Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1972-01-27

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Vol. so no. 4
JANUARY 27. 1972 - SHEVAT 11
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NEW YORK (WNS) — A protest by the American
Jewish Congress has resulted in the withdrawal of a
job notice issued by the city Department of Health that
declared "we are particularly anxious to get qualified
black and Puerto Rican staff. "The Congress protested
the statement indicated the Department would prefer
black or Puerto Rican applicants, "solely because of
their ethnic identification over other candidates Who
', .are equally qualified or more qualified." In a letter to:
„,, the Congress, Mrs. Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman
„»'pf; the City Human Rights Commission, said that after
Consulting with her agency, "The Department of
Health has agreed to withdraw the statement and to
inform those who received it of its withdrawal, and
equal opportunity will be accorded to all." ■■
Soviet Discrimination Against
Jews Is "AU-Pervasive"~ Scheuer
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rep.
James H. Scheuer (D.N.Y.)
who was expelled last week .
after visiting .with Jewish
scientists in the home of one
of them and returned this
week, described. Soviet
discrimination against Jews
as , ''all-pervasive." But
Soviet Jews, he said, "aren't
depressed"; rather, their
"raw courage" in deman¬
ding their rights is "ab¬
solutely inspiring.'' Scheuer
said at a press conference
here that his expulsion was a
''pointless, irrational,
ihihdless act," and stated
that he would be "horrified"
if "this  absurd  little  in-
l«,
NEW   YORK   (WNS)   —   Ten   major   Jewish
organizations have advised  students and faculty
members of the City University of New York that they
'    were not required to answer a "Confidential In-
'* formation Form" issued by the University seeking
misinformation on their color, creed, national origin,
'f'family   income,   parents'   educational   and   work
background and reactions to "open admission" and its
effect on the university's academic standards. The
groups warned the questionnaire was an invasion of
privacy and could be. used for discriminatory ends.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Sanford/(Sandy) Koufax,;-:
former Brooklynj and Los ArigeleSDodgere pitching
jf, „ star; was clected_to,Baapbairj3'Hall;<>£Fame: Begins' v:
Henry Benjamin (Hank)  preenberg,, as the only
Jewish members of the Hall of Fame. Therei are 1U
players arid18 others in the'HaU.-   ;: .v..
Cantor To Highlight
Brotherhood Weekend
Cantor Moshe Stern has
been called one" of the most
artistic and articulate ex¬
ponents of the Cantorial Art
in the world. His chanting of
the service Friday night and
-, Saturday morning, Jan. 28 &
29 at the Agudas 'Achim
Synagogue will highlight the
annual Brotherhood
weekend.
Moshe Stern has had a
brilliant career as a Cantor
and Concert Artist since his
early youth. At the age of 23
he was appointed chief,
cantor at the; Great
Synagogue   in   R'Chovot,
Committee On Soviet Jewry
To Distribute Handbills
Israel. He served as chief
cantor at 'Heche! Shlomo'
Synagogue in Jerusalem.
In 1962 he accepted a call
to come to South Africa to
take up the position with the
Central Orthodox Synagogue
of Johannesburg: Cantor
Stern is now serving one of
the most prominent
congregations in the United
States, the Temple Beth El of
Boro Park, N.Y.
Agudas Achim Synagogue
Brotherhood President, Dan
Waitzman, extended an
invitation to the entire
community to attend.
The Columbus Committee
on. Soviet Jewry will be
conducting an educational '
campaign fp alert the
community to the continuing
plight of Jews in the Soviet
Union, on the occasion of the
visit to Columbus of the
Osipov Russian music
program, which will be
visiting Columbus on Feb. 1.
= .Harold ' Schottenstein,
'Chairman of the Committee,
announced' today-that, in
conjunction with similar
efforts throughout v, the
country this month as : the
Soviet troupe plays
engagements jn many
American cities, no attempt
is being made to boycott the
program in any way. On the
. contrary, Mr. Schottenstein
stated the Soviet en¬
tertainers are being
welcomed to Columbus by
the Jewish community. '
Plans are being made for
the distribution of handbills
welcoming the Soviet troupe
to Columbus, at the Ohio
theater, on Feb. l.The flyers
-will welcome the Soviet
entertainers,' but remind
them and the public that
Jewish culture in the
U.S.S.R. is not free, that
Jews in the U.S.S.R. cannot
live Jewish lives, and that
emigration from the Soviet.
Union is exceedingly dif¬
ficult. It will remind them,
too, that there are many
Jews serving severe prison
'sentences for no~ crime other
than their desire to migrate
to Israel. • ,r./4'»''*:'-:<;?'-:/*'-:
Mr. Schottensteiri stated,
"We are not advocating a
boycott of this performance,
nor are we going to picket
the theater to bar admission
of those who wish to enjoy
Soviet music "and dance."
Mr. Schottenstein , em¬
phasised that the
distribution of handbills
would riot interfere with the
right of anyone to enter the
Ohio Theater. He noted that
the handbills will , be
distributed to leaders of the
Jewish community including
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cident" should become an
international issue and
sabotage President Nixon's
summit meetings. He
suggested that the Soviet
authorities had acted as they
•did - to reassert Soviet
strength in the >light"of
Nixon's upcoming visit to
China as well as to the USSR.
The Soviet authorities
wanted to show they are not
"permissive" but the-
maintainors of a "rigorous
discipline" because they
believe they are "threatened
from without," he said.
Scheuer said he regretted
that he and his delegation
were "carefully shepherded -
and carefully isolated" and
that ."we never- spoke with
the blood-and-guts people," .
average Soviet citizens.
Following his press con¬
ference, Scheuer met with
State Department officials to
describe the circumstances
of his expulsion. It was
reported that the officials
told the lawmaker that there
was nothing illegal nor did he
act in poor taste while in the
USSR. This was an apparent
reference to his visit to the
home of Prof. Aleksander
Lerner, the computer and
cybernetics expert.
"Die Covenant" Premieres
Multi-Media Experience
The National Premiere of
The Covenant, a unique
audio-visual multimedia
experience developed by the
Young Men's Division of the
jUinted. ^Jewish Fund' and
'Council in cooperation with
the United Jewish Appeal of
New York City, will.be
presented next Wednesday
evening, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. at
the Ohio Historical Society
Auditorium, 17th Street & I-
71 North.
Harold Leiner, Chairman
of this non-minimum con¬
tributor affair designed for
young men and their wives,
has announced that Gordon
Zacks, General Campaign
Chairman for 1972, will be
the principal speaker. The
function  is expressly  con-
Congressman Charged Wild Reading
Anti-Semitism Into Gong. Record
World Zionist Congress
Discusses World Jewry
Jerusalem (WNS) — As
World Zionist leaders, "got
down to business' on the
second day of the 28th World
Zionist Congress, veteran
American Zionist leader Dr.
Emanuel Neumann called on
Jewish philanthropists to put
greater: stress on Jewish
i.- education in the diaspora to
stem the "steady growth of
assimilation; the constant
drift away from the, Jewish
fold culminating often in
intermarriage."  ... ■'■■''
Prof. Abraham Joshua
Heschel .qf^jtha. Jewish
Thcologic'ar'seihinary,
warping.fhat the gulf bet¬
ween hatacha and modem
Jewish, life wasv "widening
and threatening world
Jewry," called for a syn¬
thesis of the "moral and
ethical  teachings"  of the
faith and its "purely. legal
aspects." .
Prof. Albert Memmi of the
Sorbonne, said that there
were millions of persons who
consider themselves Jews
but do not want religious
solutions to their daily lives,
and declared "the Jewish
national movement
(Zionism) cannot be ruled by
bodies and values which
belong to a world which is no
morecl'^Hei-also warned that
sociaWlproblehis in Israel
could Sj^ilgfiored only at the
risk dPInWnal explosion.   -
Rabbi  "'Meir    Kahanec
NEW YORK (JTA) - Rep.
John R. Rarick (D.La.),
cited by the Anti-Defamation
League of -B'nai B'rith last
November as        -"a
Congressional mouthpiece"
for right-wing extremists,
has since then "inserted
some 25 pages of anti-Jewish
anti-ADL harangues" into
the Congressional Record,
according to Arnold Forster,
general counsel of the
League,- Rarick's response to
ADL's documented report,
Forster said, "is further
proof of the" accuracy! of the
League's findings;"
The League had charged
the .Congressman vwith
bringing to the floor of the
House and to the
Congressional Record
"blatant white racism ahd a
stark brand of anti-Semitism
jN^PaR^ujiJiuCftngrisss;, for
maay .iiypar^n"; .The jADLi
chairttian of "the Jewislt^'repp^iiS^id-UiattRarick's ' nwnbei'pf ?
one-half pages on Dec. 6,
nine pages on Dec. 7, and
seven pages on Dec. 15 —.
include "page after page of
'direct quotations from an
anti-Jewish propaganda
diatribe published years ago
by the late Jack Tenney,"
Forster  said  that   Rarick
"not only fails to deny any of
the League's charges  but
'Uses the same type of ar¬
ticles and speeches in his
defense that the League
based its original charges
upon."
The quotations from
Tenney, whom Forster
described as "a well-known
California anti-Semite" and
former.State Senator, are
taken from his 1953 pam¬
phlet, "Zibn'S Fifth Column"
— one of many anti-Jewish
Tenney writings .from the
l950sIfTenheyv. according to
mf;0m}h wm^m..- a
Record. The next day,
Rarick entered into the
Record a nine-page tirade
against the League reprinted
from a 1965 newsletter of the
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ceived to educate those
.young Jewish families, men
and, women! who are not yet
familiar with the needs to be
met in the Campaign,
tocally, nationally and
especially-in Israel.
The audio-visual
presentation covers the
history, social, immigration
and security problems
facing Israel, and does it in
an exciting' and novel
manner in a brief period of
time. It also covers, in
pictorial form, the services
provided for the local
community, by agencies and
institutions who benefit from
the annual Campaign of the
UJFC.   j
The presentation is
designed -to educate and
inform the young,people of
the community as to where -
the money they contribute
through; the UJFC is spent,
and all the various agencies,
and institutions which
benefit from the' funds. It
also portrays, in graphic
form, some of the problems
which face Israel, in health,
education, housing, care for
the elderly, retraining and
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Purim Costume Ball Will
Be Presented By Gallery
Defense  League,   lefrhthew'nsei<tions   in   theRecord
Congress Hall peacefully   "total hundreds of pages and
after being refused per¬
mission to speak. He said he
would appeal to the Congress
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have- cost American .tax¬
payers tens of thousands of
dollars. Noting that Rarick's
pew insertions — eight and
and associate of Gerald L.K.
Smith, described by the
agency as "one of the most
notorious of America's
professional Jew-baiters."
This .Was  in  the .Dec.  6
Jerry Lebowitz, .president
of the Gallery Players of the
Columbus Jewish Center,
announces the community
drama group will be
presenting a first annual
"Gala Purim Costume Ball"
on Saturday, Feb. 19 at 9
p.m. in the Center
auditorium at 1125 College
Avenue. ■
"We are confident," says
Lebowitz, "that this will be
me first in a series of annual
it will provide a fun.
and' frolicsome evening in
comihemoration of the
Festival of Purim. The affair
will be open to the public and
■ we are at present, dickering
for the services of one of
Columbus' leading musical
dance bands."
According to Lebowitz,
individuals will be en¬
couraged to bring their own
liquid rehTesmflent and  a
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UJA Multimedia
Module on Display at
Jewish Center Lobby
A Mujti-media Module of
the United Jewish Appeal is
on display in the lobby of the
Jewish Center. The display
. gives a visual description of
, the needs which must be met
in/the 1972 Campaign.