Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1978-02-09

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VOL. 56 NO. 6
FEBRUARY 9,1978-ADAR 2
Scouts Participate
In Scout Week
The Boy Scouts of America
will celebrate its 68th anniversary this year during the
week between Sunday, Feb.
5, and Saturday, Feb. 11.
The twelfth point of the
ScOut Law sayd: "A Scout
is reverent.,He is reverent:
toward G-d. He is faithful in
his religious duties and
respect/ the convictions of
others in matters of customs
and religion."
Scout Sabbath annually
sponsored by the. Jewish
Gommittee on Scouting Central Ohio Council will be held
on Friday, Feb. 10, at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue,
2767 E. Broad St. at 8 p.m.
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein will': officiate and
Scouts of troops 126 and 483
will participate in the sery-'.
ice. ■ .';■' ' ••"■:. ■ ■.;/,■•;<.■'■
The highlight of the pro-
gram will be the presentation of the Ner Tamid and
Shofar awards.
For over ten years William
"Bill" Goldsmith has served
as a chairman of the Jewish
Committee on Scouting.
Serving with him are San-
ford Lichtenstein, co-chair- ■;
man, Mrs. A. J. Weiner, girl
scout department, Earl
Schwartz, Milton Pinsky, Sid
Herman, Nate Nateman, Dr.
A. J. Weiner, Leonard Rood,
Fred Winer and Bruce
Boster.   ■ ;...;.:, •'
The goal of the Committee
is to identify and to inspire
Jewish youth with the eternal value of Torah and Jewish Tradition. Chairman
Goldsmith has these words
to say: "I feel very humble
for the opportunity given me
to lead boys from childhood
to young manhood in an organization whose main purpose is to provide a foundation of wholesomeness and
good citizenship on which
. boys and girls may grow into
mdral and ethical young
men and women/
The entire community is,
cordially invited' to attend
the services.-Forinquiries,
call Agudas Achim Synagogue, 237^2747 or 235-3661
and237-1985.
Schindler. Israeli Settlements
Not A Matter For U.S. Jews
Macrame Weaving, Special
Interest Activity At H.H.
Macrame weaving is among the latest special interest activities available to the Residents of Heritage
House. Shown above is Mrs. Esther Schlansky who
handmade the weavings on display.
. r All of the projects completed in the Occupational
Therapy Department at Heritage House are for sale
and can be purchased at the Home.
William Goldman Receives
Leadership Recognition
William Goldman, Columbus Jewish communal leader, will receive a Leadership
Recognition Award at the
1978 Biennial Convention of
JWB, to be held April 5-9 at
the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in
Montreal, Quebec.
. JWB is the Association of
Jewish Community Centers,
YM & YWHAs and Camps in
the U.S. and Canada serving
more than 1,000,000 Jews. It
is the U.S. Government-ac-.
credited agency for serving
Jewish military .personnel,
.their families and patients in
VA hospitals. It serves the
entire'North American Jewish community, in the area of
Jewish culture and informal
Jewish education.
William Goldman is Vice-
President of Administration
for the Jewish Center of Co-,
lumbus and is Chairman for
the New Jewish Center
Building. He represents the
Center on the Joint Committee for the Jewish Federation-Jewish Center oil e-
velopment of the new Center
building. He is on the Federation's committee on the
unique project of building
and grounds for the complex
of agencies where the Center
and Federation are located.
A^ Chairman of |he;New
Center building, Mr. Goldman ;y/as instrumental in
seeing that a grant proposal
was written, submitted and
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By Joseph Polakoff
'WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, said Feb. 1 that the
controversy surrounding
Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories -is
• "not an issue" for the American Jewish community but a
matter to be resolved 'hi/
direct face-to-face talks' be^
tween Israel and its neigh-
. bors. Schindler also said that
he didn't think that Egyptian
President Sadat's "open letter" to the American Jewish
community,; published in the
Miami Herald and other
newspapers on Jan. 29, was
part of an "invidious" campaign to drive a wedge between American Jewry and
Israel. He said that any person who believed that the
Jewish community's support
of Israel can be weakened is
"naive or a simpleton and
Sadat is neither." Schindler
made his remarks to reporters in the diplomatic lobby of
' the State Department after
he" and four Other: Jewish
leaders had a 50-minute
meeting with Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance.
On the question of settlements Schindler said the
presidents Conference does-
not have; "any policy" because "that is a matter" for
Israel and the neighboring
governments to decide. He
said that "there isn't any
problem between Israel and
her neighbors that cannot be
resolved in direct, face-to-
face talks." Schindler said
he was "certain" that the issue of Israeli settlements in
Sinai can be resolved by
Israel and Egypt and those
: in other areas by Israel
"with appropriate 'partners." However, he said,
"the. problem cannot' be resolved if a surrogate is
chosen like the Jewish community"   to  take a  role.
What Next In The Middle East...?
By Gerald Honlgman
Editor's Note: Gerald Honlgman Is
community consultant tor the Ohlo-
- Kentucky regional office of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith In
Columbus. He Is a doctoral candidate
In New York University's Kevorkian
. Center for Near Eastern Studies.,.
An interesting, but disturbing, phenomenon has occurred recently oh the Middle East scenario.  ■ '■':';:■
Sadat flew to Jerusalem
and launched an initiative
which may yet—despite the
current suspension of talks
— lead to po^ce between
., Arabs and Ispi£$s. This gej;.•-
f &re,'howevw?tfas but 'tBn? -
beginning of «*f tediousproi
cess pf reconciliation, not an
end in itself —- regardless Of
Sadat's claims to the contrary. Indeed, it could be
argued that this gesture was
30 years late. All Israeli
leaders have been at this,
point since the rebjrth of the
Jewish State: realizing
peace would |cOme only via
direct:;, negotiations. There
has been a general portrayal
of the Sadat visit as being so
magnanimous ' and so
courageous that only a complete Israeli surrender to,,
: Arabf peace terms1 could sbes
an acceptable measure of re--
ciprocity. This is faulty apd
dangerous ".reasoning.
Sadat's calculated supension
of talks was designed
primaily to capitalize on this,
development (on the world-
Wide , scale) I to bring increased pressure, upon
Israel. His historic visit
simply does not erase certain relevant'facts and does
not eliminate Israel's minimum security needs.
Before the 1967 War Egypt
has bomber, bases located
' four to ten minutes away
\'ftptri Israel's main pijpttUV;
tion centers, anoassod thouv
sands of troops in the Gaza
Strip and along' Israel's
northwestern borders. Egyptian-backed guerilla attacks
became an everyday occurrence. Two wars ('56 and
'67). were triggered by an
Egyptian blockadest Sharm
el Sheikh, threatening economic strangulation of Israel
(i.e. 90% of Israel's oil is imported ; via the Straits of
Tiran). In response,1 in 1956
Israel conquered Sinai but
was forced by the iriterna-
. tional community to cede it
treturn for^pj^mise&"»anidj
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Schindler acknowledged that
the settlements issue was
"serious" but claimed that it
has been "overblown" and
"magnified." He defended
the settlements, however,
contending that they cannot
"justly be considered imperialistic" since/ there are
Only about 3000 Jews among
750,000 Arabs in Judaea and
Samaria. He also said the
settlements do not represent
"expropriation or displacement" of Arabs. He claimed
their presence was, in fact,
benficial because they bring
industry and higher living
standards to the whole area.
On the question of Sadat's
"open letter" to which
Schindler replied in an
"Open letter" of his own, he
said the Egyptian President
had received requests for
weeks from the Miami
Herald that he address the
American Jewish community before he finally sent it.
Some American Jewish leaders took a different view of
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Mark Talisman To Speak
At Patron's Affair Feb. 13
When 39 members of the
Columbus Jewish Federation's Women's Division
went to Washington, D.C. in
November, they returned
with many vivid and tasting
impressions of their visit.
Chief among them were the
briefings they received from
important members of the
Washington power structure, including Senators,
Congressmen and Israeli officials.' But perhaps the
deepest impression of all
was made by a young, Cleveland-born activist, now serving as executive director of
the Washington Action Office of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds.
Mark Talisman is the
founder and principal instructor in the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics,
teaching freshmen congressmen how to succeed in then-
new positions. He has many
other important credits in
his biography, but his selection as the main speaker of
the Patrons' Event of the
Women's Division on Monday, Feb; 13 at the Sheraton-
Columbus Hotel stems' primarily, from the impression
he made on the Columbus
contingent to Washington.
The Patrons' Event, attendance which is open to
-any woman in the city who
makes a minimum gift of
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Robert Meeropol To Speak
At Hillel Feb. 11,8 P.M.
Feb. 11 Robert Meeropol,
the youngest of Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg's two sons,
will visit the campus area to
speak at the Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th Avenue, at 8
'p.m. '
This open event is sponsored by the 1978 Ohio State
University • Student Campaign of the United Jewish
Fund Campaign, in cooperation with Hillel.
Born in New York City in
1947; Robert attended both
public and private schools in
the area. He and his. brother
Michael wereadopted in 1957
by Anne and Abel Meeropol,
four years after: the execution of their parents in the
controversial Rosen-
berg/SobeU "Atomic Spy
Case/'  '•'/
"Between 1954 and 1973, the
Rosenberg sons led anonymous lives. Only recently
were they forced into public
r7iew as the result of the publication of "The Implosion
Conspiracy." Robert and
'; Michael are currently under
ijontract with Houghton Mif- *
;*fjin C^pariy'to write a re-
Robert Meeropol
trospective   look   at   the
Rosenberg case from the
viewpoint   of   sons   and
parents.
Robert Meeropol attended
Earlham College, Indiana
and graduated from the University of Michigan with
both undergraduate and
Master's degrees. He is currently a doctoral candidate
in the field of cultural
anthropology at the university and'for the past three
years has taught at Western
New England College in
Springfield, Mass. He plans
to continue: teaching authn*
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