Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1967-03-10

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-Vol; 45. No. 10
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 — 28 ADAR 5727
H    D«vofad fo Amtrtean and Jawiih  Idaali
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Rnportt
KBW YORK, (JTA) — The Rabbinical Council of Amer¬ ica, an organization of Orthodox rabbis, announced plans for the development of a $25,000,000 institute in Jerusalem for the advancement of Judaic studies. Under the plan, the Council stated. It will build the new Institute near Mount Herzl, proviciing facilities for the study of Jewish subjects as well as residential quarters for about 100 students. All of the students, the Council said, would be American rabbis ordained by Orthodox rabbinical seminaries in this coun¬ try The students would continue their studies at the In¬ stitute for a year before joining the active rabbinate in this country,
WABHUfqxON, (JTA) —- Rabbi Jacob Weinstein, pres¬ ident of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said that, he has started action to support the rights of Pvt, Robert Levy, an Orthodox Jevirish soldier confined by the Army, in a mental ward because he sought to conscien¬ tiously object to military service in Viet Nam on a basis of Jewish convictions. Army authorities said that U.S. Army chaplain Martin Felnsod, an Orthodox rafcbl, agreed with the decision to commit Levy. They said the chaplain was the only clergyman granted visiting privileges and was peeking to, bring Levy's religious thinking Into conformity with Army requirements. Rabbi Weinstein challenged "the self-assumed right of an Orthodox chaplain to arbitrarily rule out conscientious objection by a soldier of Jewish faith." He indicated that steps were being taken to have a rabbi other than Chaplain Felnsod visit Madlgan Gen¬ eral Hospital, Tacoma, Wash., to give Levy religious coun¬ sel in response to Levy's request.
XIUEINTON, Mich., (JTA) — PoUce authorities of this quiet residential town southeast of Detroit were still him;^ ¦ ing Sunday' for on arsonist who had set fire last Wednefc.^ day night to Beth Israel Synagogue, causing damage estl-, mated at tens of thousands of dollars. The fite was discov¬ ered In the evening, several/hours after the building had been vacated by the last class of Jewish children attend¬ ing tl^e synagogue's religious school. i
NBW YORK, (JTA) — Bernard Malamud, the Ameri¬ can-Jewish author, was announced the wton6r of the Nati¬ onal Book Award In fiction for his latest novel, "The Fixer," a story based on the notorious Mendel Beilis ritual murder case of 1911 in Czarlst Russia. The award, carrying with it a prize of $1,000, will be the second for Mr. Malamud, He received the Nationai Book Award In 19S0 for his col¬ lection of short stories, "The Magic Barrel."
NEW YORK, (WUP) — John W. Finney of the New York Times Washington Bureau-reports that the Urdted Arab Republic, bedevilled by the noii-paynient of loans to several countries. Including the U.S. atid the USSR, is on the verge of bankruptcy. The UAR has also faUed to make repayments on debts incurred from loans given by the interiiatlonial Monetary Fund. fAt. Finjiey notes that President Napser has at;tributed his economic difficulties to the teirminatlon last year of U.S. Food-for-Peace ship¬ ments.
BONN, (WUP) — The Israeli Embas^ Here announced this week that former Chancellor Conrad Adenaur has been invited hy the Israeli Government to celebrate his 100th birthday in the Jewish State. The German anti-Hitler statesman Win turn centenarian nine years hence.
TELEGIFT DRIVE SET SUNDAY
Attending a meeting of the Tele-Gift committee at the home of Mrs. Martin H. Godofsky recently were Mrs. Ber¬ nard K. Yenkin, chairman of the 1963 Tele-Gift campaign, Mrs. Norbert Kruger, co-chairman of the current Tele-Gift campaign, Mrs. Alvin E, Schottenstehi, chairman of Women's Division, Mrs. Joseph L. Schwartz, chairman of the mailroom; and Mrs. Godofsky, co-chairman of the Tele- Gift campaign,, The calls will be made on Sunday frpm the downtown office of the Huntington National Bank.
French Jews Wooed In General Election
PARIS, '(JTA) — French Jews were assiduously wooed by can¬ didates of the party of President de Gaulle for the general elections for a new French Assembly. .Constituents in which no candidate obtained a majority Sunday will go to the polls a week later.
E^ench Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de MurvlUe told an assembly attended by a large number of Jews that France would do all it could to ^ajngj about reunification of Jewish families which have members Inthe Soviet Un
Arab Infiltrators Step Up Campaign
TEL AVIV, (TA) -r- Arab hi- fUtrators and saboteurs stepped up their activities on three of Israel's borders last Weekend — near Syria, Jordan and Lebanon..
The most serious of the inci- deht8..took.place about.630.yai;<^ from' the' Syrian ;bbrder, twhen a tractor behig driven toward Kibbutz Shamir hit a mine, ser¬ iously wounding the Israeli dri¬ ver. The site of the blast was near the Syrian gan post of Darbashyia.
ON THB Jordanian border, in¬ filtrators surprised a night watchman^  robbed  him  of  his
Record AntidpatM^^^B^ UJFC At Aniiiial Golfei Gifts Ball
ijhe Golden Gifts Ball of the Advance Gifts division, 196T cam¬ paign of the United Jewish Fund and Council, vrill have a record turn-out tomorrow night at 6:30 at the Wtading Hollow Country aub,^accordtag ito Sidney I. Blatt, chahman of the division.
"Reservations are still coming in," said Blatt, "and any one who wishes to attend and has not made a reservation can still do so by calUng Mr, Maurice, manager of the Wtading Hollow Country Club. We are delighted by'the response of the larger contributors to the United Jew¬ ish Fund and Council Campaign to'the Ball this year. We look forward to »" exdttag eyentag, with Max I, Dimont as speaker, an eventag which will long be reii(ieml)ered as the culmtaatlon of yi our raorts ta the Advance Gifts Divlsiop."
MRS. MARVIN U Glassman, whP was appotated by Blatt as ch?irti(ian of ^ttxangements, haa announced that the followtag wo- tnen liave been worktag on com
mittees for the Ball: Mrs, Wil¬ liam Glick, decorations, assisted by Mrs, Julius Cohen, Mrs. Mor¬ ris -Patae and Mrs. Joseph F. Kass; Mrs, Edwta Ellman, Host Committee; Mrs, Bemard K, Yenkin and Mrs, Millard Cum¬ mins, Reservations; Mrs, Mar^ vta Frank, Dinner; Mrs, Nor¬ man Meizlish and Mrs. Harold Schottenstein, Seattag; Mrs. Leon Schottensteta, Publicity; Mrs. Gordon Schiffman and Mrs, Louis J, Krakoff, Invitations,
Reservations Committee mem¬ bers taclude Mesdames I. David Cohen, Mark Fetaknopf, Jr„ Da¬ vid Fonnan, Marvta Frank, Max Glassman, Stanford Glide, Rol>- ert Hallet, George HoUlander, Donald Katz, Herman Katz, Stanley Katz, Frank Kauffman, Richard Keates, Edmund Kleta, Saul Komessar, MUton Leeman, Arthur Meizlish, Sigmund Mun¬ ster, Bemard Newman, Mbrrls Paine, Jack Resler, Gordon Schif¬ fman, Walter Robinson, Edward Schlezinger,' Louis Schleztager, (coallnutd on p<t* 4)
Joachim Prlnz
Center Slates Joachim Prinz
Joachim Prinz, tatemaitionally noted leader in community and world affairs, wiU be the princi¬ pal speaker at the March ses¬ sion of the Jewish Center Lec¬ ture Series, to be held ta the Adult Lounge of the Jewish Cen¬ ter on Monday, March 13, 8:30 p.m.
For the past twenty years Rabbi- Priiiz has challenged the consciences of the American com¬ munity, ' Iwth Jewish and non- Jewish by speaking put, and pro¬ viding leadership In a. wide var¬ iety of civil libertarian; causes, Stemmtag from the early thir¬ ties when Rabbi Prinz spoke out agatast the rising'tide ot Nazism, he has never hesitated to advo¬ cate posiive action to ensure equality and fair treatment for all people. .    \
DR., MARTIN D.'KeUer is chainnan of the Jewish Center Lecture, Series.
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watch and money, and started to .abduct hhn. However, the watchinah was released when the Infiltrators reached the border and escaped, into Jordan.,
On theLebanese frontier, Leb¬ anese Hsol^ers'di^Ve.^ off'a-flo(dc of 100 'Weep, taking the sheep across the Lebanese, border. The sheep belong to Kibbutz Margal- iyet.'Sunday,Lebanese authorities notified Israel, through the U.N. Mbced Armistice Commission, that the sheep vriU lie retumed.
MEANWHILE, a serious wreck was narrowly averied when the engineer of the "Tel Aviv-Jerusa¬ lem trata discovered heavy logs had been placed on the tracks at a potat about'ntae miles from the Jordanian bOrderi The barri¬ cade could have derailed the train, but the engtaeer found it possible to halt the' locomotive in time. Seven young (Arabs who were part ot a Bedouta encamp¬ ment nearby Were arrested by IsraeU authoritis 'on;siasplclon of having . placed the, logs across the railroad tracks.
ion. He also said he hoped that the existiiig pact between tiie European Common Market and larael, which exphres next June 30, would be changed into a,bet¬ ter agreement for Israel.
A OOMMITTBE of coordtaa¬ tion for Jewish deportees, a French Jewish organization rep¬ resenting thousands of such sur¬ vivors of Nazism, addressed a special appeal to all French Jews to vote for. the candidates of tl>e de GauUe list. The committee alsoV.sent. thousands, of: letters to Jewish voters, urgtag: them to vote for. Foreign Mtalster de MurvlUe; Roger Frey, Louis Joxe and other de GauUe .Ministers;
The letters stressed; that; Jews should not.forget what G^n.sde GaiiUe had done against the Na¬ zis durtag Forld' War; n,..and what Ws government virasi doing now; tOi bar renewal of Fascist parties ta France. The committee also made a potat of remtading French Jews that Gen, ,de GauUe had once described Israel iais "a friend arid:alljt of France:'':, '."".'XtEB' 'MBEraNO, at' virhlcii'SihV Foreign- Minister spoke wai one of ai number of such gatherings
organized ta recent days by the committee and other 'Jewish or¬ ganizations. Many of these meet¬ ings are being held in Jewish homes.
Another highUght of the cam¬ paign was the bid by Former Premiere Pierre Mendes-France for a seat ta ParUament after eight years in tha poUtical back¬ waters. The Jewish ex-Premiere is runntag on the ticket of the smaU leftist Unified Socialist Party in Grenoble. His opponents include a Gaulllst, a Communist and an extreme rightwinger.
THE JEWISH ex-Premiere does not expect to get elected ta the first'round of voting today when an absolute majority is needed for victory. But, under an alliance with the Communists, the ¦ Communist candidate wiU step down if Mendes-France gets more votes than he does.
This would give the former Premiere a imited ieftwtag vote tathe runoff ballot on March 12 when a relative' majority, is enpi^gh for. vlctorjf... Mendes-, France lost his 'seat ta Parlia¬ ment in 1958 and lost agata in the 1962 elections.
OtRaTaDaf Proclaimed By Sensenbrenner
On March 15 Women's Ameri¬ can ORT (Organization of Re¬ habUitation tiirough Training) wUl sponsor ORT Day on a na¬ tionwide basis. The day is the jumping-otf potat for the organ¬ ization's intensive spring mem¬ bership drive,
A highlight of the Columbus Chapter-at-Lsufge's campaign vrill be an otticial proclamation to l>e made by Mayor M, E. Sensen¬ brenner paying tribute to the global vocational education pro¬ gram ot ORT,The Mayor wlU proclaim Marph 15 ORT Day in Columbus, Ohio,
To further^ honor the occasion, Columbus' City HaU wIU be des¬ ignated as ORT Hall and the chapter president, Mrs. Herbert Wetaer, Columbus' Mayor-for-a- day.
ORT Board menibers,who wUl participate in the ceremony In¬ clude Mesdames Harry Green¬ blott, Herbert Welner, Robert GUlery, Mel Kent, MJvvin Frank, Michael Bloch, Debbie MUler, Melvin Schottenstein, Sidney Marks, Walton Block, Fred Luper, Preston Gurwta and Gerald Swedlow, Alan WeUer, Myer MeUman, Slg Munster, MU¬ ton Lewin, PhUlp Goldsteta, Je- (ooirtlnu<i<t on pag* 4)
FLAMING FOR ANNUAL BALL
i Raaiiaha's Cotillion BaU will be held on Sunday, March 19, in the Saturn Room of the, Sheraton-Columbus Hotel, fhe kosher dinner-dance wiU begin at 6:30 p.m. and will fol¬ low vrith dancing'to the music of Joe Weisberg and his Or¬ chestra. Members assisting with the event are, from lefl to right: Mi-s. Irving Stem, chairman; Mrsy Heinz Hoffman, president. Seated: Mrs, Charles Swerdlov/ tickets; Mrs. Leo Miller, publicity,
CITY COUNGntMAN PORTMAN TO BE M.C. AT RAANANA'S ANNUAL G0T1III0N BAIL
Raanana annoimced that City CouncUman M. D, Portman, 80 S. iChesterfield Rd„ wiU be the Master of Cer- emonies at their eighth Annual Cotil¬ lion BaU to be held on Sunday even¬ ing, March 19, at the Colum-
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M. b. Portman     Hotel,  .
At present Councihnan, Port- man is a stockbroker with Hay¬ den Stone, Inc., a member of Tifereth Israel Temple, B'nal B'rith, American Legion, Vetera ans of Foreign Wars, Eastern
Kiwanls Club, FrankUn Cou^lty Democratic Party.
Zell And Silberstein Reveal Approval
Sol ZeU, president and Dr. Jack Silberstein, chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee, announced that Heritage House has been accredited by the'Joint CPmmission on Accreditation of Hospitals and also as an exten¬ ded care facility to participate in the Medicare program.
Member organizations of the Jotat Commissio|i on Accredi¬ tation are the American College
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