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VOL.60   NO.33
AUGUST 19,1982-AV30
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals,
Beth Jacob Sets
Torah Day, Aug. 23
The Beth Jacob Congregation announces the 21st Annual Torah Day for Jewish
Youth will be held this Monday, Aug. 23, at Blendon
Woods. Saul Sladowsky,
newly appointed Regional
Director of NCSY will be
heading a staff of advisors
including Rabbi Joseph
Abrams of Cleveland. Rabbi
David Stavsky said that an
excellent staff of advisors
will be working all day with
the teenagers at Blendon
Woods.
The all day outing will
begin with talis and Tephilin
at the "synagogue at 8:30a.m.
Following Shacharit service,
breakfast will be served by
the Beth; Jacob Sisterhood,
Mrs. Jack Weisman is the
sisterhood president.
Rabbi David Stavsky will
then present a keynote address based on the theme
"Etz Chaim He—It is a Tree
of Life."
After a Buzz session following the address, the teens
will travel to Blendon Woods
where the program will continue for the rest:of: the day.
While;at the park, the teens
will participate in sports
events, learning sessions, a
mitzvah (arts and crafts)
workshop, song sessions,
Israeli dancing and nature
; hikes. A cookout will conclude the program.
The Youth Committee is
lead by Naomi Seidemann
and Ken Beckman.
'' For information concerning the day program for all
Columbusieenagers, call the
synagogue office at 237-8641.
Mrs. Faye Grinblatt and
Dr. and Mrs. Michael, David
and Jeffrey Grinblatt are
sponsors for Torah Day in
memory of their beloved
husband and father, Ben
Grinblatt. David will be
presenting a Torah learning
session during the day.
Argov Returns To Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Shlomo Argov, Israel's Ambassador to
Britain, returned to Israel last week and is now being.treated
in the neurosurgical department of the Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem after two months of treatments in a London
hospital following the attack on him, June 3, which sparked
off the war in Lebanon. Argov suffered severe head injuries
in the attack.
terrorist Squad Kills Six
PARIS (JTA)—On Aug; 10 a terrorist squad hit at the heart.
of Paris' traditional Jewish quarter, the Marais section, killing six people and wounding 15 more, some of them seriously.
Four terrorists opened fire on customers eating lunch in the
city's best-known Jewish restaurant and then fired on fleeing
shopkeepers and passersby. The attack was the deadliest
carried out in recent years against a Western Jewish community.;   " ';' ' ■  ;   ■
Selma Mellman To Chair
Federation Annual Meeting
leasure Recalled
(y N.Y. Assemblyman
- "The 56th Annual Meeting
of the Columbus Jewish
Federation is a showcase
event and I have appointed a
skilled, creative and knowledgeable woman to serve as
Chairman: Selma Mellman," announced Bernard
Selma Mellman
K. Yenkin, Federation President, in making the appointment.
. Mrs. Mellman, a native of
Columbus, has traveled extensively throughout the
world.  Her  travels  have
taken her to Israel many
times. "I have traveled to
Israel more than a dozen
times, but my most recent
trip was exceptionally memorable. Unexpectedly,. our
group was allowed to travel
into Lebanon with the Jewish
Agency in one of, the first
private citizen trips into the
country, just eight days after
the war began," explained
Mrs. Mellman, who had ac-
compained her husband,
Myer, a delegate to the
Jewish Agency Assembly, in
early June.
In both'"the1981 and 1982
United Jewish Fund Campaigns, Mrs. Mellman has
served as Women's Division
Advance Gifts Solicitations
Chairwoman. She is also a
past Chairwomen of the
Young Women's Division.  -
Mrs. Mellman is a Life
Member of Hadassah,
Brandeis and National Council of Jewish Women and a
member of Agudas Achim
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NEW YORK (JTA)-
Assemblyman Sheldon
Silver (D. Manhattan) said
today he had recalled a
measure, sponsored„by him
and approved both by the
Assembly and Senate of -the
1982 Legislature, on the
problem of Jewish religious
divorces because Governor
Hugh Carey's office had informed him the GoVernor intended to veto it
Silver also told the Jewish*,,
Telegraphic Agency that he
intended to introduce a new
bill in the 1983 Legislature
similar to one he had sponsored, also approved by both
houses, to provide time off
for observance of religious
holidays by Jewish and non-
Jewish teachers. Carey
vetoed that bill last Thursday. Silver withdrew the
divorce ("get") bill also last
Thursday.
Carey has been advised by
his counsel that both measures were unconstitutional.
The religious holiday time-
No To Guilt For Israel
By Rabbi Meir Kahane
Editors Note: Rabbl Meir Kahane Is
head of the Jewish Defense League
and leader of the Kach movement In
Israel.
This article was called to our attention by a number of our reader* and Is
reprinted because of the Interesting
point of view presented. Our "Editor's
Mailbox" is available for reader.
;comment.
©  19S2 by The  New York Times,
Company. Reprinted by permission.
There is a specter haunting Israel and its .American
Jewish supporters. It is
called guilt.
Guilt over the "repression
of Palestinian human
rights." Guilt over the refusal to. remove "the main
obstacle to peace in the Middle East," the "occupation
of the Arab lands seized in
1967." Guilt over the unwillingness to give the "Palesti
nians" their own state in the
"occupied lands."
And now, guilt over the
killing of "Palestinians" and
"innocent civilians in Leba-"
non.''
-,'. It is a powerful weapon,
this guilt. Jews have a difficult time coping with it. A
people that hss been the
most debased of losers for
2,000 years finds it difficult
to cope with victory. It finds
it extraordinarily difficult to
remain normal. It inherits
insecurities, complexes-
guilt It begins to believe its.
enemies' slanders. It loses
its self-respect and longs for
the love of a hating world.
It is important that those
who have retained their self-
esteem and sense of Jewish
off measure provided that
teachers in the New York City public school system
could deduct leave credits
from accumulated sick leave
to observe religious
holidays.
Under its provision, a New
York Xity public school
teacher, who wanted to take
time off for observance of a
day holy to his or her
religion, could deduct;
without penalty up to eight
days in a school year from
sick leave accumulated in
past years.
Silver said, objections to
his measure were filed with
the Governor by the State
Commissioner of Education,
the Public Employes Relations Board and Mayor Edward Koch of New York City. They contended the matter was one for collective
bargaining and not a matter
for legislation.
Will Try To Prove
Bill's Constitutionality
The "get" measure was a
civil bill designed to ease a
centuries-old disability imposed on the observant
Jewish wife whose husband
refuses to give her a Jewish
divorce (a "get"). Ah observant Jewish woman is barred from marriage unless
her husband gives her a
"get."
Believed to be the first law
of its kind, the measure provided that when one party to
a civil divorce action complained of a barrier to remarriage imposed by the
other, the issue could be submitted to a fact-finding and
mediation panel, appointed
by the judge hearing the
divorce suit, which would
have had the function of
determining whether such a
barrier did exist and, if it
did, whether either party
would remove it.
Silver told the JTA that, in
making plans for the "get"
bill, he had received a statement on its constitutionality
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Cols. Jewish Federation ItaHy
Well Attended By Community
He emphasized that Israel
needed to strike the PLO
before they became too
powerful. "The PLO has to
be deprived of their autonomous  base  of  action  in
survival speak out against
the disease of guilt and
moral insecurity.
No guilt. Are the lands of.
1967, "occupied" by the
Jews, the. main obstacle to
peace? Is the year 1967 the
origin of the conflict? How
peaceful it must have been in
1966 when Sinai and Gaza
were in Egyptian hands and
the Golan was possessed by
the Syrians to shell, for 19
years, the' Jewish settlements below, and when
Judea-Samaria (the "West
Bank") and East Jerusalem
were in the hands of the
"moderate" King Hussein.
Why did they all go to war?
What did they want then?
*When one has East Jeru-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16)
by Judith Franklin,
Chronicle Staff Writer
They came in Levis and in
suits. Some were young;
some were old. Many were
Jews, quite a few were not.
But they all had one thing in
common. They wanted to
learn more about the Israeli
conflict in Lebanon. More
than that, they wanted to
hear the truth.
And that is what the Columbus Jewish ; Federation
endeavored to provide at its
.Urgent Community Rally
held at Congregation
Tifereth Israel, 1354 E.
Broad St., last.Sunday night.
Speaking to a capacity
crowd which filled the main
sanctuary and overflowed
into the social hall, Melvin
Schottenstein, 1982 UJA
Campaign Chairman; Judith
Swedlow, Vice-President of
the Federation; Merom
Brachman, Vice Chairman
of the Federation's Community Relations Community, and Charles Schiffman,
Executive Director of the
Federation; gave personal
accounts of their recent UJA
sponsored Prime Minister's
Mission to Israel and Lebanon,.
Mrs. Swedlow cited the
fact that the PLO has
"callously and specifically
sought out only civilians as
targets" and explained that
families in Columbus' sister
city, Kiryat Shimona, near
the Lebanese border, have
spent 75 percent of their time
for the last 12 years living in
underground shelters because of Lebanon-based
shellings. "How patient can
a country be?" she asked.
"How much pain can -it
absorb?" c.      '
Federation President Bernard Yenkin introduced
Prof. Shlomo Aronson, Chief
Information Officer of the
Israel Defense Force, the
featured guest speaker, who
explained the political
realities of the current situation, including why he felt
the PLO must be driven
from Beirut.
"May this great suffering—the great price
paid—result in peace for
Israel and all people of
the area."
Lebanon, which is the last
one left where they could put
pressure on Israel and the
other V^rab states," he said.
The second speaker, Bennett Yanowitz, Chairman of
(CONTINUED ON' PAGE 15)
A capacity crowd turned out for the Columbus
Jewish Federation's Urgent Community Rally at Congregation Tifereth Israel on Aug. 15.
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