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JANUARY 5,1978-TEVET 26
Cols. Raises
$1 Million
The Columbus Jewish Federation made, a payment of
$1 million last week to the
United Jewish Appeal (UJA)
as part of a nationwide
"Operation Pony Express"
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The presentation by Sol
Zell, treasurer of the Federation and chairman of the
Cash Mobilization Campaign
and Morris Skilkeh, a past
Campaign chairman, took
place Dec. 27 at Port Columbus. A check of $1 million
was presented to Joel
Breslau, national chairman'
. ofU.J.A.
"We are proud," Zell
stated, "that members of
our community responded so
well in a three week period to
the need for cash. However,
this must be a beginning not
an end to our cash campaign," he said. "We have
made commitments to Israel,
and pur local agencies based
on our pledges, but pledges
don't pay bills. We must redouble our efforts to, meet
our obligations. I urge all
; members of our community
to/^ni^vpiiymimtsVioiniedi-
Carter Praises Premier Begin,
Pres. Sadat For Peace Efforts
General Strike In Yam it
Protests Begin's Plan
By Yitzhak Shargil and
'    Tuvia Mendelson
Traveling in the	
plane of 1!^. BresJau,"sche-^
duled ; stops ' included
Rochester, Buffalo, Indiana-
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local residents to protest
Premier'Menachem Begin's
plan that would return all of
TEL   AVIV   :(.4TA):.r. —.   .Sin^i/.4^;Eg^ti99;.n4^>'Ber-;
Vamit, thftneiydeyelppmen^
town; oh the coast of northern ' no workers were allowed to
Sinai,: was closed down for
three hours on Dec. 27 by a
general strike called by the
Ann Robison To Speak
On'Freedom & Security'
"Every young woman of
the Columbus Jewish com
munity will have the oppor
tunity to hear one of the most
renowned   contemporai \
Jewish figures in the world '
according to Linda Selci'i
.chairwoman   of   the   1WH
Young Women's Division of
the   United   Jewish   Fund
Campaign.
On Jan. 12, the Young
Women's Division will spon
sor a 12 noon luncheon at Ihi
Governor's Mansion, when
Ann Robison, vice-president
of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory
Council and currently a columnist for the Jewish Standard, will address those present on "Freedom and Jewish
Security."
Mrs. Robison has a distinguished reputation for her
voluntary work oh behalf of
national and international
causes. Among the biograph-
icar reference volumes in
which Mrs. Robison is listed,
are "Who's Who of American Women," "Who's Who
in World Jewry," "Who's
Who in the East," the "Encyclopedia of American
Biography," the "National
Social Directory," the "Die-
Ann Robison
tionary of International
Biography," the- "American
Israel Honorarium" and the
"National    Register    of
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enter'or leave Yamit; stores,
workshops, schools and kindergartens were shut as was
the local yeshiva The
worried settlers were reacting to published reports that
the Yamit area and the surrounding settlements would
revert to Egyptian
sovereignly within three
years and until then would
be under United Nations protection. They said they were
told by a Knesset personality., whose name they 'refused to revealj that theplub:
hshed version, of the Begin
plan was, in fact, correct and
their fears' therefore w^re
warranted; v      j
The establishment and development of Yamit;-had.
been a pet project of Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan when
he was Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan in the Labor
government arid had the support of the Labor-led regime.
The authorities encouraged
•settlement there, especially
by immigrants, as a plaqe
that ■ offered  opportunities
(CONTiNUEDdN PAGE 10
By Helen Silver
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
President Carter said on
Dec. 28 in a nationally televised program that Premier
Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat "have
been bold add courageous"
in trying to negotiate a MiddleEast solution. The President said he thought "the
progress that has been made
in the last month and a half
has been remarkable and
has been much better than I
had anticipated. I know
Sadat and Begin well and
personally and favorably. If
any two leaders on earth
have this strength and determination and courage to
make progress toward peace
in the most difficult region
that I have ever known, it is
Prime Minister Begin and
President Sadat. There is no
reason for us to be discouraged about it!"
Carter, who was interviewed for an hour on wide-
ranging domestic and
foreign issues on the eve of
his departure onasix^nation
trip which includes Iran and
SaudiArabia, said: "We will
help in every way we can tb
let their progress be fruitful.
I think Prime Minister Begin
and President Sadat could
have reached a fairly quick
solution of just the Egyptian-
Israeli problem in just the
Sinai region. But this is not
what they want. They both
want to try to'resolve the other questions/' Regarding
Israel's plan for the West
Bank, Carter stated that he
does "favor; a homeland or
an entity wherein the Palestinians can live in peace. I
think Prime Minister Begin
has taken a long step forward offering to President
Sadat, and indirectly to the
Palestinians, self-rule."
Carter added that Sadat
"so far is insisting that the
so-called Palestinian entity
be an independent nation.
My own preference is that
they not be an independent
nation, but be tied in some
way to the surrounding countries between Israel and Jordan." He said that in his own
personal opinion "permanent peace can best be
maintained if there is not a
fairly   radical   hew   in-
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Law Partners View Sadat
Visit To Israel Firsthand
By LauriZofan
Chronicle Special Reporter
Egypt, Israel, Sadat,
Begin, peace ... all have
been major topics of conversation within Jewish circles
during recent weeks. In conjunction with this, two Columbus law partners lay
claim to an ironic circumstance: one was in Jerusalem when Egypt's. President Anwar Sadat came to
Israel and the other was in
Egypt when Sadat returned
.irom his jaunt tolsrael.'
By happenstance, both
GatyE. Snyder and Robert
N: Shamansky, members of
the Feibel, .-Fr ibel, Shaman-,
sky, Rogovin and Snyder law
firm, were traveling in the
Mideast during late November.     . ■_.'.
Shamansky, a Columbus
native who professes to be an
avid tourist ("the only continent I haven't been to is An-
tartica!") was on a pleasure
trip lo West Africa and
Egypt.,
Snyder was a member of
the Columbus Jewish Feder-
CORRECTION
In the article relating to
the Center receiving JWB
Award in last week's issue
of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, it states the Jewish
Welfare Board is the Association of Jewish Community Centers, YM &
YWCA's. It should have
read YM and YWHA's. The
Chronicle regrets this
error.
Gary E. Snyder
THE CAMPAIGN SUPER BOWL
produced by
Columbus Jewish federation
# COACH LEE SKILKEN KICKS OFF THE 1978 UJF CAMPAIGN
EST
The UJI' te.tm it. already
marching down the field to victory!   \
The game, now in its first quarter is/ already showing
astounding gains. Other members of the team will be contacted
to complete the plays. Are you ready to get in the game?
BE*
coach UeSHltn
Robert N. Shamansky
ation's Young Leadership
Mission to Israel,, which
coincidentally was in Jerusalem on the day of Sadat's
arrival.
Both men are active members of the Federation: Snyder is co-chairing the 1978
Young Men's Division and
Shamansky is a member of
the Community Relations
' Committee, chairs the
Christian Jewish Relations
subcommittee of the CRC
and is co-chairman of the
Catholic Jewish Planning
Committee, which is a joint
committee of the Columbus
Catholic Diocesese and the
CRC.
In an exclusive interview,
both men spoke candidly of
their recent adventures and
offered some insights, based
on their personal experiences, into what might
happen as a result of the current peace intiatives.
According to Shamansky,
rough estimates are that
75% to 95% of the Egyptians
want peace and are behind
Sadat. A major reason for
Sadat's popularity among
his people is that his. poor
country is tired of the PLO
ielling them what to do.
Shamansky related a common feeling among the
Egyptians: that the PLO sits
in Beirut living it up on
Saudia dollars, but when the
battles start, it's the Egyptians who have to fight. In
addition, .from .what
Shamansky was able to see
of the Egyptian military,
"they are not in a condition
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