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VOL. 51 NO. 42
OCTOBER U, 1973 - TISHRI 15
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideal!
World Reacts To Mideast Conflict
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NEW YORK (WNS) - The Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith has urged the immediate establishment
of a "freedom airlift" to transport Jews to Israel from
the Soviet Union. Seymour Graubard, ADL national
chairman, said the airlift would be the most emphatic
response to Arab terrorist blackmail. He proposed a
weekly shuttle of neutral airplanes which would carry
Jews from an airport in the USSR to Tel Aviv.
Graubard said the airlift would be a supplement and
not replace the transit facilities in Austria. When
Israeli Premier Golda Meir was asked in Tel Aviv
about a direct Moscow-Lod airlift she said that it would
be the best solution but it was up to the Russians to
agree.
NEW YORK (WNS) - Daniel Silberman, one of the
prominent Jews in the former government of Dr.
Salvador Allende Gossens, has been sentenced to M
years in prison by a Chilean military tribunal in An-
tofagasta, some 800 miles north of Santiago. According
to news reports reaching here, Silberman, who was the
director of the country's nationalized copper mine'
corporation, Chuquicamata, the largest open-pit
copper mine in the world, was one of eight former
corporation officials accused of trying to flee the
country with funds allegedly taken from the industry's
treasury. Silberman was reportedly transferred to an
army military academy in Santiago to await a second
trial in connection with having operated the mine
under the Allende government.
NEW YORK (WNS) - Five Jewish community.
agencies are among eight in New Yrok City which have
received city grants to establish and operate additional
senior citizens centers as part of a new program of
neighborhood based facilities in communities where
census figures show large numbers of elderly residents
needing services. The agencies are the National
Council of Jewish Women, the Satmar community in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn; the UM-YWHA of
Williamsburg, the Agudath Israel of America and the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of.
(From combined dispatches by JTA ■
' correspondents   in   Israel,   Europe,
Washington and the UN).
NEW YORK, (JTA) ~
"This "attack was one of
infamy and it is no accident
that I use the term that was
used during Pearl Harbor."
Those words by Israel's
Foreign Minister Abba
Eban, spoken at the Israeli
UN Mission" Saturday,
characterzied the un¬
provoked attack by the
combined forces of Egypt
and Syria on Israel on Yom
Kippur.
"It is blasphemous and
sacriligious to choose this
day of Atonement to launch a
war," Eban said. To say, as
the Egyptian Fdriegn
Minister Mohammed el-
Zayyat claimed, that Israel
opened fire on Yom Kippur
was to heap lies on calumny,
Eban declared.
The world appeared
shocked and aghast as war
engulfed the Middle East at
a time when it was least
expected--as Israelis-
marked the holiest day of the
Jewish calendar and the
diplomats of more than 120
nations were gathered at the
' UN where efforts to end the
25-year-old Middle East
conflict topped the agenda.
American Jewish leaders
mobilized  in   support   of
Israel. A series of
emergency meetings were
held in New York Monday
morning, their time and
place unannounced for
security reasons. The
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations convened in
New York Monday afternoon
for a briefing on latest
developments by Foreign
Minister Abba Eban:
In Washington; Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
continued his contacts with
world diplomats which
began ' early Saturday
morning when he was first
informed by aides of the new
warfare in the Mideast. The
Pentagon announced that
the 45,000 ton aircraft
carrier Independence with
80 aircraft and some 4000-
4500 military personnel
aboard left Athens for an
"undisclosed    destination"
and that other units of§ne  o
U.S. Sixth Fleet headed by —
Vice-Admiral     Daniel  £}
Murphy have "put to sea " •<
No other information was
immediately available from
the Pentagon.
From   Vienna   it   was
N reported that Soviet Jewish
immigrants   who  were   to
have been flown to Israel
Sunday are being detained at
the Schoenau transit Center
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 14)
Columbus Jewish Federation To Replace
The United Jewish Fund And Council
At the Annual Meeting of
the United Jewish Fund and
Council to be held on Sunday
evening, October 21st at 7:30
p.m. at the Beth Jacob
Synagogue, there will be
presented for approval to the
constitutency,  a  new  con¬
stitution which will include a
change in the name of the
central Jewish Organization
to that of the Columbus
Jewish Federation.
The United Jewish Fund
and Council has historically
been the agency to conduct
Rabbis React
Controversy Over Women In Minyan
Faces Tifereth Israel Congregation
by Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
With one rabbi vowing
there will be no change and
another calling for a joint
decision among the rabbis
and the congregation,
Temple Tifereth Israel is
now facing the controversy
over whether or not to in¬
clude women as equals with
men in the minyan.
The opportunity to make a
decision one way or the other
comes as a result of a
decision by the Committee
on Jewish Law and Stan¬
dards of the Rabbinical
Assembly of America to
leave the dispute up to in¬
dividual Conservative
congregations. Until the
Committee's recent vote,
An Urgent Appeal
To Columbus Jewry
Israel is in a crisis situation! Funds are needed
immediately! The United Jewish Appeal urges the
concerned Jews of America to help by redeeming their
outstanding pledges to their local Federations.
The United Jewish Fund and Council appeals to all
contributors to send in CASH NOW to pay their pledges
so that necessary funds can be made available to the
people of Israel to maintain their daily essential
humanitarian services.
SHOW THAT YOU CARE! BE A PART OF THE
COLUMBUS JEWISH COMMUNITY'S MASSIVE
EFFORT TO SUPPORT ISRAEL DURING THEIR
EMERGENCY.
PAY YOUR PLEDGE NOW! DO IT TODAY!
women could not be counted'
as one of the ten persons
needed to make up a. minyan
in a conservative synagogue.'
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer
termed the change "too,
revolutionary."
"Nothing is going to
happen as long as I'm the
Senior Rabbi," Zelizer told
The Chronicle. "I believe
that Conservative Judaism
has made great progress
within tradition, but this is
change without tradition,"
-he added.
Zelizer said the decision to
drop the -absolute ban
against women counting as
part of the minyan "will
bring Conservative Judaism
closer to Reform Judaism,
and that was hot the intent of
Conservative Judaism."
"It is not a question of
equality," Zelizer explained.
He said that traditional
Judaism gives men some
roles and women others; the
women's' prime function
being to care for children
and  to  hold   the  family
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16)
B'nai B'rith Women Preparing
For Ruby Menorah Luncheon
B'nai B'rith Women of
Columbus invites all its
members and the com¬
munity to help us celebrate
our Ruby Anniversary at our
annual Menorah Luncheon
It's our 40th year of service
and are we proud!
The elegant afternoon that
is planned promises to be the
talk of Columbus.
Wednesday, November 7,
1973 is the date, at the Neil
House Hotel beginning with
a Sherry Hour at 12 noon.
A gourmet luncheon will
be served, followed by the
Facets of Fashion style show
sponsored by Lazarus and
featuring guest designer Leo
Narducci. Mr. Narducci will
personally comment on his
resort and holiday clothes.
Elizabeth Stewart Swim-
wear will also be modeled.
Special gifts will be given to
each woman attending.
The cost to "Ruby" or
forty dollar'donors will be a
mere $5.00.* For those
members having earned or
contributed  a   single  or
LEO NARDUCCI
twenty dollar donor, the cost
of the afternoon will be W.00.
All  other  members' and
(CONTINUED.ON PAGE 14)
annual federated campaigns
in behalf of a large group of
local, national and overseas
Jewish agencies, all of which
had as their prime concern,
the provision of funds for
valid  Jewish   needs   and   ~
services.  Thus,   multiple
appeals   withjn   the   com¬
munity were eliminated;
manpower to organize and
conduct' campaigns   was -
conserved;, and the'costs'for •'
such campaign expenditures J
were reduced.  Also,  the
contributiors were assured
of a careful examination of
agency  budgets,' and an
accountability of how their
programs are financed. At.
the same time,  the local
agencies   ahd . the .Jewish
Community were provided
with   an   orderly   and   in¬
telligent method of ■ deter-   '
mining     unmet     needs,
changes, and expansion of
needed services.
The community has grown
in size and complexity. The
local institutions and
agencies have expanded
their programs and projects;
Significant   and    visible .
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16) '   ■
Protests Continue In U.S.
Against Austria's Decision
NEW YORK (WNS) ~
Protests against Austria's
decision to close down the
transit camp for emigrating
Soviet  Jews  at  Schoenau
Over 1000 At Mass Meeting
To Show Support For Israel
A mass meeting was held
Monday night J at
, Congregation Tifereth Israel
where Columbus Jews met
to show spiritual solidarity
with and financial support
for the Israeli people
currently at war. The
meeting'was called by the
Columbus' Board of Rabbis
and the Israel Bond
Organization less than 24
hours earlier and over 1000
people attended.
Over $400,000 was com¬
mitted or given in cash for
Israel Bonds according to
Hirsch Goldberg, area
director  for  Israel  Bonds
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16)
Castle near Vienna con¬
tinued to mount in the United
States. Mrs. Charlotte
Jacobson, chairman of the
World Zionist Organization-
American Section pointed
out that Austria had ,"an
admirable record for
hospitality to refugees" and
had helped over 70,000
Russian Jews ih'the past few
years. But she noted that
"neither the Austrian people
nor any nation in the world
can be safe if governments
yield to blackmail ' and
permit their policies to be
shaped ; by ,', .'^terrorist
voilence." Herman L
Weisman, president, of. the
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