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VOL. 51 NO. 4
JANUARY 25, 1973 - SHEVAT 22
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UJFC Plans Unprecedented Drive For Increased Needs
Needs Set At $3,300,000
The blueprint for the most
extensive campaign ever'
conducted by the Columbus
Jewish Community was
finalized at the Board of
Directors meeting of the
UNITED JEWISH FUND
AND COUNCIL held at the
Melton Building on Jan. 22.
The Campaign organization
received a green light for the
most massive all-out fund-
raising effort in the history
of the Columbus Jewish
community when the Board
approved the unprecedented
goal of needs of $3,300,000.
The action of the Board of
Trustees is in keeping with
' the nation-wide drive to
provide, from American
Jewry, the largest financial
support for pressing needs in
Jewish history.
Ernest Stern, Gjeneral
Chairman of the 1973
Campaign commenting on
the magnitude of the un¬
dertaking, said that the
$3,300,000 to be sought from
Columbus Jewry is "a goal
of needs. The Jewish com¬
munity of Columbus has the
capacity. It is up to the
campaign leadership to
convey this information so
that commitment can
follow."
Understand Significance
Mr: Stern said, "We
* have good reason to believe
-that the 1973 campaign will
bring forth a far greater
commitment than has ever
been witnessed in the past-
first, because the needs are
mere, more acute, more
pressing than any previously
faced by the Jewish people;
and second^ because I
believe that most of us un¬
derstand, this time-the full
significance of our response
to the problem of Jewish
survival."  -
He noted--,that his con¬
fidence was supported by the
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"Key 73" Leaders Repudiate
Anti-Semitism Or Coercion
- Every month, thousands of new immigrants come to
Israel to start a free life. Your gifts to UJFC help cover
the enormous costs of transportation and resettlement.
Bond Sales Over A Million
B. Goodman Is New Chairman
For the first time in
Columbus Israel Bond
history, over one million
dollars in sales was
achieved.
This exciting news was
announced this week by two
of the men most resppnsible-
1972 Columbus Chairman,
Frank Nutis, and the 1972
Ohio Governor's Dinner
Chairman, Ben Goodman. At
the same time, Nutis, newly
named Central Ohio Israel.
Bond Chairman, announced
that' Goodman had been
chosen to lead the 1973
Columbus State of Israel
Bond Campaign in the
historic year of Israel's 25th
year of independance.
Nutis said Mr. Goodman's
acceptance of the post made
him the first main in the
- history     of     Columbus
leadership to head both the
Israel Bond drive for
economic aid to Israel and
the UJFC drive for
humanitarian funds for
.Israel.:
Goodman is president of B.
Goodman Fashions. He is
currently President of
Tifereth Israel Congregation
and Chairman1 of the 1972
UJFC Advisory Council..
Closely allied with financial
assistance to Israel, he was
the 1971 UJFC Campaign
Chairman, a post to which he
advanced from his chair¬
manship of the 1970 Ad-
. vanced Gifts   Division  of
UJFC.
Goodman, in accepting the
- chairmanship and an¬
nouncing the achievement of
$1,084,950  in   Israel   Bond
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BONN (WNS) -In a policy statement to the Bun¬
destag, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt said his
country "wishes to cultivate the traditional friendship
with all Arab states," but "The Arabs are beginning to
understand that for us Israel's right to exist is in¬
contestable." He said the Middle East conflict does not
leave West Germany "indifferent". The fact that
Brandt did not mention Israel specifically in his 1969
policy statement led to sharp criticism from Israeli
press and public. This time, Brandt's statement
seemed to imply that, against the background of Nazi
atrocities, West Germany supports and defends
Israel's right to existence against aggression.
^WASHINGTON (WNS) -The White House has for¬
mally acknowledged a letter received from
Congressman John M. Murphy (D. N.Y.) informing
the President of a terrorist plot to crash a hijacked
airliner into; the heart of Tel Aviv, and urging "the
United States to take the world'initiative to eliminate
air! piracy." Murphy wrote that his information was
based on intelligence received from official U.S. and
international government sources. Murphy has in¬
troduced legislation that would authorize the President
to institute a boycott of air services against nations
failing to extradite or punish hijackers and«to deny
landing rights to planes of countries providing sanc¬
tuary for air pirates.
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The
leaders of "Key 73,':V;the
nationwide Christian
evangelical campaign to call
"the continent to Christ;*;
*have given assurances to
Jews that they repudiate
anti-Semitism and any
evangelical     resort     to
. coercion. This was reported
by Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
director of,. the .American'
Jewish Committee's in-
terreligious affairs depart¬
ment    who    has    been
. corresponding with the "Key
73" leadership in order to
convey to them the serious
concerns of the American-
Jewish community over the
multi-media   evangelical
.; drive.
Rabbi Tanenbaum made
public a letter he received
from Dr. Theodore Raedeke
of St.. Louis, executive
director of "Key 73** in
which he.stated, "Mfe do not
wish to persecute, pressure
or force Jews to believe or do
anything against their will."
Dr. Raedeke insisted that
^'thereiis no Anti-Semitism
in either, the ideology or the
thrust of'Key 73*."
He added, however, "We -c?>
are confident that" the Jews
do not wish to undermine our
holy faith or deprive us of    -
our rights to propagate our
faith-the privilege we enjoy
in vj/^merica."     Rabbi
Tanenbaum   '-. said     the
statement was a "welcome
clarification" although it
does "not respond to all the
questions that the Jewish^
community   would   want
clarified."^ ■'„■
Among those questions, he
said, were the implications,
of.a nationwide evangelical
campaign for the pluralistic
- character of America; will a \-;
.campaign .'that ; views
Christianity as a "substitute
covenant" • "for   that   of
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J&
Raanana Dinner To Celebrate
Israel's 25th Anniversary
"This year's dinner will
-prove to be most en¬
tertaining, unusual and
delicious," said Mrs. Frank
Nutis, chairman of
Raanana's gala event. The
dinner will be held on Feb. 3,
at Congregation Ahavas
Sholom, cocktailsjto begin at
7 p.m. followed by a full
course dinner.
"Not only will we enjoy
celebrating Israel's 25th
Swastika Decision Meets With Controversy
Hell
Pictured above are Ben Goodman, 1972 Ohio
Governor's Dinner Chairman and Frank Nutis, 1972
Columbus Israel Bond Chairman announcing the 1972
results of the Israel Bond Campaign.
By BILL COHEN
SPECIAL CHRONICLE
x      ^REPORTER
The'1' Anti-Defamation
League issued a statement
Jan. lft 'condemning. last
week's decision in U.S.
District'- Court, allowing
members of the American
Nazi Party to wear swastika
armbands while attending
Cleveland City; Council
meetings.  ■",
The regional director for
the i A:D.L; for Ohio and
Kentucky, Hersh Adlerstein,
told The Chronicle, "Sharing
the court's belief in free
speech, we nonetheless
realize that freedom of
expression has its limits
where there is clear and
present danger of provoking
action, expecially by
wearing symbols which-
sickenly bring to mind the
murder of six million Jews."
The decision, by Judge
Thomas Lambros of U.S.
District Court in Cleveland
on  Jan.  15,  included  a
preliminary injuction
against City Council
President, Edmund Turk,
who had tried to bar the
Nazis from council cham¬
bers when they ■ were
wearing the armbands.
Lambros stressed that
while the swastika is sym¬
bolic of Hitler and "the
furnaces where millions of
Jews were burned... this
court is also mindful that the
Supreme Court of the United
States has said the right to
wear armbands is protected
by the Tlrst Amendment."
Benson Wolman,
executive director7 of the
American Civil Liberties
Union pf Ohio, told The
Chronicle, "This kind of a
court decision really
distinguishes us from the
Nazis, who, after all, if they
were in power, probably
would ban opposing kinds of
armbands."
Meanwhile, the con¬
troversy continued as
Cleveland   Mayor   Ralph
Perk said he would allow the
Nazis to wear their
swastikas in council
chambers but not in other
areas of city hall.
Adlerstein > said, "We
applaud Mayor .Perk for his
refusal to permit the
wearers of Nazi^ swastikas
from parading^triMugh the
city haU. We irfect the
orders of the'.UfS.1 District
Court, and note that there is
a difference between the
right to wear armbands at
city council meetings and to
walk around city hall
wearing them," added the
A.D.L. spokesman.
Oppostion to Perk's stand,
however, came from the
A.C.L.U., which provided
the legal counsel for the
' American Nazi Party, also
called the National Socialist
White People's Party.
Executive Director
Wolman said Perk's reaction
to the court decision "would
violate the spirit of the or-
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TAZZI
anniversary, but also of Kfar
Batya's,  one  of  Mizrachi  •
Womens' schools," said Mrs.
Henry Lewin, co-chairman
of the dinner. She continued, .
"Twenty-five years is indeed   <
a milestone for Israel, who
hasn't known a day of real
peace. Kfar Batya is also a
milestone to the Mizrachi  -
Women   of   America.   It
started its existence by
taking in and caring  for^r-
orphans from the holocaust,
and  today   it  houses   700
children. We're still taking
children from a holocaust,
instead of from Hitler, we're
taking them from Russia-is   '
the need any less?"
The one and only Tazzi will
appear. His act has been
described as most unusual,
not normally seen in nite- '
club performances. An in¬
credible one-man show, he'll
keep, you guessing, intrigue
the audience and involve
them in his act. He is a
humorist, par excellance. He
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