Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1968-05-16

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Cornerstone Ceremony Sunday
Governor James A.-Rhodes, Governor of the State of Ohio^ will extend "Greetings" on behalf of the State of Ohio'at the Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for the new Beth Jacob Synagogue this Sunday, May 19 at   . 11 a.m.
The program will begin with the call to the cdors -played by the Jewish War Veterans,Capital Post#12(V Commander Dworkin directing. The ceremony marks the third time that the Beth Jacob Synagogue is laying a cornerstone in its sfaciy-nine year history. The, cornerstone was laid In 1909 forthe DonaldsonAvenue S^ynttgogue, then in 1952 for tbe Bulen Avenue Stsmago- gue and in 19,68'for the CoUege Avenue Synagogue. "Grertings" will be extended by Dr. Charles Young, president of tbe Congregation, Mr. JuUus J. Cohen, chairman of tbe Building Conunittee; Mr. Mac Haas, chairman of the Board; Mrs. Milton J. Leeman, pre¬ sident otthe Sisterhood^ and Rabbi David Stavsl^ will ' Introduccinr.SamsonRaphiel Weiss,tbeguest«pealier.
Four past presidents have been chosen to do the Honors in jAacing the comerBtone: Mr. Morris Wein- stocK, Mr. Louis M. Levin, Dr. Charles Young and Mr. Alvin Shamed. A Mgh-ligfating feature'of tbe pro¬ gram will be the placing ot various documents into ' the cornerstone. Mrs. Louis Zuckerman and Mrs. • Fraidt Nutis, daughters of the late Mr. Joe Swartz, past president and leader ot the Synagogue, wOl lead a contingent of officers to place various records into an air-tight container.
The following oSScers of the Congregatioa will par¬ ticipate: Mrs.'^ William Bless, Mr. Eugene Cohen, ' Mr. Julius Cohen, Mr. Saul Goldmeier, Mr. Geoarge Goodman, Mr. Bert Goldmeier, Dr. Maynard-Gold- meier, Mr. Mac Haas, Mr. Nat Lessem, Mrs. Milton J. Leeman, Mr. Joe Nichol, Mr. Zindell Pass, Mr. Martin Scliecter, Mr. Aaron Supowit, Mr. Joe Stein¬ berg, Mr. Pincus Sigal, Mr. Harold Taneiibaum, Mr. Julius Weintraub, Mr. Keve Zians, and Rabbi David Stavsl
Pra^rs will be ofCered by the Rabbis of our Community: Rabbi Julius Baker, Dr. Jerome FoUcman, Rabbi Bennett Hermann, Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein and RaUii Nathan Zelizer. Tbere will be no solicita¬ tion of fluids and tlie entire communUy is ini^ted.
Pops, STP Win At Stunt Nite
This yefj-'s T.A.C. Stunt Ntte drew the Uggest crowd ever. Pops Dworkin AZA and Sigma Theta Pi won ,ln the musical division for their production of "The Ballad at wfll Hart." The drama division was won with comedy produced by P^^usandZiv B.RG ".When aBoy Goes Out on his First Date."
Pushing to the very end for the winner's trophy in the Drama division, but placing second best was Taurus and Chaverim B.B.G with theb: exceUent satire on "Man and his Weakness — The Making of a Flower." -
Hie four judges were Mrs. Alien Goldstein, Mrs. Har¬ vey Roth, Eddie Kaye and Roland Peters. ^
JEC Marks Anniversary Of Israel
A celebration tn honor of the 20th anniversary of Israel's Independence wUl be sponsored by the Inter- Scbool CommltteeoftheJew- ish Education Committer of the IJnited Jewish Fund and CouncU on Sunday, May 19, 10 to -11 a.m. at Congre¬ gatton Tifereth Israel.
Arranged by tlw Inter- - School Committee tn coop¬ eration with the CouncU of Jewish Educators, the pro¬ gram wttl include a Wanier Brothers Seven Arts Film' "Six,Day War," a spblted presentation Iv the HUlel Dancers, songs, and a spe¬ cial message.
ALL CHILDREN fi:om the fifth grade upwards are in- . (Continued oa Page ID
West in talks with the United States on curbing the arms race in the Middle East is being viewed here by informed sources as a calculated device to divert the U. S. from seUing Phantom jets to IsraeL If the phan¬ toms are sold tb Israel, they would balance the mas¬ sive Soviet arms supphr to the Arabs since the war of last June. The Moscow maneuver to frustrate the jet transaction was said to have been timed to coincide with a period in American political life when the nation's eyes are on the forthcoming November presidential , dection. . VIENNA (WNS) A woman commentator on Radio Prague last week caUed for renewal of dtplomatic relations with Israel, according to repoi^ts reaching here trom Czechoslovakia. In calling for renewal of relations with Israel, the broadcaster said that such a move could add to the rising prestige of Czech- olosvakia in tbe world and enable it to play a positive role as mediator in the Arab-Israel cmflict. In add¬ ition, she caUed the breaking of relations witb Israel by the communist bloc last summer iUogical and un¬ necessary.
BONN (WNS) WUhelm Guttman, leader of the twelve neo-Nazi deputies who were recently electedto parlia¬ ment in Baden-Wurttemberg, is a notorious ^lU- Semite whoreceivedaneigbteen-monthprisontermaf- ter the war for his brutal conduct toward Jewish deportees ftom TUbengen, wliere he was mayor. liead- ers of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Parly bave ' been denying they were either Nazis or anti-Semites.
NEW YORK (WNS)TbeSoWetdominatedinternation¬ al movement is split more sharply nowthanever over ¦ the issiie of Israel and anti-Zionism, according to a feature article, in the current Issue of Hadassah Maga¬ zine tgr Dti WUliam.Korey. According to Dr. Kbr^,- vdiose' documented x'eport cites numelrous opposition statements Iieretofore published oidy inthe Rediress, Russia's campaign to line uP satellites in suiiport of ber posttion on Israel "has been unsuccessfiil in ral¬ lying to its Middle East banner even the Communists of tbe Western World."
LONDON (WNS) Jewish writers, particularly in the field of communications, are the latest victims of the anti-Jewish campaign in Poland, according to re¬ ports reaching here trom Warsaw. The first one to be severed firom his post was the editor of the Warsaw Yiddish Folkshtimme, who allegedly resigned of his flree wiU.    ¦     ¦    '
Governor To Play Host
Governor and Mr^. James A. rWcs, under wh^se pa¬ tronage the 1967 Bonds for Israel fete was heldi wiU once again play hosts to firiends and sujEVOrterspfthe bond drive, at a banquet to be held in the Rose Garden of the Executive Mansion, in Columbus, on Sunday eve¬ ning, June 16, at 6:30 p.ni.
Dr. Charles Young, chair¬ man of tbe Columbus Israel Bond Committee said that the occasion wiU aflbrd the ttpportuniiy of a salute to Israel, currently celebrating its twentieth anniversary of statehood, and wiU serve, too, to climax the Spring program in behalf of Israel Bonds.
I Witii Melvin L. Schotten¬ stein, as dinner chairman, Mrs. Martin (kidofsky ser¬ ves as women's chairman, Mrs. Irving Sef^: as ar¬ rangements chairman and Mrs. Ralph GrolKin, as re- serrations chairman.
A series of events is being projected during the next few weeks io focus attention on the Executive Mansion din¬ ner aiid committees are intbe process bfformation. Speak¬ ers and entertabiers who wiU appear at the celebration event wUIsoonbe announced..
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Ailibassador Featured At Forum
Jules Garel, chairman of the Jewish Center Putdic Affairs Forum, announced this week that Robert C. Sbrong, Ambassador to Iraq, and former Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Un¬ ited States Department of- State, wtu be the principal speaker at a special pro¬ gram of the Public Affairs Forum on Monday evening. May 20, at 8^0 p.m. in the Jewish Center Auditorium.
Ambassador Strong wUl discuss '"Israel: Island of Democracy in the Middle , (Continued,on'Plige.'ll) • ¦
Honors Women's Group
Mrs. Sol Henkind, President ofthe National Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, accepts citation firom Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum, President of the Seminary, at ceremonies at the Americana Hotel in New York City marking the ciflminatlon of the League's JubUec Year, The citation paid tribute to the 200,000 members of the League for their role in the "preservation of the Jewish tradition." The League, founded in 1918, now has 800 afCUiated Sisterhoods and is the largest women's synagogue organization in the world.
OSIIComf erence On JeiMfs, Arabs Ist Off Its Kind
A program that isthe Crsc of its idnd In.the Untted States and"one'ithat'<:oald'' weU perform an important service in Jewish - Arab relations begins today at (Mo State University at 3 p.in.
Corsponsored byTiieNear and Middle EastStudies Pro¬ gram and The Center for Medieval andjRenaissance Studies, the First Annual Conference of the.^ear and Middle East Program be¬ gins a two day series on Tlie interrelaQonsbips of Arabic and HebralcCultures through the Ages.
BRINGING together anum- ber of distinguisbed Near Eastern scholars, both Arab and, Jewish, the program wiU offer lectures and discuss¬ ions on the relations of Jews and Arabs inthe Classical Age of the Islamic State. This aftemooifs session wiU be under the chairmanship of Leon L Twarog. The first address wiU be deUvered by Professor S. D. Cioitein at 3 p.m. in the auditorium ot the. Law BuUdti^;, 1659 N. High St. Dr. Goitebi, ranked among the worlcPs leading OrientaUsts, will speak on "Islam and Judaism, Typo? Icgical Siinflarities."
FoUowing Dr. Goiteii^Dr. Msdld Khadduri of Johns Hopkins. University wiU .speak on "The Legal As- Iiects of Arab-Hebrail: Re¬ lations inthe Classical Per¬ iod."
- At 8 p^m. this evening the ' conference wiU continue in the Law BuUdingAudttariifm with ah address by Dr. Sale W. Baron^ Professor Emer¬ itus pf Jewish Histoiy, Lit¬ erature, and Institutions on tbe MiUer Foundation and Dtrector of the Center otis¬ rael and Jewish Studies at Columbia Uilversiiy. Dr. Baron wUl discuss "Some Jewish Attitudes to the Med¬ ieval MusUm State." Dr. Sydney 'N. Fisher of Ohio State yniveirsity, wiU be
ciiairman ot tUs evenine^s session. ^,
' Ti^'orrcw mondng at 10 in tbe Conference Theatre of the (Mo Union, 1739 N. High St., Dr. A. S.Halkln,amem- ber ofthe faculty tftheJew¬ isb ThedlogicalSemlniaiy and tbe City CoUege of New Yocli^ wiU explore the mutual in¬ fluences in Islamic and Ju¬ daic arts in his address, "Poetry and BeUes-Lettres in Arabic and HebralcCul¬ tures." Eleanor Bulatkbi wiU be chairman cf Friday morning's opening discuss¬ ion.
A PANEL chaired by Dr. Matvin FoK of (Mo State UniversUy wiU foUow Dr. Halkln with aUscussiobi Forum. Speakers include Dr. WUson Bishai, Professor cf Near Eastern Languages at Harvard IMversity Dr.Ro- bert Chazan, associate pro-, fessor of Jewisb History; Ohio State Universitj^ Dr.. Nonnan Cidlb, associate pro-: fessor of Medieval Jewish' Studies at the University oil Chicago^ Dr. Joel Kraemer, processor ot Islamic PhUo- sopby at Yale IMversity; and Dr. Avram Udovitciv proi^ fessor of Islamic law at Princeton IMversity.
A luncheon and confer¬ ence summary at 12:30 pum. in the Franklin Room of tbe CM6 Uhira, led by Dr. Zvl Ankori, Melton Professor of Jewish Histoiy, wiU close tbe two day conference. Dr. An¬ kori wiU open a discussion on the topics presented during the preceding lectures and outline tbeir Imtdications In light of present Arab^ewish relations.
An invitation is extended by Tbe Near and Middle East Studies Program and The Center for Medieval andRe- naissance Studies to the Co¬ lumbus community to attend this important conference^ Both tin lectures and > tbe luncheon are open to tiw . pubUc.  ,. •