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The Gallery Players production of "Here Comes
Charlie Brown" opens in the
Center Auditorium on Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m.
Another matinee is scheduled for Sunday, March 15
at 2 p.m. Evening performances will be on Wednesday,
March 11 at 7:30 p.m. and
Saturday, March 14 at 8:30
p.m.
One could say that "Here
Comes Charlie Brown" is
loosely based on the popular
comic strip and deals with
an average day in the life of
Charlie Brown. However, it
really is a day made up from
all the days of Charlie
Brown, from Valentine's
Day to baseball season. It includes moments that reflect
feelinp ranging from wild
optimism to utter'despair.
They are strung together to
form a single day, from
bright, uncertain morning to
hopeful, starlit night.
The production will be a
delightful family experience. Tickets are now on
sale in the Cultural-Arts office. General admission is
$2.50, while the cost to
Center members is $2.
Seating is limited, and advance -reservations- are
recommended.
Israeli Jews, Arabs
Students in Irene Marocco's Primary I class at the
Agudas Achim Branch of the Columbus Hebrew School
display eagerness to learn (top photo). Carl Wasserman and Ricky Shapiro in the advanced Gimel class at
the Agudas Achim Branch of the Columbus Hebrew
School are pleased to learn they have made Honor Roll
for their class (bottom photo).
NEW YORK (JTA)-Na-
tional and local Jewish
organizations are trying to
assess the impact on the
Jewish community of the
massive budget cuts proposed by President Reagan
and to devise means of dealing with this new situation.
But although the Administration will not formally
introduce in Congress until
March 10 its proposed
budget for the 1982 fiscal
year, which begins Oct. 1,
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, in a survey it conducted, found that most
organizations expect many
of their programs to be hit,
particularly those dealing
with the poor, the elderly,
the young.
This is because Reagan's
Administration has already
announced plans to cut $41.4
billion from 83 federal pro
grams in 1982 and make even
deeper cuts in succeeding
years. The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to
attempt to pass the President's budget as swiftly as
possible, but there are signs
that the Democratic-controlled House may seek to
delay action in an effort to
prevent some of the cuts.
Meanwhile, Reagan
announced last week that he
wants to cut another $3 to $5
billion so that the Administration can hold to its goal
-of a federal spending ceiling
of $695.5 billion in 1982.
No one is against taking
steps to "tighten up programs," Albert Chernin,
executive vice president of
the National Jewish Community Relatidns Advisory
Council (NJCRAC), said. He
said the NJCRAC has not
"arrived at a definitive judg-
JERUSALEM,-
(JTA)—Former President
Ephraim Katzir has urged
Israel's Jews and Arabs to
work together to develop the
country since the fate of both
groups is linked to the fate of
the nation. Katzir spoke to
some 500 Jews and Arabs at
a Mapam-organized convention here aimed at improving Jewish-Arab relations in
Israel.
Victor Shemtov, Secretary
General of Mapam, said the
meeting was called in
response to "warning signals" of mounting tensions
between the groups. He cited
as examples expressions of
racial hatred, an anti-Arab
report prepared by a senior
Interior Ministry official,
and a statement attributed
to Minister of Commerce
and Industry Gideon Patt
telling Arabs who were
unhappy in Israel to "take a
taxi across the bridge to
Jordan."
The meeting ended with
the establishment of an
Arab-Jewish Public Council
and the scheduling of a
larger convention this
spring.
A..jubilant celebration in.
honor of the 33rd anniversary of the Creation of the
State of Israel will be held
simultaneously in some 1000
theatres in the United States,
Canada and abroad on Mon-_
day, May 11 and is expected
to raise upwards of
$50,000,000 for educational
institutions based in Israel.
The event, Celebration 33/
is the result of a unique collaboration among the State of
Israel, a vast spectrum of'
the performing arts, the
world of business and 18
international charitable
organizations which support
educational institutions
based in Israel.
Approximately 500,000
people world-wide, by their
purchase of tickets at $100
per person, will be sharing
an historic occasion while
participating in this gala cultural and entertainment
event.
Highlight of the evening
will feajure. the,,world, jptte-^
miere of the motion picture
"The Chosen," based on
Chaim Potok's best-selling
novel. The film produced by
Edie and Ely Landau, will
not go into general release
until the fall of 1981.
In addition to the exclusive
premiere of "The Chosen"
there will be a one-time-only
showing of a specially produced "entertainment-on-
film" starring some of the
greatest talents of the performing arts in a mosaic of
poetry, humor, dramatic
literature, music and song.
Participating organizations within the Columbus
area have selected the Town
and Country Theatre, E.
Broad at Robinwood, for this
event.
Additional information
may be obtained from Mrs.
Irving Sef f, President of Columbus Chapter of Hadassah
(231-1592).
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Tifereth Ssra©! Gong, Plans
Consecration §mi£@ tads
Ira O. Kane, Chairman of
Federation's Community
Relations Committee, along
with Rabbi Samuel W.
Rubenstein and Gerald E.
Wedreri, Co-Chairmen of the
Israel and Overseas Jewry
Task Force, today released
text of a letter they sent to
President Ronald Reagan,
Senators Metzenbaum and
Glenn, and Representatives
Wylie and Shamanslry. The
letter decries efforts to expel
Israel from the United Na-
- tions and urges the United
States to take a tough stand
against such efforts.
Kane urged members of
the community to write similar (but not identical) letters
to political leaders. The text
, of the Community Relations
Committee letter appears
below:
"We wish to share with
you our grave misgivings
about what we feel may
transpire at this year's sessions of the United Nations
General Assembly and
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Consecration Services for
students of the first grade of
the Tifereth Israel Religious
School and children of Congregation members attending Torah Academy will be
held at Friday evening Services on March 6, at 8 p.m. A
Shabbat dinner for these students and their families will
be served at 6:30 p.m.
The participants are Jill,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Gary Barnett; Sandy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Borden; Shari,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Cantor; Jason, son
of Mrs. Cheryl Cooper and
Mr. Al Cooper; Jeffrey, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Fiedenberg; Lindsay,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson Genshaft; Adam, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Glick;
Matthew, son of Mr. and
Mrs/ Jeffrey Grossman;
Jackie, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Gutter; Michael,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Gutter; Matthew, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Edward Kauf f man.
Daniel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Leiner; Brian, son
of Mrs. Arlyne Monroe;
Joshua, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alan T. Radnor; Joshua, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Salman; David, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Schwartz; Deb-
bi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Shell; Tara, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin
Sloin; Allison, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Talis;
Joshua, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Traeger; Jonathan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Winer; Rebekah, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Zave-
loff; Jennifer, daughter of
Dr. and Michael Zimmerman.
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ment'" on the proposed
reductions, but there is
"reason to be somewhat
anxious."
The NJCRAC's Commission on Equal Opportunity
and the Committee on Public
Issues of the Council of Jewish Federations (CJF) will
hold a joint meeting here
March 13 to assess the
"implications" of the
Administration proposals
and to decide "what posture" to take toward them.
He said that along with
assessing the impact on the
Jewish community, the
"broader implications" for
the entire country will also
be discussed. The CJF will
discuss the issue at its quarterly board meeting in Washington April 8-10.
Locally, the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies of
New York (FJP) has scheduled a meeting March 2 to
"develop a priority list of i
major programs to at least
minimize the cuts," according to David Liederman, the
FJP's director of government relations. He said the
FJP plans to work together
with the federations of the
other large cities, all of
which have similar
problems.
The proposed cuts Would
have "a serious impact on a
lot of programs that we care
about," Liederman said. He
explained that they affect
social services, senior centers, day care centers, home
care for the elderly, child
care programs, in fact,
"almost every major program we have."
Rabbi David Cohen,
executive director of the
Metropolitan New York
Coordinating Council on
Jewish Poverty, said there
were an estimated 250,000
Jewish poor and near-poor in
New York City. He said most
of these Jews are the near-
poor; the elderly: large
families, such as the
• Hasidim; and new immigrants, particularly Soviet
Jews.
It is the near-poor that the
budget cuts will hurt most,
since the essence of the Reagan proposals is to reduce
the number of people eligible
for social programs. "That's
where our people find them--
selves," Cohen said.
As an example. Cohen
pointed to the Administration's plan to reduce those
eligible for food stamps by
lowering the maximum
earnings a person could
make and still be able to
receive the stamps. Many
elderly Jews on Social Security who have been getting
food stamps will then be no
longer eligible, he added.
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