Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1980-11-20

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VOL.58   NO.48
NOVEMBER 20,1980-KISLEV12
0 Soviet Jews Fast To Protest Continued
Evron Under Fire
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel's foreign policy establishment has come under heavy fire from political circles and
the press here for allegedly neglecting to cultivate ties with
Ronald Reagan and the Republicans in general during the recent U.S. election campaign.
Trudeau On Week's
"     Visit To Mideast
OTTAWA, (JTA)—Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
leaves this.week for a week-long visit to the Middle East
which includes a four-day state visit to Saudi Arabia, two
/ days in the Yemen Arab Republic and several days in Egypt.
' Canadian officials said in a briefing here, that the trip to
. Saudi Arabia is important to ensure that the Saudis have a
favorable image of Canada.so that the oil-rich kingdom will
do business with Canadian companies.
South African Visit
JERUSALEM, ..(JTA)— South African Finance, Minister
Owen Horwood will visit Israel in December to discuss
economic cooperation with Israel, a Foreign Ministry
spokesman-announced here. He will meet with Israeli
Finance Minister Yigal Hurwitz ahd Deputy premier Simcha
Ehrlich, who as .Finance Minister visited South Africa in
1973. The two countries recently signed an agreement in
which South Africa will supply coal for an Israeli power plant
being built on the Mediterranean coast.
-'"' Israel Introduces Nuclear Weapons
■     Ban Measure At United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)-Israel introduced a draft
resolution last week calling on all Middle East countries "to
convene at the earliest possible date a conference with a view
to iiegotating the multi-lateral treaty-establishing a nuclear
weapons-free zone in the Mideast." ■
Cols. Hebrew School 'Friends'.
To Honor Katz And Yenkin
Conference Opens
"The 'Friends' of the
Columbus Hebrew School
will pay tribute at their Annual Affair on Sunday, Dec. 7
to Arthur Katz and Fred
Arthur Katz
Yenkin for their devoted service to the''Friends'," announced Irwin Wiener, Uiis
■ year's Dinner Chairman.
. Wiener said that "the
'Friends' are proud to honor
these gentlemen in recognition of their years of
dedicated service to the
'Friends', which makes
scholarship assistance possible so that all Jewish children, regardless of financial
ability, can receive a He-
. brew education."  ■.-■-.
NEW YORK, (JTA)-
Close to 200" Soviet Jews
began hunger strikes in
several Soviet cities last
week to protest the contimi;
ing refusal of authorities to
allow them to reunite with
their families in Israel, it
was announced by the National Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ). The hunger
strikes were timed to coincide with the opening day of
the Madrid Conference, the
second review meeting of the
1975 Helsinki Accords.
The conference in Madrid
opened with a brief ceremony at midnight and then
began despite the lack of an
agenda and timetable. The
35-nation meeting has been
deadlocked over the Soviet
Union's attempt tojimit discussion on Soviet human
rights violations and the
USSR'sinvasioh of
Afghanistan during the
12-week meeting. In a com
promise agreement, it was
decided to let each national
-delegation make general
statements while efforts to
agree on an agenda continued.-
(In Washington, Jhe State
Department' expressed
"hope that the Soviet Union
will ultimately join a reasonable compromiseHvhich will
allow the Helsinki Commission to go forward with the
whole implementation review that has been envisaged by all of its members." Department spokesman John Trattner observed
that "Almost alone, the
Soviet Union has stood
against, a review and has
tried to limit severely the
time envisioned in'the conference to conduct implementation of the review,
That attitude on the.part of
the Soviets has brought the
conference to the present impasse!")
CJF Head Announces Billion
Hollar 'Jswislr Survival' Goal
"In honoring these men," ,
said Wiener, "we will acknowledge and pay tribute to .
two individuals who have
demonstrated a personal
commitment to the furtherance of Jewish education
and the community Hebrew
School." -
The program for the even- •
ing will feature, in* addition
to the presentation to the.
honorees, an address .by
Akiva Baum entitled "A
World Wide Jewjsh Community Survey: Crisis, Identity and Education." In addition, Sunnie Ghitman will
direct the CHS choir in a
musical  presentation.  A
(CONTINUEDON PAGE.9)
By Murray Zuckoff
DETROIT, (JTA)-The
North American Jewish
community was told last-
week'that long-range planning is imperative "if we are
to survive, with the "quality
of Jewish life we want for
our children and their
chiidren."
This theme, along, with the
announcement of the undertaking of a billion dollar
level of annual* campaigning
"neededaby the Jewish communal enterprise," was
made by Morton Mandel,
president of the Council of
Jewish Federations (CJF),
at the opening plenary session of the CJF's 49th General Assembly meeting at
the Detroit Plaza Hotel.
To underscore the fact that
"the "billion dollars is the
current requirement to properly meet our needs," Man-
del told the more than 3000
Jewish leaders from the United States and Canada, a
number surpassing that of
the previous high attendance
at the 47th General Assembly in San Francisco two
years ago:'"There is no certainty that our Jewish communities will survive forever, for another 100 years,
or even 50." The key to this
survival, he said, is long-
range planning "in our overall strategy" to meet basic
Jewish responsibilities at
home and overseas.
JPVed Yenkin
Gunman Shoots Up B'nai B'rith
International Headquarters
Dr. Daniel Thurz, executive V.P. of B'nai B'rith,
said "Obviously this is
frightening and disturbing
but we have no way of knowing whether it is the activity
of one deranged person or a
group."
Thursz added that "until
more evidence is obtained
we cannot see this as
anything more than an
isolated incident." The only
eye-witness was a- security
guard near the doors of the
B'nai B'rith building who
saw the assailant flee but
could make no identification.
The guard was protected by
the bullet-proof glass which
(CONTINUEDON PAGE W
By Joseph Polakoff *
WASHINGTON,
(JTA)—An unidentified gunman using an automatic
weapon fired nine bullets into the glass doors of the
B'nai B'rith International
headquarters building here
last week and fled, in a car.
No one was injured.
A short time later, the
Washington Post received an
anonymous telephone call
from a man who said he was
a member of "the Christian
Anti-Zionist League" and
claimed that he had fired the
shots. Neither the police nor
the B'nai B'rith have heard
of such a group.
• In Moscow more than 100
refuseniks gathered al the
Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet to deliver a petition to
President Leonid Brezhnev,
signed by 268 Jews from
Moscow, Leningrad, Riga,
Kishinev and elsewhere. The
letter, signed by those who
declared the hunger strikes
and by others who did not
join the symbolic fast, accused the Soviet authorities of
violating agreements on
emigration that'were part of
the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
The petition asserted that
"our countless appeals and
applications are simply ignored. Many of us haven't
been able to get any, response to requests. Very
often the reason for rejection
is not cited.
"In the past year the
number of those refused has
reached 50,000 by conservative estimates. Judicial persecution of people wishing to
-leave for Israel is. continuing. Our innumerable letters
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Pictured above is the Columbus Torah Academy
building at 181 Noe Bixby Rd. »
-Torah Academy Celebrates
Mortgage Cancellation
Irving Baker, President of
the Columbus Torah
Academy, announces a
momentous event in the annals of the Columbus Jewish
community. On Aug. 22,
1980, the final mortgage pay-
Irving Baker
ment of $250,00 was
delivered to the bank, leaving the Columbus Torah
Academy free of capital debt
for the first time in many
years.
In the early years of the
1970's, a small group of concerned leaders met to plan
the future growth of the
Columbus Torah Academy.
The school had outgrown its
rented quarters and was
ready to build its own structure. This leadership understood that permanent, spacious, attractive housing for
the Torah Academy would
do much to insure the con
tinuity of intensive' Jewish
education for their children
and grandchildren.
A beautiful-large wooded
tract of land was obtained
through the generosity of
Jack and Eleanor Resler. An -
architect was found, plans
were drawn, and construction started in 1974. The new -
Torah Academy building
was completed in time for
classes in, September 1975.
The beauty and utility of the
new structure fulfilled even
the fondest dreams of its
founders.
The cost of the entire pro- -
ject was approximately
$1,300,000. This money was
collected in three stages, almost entirely from the
original school leadership, ''
consisting of-approximately
20 families. A very limited
community campaign was
held.
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