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Vol. 42, No. 23
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1964 — 25 SIVAN, 5724
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31st JWV Meeting June 12-14 At Plaza
The Jevifish War Veterans of America, Department of Ohio, will hold ils 31st annual department convention on .Tune 12, 13 and 14 at the Columbus Plaza. Herman Eisenman, department commander, and Mrs. Sylvia Weinberg, department auxiliary president, will be honored on Saturday, June 13 at the annual dinner dance to be held at the Plaza.
The guest speaker will be U.S. Attorney Lawrence Gubow of Detroit.  Mr.  Gubow  is  a  past
departmenl commander and is pres¬ ently a member xi! the National Executive Committee.
Mr. Eisenman, a post command¬ er, and Mrs. Weinberg will finish their terms of office al this con¬ vention, and both will become mem¬ bers of the departmenl executive commiltee.
Capitol Ladies.Auxiliary No. 122, Jewish War Velerans, will be host¬ esses for the Department of Ohio Ladies Auxiliary Convention which will be held simultaneously at the Plaza.
Delegates from Ihe Columbus La¬ dies Auxiliary are: Belly Siegel, auxiliary president; Goldie Gold¬ man, Suzanne Cowan, Margret Grossman, Saliy L. Trager, Cece Radzelc, Jeanne Ballen, Hidra Les¬ sure. Hattie Stetelman, Charlene Fishman  and Eileen Kaplan.
The convention will open on Fri¬ day, June 12 at U a.m., wilh a presentation to the Chillicothe V.A. Hospital by the Department of Ohio Ladies Auxiliary. Mrs. Golda Gold¬ man will make the presentation lo Dr. Sam Beanstock, head of the Chillicothe VA Hospital. A lour of the hospital will follow. Anyone wishing to .attend this presentation
ceremony should contact Mrs. Gold¬ man BE. 5-9962.
There will be Sabbalh services Friday night al 8 p.m. al the Plaza. An Oneg Shabbat social wiil follow wilh Capitol Ladies Auxiliary No. 122 as hostesses. An Eariy Bird Party for visitors and out-of-town (contlnuad on  p^go  4)
Lawrence Gubow
Herman   Eisenman
Mrs. Sylvia Weinberg
UJFG STUDY MISSION GROUP RETURNS FROM TOUR OF ISRAEL AND EUROPE
Members of the first Study Mission Tour of Israel and Europe sponsored by the United Jewish Fund and Council of Columbus, returned recently to the city. All were enthusiastic about the trip, which had included an intensive two-week tour of Israel, and visits to Rome, Florence, Geneva and Paris.
While in Israel, the group was privileged to witness the arrival of a ship-load of newcomers from an unnamed European country,   3(X)  in  number,   and  120
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporh
NEW YORK- (JTA)—I^ouls Nizer, celebrated attorney and author, has been retained to represent the Antl-Defa- matlon League of B'nai B'rith and to conduct Its legal ac¬ tion for the removal of the "offensive anti-Semitic" wall mural at the Jordan Pavilion in the World's Fair, it was announced by Dore Schary, national chairman of the ADL.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The government of Poland was praised this week by Dr. Nahum Goldmann for its "efforts in helping the small Jewish communities in Poland to main¬ tain Jewish life."
He said he had been "most impressed" by the efforts of the Polish government to help the small Jewish com¬ munities through the financing of a Yiddish theater, Yid¬ dish papers, publishing companies and "maintaining full- day Jewish schools."
However, he said, he believed that both Jewish and non-Jewish public opinion was not fully aware of this work and that there should be a wider appreciation of what the Polish people were doing.
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) — Diplomats of Britain, France and other U.S. allies have expressed deep dissatis¬ faction over a $40 million dollar loan made to the UAR by the International Monetary Fund through the prodding of Washington over their objections. The allies see in the U.S. move a political motivation, since the announcement of the loan followed Khrushchev's visit with Nasser.
It was reliably reported here that the State Depart¬ ment had insisted on making the loan over the objections of the Treasury Department.
LONDON (JTA)—Thousands of persons took part in a ceremony in Riga honoring the memory of the 85,000 Jews exterminated by the Nazis in 1941 just outside that Latvian city, it was reported from Riga. Six candles were lighted at the six giant graves of the Riga victims.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (JTA)—A leader in Jewish education urged Jewish communities this week to triple their allocations for Jewish schools to at least 30 per cent of the funds expended for all Jewish communal purposes.
Dr. Elazar Goelman, president of the National Council for Je\yi,sh, Education, cited data showing that allocations by Jewish federations for Jewdsh education had been about nine and one half per cent of the total funds received by local Jewish agencies from federations and community chest allocations during the past five years.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The trade pact between the European Economic Community and Israel, under which Israel ia to receive tariff concessions on a number of its exports to the six-nation European Common Markel, will go into effect July I.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Arab pickets marched in front of the national headquarters of the American Jewish con¬ gress and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. They carried signs denounqing "Zionist totalitarianism" and ac¬ cusing both organizations of bias.
PRAT^KPURT (JTA)—Gestapo murder squads compell¬ ed Jewish victims at Auschwitz to send postcards to their homes, purportedly mailed from the German resort of Wald- see, saying "wish you were here," a Brazilian businessman who had acted as a liason man between the late Adolf Elchmann's Gestapo units and the Hungarian Jews testified here.
The Brazilian, Laszle Petoe, pointed to Hermann Krum- ey, one of Elchmann's chief Budapest aides, and told how Krumey had handed him a stack of thousands of postcards a week after the first batch of Jews had been sent to Ausch¬ witz. He said Krumey told him to mail the cards which indicated that they had been mailed from Waldsee, and declared the purpose was "to lull" the Jews still remaining in Budapest into a feeling that they would be sent lo a similar resort.
Eshkol's Welcome To U.^. Is Enthusiastic
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WUP)—Prime Minister Levi Esh¬ kol with his young, charming wife arrived here Sunday after¬ noon, May 1, via a special flight of El Al Israel Airlines and were greeted at the airport Ijy Mayor James H. J. Tate and other outstanding city officials.
A large corps of U.S., Israeli and Jewish newsmen spear¬ headed the welcoming crowd.
As the official guests of Presi¬ dent and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, the Eijhkols will be under the guid¬ ance of the Slate Department throughout their two-week slay in the United Slates. An elaborate whirlwind program has been sched¬ uled for them by the government.
Foliowing the official welcome in the City of Brotherly Love and a tour of the historic sites, the Esh- kols were flown the next morning, Monday, June 1, by helicopter lo the White House where they were greeted by the President and Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Rusk, the Chief of Naval Operations and Mrs. MacDonald, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and other U.S. officials.
While Mrs. Eshkol was being en¬ tertained separately by Mrs. Duke on the U.S.S. Sequoia where a spe¬ cial luncheon for her was held and later by a visit to Mt. Vernon, Pre¬ mier Eshkol's Monday program in¬ cluded a meeling wilh Presideni Johnson at the White House; a visit to the grave of the lale President Kennedy; a meeting with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an official dinner given by the Presideni and Mrs. Johnson al the Wliite House.
On Tuesday. June 2, Levi Eshkol was honored at a breakfast given by George Meany and other offi¬ cials of the AFL-CIO. The Israeli Premier also met with Secretary of State Rusk and others at the de¬ partment; also with Secretary of Defense McNamara. At 4 p.m. Pre¬ mier E.shkol met again wilh Presi¬ dent Johnson after which the two issued a special communique. In the evening, IWr. and Mrs. Eshkol played hosts to President and Mrs. Johnson al a reception in the May¬ flower Hotel.
On Wednesday, June 3, Mr. Esh¬ kol had breakfast wilh members of the Congress at Blair House. His other activities this day included appearances on the television net- worksSf ABC, NBC and CBS and' a luncheon given 'by the Overseas Writers.
Al 4-.'30 p.m. Wednesday a U.S. helicopter took the Eshkois and party to Andrews Air Force Base whpre they boarded a U.S. Air Force plane for New York.
The Thursday, June 4 schedule in New York included a UJA dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, meetings with Mayor Wagner at City Hall,
with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and a UN luncheon given by Secretary General U Thant al the UN; an evening reception given by the mayor in the Waldorf grand baU¬ room.
On Friday, June 5, the Israeli successor to Ben-Gurion Is meeting with members of the American Zionist Council and with representa¬ tives of the Synagogue Council.
Premier Eshkol's Sabbath sched¬ ule includes attendance for servi^3s at the Sha'arilh Tsraei Congrega¬ tion in the morning and, in the evening, he will be the guest of a Bonds for Israel Organization din¬ ner al the Waldorf.
On Sunday, June 7, the special U.S. Air Force plane will fly the Eshkois and party to Cape Kennedy, then to Houston, Tex.; on Monday to Freeport, Tex., where they will visit the Saline Water Conservation plant, and at noon they will fly on io El Paso. At 3 p.m. they will depart for Los Angeles. At 6 p.m. the Eshkois depart for Chicago. On Thursday the head of the Israeli government returns to New York where he will visit Yeshiva Uni¬ versity, the Jewish - Theold^cal Seminary and the Hebrew Union College. At 7 p.m., June U the Eshkois will depart for Israel on the new Israeli liner, the SS Sha¬ lom.
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from Morrocco, and spoke person¬ ally to many of them, hearing at first hand their stories of the hard¬ ships and deprivations they had en¬ dured before leaving for Israel. For ail of them, the heart-warming wel¬ come they received on the docks al Haifa was the first pleasant ex¬ perience they had had in many years.
The group heard Zvi Garcy, mem¬ ber of the Jewish Agency, tell of the daily arrival of such ships, bringing 3000 or more newcomers each month.
The Columbus contingent also visited Malben, a settlement for handicapped persons sponsored by the Jewish Agency, and were mov¬ ed and impressed by the work be¬ ing done there.
They were especially impressed by the work of the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee in Paris, where in the past two years almost 300,000 refugees   from   Algeria,   many   of
them with just the clothing on their backs, have been aided.
Because the Columbus group was a part also of an ORT tour from Chicago, it visited many ORT schools in Israel, in Rome and in Paris, witnessing the efforts of this organization in retraining young people from all over the world lo become useful and productive citi¬ zens of their countries and com¬ munities.
Expressing the feelings' of all 24 Columbus-area residents who made the trip, Mrs, Harry Schwartz, tour secretary, said; "We were thrilled, impressed and amazed at the pro¬ gress Israel is making, and gained new insights and confidences into the ability of this wonderful little country to develop and grow. We understand and appreciate better its problems, including those of se¬ curity, absorption and education ot its newcomers, and the acute water shortage, but we feel, after a first- (contlBU«d  OA   paga  4)
Bonrfs 'Night of Stars' June 21
Dr. B. W. Abramson has been named chairman of the State of Israel Bonds "Night of Stars Festival," to be held Sunday evening, June 21 at the Jewish Center, it was announced by Samuel L. Oppenheimer, Columbus community chairman for State of Israel Bonds.
When we speak of the concept of Israel Bonds as a part¬ nership between us and the people of Israel, Dr. Abramson said, "we emphasize the fact that
we are equal partners wilh our brothers in the Jewish homeland. They supply the resourcefulness, skill, and energy, while we supply the funds to pay for the tools and the raw materials. Furthermore, as purchasers of Israel Bonds, we are entitled to be repaid the full amount of our investment plus interest, in accordance with the solemn com¬ mitment of the government of Is¬ rael. The repayment of this loan is in keeping wilh the high credit rating ot the State of Israel which has never defaulted on any finan¬ cial obligation.
"After 13 years of successful op¬ eration, Israel Bonds are in a stronger position than ever before, as witnessed by the record-breaking
sale of more than $69,000,000 for 1963."
Dr. Abramson was born in Russia and he received his medical train¬ ing at Loyola University School of Medicine, and has continued his studies at the Universities of Ber- Kn, Heidelberg, Vienna and London. A practicing physician in Coiumbus since 1923, he has been the Senior Attending Physician at Grant Hos¬ pital for many years.
Dr. Abramson has been active in the United Jewish Fund and Coun¬ cil, of which he was a charter num¬ ber and is still a member tx the t)oard; the Hillel Advisory Board; Columbus Hebrew School; and on the board of governors of the Torah Academy.
B. W. Abramson
A long time memt)er of the na¬ tional board of the Z.O.A., he is now serving as presideni of the Ohio Valley Zionist Region.
Mrs.   Leonard   Wasserstrom
UJFG APPOINTS NEW YOUNG LEADERSHIP PROGRAM HEADS
Herbert H. Schiff, president of the United Jewish Fund and Coun¬ cil announced the appointment of Mrs. Leonard Wasserstrom as chairman of the Leadership De¬ velopment Program for 1964-1965. Serving wilh Mrs. Wasserstrom aa co-chairman is Ben Zox.
The purpose of the program is to provide knowledge and understand¬ ing of the history and development of Jewish communal life as well as insight into matters and prob¬ lems ot the communily so that young men and women who have indicated an interest in communal work may participate more intel¬ ligently.
Serving on the executive com¬ mittee for this program are: Vic¬ tor Goodman, Mrs. Stanley Katx, Mrs. Jack Wallick, Leslie Wexner, Mr. and Mrs. David Forman, Mr, and Mrs. Moe Gold, Mrs. Barry Zacks, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bas¬ kin, Mrs. Ben Zox, Robert Cohodes, Donald Katz, Mrs. Richard Kohn and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shenk,
The commiltee leadership, pro¬ gram plans and speakers will be released in a future issue of this publication.   )