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VOL. 54 NO. 8
FEBRUARY 19,1976 - ADAR118
Announce Plans For $15 Million University
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The Advance Gifts Dinner of the 1976 United Jewish
Fund Campaign, on February 10, raised $627,000,
according to General Campaign Chairman, Myer
Mellman, to bring the total achievement of the current
campaign to nearly $1,500,000. "Our goal of $3,500,000,"
said Mr. Mellman, "has been nearly half reached. I
appreciate the hard work that everyone is doing to
make the campaign a success, and I look forward to
the campaign's accelerated pace during the coming
month."
Joseph Almogi, pictured with Mr. Mellman, was the
featured speaker, Mr. Almogi, newly-elected
chairman of the World Zionist Organization, delivered
an inspiring speech, afyd the participants responded
enthusiastically. (A' full story on the Dinner will
appear in the next week's Chronicle.)
CAMBRIDGE,    MaSs.  '
(JTA)  — Plans for a $15
million Harvard University
Center for Jewish Studies,
centralizing and expanding
the university's existing
wide   variety   of   Judaic
degree • programs,    was
announced   Feb.    12   by
president Derek C. Bok and
Fellows of Harvard College.
Bok said gifts and pledges,
totalling     $2.1     million,
including   a   grant   of   $1
million from the Lucius N.
Littauer Foundation of-New
York, have been  raised
toward the $15 million goal.
Bok said that "the joining of
one of the major strains of
culture in the Western world
with an institution that for
three centuries has been a~
symbol of intellectual excel¬
lence  and   humanitarian
concern is a cause for great
pride."  He said the  new
center would be "more than
a source of scholarship and
.inspiration," adding that it
would be "nothing less -than
a   major   step   in    the
enrichment   of ■ Harvard
University, the United
States, the Jewish people
and the Western world."
Gerald Weinstock of
Larchmont, N.Y., chairman
of a national committee of
mpre than 200 prominent
citizens which, is spear¬
heading the program, said
that among the projected
center's purposes, were to
expand instruction and
research in Judaica at
Harvard; to integrate
Judaic studies — languages,
literature, history, culture,
philosophy and religion —
"on an interdepartmental-
scale"; and to stimulate
further Judaic studies "at
other schools of higher
learning throughout the
United States, both by
example and by providing
visiting research and
teaching positions, symposia
.and colloquia." In .noting
that the center will provide
expanded Judaica
instruction    for     under-
Day Camp Registration Is Open
Hew Billion Dollar Arms Deal
With Saudi Arabia Being Set
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Another billion dollar arms
deal between the United
States and Saudi Arabia is in
the process of formalization
that will bring American
sales of military equipment
and services to that oil-rich
Arab-country to well over $10
billion, the bulk of it since
the oil embargo three'years
ago; The Pentagon
confirmed that within the
"next few days" it will send
to Congress for its
consideration a program
calling for the sale of $1.2
billion in weapons and
military construction to help
Sa,udi Arabia upgrade its
armed forces. Congress has
20 days after receiving the
pentagon's notice to reject
the program in whole or in
part. Previously, during the
current fiscal year, the U.S.
embarked on a $1.8 billion
program for modernizing
the Saudian air force. This
was on top of $7.3 billion in
previous programming.' In
providing this data, the
Pentagon spokesman
pointed out to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency Feb. 11
that the programming began
in 1950 and that deliveries
through last June 30 totaled
only $965 million. He also
emphasized that 40-45
percent of the program is
"non-lethal" and constituted
training or . support
equipment. Asked how many
Americans were  in Saudi
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Judy Swedlow,
Chairperson of the Jewish
Center Camp Committee
announces that registration
is now open for the 1976
bicentennial season. Six day
camps will be offered for
children and youth ages1 3
thru 13 from June 28th thru
August 6.
The camp program which
emphasizes - Jewish
experiences, camp crafts,
swimming instruction and
nature activities is
differentially focused on the
needs of each camp group.
All camp programs will
begin at 9 A.M. in order to
accommodate working
parents. With the exception
of Yelodim and Ora, camps
will end at 3:30 PM. Special
overnights or late night
programs will be announced.
The Columbus Jewish
Center is the only agency in
the country that designates
its full time professional
staff to the direction of.
camp.
Barbara Weinberg, Early
Childhood Services Director
will be in charge of Yelodim,
Ora and Nitzanim. Aryeh
Marpern, Children's Worker
will be Program Director of
Camp Cojacee. Caryn
Palmer, Youth Services
Director   will   supervise
Pioneer Camp and Carolyn
Friedman, Teen Worker,
will direct Teen Camp. Dr.
Howard Banchefsky will be
in     charge     of    .camp
administration. Peg Pierce,
Aquatics   Director,   will
supervise   both   swimming
and small crafts instruction.
Fees for the 1976 season
will remain the same as 1975.
According to Mrs. Swedlow,
"We intend to offer the finest
camp program possible but
more important to involve as
many children as possible
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graduates   and   doctoral
students, Weinstock said
that the anticipated funds
would provide for creation of
six endowed professorships
in a variety of fields  of
Judaica, plus new funds and
curatorships for the Judaica
collection    now    in    the
Harvard College Library. He
said it would also include
establishment of 24 etrdowed
graduate     fellowships;
creation   of,   an   admin¬
istrative       center    ' to
coordinate   seminars,
symposia     and     public
lectures; support of visiting
scholars; and creation of a
publication  program.   Bok
cited     the    university's
"special tradition',' in Jewish
studies, referring to the
teaching and scholarship of
the late Prof. Harry Wolfson,
who held the first endowed
chair of Jewish studies in a
secular     institution     of
learning in the world, the
Nathan     Littauer
Professorship'of Hebrew
Literature and Philosophy
established at Harvard  in
1925.   Following   Wolfson's
retirement in 1958, Isadore
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1st Annual Gin Tourn. Planned
B'nai B'rith Zion Lodge
#62, in conjunction with the
B'nai B'rith Women's
Council of Columbus and the
National Foundations of the
March of Dimes, announces
its    First    Annual    Gin
Tournament.
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- The Tournament will be
held on Sunday, April 4,1976
from 1:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
at the Marriott' Motel on
Hamilton Road in Columbus.
This charitable event is
open to the entire
community v and not
restricted to members of
B'nai B'rith. The deadline is
firm, so please send your
checks in early.
A total Prize Purse of
$5,000 is anticipated,
Registration is One Hundred
'Dollars ($100.00) and
checks must accompany
registration. Registration,
deadline is March 10, 1976
and only 150 players will be
allowed to participate.
Checks may be mailed to the
National Foundation March
of Dimes - B'nai B'rith
Charities Gin Tournament,
4465 Keeler Drive,
Columbus, Ohio 43227. For
additional information call-
(614) 864-1442 or 846-3400.
FEATURE
Dachau Visited
By Jack Siegel
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
DACHAU (JTA),-It was
a grey, gloomy and somehow
very fitting day. I and a
companion, armed with a 35
mm. camera and driving the
"rented Opel, left Munich for
Dachau about 20 miles away.
As we left, I thought of the
story in the International
Herald Tribune just several
days earlier, how the people
in Dachau, now a city of
33,000 (13,000 before World
War II), were not interested
in and even hostile to the
existence of the memorial
camp site, its history' and
ever-present reminder. I
thought, on the contrary, it
should be exposed again and
again, and made' visible
wherever possible "to honor
the dead and remind, the
living." Munich's grand
streets, the well-built houses
and well-fed and clothed
people were trafficking in
their clean streets; Munich,
the birthplace of German
fascism where in November,
1923, Hitler attempted a coup
d'etat 'beginning at, the
Buergerbraeu and ending at
the Feldhernhalle and where
11 of his "genossen"
(comrades) were killed
while he fled in ignominy.
Now, however, that was an¬
other history as we drove
up Ifland Strasse to Ise Ring,
followed the Mittlerer Ring
and finally found ourselves
on Dachauer Strasse
heading towards that
medieval tpwn.  But  the
roads were -heavy with
modern traffic and on either
side was all the evidence of a
city well-heeled. Farther
out, the ecology thinned and
after 25 kilometers, we saw
the KZ (Konzentrationslager,
—concentration camp), sign
right too late and passed it.
. We made an illegal U-turn
and stopped to ask a gas
attendant where the KZ was.
He muttered an unfriendly
direction in his thick
Bavarian accent and we took
off to the sign" "Gedenk-
staette" .(memorial site). A
bare road led us to a parking
area just outside the barbed
wire of the camp.
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photos by Sue Brown
Siegel at entrance to concentration camp.
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