Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1968-12-26

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1968 - 5 TEVES
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Zacks Is Elected To National UJA Post
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Max Fisher, national pre¬ sident of the United Jewish Appeal announced the elect¬ ion ot Gordon Zacks of Co¬ lumbus asNatirnialChata-man of the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadersliip Cabinet. He succeeds Herbert Garon of New Orleans, La.
The UJA Recently conclud¬ ed its 30th Annual National Conference in New York at which more tlian 3,000 de¬ legates firom United States and Canada were present to receive reports andtodls- cuss the overseas needs of its beneficiaries for 1969, Leading officials of the Joint Distribution Committee, Ujotted Israel Appeal and Uni¬ ted HIAS Service presented tlieir requirements for 1969.
THE YOUNG Leadership CaMnet which was'formed In 1963 with 75 outstanding' young men of the country now numbers close to 190. These .young men represent the new leadership of un¬ derstanding and high levels ot philanthropy.
Gordon Zacks
first with the formation of the Maccabee group In Co¬ lumbus and eventually the establishment ot the Young Men's Division which annual¬ ly has done an outstanding job. Gordon now serves on the Board of Trustees of the UJFC and on its Exe¬ cutive Committee. ' SERVING with Gordon Zacks on the UJA Leader¬
ship Cabinet firom Colum¬ bus are Bernard K. YenMn, Melvin Schottenstein, Edwin Ell man and Millard Cum¬ mins.
For 1969 the UJA is em¬ barked upon a campaign to meet the essential aid re- (luirements of 836,000 Jews>,
iaOy in Israel. The UlA in ¦ M969 not only seeks increas¬ ed contributions to the Re¬ gular Fund but must also continue its extraordfaiary Israel Emergency Fund. In¬ creasing contributions tothe Fund are crucial^ since the people ot Israel look to the ¦ UJA to immigrant settle¬ ment and absorption in this critical period.
Operation Israel Now Under Way
Edwin Ellman of Cdumbus will participate in "Operation Israel," one o( the special one-week fact-finding flight to Israel organized fay the United Jewish Appeal in December and January. Ellman is a member oftlie Young Men^s United Jewish Appeal National Leadership Cabinet, amemberofthe UdtedJewlshFundandCouncfl and chairman of its Education and Culture Budget Committee. He is active withthe Advance Gifts Diviaon of the JS69     ,, .      ^..
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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Cabinet approved draft legislation that would enable partners in -a mixed marriage to obtain a divorce firom a civic court if a religious court refuses to exercise jurisdiction in ttie case. Under present Israeli law, divorce, like marriage, comes under the jurisdiction of religious courts. Some mixed couples have found it impossible to obtain a divorce because the religious courts concerned ruled themselves incompetent to deal with the matter. The legislation hitroduced fay Minister of Justice Yacov Shapiro would empower the President of the Supreme Court to determine the specific re- ' ligious or district court having jurisdiction in each individual case. The Attorney-General woidd be asked to inquire if a religious court agrees to litigate. LONDON, (JTA}--British Jewry was urged to rally behind Israel during the coming year to keep that nation's vital humanitarian and social programs from collapsing under the burden of unprecedented security needs. Michael M. Sacher, newly elected chairman of the Joint Palestinie Appesi, stressed the urgency of maintaining Israel's social services, medical aid, edu¬ cation and welfare while the country spent 20 percent ot its gross national product'on defense. That compares to cmly 10 percent spent by the United States and much less fay Britain, he said. Mr. Sachar presided at the JPA's dinner opening the 1969'campaign. Pledges totalling $3,3 million were made at the dinner which was addressed by Israel's Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban. ^'' \
, TEL AVSYi (JTA)—The'newly consecrated head of ;^i'tte>'Gr{$e£'iCamoUcycttiimu^^ in Iqrael, Archbishop' i^J^!^PK^^g/t^^a^?pfpK^nM-im-wi liturgical^ / /
' texts' of ill" passages'Wens'ive to Jews Indudh^ anj^"' Unking Jews with the CruclBxion of Christ. Arch- Idshop Raya formerly -served In' Birmingham, Ala. His order followed the text ot the Vatican CouncU's Declaration on the Jews.
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)~The head of the Mexican Red Cross assured a Jewish delegation today that Ms organization would offlcially intervene to secure amelioraticm of the conditions under which the Jewish minorities live in the Arab countries. The assur¬ ances were given fay Jose Barroso Chavez, the pre¬ sident of the Red Cross, to a delegation composed of representatives of Comlte Central Israelita and of the organization of Jews^trom Arab countries. The delegation gave him detailed reports on the treatment of Jews In Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
BONN, (JTA)—A Government spokesman said at a press conference here that the Cabinet would not deal this year with the question of postponing oir abolish¬ ing the statute of limitfitions m Nazi .war crimes ° pi'osecutions and that no date has been set for ftiture discussions of the matter. The statute is' scheduled to go into effect at the'end of 1969; The spokesman also expressed doubt that the Cabinet would decide whether or not to aPPly to the Constitutional High Court for a ban on the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD).-icr "^ ' '
l^pain Rescinds A^ 1492 Decree Expelling Jews
hey leaders in Jewish com' munitles throughout the Ui- ited States with a first hand ~ briefing on the continuing emergency situation In Is- raeL More than 1,000 lay leaders have made reservar:. iions.iarthesefUe^s attheir own expense. All flights are for men only; one all-women flight Is planned for Jan. 19.
THE MESSAGE that an emergency still exists, one and a half years after the six-day war, wiU be bi^i^ht heme *'loud and clea;^' by the Operation Israel partici¬ pants. This message was emphasized by the 4$0 key
. Jewish leaders who returned from the fourteenth Annual UIA State Mission in Oet-
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. to!''contribute mote-.to.the-
members of this MIssiou; M^Izllsh is General Chair¬ man ot the 1969 lAilted Jew¬ ish Fund and Council Cam- - jpalgn, v^ch will include both the Regular arid the Israel Emergency Fund drives.
MEMBERS of each Olper- ation Israel flight face a tight schedde at visits to key trouble areas onlsrael's borders, authoritative b^ef- ings, nieetitngs with Israeli Government and Jewish Agency leaders, and inspect¬ ion of Immigrant absorption, liousli^, education, health and welfare programs made' possible by limds raised In local campaigns such as the United Jewish Fund and CounciL ^^
Information about the Op¬ eration Israel flights maybe obtainedfaycaUing the United Jewish Fund and Council oC- ..flce,-.22l»6871.. .:,..'•.....
AT CONVENTION
f; Columbus,;;Rat!bis Samupl .Rubensteln, CDj-Cong., fA^uMjai^ Ai^^ijM^,'DavidoStayskjp;Or), ;Cojj^jBeUh( ¦^'aiia^ axe^Sbown with Dr. Samuel Belldn/president, Yeshiya fAiiversity. New York, at the 25th Annual Alumni convention of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo¬ logical Seminary, a University affiliate, which took place >-in, Monsey, N.Y. RabU Rubenstein who was elected ai^^csioi^ vice president dt the Alumni, part¬ icipated In a tribute to Dr. Samuel BeUdn on the 25tii apniversaty of hl^ presidency of Yeshiva.'-;     vAsv
MADRO), (JTA)—The Go¬ vernment of Spain has finally publicly rescinded the 476- year - old edict of King Ferdinand and Queen Isa- bella that expelled Jews from S^in in 1492. A document to that effect was presented fay the Ministry of Justice to Saniuel Toledano, vice preside of the Madrid Je¬ wish communliy, who is a di¬ rect descendant of Rabbi Da¬ niel Toledano, the Rabbi of Toledo at the time of the expidsion. '^ '
It was formally read from the pulpit of Madrid's new syiiagoefue, the first Jewish house of worship to be built in the Spanish capital since the 14th Century. The syna¬ gogue, which wfll serve Ma¬ drid's 2,500 Jews, was con¬ secrated In colorflil cere¬ monies attended fay more than 600 leaders of the local, ^commuiiityj.and, cabblstand , .Jewish digmtacles firomLiim- don, flew York and Buenos Aires. They were joUied by representatives of the Gov¬ ernment, the Madrid muni¬ cipality andby RomanCatho- lic, Greek Orthodox and Pro-
Bicrfran Relieff Flowfit In
The first joint Jewish- Catholic-Protestant direct diartered mercy airlift for the starving children of Bia- fTa leftKennedy International airport tills mmth carrying 40 tons of food and medi¬ cine, includingl00,000doses of urgently needed measle vaccbie donated fay'UNICEF.
The tri-f^th support for . the mercy flight comes ITom Catholic Relief Services, Protestant Church World- Service and the American Jewish EmergencyEffortfor Biafran Relief, which is com¬ posed of 21 major national Jewish organizations.
THE FUGHT arrived at the Portugese West-Africa island of Sao Tome Dec. 16 from where the supplies wUl be flown into Biafra on the nighttime air shutties operated by Joint Church Aid, a composite group of Catholic and Protestant re¬ lief agencies of the United States and Europe.
Catholic Relief Services contributed toward the flight $120,000 worth of Mgh pro¬ tein and concentrated car^ .bohydrate foods andjyarlous ''f-tfedicinals; Church World uService contributed$S9,000- wortii of food, antibiotics and seeds; and the Ameri¬ can J e w 1 s h Emergency Ef¬ fort for Biafiran Relief paid the cpst of the charter flight, $40,000. The, 100,000 doses
testant churchmen.
THE DOCUMENT acknow¬ ledged the legal entity of the Madrid Jewish community and placed on record the fact that the expulsion edict was abrogated fay the Con¬ stitution of 1859 and fay sub¬ sequent laws. But until now ^ ^ it was vftt publicly endorsed fay a Spanish Government. It.repeals the long-standing regulation thatrequlredJews to obtaiii official permission to hold religious services.
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The new synagogue opened its doors officially when RabU Benito Gershon of Madrid affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost. Seventeen To- rah scrolls were carried iido the synagogue fay elders of the community. Tin edi¬ fice contains a main sanc¬ tuary seating ^50 persons.
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which was raised fay the local communily over the past four years and the ba¬ lance of $150,000 provided by the Joint Distribution Committee and the Con¬ ference on Jewish Material ' Claims Against Germany which' allocates funds 'for the restoration of European Jewish communities des- > troyed during the HItier era.
Shelled Settlers Cpmplaiii ^
TEL AVIV, (iTA) ~ Set- tierd of the Beisan and Jor- , dan Valleys which are the j prjjpe^iu'get of artillery and . rocket attacks from Jordan-   . Ian soil, have petitioned 0*9 Knesset (Parliament) to au¬ thor ize larfell occupation of      ^ .a zonei/^st Qf thei^ordki   '¦'(',;,
of enemy,-jnripy ¦      firt-V,^- ¦ ¦.iois'jniit.
lieprerfeilStives of lr« set-¦ •;', ¦ tiers appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and      '       * Security Committee to argue for the creation of a demlli-^ ^ tarized "Ixifter zone'^ reich-, ing into the Gilead Mountains ^/
which lie within Jordaniati ¦ / territory. They said such a^ move would relieve the Beli san and Jordan Valley .'set-.' tiements from constant har- ' rassment fay long-range ar¬ tillery employed fay <Iordain- lan and Iraqi forced and fay the Czech-made ISOmm,
Katyusha rock'^* laun¬ chers,' a' favorite weapon of , the El Fatah terrorists/They were heard fay the full com¬ mittee under the chairman¬ ship of David Hacohen. The committee iiearlng was at-, tended by Gen, David -Ela-^- y^
zar, commander of.tlw nor-. f -.