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VOL. 56 NO. 11
MARCH 16,1978-ADAR II7
Campaign Closing
Event Set For
Wed., Apr, 26
The annual Campaign
Closing Event for the 1978
United Jewish Fund Campaign has been set for
Wednesday-evening, Apr. 26
at 7:30 at the Agudas Achim
Synagogue.,
In making this announcement, B. Lee Skilken, general chairman of the 1978
United (Jewish Fund Campaign, urged all members of
the Columbus Jewish community to mark their calendar now for this major community event. This year's
Campaign Closing.will feature a unique "family"
atmosphere. '
■ In keeping with the evening's theme of "A Family
Affair," the program will include recognition of families
in Columbus which had two
or more generations actively
involved in this year's campaign. The Columbus Jewish
Federation's family, its affiliated agencies, will also re-
. ceive special recognition.
The evening .will include
entertainment, related to the
"family" theme; a featured
speaker and campaign reports. More details of this
special event h will be reported as they become available in upcoming issues of
the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
Community support is requested, both by attendance
and contribution, in helping
to make the Apr. 26 closing
most successful.
Begin Says Outrage Need Not
Affect Mideast Peace Talks
Institute For Roman Catholics
Shown opening the recent •
"Institute on Jews and
Judaism for Roman
Catholics" were (1. to r.)
Rabbi David Stavsky, chair-
■man of the Columbus Board
of Rabbis and Bishop Ed-
vfar'd Herrman, Bishop of
Columbus. A full report of
this historic conference appears elsewhere in this
week's Ohio Jewish
Chronicle.
By David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Premier Menachem Begin
confirmed this afternoon
that he and Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan have postponed their visit to Washing^
ton for a week as a result of
yesterday's terrorist massacre. He' affirmed that the
outrage need not affect the
current Middle East peace
process. He said the White
House would announce
shortly a new date for his
meetings with President
Carter that were to have
begun this Tuesday.
Begin-Carter Talks To Focus
On Council Resolution 242
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
The simmering differences
between Israel and the
United States over a number
of vital issues,-including. Israeli settlements on the West
Bank, the Palestinian issue
and the interpretation of
United Nations . Security .
Council Resolution 242, may
come to a head when Premier Menachem Begin of Israel and President Carter
meet   in   Washington.   Of
Campaign Report
UjF Drive Raises Approx.
$2,300,000 To Date
The 1978 United Jewish
Fund Campaign has raised
approximately $2,300,000 to
date, according to B. Lee
Skilken, general campaign
chairman. This figure represents over a 12% increase on
a card-to-card basis when
compared to- last year's
campaign.
"If this pace continues, Columbus will undoubtedly top
its announced goal of $3
million," Skilken Stated. The
1977 UJFC raised approximately $2.72 million.
Skilken urges every Columbus Jewish resident who
has not made a contribution
to this year's fundraising
drive to do so now! The
needs or Jews in Columbus,
nationally, and overseas continue to multiply and costs
increase on a daily basis.
Therefore, it -is imperative
-that every Jew accepts his
f       B.Lee Skilken
responsibility to help our
brethren the world ovpr live
in peace and dignity, he said.'
The various divisions of
the campaign have been actively involved in educating
their members on the1 increased needs of the Jewish
people as well as doing the
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these issues, the Israeli government's interpretation of
242 loomed as the most serious issue that will be taken
up during-the meeting of the
two chief executives. In
addition,- a major source of
concern for Begin is on the
home front where he faces a
split within his Cabinet on
the settlement issue and
strong criticism from the opposition Labor Alignment
over his reading of 242.
Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of State Alfred L. -
Atherton ended the current
phase of his shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and
flew back to, Washington
without coming perceptibly
closer to a joint declaration
of principles acceptable to
both Israel and Egypt. He
also failed, for the time
being at least, to persuade
Jordan to join the Israeli-.
Egyptian peace, process.
Atherton had a final meeting with Begin and Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan Mar.
7 at which he briefed them on
the results of his latest talks
with President Anwar Sadat
of Egypt in Cairo the day before. Atherton made no
statement to reporters when
he landed at Ben Gurion Air-
• port. But before taking off
from Cairo he indicated that
some progress had been
made in "narrowing, the
gaps" between Israel and
Egypt "with respect to a
comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East."
He indicated he would be returning to the region after
the Carter-Begin talks.
Other   American,   officials
told reporters in the Egyptian capital that some movement had been made toward
narrowing the differences
over. .Israeli-. withdrawal,
from occupied Arab territories but that the issue of
self-determination for the
Palestinians "are about
where they were."
On his latest shuttle from
Jerusalem to Cairo, Atherton delivered a personal letter from Begin to Sadat. It
was Begin's reply to a letter
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At a press conference after
today's Cabinet meeting,
Begin said that 11 terrorists
were believed to have carried out the attack which
was sea-borne from bases in
Lebanon, that six were
killed, two captured and
three unaccounted _ for- and
believed to be a't large somewhere in central Israel. He
said the curfew imposed on.
the greater Tel Aviv area to
protect the civilian population would remain in effect
until all terrorists were
rounded up. The dawn-to-
dusk curfew affects some
300,000 persons. It was lifted
from 2-5 p.m. local • time
Mar. 12 to enable people to
go shopping.
Begin said that 37- Israeli
civilians died in the terrorist
assault and 76 were injured,
including nine policemen,
some of them critically. A
later report put the number
of injured at 82 and indicated
' that there may be additional
fatalities. An army spokesman said Mar. 12 that 29 of
..the .injured ha,yejbeen discharged from hospitals.
Begin stressed that the
killers came from El Fatah,
"the main constituent of the
so-called PLO," that the attack originated from terrorist bases in Lebanon and was
master-minded by "Abu
Jihad," the pseudonym of
the terrorist who heads. El
FatatTs military arm.
Sylvia Schecter To Receive
First life With Dignity' Award
Justice Leonard Stern,
Chairman of the Selection
Committee for the Eleanor
and Jack Resler "Life with
Dignity" Award, announced
that the first recipient of this
annual award is Mrs. Joseph
(Sylvia) Schecter.
Justice Stern stated that
the Selection Committee unanimously agreed that Syl-
,via Schecter Exemplifies the
criteria set forth "in the Resolution of the Board; that of
"providing loving care and
"Life with Dignity" to the
Residents of Heritage House
and emulates in her own life
the support of Heritage
House."
'The "Life with Dignity"
Award will be presented to
Mrs. Schecter by Eleanor
and Jack, Resler at the Sixteenth 'Annual Meeting of
Heritage House to be held
Mrs. Joseph Schecter
this Sunday, Mar. 19 at 1:30
p.m.
Mrs. Schecter's involvement with the needs of the
Jewish elderly of Columbus
began with the Woodland
Avenue Home. At that time,
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Begin side-stepped repeated questions about possible retaliatory action by Israeli forces. "Such a question cannot be answered," he
told one reporter, adding,
"What I can say is that those
who kill Jews in our time
cannot enjoy impunity." He
said there had been no appeal from the U.S. to Israel
to show restraint and not
launch massive reprisals.
He repeated several times
that Israel "would not forget" yesterday's slaughter.
An army spokesman denied a BBC report of a retaliatory air raid on Lebanon.
He said no Israeli planes carried out any action across Israel's borders.
Begin said, in reply to
questions that all aspects of
the security forces' preparedness and how they handled the attack once it begun
would be "examined." Questions have been raised in the
Israeli media as to how the
terrorists penetrated Israel's sea defenses and their
progress along themain Tel
Aviv-Haifa highway in a hijacked bus and the final
shoot-out at a roadblock near
Tel Aviv when the tous was
set afire. Begin revealed
that 25 of the dead were
found in the bus, their bodies
charred almost beyond
recognition.
The Premier was grim and
at an emotional pitch when
he addressed the reporters. ■
He denounced the PLO and
- the Soviet Union which, he
said, supports and arms-
them, in equal terms, likening both to the Nazis in their
determination to destroy
Jews. The PLO, he noted, is
headed by Yasir Arafat who
was accorded recognition by
the United Nations and applauded in the General Assembly. He called on the entire world "to stop and
think" about this, saying it
only confirmed what Israel
has been arguing for "years
— that the PLO is a Nazi
movement ... the basest,
ever to arise . .. whose sole
aim is to kill Jews."
"They -never attack military installations," he said.
"They come to kill civilians
. .. And these were the people who had ordained the
'Palestine Covenant' and
whom the ■ Arab world at
Rabat (in 1973) appointed
the sole representative of the
Palestinian people. 1 hope all
men of good will will now re-1
assess their appreciation of
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