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VOL. 53 NO. 47
NOVEMBER 13, 1975 - KISLEV 9
H. Anti-Zionist Draft Mounts;
raft, Denounce idi Amin
Left to right: Gerald N. Cohn, Executive Director of
Heritage House; Hannah Cohen, Resident; Betty
Talis, Fund-raising Vice-President of Auxiliary;
Sylvia Schecter, Chairman of Gift Gallery; J.
Maynard Kaplan, President, Heritage House Board of
Trustees; Charlotte Mentser, President of Auxiliary;
and Molly Kerstein, Resident.
Heritage House Gift Gallery
Formally Opens With Ceremony
The Heritage House Gift
Gallery was formally opened
at a ribbon-cutting
ceremony, Sunday
afternoon, Oct. 26 at
Heritage House —
Columbus' Jewish "Home for
the, Aged located at
College Ave.
The new Gift Gallery in the
East Wing received
accolades and acclaim from
all who visited the shop. It is
sponsored by the Auxiliary
as its- main fund-raising
effort. Its operation is by a
loyal and dedicated crew of
volunteers who keep the
store well-stocked and open
daily from Sunday through
Friday — 11 a.m. to 4-p.m.
The Gift Gallery caters to
the personal needs of the
residents. In addition, it has
been set up to serve the
entire community with a
1151*" variety of item's for the home
and every member of the
family —-man, woman,
teenager, and child.
Although the Gift Gallery
has limited space, its
merchandise includes Ardalt
and Shafford china, lucite,
high-fashion jewelry,
handbags and wallets,
Revlon  cosmetics,   gloves,
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NEW YORK (JTA) - A
delegation of 23 national
labor leaders met Nov. 3 for
40 minutes with Daniel
Moynihan, the U.S.
Ambassador to the UN, to
denounce the adoption of the
anti-Zionist draft resolution
by the UN Third Committee
and Uganda's President Idi
Amin. The delegation,
headed by Harry Van
Arsdale, president of the
New York City Central
Labor Council, AFL-CIO,
said that Oct. 17, the day the
anti-Zionist- draft was
adopted, "will live in history
as a day of infamy." Van
Arsdale, in a statement
delivered on behalf of the 23
labor leaders, excoriated the
UN as "the sinkhole" with
"113 dictatorships and
totalitarian regimes (that)
far outnumber the two dozen
remaining' democracies."
Continuing, he declared:
"How dare the majority in
the UN condemn Zionism as
racism wh' t they know that'
in Israel every resident,' of
every race, color and creed
has equal rights as a citizen
of the state? Israel has
almost a half-million Arab
citizens, full participants in
the building of their new
society. What Arab state
accords its minorities such
status, such participation in
national life? Isn't it
hypocrisy when Africans
surrender to Arab oil
blackmail and kiss the feet
of those who sold them into
slavery?   It   wasn't   the
Americans or the Jews who
started the African slave
trade; it was these same
Arab potentates."
Referring to Amin's
remarks in the .General
Assembly  calling  for 2 the
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LATE NEWS BULLETIN  „
U.N. Passes Anti-Zionist Resolution;
Local Leaders React With Denouncements
Despite the growing opposition in the U.S. and other-Western nations (some of which is
described in other articles in this week's Chronicle) the U.N. General Assembly voted 72-35
with 32 abstentions Monday night to approve a resolution declaring that Zionism is a form of
racism and racial discrimination.
After the vote, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan told the Assembly: "The
United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations and before
the World that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this
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Local leaders reacted at a press conference on Tuesday where individual statements
condemning the U.N. action were issued by representatives of the major religious bodies of
the city.    ■
J. Maynard Kaplan, Chairman of the Community Relations Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation urged "all Americans to speak out against the unspeakable resolution of
the United Nations and to join us in expressing total contempt for the actions of the now
disreputable U.N."
Father Robert White, Chairman of the Ecumenical Commission of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Columbus said, "It is a slander against Jews everywhere since it is a revival of
the ail-too familiar anti-semitism which has plagued humankind through the centuries."
Reverend John Frazer, Executive Director of the'Metropolitan Area Church Board, also
issued a statement condemning the U.N. action. •',      .
(EdlW's Note- As the Chronicle goes to press on Tuesday, it was impossible to give full coverage ol these events In this
week's Issue. Next week's Chronicle will feature In depth reports and analysis of the reaction to the U N action.)
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ADL Discloses $45 Million-A-Year Arab
Propaganda Program Underway In U.S.
Leader Of Reconciliation Group Calls For
Palestinian State, Economic Confederation
By Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
/
A moratorium on
Palestinian terrorism, 'the
creation of a politically-
independent Palestinian
state, and the formation of a
Mideast economic
confederation are the keys to
peace in the Mideast,
envisioned by Israeli
sociologist Joseph Ben-Dak.
Ben-Dak, the Director of
the Israeli- Peace Research
Society and one of the co-
founders of the Foundation
for Ar a briar a eli
Reconciliation, was brought
to Columbus last week by the:
Israel Action Committee.
In an interview with The
Chronicle, Ben-Dak said the
Palestinians must do three
things before Setting up an
independent entity on the
West Bank.
First, he said, there must
be a two or three year
moratorium on violence,
"and that will have to be
enforced by the Palestinians
within their rank and file."
More moderate factions
within the Palestine
Liberation Organization
"will have to do everything
they can to stop the
rejectionists (the most
radical Marxists) from
committing violence," he
said.
Ben-Dak noted that
although their numbers are
small, a few members of the
P.L.O. may be leaning
toward the idea of a
moratorium on /terrorism.
He explained that the most
prominent is Sabri Jiryis,
Head of. the Israeli
Department of the P.L.O.
"One of ' the most
important things about
expecting people to change
is to be very explicit about
what you are asking them to
do," Ben-Dak said,
explaining his call for a
moratorium on terrorism for
a specific time period.
The second pre-condition
for the creation of a
Palestinian state, in Ben-
Dak's eyes, is the
establishment of a
Palestinian government-in-
exile. Ben-Dak stressed this
would have to be a group of
leaders that could represent
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
B'nai B'rith Anti-
Defamation League said oh
Nov. 6 that a $45 million-a-
year Arab propaganda
offensive aimed against.
Israel, Zionism and the Jews
is underway "in the United
States, heavily, financed by
Arab oil producers, the
American oil industry and
other pro-Arab elements in
this country. It has already
made considerable headway
in reaching such; "key
targets"    as    American
Clergy Is Requested To
Observe Freedom Weekend
The Community Relations
Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation has
requested all of the Clergy in
■ithe' Central Ohio area to
utilize the weekend of
November 22-23 - as
"FREEDOM WEEKEND."
j, Maynard Kaplan,
chairman of the CRC, has
written to nearly 900 rabbis.
Catholic . priests and
Protestant ministers urging,
that they utilize the
"FREEDOM WEEKEND?
as a time in which they urge
reconsecration to jthe
freedoms     which     are
enshrined in the BUjl of
Rights of our Constitution.
"We are utilizing the
weekend of November 22-23
because of the presence in
Columbus of Valery and
Galina Panov, the world's
most renowned ballet
partners, who struggled for
years to escape from the
Soviet Union. Their search
for freedom symbolizes the
desire of us all for liberty —
for ourselves and for all
peoples everywhere."
. In his letter to the Clergy,
Mr. Kaplan stated:      '...%.
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legislators, the mass media,
business, labor, college
campuses, church and the
Black community. The
purpose of the campaign is
Vto swing American public
opinion and 2foreign; policy
against Israel," 'ADL
national chairman Seymour
Graubard said at a hews
conference at the opening of
the organization's 62nd
annual meeting at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He
said the details of the
Arab propaganda campaign
were culled from a com¬
prehensive two-year study;
. conducted by the ADL
under the direction of its
associate director; and
general counsel, Arnold
Forster, and Lawrence
Peirez, chairman of the
ADL's civil rights
committee. According to the
118-page study, the Arab
propaganda drive receives
$30 million a year from the
Arab states and an
additional $15 million from
the Organization of Arab
Petroleum Exporting
Companies.*'
The ADL study said the
Arab propaganda apparatus
in the US. has three basic
outlets:. The Arab League
and individual Arab
countries acting through
their     embassies,     UN
missions .and information
ministries, all aligned with
the Palestine Liberation
Organization; large sections
of the ^rab-American
community, especially the
association at Arab-
American Uni versity
Graduates, 2 Iric2 and' the
National   Association   of
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Teens Conduct
Protest Vigil
At City Hall
As part of their 15th
Annual Shabbos with the
Rabbi program this!
weekend, the Beth Jacob
teenagers will meet at City
Hall for a Havdalah Service
at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov.
•is.':'
' The purpose of the vigil is
•'. to protest the United Nations
Third Committee's
resolution equating Zionism
with racism. Miss Lori
Greenberg, Youth Advisor,
urges all Columbus teens to
join in the half hour vigil to
, demonstrate the horrendous
implications of 2 this
resolution.
Rabbi David Stavsky will
conduct    the    Havdalah..
.service.
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