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Zanesville-Cambridge
Affiliate With The
Cols. Federation
Leonard Ballas has been
appointed chairman i of the
Zanesville-Cambridge , 1978
United Jewish Fund Cam-
■ paign, it was announced today by B. Lee Skilken, general: chairman of the 1978
United Jewish Fund Campaign.; '
. The Zanesville-Cambridge
communities have affiliated
with the 'Columbus Jewish
Federation and their annual
drive will be part of the 1978
United Jewish Fund Campaign. . Nancy Brands will
chair a separate Women's
Division section.
The affiliation of the
Zanesville-Cambridge Jewish communities with the Columbus Jewish Federation is
part of a national trend for
local federations to reach out
to outlying Jewish communities and develop relation- ,
ships of-national benefit and
value. After a series of meetings, leadership of the
Zanesville-Cambridge Jewish communities agreed it
would be beneficial to affiliate with; the Columbus
Jewish Federation^ :
Martin Zwelling is serving
as chairman of a Liaison
Committee between the
Zanesville-Cambridge Jewish communities and the Columbus Jewish community.
Zwelling chaired ah educational dinner meeting oh.
Sunday, Dec. 11, in Zaries-
ville, which explained how
this new association is beneficial to all the communities.
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Begin Opposes Palestinian Self
Determination Leading To State
Zacks Participates In UJA Exec. Meeting
'; Top United Jewish Appeal leaders are pictured
above as they listen to a presentation on the social gap
in Israel by Yosef Tekoah, president of Ben-Gurion
University in the Negev. Seen in Executive Committee
session at the UJA National Conference held last
month in New York are (1. to r.): Gordon Zacks of
Columbus, vice chairman; Tekoah; Leonard R.
Strelitz,general chairman; Frank R. Lautenberg,
president; Alexander Grass, associate vice chairman;
and Stanley L. Sloane, nationalcash arid allocations
chairman.
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
President Carter's special
visit to Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat in Aswan;
Egypt Jan.' 4 left the Egyptian President pleased but
Israeli Premier Menachem
Begin riot s6; pleased: Sadat
said at theend of his 50-min-
ute t£lk with Carter that "I
am very happy to say bur
views were identical arid we
have agreed upon certain
steps to keep the momentum
of the peace process.",
Begin, who said Carter telephoned him from his/ plane
after leaving Egypt en route
to Paris, reacted strongly to
what he saw as an allusion to
Palestinian self-determination as one of the fundamen-;
State Dept Hazy On Meaning
Of Carter Statement At Aswan
tal "principles" the American President said was
essentialto a settlement of
the Middle East conflict.
"We do norbeat about the
bush," Begin said. "The
term self-determination
means a Palestinian state
and we will not agree to such
a mortal danger to Israel.
The PLO would take it over
in no time and turn it into a
Soviet base" for attacking
Israel. However, the Premier expressed gratification
that neither Sadat nor Carter
had used the words "Palestinian state" in their remarks. "If indeed the two
Presidents did not use this
term one should note this
favorably.','-But Begin again
stressed that ''there cannot
be any self-determination as
the term is understood in
international law and practice for the problem of the
Palestinian Arabs. There is
self-determination for the
_Arabs in the existence of 21
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTAi:-,;
■United States policy toward
the role of. the Palestinian
Arabs in the Middle East
political process came under
a thick haze on Jan. 5 with
conflicting interpretations
that the State Department it>
self was unable or unwilling
to clarify publicly. President
Carter said, after his 45-min-
ute meeting on Jan, 4 with
President Anwar Sadat at
Aswan, that a settlement
should enable the Palestine
Simcha Dinitz To Address
Advanced Gifts Mission
Simcha Dinitz, Israel ambassador to the United
States, i will brief participants of the Men's Advance
Gifts Mission to Washington,
D.C.j which will take place
on Wednesday, Jan. 25, from
8:30 a.m. to 10; 10 p.m., it
was announced today by Ben
Zox, chairman of the Mission.
. "We are delighted that a
dignitary of Mr. Dinitz's
status will be addressing our
group. As the Israeli Ambassador to the United States,
he is one of the most important Israeli officials and
decision makers. I urge all
those in the Advance Gifts .
section to attend/'Zc* said.
In addition to the presenta-
tion by Ambassador pinitz,
the special, all day mission
to the nation's capital will in- "■•
elude briefings by the White
House in ; the Rposeyelt
Room; Morris Amitaz, executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs .
Committee; Mark Talisman,
executive director of the
Council of Jewish Federations' Washington Action Office; Senator Richard Stone
of Florida, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Cornmittee on the Middle
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ians to "participate in the
determination" of their
future, Previously, he had
beeri saying the Palestinians
should have a "voice" on
their future and that a Palestinian entity should be, in his.
view, linked to Jordan. When
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance was confronted in
Paris on Jan. 4 in an NBC
interview on whether, the
President's remarks meant
a "change" in U.S. policy, he
said "the problem is a very
very complex one'' because
"there are a number ot parties involved."
According to a transcript
of the interview, supplied by
the State. .Department,;
Vance pointed but that "the
Palestinians must participate; in determining their
future because it. is their
future at stake, On the other
hand, the Israelis have an
interest in this question arid
the; Jordanians have an
interest in this question so
that when one talks about
participation, we are talking
about the process in which
all three of the interested
parties to that question have
a chance to participate. Indeed one can say there are
four  parties involved be-
sovereign (Arab) states."
Reinforcing his point, Begin
said, "There are now several
million Mexican Americans
living in the United States
and they'don't ask for the
creation of a Mexican state
on the border of Mexico and
the U.S." Carter, who read a
prepared statement while
standing next to Sadat at
Aswan airport, said, "There
must be a resolution of the
Palestinian problem in all its
aspects. The resolution of
the Palestinian problem
must recognize the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and enable the
Palestinians to participate in
the determination of their
own future." Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance later said
the use of this language
rather than the previous
ones in which American officials had ^aid thp Palestinians should have "a voice"
in their own future was an
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cause when you get to the
question of Gaza, the Egyp-
, tjans also have anjri]te.resUn.
it." Some sources inters
preted the President's fe^
mark and Vance's explana-
tion as being deliberately
hazy or ambiguous to keep
. the diplomatic momentum
rolling and ultimately to enable Jordan to enter the i
negotiations now/ scheduled
between Egypt and Israel
for mid-January.
Other sources went further, saying they considered
the President has veered
toward the Arab perception
and away from that of Israel
on the Palestinian Arab role.
The fact that Preinier Menachem Begin, immediately
following President Carter's
call to him from Aswan, reiterated the Israeli position
against a Palestinian state
was seen as indicative of the
Israeli caution toward the
Sadat-Carter meeting;
In his NBC interview-,
Vance said that the U.S.
feels "it is important to have
a definition of broad principles at the earliest possible
opportunity": but he insisted
"that does not put us really.
on the side of anybody." At
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"Friends" Dinner To Be Held 0., Jan. 29
The Annual Dinner of
"Friends" of the Columbus
Hebrew School will be held
on Jan. 29, at the Melton
Coriimunity Services Building, announced Arthur Katz,
chairman of the "Friends."
Mr. Katz, a former president of the Hebrew School
<1962-1965/>,, said that the
guest speaker at the Dinner
will be General (Res.) Uri
Ben-Ari, Consul General of
the State of Israel in New
York, In addition, the CHS
history exhibit will highlight
the development of the
.Hebrew School as a communal institution in the last
four decades. A "first" for
the "Friends" affairs will be
a musical presentation by
the newly-established Junior
Choir — a joint project of the
Columbus Hebrew School
and Agudas Achim Synagogue.
Mr. Katz added that as the
American and world Jewish
communities have been galvanized by recent historic
developments in the Middle
East, the ''Friends" are
proud to welcome Consul
i General Ben-Ari to Colum-
Arthur Katz
bus and to their Annual Din-;'/
rier. In this way. he said, the
"Friends", as'a group of lay.
. leaders committed to
strengthening Jewish life
through furthering and supporting Jewish education,
are re-affirming the living
bond that exists between the
Jewish community and the
State of Israel and its people,
and their aspiration.
The Annual Dinner will
start with a cocktail hour at
6:15 pin., and dinner at 7:00
p.m. Reservations, are avail-
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THE CAMBMGN SUPER BOWL
COUCH HE SKILKEN KICKS OFF THE 1918 Uff CAMMKN
produced by
Cofemtbus Jewish federation
Young women, in the Women's
Trades & Profession's Telethons
call the plays next,
Be ready to help us make our goal,
coach Lee SkSKen
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