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VOL.53 NO.23
JUNE 5,1975-SIVAN 26
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UNITED NATIONS (WNS) - The United Stales
should lead "a vigorous response in instances where
Israel's rights are breached illegally," at the United
Nations, John Scali, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN,
told 140 persons at a luncheon here in his honor given
by the Presidents Club of B'nai B'rith. Noting '"the
rising threat to Israel's rights in the General Assembly
and in other United Nations forums,'' Scali. said the
U.S. should make a "concrete response" although he
did not elaborate on what it should be. Scali also
stressed that peace would not be easy to achieve in the
Mideast and will be costly to all parties concerned.
But, h&said, until it comes there is a "terrifying threat
\ of a new holocaust" for the entire world; Scali, .yjdio is
leaving his.'• UN;■. post, vwai.■;;givfen.: : jf'har: B'jnth's
humanitarian award for his "distinguished service" at
theUNv .TOe/awl^^S''stefaKyw^^a^hted by David
Blumberg, B'nai B'rith's international president.
TEL AVIV (WNS) — The Arab countries will have
nuclear capabilities by the 1980s and sOme of them,
may already have atomic weapons, Prof. Shimon '
Yiftach, director of the Sorek Nuclear Research
Center, told the Nuclear Science Club here: He said:
that although the reactors bought recently by Egypt
and Saudi Arabia are outmoded they would be able to
produce enough plutonium for atomic weapons. Israel
has two nuclear reactors.
LOS ANGELES (WNS) — A letter urging President
Ford "to intervene on behalf of the 4500 Jews of Syria"
has been signed by 7000 Jews and non-Jews. The. letter
which outlines in detail the plight of Syrian Jews tells
the President: "We are confident that with your
proven commitment to justice, freedom and humanity,
coupled with your sense of compassion and good will, .
you will do that which you must to remedy this
deplorable violation, of human life and rights.' -    -  -•
Basic Issues Behind Middle East Conflict
Discussed At Interfaith Briefing Here
By Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
Representatives of' the
Jewish, Israeli, and Arab
communities attended an
interfaith discussion on the
Mideast in Columbus last
week and debated sortie qf
the basic issutes behind the
coriflict — the nati^paiiim. pt
boui Jews and -'Palestinians',:''
the alternative, of two.
separate states for Jews and
Palestinians versus the
concept of ono "secular -
democratic state," and the
legitimacy and goals of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization:
JMany non-Jews do not
understand that in Judaism,
"religion and peoplehodd are
intimately bound up one in
the other in a way that not to
have a country for the
Jewish People would be
unnatural,". Rabbi Chaim
Feller of the OSU Hillel
Foundation told the 25 clergy
. and   lay  representatives
from across the state,
~   "It'-S ,.a. psychological^
anthropological given,"
Feller explained, that the
Jewish People constitute a
nation. He added he resents
Palestinian groups defining
Judaism simply as a
religion, whose members do
hot need their own country.
"' Hassan Husseini, an Arab -
American whq has been
active in Columbus in
support  of  the  P.L.O.'s
political goals of a "secular,;
democratic state" to replace
the Jewish state of Israel,
described being a. Jew as
"very much like being ah
Armenian, like being any
one of the hund reds or
thousands of religious sects
that have existed in the
World.!'
"Jewish history is repleat
with    the    struggle    for
liberalism, for 'democracy,
for secularism, for
separation of church and
state," Husseini observed.
"Israel goes counter to the
entire Jewish history."   ,
Response lo Husseini
came from Dr. Robert
Chazan, Professor of Jewish
Studies at Ohio State
University, who stressed
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No Resistance Anticipated In Effort
To Resettle Vietnamese Refugees
By Bob Tenenbaum
Chronicle Special Reporter
The executive vice
president of the Columbus
Jewish Federation told trie
Chronicle this week he' ex-.
pects no resistance on the
part of the Columbus Jewish
community to federation
efforts to assist- in the.
■ resettlement of Vietnamese
.refugees. - _   , .
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Ben M. Mandelkorn. who
chaired a city - wide meeting
on the Vietnamese refugee
situation last week, also said
there would be no conflict
.with the Jewish com¬
munity's continuing efforts
td assist Soviet Jews in
resettling here.
"We are involved in the
resettlement of Vietnamese
refugees because the State
■ Department has -asked
volunteer organizations With
experience in this area to
make this a national con¬
cern," Mandelkorn said.
"While there is no over¬
whelming sentiment among
the American people to
assist the Vietnamese, there
is strong sentiment in
Congress for the effort."
Mandelkorn said.
"Most congressmen
believe this effort- is in
consonance with our
American principal of
permitting the immigration
of those who are fleeing
persecution "
Mandelkorn explained
that Jewish agencies
-became involved in the
Vietnamese resettlement
effort at the request of
United HIAS. the agency
which coordinates Ihe im¬
migration ot Soviet .lews to
both the United Stales and
Israel.
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Israel Wants Commitments
Before Making Concessions
.Teenage Board Awards Night Held
Top left: CAVOD GADOL AWARD - Carolyn
Friedman, Teen Director of the Jewish Center (left)
presents certificate ahd book to Karen Berger,
recipient of the Jewish Center's Teen Age Board Cavod
Gadol Award for being the most outstanding Jewish
teenager in the area of community service and in¬
volvement.
Top Center: DAVID GOLDSMITH AWARDS - (left
to right) Mrs. David Goldsmith, Toby Sugarman, Lynn
Stan, Karen Berger, Ira Nutis, David Adlerstein, Steve
Ellman (hot pictured - Barry Adler, Jeff Pruzan, Mark
Rood)-Winners of the David Goldsmith Awards for
excellence in community service. Mrs. Goldsmith was
present for the awards. Winners were involved in
various types of community involvement including
volunteering at Heritage House, at hospitals, as tutors
pf inter -city children, etc.
Top right: EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Teens who are out-
standing in various areas of the cultural- arts. Randy
Zacks holds his certificate recognizing his outstanding
involvement in the area of drama. Not pictured:
Valerie Sbrkin and Gary Rosen, recognized at Awards
Night for their efforts in the area of music.
Bottom left: RABBI NATHAN GAYNOR
MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE JEWISH
PROGRAMMING - pictured left to right - Mrs. Nathan
Gaynor, Ira Nutis, President of Pops Dworkin AZA,-
and Ruth Winter, President of Emma Lazarus'BBG. -
Pops Dworkin AZA and Emma Lazarus BBG were the
winners of this special club programming award for
their joint program for Sukkot which, involved Jewish
culture and community service.
Bottom Center: TAB ATHLETIC LEAGUE WIN¬
NERS - pictured left to right: Benjy Zacks, Heart of
Ohio AZA; Ira Nutis, Pops' Dworkin AZA; andj David
Adlerstein, Heart of Ohio AZA. Heart of Ohio AZA
placed first in both the Baseball and Football Leagues.
Pops Dworkin placed first in Basketball.
Bottom right; SPECIAL AWARD pictured left to
right: Carolyn Friedman, Teen Director of the Jewish
Center. Lynn Stan, TAB Chairman and Mel Finke,
Teacher - Coordinator of the Teen Lounge Project. An
Appreciation Plaque is presented to Mr. Finke for the
South High School Residential Construction Depart¬
ment for their outstanding volunteer efforts in the
construction of the Lori Nesson Memorial Teen
Lounge.
By David Landau
(Copyright, 1975, JTA. Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —'
Premier -Yitzhak Rabin,
evidently buoyed by what he
said was an overall im¬
provement ■'-: in Israel's
political position in recent
weeks, lined up May 27 with
the "hawkish" elements of
his Labor Alignment who
support the government's
refusal to offer further
territorial concessions
without commensurate Arab
commitments to non -
belligerency. In a speech
that marked the end of a
three - week marathon
debate between "hawks"
and "doves" in the Labor
Alignment's leadership and
Knesset faction, Rabin
vigorously defended his
government's refusal to
come forth unilaterally at
this time with a definitive
overall peace plan, including
maps delineating Israel's
future* borders. Such a move
by Israel had been urged by
former Foreign Minister
Abba Eban, veteran Mapam
leaders Meir Talmi and
Yaacob Hazan, and others
who maintained that it was
up to Israel lo take the
initiative to break the
present negotiations im¬
passe, especially in light of
its strained relations with
the United States. But Rabin
asserted flatly that.Israel
would never return to its pre
- j June 1967 borders and
warned that if his govern¬
ment drafted a precise peace
program at this time, what
Israel offered as its maximal
concessions would be taken
by • the Arabs as nothing
more than an initial
bargaining position that
could be whittled down.
Rabin, who will have his
fateful summit meeting with
President Ford in
Washington June 11-12, drew
no maps but in effect
presented a broad outline of
future frontiers from which
. he indicated that Israel will
never retreat. He said that
Israel would insist on a
permanent presence in Sinai
of a yet undetermined depth
but which must include a
land link to Sharm el-Sheikh
at the southeastern tip of the
peninsula. Rabin pledged
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