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VOL.58   NO. 16
APRIL 17.1080-1YAR1
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Federation Sends
Telegram To Israel
Upon Hearing About
Terrorist Attack
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Hearing   of   the   recent
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1 baby nursery, the Columbus
■' Jewish Federation's Israel
Department sent the following consolation cable to the
people of Kibbutz Misgav
Am, which is near the Lebanese border:
"We of the Columbus
Jewish Community want you
to know that our hearts and
thoughts are with you, and
that we are outraged by the
atrocious attack on your Kibbutz, and the loss of your
people. While we are searching for a more concrete way
to express our sentiments,
please believe that you are
not alone."
The first concrete way of
sharing our feelings has
been done. The'" Tzavta
Group, a Jewish, Zionist
oriented group, has made a
- special contribution to plant ,.
18 trees in the Children"
Forest near Jerusalem, in
memory of the baby that was
killed, together' with the
other losses. The Israeli Student Organization has
decided to join the Tzavta
Group in this endeavor. •
If there are any other
organizations,   or   private
.persons, who wish to join us
in this undertaking, please
contact Shaliach Aharon
Yaffe at the Columbus Jew-
, ish Federation," 237-7686.
Israel 32 Festivities Sunday
Going over final plans for the 13th Annual Agudas
Achim Flowers For The Living program are, from left
to right, Morris Fleishman, I. M. Harris, Abe Horowitz
and Lou Berliner.
Agudas Achim Honors Harris
, Congressman Samuel De-
vine, Mayor Moody of Columbus, Mayor Dave Madison of Bexley, and Judge
George Tyack will be among
the special guests appearing
on the 13th annual Agudas
Achim Brotherhood's flowers For The Living program
Sunday evening, April 20, in
the main sanctuary of the
synagogue, 2767 E. Broad St.
The honoree will be I. M.
Harris, a prominent Columbus attorney, a past presi-
dent-ofthe "congregation and-
an active worker in many
civic organizations.
The program starts at 8
p.m. and is open to the public. A reception will follow.
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein
will be the principal speaker.
Louis R. Goldfarb is general
chairman of the program.
Among the-honored guests
will be ten of the previous
recipients.
Harris graduated from the
Ohio State Universit Law
school in 1932, and has been a
participating attorney in Columbus since his graduation.
He is past president of B'nai
B'rith Zion Lodge, -"past
president of the Lodge's
- Bowling League and a
former head of the International B'nai B'rith Bowling
League.
Through the years he has
been active in the Red Cross,
United Fund, Ohio State and
Columbus Bar Associations,
the Jewish Center, the Co-
lumbus Hebrew school, The
Fe^aSqriAamb!"Dtir-i
YMCA. He is still an active
bowler arid golfer. "
In addition, he is a member of Columbus Lodge No.
30 of The Masonic Order, is a
member of Scottish Rite and
Aladdin Temple Shrine and
is a 32nd Degree Mason.
Harris has been married
to the former Nan Schlansky
since 1933. They are the
parents of two sons,
Marshall and Larry, and the
grandparents of f iye
children.
. The public is cordially invited to participate in the
many festivities celebrating
Israel's 32nd Anniversary on
■ Sunday, April 20, from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m.
At the Food Festival/Des-
' sert Cafe one can try a nosh
or a meal of many home-
cooked and Kosher dishes
such as kugel, falafel, matzo
ball soup, stuffed cabbage,
humus and pita, tzinunes,
fruit kuchen, strudel,. carrot
cake, mandelbrot and more.
Among the activities
planned for the day will be
the opening of an Israeli Art
Exhibit with works by, some
of the most popular and
talented Israeli artists such
as David Sharir, Samuel
Bak, Shraga Weil, Anna
ficho,Edward Ben Avrum,
Yaacov Budko, Hermann
Struck, Jacob Steinhardt,
Rina Rotholz and Reuven
Rubin.
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The five-piece Israeli Rock
band, Raz, will present two
shows . during AtheA day.
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the OSU based group's
leader* the band specializes
in traditional and modern
popular Israeli songs. Raz
will be performing at 1:30
and 3:30 p.m.
The Israeli folk dance
group, Ruach Hadasha, will
be performing a few folk
dances with the band. At the
. conclusion of Ruach
Hadash's performance, they
will lead the community in
open folk dancing in which
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THRU THE RABBI'S WINDOW
Who Was W
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By Rabbi JDavid Stavsky
A new. word has emerged
these last few months in
Washington; it is called
"credibility gap." It is a
euphemism for the more
common and known word,
lying. Not telling the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, has unfortunately become part of the
twentieth century civilization. From "truth in packaging" laws to lie detector
tests, there is a whole new industry that concerns itself
with detecting and investigating truthful information. Millions of dollars are
spent annually to detect and
determine simple statements, are these statements
true or false.
Why? Why this new "industry"?
A Because with the advancement of technology and
sophisticated forms of communications media, man has
emerged as an expert poker.
faced liar. He can lie, deny,
cheat, "bug" someone else's
most .intimate communications and then mask behind
rhetoric cosmetics and no
one will know the difference.
Promises made during primaries and election cam-
' paigns are quickly forgotten
and denied in the December
following the election. Politicians are so deeply immersed in this life style they
themselves don't know when
they are telling the truth.
They actually believe their
own lies. They have become
masters of deceit.
The Watergate affair was
only the tip of the iceberg.
The tragedy of the Watergate affair is that they were
caught, for in reality the deceit continues. The recent
fiasco with the United States
voting for the U.N. resolution condemning Israel and
insisting Israel dismantle
the settlements and neighborhoods in Jerusalem and
, .then the.President stating
there was a communications
gap between the White
House and the State Depart-
. merit is the latest example of
this kind of duplicity.
However, the Torah testifies that we Jews were forewarned about deception and
chicanery, at the very dawn
of bur history. Passover
night, as we begin to recount,
the story of the great Exo-
. dus, the text of the Haggadah
reads, "go out' and learn
what Lavan the Armean
planned to do to our father
Jacob, for, Pharoh decreed
only the male children
should be put to death, but
Lavan had planned to uproot
all, as it was said, a lost Armean was my father
(Jacob), and he was forced
by speech to be there."
Any serious student of the
Haggadah asks why suddenly this great reference to
Lavan., Why charge that
Lavan the Armean was even
more wicked than Pharoh?
After all, a careful reading
of the Torah tells of the brutality of Pharo, and not of
Lavan. Iri fact, nowhere in
the Book of Genesis or in the
Book of Deuteronomy from
where we quote on Passover
night do we find that Lavan
wanted to destroy all, meaning Jacob, the Jews, his family-
However, a deeper and
more analytical understanding of the text of the Haggadah, and of the Torah
gives us the precise understanding that parallels our
times today and the days, of
the Holocaust.
Who was Lavin? What was
his greatest forte? What was
his greatest skill?
Was he a warrior? No!
Was he like Amalek, an
enemy to be seen and dealt
with? No! Was he like Es-
sau? No! Was he like Pharo?
Again no! Then why does the
Haggadah say he was worse
than the brutal Pharo?
The answer is, his skill
    (CONTINUED ONJ>AGE» .
the entire family can participate.
Ken Sonkin, the popular
mime/magician who is no
stranger ,. to ; The Jewish
•Center, will be presenting
two magic shows at 1 and
4:30 p.m. Ken Sonkin will
also be seen (but not heard!)
roaming the building during
the afternoon of Israel 32.
There will be a children's
Activity Room open from
12:30 to 5 p.m. where children as well as their parents
can work on several Israeli
art projects such as making
an   Israeli  mobile,  paper
designing a Kibbutz hat or
designing an Israeli flag.
A Hebrew speaking Olive
Tree will be at the Center,
speaking to the. youngsters
and giving them their name
tags in Hebrew.
Among the other activities
going on during the day will
be the showing of the Israeli
movie "I Love You Rosa" at
11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30
p.m.
A multi-media show on
Jerusalem will also be
shown continually throughout the day. Several children's choirs will also be
performing.
Terrorist Attack
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Menachem Begin said last
week that the April 7 terrorist attack on Kibbutz Misgav
Am in which three Israelis were killed, one of them a 2V&-
year-old child, was proof of Israel's need for security.'
A '!Evil men who are bent on the destruction of Israel carried
out-thisbarbaric crime A Begin said as he received the-
Stephen Wise Award from an American Jewish Congress
leadership mission visiting Jerusalem. "It is only a warning
to us as far as our future security is concerned. We knew itall
the time. Now some others will understand it better."
The terrorists invaded the kibbutz on the Lebanese border
early in the morning and took a group of children in the kibbutz nursery as hostage. Shmuel (Sami) Shani, 34; the secretary of the kibbutz, who was in the nursery to make repairs,
was killed in an apparent struggle with the terrorists. An Israeli soldier, Elyahu Tzafrir, of Holon, was killed during a
first unsuccessful attempt by the army. During the second,
successful, rescue attempt, Eyal Gluska, the 2%-year-old
child, was killed and four other children were wounded. The
troops killed the five.terrorists.
One, other kibbutz member and 11 soldiers were also
wounded. (By Yitzhak Shargil and Gil Sedan.)
Information Campaign
NEW YORK (JTA)—Three leaders, of the nationalist
Tehiya Parry in Israel launched a three-week campaign in
the United States to explain to American Jewry and others in
the United States that "it is much better to have a confrontation with the (Carter) Administration today than have war
(in the Mideast) tomorrow;"
At a press conference here recently, three leaders of the
party, MKs Moshe Shamir and Geula Cohen, and Rabbi Eli-
ezer Waldman, head of the Nir Yeshiva in Kiryat Arba near
Hebron, said that they undertook this campaign to alert
American public opinion to the dangers of the U.S. policy
toward Israel. "The Administration policy is weakening Israel and threatening its security," Shamir and Cohen
charged. The three leaders said that along with the head of
Tehiya, Prof. Yuval Ne'eman, they will address Jewish
groups across the country, meet with Jewish leaders and
U.S. officials in Washington, and hold interviews-with the
media. Ne'eman was not present during the press conference
here due to a prior engagement in Dallas.
"We are here to tell the truth about the Jewish settlements
arid their importance to Israel's existence; we are here to tell
the truth about the peace treaty (with Egypt), which is actually a withdrawal treaty; we are here to tell.the truth about
(President Anwar) Sadat (of Egypt) who is regarded as an
angel of peace but in reality gave nothing and received
everything," Cohen declared. !
Shamir and Cohen also harshly criticized Premier
Menachem Begin, whose visit to Washington coincides with
Tehiya's U.S. campaign, charging that ''Begin gave too
much" to accommodate Sadat's demands. "Our position is:
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