Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1967-04-27

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Vol 45, No. 17.
THURSDAY, APRB. 27,1967 -17 NISAN, 5727
Rhodes Agrees To Sponsor Dinner
The aimouncement last week that Governor Rhodes will again sponsor a dinner tf\ beliaU of the Ohio Israel Bond drive has sparked widespread Interestandsupportthroughout Columbus and its environs, it Was reported this Vreek by Judge Leonard J; Stem, chairman ofthe dinner.
"It was gratllSring to witness the response i^chtlie Gov¬ ernor's announcement Inspired," said Judge Stem. "On all sides I have beard people
talking about the dinner and  tend, as well as a leading
entertainer from the world at show business, bivitatlons will shortly be mailed to Is- ¦ rael Bond purchasers iii communities throughout Ohio. Admission is by min¬ imum purchase of a $500 Israel Bond.
Judge Stem underscored tbe importance ofthe dinner In helping Israel to move smoothly throuj^ Its cur¬ rent economic transitional period. He stated that Bond purchases in Ohio wouldbe instrumental in enabling Is¬ rael to convert ncnessentlal Industry to production for evfortf thi^jaby pl|eyjlittiiv Isr flip}'6 )mf»vori^)B ftplQ^qe of trade a^d teiqoying the most serious obst9<>le to fiirther ecdhomic growth.
what a boon It will be for Israel. Many people have told me that they are already making plans to attend in order to be a part of what may well be the most glam¬ orous social event of the season.
"Others havo asked me what they can do to help In^ preparations for the af- fbir. This spirit is encour¬ aging and promises to make the dinner an overwhelming success with a capacity at¬ tendance of ftiends of Is*- rael tram all over Ohio." , THB ANNUAL dinner vvlU tako idaoe oi) Sunday, June 25,' a|! 6:30' p.m„ ht the Executive Mansion iil Col¬ umbus. A prominent guest speaker is ..expected to at-
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¦ NEW YORK ttTA) —The spiritual meaning of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony "andthe years of tralninfer that |tre- cede it" are "virtually sub- meiised by the celebration that follows," Newsweek mdgazlne reported in a sur* vey of Bar Mitzvah practices in the Uiited'States.
Jewish parents were pic¬ tured as increasingly ignor¬ ing the solemnity ofthe rite and "proddedby preying cat¬ erers, turning it intoagaudy spectacle." The article quoted a number of rabbis as deeply disturbed and seeking to deal with tbe pro- filem.
"ALL THE excitement leaves an impression on the boy that his responsibllify as a Jew is merely social," Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick of Detroit's BethAaronCon-
gregation, told the. new.s-
In NewYoHtCiii^»"wekl-' thy JeWti rent.kVl^h.hdtel- balUrObms, complete with orchestra and borscht-belt entertainers.to divert tiieir guests," the article report¬ ed, adding that last year, a celebration in Washing¬ ton, DlC., "moUntedasmag- niflcently as ^a royal ball, cost $55,000."
FOR THE Bar Mitzvah bqy, the Wtide remariced, "the affair is as firuitftal as it- is fUm the gifts, be collects can be worth as much as the party costs."
Rabbi Moshe Rabin of Val¬ ley Beth Shalom Synagogue- ,ln San Fernando Valley as¬ serted that "the vulgarity of bar mitzvahs is worse in southern California than (Contiimed on Page 4)
CLEVELAND, (JTA) ~ The Cleveland Jewish Wel- lare Fund appeal ofQcially opened its 1967 campaign at a dinner meeting at which pledges totalling $ 4,521,979 were announced. Goal if the campaign is a record high of $ 6,476,000. The previous record was  set In 1966 when $  6,268,652 was raised.
TORONTO, (JTA) — A private investigator who said he had been hired as a detective by the Canadian Jewish Congress told a court trylngCanadlan National SociaUst leader John Seattle and two other men for conspiracy that he had been the chauffeur for a car used by Seattle and his cohorts for placing swastika placards on the homes of prominent Jews in Toronto. The witness, John Charles Gerrily, testified he had infiltrated Beatti^'s organization on behalf of the CJC, and said he had reported ,the swastika excursion to the police. The incident, he said, happened last Sept¬ ember 1, to coincide with a march staged In Chicago by George Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. ,
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Two rabbis will be added to the faculty of Geoi^getown University for the first time next fall, officials ofthe nation's oldest Catholic college said. They said two Protestant clergymen also would be named to the faculty. The Jewish spiritual
ieaders are Rabbi A. Nathan Abramowitz of Tifereth 9vpel Cgiigregatlon iiere and Rabbi AlbertSUverman, a tormer Uinols UnlversUy Instructor. ' .
JERUSALEM (JTA) ~ The $1,000,000 new buUding of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University was dedicated here in a ceremony attended by President Zalmaa Shazar and 600 other dignitaries.      '  ' ,    J    i,    ¦' "1,. -
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-pressures wlthin|^ue{CathQUc'phurch8tem|iUng'fk^ the impact of,the Ecumenical Council may vml stlm-
'Ulate anti-Sernltlc reactions among conservative Cath¬ olics, a Judeo^Cathplic Facul^ Institute' "was told tMs,iyjB^ \^„k Cat|ioZlc.clergyman. The Rev.;Benedict J.',',P^r<^^cli$l^, a' member of.the Friars Capiichln, one tA three such brandies constitu^ng,the lalrkeiit order In' the catholic .'ChurctiTalso said that whUe this was not. anticipated, 1^ was somethinsT to be watihed by those favoring the Ecumenical sidrit.       ''''
LONDON, (JTf),— The British Board of Trade announced that it had guaranteed'fot-'Israel an export credit totaling 5,000,000 pounds 'sterling($14'mlllion). The credit will gp to the Industrial Devel(^nient Bank of Israel. The Board of Trade statedtheloan't^ been granted after the visit of Israel's 'Minister of Com¬ merce and Industry Zeev Shareff,"as a guest of the British Government."
Groups M ouming Adenauer Death
NEW YORK CJTA) — Major organization^ in this country mourned the death ta Dr. KonradAdenauer, former chancel¬ lor of West Germany known as the most articulate advocate of German-Jewish reconciliation and who taught that the German people must not forget wbat their country did to the Jews under the Nazi regime.
Dr. Adenauer, who died at the age of 91, was also the person who was determined
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to bring about the payment of reparations to Israel and to Nazi victims. Dr. Nalnon Gddmann, president of the Conference on Jewish Mat¬ erial Claims Against Ger¬ many issued a statement also In his capacity as president of the World Jewish Con¬ gress and president of the Jewish Agency for Israel, declaring:
"IN CHAkjCELLOR Koo- rad Adenauer, the Jewish people and Israel have lost one of their great firlends. In the 16 years that I knew him, during which time I met him very afl»n, he al- ways manifested his un¬ flinching determination to repair, at least hi the mat¬ erial sphere, as fits as pos¬ sible, the crimes oftheNazls against the Jews and imple¬ mented this determination a- , gaUistinany,dttacuiaes.Tbe, $<t^^iil4^e^fahd:{n|pcS'^l£Eet ' W<»k of legislation''oh in-^ 'demniflcatlan ondrestltutlon for Nazi victims, whichfound its expression in the Lux¬ emburg Agreement and nany Gennan laws, would have been Impossible in its pre¬ sent form, wtthout his in¬ sistence and resolve to bring it about" •
SimUar statements were issued by the American Jew¬ ish Committee, American Jewish Congress, B'naiB'¬ rith and other mt^or Jewish organizations. Prime Min¬ ister Levi Eshkol sent a cable to west Gennan Chan¬
cellor Kurt Kiesinger, ex¬ pressing his deepest sym¬ pathy on the passing of Dr. Adenauer. '
Role Of Rabhi Should Be Reestablished    "
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Am¬ erican rabbis were urged here to reestablish the "traditional role" ofthe rabbi as "the interpreter of Judaism to the Jew and the sympathetic guide of the Jew to the inner resources of Judaism."
Addresshig the SSth an¬ niversary observance of the New York Board of Rdibls, Rabbi Robert Cordis, pro¬ fessor of Bible at the Jew¬ ish Theological Seminary of America, said that "Our^ .people-are readier^: ^
/tttzethbtmiampttSax as a student, a scholar and a teacher. If we 'recapture this traditional role, we shall ¦ have no occasion to be trou¬ bled by the negative image ofthe rabbi."
RABBI EdwardT. Sand- row, president ofthe Boar^ announced that Rabbi Harold H. Gordon, executive vice- president for the past 20 yeajrs, would be honored by the organization withthe est¬ ablishment of annual student prizes in his name at each of the three midor rdtblnic seminaries. ,
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BBW MEETS LEGISLATORS
The national board ot B'nal B'rtth Women held a special meeting at the Senate Office BuUding in Washington, D.C. to discuss current legislative is¬ sues with a nuniber of U.S..senators. Mrs. Arthur- G. Rosenbluth, president of B'nal B'rith Women is seen with Senator Jacob K. Javits Qeft) and Senator Robert F. Kennedy (rJgWj.of New Yorit. .The dis¬ cussions were foUowed by) fward action reaffirming BBW support of US.' ratification of the Genocide convention as weU as civU rights and consumer -measures before,thp,Seiiat©..,<,-..".;...;-'.,-,- > ,,..,,,,.•
Construction Begins At Beth Jacob
Dr. Charles Young, presi¬ dent of the Beth Jacob Con- gregationi announced that construction on the| new, modem. Orthodox syi^agogue has begun, m a statement to the Chronicle, I^ ,sald' "we at Beth Jacob are^em- barking on an adventi^re ,of faith, the buUding of our new synagogue." i!   1
Julius Cohen, chainnan of the BuUding Conunittee, wUl supervise the entire project, and wUl be assisted by Joe Swartz, Honoraiy chainnan, and the officers and mem¬ iiers of the BuUding and the Executive ..Committees, Re¬ presenting the Congregatim at the closing at the jbank were Dr. Charles Young, president, and Joe Swartz, treasurer.
AT A recent Board cf Trustees meeting Rabbi David Stavsky caUed for a> unUateral meetbig of hearts and minds and expression of talth and gratitude to aU the members of the com¬ mittee for their untlrhig ef- tatt&t.w ¦.:¦.¦.¦,¦,¦,'.¦,¦..' wv.
Oppenheimer Nominated T.L Head
Sunday, May 7, at 6:45 p.m.. Congregation Tifereth Israel wUl elect and InstaU the officers and members of the Board of Trustees for the year 1967-1^98 at the Annual Congregational Oln- ner-Danc^ >to be.l^ld In the Coigregatibn's Social HaU. ' uNominatedgto serve as I^sldent ofthe c^ilgregation for a SQcorid term Is Samuel h.< Oppenheimer. He served the congregation ,as a vice president' fbr fo^r years, vtds general chainnan ofthe lisrael Bond campaign for 1963-64, an^ ^functioned as a chairman 101^ {BJmember of every importaiiti committee in tlie congregation.
MARRIED 22 years to the former Fi^re Friedman, the Oppenhelnkers have two chUdren, i DennlS; and Anita. .He is cnthe'Executive Com¬ mittee oftthe Institute at tbe ' Electrical > and Electronic I .Engineers,' on tbe Board of Trustees of the National Council of Technical Schools,, and a member of .the, .American Society for Engineerbig. Education and ttheiAmerican Technical Ed- uci^on Association. . .^He. is.tbe.author, of.two
textbooks, yet he finds tinie to be an active worker for Jewish Family Service, Un¬ ited Jewish Appeal and Is¬ rael Bonds in addition to synagogue activities.
MR. AND Mrs. Oppenhei¬ mer have invited the con¬ gregation to attend a cock¬ taU hour in tiie synagogue foyer at 6 p.m., immediate¬ ly preceding the dinner.
Richard Lieberman and Mr. Melvin Rackoff have been nominated to serve as vice presidents of the con- greg^on, Martin J. Polster received the nomination for treasurer,  and Arthur B.
Passage To Aid Passover Observers
A special biU passed by the Ohio (jeneral Assembly Monday nlgU wiU Insure persons ofthe Orthodox Jew¬ ish fbith a chance to vote in the May 2 special .election.
The biU provides that for persons who because of rel¬ igious reasons are unable to vote on election dsy may vote by absentee baUot.
ALSO supportbig the mea¬ sure beforeSenate andHouse committees was.the Amer- '.:•,•• -.-(Cpnthiitie^ on Page,4)
Westerman, secretary.
LIEBERMAN has been a Vice President for the past year and also served as Chairman of the Board of Education. Rackoff, presi¬ dent of Backoff Associates, Inc., has been very active in communal activities since he came to Cotumbus eight years ago, •.."'
Polster is aipast ptesl- > dent of the congregatioii^d has served as treasurerfor. many years. Westerman has been secretaiy fbr several terms and was previously a vice presidenL ^
~" MEMBERS iof the Board - of Tmstees wiU be Martin S. Adleri David Derrow, Norman D. Katz, Dr. Mal¬ colm L. Robbins, Geoise M. Levine, Irving H.Schnei-~ der. Dr. Jesse Shatdro^ San¬ ford Ttipolosky, and Manuel SobelJ'   '.        I
The ' Executive Caterers wlU cat^r the-gourmet din¬ ner, and music for dancing wiu >be fUmished fay Rick Monroe.' 'B; Westerman, Toastniastbr' tor the even¬ ing. Is! ichhirman for the dinneir^ddntie. Reservations can be mada by calling the
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