Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-12-24

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Davul Schoenbnin to Speak at ''Night
For Life" Event
David Eictioeuwuii, <me of America's most distinguished and versatile journalists, noted for his radio and television broadcasts, lectures, ar¬ ticles and books, will be tbe guest speaker at the NIGHT FOR LIFE Dinner meeting of the Young Men's Division
. of the United Jewish Fund and Council, on Saturday evening, Jan. 16. Tlie event, which wiU take place at the Maramor, will be open to young men in the communis who will make a pledge to the 1971 Survival Campaign ofthe UJFC, and their wives. Nq minimum gift will be required for attendance. Admission charge is )25.00 per couple, which will in¬ clude the cost of tfae cocktails, H'ors Oouvres and
. Dinners'      ••''
-' General chainnan of the Yoiing' Jleii's Divisioh is Donald L.'Katz. Chainnen of the NIGHT FOR LIFE function ar,e: Norman IVaeger, Gary Cheses, Alan Morris and Fk-ank Kass: Invitations were personally delivered this wedc to nearly 300 young men in the com¬ munity   for   the   affair.
~ Anyme who did not receive an invitation and would like to have one may call any of the above chairmen, ot the UJFC office. 237-7686.
In a joint statement issued by the chairmen, Ib^ said: "We fed privileged to be
able to present Hr. Sdioenbrun to the young peo|de of our communis, and know that many of them will want to take advantage of Ibis opportunity to hear one of the most outstanding journalists in the country today, one who has regularly oovoed events in the Middle EJast and is well known to the leackars of Israd for his dramatic, accurate repor¬ ting of Israd's long struggle for peace. Although Mr. Sdioenbrun Is an objective reporter and scholar, he makes no secret of his dedication to the cailise of Israd's survival and Israd's ri^t to live securdy witliin recognized frontiers without harassment from her neigh¬ bors. Hie respoase to date' has been nmgnificent -' We anticipate that there will be a capacity audience present at lhe.Maramor on Jan. 16 to hear Mr. Schoenbrun, and urge early reservatioiiis to avoid disappointment."
Mr. Traeger and Mr. Cheses, chairmen of the Maccabee Division of the Young Men's Campjaign, added: "We are inakiiig a dramatic and radical departure this year in our fund-raising techniques. This is the SURVIVAL Campaign, and if Israd is to survive, if our own com¬ munity, here in Columbus is to grow and proqier, the
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Three New Trials Scheduled As Leningrad Trials Open
DAVID SCHOENBRUN
NEW VORK (WNS)- Thrcc more trials involving Soviet Jews will open late Ihis month or in early .lanuary il was learned here. News of Ihe new trials became known as the l<<:ningrad trials opened behind   "closed   doors"-
The World's Week
LONIX)N (WNS)-Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel told a United Palestine Dinner that his country would return to the Jam'ng.peace talks. "We have no assurance of agreement, but their failure would ob¬ viously make the situation worse than it was before August. 1970."
WASHINGTON (WNSI-The Senate, by a 72-22 vote, approved President Nixon's ^1.035 billion sup¬ plementary foreign military aid bill, lliis clears the way for an appropriation measu|« for the $500 million > ih iriililary aid to Israel which had been authorized ' earlier. _     , "'T-'"  i-     , ;
JERUSALEM '(WNS)-Ambassador Walworth Barbour has delivered the U.S. rqdy to Israd's . request for "clarification" of policy. If it proves satisfactory Mrs. Meir is expeiited to recommend a return to lhe.pcace talks. A decision is expected before .lanuary 5 wben Secretary General U. lliant must report on Ihc progress of the talk^ to the UN Security Council.
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JERUSALEM (WNS)-An ae^moit. by tfae high. school teachers union and the Ministry of Education' to appoint a committee to study teachers' grievances and a promise not to punish the teachers for their walkout ended Israel's six-week old school strike. At the same time, a threatened strike of airport administration workers and Hight controllers was cancelled shortly brfore it was to begin.
(.¦losrd even to Soviet news mcdia-lo the ac¬ companiment of world-wide protests. Eleven Soviet citizens, seven of them known to be Jews, are on trial -in Leningrad charged with "banditry and treason" and'lfh'ay be sen¬ tenced to dcatli if found Kuilty. ^
As anger boiled over in Lsracl, (he Knesset went into .special session and adopted a resolution urging Soviet auihorities to release all the defendants and to permit Russian Jews who wish, to emigrate  to  Israel.   The
personally" with the Kremlin on behalf of the "Leningrad Eleven." Chaban-Dclmas and former Foreign Minister Maurice Cnuvc dc Murville, arc believed to have already written to Soviet leaders urging them to "consider the impact of thc trial on the reelings of Westem Europe." In Copenhagen, 1,000 licoplc attended a rally at the .lewish Community Center to prolcst the trial and express .solidarity with Soviet Jews. Thoy were addressed by AkscI Ixirsen, leader of the .Socialist Peoples Party, Per
resolution was supported by 'llcckcnip, a former foreign all factions except the pro-  minister and a leader of the
Moscow "Rakach" Com- munisis.
Petitions, one of them containing 12,000 signatures, were presented to thc Fin- . nish '" Embassy which represents Soviet interests in Israel. Members of the Betar youth movement demon¬ strated outside- the Em-
Eban Says Israel Will Return To Peace Talks
LONDON, (JTA)-Fareign Minister Abba Eban said here this week tbat Israd will rdurn to the Janing talks. "We expect a renewal of the Jarring negotiations," he told an audience at a Joint Palestine Appeal dinner. "We have no assurance of agreement, but their failure would obviously make the situation worse than it had -been before August 1970," the sUrt of the cease-fire, Eban said. He did not specify when Israel would return to the talks. (Westem sources at the United Nations in¬ dicated they expect Ihe talks to be resumbed by Jan. 5 the date when Secretary General U Thant reports to the Security Council on ibe progress of Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring's peace mission. Jarring will return Id New York to hdp Thant prepare the report, Eban hinted that assurances from Ihd United States were in- st'ninicnUl in getting Israd back    to    the    stalled
negotiations.
"The United States has' agreed with us that we should not withdraw from anywhere junless it Is to secure frontiers, and that we should not agree to anything thai would change inaiv way the character of Israd," Eban said, adding, "This may reopen the way to neg^ations once more. 1971 may turn out to be a year of dialogue." Eban also met for 45 minutes witb Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas- Home at the latter's chambers in Parliament. Sources close to the Israeli Embassy here said Eban gave "frank expression" to thc concern fdt in Israd over Sir Alec's Conservallvfe Fi last month in
Israel must r^tiiro to its pre- June. 1967 frontiers. The .source said the Foreign .'Minister indicated that the speech, and Britain's vole on ' a pro-Arab resolutiaa in Ihe UN General AsaemUyrwu
interpreted by his govern¬ ment as estrangement from Israel and a lack of con¬ sideration by Britain for Israel's vital interests. According to other sources^' here Sir Alec made it clear that Britain continues to base its Middle East position on Security Council Resolution 242 of Nov. 22, 1967. wilh special emphasis on resumption of the Janing talks.
The Israeli Embassy source said Eban made the point that a balance of power is necessary for fruitful Arab-Israeli negotiations, Ibat Ibe UN considered Ihis sound doctring. and that the U.S. should have the open sjuppqrt' oi;,,other.,jWl^lcm :'.Vl^i(Qiune^(&. , ><Ol^^atic sHurccs 'lola"lbc Jewish Tdegraphic Agency that thc Kban-Douglas-IIoiifc lalk was a "useful link" in thc nmlimiiiiK dialogue between the two gDvnmmcnl.s. one thai is "obviouxly- nol yet dinpllzwl-"-"' '• -
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THURSDAY
Classes at the Hebrew University were suspended for two hours in a dem'on- stration of solidarity0 with Soviet Jewry. A huge student rally was held at' TelfAviv University and Bar';1l9n Uni vcrsity aniibunced it^ wiii change its name for 6nig<d2iy to "The -Silent ^(ifciifrs University."  ' 4*tX'''
;. Ilie Israd Students Union cabled to Pope Paul) and Western leaders urging them to intervene with Soviet authorities and protest the trials. Similar requests were sent by Histadrut to the International Federation of Free Tirade Unions and by thc Israeli Editors Association to the - World F'cdcration of Periodical Editors.
' From Paris .came word that Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delihas and other prominent Frenchmen have promised   to   "intervene
Social Democrats and Denmark's Chief Rabbi Bent Mclchior.
From London, Dr. Nahum Gn|dmann, president 'of ihe World Jewish Congress, slated "the trial is airK^jEii intimidating Soviet Jewry and silencing their af¬ firmation of their Jewish identity and desire to emigrate (o Israel."
In New York, Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Chair¬ man of the American Jewish Cnnfcrcnce on Soyiet Jewry arid Dr. William A. Wexler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in a joint Nialcmcnt described the trial ii6 a "travesty of justice^"
The Jewish Labor Coin- mlllee "appealed to iiien of good will evOryWhere, to the United Nations and to the American government to spcak'out" against the trial. 'Hundreds of Jewish youth from New York area colleges and yeshiva- high schools picketed the Soviet Mission to the UN and Rabbi (srael Miller, president of the American Zionist Federation said the defen¬ dants in the trial had'been wndcmned before the trial
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ffibusing For Elderly Studj Being Condueted By UJFC
The   UJFC's  Coihinillee  oh' Aqinq. in ils cfrort lo improve Ihe' situAlfon bf  the eklerly  in our community,   has   prcpar.cd   a qurslfonnafre ^in order lo oblaili. neccsury inlormation lor, Iheir . fiuifltmcn AS to Ihc needs, etc..of. ¦ nur community of cHders. A'COfiy. ¦ of ffif frtfer which llic conimittee h.t*. ni.iil(<cl out, is prinlcdticrein fnr your intorcnalion along'mrith a '  ciiH-%iinnn,iirc form. If you have an. ¦¦  ,. i4iii-rly mrffilMTf in your family 6r.\'.'i iinnwcif.ifrimcl. please iM^plticm to t nii^iii.|i. ttv. ciuestionnairc and rclMni fl hrforc Jan.  fS to.'ltfe llrar.ifMi Inr Elderly Committee. 11/^ fcilb'cr Ave..
Ih-sir-Fricnds;;
I If Nising' facilities wilh a variety of linrviccs for older |Mf>|ilo , unreialfKl to rronwmic     ability     and
.siNiasorcd by the J[ewish Community, was chosen asa most desired service for iildcr adults in the recently completed United Jewish Fund/ and 'Council's di>mngraphic study of the. Cnlumbus Jewish Com- niunily.   ,
Tlf;i<^rcoiA|l^.iliiity is now rngaiti-d in 'an effort to dricmiine Ihc extent of need ffir ahd Ihc type of housing that older adults in our ritnununily desire. A ffiiiiniunily ' .sponsored iMHRiintt pnigram for older .-Iflulls would include a v.'irii'ly of c<|M{iiiuil services
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.such as prepared meals served in community dining ureas, planned recreational ' aciivitics, ' housekeeping .srrvices, medical services, n'lif;iou,s activitiesj'etc.'
'Facilities 'and- ac- tiimmndations would vary to meet the needs and means of tho!>e interested in such housing. To plan properly for this project, its services and ffirthosc of rarying financial means, it will be.| necessary lo secure adequate in- ffirmalion. We will need ibie full cooperation !«nd a.ssiKtancc at you, the <
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