Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1971-04-01

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VOL. 49 NO. 13
APRIL 1, 1971-NISAN 6
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Laiie Numbers
Of Soviet lews Arrivine In Israel
, TEL AVIV (WNS>-Large numbers of Soviet Jewish immigrants continued to
-arrive in-Israd this wedc, including ¥ record breaking single contingent of 150 which landed at Lydda Airport. The immigrants reported that the future of continued .' Jewish im¬ migration 'Would be dedded . atfthe 24th Congress of the Coiifimunist Party of the Soviet Union whidi will open on March 31.
; Authorities   here   were divided over the meaning of persistent but. unverified • reports .    that      Soviet authorities were easing their
* policy on exit visas. Some believed therqxnts. were a propaganda devii^ aimed ti divql world opinion from the plight of Soviet Jews. They   said Jhat   Georgian
. Jewsf ¦'«^o had applied/..for exit^ visas .werCv, being hara^sed.by authonties and dedl{ired:Hheur belief th^ jiewish immigratian 'would cease once the Congress ended-
Samuel Helton Awards Honorsu^
Law Degree
SAMEUL M. IMELTUN
At its Winter Com¬ mencement, hdd on March 19, 1971, the Ohio State University honored' Mr. Siamuel M. Melton, a distinguished alumnus and a proniinent member of the Columj^us Jewish com¬ munis, with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
The citation read as f' follows:
SABIUEL M. MELTON Doctor of Laws Noted industrialist, ', businei^ officinl. and philanthjropist whose many advancements and inventions have, brought him national recognition.
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WASHINGTON (WNS)~The State Department denied reports from Caiiro that thiB.U:S. withheld arms from Israel to force her to return (b th6 Jarring peace talks. The Department also denied reports that Egypt had been assured that Israel would not be permitted to keep East Jerus^em.
JERUSALEM (WNS)-Sources here reported the U.S. Was prepared to agree to sonie form of Israeli control over the Sharm d-Sheikh stronghold and a land connection bdween it and Israd. The U.S. was said to. favor a long-term Isradi lease of the stronghold, while Egypt maintained ownership.
WASHINGTON (WNS)-Secretary of State William P. R(^ers seemed to have gained the support of many senators for his proposals to bring about a peace set-. tieinent ui' the Middle East. After a closed door meeting in the Senate, where he answered questions, Rogers left smiling broadly, while both friends and foes of Israel in the Senate spoke favorably of his presentation.
JERUSALEM (WNS)~Michael Sand, a Jewish journalist and scholar reported by phone from Moscow that 100 Soviet Jevys iiiarched to the Presidium of die Supreme Soviet in Moscow and presented a petition to 1^ representative of the Supreme Soviet demanding justice for .lews sdieduled to be tried in Leningrad, Riga and Kishinev I ¦' ¦-'¦'^'f^^-^^'-.i^'--''.
Statewide March And Rally For Soviet Jewry Sunday
Elie Wiesel wrote in his book^'The Jews of Silence": "f returned from the Soviet Union, disheartened and depressed. But what tor-' mentS'memost is not the Jews of silence I met in, Russia, but the silence...I live among today."  ..
Recently, Sovid Jews who have emigrated have said that the rallies being held in America have done two things. First, they have embarrassed the Soviet Union which, they go on to say, is vulnerable to public opinion. But second and most important, it hqs given Russian Jews the will and courSge to go on fighting for their rights.
On Sunday,  Apr.  4,  the
Ohio Mobilization Com¬ mittee for Sovid Jewry m coordination with - B'nai B'rith Hilld Foundation and the Community Relations Committee of the United Jewish Fund and Coundl of Columbus is holding a massive statewide march and rally in Cdumbus, Ohio. Participating will be University students bom all over Ohio. High school students will be coming with Youth Groups or individually from all over the state. Communities will be senduig delegations to join in the rally and march.
The march will be two- pronged: one from the Ohio State University Oval, and the other from the east end.
Both marches will begin at 12 noon and continue to the Statehouse where the rally yiill be hdd at 2:00 p.m. Petitions will be signed and handed to offidals to be given to the Sovi^ Embassy. Greeting cards will be sold to send to Russian Jews. Names and addresses of Russian Jews will be available so that Idters and cards can be sent.
Local and State OfTidals Governor John Gilligan and Senator Robert Taft as well as experts in the fidd will join us in public protest. Apr. 4 has been declared Russian Jewry Day by Mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner, who will also take part in the program.
'Treedoin From Bondage^' Bruneh Next Sunday Noon
Gordon B. Zacks, Chair¬ man of the Advance Gifts Division of the United Jewish Fund 1971 Campaign, will be the guest speaker at a special briinch bn next Sunday morning, Apr. 4, at 12 noon at the Melton Community Services_ Building.
An outstanding program will follow the bi^cheon, to invited all in the,i>!6mmunity who their gifts Campaign.
According to Ben Good> man. General Campaign Chairman; the drive is going :yery well, and .has now readied its peak. "We have experienced many large gains in the past few weeks", stated Mr. Goodman, "but the Campaign is far from over. We have now reached the stage where com¬ placency seems to .have taken over - complacency that somehow, the job will be done. Let me assure everyone, workers and givers alikie, that this is not the case. In the-words of Zvi Kolitz, who s'poke here earlier ui - the Campaign, Complacency can kill - and we must not permit this to happen. We are ddermined that it, shall not happen in Columbus in 1971,i and .that we shall not be guilty of taking for granted a isuc- . cessful campaign: Each of us must do bis part in making sure that the Cainpaign will reach a successful c'on- dusion. As we near the end
GiYe Blood Wednesday
of the drive, it is .essential that everyone is) reached, and that the levd of giving be maintained. That is why we are having the Bruncheon on Apr. 4 - to remind oijr-^ selves that Freedom fronr* Bondage cannot be pur¬ chased cheaply."
"At this time of the year," continued Mr .Goodman, "as we prepare /or our joyful celebration df the Passover holiday, we/must remember ind think aoout our brothers- in.Israel, and in all parts~of the world, who are i{pt as fortunate'as we are. And we must do all within our power, to see that thdr Passover is a happy onet eveh as wp enjoy the hoIidayawith,ibUrl families, in freedom anifin plenty."', plam    ,        IsrHi.   .     vji
The committeb6lplatimng}M)l.'cJpi*a^^ij{,survivqiwif>iout the Brunch inclqttfe'ttot'drilytiiiynited Stdt^ assistoij,ce "if Mr. Goodmaritfiand Mr-'-'*Russia doesr.:not fight us," Zacks, but Ernest Stern, Ci- according to former Prime Chairman of the Advance    Minister David Ben Gurion.
Mrs. Danid Goldsmith - Vice Pres. of the, JEWISH COMMUNITY BLOOD DONOR COUNQL being served by Mrs. Hattie Block, Red Cross Volunteer.
At Tlie Canteen
E^t bdore coming tb give blood. "Donors, preferably should omit fatty foods duriiig the four (4) hours prior to donation." The Blood donormust not fast and may eat a, fight, non- fatty, meal before donating. '
kfael Can Suryive Without ^As^ilta^be H Russia Stays Out
Gifts Division, Martin Hoffman, Chairman, and Gerald Friedman, Co- Chairman, Trades & Professions Division, Associate Chairmen ini the Advance Gifts Division and Section phairmen in tl>eT^< & P. Group. They are: Marvin Frank, Stanley Schwartz Jr., Edmund Klein, Alvin Solove, ¦ LeonaridfcSchottenstein, Arthi)i^^Ci4Ma6'Jr. and Alan , Weileri* fbri'r.the' Associate Chaiirmehr'iHftand David Mellman, William Brand¬ wein, Dr. Jack Marks, Jack Wallick,   Irwin    Gilbert,
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Interviewed in his Td Aviv Iwme by Arnold Forster, general counsd of the Anti- Ddamation League of B'nai B'rith,, Israel's first Prime Minister warns that "the Russians' ambition, even ua the time of the Czars, is to rule the world"'
The free-wheeling in¬ terview. Which appears in the current issife pf the.ApL Bulletin^|fifi||j^ i League's national !'j^u{Ui<;ation|i.'^iyes Mr.' .r4Bsii(A^".'.' .Guif-ion's reininiscence.s and evaluations of Andrei 'Gromyko, Winston Chur¬ chill,   Charles  De  Gaulle,
Gamal Nasser, and' U.S. Presidents Truman. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.   ,
He recalls that in May, 1947, Gromyko was tbe first in the United Nations to come out for a Jewisfa State. "It was one of the best speedies I ever heard in nay life;" Mr. Ben Gurion says, "but the Soviet dianged its dedsion... so the State was not the result of Uie U.N. but of our own ability." I Dedajring.tluthehadmd I withjChtn^ill many times ;durupg: World War II. Mr. Ben jGunbn says that; the' British iPrime Miiiister'"was always for a Jewisii State" but Uiat "hoUiing could be. done during the war when , the main thing was to defeat
HiUer."
He goes on to say that six ' months before the end of tbe war when "it wias ahready known tfaat Churchill was defeated, tfae British Labor party adapted a resdutibn to faave a Jewisfa State on botfa sides of tfae Jordan and to transfer all tfae Arabs into Arab countries."
"We never askdl for sudi a thing," be 'declares. "Never ifid we say tfaat tfae Arabs should be removed. Israd bdongs to two people: tfae Arabs who are living in tfais counti^ - not Arabs in the wwld outside - and Jews in tfae diaspora who want to comeback."
He describes Charies De : Gaulle in the last years of bis
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