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Vol. 46, No. 10
-THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1968-7 ADAR
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Initial Total Largest Ever For The UJFC
Sidney I. Blatt, General chairman, and Norman Mei- islish. Advance Gifts Chairman of-the 1968 United Jew¬ ish Fund and Council Campaign, announced an initial total cf over $800^000 has'already been raised intbe current drive. This represente the largest amount in Columbus' tlmd-r^ing achievement to launch the cam -
paign.
It was announced at tli^ , annual meeting of the Ad¬ vance Gifts Division, belil last Thursday evening at tfae' Wbiding HoUow Country Club^ and was hailed as a tremendous impetus to tbe' entire campaign widch is now infUlI swing.
A CAPACITY audience heard Yehuda Hellman, Ex¬ ecutive Secretary of tfae Fr.esidente' Council of Ma-
' jor American Jewish Organ¬ izations, recount the events of the past few months and put them into historical and political perspective in an incisive and analytical man¬ ner.-
" The Campedgn leadership, "tiioiigh rigiitfully enthus¬ iastic about the resulte an-' nounced at the mieetlng, pcdnted out that much work- lies ahead, and many more' prospecte must be seen in.
Norman Meizlish
souglit for the Israel Emer- ^^cy Fnnd, ,^.the<, launching meeting made it dear that tfae goal was jwachabie, and that tfae Colmnbus Jewish Communily wQl now move forward' to match tfae gen- ordbr to ensure tfae contin- ' ^ erosliy of tbe Advance Gifts nation of and tbe eventual' Division, so that the goal will
be achieved within the days tfaat lie ahead.
I' Marvin L.Xilassman, chairman of the Advisory Board, presided atthe meet¬ ing. In a short but impress¬ ive ceremony. Rabbi Hariy Kaplan paid tribute to all of the former chabrman of past Campaigns, and presented a silver Siddur, made inls¬ rael, to those-present at the meeting. A musical inter¬ lude ,was provided by Mrs. Melville Frank as eacli.past chairman was introduced.
successfid completion of the | Campaign,   if the 1968 achievement is to meet the i unprecedented needs in both the' Regidar and the, Israel Emergency Fund Drives. ~ A sense of excitement and ct destiny pervaded the aud-, ience, whichrepresente con¬ tributors whose gifte equal more than two-thirds of the total funds raised in each year's Campaign. With the goal  8^ for' the' Regular Campaign of $803,5011, and< with maxbnnum funds lieing
Young Cantor-Singer to Entertain At BJ
"We very proudly pre¬ sent Mr. Bruce Roberts, vo¬ cal artist, as the guest en¬ tertainer of tbe fovth-com-. ing Annual Beth Jacob Bro- tberhood Cantorial Concert 111 to be  held at the Jewish
|,j Center, March 10," saidMr.
Eugene Cohen, chairman of the event.
Young Bruce Roberts is IS years old and a stodoit at tbe High School of music and Art He has appeared on '- the £flkeDauglasShow,Sam- my Davis Thanksgiving Day Special, and tbe MortyGunly Show on television. To tiB cndit Oft recorcHngs^ lie has lecarded "History of Am¬ erica' an RCA album with - Arthur Godftey, the Family Album witb Merv GrifBn on the Caidtal Label,' "Big Hite for LitUe People" RCA al¬ bum and many otiiers. Young Mr. Roberte is a familiar taoe to many Americans as " be has appeared forthetele- vision commercials oCFact toothpaste, Remoo tqys.
Israel Explains Meeting Ternis
JERUSALEM (JTA) ~ An Israeli Foreign Mfaiistry of¬ ficial stressed that Israel would attend peace meetings with the Arate only on assurances that accredited Arab representetives would attend face-to-face talks. But it was not certain that special United Nations peace emissary Gunnar Jarring had persuaded both sides to agree to tallcs, although rumors flew both bi Israel and at the UN that
ISRAEL BOND DRIVE
Shown are , left to right, Howard Schoenbaum who will serve as vice-chairman for the 1968-69 Columbus Israel Bond Drive; Dr. Charles Young, chairman of the camp^dgn; Joseph Kass, chairman for 1967.
Appointed diairman For Israel Bonds
Dr. Charles Young, CoUmibusx dentist, has accepted the. Chairmans^ of the 1968 campaign for State of Israel Bonds, it was announced by Jbsfeph' F. Kass, 1967 chair¬ man of the Columbus Coinmittee for'State of Israel Bonds.
This year's Israel Bond campaign, wiiich will lie ded¬ icated to the twentieth anniversary of the foundbig of the Siiie'bt Isr^, will' seek-to solve the new economic pro¬ Uems created by the hostilities hi the Middle East last summer ^ advance' Israel',s[ economy through'the expan¬ sion of indnstrial and'agricultur^'producUon.
Dr.^ Xtamg is serving, bis fpurth term as President of Beth Jacob Congreg^on, ls>> a'former vice president of the Columbus HebrewSchooltVice President ofthe Co¬ lumbus Torah Academy iand 'is a member of the Jewish War Veterans. He is past president of Alpha Omega Alumni and the Society of Columbus Dentistry for Child¬ ren.    - .
Before outlining plans for the coming drive. Dr. Young stated- he was happy to be joined in the coming drive by Mr. Howard Schoenbaum who will serve as Vice-Chairman for the 1968-69 ColumbuS Israel Bond Drive.    ,
''    Bruce Roberts
"That- LookT' shampoo and MUton Bradley toys.
>0a stage the fifteen year old artist has played the chad lead in "The Weddtag Anniversaiy" and bas along list of Carnegie, Hall recit¬ als to his credit. He has also entertained as a Can- tor-flinger at the Concord, Grossingers, Nevele, Tam-
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LOS ANGELES, (JTA) ~ Senator Ernest Gruening, Alaska Democrat, called for aletter-writing campaign urging President Johnson and'Congress to "write a mutual securily treaty with Israel andtogive, not sell, arms to Israel." Speaking beforetbe annual meeting ,,^ of the Southwest Pacific Region of the Zionist Or- y^' ganizaticn of America, Sen.- Gruening also toldletter- ,,j'(»ii^ters to urge the adiiiinistraUdntp"standby Israel's '' determination not to give up one inch of land until the Arabs consent to peaice negotiations." Three new dstricts were adde.d to the ZOA's Southwest Pacific Region. They include groups in Long Beach, Palm S](irings andthe statewide organization, ttie'Maccabi. NEW YORK, (JTA) — Four hundred Hebrew day , school teachers in the metropolitan area were told <that neither Jewish history nor tbe physical sciences ¦-can be tauglit as entities completely apart from f&ith : in God. Rabbi Mordecai Gifter, dean of'the Telshe - Rabbinical College of Cleveland, tddthe annual Teach¬ ers Conference Day her that "the Sinai eScperience , is not a mei;e historical datobutrather a new creation of a peopl^., And it is witidh tMsi conceptual frame of reference, that we can forge Jewish attitudes and sur¬ vival potoi^alities."
WAsrajNffFON, (JTA) ¦>-"A severe 'd^ap in the num¬ ber of Jewish .viilunte'ers for comniunity projects in Negro ghetto areas faas occurred because of fear of violence, according to a report made at a study con¬ ference of tin National-- Cguiicil of Jewish Women. NEW YORK, (JTA) — Tfae American Jewish Con- "^   gross, the Catholic Iiderracial Council and tlie Pro- , testant Council of the City of New York jobied in a statement condemning as "blalek-Nazism" an article pubUshed in the Afirican-Aiperican Teachers Assoc- iati,on "Forum"  charging "anti-black Jews" and •' ¦ -"black- Anglo-Saxons"- with-^educational- perfidy."
sometiiing was about to hap¬ pen.
The Foreign Ministry of¬ ficial, Gideon Rafael, the di¬ rector-general, also told newsmen that Israel had no intention of conducting ne¬ gotiations from "separate rooms or at separate tables. AU that had to be clarified tias been' clarified and the time has come to sit down to practical negotiations." The key words emergbig from the 'conversations were "Lausanne" and "Rhodes."
LAUSANNE was the site of an abortive UN-sponsored armistice conference in 1949 where Israel was confronted by a ''committee" repre¬ senting all of the Arab sta¬ tes, wliich sat in a separate rootai and retted to have any contact with the Isra^lisr, After' the collapse of that c<mference, a series of meetings was held later/that year on the Island of, Rhodes with.UN mediator RAlph Bunche'dlrecting talks wh^ led to the 1949 armistice agreemente, ,,
Rafael branded as incor¬ rect k statement attributed to a UN spokesman that Dr. Bunche had said the two sides sat separately for the 1949 armistice talks. At the UN, Dr-. Bunche said he bad never made any comment for pub¬ lication about any aspect'of the armistice talks and did¬ not intend to do so ifow, "even to correct mistakes," tie- cause he did not think "it would be helpful to do so" at the present time.
QUOTING official UN do¬ cuments, Raftol-told news¬ men that the Israeli and Egyptian delegates arrived at Rhodes on Jan. 12, 1949
Operation Telephone On Sunday
Sunday, March 10 is the day when one thousand wo¬ men wUl receive the caU from a volunteer worker at the Huntington National Bank, between the hours of 10 aiid\ 1, and wUl provide the answer to the all im^' portent question..'twUI you contribute to the United Jew¬ ish Fund and CouncU Cam¬ paign for its current drive?
Operation Telephone, now an annual event, serves to concentrate the drive for' funds in the shortest period of time, eliminating a lot of footwork,'but at the same time, soliciting the greatest number of individuals.
Servtag as co-chatrmen of tids  division are Mrs.
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and the first meeting lie- tween the two delegations was held on Jan. 13 when   - Dr. Bunche was unanimously chosen as chairmen." Rafoel,,,, said this was the type of ^ * meeting Israel wanted now and that Israel Iiad agreed to Jarring's partidipation ta them.
Previously Foreign Mta¬ ister Abba Eban told Par¬ liament that "by agreeing ,to aformof negotiationwMch   < the Arab Governmente have utiliize^ ta the past, we have made a maximal contributioa toward advancing "the peace   '. mission of Dr. Jarring. Prime Mtaister Es^hkol, making a surprise (^sit to   > IsraeU armored troops ta    , the Sinai, ssdd "we are ready    ¦ to '^get the past and ready tb meet far a true and hwi-v-'tf- orald^ peace."
Peace Move Reported In Jordan
TE;L AVIV (JTA) — West Bank Arabs retundng from business trips to Jordanhave reported the existence of a clandesttae movement for peace with Israel among Pal¬ estinian Arate ta the Hash- emite Kingdom. A Nablus mer cliant claimed that he at¬ tended a secret meeting with^' 42 Palestinian Arab leaders "som^here in Amman."
'The group caUs. iteelf tbe "peace committee" and is urging Palesttaian Arate ta Jordan and other Arab coun¬ tries to pressure their re¬ spective governments to make peace with Isra$L
' .iiJ^be .ultimate aim of this group, according to theNaI>- lus man, is'to esteblish a Palesttaian state onthe West Bank, federated with Israel. MeanvyhUe, the "peace com¬ mittee" is urging the Jor¬ danian Government to talce strong measures against El Fatah terrorists operating^ from Jordan territory, he said.
AN ARAB journalist who ' recently returnedtotho West Bank from Jordan said that-
V according to rumors ta Am¬ man, the~ Jordanian Govern¬ ment wants to call a special convention of tho Arab League at which it wouldask Iraq to withdraw her troops 'that have been camptag ta Jordan stace last June.
The Amman Government is reportedly under pressure to get rid of the Iraqis who have teen aiding El Fatah terrorists  but who proved .
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