Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1978-10-26

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NO. 5G NO. 44
OCTOBER 26,1978-TISHREI25
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Cash Mobilization
Program Continues
"We have the responsibil-'
ity to help Israel maintain a
human standard of living,"
said Sol D. Zell, Treasurer of
the Columbus Jewish Federation, in annoucing the current phase of the Cash
;- Mobilization Program for
■ the 1978 United Jewish Fund
.Campaign. -'"This year's
campaign achievement, in
terms of pledges, was the
highest ever in a non-war
year," he said, "but pledges
alone do not provide housing
or food for the people of
Israel, nor to they insure the
continued high quality of
services offered by our
agencies here in Columbus."
"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 dedicating ourselves during
the weeks ahead to bringing
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Depressed after losing his job, Mel (Jerry Goodman)
seeks other diversions as his tired wife (Ellen Carter)
looks on in Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second
Avenue", opening Gallery Players' 30th season at The
Jewish Center on Nov. 4.
30th Anniversary Gallery Players
Subscription Series Opens Sat., Nov. 4
Sol Zell
in as much cash as we
possibly can on the 1978
(and, or course, previous
years) pledges still outstanding, "Mr. Zell added.
• The   Columbus   Jewish
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A comedy by Neil Sim6n, '
the most successful playwright in American stage
history, will open Gallery
Players 30th anniversary.
Subscription Series at The
Jewish Center on Sat, Noy.
4. The play is "The Prisoner'
of Second Avenue," the-11th
in Simon's record-breaking
series of all-hits-no-misses.
It opened on Broadway in
Nov. 1971 for an 18-month
run and was followed in 1975
by a filmed version starring
Jack Lemmon and Anne
Bancroft' as the married
couple driven to distraction
by the irritations and indignities of life in New York
Cityinthe70's.
Neil Simon was born in
New York in 1927, the son of
Holocaust Conference Discusses Break
Down In Ethics Among Professions
Philadelphia (WNS)-
A .three-day conference
on the Lessons of the Holocaust focused on the breakdown in ethics among
professional groups during
the Nazi period. "The Holocaust is a chilling reminder
of what happens when you
separate morality from
science, religion, Uvw, medicine and the professions," it
was stressed by Dr. Franklin
Littell, the conference's
coordinator who is chairman
of the religion department at
Temple University. Dr,
Hubert Locke, vice-provost
of the University of Washington in St. Louis, said the various professions must not re-.
main indifferent to the direct
consequences of their
actions. He said that civil
servants, such as the police
and, techers, "must address
themselves to the wider
issues of- civil liberty and
social justice." Government
must  not .choose  political
expediency over human
rights, Locke said. "Never
again, should Americans
allow our government to be a
bystander     to     human
." (CONTINUEDON PAGE 15)
a salesman in a dress-manufacturing firm. He began
writing comic material as a
15-year-old high school student, in collaboration with
his 'older brother,", Danny,
After an Air Earcejhiteh,
Simfin gothis first job (at $30
a week) in the mailroom of
Warner Brothers Pictures
through the influence of
Danny, who was working
there in the publicity department.
After their daytime chores
for Warner Brothers, the
Simon, brothers spent their
evenings writing comedy
material and they managed
to get into an on-the-job
comedy writing training program of The Columbia
Broadcasting System. Soon
they were writing for some
of the most famous names of
the airwaves.
Brother Danny followed
TV to Hollywood, but Neil
' stayed on in New York and
worked, alone for Sid Caesar.
He dfil;<fhqwever, take one
five-week .assignment for
Jerry Lewis on The West
Coast. He finished the job in
(CONTINUEDON PAGE 14)
Egypt Requesting Clarification Of
Israeli-Egyptian Draft Peace Treaty
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' WASHINGTON (WNS)-
The Israeli and Egyptian
delegations at Blair House
have agreed upon the text of
a peace agreement which
now must be approved by
their governments.. Israeli
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan, who along with Defense Minister Ezer Weizman arrived in Israel Oct. 22
to attend ,a Cabinet meeting
on the proposed treaty, said
an agreement has been.
reached to end the 30 years
of war between Israel and
Egypt although some differences' between the two
countries still had to be
ironed out. The announcement that an agreement has
been reached was officially
made at the State Department here Oct. 22.by George
Sherman, who is the official
spokesman for the Blair
House talks.
Sherman told reporters
that "the principle issues in
the negotiations have been,
reached so far as the Israeli-
arid Egyptian delegations
are t:oncerned." He said
there are still differences
along the annexes to the
treaty. Sherman said the
earlier differences had been
resolved by "President
Carter's involvement" in the
negotiations and a W-i hour
meeting between the Israeli,
Egyptian and United States
delegations at the Madison
, Hotel just prior ( to the departure for Israel of Dayan
and Weizman. He said
Carter had held meetings
with both the Egyptians and
Israelis at the White House
and at Blair House and that
the U.S. presented a revised
negotiating draft late Oct. 19
to replace the one it had presented when the talks began
Oct. 12. Sherman' stressed
that "the treaty agreed to
has the input of all three
delegations. It should not be
considered   an   American
draft, but the American
draft was the basis of the negotiations." When pressed
again on this point, Sherman
maintained that "none of the
three parties has exclusive
Torah Academy Annual Scholarship Dinner Set For Nov. 12
Bel • Kaufman, granddaughter of the celebrated
Jewish humorist, .JSholom-
Aleichem, will be the featured speaker at the 18th annual . Torah Academy
Scholarship Dinner on Sun.,
Nov. 12, Her novel, "Up The
Down Staircase," was on the
national Best Seller lists for
64 weeks, and #1 in the nation
for five months. Now in paperback, it is in its 43rd printing. Her novel was also
made into a movie and a
play -for high school students.
Ms. Kaufman has won
many honors and awards,
both for her writing and her
humanitarian ,con.trib,ntj0.ns.
Bel Kaufman
as a highly sought-after
public speaker. These indite, ^mong .flth^rs, The.
National School Bell Award,
the Paperback of the Year
Award, plaques from the
Anti-Defamation League
and United Jewish Appeal.'
She has been a teacher pf
English in New York City
high schools, Assistant Professor of English at the City
University of New York, and
lecturer at the New School
for Social Research. She is a
keynote speaker' at statewide education association
conventions throughout the
country, and her perspective
as a Jewess, an author, and
an educator should be' most
interesting to friends and
supporters    of    Torah
,-,-. .   ...   (CONTINUEDON PAGE }5)
LATE NEWS BULLETIN
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The questioning by President Anwar Sadat of the
draft peace treaty agreed to
by -the Israeli„and Egyptian
delegations here Saturday
was officially described at
the State Department today
as a request for "clarifications" and not "modifications" in the text.
George Sherman, official
spokesman for the Blair
House conferees, said "The
Egyptisn government has
asked its delegation here to
get clarifications from other
delegations as to certain
points in the treaty draft and
report those clarifications;
, bacfctoCaira"; j
pride of authorship All three
are equally pleased to have
agreement on the text."
The U.S. spokesman said
the treaty consists of a preamble, nine to ten main
articles and three annexes.
He said all had been agreed
upon except for some part of
the annexes. Sherman said
the "linkage" issue, whether
the peace treaty would be
linked to progress on negotiations over the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip "was resolved satisfactorily insofar
as the delegations are concerned." This implied that
the final decision was up to
the two governments.
Sherman also said that "a
way to handle normalization
of relations between Israel
and Egypt had been re-''
solved. Egypt had insisted at
Blair House that diplomatic
relations with Israel be
adopted gradually through
the various steps of the in-
- plication of the pgaeeireaty.
7fcsr3iel insisted UflMSfcamp
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A "Plain Pine Box" To Be
Shown & Discussed Oct. 29
On Sunday evening, Oct.
29, at 7:30 p.m., the award
winning film, "A Plain Pine
Box" will be shown at
Tifereth Israel. It was originally telecast one year ago
on ABC-TV. A discussion
period will follow led by
Rabbi Sheldon Switkin on the
laws and traditions of death
and mourning.
Rabbi Switkin states that
"This is a unique opportunity to discuss a subject which-
too often is confronted only
under extreme duress at the
time of bereavement". He.
asks that "personal hangups" and superstituions'
about death.be set aside for
one evening in order that we
all can join in a frank and
stimulating discussion.  ,
Rabbi Arnold Goodman of
Congregation Adath
Jeshurun in Minneapolis,
who narrates the film remarks as follows: "We have
retreated, and we have retreated because death is not
easy to handle. In the retreat
we have allowed death, or
the handling of death, or the
servicing of families in time
of bereavement to become
•an industry.''
"We think it extremely
important tb talk to young
people about death so the
hang-ups that people have
when they become adults,
they just won't have it: My
generation was terrified of
^exposing ypung peppfc to, tfie,,
Rabbi Sheldon
Switkin
idea of death. We find that
since it's a part of the high
school curriculum in
Minneapolis, it's now also a
part of the Confirmation
class curriculum. We have
discovered that this age
youngster can handle it, is
willing to handle it, and in
the process.iias grown.
"Our obligation to the next
generation is to train them to
' be adults, to be comfortable
' with what adult life will
bring. Unfortunately, adult
" life will bring brushes with
death,  confrontations with
death."
.The Chevra Kaddisha of
Tifereth Israel, its Men's
Club, its Sisterhood and "40
Under 40" are co-sponsoring-
this event which is being
shown without charge and is
open to the entire community
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