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VOL.56 NO.53
DECEMBER 28,1978-KISLEV28
Members Of Advance
Gifts Div. To
Participate In
Washington Mission
Members of the Advance
Gifts Division of the 1979
United Jewish Fund Campaign will participate in a
special1 one-day mission to
Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 17.
The Federation Sponsored
trip, chaired by N. Victor
Goodman, will include top
level briefings with the
following officials: Senator
Richard Stone of Florida,
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes of
Maryland,   Senator   Bob
N. Victor Goodman
Packwood    of   Oregon,
Senator Howard
Metzenbaum of Ohio,
Senator John Glenn of Ohio
and key A.I.P.A.C. officials.
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Ben M. Mandelkorn, Executive Director of the Columbus Jewish Federation, is shown presenting a
check to Stanley L. Sloane (right), UJA National Cash
Chairman, during the UJA 40th Anniversary National
Conference on Dec. 8 at the New York Hilton. The
check will go towards reaching the UJA $302 million
cash goal for 1978, a record for a peacetime year.
The Coliuiibus Jewish Federation is currently involved in a massive cash mobilization drive to help
meet the humanitarian needs of the people of Israel
and Jews in need everywhere. Payment of 1978 United
Jewish Fund Campaign pledges is urged before the end
of the year, in order to gain a 1978 tax advantage. The
local cash collections campaign has included letters
and personal phone calls to all those individuals with
outstanding.balances, mailgrams and "cashgrams"^.
sent to those with large balances, and special collection
committees established within each, campaign division.
The cash - mobilization program has been spearheaded by Federation Treasurer Sol D. Zell, with
Federation Vice President Ben Goodman Assisting as
Co-Chairman.
Over 3000 UJA Delegates Hear Prime Minister Begin Speak
Climaxing three emotion-
filled days which included
moments of both sorrow and
celebration, _ome 3,000
delegates, (including. six
Columbusites) to the United
Jewish Appeal 40th
Anniversary National
Conference heard Israel
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, in a message filmed
in Jerusalem on the eve of-
his departure for Olslo,
forcefully restate Israel's
commitment to work for
peace within the framework
of the Camp David
agreements.
"We are true and faithful
to ihe Camp David
agreements," he declared,
"and we want to carry them
oijt as we wrote them and as
' we signed them. We have
made great sacrifices for the
sake of peace, and we want
peace with all our heart," he
said.
Representing        the
Columbus        ' Jewish
Federation     at      the
Conference were Mr. and
Mrs.   Bernard K.  Yenkin,
> (Mr.   Yenkin   is .General
Campaign Chairman of the
1979 United Jewish Fund'
Campaign); Gordon Zacks,
; , a past General Campaign,
j    Chairman who is now active/
in the UJA; Joyce L. Zacks,
Women's  >      Division
Chairwoman; Ben - M.
Mandelkorn, Federation
Executive Director; and
Charles R. Schiffman,
Federation Assistant
Director.
Begin's message included
a call for active support by
American Jews of "Project
Renewal", a comprehensive
social rehabilitation plan for
300,000 people living in
distressed immigrant urban
areas in Israel. Project
Renewal, a drive for funds
over> and above regular
annual contributions, is a
cornerstone of the UJA 1979
campaign.
Mr. Begin linked Project
Renewal with prospects for
peace by envisioning an
Israeli society living in
human dignity as well as in
peace in this and future
generations.
The conference delegates,
who had joined in a tribute to
the late Golda Meir at
Sabbath services yesterday,
Stood for a long moment of
silence in her memory
before * the banquet and,
following Mr. Begin's
message, heard an eloquent
address by Elie Wiesel, the
noted author^ poet and
philosopher, celebrating the,
continuity of Jewish
communality represented by
the 40-year history of the
Asher Nairn Urges Carter Administration
Return To Its Role As Impartial Mediator
United Jewish Appeal.
"When one Jew Helps his
people," Mr. Weisel said,
"he helps more than his
people. Alone, the spark dies
before it reaches the candle;
together, they kindle the
flame."
The four decades, he
noted, have transformed the
tragedy of Jews as victims
into the current reality of
Jews as "lions, princes,
ambassadors." He called for
greater investment of
Jewish energies in creativity
applied to areas still to be
explored, projects still to be
fulfilled.
UJA National Chairman
Irwin S. Field, presiding at
the banquet, characterized
the organization, founded in
1939 in reaction to the
infamous f2 Kristallnacht fl
attack by the Nazis on the
lives and property of
German Jew, as a growingly
strong and encircling
lifeline. "The creation of the
United Jewish Appeal 40
years ago was an act of
faith," he stated, "It began
as a reaction to adversity, a.
means to meet a crisis, and
had grown to represent the
link in the - chain of
generations;, a people living,
by deed, g\ving( pf heart and
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In response to the
Egyptian government's
recent efforts to rewrite the
Camp David Accords, the
Hon. Asher Nairn, Consul
General of Israel, presented
Israel's views of the stalemated peace negotiations at
a combined leadership meeting of the Community Relations Committee /and the
Board of Directors of the Columbus Jewish Federation
on Tuesday evening, Dec. 19,
at Heritage Tower.
Mr. Nairn took issue with
the recent Carter Administration statements which
blame Israel for the current
impasse in peace negotiations. He urged that the
Carter Administration return to its former role as an
impartial mediator in the
peace negotiations. The
stepped-up pressure on the
Israel government to bow to
United States and Egyptian
demands is contradictory to
the role of a mediator. Mr.
Nairn noted that his country
was extremely disturbed at
the Administration's remarks since Israel accepted
the, -UsS.-proposed • peace
treaty draft on Nov. 21, and
there was no Administration
'criticism' of Egypt's rejection of it. Consul General
Nairn reiterated that "Israel
is willing to sign the Camp
David Accords immediately
as they were painstakingly
negotiated and drafted by
the legal and technical experts of both countries with
United States assistance at
Blair Hou_e." The Accord,
according to Mr. Nairn, "represents . a significant
achievement over earlier efforts to convene a Geneva
conference." That approach,
explained Mr. Nairn, "could
never succeed since it required all' the parties of the
conflict to attend ahd be willing to negotiate a peaceful
solution to the Middle East
crisis. At this moment,
Egypt is the only one of the
Arab confrontation states
that has agreed to negotiate
with Israel; all the others,
including Jordan and Saudi
Arabia, the so-called leaders
of the moderate Arab wing,
have condemned the Camp
David Accords at the recent
Bagdad Conference. By designing' the Camp David's
'one-piece-at-a-time' approach -represents a dramatic opportunity for real
peace and as a result, Israel
agreed to make major concessions at Camp David in
order to bring the 'accord' to
fruition.!' Mr. Nairn continued, "Every demand that
Egypt made at Camp David,
Israel has agreed to fulfill,
as part of the- accord. For
example, Egypt demanded
and Israel agreed to return
the entire Sinai Peninsula in
cluding Sharm-el-Sheik, all
the oil fields, air bases, and
to remove all her settlements from the Sinai. In return Egypt agreed that it
would sign an unconditional
peace agreement with Israel
and establish full diplomatic, economic and trade
relations between the two
countries," said Mr. Nairn.
In recent weeks,- the
Egyptian government / has
presented . new demands
which, according to Mr.
Nairn, make a mockery of
the Camp David Accords.
According to Israel, Article
VI of the Accords represented the heart of the agree-'
ment. This is the 'priorities
clause' which calls for the
Egyptian-Israeli accord to
take precedence over the
nearly fifty treaty obliga-
Aslu'r Nairn,
tions that Egypt has with
other Arab nations! As part
of the new Egyptian demands, Egypt requested
the inclusion of a side
letter which would allow
Egypt to still go to war with
Israel if other Arab state-
became involved in hostil-
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H. H. Schiff Receives JDC Scroll
For Over 30 Years Of Service
Herbert H. Schiff, an
active member of the
Columbus Jewish
Community for over 30
years, is shown receiving a
scroll from Donald M.
Robinson, President of the
Joint Distribution
Committee, for his work as
Co-Chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee
Area Committee for Arabic
Speaking Countries, as
Ralph I. Goldman. JDC
Executive Vice President
looks .on, The presentation
was made at the 64th Annual
Meeting of the. Joint
Distribution Committee in
New York on Dec. 6.
Mr. Schiff, a past United
Jewish Fund Campaign
General Chairman and a
former President of" the
Columbus Jewish
Federation, is a member of
the/ JDC Executive
Committee. At the Dec. 6
meeting, he was elected to
another three-year term on
the JDC Board of Directors
and was appointed chairman
of the JDC Area Committee
for' Arabic Speaking
Countries, Professionally.
Mr. Schiff is President and
Chairman of the Board for
Columbus based SCOA
Industries.
George M. Levine ol
Columbus is also a momlH'r
of .the JDC Board of
Directors.
Close to lot) members of
the JDC Board of Directors;
attended; the day-long
sessions and reelected
Donald M. Robinson.
President, adopted a
$47,000,000 budget for 1979.
elected officers and Board
members and heard reports
on JDC programs around the
world.
_ A highlight of the
conference' was the
presentation of the Ma'asim
Tovim (good Deeds) Award
to Baron de Rothschild for
his help and leadership on
reviving and rehabilitating
the French Jewish
community after World War
"II. The.Baron was President
of the French Consistoire
(French religious
congregational organization) and with the aid of the
JDC, helped to established
the Fonds Social Juif Unifie.
the French Jewish
communal and social
welfare agency in 1950 and
has served as its President
for the last 25 years*