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VOL.55 NO.44
OCTOBER 27,1977 - CHESHVAN15
Israel May Be'Permanent Liability'To U.S.
According To Unofficial Army Magazine
H. H. Family Gets Ready For Dedication
Company's coming! Miss Sarah Kuller and Mrs.
Jeanette Bender are shown preparing their special
recipes in the Heritage House "Kitchen Korner" hi
preparation for the dedication of the Terrace Level of
the Eleanor and Jack Resler Wing of the home, to be :
held on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p,m. Under the, chairman¬
ship of Justice Leonard Stern, the home's board of
directors, auxiliary, staff and residents are busily en¬
gaged in getting ready to welcome the community to
this-gala celebration. A special, supplement to next
week's issue of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle will highlight
the dedication program and festivities. I
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
The United States has "no
permanent interest in Israel
and may now be acquiring
something painfully close to
a 'permanent liability',"" ac¬
cording to an article in the
current issue of the-"Armed
Forces Journal," a pri¬
vately-owned monthly publi¬
cation, published since 1863
as a self-identified "spokes¬
man" for the military;....,
The article was written by
Anthony Cordesman,, who
was a civilian assistant to
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert Ellsworth and also a
, secretary of the Defense In¬
telligence Board before leav-
. ing the Pentagon last May to
become an employee of the
federal Department, of
Energy strategic petroleum
reserves office. He wrote
that the election of Premier
Menachem Begin's Likud
government "may well have
turned U.S. willingness to
supply armaments into a
major   national   security
problem/'-But, he added, the
U.S. " has potential tools to
change the situation if it can
break out of its own domestic
political constraints."
A Pentagon, source said
the publication is usually rV
liable but sometimes its arti-
cles.may be "a lot of fiction
out of very little fact." The
article argued that the U.S.
"may no longer be supplying
an Israel whose military
strength would lead to
Israel's willingness to com¬
promise for peace" but in¬
stead   "aiding   an   Israel
which may use its military
strength to take permanent
control of former Arab terri¬
tories in direct opposition to
U.S. policy and be looked
into an indefinite cold was
with the Arabs. At worst, the
U.S. may find itself tied to ari
ally which will use military
force in a pre-emptive at¬
tempt to settle the PLO prob¬
lem or to.destroy Arab mili¬
tary forces while they are
weak."
Cordesman'wrote that the
U.S. could not respond to
Begin's eiection*by "revers¬
ing" its aid program to
Israel and cutting that aid:
But, he said, the American
Jewish community "seems
determined to. react from
fear rather than thought"
and is "to prone" to over¬
react to any attempt by pth-;
ers to examine IKS. and
Israeli relations "witri: suffi¬
cient independence." It
would take "grea t." moral
courage" for the Carter Ad¬
ministration to "put pres¬
sure on Begin's military ,
jugular   without   Congres-
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Cash Mobilization Program Continues
Women Take Proclamation To Wash.
A timely proclamation for
President Jimmy Carter;
sighed by all attending the,
Women's Division of the Co¬
lumbus Jewish Federation
"Day in Washington" on
' Wednesday,- Nov. 2 will be
presented during the special
briefing by-the State Depart¬
ment. The proclamation will
be on behalf of the leader¬
ship and the organized Je¬
wish community of Colum¬
bus.
The proclamation reads:
"We, the leaders of the
Women's Division of the Co¬
lumbus Jewish Federation,
speaking on behalf of the
women of the organized Je¬
wish community of Colum¬
bus, extend our sincerest ap¬
preciation   to   President
Jimmy Carter: and to the
members of his administra¬
tion for the spirit- in which
they have attempted to
crfeate a peaceful solution in
the Middle East by bringing
together Israeland the Arab
States.
"We laud every effort that
will - make it possible for
Israel and its enemies to
come together and to at¬
tempt to peacefully nego¬
tiate a settlement. At the
same time, we deplore any
evidence that the United
States is joining with the
Soviet Union — the avowed
supporter of those who would
destroy Israel — to force
Israel to meet with, and to
negotiate with, the so-called
Palestine'Liberation Organi¬
zation, a murderous ter¬
rorist gang determined to
Eradicate Jews and Judaism
from the Middle East.,
"We strongly urge the
members of Congress to sup¬
port all positive efforts by
the Administration to bring
peace in the Middle East,
while at the same time refus¬
ing to lend sanction to.arry ef¬
forts to co-operate with the
U.S.S.R. in creating a situa¬
tion which would force Israel
to grant legitimacy to the de¬
mands pf the P.L.O."
Other Jewish communities
throughout the US are also
attempting to personally ex¬
press their concern that a
just peaceful process be pur¬
sued in the Middle East.
"We have the responsibil¬
ity to help Israel maintain a
human standard of living,"
said Sol D. Zell, chairman of
the Cash Mobilization Com¬
mittee of the Columbus Je¬
wish Federation, in announc¬
ing the current phase of the
Cash Mobilization Program
for the 1977 United Jewish
Fund Campaign. "This
year's campaign achieve1
ment, in terms of pledges,
was the highest ever in a
non-war year," he said, "but
pledges do not provide hous¬
ing or food for the people of
Israel.
"The only way we can help
provide decent housing and
end the shame of poverty in
Israel is by making cash
available, and we will be de¬
dicating ourselves during
the weeks ahead to bringing
in. as much as we possibly
can on the $977 (and, of
course, previous years)
pledges still outstanding,"
Zell added.
The Columbus Jewish Fed¬
eration is responding to an
appeal by Prime Minister
< Menahem Begin of Israel
that "45,000 families in
Israel live in housing condi¬
tions that are insufferable to
us as a Jewish society" and
has pledged to provide cash
to help eliminate that
poverty in Israel.
Serving with Zell on the
Cash Mobilization Commit¬
tee are chairmen represent¬
ing each of the divisions of
the Campaign-! Richard
Golden, Trades and Profes¬
sions Division; Helen Nutis^
"Women's' Division; Gregg
Robins, Young Men's Divi¬
sion; Roseanne Rosen,
 . i
Young Women^s Division;
arid Charles Tyroler, Junior
Division. Each division has
mobilized workers who will
be personally calling on
those with outstanding
pledges to obtain payment
"I am personally heading
up the Advance Gifts ^Divi¬
sion," said Zell, "and I know
that in this division, as in all
others, every allenlpt will be
made lo bring in sufficient
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FEATURE
Skokie? A Village In Crisis
By Robert E.Segal
(A Seven Arts Feature)
There is today a chilling
seriousness in the challenge
to uphold the sanctity of that
bundle of American freedom
known as our" civil liberties.
At the same time, some of
the actions taken and ideas
advocated to curb our consti¬
tutional rights are ludicrous,
downright silly and childish.
In the.Jewish community
of America presently, the
great sandpaper test for not
yielding to the sore tempta¬
tion to discard adherence to
the strict' protection of free
speech, even when brutally
obnoxious, has to do with the
devilish hooliganism of the
Chicago National Socialist
Party (Nazi) madmen. In
their-fire eating determina¬
tion to march as swastika-
shirted ruffians through
Skokie, 111., inhabited by 7000
Jewish survivors of hit-
1 lerism plus another 33,000
Jews in a total population of
only 70,000 persons, these
homegrown Nazis realize
shrewdly that they hold in
their hands a highly profita¬
ble propaganda bomb.
They know, too, that by
their ability to draw to their
support the idealistic energy
of the American Civil
Liberties Union, they have a
weapon for cutting sharply
into the loyal ranks of that
valuable institution, strongly
supported for years by thou¬
sands of Jews determined to
keep the Bill of Rights
inviolate.
At this writing, Supreme
Court Justice John Stevens
has continued an Illinois
court order barring,the neo-
Nazis from marching with
swastikas in Skokie; and the
Supreme Court has ordered
the Illinois State Supreme
Court to listen to the Nazis'
demand for the right to
march.
Were it all up to Rabbi
Meir Kahane and his Jewish
Defense League Followers,
the'' neo-Nazis would be
barred from marching. He
has assured a broad sector of
American Jewish opinion
that ."there will be no
parade."
But if the issue is left up to
Nat Hentoff, a member of
the New York Civil Liberties
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• Surrounded by his family, Julian Barnett (seated at
left) as a modern-day Job sits amid the ruins of a once
magnificent mansion in Gallery Players' production of
"God's Favorite," Neil Simon's thoughtful comedy
showing at The Jewish Center Oct. 29 and 30, Nov. l, 2,
3, 5 and 6. Irene Braverman (seated at right) is the
wifeand (backl. tor.) MikeBroidy, Robert Ratusz and
Julie Sickles are the children.
Gallery Players' New Season
To Open With 'God's Favorite'
Neil Simon's 1975 play
"God's Favorite" will open
Gallery Players' new season
at The Jewish Center on Sat.
evening, Oct. 29. Through
the series of 13 smash Broad¬
way hits preceding this
modernized fable based on
the  Book  of Job,  Simon
showed himself to- be the
only dramatist in history re¬
gularly forced to remove
laugh lines from his plays in'
order to allow time for his
audiences to catch their
breaths.
•This  was  an  unusually
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