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zJIW/ Serving Columbus, Daytort, Centra! and Southwestern,Ohio \i7Av\ Vol. 44,,No. 18 FRIDAY, MAY 6. 1966 ^ 16 lYAR, 5726 The World's Week ConipHcd frMii JTA ami WUP Reporh . , ., :','' , .. • • .... ,. "'1' BONN, (J'TA)—Prof Hans Deutsch, an: Internationally known expert on. West Germany compensation to Nazi victims, was released from prison this weekend and Ini- mediately entered a sanatorium to await trial. Dr: Deuts6h, who holds both-Austrian and IsraeU citizenship, was ar¬ rested in Bonn in ;Npvenit»r, 1964 on. charges of ''inciting people to make claims for comjpensaOontb: which they were not entitled.''He was released after p>roviding an additional 250,000 marks ($62,500) toward the required baU of 2,000,000 marks ($500,000) he has now .provided In various forms of surety. LONDON, (JTA) — A Soviet Journal arriving here was found to contain a grossly anti-Semitic document extracted from 18th century writings of Byelorussian writers. Poly- mia, a monthly periodical pubUshed in Mtask, contains an article on the discovery of ancient manuscripts, including one entitled "ConcloRuthenlai" describing how representa¬ tives of various nationalities tried to save Christ from being tortured by the Jews. NEW YORK, (JTA) — Shri Dlnesh Singh, India's Mtaister of State for. External Affairs, assured the Zionist Organization of America, in a letter made public here, that the New Delhi Government had intended no discourtesy to Israel's President Zalman Shazar, and had promptly ar¬ rested Arab students who had staged a demonstration against Shazar recently. Mr Singh's letter, transmitted to the ZOA by India's consulate^general here was read to the meeting held by the ZOA's national executive committee by Jacques Torczyner, president of the ZOA. The Indian leader's statement, issued at New Delhi, was ta reply to a protest made by the ZOA last month, when Shazar had evidently been snubbed as he stopped in India on the way to and from a state visit to Nepal. TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Dr. Israel Beer, a former lleuten- ' an^ Colonel' in .Israel's army reserve, and a noted military analyst, who had been sentenced in 1962 to seven years' Imprisonment as a convicted spy for an unidentified for¬ eign Communist power, died of a heart attack at Shata Prison. He was 54. Dr. Beer's arrest, in 1961, ori charges of espionage and contact vrith a foreign agent, created a. sen¬ sation in this country. At the time of his arrest, he was'at > work on a history of Israel's war of liberation under a personal commission for the then Prime Mtaister, David Ben-Gurlon, who was also Mtaister of Defense. The trial, which lasted six months, had beien held almost entirely behind closed doors. JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Jerusalem police reported that unknown vandals, beUeved to be members of the ultra- Orthodox Neturel Karta, ripped down an Israeli flag from a home in the Mea Sh^rim quarter here. The vandals tore the flag to shreds and wrote on the door of the home "Zion¬ ists, Go Home," and "Down with the State of Israel." Police said they still had not found the vandals. Rapped By J.W.B? NEW YORK, (JTA)—Declaring that "token concessions"made by the/Soviet Union to Soviet Jewrj'"do not meet tlie expectations of world opinion, especially tliose of the Jewish conununlty ta America," the National Jewish Welfare Board Monday imanimously adopted a resolution volctag its support of "minhnal demands to restore the right of Soviet Jewry to live as Jews." This\'action was taken by the delegates at tiie clostag sessions of the JWB Jubilee biennial con- I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY Lynn Gundersheimer, Steve Hofhelmer and Laurie Sutton examine some of the children's poetry currently on display at the Jewish Center in the Showing, "1 Never Saw Another Butterfly," made up of poems of children who lived the experience of the Nazi concentration camps. , The Spring Blood Donor Drive Set For May 18 Mrs. Martta Polster, i>resident of the Jewish Community Blood Donor Council, has announced that Sanford Fishman will once agata head the Sprtag Blood Donor Campaign, to be held on Wednesday, May 18, at the Jewish Center from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Assisting Fishman as Majors will be Leo Eichenbaum, Sam Lubin, Bemard Friedman, Gordon Zeldman and Mrs. Grant Bran¬ don. AT A RECENT meeting of the I sumption is also severely cur- Blood Donor Council, attended tailed, and new donors will have vention, where the year-long celebration of the organization's 50th anniversary was launched. In addition to the resolution on Soviet Jewry, the convention adopted resolutions dealtag with the national shortage of profes¬ sional social workers, the war on poverty, higher educational op¬ portunities, dlsarjnameht, the Peace Corps and Viet Nam. UROmO ITS ASniJATED Jewish community centers throughout the United States "to continue to give leadership ahd to cooperate with local groups ta the effort to reduce the tajus- tioe done to Soviet Jewry," JWB, 1 which is a member of the Amerl- can Jewish Conference on Soviet I IV/aiAT MVl a Ci:^ l^f Jewry, stated that the mtahnal -tiCJVV X XiaSC \JL demands on behalf of Soviet Speaktag at the banquet ses¬ sion of the convention, he said that the dropptag of such bar¬ riers was a "a wonderful his¬ torical trend" for which all America should rojolce and that he believed it would conttaue. Then he added the wamtag that "es this trend continues, it brtags on another problem for American Jewry — one which we have faced for a long time but perhaps never on so large a scale: the! danger of lostag our identity as Jevra, or of seetag that identi¬ ty so vTatered down that we be- g^ to forget who we are and whence we came." Rabbi Zelizer To Lecture At Final Session Of Institute Rabbi Nathan Zellzer will be the tinal speaker ta the Fifth Annual Institute for Jewish , Communal Workers. ' Rabbi Zellzer will speak on "Jewish Law "Haiacha* and Its Relevance ta Our Tiine" at the closing session of the Institute on May 9, at 9 ajn., at the Jewish Center. ' BABBI ZEUZER has the dis¬ ttaction of havtag served only one congregation ta his 35 years as a rabbi. He has been rabbi of IMereth Israel Congregation stace 1931, comtag to Columbus after his ordination from the Jewish Theological Semtaary. A graduate of New York Unl^ versity, he also received his M^ter'of Arts degree from Co¬ lumbia University, and was awarded a Doctor of Divinit^^^by the Jewish Theolo^cal Sendiiary In 1964. BABBI ZEUZEB SERVED ta the Pacific and ta Japan as a , World War II Chaplata. He is currently Jewish Chaplata for the Ohio State Penitentiary, the Veteran's Hospital ta ChlUicothe, and Locjtboume Ata Force Base. He has served the community as president of the Columbus Recreation Commission, as a member of the Colunlhus Park Commission, as chahman Of the Senior Citizens' Center Board, and a past niember of the Co¬ lumbus Rent Advisory Board. ACTIVE IN VETERANS' af¬ fairs, he is a past Department Chaplata, Jewish War Veterans, Department of Ohio; i>ast De¬ partment Chaplain, American Legion, Department of Ohio; Chaplata of Capitol Post lii2, Jewish War Veterans; member of Bexley Legion Post^ American Legion; and member of the Re¬ ligious Committee, American Legion Department of lOhlo. In 1951 Rabbi Zelizer was chosen one of the 10 Leadtag Citizens by the Columbus Citizen-Journal. This year the Institute fea¬ tured Rabbi Jeronie Folkman, Rabbi Harry Kaplan, Rabbi Samuel Rubeijoteta, Rabbi David Stavsky, and -Professor Marvta Fox. Daniel Harrison, principal of Columbus Hebrew School, is chairman of the program, com¬ mittee. Serving v?ith-;hirn, are Lazar Brenner, Executive. Direc¬ tor of Heritage House; Ben K^- delkom. Executive IMrector of the United Jewish Fimd and CouncU; and Mayer Rosenfeld, Executive Director oftthc Jewiih Center. HEBSH L. ADLERSTEIN, As¬ sociate Director of the Commun¬ ity Relations Conunittee of the United Jewish Fund and Council, is dhalrman of the publicity com¬ mittee. by representatives of organiza: tions tavolved ta vrorktag fbr "B" Day, Bemard Kaplan, past president of the CouncU and •'& membeir of Its Executive Com¬ mittee, spoke briefly on the his¬ tory of community blood donor activity durtag and stace World Warn. OriginaUy a war-ttaie project of B'nal B'rith Men and Wonien, it was taken over by the com¬ munity shortly thereafter, as a major undertaking sponsored by the Jewish CouncU of Organiza¬ tions of the Unitfed Jewish Fund and Council, which underwrites its expenses. IN ADDITION Ta Friedman, the foUowtag have served as president of the Blood Donor Council: Hy Wetaberg, Bemard Friedman, Leonard Quinn and Rudolph Stem, Jr. Mrs. Joseph D. Schecter and Mrs. B. B. Cap¬ lan are also members of the Executive Committee, joining Mrs. Jerome Cunix, Mrs. A. E. Slavin and Mrs. Charles Talis. Serving with Mrs. Polster, president, are the foUowtag: vice presidents — Mrs. Harry SdiwartZ) Sanford Fishman and Mrs. Benton Block; Tteasurer— Morrey Blelch; Corresponding secretary—Mrs. A. B. ThaU; Re¬ cordtag secretary—Robert Green¬ berg. Representtag the Untied Jewish Fund and the CouncU of Organizations are Abe Yenkta, Harry Schwartz and Ben Man¬ delkom. KAPLAN ALSO explataed the newly issued identification card which every household ta the Jewish Community wlU receive, and which must be presented at aU area hosptials when blood is needed for any reason. He also stressed the importance of the coming "B" Day on May 18, ta matatatatag the status of the Council as a participating mem¬ ber of the Red Cross Blood Donor Program, by filltag Its assigned quota of blood donations. "This year," stated. Kaplan, "the need for donors is even more urgent, as the MerrlU )?ublishtag Company, which has in the past sent its donors tb us, is embark- tag oil its.own program, and we will need E(t least 40 additional donors to make up for those from Merrill whb f o rm er I y gave jthrough our drive. ! "With!blood urgently needed by our armed forces ta Vlet-Nam, the supply of blood for home con- to come forward to give blood if we are to make our quota and have enough blood when it is needed locally." HiUel Plans 41st Annual Awards Banquet For May 11 The 41st Annual HiUel Awards 33anquet wiU be held at the HUlel Foundation, Wednesday, May 11 at 6 pjn. The HUlel Key, HUlel Certificates and United Jewish Student Fund Certlflcates wiU be awarded to outstanding stu¬ dents. The new student officers and leaders for the 1966-67 school year wUl be tatroduced. THE ELECTION AND instal¬ lation, of the officers and new members of the HUlel Advisory Board wUl also take place at this dinner. The HUlel Players wUl present a dramatic production—"Tevye and His Fh«t Daughter" by Sholom Aleichem. THE EVENING'S program wUl also taclude remarks by Rabbi Harry Kaplan and Rabbi Martta Kowal and a tribute to the HiUel secretary, Mrs. Ruth Gordon, who is leavtag the dty and her post at HUlel after two and a hedf years of outstandtag service. Reservations at $3.00 per plate may be made by telephoning the HUlel office. Chronicling The News Editbrial ,... 2 Tee];iS<;ene . S Society' 4, 6, 7 Shopping Guide 8 Synagogues 8 Sports 9, 10, 11 Real Estate 4 Clean-Vp .,,.?..\. 5 Jewry are: The restoration of Jewish schools and classes ta Yiddish and Hebrew, which wiU make It pos¬ sible for Soviet Jevra to transmit tlieta heritage to their diUdren; the creation of unified centr^ Institutions to supervise the enr hancement and expansion of Jewisii educational and cultural life; v^thereunibn^ofrfamllles dis¬ persed during World Wat n ttad the Nazi ocffipatlon, and per¬ mission for tiiousands of Soviet Jews to rejota theta relatives ta other countries; and the estab¬ lishment of an tastitutlonal cen¬ ter to provide for the religious needs of Soviet Jews, tacludtag communication among congrega¬ tions taside the USSR and be¬ tween Soviet Jewry and Jewish commiuiities abroad. Louis Stem Reelected J.W3. President; Reports on Viet Nam Work Louis Stern, of South N.J., was elected to a two-year term as president of the National Jew¬ ish Welfare Board at the con¬ vention. He had served as pres¬ ident stace January 1966, to fUl vacancy created by the death of his predecessor Mrs. Florence G. Heller. Stem was president of the CouncU of Jewish Fed¬ erations and Welfare Funds, and is now oo-chalmian of the ^ter- religious Committee Against Poverty. Reporttag to the 800 delegates on the impact of the Viet Nam war on JWB services, he said the organization was able to re¬ assign staff and resources "al¬ most automaticaUy." He re¬ ported als^ that a new (^p< latacy retention program will-be started to attract Jewish career chaplatas, and announced that a conference bn the Jewish cultural arts wUl be held soon. THE NBW JWB president said that his organization has to move forward ta helptag to solve the manpower crisis, ta strengthen¬ ing services to the armed forces and veterans, ta buUdtag an American Jewish culture, ta con¬ ducttag extensive research proj¬ ects, and ta setttag priorities to assure that the most essential needs ta its fields of services are met within the boundaries of its resources. Ambassador Goldberg Warns On Danger of Loss of Jewish Identity Arthur J. Goldberg, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, haUed the "dramatic progress" ;ta the postwar era to¬ ward '^the breakdown of anti- Semitic barriers" ta "vtatually every segment of American so¬ ciety," but added a wamtag that this gain posed the danger of loss of Jewish identity among American Jews. '/ . '¦ Beth Jacob Drive Begins FeUow congregant wiU tater¬ view feUow congregant, as the Beth Jacob Congregation volun¬ teer caUs upon his relatives, friends, or merely congregational acquatatahcestb discuss ithe role ' that^ltfie'lndMdiiai^Bea^^ member, must play; ta. oirder to tasure tiie success bf tiie con¬ struction of the new Beth Jacob Synagogue. -, This phase of the fund ralstag campaign wUl be kicked off im¬ mediately, and the pledging iwo- giiam wUl be concluded withta a six weeks period. The dreatm is now a reality—the present ^eth Jacob buUdtag has been sold, the land for the new buUdtag has not only been purchased, but Its mortgage has been paid off, and architectural plans for the new structure have been drawn up. A SUCCESSFUL advanced gifts drive has been completed, . and the stage has been set for the remalntag majority of the lay members of the Beth Jacob congregation to answer the call to duty. An official vote ati a congregational meettag gave the buUdtag committee the order to proceed with the complete de¬ tails, so the membership wUl now be called upon to exercise its democratic process with a pledge- to support Its vote. In addition to the regular con¬ gregants of the Beth Jacob, the buildtag committee encourages support from former loyal mem¬ bers, as weU as descendents of former memtiers who may be presently occupytag a plot on the Beth Jacob Cemetery. FOR THOSE who are desir¬ ous of memorializtag the name of a loved one, a memorial op¬ portunities brochure can be ob¬ tained by calltag the synagogue office, 252-5576, which depicts a list of all taterior memorials that are avaUable. An automatic maU- tag will reach each current mem¬ ber of the Beth Jacob Congrega¬ tion. The kickoff for this ftaal ^ase WlU begta. immediately with a series of parlor meettags, with - small enough groups to enable the individual to ask any ques¬ tion that he may have with re¬ spect to either the buUdtag con¬ struction, or to the method of payment of his pledge. FRIENDS OF the synagogue who may wish to attend a parlor meeting may do sp by contacting the synagogue office. Also avaU¬ able for private consultations are Rabbi Stavsky, Joe Swartz, JuUe; Cohen, or other members of tiie Building or Volunteer Fund Rals-
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Full Text | zJIW/ Serving Columbus, Daytort, Centra! and Southwestern,Ohio \i7Av\ Vol. 44,,No. 18 FRIDAY, MAY 6. 1966 ^ 16 lYAR, 5726 The World's Week ConipHcd frMii JTA ami WUP Reporh . , ., :','' , .. • • .... ,. "'1' BONN, (J'TA)—Prof Hans Deutsch, an: Internationally known expert on. West Germany compensation to Nazi victims, was released from prison this weekend and Ini- mediately entered a sanatorium to await trial. Dr: Deuts6h, who holds both-Austrian and IsraeU citizenship, was ar¬ rested in Bonn in ;Npvenit»r, 1964 on. charges of ''inciting people to make claims for comjpensaOontb: which they were not entitled.''He was released after p>roviding an additional 250,000 marks ($62,500) toward the required baU of 2,000,000 marks ($500,000) he has now .provided In various forms of surety. LONDON, (JTA) — A Soviet Journal arriving here was found to contain a grossly anti-Semitic document extracted from 18th century writings of Byelorussian writers. Poly- mia, a monthly periodical pubUshed in Mtask, contains an article on the discovery of ancient manuscripts, including one entitled "ConcloRuthenlai" describing how representa¬ tives of various nationalities tried to save Christ from being tortured by the Jews. NEW YORK, (JTA) — Shri Dlnesh Singh, India's Mtaister of State for. External Affairs, assured the Zionist Organization of America, in a letter made public here, that the New Delhi Government had intended no discourtesy to Israel's President Zalman Shazar, and had promptly ar¬ rested Arab students who had staged a demonstration against Shazar recently. Mr Singh's letter, transmitted to the ZOA by India's consulate^general here was read to the meeting held by the ZOA's national executive committee by Jacques Torczyner, president of the ZOA. The Indian leader's statement, issued at New Delhi, was ta reply to a protest made by the ZOA last month, when Shazar had evidently been snubbed as he stopped in India on the way to and from a state visit to Nepal. TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Dr. Israel Beer, a former lleuten- ' an^ Colonel' in .Israel's army reserve, and a noted military analyst, who had been sentenced in 1962 to seven years' Imprisonment as a convicted spy for an unidentified for¬ eign Communist power, died of a heart attack at Shata Prison. He was 54. Dr. Beer's arrest, in 1961, ori charges of espionage and contact vrith a foreign agent, created a. sen¬ sation in this country. At the time of his arrest, he was'at > work on a history of Israel's war of liberation under a personal commission for the then Prime Mtaister, David Ben-Gurlon, who was also Mtaister of Defense. The trial, which lasted six months, had beien held almost entirely behind closed doors. JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Jerusalem police reported that unknown vandals, beUeved to be members of the ultra- Orthodox Neturel Karta, ripped down an Israeli flag from a home in the Mea Sh^rim quarter here. The vandals tore the flag to shreds and wrote on the door of the home "Zion¬ ists, Go Home," and "Down with the State of Israel." Police said they still had not found the vandals. Rapped By J.W.B? NEW YORK, (JTA)—Declaring that "token concessions"made by the/Soviet Union to Soviet Jewrj'"do not meet tlie expectations of world opinion, especially tliose of the Jewish conununlty ta America," the National Jewish Welfare Board Monday imanimously adopted a resolution volctag its support of "minhnal demands to restore the right of Soviet Jewry to live as Jews." This\'action was taken by the delegates at tiie clostag sessions of the JWB Jubilee biennial con- I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY Lynn Gundersheimer, Steve Hofhelmer and Laurie Sutton examine some of the children's poetry currently on display at the Jewish Center in the Showing, "1 Never Saw Another Butterfly," made up of poems of children who lived the experience of the Nazi concentration camps. , The Spring Blood Donor Drive Set For May 18 Mrs. Martta Polster, i>resident of the Jewish Community Blood Donor Council, has announced that Sanford Fishman will once agata head the Sprtag Blood Donor Campaign, to be held on Wednesday, May 18, at the Jewish Center from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Assisting Fishman as Majors will be Leo Eichenbaum, Sam Lubin, Bemard Friedman, Gordon Zeldman and Mrs. Grant Bran¬ don. AT A RECENT meeting of the I sumption is also severely cur- Blood Donor Council, attended tailed, and new donors will have vention, where the year-long celebration of the organization's 50th anniversary was launched. In addition to the resolution on Soviet Jewry, the convention adopted resolutions dealtag with the national shortage of profes¬ sional social workers, the war on poverty, higher educational op¬ portunities, dlsarjnameht, the Peace Corps and Viet Nam. UROmO ITS ASniJATED Jewish community centers throughout the United States "to continue to give leadership ahd to cooperate with local groups ta the effort to reduce the tajus- tioe done to Soviet Jewry," JWB, 1 which is a member of the Amerl- can Jewish Conference on Soviet I IV/aiAT MVl a Ci:^ l^f Jewry, stated that the mtahnal -tiCJVV X XiaSC \JL demands on behalf of Soviet Speaktag at the banquet ses¬ sion of the convention, he said that the dropptag of such bar¬ riers was a "a wonderful his¬ torical trend" for which all America should rojolce and that he believed it would conttaue. Then he added the wamtag that "es this trend continues, it brtags on another problem for American Jewry — one which we have faced for a long time but perhaps never on so large a scale: the! danger of lostag our identity as Jevra, or of seetag that identi¬ ty so vTatered down that we be- g^ to forget who we are and whence we came." Rabbi Zelizer To Lecture At Final Session Of Institute Rabbi Nathan Zellzer will be the tinal speaker ta the Fifth Annual Institute for Jewish , Communal Workers. ' Rabbi Zellzer will speak on "Jewish Law "Haiacha* and Its Relevance ta Our Tiine" at the closing session of the Institute on May 9, at 9 ajn., at the Jewish Center. ' BABBI ZEUZER has the dis¬ ttaction of havtag served only one congregation ta his 35 years as a rabbi. He has been rabbi of IMereth Israel Congregation stace 1931, comtag to Columbus after his ordination from the Jewish Theological Semtaary. A graduate of New York Unl^ versity, he also received his M^ter'of Arts degree from Co¬ lumbia University, and was awarded a Doctor of Divinit^^^by the Jewish Theolo^cal Sendiiary In 1964. BABBI ZEUZEB SERVED ta the Pacific and ta Japan as a , World War II Chaplata. He is currently Jewish Chaplata for the Ohio State Penitentiary, the Veteran's Hospital ta ChlUicothe, and Locjtboume Ata Force Base. He has served the community as president of the Columbus Recreation Commission, as a member of the Colunlhus Park Commission, as chahman Of the Senior Citizens' Center Board, and a past niember of the Co¬ lumbus Rent Advisory Board. ACTIVE IN VETERANS' af¬ fairs, he is a past Department Chaplata, Jewish War Veterans, Department of Ohio; i>ast De¬ partment Chaplain, American Legion, Department of Ohio; Chaplata of Capitol Post lii2, Jewish War Veterans; member of Bexley Legion Post^ American Legion; and member of the Re¬ ligious Committee, American Legion Department of lOhlo. In 1951 Rabbi Zelizer was chosen one of the 10 Leadtag Citizens by the Columbus Citizen-Journal. This year the Institute fea¬ tured Rabbi Jeronie Folkman, Rabbi Harry Kaplan, Rabbi Samuel Rubeijoteta, Rabbi David Stavsky, and -Professor Marvta Fox. Daniel Harrison, principal of Columbus Hebrew School, is chairman of the program, com¬ mittee. Serving v?ith-;hirn, are Lazar Brenner, Executive. Direc¬ tor of Heritage House; Ben K^- delkom. Executive IMrector of the United Jewish Fimd and CouncU; and Mayer Rosenfeld, Executive Director oftthc Jewiih Center. HEBSH L. ADLERSTEIN, As¬ sociate Director of the Commun¬ ity Relations Conunittee of the United Jewish Fund and Council, is dhalrman of the publicity com¬ mittee. by representatives of organiza: tions tavolved ta vrorktag fbr "B" Day, Bemard Kaplan, past president of the CouncU and •'& membeir of Its Executive Com¬ mittee, spoke briefly on the his¬ tory of community blood donor activity durtag and stace World Warn. OriginaUy a war-ttaie project of B'nal B'rith Men and Wonien, it was taken over by the com¬ munity shortly thereafter, as a major undertaking sponsored by the Jewish CouncU of Organiza¬ tions of the Unitfed Jewish Fund and Council, which underwrites its expenses. IN ADDITION Ta Friedman, the foUowtag have served as president of the Blood Donor Council: Hy Wetaberg, Bemard Friedman, Leonard Quinn and Rudolph Stem, Jr. Mrs. Joseph D. Schecter and Mrs. B. B. Cap¬ lan are also members of the Executive Committee, joining Mrs. Jerome Cunix, Mrs. A. E. Slavin and Mrs. Charles Talis. Serving with Mrs. Polster, president, are the foUowtag: vice presidents — Mrs. Harry SdiwartZ) Sanford Fishman and Mrs. Benton Block; Tteasurer— Morrey Blelch; Corresponding secretary—Mrs. A. B. ThaU; Re¬ cordtag secretary—Robert Green¬ berg. Representtag the Untied Jewish Fund and the CouncU of Organizations are Abe Yenkta, Harry Schwartz and Ben Man¬ delkom. KAPLAN ALSO explataed the newly issued identification card which every household ta the Jewish Community wlU receive, and which must be presented at aU area hosptials when blood is needed for any reason. He also stressed the importance of the coming "B" Day on May 18, ta matatatatag the status of the Council as a participating mem¬ ber of the Red Cross Blood Donor Program, by filltag Its assigned quota of blood donations. "This year," stated. Kaplan, "the need for donors is even more urgent, as the MerrlU )?ublishtag Company, which has in the past sent its donors tb us, is embark- tag oil its.own program, and we will need E(t least 40 additional donors to make up for those from Merrill whb f o rm er I y gave jthrough our drive. ! "With!blood urgently needed by our armed forces ta Vlet-Nam, the supply of blood for home con- to come forward to give blood if we are to make our quota and have enough blood when it is needed locally." HiUel Plans 41st Annual Awards Banquet For May 11 The 41st Annual HiUel Awards 33anquet wiU be held at the HUlel Foundation, Wednesday, May 11 at 6 pjn. The HUlel Key, HUlel Certificates and United Jewish Student Fund Certlflcates wiU be awarded to outstanding stu¬ dents. The new student officers and leaders for the 1966-67 school year wUl be tatroduced. THE ELECTION AND instal¬ lation, of the officers and new members of the HUlel Advisory Board wUl also take place at this dinner. The HUlel Players wUl present a dramatic production—"Tevye and His Fh«t Daughter" by Sholom Aleichem. THE EVENING'S program wUl also taclude remarks by Rabbi Harry Kaplan and Rabbi Martta Kowal and a tribute to the HiUel secretary, Mrs. Ruth Gordon, who is leavtag the dty and her post at HUlel after two and a hedf years of outstandtag service. Reservations at $3.00 per plate may be made by telephoning the HUlel office. Chronicling The News Editbrial ,... 2 Tee];iS<;ene . S Society' 4, 6, 7 Shopping Guide 8 Synagogues 8 Sports 9, 10, 11 Real Estate 4 Clean-Vp .,,.?..\. 5 Jewry are: The restoration of Jewish schools and classes ta Yiddish and Hebrew, which wiU make It pos¬ sible for Soviet Jevra to transmit tlieta heritage to their diUdren; the creation of unified centr^ Institutions to supervise the enr hancement and expansion of Jewisii educational and cultural life; v^thereunibn^ofrfamllles dis¬ persed during World Wat n ttad the Nazi ocffipatlon, and per¬ mission for tiiousands of Soviet Jews to rejota theta relatives ta other countries; and the estab¬ lishment of an tastitutlonal cen¬ ter to provide for the religious needs of Soviet Jews, tacludtag communication among congrega¬ tions taside the USSR and be¬ tween Soviet Jewry and Jewish commiuiities abroad. Louis Stem Reelected J.W3. President; Reports on Viet Nam Work Louis Stern, of South N.J., was elected to a two-year term as president of the National Jew¬ ish Welfare Board at the con¬ vention. He had served as pres¬ ident stace January 1966, to fUl vacancy created by the death of his predecessor Mrs. Florence G. Heller. Stem was president of the CouncU of Jewish Fed¬ erations and Welfare Funds, and is now oo-chalmian of the ^ter- religious Committee Against Poverty. Reporttag to the 800 delegates on the impact of the Viet Nam war on JWB services, he said the organization was able to re¬ assign staff and resources "al¬ most automaticaUy." He re¬ ported als^ that a new (^p< latacy retention program will-be started to attract Jewish career chaplatas, and announced that a conference bn the Jewish cultural arts wUl be held soon. THE NBW JWB president said that his organization has to move forward ta helptag to solve the manpower crisis, ta strengthen¬ ing services to the armed forces and veterans, ta buUdtag an American Jewish culture, ta con¬ ducttag extensive research proj¬ ects, and ta setttag priorities to assure that the most essential needs ta its fields of services are met within the boundaries of its resources. Ambassador Goldberg Warns On Danger of Loss of Jewish Identity Arthur J. Goldberg, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, haUed the "dramatic progress" ;ta the postwar era to¬ ward '^the breakdown of anti- Semitic barriers" ta "vtatually every segment of American so¬ ciety," but added a wamtag that this gain posed the danger of loss of Jewish identity among American Jews. '/ . '¦ Beth Jacob Drive Begins FeUow congregant wiU tater¬ view feUow congregant, as the Beth Jacob Congregation volun¬ teer caUs upon his relatives, friends, or merely congregational acquatatahcestb discuss ithe role ' that^ltfie'lndMdiiai^Bea^^ member, must play; ta. oirder to tasure tiie success bf tiie con¬ struction of the new Beth Jacob Synagogue. -, This phase of the fund ralstag campaign wUl be kicked off im¬ mediately, and the pledging iwo- giiam wUl be concluded withta a six weeks period. The dreatm is now a reality—the present ^eth Jacob buUdtag has been sold, the land for the new buUdtag has not only been purchased, but Its mortgage has been paid off, and architectural plans for the new structure have been drawn up. A SUCCESSFUL advanced gifts drive has been completed, . and the stage has been set for the remalntag majority of the lay members of the Beth Jacob congregation to answer the call to duty. An official vote ati a congregational meettag gave the buUdtag committee the order to proceed with the complete de¬ tails, so the membership wUl now be called upon to exercise its democratic process with a pledge- to support Its vote. In addition to the regular con¬ gregants of the Beth Jacob, the buildtag committee encourages support from former loyal mem¬ bers, as weU as descendents of former memtiers who may be presently occupytag a plot on the Beth Jacob Cemetery. FOR THOSE who are desir¬ ous of memorializtag the name of a loved one, a memorial op¬ portunities brochure can be ob¬ tained by calltag the synagogue office, 252-5576, which depicts a list of all taterior memorials that are avaUable. An automatic maU- tag will reach each current mem¬ ber of the Beth Jacob Congrega¬ tion. The kickoff for this ftaal ^ase WlU begta. immediately with a series of parlor meettags, with - small enough groups to enable the individual to ask any ques¬ tion that he may have with re¬ spect to either the buUdtag con¬ struction, or to the method of payment of his pledge. FRIENDS OF the synagogue who may wish to attend a parlor meeting may do sp by contacting the synagogue office. Also avaU¬ able for private consultations are Rabbi Stavsky, Joe Swartz, JuUe; Cohen, or other members of tiie Building or Volunteer Fund Rals- |
Format | newspapers |
Date created | 2008-12-03 |