Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1974-11-14

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VOL. 52 NO. 47
NOVEMBER 14,1974 - HESHVAN 29
NEW YORK (WNS) - Yasir Arafat will address the
United Nations General Assembly not as the head of
the Palestine Liberation Organization but as the head .
of the Palestinian goiternment-in-exile, according to
Dr. Mohammed Mehdi, executive director of the
Federation of American-Arab Organizations. Mehdi
said a resolution would be presented to the Assembly
asking the UN to recognize the new government in
exile, or, if it had not been formed yet, to recognize the
PLO as the legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people. Mehdi spoke after he and four
other members of the Federation met with John Scali,
U.S. Ambassador to the UN, to urge an end to
American aid to Israel. Meanwhile tight security,
measures are being taken for the arrival of the PLO
delegation. The State Department has authorized C-2v
visas for the PLO delegates which restricts their
movements to a radius of 25 miles measured from
Columbus Circle in mid-town Manhattan.
WASHINGTON (WNS) - Twelve Israeli lawyers
viBltlng as guests of the American Bar Association
have complained to Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D.-NY)
that her chief assistant, Thaddeus Garrett ''upset and
saddened us deeply" by his "ideas, views and opinion"
about Jews, Arabs and the holocaust. They said in a
letter to the Black Congresswoman that Garrett
- "accused Israel of iijhumane acts  toward Arab
refugees," said that Jew^,dominate the media in the
U.S. and referred to the six million Jews killed in the
holocaust "as a fact which belongs to the past and
should not be mentioned too often by Israel and
Israelis." Ms. Chisholm said no one speaks for her on
"this touchy issue" and noted that she had declared
that the misery and suffering of the people in the
Mideast "requires a more sensitive and sensible ap¬
proach than a pro-Arab, pro-Israel or anti-Arab, anti-
Israel rigid doctrinaire position."
' JERUSALEM (WNS) — Uri Geller, the 26-year-old
Israeli who claims to have telepathic powers contacted
the Israeli military purchasing mission in the U.S. to
tell them that war will break out in the Mideast bet¬
ween Nov. 10 and Dec. 12, but he wasn't sure of the
exact day or hour. The Jerusalem Post which reported
this noted that "it was suggested that in the event of
Geller's prophecy proving true, he could be employed-
bending Soviet-made SAM missiles used by the
- Arabs." Geller claims to be able to bend fwks, nails
and keys by the force of his mind. A
History Made As Conservative, "Traditional"
Rabbis Call Women To Bless The Torah
by Bill Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter •
History was made
November 2 at Temple
Tifereth Israel as a woman
was called during Sabbath
services to recite the.
blessing over the Torah.
Mrs.-' Sylvia     Gaynor
became the first women to
be called for an aliyafi in the
• history of Columbus' Con-
" servative Jewry.
Rabbi David Zisenwine
told The Chronicle the action
was in/keeping with a
unanimous decision by the
congregation's Board of
Trustees to allow equal
participation by women "in
every way, shape, and
form."      .
Meanwhile,. Hillel
Foundation Rabbi Chaim"
Feller, who graduated from
the Orthodox Yeshiva
University in New York, has
also begun allowing equal
participation by women.
Feller called a woman to the
Torah during Yom Kippur
services this year and said,
he had another woman bless
the Torah at a service last
.year.
The Rabbinic Council of
America, representing
Orthodox rabbis, follows the
Halachic tradition of for¬
bidding women to be called
to the Torah. The Rabbinic
Assembly of America,
representing Conservative
rabbis, decided earlier this
year to allow individual
congregations to decide the
question themselves.
Rabbi Zisenwine called the
September decision by the
Trustees to open full par¬
ticipation to women'': "an
historic decision."   -
"I think we had been to the
right of center, but now,
we're' moving   into   the
mainstream," he said.
Zisenwine said women are -
how counted when it comes
to finding the ten people
needed to make up a minyon,
and he added that more
-Women have been added to
the congregation's Board of
Trustees.
Before   the  change  of
policy, Zisenwine said, the
30-member Board had only
two women members, who
were organizational
representatives of the
Sisterhood. Now, four other
women members have, been
added, representing
themselves just like the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 191
Jewish Women's Movement Leader Calls
For Full Equality For Women In Judaism
by BUI Cohen
Chronicle Special Reporter
Rachel Adler, an author
and leader in a growing
Jewish women's movement,
called on Jewish women in
Columbus November 3 to
work for women's equality
within Jewish institutions
and religious observances.
Ms. Adler, who addressed
almost 200 persons as part of
a Jewish women's con¬
ference at the Melton
Building, told The Chronicle
that one of the movement's
goals is to have all branches
of Judaism accept women as
rabbis.
"We want to have a wider
variety of roles available to
Jewish women;" she said.
"And we want the Jewish
father to take the same
responsibility in.the family
Noted Author Meyer Levin
Appear In Columbus
Express Solidarity In Anti-PLO Rally
NEW YbRK (WNS) -
"We came to show our
solidarity," Jeffrey Ten, 16,
-chairman' of the Jewish
Community Relations Youth
Council of Philadelphia, said
in explaining why he and
some 150,000 - 200,000 Jews
and mam; non-Jews had
jammed into Dag Hammer-
skjold Plaza across from the
United Nations. "I came to
represent my people," Mrs.
Pearl Swartz said, noting
that she had risen at 5 a.m.
to join her B'nai B'rith group
in the trip from Boston to
New York to join the rally
called by the Conference of
Presidents of Major
American Jewish
Organizations to protest
against the. UN General
Assembly's invitation to the
Palestine Liberation Organi¬
zation to address die world
body. "I want to show my
spirit and my devotibn to
, Israel," Philip Gottesman, a
New York City accountant
said. The participants came
from the entire New York
area as well as far away as
Atlanta in the south, Maine
in the North and St. Louis in
the West. Dag Hammer-
skjold Plaza was filled with
the crowd spilling out into
the surrounding streets.
Security at the UN itself was
the tightest ever with the
streets leading to it blocked
off to pedestrians and
vehicles.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.) told the gathering
that "We cannot be silent
while the PLO is permitted
to terrorize its way into the
United Nations." He said he
could "imagine no greater
insult to the Palestinian
Arabs, no. greater slap in
their hopes to iead decent,
moral lives, than to have
foisted upon them by the UN
a murderous band which
represents   no   one   but
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
Meyer Levin, author of
"The Settlers" and
"Compulsion," will be in
Columbus on Monday, Nov.
18 as part of the Jewish Book
Month celebration.
Levin has been described
as "the most significant
American Jewish writer of
his time," by Robert Kirsch,
literary editor of the Los
Angeles Times.
He is being brought to
Columbus 'through the ef¬
forts of the national B'nai
Brith Hillel Foundation and
his publisher.
Levin will appear at the
Little Professor Book Center
in the' Town and Country
Shopping Center from 11
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to
autograph his latest book,
'"Ihe Spell of Time:; A Tale
of Love in Jerusalem."
He  will   discuss   "The
Rabin: Will Not Negotiate With Terrorists
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
Premier Yitzhak Rabin told
the Knesset Israel will not
negotiate with the Palestine
Liberation Organization but
is determined to negotiate a
West Bank settlement with
Jordan. Rabin said the Arab
summit in Rabat had
strengthened Israel's deter¬
mination not to deal with the
PLO because if Israel talked
with the terrorist organiza¬
tion it would give "legitimi¬
zation" to both Its methods
and aim. ''Israel will not
recognize those who plot
against its very existence,"
the premier said. He said
Israel will be watching
Jordan closely to see if she
will surrender to terrorist
dictates. Rabin also stressed
that Israel will watch Egypt
to see if President Anwar
Sadat agrees to the demands
of other Arab states not to
agree Jto further separate
Israeli-Egyptian talks.
Rabin warned Arab leaders
that neither threats nor acts
of violence, not full scale
war, could solve the
Palestinian problem. Dr.
Elimelech Rimalt, an MK
and Likud leader, said the
Rabat conference should
cause the government to
change Its policy since
Rabat proved the failure of
American policy in the
Middle East.
Meanwhile Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz arrived from
Washington saying that the
American government is
aware of Israel's position not
' (CONTINUED. ON PAGE 19)     '
Meyer Levin
Dimensions of American
Jewish Literature" in the
browsing room of the Ohio.
State Library from 2:30 to 3
p.m. At 5:30 p.m. he will be
the guest of the Hillel
Foundation student supper
at 46 E. 16th Ave. At 6 p.m.
he will address the group.
Levin is also the author of
''The Obsession," "Gore and
Igor," "Thefanatic," "The
Old Bunch" and "In
Search."
Levin, .who received a
Ph. D. from the University of
Chicago, was a reporter on
the Chicago Daily News in
the 1920's. In 1933 Levin was
an associate editor for
Esquire and Coronet
magazines and served as a
film critic for Esquire from
1933 to 1938.
During World War II he
was a war correspondent for
the Overseas News Agency
and the Jewish Telegraphic
(continued ok, Page i;>
as the Jewish mother and
perhaps some of the garbage
that has been coming down
on the head of the Jewish
mother all alone."
Ms. Adler, the author of
several articles on the ef¬
forts of women to gain more
equality in Judaism. sa>d
women should be counted as
part of a minyon, should be
called up to the Torah for an '
ally a, and should be allowed
to wear tefillin.
• Although the national
assembly representing
Reform rabbis has already
granted women Basic
equality with men and the
assembly representing
Conservative rabbis has
allowed individual
congregations the right to
grant more equality, the
Orthodox branch, following
Halacha   (Jewish   Law),
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
TAB Sponsors
Community Rally
Against Terror
The Palestine Liberation
Organization, whose purpose
is to bring about the
destruction of Israel, will
address the U.N. Its murder
victims include the
American Ambassador in
Khartoun, the Israeli
athletes in Munich, the
children and mothers of
Ma'alot.
. Ehud Ulmert, 29, the
youngest member of the
Knesset, the Israeli
. Parliament, will speak at a
. rally tonight. A graduate of
the Hebrew University iru
Jerusalem, Mr. Ulmert,
attended the School of
Psychology and Law School
and represents the Likud
Party. His father, Mordecai
Ulmert, is a former member
of the Knesset.
The rally against P.L.O.
Terror is scheduled for this
evening, November 14th, at
7:30 p.m. at the Jewish
Center. All members of the
community are asked to
attend.    .
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