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VOL.57   NO.49
NOVEMBER 29,1979-KISLEV 9
Carter Picks
WJC President
For Secretary
Of Commerce
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-
Phillip M. Klutznick of Chicago, an internationally
prominent' Jewish leader
who is president of the World
Jewish Congress,, has been
nominated by President Carter to be Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Juanita
Kreps who resigned November 1. His anticipated confirmation by the Senate will
make Klutznick the second
Jewish Cabinet member chosen ' by Carter in recent
months. Last August he
named Neil Goldschmidt,
Mayor of Portland, Ore., to
be Secretary of Transportation.
Klutznick, 72, will bring to
his post a broad business
background and record of
government service. He served in various government
posts under every President
since Franklin Roosevelt,
except Richard Nixon, held
the rank of Ambassador to
the United 'Nations' Ecori-
nomic and Social Council
and was a member of several U.S. delegations to the
UN General Assembly.
He has always been active
in Jewish leadership. He served as international president of B'nai B'rith, is chairman of the board of the
Swiss-Israel Trade Bank of
Geneva and chairman of the
American Housing Committee for Israel. Klutznick said
he would take a leave of absence .from his post as WJC
president..
Sen. Levin: The Jew In America
Faces Threat To Survival Of Israel
Timerman To Receive Award
Jacobo Timerman, Jewish editor recently released
from house arrest in Argentina, is greeted by Irving
Bernstein, United Jewish Appeal Executive Vice
Chairman, at UJA headquarters in New York City.
Timerman and Bernstein met to discuss the UJA presentation of the David Ben-Gurion Award to Timerman
at the upcoming National Conference solidarity assembly, Friday afternoon, Dec. 7.
NEW   YORK,    (JTA)-
"The Jew in America hrthe'
age of King Oil" faces a',
threat  to  the survival of;
Israel and his own survival <
as part of American communal life. But "fear for our
very survival—and the narrow perspective that fear
sometimes creates—can increase our danger rather
than our security," according to Sen. Carl Levin (D
at a time of oil scarcity and
rising energy costs, and
American Jewry's reaction
to it. He cited as an example
the Middle East plan recently offered by a.Republican Presidential aspirant,
former- Texas Gov. John
Connally, who linked oil to a
"just and comprehensive
peace" in the Middle East at
Israel's expense.
In  essence,  Levin said,
Mich.) in a speech before the ' Connally was saying that
Jewish   Reconstructionist
Foundation here.
Levin defined the danger
in terms of what appears to
be an erosion of America's
traditional support for Israel
Professors To Speak At Beth Shalom Services
Beth Shalom recently
announced its Special Sabbath speakers for the next
two weeks. .
On Friday, Nov. 30, after
Sabbath services, Tamar
RudavskywilTspeak origan
aspect of Jewish thought.
Rudavsky is the Yassenoff
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Philos-
. ophy and teaches in the Philosophy Department at Ohio
State University in conjunction with the Melton Center.
Professor Rudavsky grew
up in the Boston area and received her- Bachelor's Degree from Simmons College
in Boston and her Ph.D. in
Philosophy from Brandeis
University. Her areas of
specialty include Medieval
Philosophy and Jewish
Philosophy, with a Master's
Degree in Jewish Philosophy.
Before coming to Columbus, Prof..Rudavsky taught
for bhe'and'a half years at
Trinity College in Hartford,"
Connecticut, and has been
published in the area of
Medieval Philosophy.
On Friday, Dec. 7, Marilyn
Waldman will'speak on an
aspect of Middle Eastern
History. Prof. -Waldman is
an Associate Professor of
History and Director, of the
Near and Middle East
Studies Program at OSU.
Prof. Waldman was born
in Dallas, received her Bachelor's Degree at Radcliffe
College in 1964 and her Mas
ter's Degree in 1966 and her
Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Chicago.
. Prof. Waldnian's specific
interests are in Islamic History and .Civilization, which
she* pursued" by doing re-"
search in Iran in the Fall of
1976, and in the History of
Religion. She is married and
has a daughter.
Beth Shalom welcomes all
those interested to services
at 8 p.m. at 3100 E. Broad St.
"oil and idealism do not
mix." He added, "If Israel
stands between Governor
Conally's America ahd a
secure oil supply—then
Israel must go."
The response to Connally,
Levin said, raises in America "the fear that the factions which help shape
national pdlicy in this nation
are more protective of their
own interests than they are
of the national interest... If
Americans think that American-Jewish influence is the
cause of a foreign policy
■ which brings us' long" gas,
lines and expensive heating
oil at home;, and, if a Connally takes it to the hustings,
then in this age I fear that we
will hear that voice growing
louder and louder and being
heard in wider and wider cir-
fRozhinkes Mit Mandlin' To Be Aired Dec. 12
On Wednesday, Dec. 12,
WOSU-FM (89.7 on the FM
dial) will rebroadcast the
program "Rozhinkes Mit
Mandlin" (Raisins With Almonds) at 8 p.m. It is being
sponsored by Grossman Industries, Inc., in cooperation
with the Columbus Jewish
Federation.
"Raisins With Alinonds"
is a montage of various aspects of Judaism both serious and lighthearted as well
as contemplative and contemporary. The guests and
subject matter varies
greatly „ throughout, 'the7
show~*from " an Isaac
Bashevis Sihger interview;
to Zero Mostel singing "If I
Were A Rich Man";tQ a Gertrude Stein reading; to a Mel
Brooks 7 and Carl Reiner
collaboration; and finally to
Yehuda Ley's narration of a
circumcision ceremony in.
Jerusalem, Though there
are Yiddish parts, most of
the broadcast is in English.
The Gamut Productions,
Inc. program, which was
written, produced and narrated by Rita Jacob Williams,
has received three major
broadcasting awards: the
UNDA-USA (Catholic Radio-
TV Center) Gabriel Award;
the 1978 Armstrong Award
for its "Creative Use of the
Medium"; and most recently the 1979 Ohio State
Award, from the oldest programming competition in
broadcasting, in the Performing Arts and Humanities.
. "Raisins With Almonds"
was first broadcast in Columbus on the WOSU-FM station before Rosh Hashonah.
Unfortunately, the program
was publicized only by spot
announcements over WOSU-
7 FM, so it was believed to
have been heard by only a
small segment of the Columbus Jewish community.
7 7 Fred Futerman, a .four-
year resident ~of Columbus
and a Vice President of
Grossnjan Industries, Inc.,
~was one of those who did
hear the initial broadcast.
As a regular listener of
WOSU-FM, Futerman heard
the announcements. He was
expecting a mediocore show,
but as "Raisins With Almonds" began, he realized
he had been wrong. Futer-r
' man wanted to tape the program, but became so engrossed in it that he forgot to
assemble his equipment.
When the program was
over, he called WOSU-FM to
ask about receiving a copy.
None were available. Pat
Herbar of WOSU arid Futerman then discussed the pos-
sibilities-of a re-broadcast.
Futerman felt so strongly
that this quality program
"should be heard and enjoyed by the entire Jewish community," that he persuaded
his company, Grosstaan In-'
dustries, Inc., to. sponsor the
rebroadcast, The Columbus
. Jewish Federation was then
contacted, and agreed to
handle publicity.
Ellman Associate Chairman Of
New Center Capital Campaign
Edwin Ellman, a prominent member and leader of
Columbus' Jewish community, has been, appointed
Associate Chairman of the
Capital Campaign For Building The-New Jewish Center,
Center President William
Goldman has announced.
In working closely with
Capital Campaign Chairman
David Roth, Ellman will concentrate his efforts in completing the major Advance
Gifts portion of the drive.
The Campaign is now in
the Advance Gifts stage,
with the general fundraising
drive to be conducted at the
conclusion of the Columbus
Jewish Federation's 1980
United Jewish Fund Campaign.
"The Advance Gifts procedure in fundraising is a slow
and sometimes difficult process. But major gifts must
be secured to insure a successful total campaign. lam
pleased to report that the
Center's drive is well on its
way to that goal, with results
of our Advance Gifts efforts
to be released soon," Ellman
rioted.  '. -
An   overall   Campaign
Edwin EUman
Planning Committee has
been working with both Roth
and Ellman in recent months
on designing, planning and
carrying out the Advance
Gifts drive. Committee
members include William
Glick, Myer Mellman, Florence Melton,. Herbert Schiff,
Melvin Schottenstein, Irving
Schottenstein, Alvin Schot-
! teristein, Jerry Schottenstein, Ernest Stern, Eleanor
Resler and Gordon Zacks
with Ben Mandelkorn, Executive 7 Vice-Pres ident
Emeritus of the Columbus
Jewish Federation,:?<
, as professional consultant.
cles." Continuing, the Senator stated that "As a public
official, I get guestions
which clearly ask: If your interests as a Jew conflict with
our interests as Americans,
how can we be sure that you
will represent us as Americans.
On the other hand, he
added, "I get mail from
members of the Jewish community which very clearly
says, 'Carl, you are one of us
and we know we can count on
you to take care of us on
this.' How do I answer these
two disparate sets of questions? How do. I affirm my
identity as a Jew and my
identity as an American? "
According to Levin, the
answer "lies not so much in
the resolution of the tension
that our multiple identities
impose upon us as in the
ways we analyze our problems and privately and publicly state our solutions."
He observed that as members of families "we seek to
" resolve the competing
demands of our multi-dimensional identities" not "from
the exclusive perspective of
father/mother or son/daughter or husband/wife" but by
"creating solutions which
benefit all our component
identities... As members of
family units, I believe that
all of us have confronted that
problem and found ways to
resolve it. As members of
the Jewish community, I am
not altogether sure that we
have always demonstrated
the same skill."
He cited as an example
widespread Jewish opposition to proposals to
abolish the electoral college
and replace it with a system
of direct election of the
President Levin said he was
-persuaded that the dangers
of electing a candidate who
did not receive a plurality of
votes outweighed any potential impact on the roles that
minorities play. "We need to
recognize that a policy
affects us in all our multiple
roles arid identifications," he
said. "What benefits the
Jewish community should be
one factor—among several—
that have and should be considered wheri we, as Jews
who live in this land, decide
what policies to support"
Continuing, he said: "lam
suggesting that we, as members of the Jewish community, must be particularly
aware of our multiple group
memberships. A failure to
achieve that; awareness
would needlessly; provide
ammunition to those who
would charge us with divided
loyalty or a too narrow per-
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