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"On Silver Wings" will perform at the Jewish"
Center, 1125 College Ave. on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7:30
p.m. "On Silver Wings," an Israeli musical, stars Do n-
ny Maseng and friends. Their songs of Israel—old and
new—blend with American favorites, all in original
and contemporary arrangements.-The evening-projn*" """-**-*'
ises to be highly entertaining for the entire family.
Tickets for the performance are $3.50 for adults and
$2.50 for students and senior citizens. For more information, call the Center, 231-2731.     '
Albert   Vorspan,   Vice
President,
Union of American
Hebrew Congregations
Our Jewish paranoia gets
outrun by Reality. How
many of us said aloud—or
felt, in our viscera—at times
of euphoria, such as the signing of the Camp David accords or at the endless times
of Mideast crisis: But What
If Sometime Happens To
Sadat? What if Sadat is assassinated? Now the. worst
has happened.
The only Arab leader ever
to reach out his hand in
peace to Israel, to stake his
nation and his own life on the
possibilities of peace, is
gone. Sadat used to divide
mankind into the enemies of
life and the affirmers of life.
He fought against Israel, but
he grew to a larger vision; in
the end he affirmed life and
helped to fashion a peace,
which, God willing, may
transcend his life and death
and give blessing to generations pf Egyptians and Is
raelis yet to come.
So what is the lesson? Is it
that peace is too evanescent
and quixotic, the Middle
East too turbulent and unstable, that peace is too
large a gamble? For some
Jews and others, that will be
the lesson. They will take the
gunshots in Cairo as a summons to hunker down, withdraw, put ourJewish wagons
in a circle and give up on this
crazy world. Who can blame
them?
But despair is not the Jewish way'. Sadat chan pioned
peace, but he didn't invent
peace. Hebrew prophets
dreamed of peace centuries
ago in Jerusalem, the City of
Peace. Hard realities, not
sentimental platitudes led to
peace between Israel and
Egypt; those realities still
exist. Sadat is gone, but even
a towering giant .s not indispensable. The greatest memorial to this visionary lover
of peace is to demonstrate,
on both sides, that the peace
he and Begin helped to fash
ion is not a personal and temporary accommodation between two strong personalities ... but a sturdy
bridge to the future between
two ancient peoples, the peoples of Israel and Egypt, to
enhance the. lives of gen-
. erations yet unborn.
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A joint program for Tazav-
ta and The Young Leadership Development Program
will resume the second annual season of the Zionist Institute activity.
David Edison, chairman of
Tzavta and Marti Netler,
chairman of Young Leadership Development Program,
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invite all the young adults in
the Columbus area to attend
the opening lecture of the,
Zionist seminar on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. at the
home of Sue and Arnold
White at 55 Meadow Park in
Bexley. Distinguished guest
will be  Meron Benvenisti
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"The Amranim" will be the featured entertainers at
the Sunday, Nov. 8, "Ohioans To Israel" Community
Celebration/Kickoff.
pirif And' Ftavor Of bra ,
Calibrated A! Sheraton Nov. 8
Annual Dinner, Nov. 8
Adjusting to a new life from Teheran, Tran, new
customs," a new social order, or from a'comfortable life,
in London, but motivated as her family was by active -
Zionism, these two young ladies are among hundreds
enrolled at Beth Zeiroth, Tel Aviv. To help support
these schools and many other projects, the Columbus .
Chapter of Mizrachi Women will hold its annual dinner
,   on Sunday, Nov. 8, at Agudas Achim Social-Hall.'    v;   ,
"Ohioan To Israel ...
Discovering The Miracle On
The Mediterranean" will
kick-off Sunday, Nov. 8 with
a community-wide celebration to be held at 8 p.m. at the
downtown Sheraton Columbus.
The event is the first in a
three-day series, to encourage tourism to' Israel.
Co-sponsors for the series
are the. Israel Governnie^t
Tourism Office and El .Al
Israel Airlines. -     ,-
The program will feature a
multi-media,. audi6:visual
presentation  on  Israel.,
Among those participating
in the program will be
Shlomo Lahat, mayor of Tel
Aviv-Jaffa;   Dan   Bahat,
-senior archeologist for the
Israel Government Department of Antiquities; and a
representative of the
Counsel General's office in
Philadelphia. The Israel
Government Tourist Office
will also be represented by
top ranking officials in the
JJnited,States.
VThe, Am'ranim,"   a
, folklor^a, duoj  will  be the
"featured" entertainers. The
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For us Jews, peace is our
most passionate yearning.
Even the cruel deaths of millions of our own people could
not extinguish that yearning.
We cannot permit the death
of a good friend, a great
leader, to turn that dream into a sour cynicism:
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Pictured above (1. to r.) are Rabbi David Stavsky.
Rabbi Harvey S. .Goldman and Rabbi Harold J. Berman preparing for their historic round table discussion
at Temple Israel on Sunday, Oct. 25.7:30 p.m.
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Rabbi Harold J. Berman,
Rabbi David Stavsky and
Rabbi Harvey S. Goldman
have announced that they
will hold the first ever public
round table discussion between the religious leaders
of three large Columbus
congregations—Orthodox,
Conservative, and Reform.
The rabbis will discuss the
topic "Orthodox, Conservative-and Reform Judaism:
Where Are We Now—Where
Are We Going—Separately
and Together?" The historic
meeting will occur on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at
Temple Israel.
When asked what motivated them to hold their unprecedented panel discussion on the future' of the three
major Jewish movements,
the rabbis said, "We view
the next few years as a
critical*time—a real turning
point for Jews. Here in
America, .* under President
Reagan, there is a new spirit
of conservatism which has
won the support of'many
Jews.-Also, there is the ques-
sipreeedented
ussion Oct. 25
tion of the Moral Majority—and its efforts to change
American life. \
"Meanwhile, in Israel.
Prime Minister Begin's re-
"election and his new coalition with the religious par-,
ties raises many difficult
questions: about rising
Israeli militarism, about the
position of Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel,
and about the new American
attempts to pressure Israel
into ar compromise with the
Arabs. Finally, in countries
such as Argentina, there is
the problem of growing anti-.
Semitism." All oiPthese
issues—at home, in Israel
and around the world—are of
tremendous importance to
what happens to each of our
Jewish movements and to
each and every Jew in the
years ahead. That is why we.
decided to hold our panel
discussion. The times demand that the three'main
Jewish movements seek out
common ground and. just as
important, that we gain a
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