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VOL. 50 NO. 6
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JERUSALEM (WNS)--The resolution adopted at the
closing session of the World Zionist Congress
stipulating that any office holder in the Zionist
movement must obligate himself to aliya after serving
no more than two terms in office or be removed from"
office has been declared unconstitutional by Dr.
Aharon Zwergbaum, legal advisor to the World Zionist
Organization. Dr. Zwergbaum said the WZO con¬
stitution gave each Zionist Federation freedom to elect
its own leadership as it sees fit. - ■:
WASHINGTON (WNS)-Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.,
Wash ) has introduced a bill to provide $250 million
through fiscal 1973 to assist Israel in receiving and
resettling "persecuted Jews of the Soviet "Union." A
similar hill will be introduced by Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie (D., Me.).
JERUSALEM. .(.JTAMsrael has officially
, recognized the new state of Bangladesh. The an-
I nouncement said that Foreign Minister Abba Eban
informed Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdus Samad
Azadiflf-the recognition in a cable Friday. The
recognition decision was taken after telephone con¬
sultations with all members of the Cabinet Friday
instead of waiting for today's regular Cabinet meeting.;
Israeli recognition was first requested last April in a
letter from Acting President Nazrul Islam and Foreign
Minister Mustaque Ahmed of the Bengali provisional
government Which was then fighting a war of secession
from Pakistan:; ' . "..-;
Petitibn Campaign Urges Nixon
To Intercede For Soviet Jews
NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Congress
"hot line" for Soviet Jewry
today made public a
nationwide petition cam- -
paign .urging , President
Nixon to intercede with the
. Kremlin on behalf of Soviet
Jews during his forthcoming
visit to the U.S.S.R.'
The campaign has a goal
-of one million signatures by
April   30   —   "National
Solidarity Day for Soviet
Jews" —.according to the
announcement: The! "hot
line" is a recorded> message,
telephone number
established by the American
Jewish Congress in 1970. -
It can be heard in New
York by dialing (212) 879-
4553; Other American Jewish
Congress "hot lines" have
been installed in Chicago,
Boston,     Philadelphia,
Miami, Cleveland, Newark
and St. Louis.
The petition campaign, is
being conducted by "the
National Conference on
: Soviet Jewry, the major
coordinating agency; for the
Jewish community in the
United States on the plight of
Soviet Jews. The American
Jewish Congress is a con¬
stituent ' member of the
Conference.
Jarring Mission Only, Possibility
For Mideast Peace Says Waidheim
ROME (JTA).-United
Nations Secretary General
Kurt Waidheim declared
here., Feb. 5 that the
American initiative to-
promote close proximity
talks between Egypt and
Israel for an interim.Suez
accord was doomed to
failure and claimed that the
"only possibility" for a
peaceful solution of the
Middle East conflict lay in
UN mediation through the
instrumentality of the
Secretary General's special
Mideast envoy, Ambassador
Gunnar V. Jarring.
Waidheim made his
remarks  at  a  press  con-
L To R. Frank Nutis together with Dr. Alexander S.
Fisher, E^ Liverpool, Ohio, and Gene Mesh of Cin¬
cinnati talking with a» Israeli soldier at the Suez Canal
at the just completed "Prime Minister's conference on
,' Economic needs.
Israel Bonds Mesetinj
Features Nutis Report
; The       first       annual
••' Presentation-and Report
Meeting of the Central Ohio -
'•:'<■•'■ Statjj of Israel Bond Com¬
mittee will gain a first hand
/report from Frank R. Nutis,
1971-72 Chairman of the
,— Columbus Campaign. Mr.
.Nutis -will review with the
".members of the committee
■;Khis recent, trip 'to; Israel as
the guest of Prime Minister
Golda Meir; Mr. Nutis'
participation in this ex¬
traordinary conference
began with a moving con¬
frontation- when, he  met
, newly arrived. "Russian
immigrants at Lod Airport
and     exchanged     quiet
in the '71 campaign will be
given by Irving Baker, Ben
Grinblatt, Gerald Cohen,
Samuel Oppenheimer,
Jeffrey    Schottenstein,
-William Sillins, Terry
Robinson, Janet Leeman, A.
C. Strip and Elmer Swack
from Zanesville.
This first meeting of the
Central Ohio Committee will
' begin at 8 p.m. and be a brief
celebration of last year's
accomplishments and a look
into the needs of 1972. All
Israel Bond committee
members, officers-7
executive, board members
and friends are cordially
invited to attend. There is no
greetings,, mostly   in ;onak.charge and no solicitations.
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FRIDAY NOON
ference following an
audience with Pope Paul VI
and a meeting with Dr.
Jarring who recently
returned from talks/with
African leaders on the
Middle East problem.
Waidheim, said the latest
news regarding an interim
Suez agreement is far from
encouraging.-He said it was
most probable that an in¬
terim accord would not
become effective. The
reason for its probable
failure, he said, was that one
of the parties (Israel) pre¬
fers American mediation
which is connected with an
arms deal while .the - other
party pr.efe^s UN mediation.
"We shall insist on having
United Nations mediation
through the UN mediator,
Dr. Jarring, and on- reen-
forcingthis mediation which
is the only possibility for a
peaceful solution," he said.
Questioned about the
escalating arms raqe in the
Mideast, Waldhejrn^stressed
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The petition urges the
President to take advantage
of his meeting in May with
Soviet Premier Alexei
Kosygin and Communist.
Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev
to "help redeem Soviet Jews,
thus fulfilling the hopes "of
millions of Americans who
have labored on their
behalf." It declares:
"We respectfully petition
you on behalf of three million
Soviet Jews. We urge you to
be their advocate and to
convey to Soviet leaders the
concern of millions of
Americans, and people of
good will everywhere, over
an oppressed minority which
faces discrimination, and is
pre vented from perpetuating
its history, its culture and its
ancient heritage.
"Nearly 40 of its finest
young people are in Soviet
prison camps because they
sought to live as Jews, while
others seeking to emigrate
are harassed. If some suc¬
ceed in departing it is only
after months of struggle and
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Hillel Officials Attend
Funeral For Rabbi Gaynor
Dispute Future Of Jewish
Culture In Soviet Union
JERUSALEM (JTA)-The
thesis that Jewish culture in
the Soviet Union is
irretrievably doomed and
must be given up for lost was
disputed at a gathering of
Israeli scholars and in¬
tellectuals, many of them
recent immigrants, here:
The gathering was ad¬
dressed by Prof.. Mikhail-
Zand,, a prominent Orien-
tologist at Moscow's In¬
stitute of Eastern Studies,
. who emigrated to Israel*with
his family last year after a
prolonged struggle to obtain
- an exit visa.
Zand, currently teaching
at the Hebrew University,
maintained that Jewish
culture in the USSR has no
- future and that in fact most
of it has already been
destroyed by the Soviet
State. He said that Jewish.
culture was being spread
through the medium of the
Hebrew- language using
underground channels - but
predicted that this too will
end and the. writers will wind
up in jail or go to Israel.
Prof. Chohe Shmerook,
head of -the ' Hebrew
University's Yiddish
department; took issue -with
Zln'd:'s g 1 06 my
prognostication. He said that
what Zand was advocating
was very grave because it
gives up for lost millions of
Russian Jews who will
remain in Russia. "No one
thinks of abandoning the
Jews in the West who are not
emigrating, and for the same
reason Jews who remain ih
Russia should' not be the
victims of discrimination
and their cultural life must
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National officials.of Hillel
Foundation and other Jewish
organizations took part in.
the Sunday funeral of Rabbi
Nathan Gaynor; director of
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun¬
dation at Ohio State
University.
He died Friday at 53.
Rabbi Gaynor, at OSU
Hillel since 1969, served in
Buffalo, Alexandra, Va.,
Pontiac, Mich., andjChicago,
and was Hillel director at the
University of Illinois before
coming to Columbus. .
Ordained ig 1944, he was a
graduate of the .Brooklyn
.College and the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America: He . was • also
graduated from Jacob
Joseph Yeshiva.
He. was active in civil
rights movements for many
years, and was former
national chairman of the
social action committee of
Operatioii Telephone To
Make 1200 Calls Sunday
Jacob
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common -'word; "Shaloii
Mr: Nutis will have a;
report  when  awards  are   .Afk|)u   nriMllir
presente^toAgu^AcljW,s4y|»Y UtAULINt
Ahavas Sholom, Beth Jacob,
Beth Tikvah and Tifereth
Israel for the congregational
participation and leadership
in last year's successful
Bond, drive. • . "
Brief reports of activities
Scout Troop 1?6 To Observe
Sabbath At Beth
Scout Troop 126 of the
Columbus Jewish Center will
observe Scout Sabbath as-
guests of the Beth Jacob
Synagogue this weekend as
part of the nationwide
celebration of Scout Week.
Members" of the troop will
participate in conduct of the
Mussaf service.^
"Ner     Tamid"      and
"Sh^far" awards will be
presented by members of the
Jewish-;1.? Committee    on
. S'q^fiMngji^immediately,
following - formal   services,
■ "Ner Tamid" is the medal
and ribbon for Jewish Scouts
who have completed specific
levels of religious'education
and     demonstrate     ap-
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More than 1200 telephone
calls will, be made this
Sunday morning, from 9
a.m. until 1 p.m., according-
to Bernard Frank, Chairman
Of OPE R A TI O N
TELEPHONE. The oalls will,
be made by about 60 men,
from a battery of telephones
in the Huntington National
Bank. For. the past several
yeaFs, the ^ Huntington
National, Bank has made
available its facilities for
this annual mass telephone
effort in behalf of the annual
Campaigns of the United
Jewish Fund and Council,
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Rabbi Nathan Gaynor
the Rabbinical Assembly of
America, and former vice
"chairman ' of the  Niagara
Frontier chapter  of  the
American Civil Liberties
Union at Buffalo.
He was on the board Of
directors   of   the   "Wnti-,
Defamation   League   and
B'nai B'rith."
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and the 1972 OPERATION
TELEPHONE will attempt
to bring the message of the
current Campaign to more
people than ever before.  ;
"We hope everyone in
Columbus is aware of the
fact that there is Campaign
going on," said Mr. Frank.
"We hope they will answer
the 'phone Sunday morning,
prepared to give the best
possible contribution they
can give, for the over¬
whelming needs of Israel
ar](|;the more than 40 local,
national    and    overseas
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