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will be held in conjunction
with the 100th Anniversary
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Cantor Yehuda Shifman
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celebration of the synagogue
and in honor of Jewish Music
Month.
' Cantor Yehuda Shifman of
Agudas Achim is directing
the program and will also be
one of the featured participants. The Agudas Achim
Choir will also participate.
The Concert will also feature  the  Temple  Israel
Cantor Elwin Redfern
Choir, directed by Carol
Maize and the Columbus Hebrew School Choir, directed
by Sunnie Ghitman.
Cantors Neil Schwartz of
Tifereth Israel, Elwin Redfern of Beth Jacob, Philip
Wolf of Columbus and Sarit
Hazzan Neil Schwartz
Shifman, wife of Cantor Shifman will also star in this
first for Columbus.
This program will be an
annual event in different
synagogues and temples
each year.
The program is free to the
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It won't take long for the audience to determine who
is the favorite son in Dick Goldberg's hard hitting
drama "Family Business" which Gallery Players will
premiere in Columbus on Saturday, March 28. Sol
Milenthal (left) portrays the family head and Robert
Ackerman will be seen as the youngest son. Tickets are
available for all performances.
lallery Players 'family Business1
I for Saturday Performance
"Family Business," Dick
Goldberg's portrait of a Jewish family in crisis, revealing the tensions that bubble
beneath supposedly smooth
surfaces, is the next major
production of the Gallery
Players subscription series
at The Jewish Center, 1125
College Ave., scheduled to
open Saturday, March 28, at
8:30 p.m.
"However," says Harold
M. Eisenstein, who is directing the Columbus premiere
of the prize-winning play,
"Family Business' is not an
ethnic play. A writer is more
apt to be secure writing from
his own environmental
experience, but Goldberg
has written a drama about
families, about sibling rivalry and sibling loyalty."
. In "Family Business" a
dying Massachusetts millionaire calls his brood together to outline the changes
in his will. Their mother has
gone before him and there is
no one left to divvy up the old
homestead and the family
toy emporia but the four
boys.
In the Gallery Players production, the part of the
father is being enacted by
Saul Milenthal, who is
remembered for his role as
the Manufacturer in "Middle
of the Night." The oldest son,
a widower who has centered
his life in taking the burden
of business from his father's
increasingly feeble
shoulders, is played by Walt
Davis. An English professor
at Ohio State Uniyersity,
Davis makes his debut with
Gallery in this production.
Robert Mitchell, seen earlier
this season, in a leading role
in "Watch on the Rhine,"
returns as the psychologist
son ladened with personal
debts.
Additional performances
are on March 29, April 1,2,4
and 5. A special early-cur-
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Community Calendar Published
Weekly in Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Heinz Hoffman, Chairman
of the Council of Organizations announced that the
Community Calendar will
now be published weekly in
the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
The Community Calendar is
maintained by the Council to
enable all organizations in
the community to clear
dates for their events and to
avoid conflicts in program
schedules.
"In order for the publishing of the Community Calendar in the Ohio Jewish
Chronicle to be done effectively, the guidelines created
by the Council of Organizations must be followed
exactly by participating organizations," stated Hoffman. He added that "no organization will be able to list
their programs in the Community Calendar unless the
procedures are strictly adhered to.".
Organizations wishing to
note their events in the Community Calendar must notify
the calendar secretary at the
Jewish Center (231-2731) in
writing at least one month
prior to the event. Monthly
program sheets are available at the Federation office.
Because the Community
Calendar will be listed weekly, it is suggested that organizations notify the calendar secretary of events scheduled two-months in advance, if possible.
Hoffman noted that many
organizations mistakenly
assume that the Community
Calendar guarantees a date.
In fact, the primary purpose
of the Community Calendar
is to provide information to
particular organizations and
inform the public of meetings and events. In this way,
conflicts can be minimized
and a better coordination of
programs may be achieved.
For additional information
on the Community Calendar
and. how to list your organization's events in the Calendar, call Michael Broidy at
the Federation office.
Court Judges Strip Citizenship
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)-
Federal district court judges
in Philadelphia and Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., last week
stripped U.S. citizenship
from two Ukrainian-born
men who had lied about their
participation in Nazi concentration camps during World
War II in order to gain admission into the United
States.
In the U.S. District Court
here, Judge Louis Bechtle
ordered that Wolodymir Osi-
dach, a 76-year-old retired
Philadelphia slaughterhouse
worker, be denaturalized. In
Fort Lauderdale, Judge Norman Roettget issued a
denaturalization order for
Feodor Fedorenko, 73, of
Miami, who was accused of
concealing his role as a
Ukrainian guard in the Treblinka concentration camp.
Roettget reversed his 1978
ruling in favor of Federenko
following a 7-2 decision by
the U.S. Supreme Court Jan.
21 that the goverment had to
prove that Federenko had
Sanely Schreiner, R.N., chairman of the Second Annual Health and Fitness Fair conferring with last
year's chairman,! Dr\JLarry Shell. t  ' ,
The second annual Columbus Jewish Center Health
and Fitness Fair is scheduled for Sunday, March 29
from 11-5 p.m. The day will
offer the community
numerous free health
screenings, fitness demonstrations and other health
related items. In addition,
four lectures focusing on
health and stress will be
presented from 1 to 5 p.m.
Dr. Gerry Steiman will
kick-off the forum with a 1
p.m. lecture focusing on
Learning Disabilities. The
talk with highlight current
misconceptions and how to
detect and help children who
have learning problems. Information will also be presented on the role of the parent and teacher and how
they can be more effective
helpers. Dr. Steiman is a
Pediatric Neurologist and
has offices on the east side of
Columbus.
The second lecture will
begin at 2 p.m. and feature
Dr. Samuel Wenger. Dr.
Wenger, a noted consultant
and counselor on alcoholism,
will discuss Chemical
Dependence and how it
relates to all members of the
Columbus Community. Dr.
Wenger, the Education
Director of Talbot Hall, is a
certified, alcholoism counselor. He has authored
numerous articles on the
subject and most recently
served as a consultant and
lectured  for  the  Bexley
School system.
Serving as the third lecturer will be Barb Bostic,
Director of Physical Therapy at St. Anthony Hospital.
Ms. Bostic, a registered
physical therapist, will discuss Ways to Manage Pain.
She will include several of
the current methods and innovations  that  are  being
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lied about his past when he
entered the U.S. in 1949 and
did not need to prove that he
had participated in the beating and shooting of Jewish
prisoners.
In the Philadelphia case,
Osidach was tried in a nonjury civil action here last
fall. He was accused of concealing his role as an officer
in the Ukrainian police
force, a force which actively
helped the Nazis send Jews
to their deaths, in order to
enter this country in 1949 and
later to obtain citizenship.
"We are very, very
pleased with the decision,"
said Neal Sher, deputy director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special
Investigations, who prosecuted this case, according to
a report by David Gross,
news editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent.
Sher noted that the Osidach case was the first such
case his department had
handled from the very start.
"Once Judge Bechtle's opinion is final, once the defense
has exhausted its appeals,
we will move to. have Osidach deported," he said.
The defense attorney
warned that this decision,
along with the Supreme
Court decision on Federenko, should serve "notice"
on "Jews and gentiles alike,
who were in the unfortunate
predicament of attempting
to survive under Hitler's
occupation of their homeland, that they are subject to
denaturalization and deportation solely because of their
either active or passive
involvement in any organization, either voluntarily or
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Rabbi Tanenbaum Honored
By O.S.U. Melton Center
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national interreli-
gious affairs director of the
American Jewish Committee, will speak to the Columbus Jewish community on
"American Jewry in the
1980's: Problems and Prospects" on Sunday evening,
April 12,8 p.m., at the Faw-
cett Center for Tomorrow,
2440 Olentangy River Rd.
The Melton Center for Jewish Studies at OSU has
named him the 1981 Distinguished Humanitarian Lecturer in recognition of his
dedication and contribution
to the quality of human life
and his service to mankind.
Rabbi Tanenbaum has
been a pioneering leader and
thinker in interreligious
relations, human rights and
social justice movements
during the past 30 years.
Newsweek magazine has de-
Kabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum
scribed him as "the American Jewish community's
foremost apostle to the gentiles ... who has been able
to solicit support from all
factions of the Jewish com:
munity." Apoll of America's
newspaper religion editors
in 1978 voted Rabbi Tanen-
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