Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1971-05-06

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"^JtQ/    Serving Columbus, "Central" arid Southwestern Ohio^AK
VOL. 49 NO. 17
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NEW YORK <WNS)-'niis city's Boaird of Education unanimously voted to change the starting date of next year's recess from IMarch 31 to Mtardi 30 to avoid having classes on the latter da^te, wfaich will be the first' day of Passover and also Holy Thiirsday.
LOS ANGELES (WNS)-ltie Jewish Cominuni^ Foundation of the Jewish FederatioiihCbuncil at UCLA is funding the first universi^ course on the kibbutz ever given in the V.S. The course was established at the request of students with the a^iroval of the UCLA Council on Educational Devejcqnnent.
TEU.AVIV (WNS)-U. Col. Ori PeretZi 49/il^ Rauat Gan died this week. He was the fourth victim of a mining incident of the West BaiiK. Three fdlow officers . died instantly when their command car struck a plastic mine on a muddy road near Beit Jubrin.
Eighteen Arabs were injured when a grenade was tossed into their midst on a crowded street in Gaza.
LONDON <WNS)-T1ie State Publishing House^in Moscow has announced a new Rusfjian transliatian of the works of Sholem Aleidiem in six volumes will shortly be puldished. "niere will be a first jprintiiig of 100,000 copies.     " .
NEW YORK (WNS)-Twb American District At¬ torneys, just returned frpni a twoi wedc.visit to the ¦ Soviet Unioif, reported that Soviet Jews w(^ being held in deten'^on in "flagrant violation of the Soviet Constitution ahd of Soylet:Law;!^ ;tb^:rqiart'^was^d^^^^^ ' 'by DA Eugen{e9^dot^Kiogs.Cpunty (BitjoMyn); 1^ Is ' UeWish'attd Iqr' DA Rbbm' f'. I^cniiard of Genesee County, Mich., who is a Roman Cadiolic.
Face To Faceifegotialions Urgiid fiy Leaders Of Both Mafor Pirties
WASHINGTON     (JTA)-
Leaders .of  both   major
parties  iq the  House  of
Represeptatives     have
straigly urged face-torface
negBtiaticnH between Isit'ael
and Arab coiintrira aiid
deplored any attempt at an
imposed solution in the
Middle East Ibey 'if^gaike
Afg. 29 to an audiei^|of
about 170 Congressmea and
400 delegates attending the
America - Israel Public
Affairs Committee's annual
policy   conference.   The
conference marked Israel's
23rd    anniversary    and
honored Israeli Ambassador
Yibdiak Rabin who received
a standing ovation after he
pleaded for "hdp to bring us
together in dialogue with our
neighbors." ttie speeches in
,;. siQiport of Israel by House
"speaker     Carl     Albert,
Dehiocrat of Oklahoma;
MajoHty    Leader'  Hale
Boggs,     Democrat ,^.of
;''£»ulsiaiia;-Md^jiiiiioHty
Leader;    (^rald    Pbrd,
Republican of Michigan,
came vrhile Secretary  of
State William P.; Rogers was.
in Ankara, TUrljiey, on the eve of his visit ttt four Arab countries and to'a^.to ex¬ plore ideas for rebpeiiingthe Suez Canal. Albert told AIPAC that "your mission is the most important mission in the world, one which is joined in by right - thinking people around the world." He said that "no settlement of the Middle East probleflm can be made thiat leaves it impossible for neighbors to take care of their neighborly Iiroblems." Boggs dedared:
"Israd has evacy right to- negotiate face-to-face with its adversaries. Despite our aid to Israel we don't have One right to dictate peace to Israd." Ford, viiio drew applause on several oc¬ casions, declared that "Israel, the /-^victim of aggression, is jentitled to reasonable claims for new and secure boundaries." He added that "we must exerdse great t;are; to avoid unwitting coUaborktion with Moscow and impose'a set¬
tlement upon brad." Ford also scored Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman J.W. Fulbrlght, Democrat of Arkansas. Without naming hiiii. Ford referred to Fulbright's recent speech at Yale in which he denounced Israel for allegedly resorting' to "Communist - baiting humbuggery." Ford dedared: "It is tragic that such a seIf-iHX)daim^ peace advocate  has   undermined
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Jewish Community Should Realize Reiisonableness Of Israel's Position
Israel Celebrafiofl Continues Sunday
900 Hear Kahatie
Over nine hundred peoi^e, including many college students, packed the Beth Jacob Synagogue and auditorium to hear Rabbi Mdr Kahan^, Chairman of the Jewish Defense League, speak at' the Annual Memorial meeting in memory of the six million Jevfs killed during World War II by the N:azis. Speaking in a cool and moderate tone the con¬ troversial head of J.D.li. blasted the Roosevelt Ad¬ ministration for not bombing tte rail lines leading to Aukiiwitz. He blamed the then Jewish leadership of the Nat io na I.Jewish Organizations for not being militant. He said the Jewish leadership were content merdy With having "forty- five minutes of interview with the resident of the White . House, and all they received, 'were sympathy and more
sympathy.
"We kniew of Aushwitz and we could have saved hun¬ dreds of thousands of lives, had we (tone all we could have done to insist that those rail lines be bombed. It is not enough to merdy blame the allies for not bombing Aush¬ witz. The question is what did we do to insist that they bomb the rail linens leading to Aushwitz, and the death camps area? What did we do vihen vire.knew that every single day, 12,000 Jews wrae being gassed? Everyday, as we had oUr particular simchas, a bar mitzvah, a wedding, we sang and we danced, and we enjoyed the good life, and every sunrise there were 12,000 less Jews than the previous sUnrise. It is true that Jewish leader¬ ship went to Franklin Roosevelt and asked that he bomb the railroads, and it is also true that he said that it
Mrs< Krakoff To Be Installed As Iresldent Women's Division OIFC
Mris. Louis Krakoff will be
installed    as    the    new
president of the,Women's
Division of the UJFC, at its
Annual     meeting.     The
meeting, to take place on
Monday, May 17, at 1 p.m. at
the   Melt<)n ; Community
Center,  will  begin   with
dessert and coffee and will
then concentrate on the main
course:  "The Quality of i Jewish Life." ' [   Mrs.   B.W.   Abramson, loutgoing president, says of Ithis newly formed Women's
Division, "Representing the concerns of all women of the Jewish Community, its purpose is to study and evaluate the cpiality of our own Jewish community in order to Vecommend the kinds of qualitative changes which every dynamic, vital society needs."
Mrs.   Leonard Wasser¬ strom   and   Mrs.   Howard Schoenbaum     are     co- chairmen in charge of this i meeting.
was : "technically not feasable," aind he sym¬ pathized. Let it not be saidv that President Rooseyelt "did not sympatliize.'.''He always "sympathized-" And we went home, my Jewish leaders went home, tiecause after all, if the President says 60, then what more can be done, and more than two million Jews died in Aushwitz." "Not one Jewish leader of the. Jewish Establishment called 100,000 Jews into Washington, D.C. and sat down on the street, and said arrest us, we are not moving, and if these leaders woidd have induded . the head of B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish Com¬ mittee, and the American Jewish Congress and the Reform rabbinate, and the^ Conservative Rabbinate, and the Orthodox Rabbinate, the rail lines would have been bombed and lives would have been saved." "And the (]uestion therefore rises, why; did we not do what should have been done? And the answer to that.is the same answer that you must give to that Jewish leader who when speaking of Soviet Jewry says "be careful, don't be too militant, because you make! things worse for them thereZ'Jon't; bdieve hinj,
Columbus began its cdebration of the 23rd an¬ niversary of Israel's-^ In?;i dependence with a memorial service at the Jewish Coiter this past Sunday morning honoring those whofe^ in the ware of Israd.      -
In the afternoon, a reception hbnoring Shaul Ramatir Consul General of Israd f()r the Midwest, was held at the Mdton Building. In' attendance were many dignitaries of the com¬ munity, induding Governor Gilligan and Representative Samuel L. Devine. The cdebratioii will be continued this coming ' weekend, Sunday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Agudas Achim Synagogue with a program of entertainment followed by dancing. "Hie community is invited to attend.^
Mr. Ramati in a session with the Chronicle had the following to say in resix>nse to the question, "How can the Jewish people of Ccilumbus >est help the Isradi people?"
"Of course, this is going to be a year of great decision for us because it is clear from all the activities, that we've rbached a certain deadlock and great pressures can be expected from people who would like to see some sort of an arrangement this year, even if it does not hold promise for a stable future. I think it is important for the Jewish Community t9 realize the reasonableness of th^ Israel position with regard to the interim agreement on the opening of the Suez. We are agreeable to the Suez Canal being opened to normal .^viliaii life coining back to
principles be obsorved.
"Ihat-if we arei to make this major concession, and move back from the .line «1iich we kflow we can defend and wnv^h the Araiis recognize thej^pannot cross, then the least.we are entitled to is for the Arabs to observe the Security ,!Coimcil cease¬ fire resoluti(Bi of 6th June, 1967 which was unlimited in time, and imebnditional in scope and tolKgii'w that this
timeatleast,?! more      fig] beligerancy finally at an ei
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Our second
self-evident condition is, that if we are to move back our troops, to separate the, forces, jtdoesii't make seitra f^r the Russians and Egyptians to follow across the Canal. Now this, once again, is something that is so obviously self-evident that until we have agreed to borders, to final borders, there is no reason and no ri^t for the Egyptians and Russians to move forward, even if we do move back. Thirdly, that if the Canal is to be opened, it is to be opened legally - that means in accordance with the Constantinople   Convention
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William Sillins, n^ember of the Columbus Israel Bond executive board congratulates Robert W. Greer on his being awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award at a dinner in Mr. Greer's honor Apr. 25 at the Neil House.
Labor Onions Purchase $65,000 Bond At Israel Bond Dinner
because "whiit" is'vT^^ Suez 'area  and  are  _ri.^rh.j:iL.^!-_..ii".^jjjj;j„g^ at tlie: Egyptian
civilian life because there is no Isradi'civilian, life. These are things of great im¬ portance to both the Egyptians and the Russians, of overwhelming im¬ portance, and all we are asking is that the following
troubling'hliiili,''1vli"ai',i«ally bothers so many Jews is hot what might happen to them there, but what might happen to us here."
When Franklin Roosevdt told Dr. Steven Wise, don't make this a Jewish War, you
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Sunday, Apr. 25 marked the first labor union State of Israel Bond Dinner to be hdd in Columbus. Over 450 people attended the dinner honoring retiring Columbus - Franklin County AFL-CIO executive secretary treasurer Robert W. Greer. Labor unions, liabor union pension funds, and labor union welfare funds purchased $65,000 in
honor of Mr. Greer. Coor¬ dinator for the dinner was William Sillins, a Columbus attorney who serves on the State of' Israel Bond executive board. Mr. Sillins made the presentation of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award to Mr. . Greer. Guest entertainer for the^ event was noted comedian Joey Adams.