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VOL. 581 NO. 13
MARCH 27,1980-NISAN10
Passover
Symbolizes Freedom
Begin Discusses Upcoming Meeting
(A Seven Arts Feature)
In the United States, Israel
and everywhere that Jews
live, Passover has become >
the most universally celebrated   Jewish   holiday.
There are few Jews, even
those with little or no religious beliefs, who do not
mark Passover in some way.
One reason is because
Passover has become the
one holiday when Jews get
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together with their families.
It is a holiday when children
play a central role, such as
asking the Four Questions at
the Seder. In fact, the purpose of the Seder is to pass
on the Jewish experience to
the younger generations.
But perhaps Passover has
become so important because it marks the birth of
the Jewish-nation. This has
taken on added meaning
with the creation of Israel,
the Jewish State.. For 2000.
years the Seder has ended
with the words, "Next Year
in Jerusalem." Since 1948,
and especially since the
reunion of the city in 1967,
this has become not a dream
but a reality.
Passover reminds Jews of
the importance of Freedom.
The symbols used at the
Seder and the Haggadah itself tell Jews that once we
were'slaves in Egypt and we
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ing our children of this, because those who were once
slaves will value freedom
even more.
For American Jews it
means guarding our liberties
in the United States and
striving to ensure the survival of democracy here and
abroad. It means guaranteeing that Israel will survive
as a free and prosperous and
secure Jewish State that will
fulfill the Biblical commandment of being a light unto the
nations.'
By David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Premier Menachem Begin
met with U.S. Ambassador
Samuel Lewis here last week
for preliminary discussions
on the, meeting set with
President    Carter    next
,;   Jack Wallick Named To UJA National Board
Jack L. Wallick, 1980 General Campaign Chairman of
the United Jewish Fund
Campaign, has been chosen
to serve as a member of the
UJA National Campaign
Policy Board for the 1981
campaign year. This Board,
which will meet in May, constitutes, along with the national officers of the United
Jewish Appeal, the national
leadership for the 1981 Cairn
paign.
Wallick was informed of
his appointment by UJA National Chairman Irwin S.
Field and UJA National
Chairman-Designate Her-
schel W. Blumberg. According to Field and Blumberg,
"It i* to this body (the Policy
Board) we look for leadership in all of our campaign
programs, at all levels of
community involvement. We
believe the UJA will be-
strengthened by fresh ideas,
insights and creativity from
leaders like yourself as
members of the Board."
The group is charged with
providing guidance, direction and momentum to the
annual UJA-affiliated fund-
raising drives held throughout the United States. In
addition, Board members
will help analyze the current
approach to campaigning
and develop creative ap
proaches to meet the challenge of the 1981 campaign
while representing the
unique concern of the UJA to
their particular communities.
Wallick, in accepting this
new post, is furthering his
commitment to the Columbus Jewish Community and
his fellow Jews the world
over. Locally, his involvement within the Columbus
Jewish Federation has included various leadership
positions within the annual
United Jewish Fund Campaign, prior to being chosen
General Chairman of this
year's drive. He is currently
month. No precise date for
the meeting has yetbeen announced in Jerusalem.
Officials ' here had expected a summit initiative
from Carter sooner or later.
But the President's invitation had not been expected to
come exactly when .and how
WOSU Program To Feature
Shifman, Rabbi Rubenstein
On Thursday, April 3, at 11
p.m. to' 1 a.m., on WOSU
Radio, Agudas Achim Congregation will present a program about the Passover.
Holiday and all its aspects,
including liturgical renderings.
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein and Cantpr Yehuda
Shifman will team up to tell
and sing about the Exodus
from Egypt and how, with
the liberation of the Jewish
people, a nation was built devoted to law and dedicated to
G-d who delivered them.
Also featured will be a
panel discussion on various
customs of the Passover
.Holiday; pr,esentedj>y rabbis'
at me Cofumbus community.
Rabbi Samuel W. Rubenstein, spiritual leader of
Agudas Achim Congregation, will present a verbal report during die upcoming
Passover holiday of his recent trip to Israel and Egypt.
On Tuesday, April l, he
will speak on current conditions in Israel; on Wednesday, April 2, he will devote
his sermon to the situation in
Rabbi Rubenstein
Egypt. The sermons will be
delivered at approximately
10:45a.m.
. Rabbi Rubinstein's visit
gaveAniri) an'bpportunity to
meet personally with leaders
of the government, the rabbinate, the military and the
intelligence agencies as well
as with the citizens of the
Jewish State.1 His findings
will be presented in homiiet-
ical form with illustrations
from Biblical texts relevant
to the Festival of Passover.
Many thought-provoking
and delicate questions concerning the State of Israel,
the morale of its citizens and
the progress toward peace
will be included in Rabbi
Rubenstein's discussion.
it did, and it took Jerusalem
off guard.
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg, Israel's chief negotiator in the autonomy talks,
has been consulting with
Egyptian Prime Minister
Mustapha Khalil and U.S.
special Ambassador Sol
Linowitz on ways to speed up
the talks, but his efforts, have
now been overshadowed by
the forthcoming talks in
Washington. Linowitz's visit
here and to Egypt next week
is seen as preparatory to the
Washington talks.
There is some apprehension apparent in government ■
circles here in the face of the
Carter-Begin meeting.
United States policy on autonomy, it is felt, is a good deal
closer to Egyptian outlook-
than to that of Israel. Therefore, the President will lean
' on Begin harder than he will
on Sadat, it isexpected here.
Carter's success so far in
the U.S. Presidential primaries Will also give him
freedom to press Israel for
concessions, it is felt here.
The invitation to Begin and
Sadat is expected to boost
. the' - President's standing
among the Jewish Democrats in advance of the
important New York primary next week.
Begin is not expected to
take with him Foreign Minister Yitzhak* Shamir or Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, although the arrangements are still tentative and
could change.
Complicating Israel-U.S.
relations at this delicate
juncture, in addition to the
still undecided issue of Hebron, is a report from Yediot
Achronot's Washington cor-
(CONTINUEO ON PAGE 13A)
Bar Mitzvah 'Boy' At 52
JackL.WaUick
a member of the Federation's Board of Trustees and
is the new president of the
Heritage Tower Board. Wallick, a local developer/contractor, has long been active
in Congregation Tifereth
•Israel.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON (JTA)-At
the age of 52, Gilbert Schrier
celebrated his 13th birthday
and his Bar Mitzvah in Temple Mount Sinai, the Reform
synagogue in El Paso. How
come? Schrier was born in a
Leap Year—Feb. 29,
1928—and, therefore his
birthday conies only once
every four years.
"My father was a deeply
- religious man," Schrier recalled in a telephone interview. "One of the disappointments of his life was that I
wasn't .Bar Mitzvah. This
was a chance for me to make
up for it."
Schrier, born in Chicago
where his late father, Henry
Israel Schrier, was'a small
dry goods merchant, is a
member of Temple Mount
Sinai where his two sons had
their Bar Mitzvahs ahd his
two daughters were confirmed.  >
El Paso has a thousand
Jewish families and two
synagogues—Orthodox and.
Reform. Schrier, who has
been living in the Southwest
since the end of World War
II, heads an insurance company in El Paso.
A Joyous Passover From The Staff Of The Ohio Jewish Chronicle