Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1973-02-22

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VOL. SI NO. 8
FEBRUARY 22, 1973—ADAR 20
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JERUSALEM (WNS)-Ih an address to the Zionist
General Council (Actions Committee) meeting here,
Premier Golda Meir suggested the world could solve
its energy crisis by using non-oil fuels particularly
coal, which she said was available in almost unlimited
reserves. She said she hoped the large nations would
not bring upon themselves the "dictatorship of oil."
NEW YORK (WNS)-Efforts win; continue by the
Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on
Jewish Poverty, representing 30 major national and
local Jewish organizations, to press federal agencies
for monies-toaid Jewish elderly poor who, it charged,
' have been overlooked in the allocation of funds by the
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). A Council
spokesman said demands, will be made on federal
agencies, including the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, that will be taking over certain
anti-poverty programs being phased out of OEO by the
Nixon Administration, tofund programs for the,'
^ hitherto neglected Jewish poor; mainly in large urban
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At the same time, the city's Human Resources
Administration has given grants totaling $250,000 to
three Jewish agencies aiding Jewish poor on the Lower
East Side and the Bronx. The money is intended for
^Jthoscwho live outside the city's 26 designated poverty
areas or in poverty pockets within these areas. The
recipient agencies were:.the Metropolitan New York
' Coordinating Council on Jewish PoVerry.theCon-
'     course Jewish" Community Council, and the United
Jewish Council of the East Side.
Board Won't Oust Rabbis Who Perform Mixed
Marriages; RAA Galls For Resignations
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
Rabbinical Alliance of
America, an ' Orthodox'
group, called this week on
Orthodox rabbis who- are
members of the New York
Board of Rabbis to resign
from the Board because of
its failure to bar from its
membership those rabbis
who perform mixed
marriages. Only Reform
rabbis perform such
marriages. The New York
Board of Rabbis claims to
represent 1000 Reform,
Conservative and Orthodox
rabbis in the Greater New
York area.
The vote at a stormy
NYBR meeting on Feb. 7
was on an amendment to the
organization's constitution
which would. bar. mem¬
bership to rabbis performing
mixed marriages. Approval
of an amendment requires a
two-thirds vote of -those
North Sitters Ask For Pre-School
And Other Programs From Center
by BILL COHEN
'Chronicle Special Reporter
Jewish residents on
Columbus' North side called
on the Jewish Center to
Ijrovide them with a pre¬
school,' programs for
children anil teenagers, and
daytime adult programs
during the first of a series of
public hearings sponsored
by the Center on Feb. 11.
About 40 residents at¬
tended the session at the
Hillel Foundation,. speaking
with Howard Banchefsky,
the Center's Program
Director, and Dr. Gerald
Levy, a member of the
Center Board.
Several residents ex¬
pressed the View that Jews
on the North side have often
been ignored by the Center
and other Jewish agencies
that are located on the East
side. Some said there was no
commitment by the Center
to help the North side
community, while others
called it simply "a lack of
communication."
"Historically, there has
been suspicion and a lack of
communication and a
psychological wall between
the East'side and the North
side," said Sanford.Shapiro,
a member of the Hillel Board
and the North Side Jewish
Community Association.
"The time is right to
recognize there is a Jewish
community here and a
nucleus is needed to draw
people  together,"   Shapiro
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present and the total in favor
fell three votes short. Foes of
the proposed amendment
argued that approval would
adversely affect efforts of a
majority of Reform rabbis to
deal with the problem at the
annual convention next June
of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis. Delegates
at the CCAR convention last
June voted to postpone the
action on the issue for a
year.
Rabbi William Berkowitz,
NYBR president, said a mail
survey of the membership
indicated overwhelming
approval of the proposed
amendment but that the by¬
laws required members to
be present for such votes.
The attending rabbis did
approve a resolution which
'^equivocally" condemned
rabbis who perform mixed
marriages and urged them
, to-stop doing so im¬
mediately^
The resolution also called
on rabbinic bodies
throughout the country, and
on the Synagogue Council of
America, which represents
the major Orthodox, Con¬
servative and Reform
rabbinic organizations, to
join in the condemnation.
Rabbi Abraham Gross,
president of the Rabbinical
Alliance, said his group was
not surprised by the failure
to approve the amendment
"but we are surprised and
shocked over the lack of a
massive exodus from the
New York Board of Rabbis
by those Orthodox rabbis
who believed that they could -\
'contain' the Board from
such a flagrant assault upon
the integrity of the Jewish
family."    Rabbi    Gross'
made no
the resolution
rabbis who
at       mixed
statement
reference to
condemning
officiate
marriages.
He asserted that "the
small segment" of Orthodox
rabbis in the NYBR had
justified their membership
w i t h ' ' 'various
rationalizations," one of
them being that the NYBR
would stay out of issues of
Jewish religious law and
.^therefore was "not really a
rabbinic organization in the
traditional sense of the
world."
Advance Gifts Dinner To Be
Wednesday At Winding Hollow
On Wednesday evening,
Feb. 28 at 6 p.m., at the
Winding Hollow Country
Club, the $1,500 Minimum
Gift Dinner, will be held.
Cocktails will precede the
dinner which will feature as
its speaker Samuel ; H.
Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio, a
-national chairman of the
United:; Jewish Appeal and
former; chairman of the
Midwest Leadership In¬
stitute of the UJA.
Mr. Miller is a.member of
the Board of Trustees of the
Jewish .Community
i Federation of Cleveland, and
a former General Chairman
of the Cleveland Welfare
Fund Campaign, presently, *•
Mr. Miller is Vice-President
of the Cleveland Hebrew
Schools and has been a
former secretary of the
Bureau of Jewish Education.
He serves on the boards of
the Jewish Family Service,
Jewish Vocational Service
and is a trustee of Park
Synagogue. He is a Vice-
President and Treasurer of
Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
The program will include
'remarks from the personal
experiences of Michael
Radomislosky, a highly
articulate   young   Soviet
Rabbi Arthur Green To Speak In Columbus Next Week
Jewish Mysticism Specialist
To Speak At Center Tuesday
Hillel To Have Week-Long
"Encounter With Hasidism"
by Deborah Sniff
Hillel Staff Writer
A week long program
"Encounter with Hasidism"
will take place from Sun.,
Feb. 25 to Sat, Mar. 3 at the
O.SiU.JB!nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave.
The encounter will begin
with the film! '"Hie Dybbuk",
Sun., at 7:30 p.m. A Hebrew
dialog subtitled in English,
Sholom Anski's classic
drama is a haunting Kab-
balistic folk tale about the
exorcising of a demon, or
"dybbuk," lodged in the
body of a young girl and
seeking to possess her soul.
A discussion will follow the
film led by Sanny Weinberg,
of the Ohio State Univ.
Comparative    Literature
Dept. Admission for the film
is $1.25. Refreshments will
be served with no charge.
The Hasidism program
continues all week and will
bring guests to Hillel to
discuss in depth the growing
Hasidic, movement in¬
fluencing a great number of
Jews in America today.
Mon., Feb. 26, Rabbi
Arthur Green will speak on
"A Modern Jew Rediscovers
Jewish Mysticism" at 8 p.m.
at Hillel. At 12:00 noon on
Tues., Feb. 27, Rabbi Green
will lead a rap session.
Lunch will be available for
75c. At 8 p.m. that evening he
will speak at the Cols.
Jewish Center, on '^A«
Religious Critique of Jewish~
Institutions; Rides will leave
Hillel at 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Arthur Green
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Rabbi Green is a member
of the Havurat Shalom
community, an experiment
in Jewish^religious and
communal renewal, which
he helped to found in 1968. He
was ordained as rabbi in
1967. His particular field of
study, in which he is now
working on a doctorate at
Brandeis, is the Jewish
mystical tradition. He has
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Rabbi Arthur Green is a
member of the Havuat
Shalom Community, an
experiment in Jewish
religious and communal
renewal, which he helped to
found in 1968. After studying
Judaism at Bratodeis
University and the Jewish
Theological Seminary, he
was ordained as Rabbi in
1967. His particular field of
study is the Jewish mystical
theology. He has- taught
Judaics at Tufts University
and at Smith College, and
has spoken with many
synagogue and student
groups throughout the
country. He recently edited a
book of Hasidic prayer
literature entitled "Your
Word is Fire", soon to be
published. He and his wife,
Kathy, live in Somerville,
Mass., near Boston.
Rabbi Green will be
speaking on Tuesday, Feb.
27 at 8 p.m. His topic will be
"A Religious Critique of
Jewish Institutions."
. A donation of $2.00 for
adults and $1.00 for students
wiU.be requested at the door.
The remaining lecturer as
part of the annual Gordon
Lecture Series will be Rabbi
Mprdecai M. Kaplan, who
will speak on Sunday, May 7.
Tickets for the Green Lee
hire and the Kaplan lecture
can be purchased for $3.00
for both lecturers.
For reservations and
information .call Harvey
Markowitz, Jewish
Programming Director, 231-
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SAMUEL H. MILLER
Immigrant who arrived in
Israel in May, 1970. He is
formerly from Kiev, Russia,
and now resides in Kibbutz
Ein Hamistratz Ulpan in
Israel.
According to Mr. Sol D.
Zell, Chairman of the Ad¬
vance Gifts affair, an
unusually large attendance
is anticipated to hear Mr.
Miller and to respond to the
appeal to meet the projected
needs of the many
humanitarian services of the
Columbus Jewish com¬
munity, Israel and the other
overseas countries where
Jewish people live in poverty
and oppression.'
Ernest Stern, 1973 Cam¬
paign Chairman and Millard
Cummins, Advance Gifts
Chairman, attended the
Prime Minister's Mission
last fall where the^jtearned-;
of the extensive 'problems'
faced by Israekas^cpn-
tinues to keep its dooj$ open
to the thousands seeking
freedom to be Jews--a
commitment made with the
establishment of the State of
Israel twenty-five years ago.
They heard from Golda
Meir as she stated "We Jews
have a long history of caring
"for one another...from the
most ancient days, when
members of the Jewish
communities enslaved Jews
from their captors to set
them free."
"Today, we too, must buy
freedom for put fellow Jews-
freedom for Soviet Jews to
emigrate and settle in
Israel; freedom from the
hunger, cold and want for
the needy Jews in Israel
from former waves of im¬
migration who have not as
yet received sufficient
assistance to live in dignity;
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