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Dr. Wayson
To Be Guest
Speaker At
CTA
Dr. William Wayson, OSU
professor of Education
Foundations and Research,
will be the guest speaker on
Tuesday evening March 20th
at the Columbus Torah
Academy.
Dr, Wayson joined the
OSU faculty in 1970 where he
teaches courses for elementary and secondary teachers
on Developing Discipline for
Effective Education. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Miami University and his Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago. His
previous experience has in-
Suded teaching .on an ele- -
entary and junior high
level and serving as school
principals in Glendale, Ohio
and Syracuse, New York. He
travels throughout the
United States and Canada to
conduct workshops and
seminars in the field of discipline and education.
Dr. Wayson will speak at
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U.S. Jews Urged To Re-evaluate
Attitude To U.S. Foreign Policy
Students Raise $440.00
Nickles... Dimes... Quarters... they add up
fast! Students in the Columbus Hebrew School system
proved this by raising $440 on behalf of the 1979 United
Jewish Fund Campaign (an approximately 120% increase over their 1978 efforts when they collected $190).
This unusually high achievement increase is due
greatly to special "coin savers," which were developed
by the Federation specifically for the student drives.
Eight-year-old Jenny Goldstein, daughter of Ron and
Phyllis Goldstein, proudly shows her coin saver, filled
with $5 worth of quarters, in the photo above. She and
her nearly 200 fellow Hebrew School students have
clearly demonstrated their understanding of
"Tzedakah" (charity) and what it means'to belong to-
the total Jewish community by their participation in
the campaign. With the children of our community setting such an outstanding example, can the community's parents dare do less?
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
The American Jewish community "must, reevaluate its
attitude on the direction of
American foreign policy"
and must reassess the role
American Jews play "in
shaping the destiny of the
United States, the future of
the Jewish people and the
' fate of Israel," Ivan Novick,
president of the Zionist Organization of America, told
the ZOA national executive
committee here. Addressing
the same meeting, Sen.
Lowell Weicker (R. Conn.)
urged the U.S. to move its
embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
Weicker, who is expected
to announce soon his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for President,
said that "much of our Mideast policy .mess is self-imposed, at least to the extent
that we have failed to supply
a toughv effective response
to the challenge thrown in
the U.S. face by the OPjEC
(Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries) oil embargo of 1974."
The Senator scored U.S.
policy for being "attuned to
acquiring oil in the coinage
of a weakened Israeli security." He added that "no
honorable foreign policy can
be achiev ed in a prone position which, as .to the Arabs,
is where the U.S. is today."
Having returned from Israel
last Thursday, Weicker declared: "Believe me, in 1979,
in Israel nobody is prepared
to submissively march to
their death by the Addles of
American policy."
Novick, in a strongly-
wordecLstatement, emphasized that as American Jews
"we take our signals from no
power, small or great. We
act in our own interest."
American Jews, he added,
"must be vigilant, we must
show that we stand by America and that is why we stand
by Israel." He underscored
the fact that "no responsible
Jewish leader has advocated
the U£. should sever its relations with Arab countries." What the leaders do
'say is "that U.S. friendship
with the Arabs should not be
at the expense of Israel,"
Novick stated.   .
He cautioned against
- reliance on President Anwar
Sadat of Egypt "as a bulwark of American defense.
It is a repetition of the fool-
hardiness that has cost the
United States dearly in
nation after nation where a
single man reportedly spoke
for all his people."
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed?
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-
Three Senators have called
for a fresh U.S. investigation
of why the, Allied forces did
not attempt to disrupt the
slaughter in the death camps
at Auschwitz in World "War
II.
Their statements came
after - the Central Intelligence Agency released
aerial reconnaissance photographs last week showing
the Auschwitz layout and
passed them on to the
National Archives and to the
White House. President
Carter gave the photographs
to the Holocaust Commission
which he appointed last November to establish a suitable remembrance of the
victims of the Nazi horror:
Two freshmen Senators,
Carl Levin (D. Mich.) and
Rudy Boschwitz (R. Minn.),
himself a refugee as a child
"from Nazi Germany,
brought the matter to the
Senate's attention, following
the publication of tbe Auschwitz photos. Shortly'after
their statement, Sen. William Proxmire (D. Wis.),
making his daily appeal for
Senate ratification of the
United Nations Genocide
Convention, pointed to the
photographs as further evi:
. dence of the need for acceptance of the anti-genocide
provision as U.S. law..
Levin, whose maiden
speech in the Senate in January urged approval, of the
Genocide Convention, spoke
on behalf of himself and
Boschwitz    regarding
Auschwitz. He pointed out
that "the photographs taken
in 1944 and 1945 provide further evidence that Allied
authorities were aware of
the slaughter taking place at •
Auschwitz during the latter
years of the war, which
makes even more disturbing
the fact that.no direct attempt was ever made to disrupt it."
The question of why the
Allies did not undertake any
military action against the
camp or the rail lines used to
transport prisoners to' it
"has been a painful one
throughout the postwar
years," Levin :said. "The
just released photographs do
not by any means represent
the first evidence that the
Allies were' aware of the
Auschwitz death camp."
Historian David Wyman,
Levin noted, published "Why
Auschwitz was Never
Bombed" in the May ,1978
issue of Commentary magazine. Author Joseph Borkin,
whose recent book, "The
Crime and Punishment of I.
G. Farben" received favorable reviews, also discussed
this episode in World War II
.history.
Levin observed that "despite repeated appeals that
ihe U.S. direct bombing
raids at the rail lines or the
murder installations at the
camp, the War Department
consistently refused." He
quoted a War Department
statement in 1944after it was
urged to bomb' Auscliwitz
that   "the   suggested   air
operation is impracticable
for the reason that it could be
executed only by division of
considerable air support
essential to the success of
our forces now engaged in
decisive operations."
Borkin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that this
statement was made by John
McCloy, then Assistant Secretary for War.
"No purpose would be
■served by an attempt to assign- blame retrospectively
for the failure to take steps
which might have saved so
many lives," Levin said.
"I do not think, however,
that we could learn a great
deal about how our society
and its decision-makers re-,
act to humanitarian crises.
The vicissitudes of the cur-
rent Administration's
human rights policies demonstrate that we, as a nation, still have not resolved
this critical problem of how
humanitarian concerns
should be interrelated with
what are perceived to be our
overriding political and mili-
. tary interests. This conflict
is nowhere more poignantly
illustrated than in our reaction to the inestimable
tragedy of the Nazi Holocaust."
Levin expressed "hope the
President will direct all'federal agencies to release all
information   which   bears
upon these events, so that we
may    reconstruct    with
t greater ^accuracy the histor-
i iql record of that era,' ahd
* draw from jt lessons which
may help guide our future
conduct."
Levin also pointed out that
' 'the investigation and prosecution of suspected Nazi war
criminals/further demonstrates this country's ineffective response to this terrible tragedy. Despite Congressional direction, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has not seen fit
to- wholeheartedly investigate and prosecute the hundreds of persons who were
involved in the Holocaust
and who have entered this
country- .illegally since
then."
In his address to the
Senate, Proxmire declared
that "two and one-half million Jews are reported to
have been killed at Auschwitz; 12,000 each day. While
aerial photographs' were
being taken, nearly one million Hungarian Jews were
being transported in boxcars
to Auschwitz."
By June 1944, Proxmire
continued, "Washington
knew alt about Auschwitz,
yet the rail line leading to the
camp, 'as well' as the gas
chambers, were never
bombed. Why is this? Why
did we overlook the wholesale murder of millions of
Jews?" Thirty-five years
later, said Proxmire, who
has been fighting against
genocide every business day
in the Senate for 11 years,
"Auschwitz is history. But
for some, the memory of
Auschwitz—the memory
of' having - witnessed* geno-
cide-^is terrlfyingly vivid."
Meyer W. Mellman Elected To
United Way Board Of Trustees
Myer W. Mellman, President of the Columbus Jewish.
Federation, has been elected
to the Board of Trustees of
the United Way, according to
an announcement made by
Richard Leucht, President
of United Way.
Mr. Mellman, a Columbus
native, is a business leader
in Columbus and has a long
history of active involvement in both the Columbus
Jewish and general community.
' The United Way is the
major fundraising organization in the Columbus general
community, supporting approximately 68 private, nonprofit (sectarian and non-
sectarian) agencies which
are engaged in meeting the
health, welfare and social
needs of Franklin County.
Myer W. Mellman
Both The Jewish Center and
the Jewish Family Service
are beneficiaries of the
United Way.
Mr. Mellman's many activities include, membership
on the Boards of. both the
Agudas Achim Synagogue
and the Heritage House. He
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Mayor Madison Proclaims ORT Day
Picture with Bexley Mayor-David Madison as he
signed the proclamation of ORT Week are (left to
; right), Paula Malkoff, Claudia Rinkov, Barb Trachten-
bergj Ina Rosenthal, ahd Linda PreSsman, members of
1 the Columbus Region ORT chapters.
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