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FEBRUARY 18,1982-SHE VAT 25
Devoted to Amorfcan
and Jewish ideals.
Reform Community
To Celebrate
Founders Day
February 19 and 20
On Friday night, Feb. 19,
and Saturday, Feb. 20, the
Columbus Reform Jewish
Community will mark
Founders Day. This first?
ever celebration commemorates the birth of Reform""
Judaism in the 18th Century.
A special Community Service will be held at Temple
Israel, 5419 E. Broad St., oh
Friday at 8 p.m. and workshop sessions will be conducted at Congregation Beth
Tikvah, 6121 Olentangy
River Rd., Worthington, on
Saturday.
State Department Stresses That
ORT Day Scheduled
New York State's Governor Hugh L. Carey and New York
City's Mayor Edward I. Koch have both issues proclamations
declaring Wednesday, March 3 as "ORT Day 1982." Similar
proclamations will be issued by governors and mayors
throughout the length and breadth of the United States as
145,000 members of Women's American ORT in 1250 chapters
from coast to coast prepare to launch the most intensive and
widespread Spring Membership Campaign in their organization's history.
Russian Jews Converting
NEW YORK—Conversion to Christianity among Russian
Jews newly arrived in America has become a problem which
warrants the highest priority by the American Jewish Community, an Aliyah Center spokesman said recently. Efraim
'Tzal, director of the Israel Aliyah Center's Russian Department, said he was "shocked" when he witnessed conversion
ceremonies last month for seven Russian Jews at a Manhat- •
tan Orthodox Church. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Tzal
said. "I wanted to stand up and shout: 'You left Russia to
save your Jewishness. Another Jew languishes in Russia
because you were released. Is this what saving a Jew means
toyou?'."
There
In U.
'Definitely
olioyTowa
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The State Department
stressed last week that
"there definitely has not
been" any change in U.S.
policy toward Israel. "We
remain committed to
Israel'ssecurity and well being, as well as maintaining
the best possible relations
with other states in the Middle East," Department
spokesman Dean Fischer
said.
Fischer made his 'state-
- ment after saying he would
not comment on reports that
a senior official travelling
with Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger in the
Rabbi David Hacheh
Participating in this event
will be the three Columbus.
Reform Jewish Congregations: Temple Israel, Beth
Tikvah and Beth Shalom.
Rabbis Harvey S. Goldman,
Robert D. Levy,- Jerome D.
Folkman and Cantor Alane
S. Katzew, Rabbi Anthony
Holz and Marty. Eisenstein,
and Rabbi Howard
Apothaker and Linda'Schot-
tenstein, Congregational
Presidents Seyman Stern,
Gilbert Nestel and James
Dowell, of Congregations
Temple Israel, Beth Tikvah
and Beth Shalom, respectively, will conduct the worship service on Friday evening.
Rabbi David Hachen,
Director of the Northeast
Area Council of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,, has been invited to
deliver i!he sermon that evening. His topic will be "The
Changing Reform Scene."
On Saturday the Executive
Boards of the three Congregations will meet to discuss
common concerns and hopes
for the coming year. This
session, held at Beth Tikvah,
will provide "brain-storming" time essential for continued growth' and cooperation.
Founders Day Celebrations date back generations
in'" Reform Judaism. It
marks the birth of an American Jewish Movement and
occurs near the birthday of
• Isaac  Mayer  Wise,  the
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B'nai B'rith Women Finalize Plans
For Theatre Party, Celebrity Auction
been donated by famous people for the auction.. For. example, a white dress -from
Dyan   Cannon,   an   auto-
B'nai B'rith Women of Columbus will be sponsoring a
Theater Party at the Drexel
Theater, 2254 E. Main St., on
Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. This is
one of the many fundraising,
projects from which the
profits go to the B'nai B'rith
Children's Home in Israel,
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, B'nai B'rith
Youth Organizations, and
the B'nai' B'rith Hillel Foundation.
Members of all Columbus
chapters, Avodah, Candlelight; Masada, Twin Rivers,
and Zion, will be working to
make this event a great success. The evening will begin
with wine and cheese. Then
the feature event, the movie
"Singin' in the Rain" with
Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, will be viewed. The af
fair will conclude with a
Celebrity Auction conducted
by Alex Kushkin as the auctioneer.
Many different items have
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i Flo Gurwin, President of BBW's Council, Jean Rob-
bins and Alice Taub are shown (1. to r.) holding a dress
donated by Dyan Cannon for the Theatre Party and
Celebrity Auction scheduled for Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. at
the Drexel Theatre.
Jewish Family Service Confronts Vocational Problems
The economy today dictates the need for education
and career planning for
youth and adults. Educational, employment and
career counseling services
can help clarify an individual's abilities; and
goals.
A Breakfast Hour was held
on Jan. 19 at Jewish Family
Service to discuss these
issues and to identify how
the Vocational Service
Department of Jewish Family Service is helping and can
help to confront these problems. Representatives from
school districts, vocational-s
technical-college programs,
mental health centers,
rehabilitation' facilities, and
private psychologists were
present, ; : ,.,
The meeting was success-5,!
ml in bringing together the
various professionals to discuss and learn about the
benefits of career planning.
Further efforts will be made
to enlighten other community agencies of the diverse
Jewish Family Service programs. f
Further questions could be
directed to the Vocational-
Service Department of Jewish  Family  Service  at
231-1890.
Representatives from school districts, vocational-
technical-college programs, mental health centers,
rehabilitation facilities, and private psychologists
meet with Jewish Family Service staff to learn about
; the diverse vocational services offered by the agency. *
Middle East said the U.S.
wanted to establish a more
balanced relationship with
Israel and the more moderate Arab states.
The official was reported
as saying'that this new relationship was reflected in the
joint military planning
group Weinberger set up
with Saudi Arabia while visiting there last week and his
efforts to establish a "similar
group in talks in Oman. The
official also pointed to this
balance in connection with
Weinberger's discussions in
Jordan yesterday about the
possibility of selling that
country U.S. -Hawk antiaircraft missiles and possibly-F-16 jet fighters.
(Political sources in Jerusalem said that Israel intends to make known to the
U.S. its strong opposition to
the increased sale of weapons to Arab countries, notably Jordan arid Saudi
Arabia because of their effect on the balance of military power in the region and
on the peace process.
(Israel was also reported
to be seeking clarification
from the U.S. of the remarks
attributed to a senior official
travelling with Weinberger.
Some media reports quoted
the official as saying the U.S.
intends to take a "tougher
line" toward Israel. The
description "senior official"
was used by former Sectary of State Henry Kissinger to cover remarks he
did not want attributed to
himself. The Israelis want to
find out if the "senior official" in this case was in fact
Weinberger.)
Weinberger was reportedly trying to get Jordan to
drop its agreement to purchase' Soviet anti-aircraft
missiles. Fischer said that
the Defense Secretary was
not negotiating with the
Jordanians on arms sales
but only exploring the possibility. He denied there -
, were any differences between Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander
Haig on this issue and stressed that Haig had been "apprised" of what Weinberger
was trying to accomplish on
his Middle East trip.
With respect to the sale of
Hawk missiles and F-16s to
Jordan, Fischer stressed
that no decisions have been
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Poetess Dr. Ada Aharoni
To Speak At Tzavta Club
The Tzavta Club and the
Zionist Institute announce
that the third lecture of the
third session will be held on
Thursday, Feb. 25, at the
home of Elaine and Irv Edison at 3181E. Broad St., and
their guest will be Dr. Ada
Aharoni, Irael's Egyptian-
born "Poet of Peace."
Dr. Ada Aharoni is a
senior lecturer in English
literature at the University
of Haifa and is at present
visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Born into a Jewish family
in Egypt in 1934, Aharoni
spoke French at home,
Arabic on the streets and
English in school. In 1949,
her family was forced out of
Egypt and fled to France.
Aharoni stayed there only a
year until she emigrated to
Israel in.1950,..
Professor Aharoni holds a
Ph.D. in Literature from the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1975) on "The
development of Saul Bellow's Art" and a Master's in
Philosophy from London
University (1967).
Professor Aharoni has
taught literature at Haifa
•University and the Technioni
and is co-editor of Voices, a
poetry magazine in Israel.
Professpr Aharoni has
published four poetry collec*
tions: Whispered Thoughts,
Poems from Israel, Poems
from Israel and Other
Poems, From the Pyramids
to Mount Carmel. A new;
poetry book on Shin Shalom1
has just appeared.
As a young girl growing up
in Cairo, her closest friend
was a Moslem girl named
Kadreya. Parted from her
friend for more than .30
years, it is nevertheless to
Kadreya that many of her
poems are addressed. She
sent "Letter to Kadreya" to
Jehan Sadat in 1975. When
she was presened to Egypt's
First Lady last year, she
asked her why she had never
replied. "It was too early"
Mrs. Sadat answered, "But
it did influence us, and we
took it to heart."
All Tzavta members and
interested people from the
community are invited to attend this meeting. For more
information, call David Edison, president of Tzavta, at
231-0287 or Aharon Yaffe at
•237-7686.«      !? "