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VOL.59   NO.2
JANUARY 8,1981-SHEVAT3
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Agudas Achim
Centennial Set
For January 11
An entire weekend of
special religious services
and activities will initiate,
the one hundredth anniversary year of Agudas Achim:
This Friday at 8:15 p.m.,
Sisterhood will lead the services and will honor past and
present leadership. Mrs.
Dorothy Rubenstein will be
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Mrs, Samuel W. Rubenstein
the guest speaker, according'
to Sisterhood President Ro-'
berta Schwartz. The Oneg
Shabbat following will be'
sponsored by Sisterhood.
Saturday morning services will be dedicated to
Brotherhood. President Eli
Levison said that past and
present leadership will have
the honors and will participate in the service. The
Kiddush is sponsored by the
Brotherhood. ,
On Sunday, Jan. 11, at 7:30
p.m. there will be a centennial ceremony and a special
service written for the occa-
■sion. Featured will be Dr.
Norman Lamm, President of
Yeshiva University, as guest
speaker, A special tribute
will be paid to Rabbi Samuel
W. Rubenstein in honor of his
32 years as spiritual leader.
Past and present lay leadership of the congregation will
be recognized and honored.
A reception will follow, The
congregation and friends are
invited to participate.
NCSY Teens Meet
In Cincinnati
The Beth t Jacob Youth
Group of the Central "East
Kesser Torah Region of
N.C.S.Y. will attend the first.
Southern District Shabbaton
of' the year.in Cincinnati the
.week of Jan. 9-11. The theme
for the convention will be
"Making a Fence Around the
Torah—How High Must It
Be??"
President Judy Vinar an-
,, ** Spates a large delegation
, Jl Beth Jacob to attend
.«e event. Other delegates to
the convention come from
Indianapolis,  Louisville,
• Day ton.and Cincinnati-, v. w
Jewish Activist Dies
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The death of Alexander Landsman,
the 17-year-old Soviet Jewish boy whose parents had requested permission for him to emigrate from the Soviet
Union in order to seek treatment of leukemia in the West, was
announced by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet
Jewry. The .Conference was the primary sponsor of the
family's request for permission to leave the Soviet Union.
Egyptian Minister Visits Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Egyptian Minister^ Agriculture, Mohammad Mahmoud Daoud, met with President YhV
zhak.Navon here Dec. 28 and will meet later with Premier
Menachem Begin. He is the first Egyptian of Cabinet rank to
visit Jerusalem since the peace treaty negotiations ran into a
snag. He made it clear that this was a courtesy call on the
President and should not be construed as recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the city.
JNF Encourages Community
To Plant Trees On Tu B'Shevat
ew Christian Right Poses A
erious Problem For U.S. Jews
■ • The-Jewish National Fund   Trees have covered barren
is encouraging the planting   hillsides with lush foliage,        ?    	
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• TuIB'Shevat (the 15th of, sion with the power of their   .fairs Director of the Anti-   Jewry  and  the  funda-
By Yitzhak Rabi
NEW YORK, (JTA)-Par-
ticipants in a panel discussion on "The New Christian Right and'the Jews" in
America agreed that the vehement support of Israel on
the part of right-wing Christian fundamentalists on the
one hand and their reactionary, anti-liberal political
and social views on the other
hand, pose a serious dilemma for American Jews. But
the panelists disagreed on
how this dilemma should be
approached.
The panel was part of the
1980 National Editors Conference of the:Jewish Student Press Service held at
American Jewish Congress
headquarters here last
week. The participants were
Annette Daum,-Inter-
religious Affairs Director of
the Union of American He-
brew Congregations
(UAHC),  aria Kenneth
ity should be aware that the
motive of the Moral Majority
in supporting Israel "is not
so pure from our point of
view" because, he said, they
see the ingathering of all the
Jews in Israel as a. precondition for the second coming of
the Messiah.
Jacobson said that,
although this pro-Zionist
stand should be cultivated, it
poses a dilemma for American Jews because of the
social policies of the new
Christian right; He noted
that these policies alienate
supporters of Israel from
other segments of society.
As a case in* point, he recalled that that outgoing
Sen. Frank Church (D.
Idaho), a staunch supporter
of Israel,' refused to accept
the Jabotinsky Award from
Premier Menachem Begin
last Nov. because Begin also
bestowed it on Falwell.
Jacobson maintained that
the need to cultivate the rela-
Shevat), •• which  this  year
falls on Jan. 20, is the holi-
1 day that marks winter's end,
according to JNF President
Martin Hoffman. In Israel,
Tu B'Shevat does actually
signal the start of spring.
The harsh winter is over, the
rains are gone, flowers begin
to sprouton the hillsides, and
the buds of the first-
flowering tree, the almond
tree, make their glorious
debut.. ■ ' .
The Land of Israel was a
land of milk and honey in the
days of the Bible, Hoffman
said. It became a, land of
rocks and sand after the
Jews were driven from the
land, and the trees were cut
down, The Jewish religion is
tied to trees, as a symbol of
life, a symbol of man and the
symbol of the Jewish people.
"Today, Israel is again
becoming a land of milk and
honey—largely because of
the planting of trees by the
. Jewish National Fund
through the generosity of the
Diaspora," he said.
Tu B'Shevat celebration-
turns the Jewish heart to Israel., It, is more , than, a
celebration of -the season's
change. For generations
passed it was a New Year's:
Day—the New Year of the
• Trees. It has become not only the day when trees are
; planned in the Holy Land, but
the day. when their importance to the State of Israel is
celebrated
Hoffman explained;
. In Israel, JNF's planting
of trees has helped turn
malarial swamps into fertile
cropland, and desert wastes
•Antovihevabundantf, forests,.
roots, and have protected
outpost settlements from
ravaging sandstorms. And
trees provide a backdrop of
natural beauty for parks and
recreation areas for the people of Israel.
The JNF has been giving
Jews everywhere a means of
celebrating the holiday:
planting trees in Israel. "By
participating in the JNF's
Tu B'Shevat tree planting
campaign, . you join the
thousands of Jews who each
year plant precious saplings
in the soil of the Jewish
homeland," said Hoffman.
"When you contribute
money for planting your
trees, you not only pay
tribute to a loved one, but
you also fulfill the Tu
B'Shevat Mitzvah of
creating new life in the earth
of .Israel. .
"This year, when you
fulfill this Mitzvah, you'll be
helping JNF celebrate the
80th Anniversary' of its inception. The children of the
community will, join the
celebration in their religious
schools, with the beautiful
posters and study materials
provided by JNF."
JNF stresses that when a
Jew plants trees in the Jewish homeland, he makes a
personal and crucial commitment to the greatest
modern miracle of the Jewish people—the ongoing and
development of the State of
Israel. ,
To order Tu B'Shevat
trees, call the JNF office,
23M397, or visit its new location at 2700 E. Main St.. (between Gould and Roosevelt)
Defamation League of B'nai
B^rith. The discussion was
moderated by Dr. Henry
Feingold, professor of
American Jewish history at
City University of New York.
According to Jacobson, the
fundamentalist Christian
right and especially the
Moral Majority movement
headed by Rev. Jerry
Falwell, demonstrates an
"extremely strong pro-
Zionist position" that
American Jewry. should
cultivate and encourage.
But at the same-time, he
noted, .the' Jewish commun-
Jewry.
mentalists is important in
view of the little measure of
support Israel enjoys in the
rest of the world. He added,
however, "American Jews
have ^ to examine on a
multiplicity of levels their
relations with the Moral Majority and not on the issue of
support of Israel alone." He
said Jews should consider
the impact the views of the
Moral Majority will have on
Jewish life in America in
years to come.
A different approach was
advocated by Daum who
called on American Jews to
Residents And Volunteers
Express Gratitude To Staff
Heritage Village Auxiliary Volunteers show their appreciation to Village staff members by preparing a
holiday dinner for them, Dec. 25. Shown serving at the'
luncheon are (from left to right) Mrs. Sarah Pober-
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come out "in the open"
against the Moral Majority
despite their support of
Israel. She warned that if the
opinions' and views of the
Moral Majority are translated into political power,
America will face "a new
repressive era" which, she-
warned, would be
"dangerous to the Jews."
Daum said, "We should
appreciate the support (of
the Moral Majority for
Israel) but yet we should not
give them awards. We are
going to end with egg on our
faces. We have to fight them
in the open." She added that
the American Jewish community is against the agenda
of the Moral Majority on
social, educational and
economic issues.
Feingold said the fundamentalist Christians are
"wonderfully Zionist" but
they have a different ap1
proach to power than the
Jtews who believe in complete" separation of-'chttfdr
and state.      •   • -
Judge Duncan
Will Lecture
At Beth Tikvah
Judge Robert M. Duncan
of the U.S. District Court in
Columbus will be the
speaker at the second-lecture of .Congregation Beth
Tikvah, scheduled at 10 a.m.
Sunday, Jan. 11, in the new,
building at 6182 Olentangy
River Rd.
, Judge Duncan will discuss
the role of the federal courts
in litigation affecting the
society. A question-answer
format follows his presenta-"
tion. Dr. Howard Fink, a
member of the congregation;
and professor of law at Ohio
State University, will be
moderator.
The initial Sunday Forum
presentation of Beth Tikvah '
was by Benson Wolman. executive director of the Ohio
Chapter, ACLU, with more
than 75 persons attending.
The new Beth Tikvah sanctuary is located on old Route
315, best reached from the
east side either by following
the outerbelt (1-270) to Olentangy River Rd. and turning
south one interchange to
Route 161 or by following
Route 315 about three miles
past Riverside Hospital to'
Route 161. Directions then
are to turn west one-quarter
mile to the traffic light at old
Route 315 and south one-half
mile to the flashing yellow
light. Beth Tikvah is located
immediately past the
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