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VOL.57 NO. 1
JANUARY 1.1979-Tevet 5
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JEC Sponsors
Judaism Course
For Russian Jews
An inter-agency educational undertaking aimed at
providing - basic Jewish
knowledge and skills for
Russian immigrants will be-"
gin on Jan. 5 Y
The project, initiated
by Joshua Chorowsky,
Director of The Columbus Hebrew School, has the
active support and involvement of the Jewish Family
Service, and the Jewish Education Committee of The Columbus Jewish Federation
has endorsed this project.
The program's primary objective is to aid the integration of new Russian immigrants into the Jewish way of
life.
With the encouragement
and support of the Agudas
Achim Synagogue, the
j weekly classes will vbe held
at the synagogue's school annex on Fridays, from 10:30 to
11:30 a.m. The course will
offer an ongoing and systematic plan for the acquisition of basic knowledge and,
understanding about Judaism, as well as the skills for
personal. participation. , It
will include the following
components: (a) Basic Hebrew and familiarity with
the pray book, (b) Basic concepts and observances of
holidays, and (c)' Jewish
community life and Israel.
The instructor of the
course will be Mrs. Irene
Marocco, a Columbus Hebrew. School 'staff member.
Mrs." Marocco holds a
Master's degree from John
Carroll University and. has
established a successful and
innovative record in Jewish
and Hebraic instruction.
She said her objective is to
familiarize the class with
basic Judaism through the
use of print and other, visual
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Mann Sends Carter Letter Expressing
Jewish Concern On U.S. Attitude
Hillel Dancers Visit Heritage House
Heritage House Residents Leo Cohen, Bertha
Krausz, Ida Byers and Rose Fleishman welcome the
Hillel Dancers. (see story page io>
NEW YORK <WNS)~
Theodore, Mann, chairman
of the Conference of PresU
dents of Major. American
Jewish Organizations, has
sent President Carter a
letter expressing the concern of the American Jewish
community that "Israel has
been wrongly blamed by the
United States for the current
impasse" in the Egyptian-
Israeli peace negotiations.
In his letter, Mann explained
that the Presidents Conference has sought a meet-
Full Scale Letter And Telegram Campaign
Recommended To Be Mobilized By Cols.
- In response to the Carter
Administration's recently
adopted posture as an open
advocate, for Egypt in the
peace negotiating process,
the Community Relations
-Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation has recommended thatra full-scale
letter ..and telegram campaign be mobilized^to the
White House by our community.
This -recommendation is
based on an assessment of
the meeting held by " Ted
Mann, Chairman of the National Jewish. Community
Advisory Council, in his capacity as Chaiman of the
Conference of Presidents of'
Major Jewish Organizations,
and a delegation of Jewish
leaders including Rabbi Israel Miller; American Jewish Congress President,
Howard Squadron; ADL
National Chairman, Maxwell Greenberg; and Zionist
Federation President, Rabbi
Joseph Sternstein, who met
recently for lengthy brief
ings and discussions with top
State Department officials,
including Secretary Vance,
Assistant Secretary
Saunders, and "Special Afru?
bas-ador Atherton.
The NJCRAC Strategy
Committee, in assessing the
State Department meetings,
has called for the highest priority to be given to community efforts aimed at securing
authoritative and significant
expressions of support for Israel from all sectors of the
general community;.
The Community Relations
Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation.concurs
with the NJCRAC assessment and recommends that
the community step up the
campaign to include letters
and telegrams to the White
House.
"The Administration is
being unfair and onesided in
rebuking Israel for rejecting
the new-Egyptian demands
which are inconsistent with
the Camp David framework," said N. Victor Good-
Melton Center At OSU To Sponsor
Holocaust Course At Jewish Center
The Melton Center for
Jewish Studies at The Ohio
State University announce-
that it will sponsor a nine-
week, non-credit course, beginning Thurs., Jan. 11, at 8
p.m., at the Columbus Jewish center. The title of the
bourse is "The Holocaust:
*rhe Nazi Extermination of
-Six Million European Jews,"
and it will be taught by Dr. >
Marc' Lee • Raphael, associate professor of Jewish history at OSU.
The course will include a
discussion of the historical
roots and causes of the Holo-
,(#ust; an understanding of
', the Nazi practice of genocide
and strategies of extermination, an examination of the
h
Dr. Marc Raphael
victim's responses, and a
probing of the responses to
the Holocaust by the Church,
western governments, and
theologians. In addition to
the lectures, there will be
films, poetry selections and
original sources and documents utilized during each
session.
Dr. Raphael has written
three books "Modern Jewish
History"; "Jews and
Jusaism in a Midwestern
Community: Columbus,
Ohio 1840-1975"; Wnd
"Understanding American
.Jewish Philanthropy", /numerous scholarly and popular articles, and teaches a
course on The Holocaust at
"OSU.    ^\ .   /
Registration' information
may be obtained from the
Melton Center for Jewish
Studies by calling 422-0967.
man, CRC vice-chairman.
"When Israel agreed three
weeks ago to the U:S. package, the Administration
made no comment. Now that
Egypt has made additional
conditions, the AdmiqisiEa^- quire Israel to agree In fon
tion imprudently blames Is- ditio^s that she regjjrd_~__
rael and had Senator Robert    harmful to her security
ing with Carter since its
meeting with Secretary of
Stale Cyrus Vance and other
State Department officials
Dec. 19. but that it appeared
that such a meeting could .
not be arranged soon. Mann
said the members of the
Presidents Conference have
therefore asked him "to
communicate our concern"
to the President by letter.
Mann stressed that "Egypt,
not Israel, has sought to reopen and alter the draft
treaty advanced by the
United States on Nov. 21 .. .
The^rfianner in which the
blame was placed on Israel
by our country was distressing." Mann stressed
that "No sovereign state
with any sense of its own
self-worth could be expected
to accept such pressure-
Pressure which flies in the
lace of yoyr own wise and
significant assurances 'hat
our country would never re-
Byrd (D.-,-W.Va:->7 on his recent trip to the*Middle east,
threaten Israel with a cut-off
ofU.S.aid."
"It seems extraordinary,"
continued Mr. Goodman,
"that Israel should be accused of bad faith ior rejecting the Egyptian efforts to
extract concessions beyond
whatwas agreed to at Camp
David, ft is regrettable that
President Carter has apar-
ently lent his support to
these 'new Egyptian demands. Peace is still possible—if the United States returns'to its role as mediator
rather than as the advocate
of Egypt," concluded Mr.
Goodman.        ,
The CRC is recommending
that all concerned individuals and ..their organizations immediately undertake
a letter and telegram campaign which reflects the following four points;
Mattn.chargedHhat Israel is
being asked to accept "mueh
less"   than  a   real   peace.
"The treaty alterations demanded by Egypt and supported by the United States
permit Egypt to retain the
option to make war on Israel
and make the implementation of the treaty conditional
on agreement over the terms
of "autonomy for the-
Palestinian Arabs in the
West; .Bank—Gaza territories." Mann stressed ,to
Carter that "We still _hope
for an opportunity to meet
with you and offer any assistance we can in the effort
lo bring peace to the Middle
Easf."
Meanwhile, a State Department official has sent a
letter to Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, president of the Union
of Orthodox Rabbis of the
United States ahd Canada,
asserting lhat the U.S. has
"no intention of imposing
our own suggestions on
c. her of the parties" in the
Egyptian-Israeli negotiation. . "Da-id A. Korn.
director of,the State, Departing :n s Offke of Israeli and
Arab-Israeli Affairs', said'he'
was responding to a .lele-
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Maya Tavori To Conduct 7th Annual
CJF Scholar In Residence Program
The Israel Department of
the Columbus Jewish'Federation will conduct the 7th annual - Scholar-in-Residence
program during Mar. 25-
Apr. 8. The guest for the year
1979 will be Maya Tavori, the
executive Director, of the Israel Consumer Council
Maya was born in Haifa,
Israel, in 1932. She received
her law .degree at Tel Aviv
University. Mrs. Tavori
filled several assignments of
practicing law in the Attorney General's office in
Haifa, as well as in two well-
known attorney's offices in
Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv. In
Maya Tavori
1967,.she became the Legal
1) At Camp David, Presi-^ Advisor for the Israel Con-
dent. Carter, Israel and
Egypt agreed that all of the
Sinai would be returned to
Egypt in exchange for an unconditional peace agreement
that President Carter had
earlier urged. Now, Israel is
being asked to except a
watered down peace in exchange for the vital security
buffers that have made it
possible for her lo seek
peace.
2) Linking the Sinai treaty
to the West Bank negotiations would make peace hostage to the Palestinian Arabs
and Jordan who have not lost
an opportunity to condemn
Camp David and plot its
wreckage^
3) tiPeace- is still within
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sumer Council and since 1975
she has served as. the head of
this organization.
Maya Tavori is known in
Israel as a very talented and
popular woman who is well
accepted by all levels of society. She is^involved in
many ■ -^ television
performances that deal with
•the current economical situation in Israel.
This unique and imaginative project that was initiated in 1972 calls for Israeli
scholars to spend two weeks'
with a Jewish community in
-the United States and to tell
about Israel from their personal point of view, thus'
through their own profes-'
sion.
The rationale behind the
program is to establish an
additional dynamic anil expanding channel of communication between i Israel and
the American community ih
general, and the Jewish-'
community in particular..
The idea behind the scene is
to introduce to the Anierjcan
Jewish community^ the"
pluralistic spectrum of
thoughts and opions prevailing in Israel, as well as first
hand knowledge of specific
aspects of the Israeli society,
economy, politics and culture.
While in the community,
the' scholars discuss their
own areas of expertise, as
well as current Middle East
topics.and the nature-of Israel-diaspora relations; This
program affords Americans '
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