth ot 100,000 a year during the balance of the present decade, Israel is under pressure to reclaim large tracts of desert land to accomodate new [continued on  pagt 7);
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