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VOL.57   NO. 42
OCTOBER 11, 1979-TISHREI 20
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Gush Settlers
Back Away
After Foray
JERUSALEM, (JTA)-
Gush Emunim settlers from
Ofra backed away from a
confrontation with the army
Oct. 4 after an early morning
foray into adjacent lands
near-the West Bank Arab
Town of Ramallah. Their attempt to expand the settlement without prior approval
by the government, ended,
at least for the time being,
when the army threatened to
remove them by force.
Negotiations continued
throughout the morning.
Two representatives of the
settlers went to Tel Aviv to
meet with Defense Minister
, Ezer Weizman but Weizman
refused to see them unless
they evacuated the area
first. The settlers left shortly
after noon and moved to a
nearby hill while army
trucks picked up their belongings and equipment. But
they ripped down the perimeter fence around Ofra and
vowed to return to the adjoining land if the government did not meet their demands:-"'' '    ""   '-"J1
A similar incident occurred last month when
Gush settlers form Kiryat
Arba near Hebron were
forcibly evacuated from
land they had seized in defiance of government restrictions. The incident at Of-
1 ra, 15 miles north of Jerusalem, occurred a day after
the Ministerial Defense
Committee refused to
authorize a plan by Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to
seize 43 acres of Arab-owned
land for the expansion of El-
kana on the western slopes of
the Judaean mountains.
The committee also refused to approve land seizures at six other West Bank
, settlement sites and declined
to hold a hearing on the matter. It was referred to the full
Cabinet for debate.
' Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan reiterated yesterday
that he was "very much
opposed "to the confiscation
of privately owned land on
the West Bank for the purpose of enlarging Jewish
settlements. He said on a
television interview that he
favored the establishment of
settlements but only on
State-owned land.
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Berliner, Clowson, Thall Sisters To Be
Inducted Into JC Hall Of Fame
Above photo, in their winning Sukkah from rear left are:
Tifereth Israel High Schoolers, Aaron Epstein, Cheryl Goldston, Jackie Riker, Rachel Chazan and Howard Canowitz.
Front, Jon Zidel, Martin Schwartz, Mike Strip, Chani Sageev
and Ed Monroe.
Sukkah Building Contest Winners
Two "T.I. HI, Cheap and
Easy Sukkot" have been erected on the West Side of-Tifereth Israel's building as
part of the first such Sukkah '
building contest in the city.
Starting from scratch with
only boards, bricks, burlap
and nails, 25 High Schoolers
in two teams erected the
Sukkot and decorated them '
in under 40 minutes. With unprecedented cooperation,
the High Schoolers set about
their tasks of erecting the
frame, standing the Sukkot
in concrete blocks, building
walls of burlap and covering
the roof with cornstalks and
decorating their Sukkot
while smashing only a small
number of fingers!
Fun and enjoyment aside,
the students learned that it is
both inexpensive and easy to
construct a Sukkah. These
Sukkot can be duplicated at
home for under $30 and erected by two people using
only a hammer and a ladder,
in under an hour. The hoped
for outcome is to have more
families building and using
their own Sukkot at home if
not this year, then next.
Making the Sukkot a little
"cheaper and easier" were'
kind donations from Mr. Lew
Cohen, Mr. Jack Wallick,
Mr. Charles Talis and Mr.
Mike Talis. Photographing
the entire operation was
Manne Aronovsky.
On Sunday, Oct. 21, The
Columbus Jewish Center will .
induct Lou Berliner, Alex
Clowson, Leah and Thelma
Thall into its Sports Hall of
Fame. The inaugural inductions will highlight The Center's second annual All
Sports Awards program mat
evening. Featured speaker
for the evening will be Gene
Michael, Manager of the
International League champions, The Columbus Clippers.
Lou Berliner, a graduate
of Central .High School, recently retired as the premier
sports writer for The
Columbus Dispatch. Lou
served the paper primarily
as high school and amateur
sports writer for 45 years. He
was also an avid sports
participant as a regular in"
the Center'? famous Sunday
Morning Softball League,
the outstanding league in the
city at that time. He also
competed in The Jewish Center bowling program, as well
as being a regular on the
" handball   and   basketball
court?.
 „ Lpja .never failed toprovide
important coverage of the
many Jewish sports activities in the community, as
well as highlighting premier
Jewish athletes.
He has been extremely ac-
Lou Berliner
tive in the community as a
member of The Charity
Newsies,   United   Jewish1
Gene Michael
Fund, Bonds for Israel, Co-
chairman of the Agonis Club
Athlete's Scholar Award and
former president of the
YMCA Men's Camp. He is an .
honorary member of the
Ohio School Football, Baseball and Basketball Coaches'
' Association.
Awards have come often
for Lou. His most cherished
award was the Agudas
Achim Brotherhood's
"Flowers for the Living." He
is also a past president of the .
" Agudas Achim Brotherhood.
Lou and his .wife, the
former BlanchePinsker, are
extremely excited about The
Jewish Center's Hall of
Fame award, and hope that
all their friends will be able
to attend the presentations.
Next week a feature article on the other three inductees, Alex Clowson, Leah
Thall Neuberger and Tybie
Thall Sommer will appear in
the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
Reservations, may be
made for the, oct. 21 affair at
The Jewish -Center. Adult
tickets for the special Hall of
Fame cocktail hour at 5:45
p.m.. and awards program
Jl^e$6.5lpper4>e^50ll,-,   •  _.
For additional information
contaqt David Valinsky.
Director of Health and Physical Education. Ron Golden
is Chairman of The Hall of
Fame Committee.
Rabbi David Stavsky Warns About Beth Messiah
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Holy Days
HOSHANA RABBA, the seventh find halt day of
the Sukkot festival, is Friday, Oct. 12, followed by
. Shemini Azeiet, the Feast of Conclusion on Oct. 13.
SIMCHAT TORAH, the last day of the holy days
begun by Sukkot, is Sunday, Oct. 14. On this day,
the annual reading of the Torah scroll is completed
and immediately begun again.
The house looked like any
other in the new and modern
development off Karl Road
between Morse Road and Rt.
161, except for the vey large
mezuzah which decorated
the front door. It was Friday
between Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur, about 3 p.m.,
when Rabbi Stavsky of the
Beth Jacob Congregation
called upon the residents of
the Beth Messiah. The rabbi
made the trip in the very
busy hours before Shabbos
T'Shuvah, for two purposes.
The first was to complain
about a very large advertisement that appeared the previous week in the Columbus
Dispatch, with bold Hebrew
type "Shema Yisroel," and
in English phonetics
"L'Shana Tovah T'Kasavu."
The ad, obviously directed to
the Jewish community, invited people to join in Rosh
Hashana and Yom.Kippur
services. The rabbi felt the
ad was a decoy. It was deceiving, for in fact the Beth
Messiah is not a Jewish Congregation but a missionary
house and movement similar
to the. "Jews for Jesus" organization.
Secondly, the rabbi, felt
that if indeed Beth' Messiah
is run by apostate Jews, and
that their mission is to in
fluence young college-aged
people, he would like to invite them or their Jewish
congregants to Yom Kippur
services at Beth Jacob. He
ended up in an hour long conversation with an apostate
Jew who heads the Beth
Messiah. By his own admission the apostate Jew was
Bar Mitzvahed, went on to
college, where he was introduced to various drugs tripping occasionally on L.S.D.
After receiving a law degree, struggling through a
period of disillusionment and
search, the young Jew began
travelling through the European continent looking for
"something." In his Testimony he claims that on a
very lonely and tiring night,
Jesus appeared to him, he
found god, and this revelation subsequently was reinforced by meeting other
apostate Jews. Today he
leads the Beth Messiah in
Columbus.
Rabbi Stavsky reported on
the incident last Monday
during his Yom Kippur sermon. A known activist himself, who has devoted his 24
years in the rabbinate in
working with young people,
the Beth Jacob rabbi referred to. the Beth Messiah,
Jews for Jesus,  the Ash
rams, and other cults as
"false fires" on the alter of
G-d. He emphasized that
young Jews must be made a-
ware of these false Messiahs. "In an age of searching, questioning, uncertainty, we also have fast and glib
answers with new "religions" and^new gods cropping up all the time. Young
people, particularly the disillusioned, unhappy, unsuspecting, unlearned, confused
Jew is very vulnerable to
these alien cults, specifically
when he sees Hebrew letters,
Jewish symbols, in new inviting   and   strange   sur
roundings,"   said   Rabbi
Stavsky.
The rabbi called upon the
members of his congregation and the community at
large to reach out to young
Jews, to make present day
services, and religious experiences more meaningful
and stress Torah education
as the first priority in Jewish
life.
"We can ill afford spiritual
defection from our ranks
because we are not prepared
to give our young people first -
rate attention and meet
them where they are at."
said Rabbi Stavsky.
Pope Says Jews, Catholics
Share Common Determination
By David Friedman
NEW YORK, (JTA)-
Pope John Paul II declared
that. Jews and Catholics
throughout the world shared
"a common determination to
reject all forms of anti-Semitism and discrimination."
The Pope's remarks came at
the end of a speech before a
rain-drenched but enthusiastic crowd of 50,000 persons at
Battery Park at the southern
tip of Manhattan in which he
urged ijhe United States to
continue its tradition as the
have for the poor and the
oppressed.
With the Statue of Liberty
and Ellis Island in the background, the Pope said that he
had a special message for
"leaders of the Jewish community," including Mayor
Edward Koch who accompanied the Pontiff throughout his two-day visit to New
York,
"As one who in my home-
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