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Headlines
Night Out
On Thursday, Sept. 6th, 6:30
p.m. at the -Agudas Achim
Congregation Heacjliner,
Morey Amsterdam will
present his Las Vegas Revue
at the Third Annual "Boys
Night Out With Trie Stars"
sponsored by the Brotherhood.
Funds raised from this annual event are used to develop programs for youth
activities from tiny tots to
college age.
The evening is filled from
i a free bar to a prime fib dinner to the outstanding humor
■ of one of America's greatest
Israel & U.S. Jewish Leaders Reach
No Conclusions On Drop-Out Issue
Goldman is shown above with his own children, son,
Shelby, age 1? and daughter, Kimberly, age 10, who
along with other youth and families in the Columbus
Jewish Community will experience the benefits anrfre-   -
wards from a new Center structure.
"We Will Build A New
Jewish Center-Goldman
Morey Amsterdam
comedians all for the low-price «f $35."Reservations '
may be made by calling 237-
2747.
Ran Shorer
To Leave July 15
Ran Shorer, who has been
the Director of the Israel Department of the Columbus
Jewish Federation for the
past three years,' will leave
the Federation as of July 15.
As Community < Shaliach,
Mr. Shorer's job has involved "a lot of coordination
and initiation," he said.
He described his job as being that of an unofficial consul for Israeli affairs in
Columbus.   He   has   spent
"We will build a new Jewish Center," is the philosophy and belief of The Jewish Center's new President,
-William A. Goldman, who-
was elected at the agency's
Annual Meeting on June 13.
Goldman is determined to
share,-; and impress, his attitude upon the total Jewish
community. According to his
philosophy, "We have gone
through much frustration,
but we ARC going to succeed!
- As President of the Center,
Goldman will be leading the
community's central Jewish
service organization as it
embarks upon the building of
a new facility designed to
meet the current and future
needs of the Columbus Jewish community:
An Akron native and
Columbus resident since
1961,, Goldman is currently
senior vice president of the
Homewood Corporation. He
received his bachelor's
degree in 1963 and his juris
doctorate in law in 1966 from
The Ohio State University.
Prior to his'association with
Homewood in 1979, Goldman
was engaged in the active
practice of law and was
president of a national franchise agency.
• Goldman,'-who. is\aisoa
member of Homewood's
Executive Committee and
Board of Directors, is extensively familiar with land acquisition arrangements, and
joint ventures and partnerships relative to the construction industry and has
lead seminars and delivered
papers on those subjects at
several national builders'
conferences.
In his acceptance speech,
Goldman, in referring to the
proposed -Center construction, said "The new bricks
'and mortar'are essentialif
we are to continue the perpetuation of a dream-^a
dream that began with the
creation   from,  people—a
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By David Landau
JERUSALEM, (JTA)-A
meeting of top Israeli and
diaspora Jewish leaders
here last week failed to
reach any conclusion on how
to deal with the phenomenon
of "neshira" (drop-outs),
Jews who leave the Soviet
Union and opt to settle in
countries other than Israel.
The meeting was chaired by
Premier Menachem Begin
and Leon Dulzin, chairman
of the Jewish Agency and
World Zionist Organization
Executives. Later, Max
Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency Board Qf.Goyer-,
nors, told the.Jewish Telegraphic -Agency that "a variety of 'approaches" "to the' |
'probjem. were proposed. He.
said that his position, endorsed by the others at the
meeting, was to avoid_reach-
ing any conclusions before a
great deal more study has
been made of the situation.
Accordingly, the diaspora
Jewish leaders, most of
them heads of major Jewish
organizations, agreed to consider several proposals, con-
fer among themselves, and
Ukrainian Court Sentences Four
Jews To Death For "Economic Crimes"
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ft.
Ran Shorer
much of his time since he
took the job in 1976 interviewing and advising people
who were going to Israel to
visit, for schooling, or to live.
As head of the Israel Department, Mr. Shorer coordinated the activities of the
Israel Department Commitr
tee, the Kiryat Shmona Com-
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NEW YORK (JTA)-The
Supreme Court of the
Ukraine has affirmed the
death sentences of four Jews
convicted last August of
"economic crimes" following a year-long trial in
Donetsk, according to information received by the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry. Fifty co-defendants in the closed, trial,
all of whom are not Jewish,
received lesser sentences,
according to information
available to the NCSJ.
The four men sentenced to
death are Gavriel Sepiash-
vili, 39, from Sukhumi, who
.is married and the father of
ttyeej children; Raphael Ab-
h"*-"OYi
ziashvili,  48,  from Tblisi,
married with three children;
. Elia Mikhashvili, 42, from
Tblisi,^ married with four
children and- a Baku man
sur-named Abassov. Although the prosecutor had
asked for sentences of 12
years for Sepiashvili, 15 for
Abziashvili and 10 for Mik-
• hashvili, they and Abassov
received death sentences on
Aug. 28.. 1978.
The decision of the Ukrainian Supreme Court can be
upset only by the Supreme
Court of the USSR. Failing
that, a grant of clemency by
Soviet .President Leonid
Brezhnev wouM W the only
| recourse,    '''■'''     '
consult again with the Israeli
leadership next rall. Fisher
told the JTA that there was a
consensus on the need to reduce the 'rising rate of
"neshira" which is now close
to 70 percent and to encourage more Soviet Jewish emigrants to make their homes
in Israel. "That wduld be
good for them, good for Israel and good for the Jewish
people," Fisher said.
One approach, proposed
by Begin, which is under
consideration, would' have
HIAS and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the
two American agencies assisting Soviet Jews who immigrate to Western countries, limit their aid to those
emigrants who have close
relatives in the West. Those
who do not Would be denied
aid and would be expected to
go to Israel. That idea was
promptly endorsed by Dulzin. Deputy Premier Yigael
Yadin said it would make
"some contribution" toward
reversing the drop-out trend.
Dulzin Position Not
Accepted By U.S. Jews
Dulzin, who has frequently
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Rabbi Sheldon Switkin Named
Director And Rabbi Of Hillel
COLUMBUS-Rabbi Sheldon W. Switkin has been
named Director and Rabbi
of the'B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation at the Ohio State
University for the 1979-80
academic year.
Meeting at the end of June,
the Hillel Board of Trustees
voted unanimously to designate Switkin as Hillel Rabbi,
according to Benson A. Wol-t
U.S., Israel Exchanging
Notes Over Lebanon Air Battle
' By David Landau
-   ; and Yitzhak Shargil
JERUSALEM,    (JTA)-
• Premier1 Menachem Begin
vand-his   aides' were   re--
•7pQrteo.ly~at work drafting a
formal-written reply to an
American ,note on the air
battle between Israeli and
Syrian jets over south Lebanon''-yesterday. The note
' was delivered to Begin personally by U.S. Ambassador
- Samuel Lewis. Its contents
were not disclosed but the
assumption in political circles here is that it expressed
the U.SY Administration's
disquiet and concern over
the aerial dogfight in which
Israel employed, among
"other aircraft, highly sophisticated F-15 jets acquired
from the U.S.
Israeli  officials are be-
- lieved to be especially concerned by the State Department's comment yesterday
that Israel's use of American-made aircraft "has
been of serious concern to us
and to members of Congress." Observers here believe Israel will seek to persuade the U.S: that the air
battle was part of a defensive operation inasmuch as
it occurred when Syrian jets
attempted to intervene
againk Israeli air strikes-at
[terrorist strongholds in
south Lebanon. Israel claims
that its policy of hitting
terrorist targets in Lebanon
is an act of "self-defense"
against terrorist assaults.
from Lebanon on Israeli
civilians.
Begin's Office Issues
Statement
The Prime Minister's
Office issued a statement
later saying that "The
Prime Minister told the U. S.
Ambassador that what Israel had done amounted to
an act of legitimate self-defense." The statement said,
"We did not want to fight the.
Syrian Air Force. But as the
Syrian pilots said on television , they had received
orders to shoot down Israeli
aircraft. We cannot accept a
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man, Board President.
Wolman noted- that Rabbi
Switkin brings to Hillel a
rich background of fifteen
years of the rabbinate not
only as spiritual leader of
Congregation Tifereth Israel
for the past three years, but
also with congregations in
New York and St. Lousi and
as a military chaplain. , ,.
. Switkin _-has been
President of the Columbus
Board of Rabbis. He received his BA degree from
- the University of Illinois, an
MA frbm Columbia University, and his MHL from the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Rabbi Sheldon W. Switkin
Rabbi Switkin resides at
108 N. Stanwood Rd (in Bexley) with his wife Linda (a
psychologist) and their three
children, Mami (age6). Lisa
(5), and Abby (3).
Soviets Will Block Extension
of UNEF In Sinai, JTA Told
By Yitzhak Rabi
UNITED NATIONS,
(JTA)—The mandate of the
United Nations Emergency
Force (UNEF) in the Sinai,
serving as a buffer between
Israeli and Egyptian forces,
will not be renewed as a result of Soviet opposition, diplomatic sources at' the
United Nations told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. >The<
touuidate of the seven-nationi
force expires July 24.
According to the sources,
the Soviets made it clear to
the Americans and other
members of the Security
Council that they will oppose
the new deployment of '
UNEF troops as called for
by the peace treaty signed
between Egypt and Israel
with the aid of the United
States. According to the
agreement, the UN peace
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