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VOL. 60   NO. 17
APRIL 29, J982-IYARG
Devoied to American
and Jewish Ideal*.
Leaders Call On Reagan To 'Ensure
Israel's Sacrifices for Peace; Reward
Arab States Willing To Live in Peace'
Happiness is .. . celebrating Israel 34 at the Jewish
Center May 1 and 2
'Rejoice 34' Festivities Planned
To Celebrate Israel's Anniversary
'Rejoice 34!" is a weekend of festivities planned for
the celebration of Israel's
34th Anniversary. "The
weekend promises to be full
of entertainment, great food,
fun and just a wonderful
time for family and friends
to come together for Israel's
birthday," states Nancy
Paul, chairperson of the
Israel Committee at the Jewish Center.
At the Drexel Theater, on
Saturday, May 1 at 9 p.m.,
the Israeli Award Winning
film The Troupe will be
shown. The movie follows
the ilives of a group of military entertainers, who perform for the troops at war,
through their rich songs of
war and peace, brotherhood
and love. Following the
movie will be a Dessert Cafe
with entertainment by Raz
at the Jewish Center, 1125
College Ave. Emcee for the
evening is Burt Louis, host of
the former TV series Front
Page Saturday Night. Tickets, available at the Center
now, are $6 for the movie only—$4 for seniors and students; $8.50 for the movie
and Dessert Cafe—$6.50 for"
seniors and students; $3.50
for the Cafe only.
Several events are scheduled for Sunday, May 2 from
12 to 5 p.m. The Annual
Israeli Food Festival, featuring "Dizengoff Square,"
svill have an Israeli Salad
Bar, a Bagel Bar, felafel,
tabouleh salad, drinks, desserts and more. Registration
for the Annual Walk-A-Thon
"Will begin at 12:30 p.m. and
the walk itself at 1 p.m. This
annual event, which is co-
sponsored by the Columbus
Jewish Federation and the
, Jewish Center, is a five-
kilometer walk beginning
and ending at the Center.
Throughout the day, a
number of other activities
will take place. The Zem-
riya, a children's song festival made up of over 100 reli-
gious school children
directed by Cantor Neil
Schwartz, will perform at
3:30 p.m. There will also be a
children's art exhibit, an
Israeli art exhibit, displays,
the Shiron Singers, the
Freilach-aires, the
Center Israeli dancers, a
"kids kibbutz," music by
Raz, Ginny Tennenbaum
(champion baton twirler)
and more.
Everyone will also have
the opportunity on Sunday to
take a tour through the New
Building.
For more information
about Saturday night or Sunday's events, contact the
Jewish Center, 231-2731.
WASHINGTON-Jewish
leaders from across the
country, concluding a two-
day "solidarity with Israel"
conference on the eve of the
Sinai pull-out, called on the
Reagan Administration to •
"ensure that Israel's sacrifices for peace will not be in
vain" and- "reward only
those Arab states willing to
live in peace with Israel."
The statement was
adopted at a meeting sponsored by the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
composed of 34 national
Jewish secular and religious
groups. Some 600 Jewish
leaders took part in the
meeting, which included sessions with Vice President
George Bush, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker,
Senate Foreign Relations
Chairman Charles Percy
and Senate Minority Leader
Robert Byrd. The group also
Jewlslf*91*88' bn^d by Israel
Ambassador Moshe Arens
and heard addresses by
Senators Henry Jackson and
David Durenberger.
In a resolution, the Confer-;
ence of Presidents said that
in giving up all of the Sinai to
Egypt, "the people of Israel
are betting their lives on the
peaceful intentions of their
former enemy. No other people has ever risked so much
or paid so staggering a price
for peace." The resolution
added:
"We salute the leaders of
Israel for their commitment
to the peace process. We
honor the courage of the people of Israel for placing at
risk their own lives and the
lives of their children in the
search for peace.
"We call on our government, as a full partner in the
peace process, to ensure that
Israel's sacrifices for peace
will not be in vain and to
adopt a Middle East policy
that' rewards only those
states willing to live in peace
with Israel."
Howard M. Squadron of
New York, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents,
said in a keynote address to
the delegates:
"There is a deep and growing concern in the U.S.
Jewish community at the
direction of American policy
in the Middle East, a policy
based on two erroneous
assumptions: first, that
Saudi Arabia is the key to
American interests in the
region; second, that military
sales to Arab states opposed
to the Camp David process
will encourage them to make
peace."
Earlier, at a meeting with
Vice President Bush, Mr.
Squadron voiced concern at
what he called "Administration plans to sell F-16 jets
and mobile Hawk missiles to
Jordan in the face of King
Hussein's continuing refusal
to sit at the negotiating table
with Israel, just as it sold
AWACS and other sophisticated military equipment
to Saudi Arabia after the
Saudis denounced Camp
David."
Vice President- Bush did
not confirm that the Administration planned to sell
arms to Jordan but said that
the U.S. sought by its policy
toward "moderate" Arab
regimes to "encourae more
of them to do what President
Sadat did in making peace
with Israel."
Byrd Warned Haig on
Selling Arms to Jordan
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Byrd told the Con-
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Israel Bonds Receive Message
From Begin Concerning Withdrawal
"Today marks bur final
withdrawal from the Sinai as
agreed to in the Peace Trea?
ty with Egypt. We must
weigh this event, together
with the 34th anniversary of
Israel's Independence and
. Yom Hashoah, on the scales
of thousands of years of
Jewish history.
"We are the continuity of
our Fathers and Forefathers. These 34 years of
statehood are the continuity
of the dreams and suffering
of centuries. They have
brought us back to the cradle
of our birth as a people. And
they have boldly and triumphantly given life and freedom as the answer to the
crematoria and the gas
* chambers of the Nazis and
the Millennia of persecution
and homelessness which
preceded them.
"The people of Israel have
fought five wars since 1948.
President Reagan Remembers The Holocaust
By Trude B. Feldman
Chronicle White House
correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C:
President Reagan—with his
very presence—enhanced a
somber, poignant and dignified ceremony at the White
House last week. The occasion marked the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The U.S. is the only country, besides Israel, that observes the "Days of Remembrance" which, ironically
this year fell on Adolf
Hitler's birthday. Elie
Wiesel, chairman of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council, an outgrowth of a council
established by. President
Jimmy Carter and made
permanent by Congress, told
the East Room audience:
"We are trying to tell the
story of the Holocaust because we believe if we tell
the story, we shall save the
world..."
As President Reagan and
some 200 guests, including
survivors of the Holocaust,
looked on in awe, six candles
were lit by Sigmund Stroch-
litz, Elisha Wiesel, Benjamin Meed, Jeanette Ler-
man, Kalman Sultanik,
Menachem Rosensaft and
Eli Zborowski. The six
candles symbolized the six
million people who perished
at the hands of the Nazis. |
"This gathering at the
White House, and others
across the nation, reflect the
magnitude of what has
brought us together," the
President told the hushed
group, which included Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
"There were millions of victims of the Holocaust. Such
vast figures have a way of
blinding us to the humanity
behind the numbers. Today,
we should think of those who
are not "with us. We miss
them. God—and only
God—understands how different our lives would be had
they been permitted tp live."
As one example, the Presi
dent cited Isaac Rudashev-
ski, a 15-year old Lithuanian
trapped in a ghetto, who concentrated on reading and
writing and learning, rather
than giving up hope. "Isaac
did not survive," Mr.
Reagan said. "One can only
speculate what he might
have become—possibly an
author, and the world might
have been drawn a little
closer because of his contributions."
Reealaing'Moses Flinker, a
16-year-old Dutch boy whose
diary noted he wanted to become a statesman in Israel
and even study Arabic so as
to have the necessary skills
to negotiate peace with
Israel's neighbors, the President added: "With the com- -
plex situation in the Middle'
East today, we can now only
wonder what kind of contribution Moses Flinker
would make if he were alive.
"Even now, the voices of
those who died can be
heard... their voices from
the past cry out for us ...
never to tolerate hatred or
bigotry. And those who survived also remind us of
heroism and dignity in the
face of adversity, of truths
discovered in the midst of
pain and suffering. Today,
we must.choose how we will
respond to the Holocaust.
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We do not want to fight
another war. We say
'enough' and 'never again to
war' as we say it to terrorism and the Holocaust.
We are as passionately committed to Peace as to Freedom and Independence.
"But the cost of-Peace is
very high. The road to Peace
is beset with'many
obstacles. It places many
new burdens and problems
on our already overburdened
shoulders. The return of the
Sinai has caused Israel great
pain. Yet we persevere in
our unbending determination to achieve the goal of
Peace.
"I believe there is no other
people in the world who
would be prepared to do as
much as we have done in the
pursuit of Peace and in our
will to bring an end to bloodshed in our region and to
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JNF Announces Blue Box
Distribution Centers,Dates
The Jewish National Fund
Blue Box, small as it is,
stands for a big idea—for one
of the greatest partnerships
the world has ever
known—that of the Jewish
people everywhere with the
Land of Israel.
For millions of Jews
throughout the world, placing coins in the JNF Blue
Box symbolizes a highly personal effort toward the
development of Eretz
Yisrael. Often, it is a Jewish
child's introduction to the
concept of 'tzedaka—to the
idea of giving, and establishes a lifelong pattern.
Mrs. Annette Tanenbaum,
Blue Box Chairman of the
Columbus JNF, has announced the distribution centers for Blue Boxes. "To
assure the continuation of
this important tradition, the
Blue Box must be visible in
each and every Jewish
home," states Mrs. Tanenbaum. Distribution centers
and dates are: Sunday, May
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