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^ ., ^ v« irw-Cols.. Ohio Jewishi CHWm;^Pi^v j \ XI2€+i! o-mo 'snqumioo *9Av eratoA "396t -1 * cf*"T7 OTT"^ ff.rri"" zJf\\/7 Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Oh.o\\/A\i VOL. 50. NO. 2 JANUARY 13, 1972 - TEVES 26 ■mi«l It AwotftM •at J«m»h M««lt UJFC Board Sets Columbus' "Fair Share" Goal $3,300,000 Campaign Under Way In a precedent-.shattering • move, the Board of Trustees.' of the United Jewish Fund & . Council ' voted'' and recognized that $3,300,000 represented Columbus' Faifi Share Of local, national and: overseas needs for inclusion in the 1972 Campaign now ''getting under (way. This is ■ the first time that no goal has ' been set for the Campaignl Gordon B. Zacks,- 'General Chairman, in presenting, the ijeeds for 1972, stated: "The people of Israel are locked in a continuous struggle for survival. They live under the constant threat of destruction They have few resources left to improve the l^ejuality of their lives. They ■-;5*nave "promised to shoulder the burden of their own defense — proudly and tenaciously. Our PROMISE is to help the thousands who have come to Israel seeking new life and new op¬ portunity Ke'eping that promise means we must do all we- can for those thousands now entering the State' of Israel, and for the thousands of immigrants of former years who still need our help so desperately. We can do it, if we try. We can achieve our fair share; it is Up to every man, woman aind' young person in our com¬ munity to make a gift- commensurate with" the needs and the ability to give, whether that gift is twice, three times or a hundred-fold of his 1971 contribution. If they know the needs.-:. lam confident they will respond .' . we will meet our fair share!" Marvin L. Glassman, President of the United Jewish Fund and Council, in commenting on the $3,300,000 of valid needs endorsed by the Board,: stated, "I am proud of the members of the Board who voted to set this kind Of a standard for the 1972 Campaign. It represents their recognition of the needs which exist, and which only we can. meet, by our generous contributions. I am proud of the record of generosity which the people of ' Columbus have 'established, oVer the years. We have a good community, one with good agencies and institutions which make foe a healthy, dynamic Jewish life right here in Columbus. ' "In addition, we have,an obligation to our national beneficiaries, which look to us to help maintain essential services for Our people in this., country. Then, too, thousands of Jews in countries around the world need our help, and we have promises to keep to them as well. These include the in¬ spired and effective services performed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the United BIAS Service, which in 1971 alone, rescued, trained and offered relief and aid to more than 300,000 Jews. Relief kitchens in Morocco, Mother v GORDONS. ZACKS and Child Centers in Tunisia, 1 Pre-Kindergarten programs in Iran, a hew start in France, a' way station of hope in Vienna for Russian' Jews — 17,000 elderly Jews in Rumania —- the flow of food, fuel, clothing, cash grants,-and medical supplies must continue. Our in- ternationaLcommunity must be held together. We must understand.this — and we will give more than ever before." "As for Israel," Mr. Glassman continued, "the problems are enormous, and only we can help Israel meet them, I am sure every Jewish" person in our com¬ munity who feels a kinship with his people will respond to'the needs, so that the FAIR SHARE set by, the ^Elpfirdlof $3,300,000, Will be achieved." '■■'•?'■ MARVIN L. GLASSMAN Attorney Defends Kosher Slaughtering As Humane And Entirely Constitutional '? fewjMS»l .■<■>* "HAIFA (WNS)—In an unprecedented decision in Jewish law, the Beth Din here ruled that fatherhood ■^through artificial insemination is equivalent to natural fatherhood and involves the same paternal obligations, The decision was banded down in the case of a man, who sought to divorce his wife after she was artificially inseminated with his sperm and gave birth to triplets. The Beth Din ruled that if he wanted a divorce he must pay for the children's upbringing. NEW YORK < WNS)-The first Soviet Jewish family arrived in-^he U.S. under the Attorney General's "parole authority" which permits him to'waive procedural red tape to admit aliens without delay. The . family of four, Simeon, Feldman, 36, his wife Emma, 34, and his two children, Dina, 10, and Igor, 7, will stay with Feldman's uncle, Charles Miller of the Bronx, temporarily. ■' • NEW YORK (WNS)—Representatives of 12 national and 91 local Jewish groups will meet here on Jan. 10 to discuss how to "defend the constitutionality . .'. . of Jewish ritual slaughter of livestock'* against a suit in Federal Court by Henry Mark Holzer, a local lawyer and Jewish-born atheist, who charges that the "special" laws for Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) ■ violate the First Amendment's separation of Church and State. < TEL AVIV ( JTAii—Remnants of what ^appears to have been a door or gate to an ancient synagogue have been found by archaeologists at Kassarin in the central Golam Heights, it was reported today: The stone con¬ tains Aramaic inscriptions which'."-name a certain "Uzzi" as the builder, (either of the gate or the synagogue itself. A member of the archaeological team suggested that the" site was the Talmudic , Keissarin which hitherto was thought to be identical with the Roman Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. NEW YORK (JTAJ—the heads of the congregational and rabbinic arms of Reform Judaism assailed the Nixon administration for the().renewed bombings in North Vietnam and statedUiat snjph action endangers the peace aims of the l^/^iaent's.for- " thcoming trips to the Soviet Union and the". People's Republic of China. In'a telegram to.Nunn, Rabbi ."-. Maurice N. Eisehdra'th, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Rahfai David Polish, president of the Central Confcftatce of ■ ■ American Rabbis, called upon the admisfaaWation to "set a date for total withdrawal of allAmericaBforces • from all of Indochina." NEW YORK — Leo Pfeffer, special counsel of the American- Jewish Congress and draftsman of the section of Humane Slaughter Act challenged in Federal Court last week, said recently there was "no .doubt of the constitutionality of the, provision." In a statement, Mr. Pfeffer declared: "The section of the law that defines humane slaughtering to -include the Jewish method of slaughtering is entirely constitutional. Indeed, the absence of such a provision from the law would cast grave doubts on Its con- Dr. Goldman Charges Facts" Explaining Disinvitation LONDON (WNS) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president ;"of the World Jewish Congress, charged that Louis A. Pincus, president of the' "•: World Zionist Organization Executive, had ; "distorted the facts" in explaining why Dr. Gold- ' mann's invitation to address. the festive session of the 2r\th .World Zionist Congress, which would celebrate 75 years of Zionism, had been '-.' withdrawn. Pincus had said . I "it is not possible to conduct "/ a. struggle on two levels at the same time—namely the struggle for the right of aliya andthe struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to a Jewish life." He said that while-the Soviet Jews had themselves chosen to fight for aliya, Dr. Goldmann had given priority for their right to live as Jews in the USSR., In denying Pincus' charge, Dr. Goldmann said "There is no difference-of opinion that at this moment priority should1 be given , to the struggle for the right of aliya. and it is absolutely incorrect that in my speech to the Board of Deputies I was reversing the order, of priorities in the' Jewish demands. But to go so far as (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) stitutionality. The Humane Slaughter Act recognizes what has long been known and universally acknowledged — that the Jewish method of slaughtering is as humane as, if not more humane than, any other method of slaughtering . in use anywhere in the world." Mr. Pfeffer drafted the section in behalf of the Joint Advisory Committee of the National Jewish Community .Relations Advisory Council and the Synagogue Council of America. He has served as attorney for the committee since its founding in 1946. The provision defining ikosher slaughtering as humane was enacted by Congress in 1958 following the presentation of evidence to a subcommittee of the Senate __ Agricultural Com¬ mittee i that kosher slaughtering was the most humane method * of slaughtering known. Senator Hubert Humphrey,- Democrat of Minnesota, 'presided-at the Senate sub¬ committee hearing. The suit challenging the kosher slaughtering division of the'Humane Slaughtering Act was filed ih;">; Federal Court here Monday by Henry Mark Holzer ot New. York. The suit seeks^-the con¬ vening of a special three- judge court to declare !un-- constitutional Federal and state laws permitting kosher slaughtering. US To Work For Mideast Peace Israel To Get Defensive WASHINGTOWi(WNS) — In a television interview over the' American' Broadcasting ■ System, Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the U.S. was continuing efforts to,g«tnegotiatioh6S0ing for a^l^eftst.settlWBienti either fqi\^tMlSsetUement under the auspices of UN mediator Dr. Guhnar V. Jarring or for an interim pact to permit the reopening of the Suez Canal. He also said the U.S. would continue to supply Israel with arms to enable it to defend itself end "deter" the Arabs from attacking. But, he added, "We do not want our support to appear to be encouraging Israel itself to start hostilities." • Meanwhile,' in Geneva, highlV reliable American sourees said that Israel Would get Phantom jets in groups of two or three at a time while the' U.S! con¬ tinued its attempts to pressure Israel to "soften" its/ position in; -talks with Egypt. The sources said American officials referred (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 Hillel Announces Robert Alter As Kaplan Scholar In Residence The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University announces the appointment of Professor Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Chairman o| Department of Comparative" Literature at the University of California at Berkeley as the Rabbi Harry Kaplan Scholar in Residence for 1972. Professor Alter holds degrees from Columbia and ..Harvard and has also studied at, the Hebrew University in.Jerusalem. From 1962 to 1966 he taught in the English Department at Columbia University. In 1966-67 he held. a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1967 he has been at the University of California at Berkeley where he is now Professor of Hebrew^and .Comparative*latera tufeT as well as ChairmanXof the ' .VU' V PROFESSOR ROBERTALTER Department of Comparative [ Literature. His publications include "Rogues Progress" and "After the Tradition." He is.. a regular contributor to "Commentary" and his essays and reviews have appeared in VThe American- Scholar," "Daedalus," and (CONTINUED ON PAGE']), 'i-GSJjf'.. '"?'
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Full Text | ^ ., ^ v« irw-Cols.. Ohio Jewishi CHWm;^Pi^v j \ XI2€+i! o-mo 'snqumioo *9Av eratoA "396t -1 * cf*"T7 OTT"^ ff.rri"" zJf\\/7 Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Oh.o\\/A\i VOL. 50. NO. 2 JANUARY 13, 1972 - TEVES 26 ■mi«l It AwotftM •at J«m»h M««lt UJFC Board Sets Columbus' "Fair Share" Goal $3,300,000 Campaign Under Way In a precedent-.shattering • move, the Board of Trustees.' of the United Jewish Fund & . Council ' voted'' and recognized that $3,300,000 represented Columbus' Faifi Share Of local, national and: overseas needs for inclusion in the 1972 Campaign now ''getting under (way. This is ■ the first time that no goal has ' been set for the Campaignl Gordon B. Zacks,- 'General Chairman, in presenting, the ijeeds for 1972, stated: "The people of Israel are locked in a continuous struggle for survival. They live under the constant threat of destruction They have few resources left to improve the l^ejuality of their lives. They ■-;5*nave "promised to shoulder the burden of their own defense — proudly and tenaciously. Our PROMISE is to help the thousands who have come to Israel seeking new life and new op¬ portunity Ke'eping that promise means we must do all we- can for those thousands now entering the State' of Israel, and for the thousands of immigrants of former years who still need our help so desperately. We can do it, if we try. We can achieve our fair share; it is Up to every man, woman aind' young person in our com¬ munity to make a gift- commensurate with" the needs and the ability to give, whether that gift is twice, three times or a hundred-fold of his 1971 contribution. If they know the needs.-:. lam confident they will respond .' . we will meet our fair share!" Marvin L. Glassman, President of the United Jewish Fund and Council, in commenting on the $3,300,000 of valid needs endorsed by the Board,: stated, "I am proud of the members of the Board who voted to set this kind Of a standard for the 1972 Campaign. It represents their recognition of the needs which exist, and which only we can. meet, by our generous contributions. I am proud of the record of generosity which the people of ' Columbus have 'established, oVer the years. We have a good community, one with good agencies and institutions which make foe a healthy, dynamic Jewish life right here in Columbus. ' "In addition, we have,an obligation to our national beneficiaries, which look to us to help maintain essential services for Our people in this., country. Then, too, thousands of Jews in countries around the world need our help, and we have promises to keep to them as well. These include the in¬ spired and effective services performed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the United BIAS Service, which in 1971 alone, rescued, trained and offered relief and aid to more than 300,000 Jews. Relief kitchens in Morocco, Mother v GORDONS. ZACKS and Child Centers in Tunisia, 1 Pre-Kindergarten programs in Iran, a hew start in France, a' way station of hope in Vienna for Russian' Jews — 17,000 elderly Jews in Rumania —- the flow of food, fuel, clothing, cash grants,-and medical supplies must continue. Our in- ternationaLcommunity must be held together. We must understand.this — and we will give more than ever before." "As for Israel," Mr. Glassman continued, "the problems are enormous, and only we can help Israel meet them, I am sure every Jewish" person in our com¬ munity who feels a kinship with his people will respond to'the needs, so that the FAIR SHARE set by, the ^Elpfirdlof $3,300,000, Will be achieved." '■■'•?'■ MARVIN L. GLASSMAN Attorney Defends Kosher Slaughtering As Humane And Entirely Constitutional '? fewjMS»l .■<■>* "HAIFA (WNS)—In an unprecedented decision in Jewish law, the Beth Din here ruled that fatherhood ■^through artificial insemination is equivalent to natural fatherhood and involves the same paternal obligations, The decision was banded down in the case of a man, who sought to divorce his wife after she was artificially inseminated with his sperm and gave birth to triplets. The Beth Din ruled that if he wanted a divorce he must pay for the children's upbringing. NEW YORK < WNS)-The first Soviet Jewish family arrived in-^he U.S. under the Attorney General's "parole authority" which permits him to'waive procedural red tape to admit aliens without delay. The . family of four, Simeon, Feldman, 36, his wife Emma, 34, and his two children, Dina, 10, and Igor, 7, will stay with Feldman's uncle, Charles Miller of the Bronx, temporarily. ■' • NEW YORK (WNS)—Representatives of 12 national and 91 local Jewish groups will meet here on Jan. 10 to discuss how to "defend the constitutionality . .'. . of Jewish ritual slaughter of livestock'* against a suit in Federal Court by Henry Mark Holzer, a local lawyer and Jewish-born atheist, who charges that the "special" laws for Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) ■ violate the First Amendment's separation of Church and State. < TEL AVIV ( JTAii—Remnants of what ^appears to have been a door or gate to an ancient synagogue have been found by archaeologists at Kassarin in the central Golam Heights, it was reported today: The stone con¬ tains Aramaic inscriptions which'."-name a certain "Uzzi" as the builder, (either of the gate or the synagogue itself. A member of the archaeological team suggested that the" site was the Talmudic , Keissarin which hitherto was thought to be identical with the Roman Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. NEW YORK (JTAJ—the heads of the congregational and rabbinic arms of Reform Judaism assailed the Nixon administration for the().renewed bombings in North Vietnam and statedUiat snjph action endangers the peace aims of the l^/^iaent's.for- " thcoming trips to the Soviet Union and the". People's Republic of China. In'a telegram to.Nunn, Rabbi ."-. Maurice N. Eisehdra'th, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Rahfai David Polish, president of the Central Confcftatce of ■ ■ American Rabbis, called upon the admisfaaWation to "set a date for total withdrawal of allAmericaBforces • from all of Indochina." NEW YORK — Leo Pfeffer, special counsel of the American- Jewish Congress and draftsman of the section of Humane Slaughter Act challenged in Federal Court last week, said recently there was "no .doubt of the constitutionality of the, provision." In a statement, Mr. Pfeffer declared: "The section of the law that defines humane slaughtering to -include the Jewish method of slaughtering is entirely constitutional. Indeed, the absence of such a provision from the law would cast grave doubts on Its con- Dr. Goldman Charges Facts" Explaining Disinvitation LONDON (WNS) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president ;"of the World Jewish Congress, charged that Louis A. Pincus, president of the' "•: World Zionist Organization Executive, had ; "distorted the facts" in explaining why Dr. Gold- ' mann's invitation to address. the festive session of the 2r\th .World Zionist Congress, which would celebrate 75 years of Zionism, had been '-.' withdrawn. Pincus had said . I "it is not possible to conduct "/ a. struggle on two levels at the same time—namely the struggle for the right of aliya andthe struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to a Jewish life." He said that while-the Soviet Jews had themselves chosen to fight for aliya, Dr. Goldmann had given priority for their right to live as Jews in the USSR., In denying Pincus' charge, Dr. Goldmann said "There is no difference-of opinion that at this moment priority should1 be given , to the struggle for the right of aliya. and it is absolutely incorrect that in my speech to the Board of Deputies I was reversing the order, of priorities in the' Jewish demands. But to go so far as (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) stitutionality. The Humane Slaughter Act recognizes what has long been known and universally acknowledged — that the Jewish method of slaughtering is as humane as, if not more humane than, any other method of slaughtering . in use anywhere in the world." Mr. Pfeffer drafted the section in behalf of the Joint Advisory Committee of the National Jewish Community .Relations Advisory Council and the Synagogue Council of America. He has served as attorney for the committee since its founding in 1946. The provision defining ikosher slaughtering as humane was enacted by Congress in 1958 following the presentation of evidence to a subcommittee of the Senate __ Agricultural Com¬ mittee i that kosher slaughtering was the most humane method * of slaughtering known. Senator Hubert Humphrey,- Democrat of Minnesota, 'presided-at the Senate sub¬ committee hearing. The suit challenging the kosher slaughtering division of the'Humane Slaughtering Act was filed ih;">; Federal Court here Monday by Henry Mark Holzer ot New. York. The suit seeks^-the con¬ vening of a special three- judge court to declare !un-- constitutional Federal and state laws permitting kosher slaughtering. US To Work For Mideast Peace Israel To Get Defensive WASHINGTOWi(WNS) — In a television interview over the' American' Broadcasting ■ System, Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the U.S. was continuing efforts to,g«tnegotiatioh6S0ing for a^l^eftst.settlWBienti either fqi\^tMlSsetUement under the auspices of UN mediator Dr. Guhnar V. Jarring or for an interim pact to permit the reopening of the Suez Canal. He also said the U.S. would continue to supply Israel with arms to enable it to defend itself end "deter" the Arabs from attacking. But, he added, "We do not want our support to appear to be encouraging Israel itself to start hostilities." • Meanwhile,' in Geneva, highlV reliable American sourees said that Israel Would get Phantom jets in groups of two or three at a time while the' U.S! con¬ tinued its attempts to pressure Israel to "soften" its/ position in; -talks with Egypt. The sources said American officials referred (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 Hillel Announces Robert Alter As Kaplan Scholar In Residence The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University announces the appointment of Professor Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Chairman o| Department of Comparative" Literature at the University of California at Berkeley as the Rabbi Harry Kaplan Scholar in Residence for 1972. Professor Alter holds degrees from Columbia and ..Harvard and has also studied at, the Hebrew University in.Jerusalem. From 1962 to 1966 he taught in the English Department at Columbia University. In 1966-67 he held. a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1967 he has been at the University of California at Berkeley where he is now Professor of Hebrew^and .Comparative*latera tufeT as well as ChairmanXof the ' .VU' V PROFESSOR ROBERTALTER Department of Comparative [ Literature. His publications include "Rogues Progress" and "After the Tradition." He is.. a regular contributor to "Commentary" and his essays and reviews have appeared in VThe American- Scholar," "Daedalus," and (CONTINUED ON PAGE']), 'i-GSJjf'.. '"?' |
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