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VOL. 55 NO. 19
MAY 12,1977-1YAR 24
'Federation Funding Needed For Ed.'
Research Reveals That Unification Church
Doesn't Pose Real Threat To Jewish Youth
Rabbi's Round Table Gets New Members
At a recent Foundation Sabbath of Temple Israel,
Marvin Glassman, president of Temple Israel Foun¬
dation, awarded certificates to the newest members of
-the Rabbi's Round Table, Sally and Sidney Blatt and
Herbert Fenburr, The Rabbis Round Table is a group
specially identified as supportive of the Temple. The
Round Table consists of many who have established
living funds' or made other bequests. Once a year a
dinner and Sabbath service honors the members of the
Round Table and Foundation. ■        '.
Pictured (1. to r.) are Herbert Fenburr, Dorothy
Fenburr, Marvin Glassman, Sidney Blatt, Sally Blatt
and Rabbi Edward Kiner.
By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle News Editor
Throughout the country
fear has mounted in recent
months that the Unification
Church, led by the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon and other
evangelist groups are
successfully converting
large numbers of Jewish
youth in the 15 to 22 age
bracket. Surveys and studies
done on a national basis', as
well as research done by the
Ohio Jewish Chronicle on a
local level disclaim that fact.
There are no known
"Moonies" (as Rev. Moon's
followers are called) whose
families are members of the
Columbus Jewish com¬
munity at the' local
headquarters of the
Unification Church, a for-
Pres. Carter Praises Anti-Boycott Agreement
WASHINGTON (WNS) —   were,resumed again after
Three Jewish organizations   the House adopted a bill that
and the Busitiess-Roundtable*- -was less-stringent-than-the.--
were highly commended by   Senate-bill.
President Carter May 3 for
reaching an agreement on
legislation tp. .counter the
Arab economic .boycott
against Israel.
Carter said "I can strongly
recommend Congressional,
approval" .of the legislative
language agreed upon by the
American Jewish Com-,
mittee; the American Jewish
Congress and the B'nai
B'rith Anti-Defamation'
League with the Business
Roundtable which is made
up of about 150 major'
American corporations.* "In
myview," Carter said, "one •
of the most gratifying
aspects of the agreement is
its reasonable balance for
stringent controls over the
undersira'ble  .impact   on
. Americans of foreign
boycotts and the need  to
' allow   continuation   of
. American business relations
with countries engaging in
such boycotts."
' - Sen Adlai Stevenson ID.
HI.), chairman of the Senate
Banking Committee's
subcommittee dealing with
anti-boycott legislation, also
hailed the agreement and
said it would assure passage
of the anti-boycott law in the
Senate.
•'-'-The Roundtable and the
, Jewish .groups' have been
meeting since January when
they were brought- together
by Irving S. Shapiro, -
chairman of E.I. du Pont de
Nemours and Co., who is
Jewish and is also chairman
of the Roundtable,
Negotiations broke down but
The compromise worked
out by the Jewish groups and
the Roundtable would allow
unilateral selection in which
a U.S.' company in an Arab
country in placing orders for
a product such as a tractor
could specifically request
the company that provides
-the tire'or'battery that'rgoefr-
into the tractor as long as
this selection was not based
on discriminatory reasons.
Once the ' Senate bill is
adopted a House-Senate
committee would have to be
set up to iron out differences
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mer fraternity house at 18th
and Indianola in the OSU
area. But, Jewish in¬
volvement did touch home
this past year.
The House of Tradition, 57
E. 14th Ave., has located in
recent months three
members of the Church who
come from Jewish families.
Rabbi Chaim Capland,
director of the House of
Tradition, explained to the
Chronicle that these in¬
dividuals were not from
Columbus, nor' Were they
permanently living here, but
rather were in Columbus as
part of a' travelling group of
Moonies to aid in a full scale
recruitment drive staged
during the winter months by
the local branch of the
Unification Church.
Ted Borkan, a Ph.D.
candidate in psychology at
Ohio State and a member of
the House of Tradition, had
contact with these Moonies
while they were in Columbus
i see related story) and has
-come- te>-theTJonelHsiorr*that—
the Unification Church "is a
bad trip/It's a very stiffling
type of situation, and there's
very'little free thought," he
said.
Borkan feels that those
involved with the Unification
.Church are "people who are .
-   Rev. Sun Myung Moon
very lonely and lost and they
need to have some external
means of gaining a feeling of
self worth and some easy
way .of gaining a peer-
group." He said the
Unification Church provides
these things but that "it's
really a service society
should be providing but
isn't."
Rabbi Capland agrees
with Borkan that the
missionary group appeals to
"dissatisfied people"' and
offers "a sense of belonging,
a sense of direction...'.'
A two-month survey
released in March by the
Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) of B'nai B'rith found
that the Jewish youth most
susceptible   to  evangelical
i
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Tight Schedule Keeps Moonies
Away From Other Philosophies
By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle News Editor
The" Rev. • -Sun .Myung
Moon,' a 57-year-old self-pro¬
claimed prophet from South
Korea, heads the Holy Spirit
Association for .the
Unification of World
Christianity — commonly
known as the Unification
Church.
The Church reports nearly
Thousands Of New York Policyholders In Danger
Because Insurance Firms Are On Arab Blacklist
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The
Arab black-listing of 12 in¬
surance companies char¬
tered or licensed to do
business in New York Slate
threatens the financial
security of tens of thousands
of New Yorkers * who hold
policies issued by these
.companies,- the American
Jewish' Congress charged.
The warning was contained
in a letter to New York State
Superintendent of Insurance
Thomas Harnett made-
public April 18 at a meeting
of the organization's policy¬
making National Governing
Council.
Jack M. Elkin, chairman
of the AJ Congress' New
York Metropolitan Council,
urged Harnett to move
promptly to protect policy-"
holders' of. 12 insurance
companies named' on a
blacklist prepared by Saudi
Arabia, The Saudi blacklist
is regarded, as the most'
authoritatiye compilation of
American and other com¬
panies barred from doing
business   with   the   Arab
world.
The 12 companies barred
from insuring Arab cargoes
shipped from New York are:
Citadel Life Insurance Co. of
New York; The Home In¬
surance Co.: Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Co.;
New England Mutual Life
Insurance Co.; Penn Mutual
• WASHINGTON (WNS - Two Senate committees are
considering investigations into reports that a cargo of
uranium disappeared at sea nine years ago and may
. have ended' up in Israel. Both the Senate Select
"Committee on Intelligence headed by Sen. Daniel
Inouye (D. Hawaii)  and the Senate Government,
Operations Committee's Subcommittee on Energy,
Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services headed by
Sen. John Glenn (D. Ohio) are considering such '.
probes. However, there appears to be a tendency in
Congress and the Administration to play down the
alleged incident since both the uranium cargo and the •
ship it was carried on were European.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -Jewish leaders have ex¬
pressed astonishment and concern about a report that
President Carter told a Bible class that Jews killed
Jesus. The report was' distributed by the Associated ■
Press and written by Casper Nannes, a formerwriter
for the Washington Star who now does work for the
First Baptist Church in Washington where the '
President made his remarks to the "Couples Bible
Class" a month ago. ""'"„*'
Life Insurance; Phoenix
Assurance Co.; State Mutual
Life Assurance Co, of
America; Phoenix Mutual
Life Insurance Co.; Con¬
necticut General Life In¬
surance Co ; Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York:
Provident Mutual Life In¬
surance of Philadelphia; and
Aetna    Life   &   Casualty,
' Hartford, Connecticut.
In addition to these 12. nine
other insurance Companies
chartered by or doing
business ih New York were
identified by name in a
document issued last year hy
' the Doha office of the First
National City Bank in the
Arab oil-producing state of
Qatar, Elkin wrote. The
document; on the bank's
letterhead in Qatar, said;
, "Please be advised .that
the insurance companies
listed below are blacklisted
by the Israel (sic) Boycott
Offices and. in consequence
no insurance policies or
certificates issued by them
,can" be accepted by us. This
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2 million (on an international
level) devoted followers.
Moon claims that' G-d
revealed to him a special
"Divine Principle" which he
-has been appointed to share -
with the world. "-       .'•" ;'
Aside from the campus
center at 1968 Indianola
Ave., the Unification Church
maintains a location in
downtown Columbus at 114
N. Front St., known as "The-
Oasis." From this location,
the Moonies work the .
downtown area, .raising
money by selling'such things
as candy, flowers and tea to
people on the street:
In addition, the Moonie
street workers try to find
individuals who are willing
to listen to their religious
pitch. Ted Borkan, a ph.D.
candidate at Ohio State, told
the Ohio Jewish' Chronicle
that in the . campus area ,
unsuspecting students are
invited to the Church's
headquarters for an in¬
ternational dinner. Usually
the term "Unification
church" is not mentioned in
this initial contact, Borkan
said. -.   .
Rabbi Chaim Capland,
director of the' House' of
Tradition; told the Chronicle
how he and Borkan first
made contact with the1
Unification - Church and
discovered that there were
some individuals with
Jewish background involved
in the local' movement.
During the winter Rabbi
Capland received a call from ■
a Cleveland woman who told
him that her grandson was in
Columbus as a member of
the Church.
In early February, Rabbi
Capland    finally"., made
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