Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1980-11-13

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LIBRARY,   OHIO   HISTORICAL-SOXHOTY
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VOL.58   NO.47
NOVEMBER 13,1980-KISLEV 5
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.wish Voters Played Pivotal Role Jn Election
j Last year's overall winner, George Nicholas, a
i 17-year-old from Dayton. His time was 24:42 for the
1   five-mile event. See page 16 for story.   -	
Men's ORT Centennial Dinner
At Winding Hollow, Nov, 16
Columbus Men's ORT Centennial Dinner will take
place Sunday, Nov. 16, in the
evening at the Winding Hollow Country Club. The dinner-, _which will feature
Joseph J. Sisco, former Under Secretary of State as
- keynote speaker, will be the
occasion to conferon Sidney
I.' Blatt the American ORT
Federation's -' Community
Leadership and Service
Award.
'According to Elliott Grayson, President of Columbus
Men's   ORT,   and   Gordon Jeffrey Paine
Zacks,   Dinner   Chairman,
"the Centennial event will geared to youth from the
"focus on a unique educa- l°th to the 14th grade, and to
PSiS voun8 adults who have com-
igj If pleted their military service.
It draws its students country-wide from those who
qualify on entrance exams.
Without regard to their ability to pay.
A significant proportion of
the schools' 'student population , is - of Asian-African
origin. Thus the school
becomes a uniquely broad
' opening to higher education
for those in the materially
and culturally impoverished
segment, of the-Israely
society.
The school offers a spectrum of professional studies
Unavailable anywhere else in
Israel's  system of
(CONTINUEDON PAGE 11)
Peter Taub   -
tional-technological institution—the ORT College of Engineering in Jerusalem. This
college is now recognized as
one of the most innovative
higher learning institutions -
in Israel.
What makes this school so
different?   Its  classes  are
By Murray Zuckoff
N E- W Y O R K ,
(JTA)—Prominent Jewish
Republicans are -claiming
that Jewish voters played a
pivotal role in electing Ronald Reagan the next President and defeating President
Carter in his bid for a second
term in office.
According to them, and on
the basis of some random
samplings by the television
and print media, Reagan
received about 45 percent of
the Jewish vote and Carter
got about 43 percent. According to the prestigious CBS
News-New York Times,poll,
Carter, received 45 percent
and Reagan 39 percent of the
Jewish vote. The Coalition
for Reagan-Bush, the Jewish
organization set up last summer in support of the Republican candidates, noted soon
after the election results
were known that "many
political experts have determined that the Jewish vote
now represents a swing constituency."
Many in the Jewish community, especially those who
supported Reagan during
- the elctioiv-campaign, now-
apparently fee) that he
should be, or will be, indebted to the Jewish electorate. In fact, some prominent Jewish Republicans are
already saying that in view
of the great support Reagan
had in the Jewish community, the Jewish community
has earned the right to be
heard on matters of concern
and interest to American
'Jews in international and
domestic affairs.
This is at best an assumption or at worst a misreading
of national and international
developments. No candidate
1 Who winS'SO sweepingly feels
' the need to be indebted to
any one segment of the electorate. Obviously, Reagan
had support, in the Jewish
community.
' Reagan, like previous
Presidential candidates,,
made promises to many segments and interest groups,
but once elected, all the
Presidents have disappointed one or another, or
Beth Tikvah To Celebrate
Move With March Of Torahs
Donald Garlikov
Congregation Beth Tikvah
will celebrate the inove to its
new building in Worthington
by carrying its Torahs in a
march from the old building
to the new on Sunday, Nov.
16. The^ event will begin with
a service at 1 p.m. at the'old
building at 3199' Indianola
Ave., followed by the march
at 1:30 p.m. '
Congregants will have the
option of walking the entire
distance, 5,9 miles, or marching to High St. and
reassembling again later, in
the afternoon, at Antrim
Park for the final march to
the new building at 6121
Olentangy River Rd. A short
dedication service and
reception will be held at the
new building following the
march.
Congregation Beth Tikvah
is the only Jewish congrega-
tion-on the city's north side
and will be the first Jewish
congregation to be located in
Worthington. Founded in
1962, the Congregation's first
(CONTINUEDON PAGE 16)
several, of their constituencies by backtracking or
reversing themselves on
some of their promises. In
terms of promises Presidential candidates have made
regarding support of Israel,
for example, many Jews
' were keenly disappointed
with the White- House occupants from President
Eisenhower right through
Carter.
The" American Jewish
community has all to often
learned the hard way that
election campaign pledges
are not .promissory notes
that can be cashed in on a
given date. Moreover,
American Jews have also-
learned that campaign
pledges often lose in value
because of the very nature of
the inflated statements.
This is not to say that Reagan, will not want to keep his
pledges and promises; but
the dynamics of national and
international developments
are frequently not determined by what any one person
would like to happen, nor to„
have them happen under the
most favorable circumstances..
Reagan, for example,
made a telling point when he
observed at the B'nai B'rith
International convention in
Washington last September
that neither Israel's survival
nor- the ability to help
"dissidents^ against tyranny
can become realistic policy
choices if our American
economy continues to
deteriorate under Carter
policies of high unemployment, taxes and inflation.*'
This was one of the rare instances in which a candidate
for the Presidency indicated
the interrelationship* between domestic economic
policies and foreign affairs.
American Jewish leaders
who- have been minimizing
the danger of anti-Semitism
and neo-Nazism in this country will also have to face the
fact that the "new
right"—the Moral Majority,
Christian Voice, the National
Conservative Political Action Committee and other
conservative and chruch-
oriented groups which
poured millions of dollars into the election campaign to
help defeat liberal Congressman who were also staun
chly pro-Israel—has gained
ground as a result of Reagan's victory, not because
Reagan personally espouses
and endorses their views but
because they feel that they,
too, helped influence his victory and have "one coming
to them" The "new right"
also feels that they have a
persona around which to
concentrate and crystalize.
There is no way to determine at this point how Reagan will deal with the ".new
right" since he was not asked to go on record on this
issue. To be sure, he branded
the Palestine Liberation Organization an outright terrorist combine and unambiguously denounced the
anti-Semitic attacks against
Jews in France.
But hw was not asked—and he did not volunteer—his views about the
terrorism of American anti-
Semites and neo-Nazis or the
long-range implications for
Jews of the increasing
strength of the ultra-conservative Evangelical runda-
mentalists.
-    (CONTINUEDON PAGE 16)
Community First Set By Election
Of Robert Shamansky To Congress
By Jenifer B. Loeb
Chronicle Special Reporter
Robert N. Shamansky, a
local lawyer and a Democrat, ran against Republican
incumbent' Sam Devine for
the 12th District seat in the
U.S. House of Representatives, and lost. That was 14
years ago.
This year he tried it again,
and the voters gave him a
solid victory on Nov. 4. His
success at the polls makes
him the first member of the
Columbus Jewish community .to reach a national elective office.       *  '
Why did Shamansky
decide to run again, and why
did he win this time, in an
election year when the national pattern was that many
Democrats were replaced by
Republicans?   -
"I saw a tough couple
years coming ahead,"
Shamansky said in a recent
interview in his downtown
law office. Citing the state of
the economy, Russia, and
Afghanistan, he said he
thought "times would be difficult."
"My well-being is tied up
with this community. If this
community does well, I will
do well,'1 Shamansky said.
And since he thought the
community was not receiving proper representation in Congress, he decided
"I'll do something about it."
' Shamansky attributes his
- success this year to the fact
that he and,his campaign
staff made the "basic decision that the voters literally
did not know Devine's voting
record."
Shamansky said his whole
focus during the campaign
was to get Devine's record
exposed, noting, "We assumed the good sense of the
voters.
Congressman-Elect
- Robert N. Shamansky
Shamansky said Devine
made a point of cultivating
the local Jewish vote. But, he
saidv voters were "seeing his
person, but never seeing his
record."
"Devine has voted against
every penny of aid to help Israel ' in 22 years. Yet he
-would come to synagogues
and smile*/' Shamansky
said.
When asked what influence the so-called "Moral
Majority4' might have on the
United States in the coming
' year, especially in terms of
the Jewish community. Shamansky said he doesn't like
labels such as Moral Majority or Conservative or Li-
.beral.'       • * > * ••<: :■'<. ''
"Who defines "Conservative?" he asked, and,
alluding to the fact that
many consider him
"liberal," he said, "Don't
ask me to state what the
liberal position is.
"What you get with 'me, is
me. What I try and dois be
sensible." Shamansky said
he uses' a "problem-solving
technique," preferring to try
and make sense out of each
issue as .it comes along,
rather than pre-judging anything.
Citing the recent nationally-publicized remark
made.by Baptist Rev. Dr.
Smith that "God does not
hear the prayers of Jews.""
Shamansky said "There is
reason to be concerned with
that kind of statement."
"Historically, members of
the Jewish community have
become  frightened,   with
reason,  during''times like
these," he said. But rather _
than trying to second-guess
what may or may not happen
in the future. Shamansky \
said "I'm not hysterical; I'm
concerned.  We  must  be   '
vigilant."
Shamansky said his response to those who are concerned about the current „"
visibility of those who call
themselves the Moral Majority is that it is "not just the.
Jewish community that has
to worry. It,is a'concern for-.
Protestants and Catholics as
well."
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