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Knesset That Israel
Perform Sunday, March 14
The premier performance
of the Jewish Center's Popcorn Players' production of
The Bremen Town Musicians was a major success,
according to Director Steven
Anderson, Anderson, who is
involved with the Children's
Department at the Jewish
Center, 'feels audiences
responded positively to the
high caliber of his production. "We have found that
the vaudevillian theme that
is carried throughout
Bremen Town makes the
show extremely appealing to
adults as well as youngsters," he stated.
The Popcorn Players, the
Center  based  professional
repertory children's theatre
company, is funded in part
by a grant from the Greater
Columbus Arts Council. The
core of the soon-to-be-
expanded company contains,
four players, and local
guests artists who round out
the current cast. Touring
will be a large part of the
crew's agenda, and further
funding will be solicited
from local agencies.
A future performance of
The Bremen Town Musicians will be held on Sunday,
Mar. 14, at 1 and 3 p.m.
Ticket reservations may be
made through the Cultural
Arts Office, 231-2731.
Masonic Night At Agudas Achim
The Agudas Achim Congregation  has  invited  all
Charles B. Moodv
area Masons, their families
and friends to join with them
on Friday, Mar. 19, at 8:15
'    p.m. for a special service.
'• Guest speaker for the evening wiH be Most Worshipful
Brother Charles B. Moody,
Grand Master of Masons in
Ohio. Other honored guests
. will include the Staff of the
14th District Officers Asso-
. ciation, and a host of other
distinguished Masons.
There will be a brief
religious service followed by
j remarks from selected
guests. An Oneg Shabbat will
! follow. The community is
cordially invited.
e Palestinians
JERUSALEM ,.(JTA)-
President Francois Mitterrand told the Knesset last
week that the position of
France in the Middle East is
predicated on Israel's fundamental "right to live" but
it is a right, he declared,
which cannot be denied to
the Palestinians. They cannot be expected to give up
this right, he asserted.
Mitterrand's address to
the Knesset, the highlight of
his three-day visit to Israel
which began last Thursday,
summarized both the ■ point
of his trip here and the:
course his Socialist government can be expected to follow in the Middle East. He
came to Israel to end the
coolness, often bordering on
hostility, which had characterized Franco-Israeli
relations during the administrations of Charles de
Gaulle and his succesors.
At the same time, he emphasized that while France
does not presume to preach
to the nations of the Middle
East which must work out
their, own solution, he
believes the Palestinians
must be given a homeland.
Begin Offers Lengthy
Response
Premier Menachem Begin
offered a lengthy, emotional
response. There is now a
"basis for hope" that under
Mitterrand the strains between France and Israel
would end. "But there are
obstacles . . .chief among
them France's support for a
Palestinian state," Begin
declared.
He followed that statement
with a bitter, scathing attack
on Mitterrand's Foreign
Minister, Claude Cheys-
son—who is accompanying
the President in Israel—for
having said on recCnf visits
to Arab countries that he
viewed the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole
legitimate representative of
the Palestinian people.
The Mitterrand-Begin exchange during the packed
festive special session of the
Knesset echoed the differences expressed by the two
leaders in their.private conversation, shortly after Mitterrand arrived in Jerusalem. Despite claims by.
Israeli spokesmen that
Begin's presentation of
Israel's positions had left the
French leader "very • impressed," informed French
sources insisted that Mitterrand, in his questions and
remarks during their meet
ing, made clear to Begin his
own belief that the autonomy
proposal for the Palestinians, advanced by Israel,
was "a non-starter" mainly
because the West Bank and
Gaza populations rejected it.
.   Sharp Differences
No Surprise
But the sharp differences
between Mitterrand and his
host over the Palestinian
issue came as no surprise to
either leader and were not
allowed to mar the historic
significance of the occasion.
Mitterrand is the first
French chief of state ever to
visit Israel. Although he has
been in Israel several times
in the past, it was not in the
capacity of President of
France. He is regarded as a
strong, sincere friend of the
Jewish State.
As he declared in his Knesset speech, "The time has
come after a too-long
absence" for the dialogue to
be resumed at the highest
levels.   After  a   period  of
"alienation," the two countries "must start afresh," he
said.
Begin concurred, asserting that Mitterrand's visit
marked an eiid to the period
of "unilateral love" of
France on Israel's part
which was not reciprocated
by Paris.
Mitterand spoke to the
Knesset in French, with
simultaneous translation into Hebrew.  To'many ob
servers, his speech recalled
the historic address of the
late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset in
November, 1977. There was
an outpouring of warmth for
the man coupled with deep-
seated reservations over the
solutions he proposed.
Mitterrand insisted that
the Palestinians must be entitled to decide their own
fate,   provided  that  they
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Kollek Raps Met Museum's Decision
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem has attacked the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
for its ^decision not to display
an archaeological exhibit
from Israel because,*accord-
ing to the Met, some of the
artifacts are from the West
Bank and would therefore
pose a security risk to the
museum;
Kollek cited the museum's
contention that the show
relied   heavily   on   objects
from the West Bank as "erroneous" and said that more
than 85 percent" of the artifacts are from Israel. The
artifacts, he noted,
"originated in a biblical land
having no relation to 20th
century demarcation lines,"
he stated. The mayor added:
"The ignoble act of the
museum's submitting to
political pressures diminishes the essential quality
of art as a unifier of mankind."
Tifereth Israel Women Finalize Plans
For 'A Night To Remember' On Mar. 13
Saturday, Mar. 14 promises to be "A Night To Remember" for all those who
attend the evening at
Tifereth Israel Synagogue.
The event will feature a
variety show which includes
songs by favorite Jewish
composers and artists, i.e.,
Gershwin, Hamlish, Mani-
low, Berlin and so forth and
a slide presentation.
The slides span a period of
time from 1901 to the pres-
Georgetown University Says
No To PLO'Birthday Party'
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Georgetown University has
revoked permission for the Arab student organization there
to hold a "cultural event" after it learned that it was to be an
anniversary dinner for an organization that is part of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Seminar On Rights Of Palestinians
UNITEDNATIONS (JTA)-A North American Seminar on
the rights of the Palestinian people will be held at the United
Nations from March 15-19, it was announced here last week.
The seminar was organized by the UN Secretariate at the request of the General Assembly in a resolution adopted last
Dec. 10.
Army Continues To Remove Squatters
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The army continued its forcible removal of illegal squatters from villages in northern Sinai last
week. The militants, who hope by their presence to prevent
the government from carrying out its final withdrawal from
Sinai April 25, offered only passive resistance. The soldiers,
unarmed, carried the protestors bodily to waiting buses for
transportation out of the area. '
ent, representing places
from Tifereth Israel, Columbus and visits to the "National Scene." The presentation is a glimpse of the Jews
of Columbus since the founding of Congregation Tifereth
Israel.
The entire variety show is
under the direction of Carol
Radnor. Musical Director is
Arnie White, who has worked with Marvin Bonowitz,
Madaiyn Schlezinger, Bee
Metker, Alan Fishman, and
Mil Setnar. Fran Wasserstrom is in charge of choreography; Annette Paine
designed the costumes. The
physical arrangements are
being handled by Renee Res-
nick, Michael Zimmerman
and Mark Weinstein. The
program was arranged by
Beth Berman and Wendy
Derrow, and the sets were
designed and constructed by
Rita Malyn. The slide pre?
sentation was planned by
Harley Blank, Herb Topy
Photo Service developed all
of the slides and the publicity
was handled by Joan Shell.
A Silent Auction will begin
the evening with a potpourri
of items and services. The
Silent Auction is being
chaired by Esther Bleiweiss
and Debbie Portman with
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