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TT2C*T oxno 'Bnq.wa.xtyO . -9AV butCQA ?Q6X >S '8TH otho "AiBatciTI Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Ohio VOL. 50.NO. 19 MAY 11, 1972 - IYAR 27 9t+**t4 UfftaWtfiftaV. H. J .-.MiieVeli Columbus Sends Petition Signatures To President ^-"tTW , ■% **■ Harold Schottenstein, Chairman of the Committee jon Soviet Jewry of the Council of Organization, United Jewish Fund and Council, has reported that more than 4,400 signatures were gotten on petitions which have already been sent to President Richard M. Nixon, . urging his intervention in behalf of freedom for Soviet Jews. All. local organizations , cooperated in obtaining signatures, according to Mrs. Carl Mellman, Chairman of the Council. Many hundreds were also obtained by the Youth Groups of the Jewish Center, who went from door to door on. the National Day -of) Solidarity, April 30, through Berwick and Bexiey. Everyone who attended the Rally that evening at the Beth Jacob Synagogue also signed petitions. Since the President has delayed his trip to the Soviet Union until late in May, petitions may still be circulated and signed. If you want to sign a petition, or will take one to be signed by your neighbors (anyone can sign, regardless of age, sex, color, race or religion) call the UJFC office, 237-7686, - and petitions will be sent you, or stop in at 1175 College- Avenue and sign one in person. Says Women's Lib Needed To Balance Religious Structure \Pm: if NEW YORK (JTA) - The Jewish religion and social structure, which has been male-dominated', for more f^rtrfiV^'tMouskhd' 'years,- needs a measure of Women's Liberation philosophy, according to a young woman who expects-to be ordained as a rabbi. Mrs. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, a third- year student at the Reconstructionist Rabbin¬ ical College, Temple University, Philadelphia made her. remarks in ijfipj course of conducting a study session on "Women and The, Bible: Lessons for Today,!} at the 66th Annual Meeting; of the American Jewish Committee. "There is an urgent need to balance the predominantly masculine perspective in Judaism with a feminine counterpart, .especially in regard to \&r religious ceremonies, liturgy, and the creative- arts," Mrs. Sasso declared. - Among her suggestions for liturgical modifications, she urged changes in fj.c marriage ceremony that 7 would "create a mutuality of1 obligation, rather than the one-sided sense of man's 'ownership' of woman, and the double standard it emplies." She-.-.-also r^comiri'en'ded. the development 'of "a ' ceremony that would welcome the birth of a girl, in some way a counterpart of all the ceremonies that now surround the birth of a Jewish boy." And she deplored the fact that most Jewish art "depits men in all ' sorts of attitudes- performing the Hasidic dances, poring over Talmudic texts, teaching young boys-while the only act in which women are depicted is the lighting of Sabbath candles." "Although women have enjoyed" a significant position is Judaism, to state that their status' is merely different but equal to men js to ignore'the > facts," Mrs? Sasso declared. Stressing the fact that she was not recommending a' total 'renunciation.of women's traditional rolpi Mrs. Sasso stated: ^"n a woman chooses, after surveying all (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) CHICAGO, May 7 (JTA)-Sixty thousand petitions were sent to President Nixon as part of a national one million petition campaign of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, uring him to esert his influence on behalf of Soviet Jews, it was announced by Walter Roth, president of the American Jewish Congress, Council of Greater Chicago. President Nixon is asked to take advantage of his Soviet visit to convey to Russian leaders American concern for Soviet Jews. NEW YORK- (WNS)--Four American Jewish Organizations, the American Jewish Congress, Americans for Progressive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair, Labor Zionist Alliance, and the Union of American > Hebrew Organizations, in a joint statement, called for "immediate and total withdrawal of all American forces" from,Vietnam. Earlier, the National Council of Jewish Women issued a similar statement. UNITED NATIONS(WNS)-Sources Here report that Secretary General Kurt Waidheim has approached the Israeli and Egyptian Ambassadors to the United Nations with a proposal for a Mideast Peace conference that he indicated he would be willing to chair. LONDON! WNS)--Vladimir Markman, a Soviet Jewish activist who has applied for a visa to Israel was arrested in Sverdlovsk and jailed, Soviet Jewish sources reported. No reason for the arrest was givea It was also reported that Jews in the Potma labor camps have had their diet severely reduced. Ukrainian ' -^Pirtvaar'official organ" Of IKe" tnffalnianToipmubjst1*' Party, in Kiev, attacked Prof. Boris BoroVby7 - prominent Kiev Jew, who has applied for a visa to Israel. / JERUSALEM (WNS)-In a May Day speech in Alexandria, Etyptian President Anwar Sadat declared .that Egypt would lipt be satisfied with the liberation of the territories occupied by Israel but only with '.'the complete destruction of the Israeli arrogance." Declaring that jEgyfrt' was prepared to sacrifice a million men in trie'batrJe against Israel, Sadat added "The Russians help us with armaments but we shall fight by ourselves."-; . Hillel To Co-Sponsor 36 Hour Community Festival Wiesel Rejects Idea That Jew In Israel Is Superior NEW YORK (WNS) — Elie Wiesel, speaking at the 66th annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee declared "He who says a Jew in Israel is better than a Jew in Russia or America or Iraq does nothing but divide our people, and harms it more than some of our enemies." He rejected the idea that Jewish leaders from other countries ought to immigrate to Israel and said "A Jew can be Jewish everywhere, not only in - Israel, providing, he claims kinship with the totality of his people's experience." Wiesel was presented with the Committee's highest award, the American Liberties Medallion. Bertram M. Gold, executive vice president, told a Committee's opening luncheon session that an erosion of confidence in ,-A.mer ican -- Jewish Institutions has been taking place for the past five years. He said "The Jewish community has also experienced a crisis of confidence, a serious questioning of established Jewish organizations, their selection of priorities, their openness to change, their very right to lead." Touching on the emergence of difference between Israel and Jewish communities in other parts of the world, Gold called for the emergence of "voluntary Israeli organizations to which the volunatary organized Jewish communities -of the world can relate, instead "Of addressing themselves, as they now do, primarily to Israeli government spokesmen." At another session of the annual meeting, Howard J. Samuels, president of the city'6 Off Track Betting Corporation, reported on the Committee's newly launched program to secure "previously unavailable" bank loans for Hasidic businessmen! Already, - he. . said, hundreds of thousands ,«e of dollars had been secured - for loans to Hasidic-owned businesses in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Torathon At Agudas Achim This year the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, as an active member of the Campus Ministry Association, will co-sponsor a 36-hour Cgrr.rjiunity Festival, Friday?»££ay\l2 through Sunday, Ma\ 14. 7 The festival is a cutural and social- event foX the entire Northside community, and hopes to stimulate a sense of solidarity between residents, the university community, and area businessmen. Activities begin 'Friday, May 12 at 6,a.m. with the streets blpcked 'off and various displays set up. Exhibits will include In¬ ternational Studeat- v Displays, Food Co-op Market, Crafts Cooperative Booths (arts, crafts, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) We are all familiar with the marathon, the telethon and the talkathon. Agudas Achim has introdgced a new term to describe a unique way of celebrating Shavuoth, the Torah Festival, called "Torathon." Traditionally, on Shavuoth Eve, Jews studied Torah all night. A special work entitled "Tikun Lael Shavuoth" was composed for the occasion. 3Tie "Tikun" is z. compilation of passages from the" "BiKs^ Mishnah, Talmud, the Zohar"aral-tfher . sacred books. Wise meh- made thia "Sefer" available so that people- might adequately study 'Torah Kulah' — all of Jewish Scholarship. Many traditions have evolved concerning learning all night on Shavuoth. The basic concern was how to prepare oneself ' to receive the Torah. When' ancestors of the Jewish people came to Sinai to hear G-d's words, scripture records, they went through three days of intensive,, preparations to qualify as recipients of the Almighty's Commands. In - each generation, co-religionists emplpyed diverse methods to prove themselves worthy of receiving the Divine Commitment. They finally •^tctlyed-^the "Tikun" formula 7taT?mg*^V^mpIe uf- Holy Writ and meditating upon it all night-long.. The Agudas Achim (CONTINUED ON PAQE 4) SPECIAL NEWS ANALYSIS Elie Wiesel - -ThefJe by JACK SIEGEL JTA Executive Vice-President \ 3 Jewish'community was quite {) well'organized and militant 7* jn the . anti-Nazi struggle. (.'""HoWj^ipany marched on ' In a recent speech given in - Washington?" he asked. By - New York City, Elie Wiesel , 1943, some of that Jewish k charged the American leadership and many of their Jewish leadership with -> sons 'wer,e in uniform and ' silence and failure in 1942-43- f'J-were, iparching, not on ' to come to the aid of the Jews'^rtWashingtbn, but on Berlin. ih Nazi concentration camps. A'And ,th,at was no, mere and forced ghettos. '"They.vdemonstration; their lives | .did nothing," he said. "Why /"Were fieing put on the line. didn't they go mad?" Apart from the rather'Bizarre i suggestion, wha,ti good would that have done fori the:Jews Guilt Syndrome in concentration canipS'and ghettos? Besides' which, and | perhaps Wiesel does not i know this, the American How many (Jewish leaders) tore their clothes in •mourning?" Wiesel asked. -This is , a rather strange request^ 40 years later, but again,! bow'would that have helped, 4e\ys in concentration camps and ghettos? "How many weddings tookiplace without music?" This sounds like the end line;bf one of Wiesel's twice-told dark and demonological tales. Even in Auschwitz there was music. Music is the sound of hope in the heart of man. But again, weddings without music would not have helped the Jews in Auschwitz and .the ghettos. "What," asked Wiesel, - "made one people (presumably the Germans) turn overnight into mur¬ derers, another part into victims, all others Ac¬ complices?" This was not ap overnight process but the answer quite simply gn^ horribly is terror, Hlfjer'a major contribution to con¬ temporary civilization was the banality of violence. He made a science of what its application to human beings can do. This writer, who was assigned by the UJJ,Military Intelligence Service; to an American internmeiit camp for Nazi political;1 prisoners after the war, had j occasion to see to what depths and dehumanization the Nazi terror had reduced people. In these camps, devoted to interrogation, but without (error or violence, there was nq song. There was only the cry of betrayal and false claims of innocence. Wiesel also asked why the French did not march into the Rhlneland in 1936. Now for the first time in his talk before the Holocaust Memorial Day Observance, Wiesel deals with a reality. Why, jn fact, did the French not march into the Rhineland? Asking a question in history, Wiesel is bound by its conventions. He cannot escape, nor can his listeners, into myth and legend. The answer is Ap¬ peasement. It is 'now com¬ monly accepted that the Western powers appeased Hitler, gave him concessions and nations and allowed him to build his army- on the promise that he would march that army into the East. A.-minor and corollary casualty would be the genocide of six million Jews; but-this the leaders of-the Western "democracies" were prepared to accept in order to insure the success of the larger goal. By 1943, Hitler was not to be deterred. What greater deterrent could fhere haye been than the Allied bombers blasting the German people and countryside, reducing the latter to rubble? Hitler by then was enslaving other people as well and his per¬ sonal destiny was linked to (CONTINUED ON PAGE 41 ■f ■I H-: m ■7 aw^. m aUw' aasi- >M aWs. '■■ HI Hi ■■I.'- ■1%
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Full Text | TT2C*T oxno 'Bnq.wa.xtyO . -9AV butCQA ?Q6X >S '8TH otho "AiBatciTI Serving Columbus, "Central" and Southwestern Ohio VOL. 50.NO. 19 MAY 11, 1972 - IYAR 27 9t+**t4 UfftaWtfiftaV. H. J .-.MiieVeli Columbus Sends Petition Signatures To President ^-"tTW , ■% **■ Harold Schottenstein, Chairman of the Committee jon Soviet Jewry of the Council of Organization, United Jewish Fund and Council, has reported that more than 4,400 signatures were gotten on petitions which have already been sent to President Richard M. Nixon, . urging his intervention in behalf of freedom for Soviet Jews. All. local organizations , cooperated in obtaining signatures, according to Mrs. Carl Mellman, Chairman of the Council. Many hundreds were also obtained by the Youth Groups of the Jewish Center, who went from door to door on. the National Day -of) Solidarity, April 30, through Berwick and Bexiey. Everyone who attended the Rally that evening at the Beth Jacob Synagogue also signed petitions. Since the President has delayed his trip to the Soviet Union until late in May, petitions may still be circulated and signed. If you want to sign a petition, or will take one to be signed by your neighbors (anyone can sign, regardless of age, sex, color, race or religion) call the UJFC office, 237-7686, - and petitions will be sent you, or stop in at 1175 College- Avenue and sign one in person. Says Women's Lib Needed To Balance Religious Structure \Pm: if NEW YORK (JTA) - The Jewish religion and social structure, which has been male-dominated', for more f^rtrfiV^'tMouskhd' 'years,- needs a measure of Women's Liberation philosophy, according to a young woman who expects-to be ordained as a rabbi. Mrs. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, a third- year student at the Reconstructionist Rabbin¬ ical College, Temple University, Philadelphia made her. remarks in ijfipj course of conducting a study session on "Women and The, Bible: Lessons for Today,!} at the 66th Annual Meeting; of the American Jewish Committee. "There is an urgent need to balance the predominantly masculine perspective in Judaism with a feminine counterpart, .especially in regard to \&r religious ceremonies, liturgy, and the creative- arts," Mrs. Sasso declared. - Among her suggestions for liturgical modifications, she urged changes in fj.c marriage ceremony that 7 would "create a mutuality of1 obligation, rather than the one-sided sense of man's 'ownership' of woman, and the double standard it emplies." She-.-.-also r^comiri'en'ded. the development 'of "a ' ceremony that would welcome the birth of a girl, in some way a counterpart of all the ceremonies that now surround the birth of a Jewish boy." And she deplored the fact that most Jewish art "depits men in all ' sorts of attitudes- performing the Hasidic dances, poring over Talmudic texts, teaching young boys-while the only act in which women are depicted is the lighting of Sabbath candles." "Although women have enjoyed" a significant position is Judaism, to state that their status' is merely different but equal to men js to ignore'the > facts," Mrs? Sasso declared. Stressing the fact that she was not recommending a' total 'renunciation.of women's traditional rolpi Mrs. Sasso stated: ^"n a woman chooses, after surveying all (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) CHICAGO, May 7 (JTA)-Sixty thousand petitions were sent to President Nixon as part of a national one million petition campaign of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, uring him to esert his influence on behalf of Soviet Jews, it was announced by Walter Roth, president of the American Jewish Congress, Council of Greater Chicago. President Nixon is asked to take advantage of his Soviet visit to convey to Russian leaders American concern for Soviet Jews. NEW YORK- (WNS)--Four American Jewish Organizations, the American Jewish Congress, Americans for Progressive Israel-Hashomer Hatzair, Labor Zionist Alliance, and the Union of American > Hebrew Organizations, in a joint statement, called for "immediate and total withdrawal of all American forces" from,Vietnam. Earlier, the National Council of Jewish Women issued a similar statement. UNITED NATIONS(WNS)-Sources Here report that Secretary General Kurt Waidheim has approached the Israeli and Egyptian Ambassadors to the United Nations with a proposal for a Mideast Peace conference that he indicated he would be willing to chair. LONDON! WNS)--Vladimir Markman, a Soviet Jewish activist who has applied for a visa to Israel was arrested in Sverdlovsk and jailed, Soviet Jewish sources reported. No reason for the arrest was givea It was also reported that Jews in the Potma labor camps have had their diet severely reduced. Ukrainian ' -^Pirtvaar'official organ" Of IKe" tnffalnianToipmubjst1*' Party, in Kiev, attacked Prof. Boris BoroVby7 - prominent Kiev Jew, who has applied for a visa to Israel. / JERUSALEM (WNS)-In a May Day speech in Alexandria, Etyptian President Anwar Sadat declared .that Egypt would lipt be satisfied with the liberation of the territories occupied by Israel but only with '.'the complete destruction of the Israeli arrogance." Declaring that jEgyfrt' was prepared to sacrifice a million men in trie'batrJe against Israel, Sadat added "The Russians help us with armaments but we shall fight by ourselves."-; . Hillel To Co-Sponsor 36 Hour Community Festival Wiesel Rejects Idea That Jew In Israel Is Superior NEW YORK (WNS) — Elie Wiesel, speaking at the 66th annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee declared "He who says a Jew in Israel is better than a Jew in Russia or America or Iraq does nothing but divide our people, and harms it more than some of our enemies." He rejected the idea that Jewish leaders from other countries ought to immigrate to Israel and said "A Jew can be Jewish everywhere, not only in - Israel, providing, he claims kinship with the totality of his people's experience." Wiesel was presented with the Committee's highest award, the American Liberties Medallion. Bertram M. Gold, executive vice president, told a Committee's opening luncheon session that an erosion of confidence in ,-A.mer ican -- Jewish Institutions has been taking place for the past five years. He said "The Jewish community has also experienced a crisis of confidence, a serious questioning of established Jewish organizations, their selection of priorities, their openness to change, their very right to lead." Touching on the emergence of difference between Israel and Jewish communities in other parts of the world, Gold called for the emergence of "voluntary Israeli organizations to which the volunatary organized Jewish communities -of the world can relate, instead "Of addressing themselves, as they now do, primarily to Israeli government spokesmen." At another session of the annual meeting, Howard J. Samuels, president of the city'6 Off Track Betting Corporation, reported on the Committee's newly launched program to secure "previously unavailable" bank loans for Hasidic businessmen! Already, - he. . said, hundreds of thousands ,«e of dollars had been secured - for loans to Hasidic-owned businesses in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Torathon At Agudas Achim This year the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, as an active member of the Campus Ministry Association, will co-sponsor a 36-hour Cgrr.rjiunity Festival, Friday?»££ay\l2 through Sunday, Ma\ 14. 7 The festival is a cutural and social- event foX the entire Northside community, and hopes to stimulate a sense of solidarity between residents, the university community, and area businessmen. Activities begin 'Friday, May 12 at 6,a.m. with the streets blpcked 'off and various displays set up. Exhibits will include In¬ ternational Studeat- v Displays, Food Co-op Market, Crafts Cooperative Booths (arts, crafts, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) We are all familiar with the marathon, the telethon and the talkathon. Agudas Achim has introdgced a new term to describe a unique way of celebrating Shavuoth, the Torah Festival, called "Torathon." Traditionally, on Shavuoth Eve, Jews studied Torah all night. A special work entitled "Tikun Lael Shavuoth" was composed for the occasion. 3Tie "Tikun" is z. compilation of passages from the" "BiKs^ Mishnah, Talmud, the Zohar"aral-tfher . sacred books. Wise meh- made thia "Sefer" available so that people- might adequately study 'Torah Kulah' — all of Jewish Scholarship. Many traditions have evolved concerning learning all night on Shavuoth. The basic concern was how to prepare oneself ' to receive the Torah. When' ancestors of the Jewish people came to Sinai to hear G-d's words, scripture records, they went through three days of intensive,, preparations to qualify as recipients of the Almighty's Commands. In - each generation, co-religionists emplpyed diverse methods to prove themselves worthy of receiving the Divine Commitment. They finally •^tctlyed-^the "Tikun" formula 7taT?mg*^V^mpIe uf- Holy Writ and meditating upon it all night-long.. The Agudas Achim (CONTINUED ON PAQE 4) SPECIAL NEWS ANALYSIS Elie Wiesel - -ThefJe by JACK SIEGEL JTA Executive Vice-President \ 3 Jewish'community was quite {) well'organized and militant 7* jn the . anti-Nazi struggle. (.'""HoWj^ipany marched on ' In a recent speech given in - Washington?" he asked. By - New York City, Elie Wiesel , 1943, some of that Jewish k charged the American leadership and many of their Jewish leadership with -> sons 'wer,e in uniform and ' silence and failure in 1942-43- f'J-were, iparching, not on ' to come to the aid of the Jews'^rtWashingtbn, but on Berlin. ih Nazi concentration camps. A'And ,th,at was no, mere and forced ghettos. '"They.vdemonstration; their lives | .did nothing," he said. "Why /"Were fieing put on the line. didn't they go mad?" Apart from the rather'Bizarre i suggestion, wha,ti good would that have done fori the:Jews Guilt Syndrome in concentration canipS'and ghettos? Besides' which, and | perhaps Wiesel does not i know this, the American How many (Jewish leaders) tore their clothes in •mourning?" Wiesel asked. -This is , a rather strange request^ 40 years later, but again,! bow'would that have helped, 4e\ys in concentration camps and ghettos? "How many weddings tookiplace without music?" This sounds like the end line;bf one of Wiesel's twice-told dark and demonological tales. Even in Auschwitz there was music. Music is the sound of hope in the heart of man. But again, weddings without music would not have helped the Jews in Auschwitz and .the ghettos. "What," asked Wiesel, - "made one people (presumably the Germans) turn overnight into mur¬ derers, another part into victims, all others Ac¬ complices?" This was not ap overnight process but the answer quite simply gn^ horribly is terror, Hlfjer'a major contribution to con¬ temporary civilization was the banality of violence. He made a science of what its application to human beings can do. This writer, who was assigned by the UJJ,Military Intelligence Service; to an American internmeiit camp for Nazi political;1 prisoners after the war, had j occasion to see to what depths and dehumanization the Nazi terror had reduced people. In these camps, devoted to interrogation, but without (error or violence, there was nq song. There was only the cry of betrayal and false claims of innocence. Wiesel also asked why the French did not march into the Rhlneland in 1936. Now for the first time in his talk before the Holocaust Memorial Day Observance, Wiesel deals with a reality. Why, jn fact, did the French not march into the Rhineland? Asking a question in history, Wiesel is bound by its conventions. He cannot escape, nor can his listeners, into myth and legend. The answer is Ap¬ peasement. It is 'now com¬ monly accepted that the Western powers appeased Hitler, gave him concessions and nations and allowed him to build his army- on the promise that he would march that army into the East. A.-minor and corollary casualty would be the genocide of six million Jews; but-this the leaders of-the Western "democracies" were prepared to accept in order to insure the success of the larger goal. By 1943, Hitler was not to be deterred. What greater deterrent could fhere haye been than the Allied bombers blasting the German people and countryside, reducing the latter to rubble? Hitler by then was enslaving other people as well and his per¬ sonal destiny was linked to (CONTINUED ON PAGE 41 ■f ■I H-: m ■7 aw^. m aUw' aasi- >M aWs. '■■ HI Hi ■■I.'- ■1% |
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