Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1967-04-20

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Clark Report Is Submilted
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Sen. Joseph S. Clark, Pennsyl¬ vania Democrat, urged last week in a report on a recent stucbr mission to the Middle East, that the United States should "utilize diplomatic pressure on Israel to repat¬ riate a substantial number of refiigees who might be per¬ suaded to return to their own vUlages inside Israel."
He submitted his report to the Senate Foreign Belations
Committee. He placed stress   	
throughout on the Arab re-   o   i    i       i • ftigee problem, proposing   OCllOlarSIliP that the United Nations   r.  * i !•  i   " i "break up the Arab reftigee   JjiStabllShed
camps gradiiallyt paying to the Govemment of Jordan a sufficient intemational sub¬ sidy to move famUies onto ar^Ie lands or into com¬ munities where employment opportunities can be found hi Jordan and elsewhere."
SEN. CLARK admittedthat the proposals had dangers for Israel "and should be carried out gradually" but, he wamed, "a continuation of the present policy may hold even greater dangers." He said the refugees were increasing in numbers and that the camps were breed-^ ing hate and trouble.
'7he Senator critlclze.d both' Prpsideitit Nasser of
F*or M. Melton
The United Jewish Fund and CouncU Communit]^ Scholarship Committee of the CouncU of Oiganizations has announced theestablish- ment ofthe Michael S. Mel¬ ton Scholarship Fund. The fund was set up as a per-; manent memorial tothe young student whose life was tragically lost in a plane crash whUe returning to school at the University ot Michigan.
Samuel Oppenheimer, president of the Ohio Tech¬ nical College, long-inter-' ested in helping young
people in the pursi^t of t^' Egypt'Wid-Isnlel.,He called   career in EnglneeriqgTbcbA
Michael S," Meltoa Sehatai;. ship Fund, twb complete
No More Significant Festival
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PY RABBI CHARLES E. SHULMAN
There is no more signi-1 ticant festival tn all thei world's religions thanPassf • over. It symbolizes thehfl*-( man struggle for freedom and it has been marked ahd 3 celebrated by the Jewi^hl people for over 3,000 years \ by the seder or evening meal. ^
In the New Testament acr-^ count  it  is  known as the- "Last Supper"  with  its Chrlstological interpretar tion of the unleavened bread and the whie. What makes,
*r^Vf;-the Passover observance so ^ '^^^POfatudaOy meaningful tothe ''t'.Ht'VJowlsh people is the fact
/Aflic-'that humanity's business of trp#:Te8tablishing justice an^i
Pjedom for "all men has, malned unfinished overthe' lg centuries. THE wcmns of the Hag-, 'jmji Sadah are still important ' ^H J-- connotations of human dls.i
abilities  in general and Jewish dtsabjlities in par¬ ticular. When Uie Jew reads 1 at the conclusion of theHag- .gadah service during his .Passover meal " 'shanah ,Haba ' ah Bnai Horin" - in the coining year may aU .people' be tree — there is ) ^cognition of the distance l\i\deh must yet be traveled ^^fore Uber^, egiiallty and fraternity wUI be dominant \H the human society. . The Jew can recall today ^ condition of his brethren (n SovlQt Russia denied the {(kjndamental right to worship his God and to continue his tradition.  He remembers that when there were once ^more than 3,000 synagogues I, in .Russia there axe today i, less than 50, that when Jew- ;, (sh life flourished on a scale [hardly known in previous ^centuries in that countiy, (there are today no more than ,.; eO'rabbIs functioning — and
all of them are elderly men.
JEWISH education is pro¬ scribed. And Jewish bo(d(s are not published because of tho bans of the Soviet authorities. Uhderthese tra¬ gic' circumstances the cry "let my peeiple go" raised in ancient Egypt stiU has relevance.
There ,are particular aspects ofthe Passover holi¬ day that^ liave elevated it in tbej J^i i]sh consciousness to a prep nlfient place. Its his- toriattt impact Is tremen- dais,\ mr it characterizes
tbpl.l^fP ^ ^ Jewish people. Kb memory in the Jevdsh experience Is grea¬ ter than the Exodus fi:om Egypt, __
'EVERY SABBATH and Holy day eve the Kiddush recited in tbp Jewish home contains the words "Zecher Litziyat Mitzraylm" r- in conimemoratlon of the Exodus flrom Egypt. Thus the
traditional blessing over the - wine established to usher in the Sabbath commemorating the seventh day «i which God rested ftom the labors of creation is eq.uated with
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Kosygin Asked To Liv^ Up To His Promise
Morris B. Abram, presi¬ dent of: the American Jewish Committee, caUed on the Soviet Union to implement positively the promise of Premier Alexei Kosygin to aUow Jews there to rejoin their f&mllles in other coun¬ tries. ^      ^
bl a Passover message, Abram alluded tothe state¬ ment (<jf the,Soviet leader laist December during his visit to' Paris> that Russian
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ers .agreed to-call" off their support'of the arms race'in the Middle .£ast,' the prob¬ lem then of achieving peace would be primarily "aprob- lem of dealhig with Nasser."
IP NASSER disappeared "from the scene," or could "be brought around to a civilized attitude, there are; rio insoluble barriers to such a course of action in the ether Arab states, most of which are too weak to be aggressive externally."
He declared thatthe major powers needed tounderstand that' 'their own national self- interest is not in permitting their citizens to make a fast buck by selling arms in peace in the mideast, and the Arab nations, unable: to purchase or manufacture weapons re¬ quired for modem warfare, accept the inevitable and make permanent peace with Israel.'?
courses of study at the col¬ lege. These are accredited courses in Electronics Engi¬ neering Technology, and upon successful ccnnpleUon, the^ As^bciate iii Engineering Degree is aWarded.
THE UJFCi'Communily Scholarship Conimittee was set up several years ago by the CouiicUpfOrganizatims. It inclilidels 11' hirids repre- sentinf! {(ical individuals, and organizations which are avaUable to the young men and women of the community for colieige and vocational training careers. Applica^"^ tions are screened by the Jewish Family Service voca¬ tional counselor.
Harry Schwartz is chair¬ man of the Scholarship C«n- mittee. Mrs. Raymond Kahn is chairman of the CouncU of 0rganizati(Ki8.
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COUNCIL IN ATLANTA
; Reglsfertaig at the National CouncU of! Jewish Wcmen's National Bierinial Convention meeting in Atianta, AprU 9-13^ are Miss Carol Friedman, jMrs. Maurice'Zox, Miss Susani Weston, Mrs.; Robert Kiean, Mrs. L David Cohen, and Mrs. George' Orostein.
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