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VOL.60   NO.51
DECEMBER 1C, 1982-KISLEV 30
Devoted to American
and Jewish ideals
©wish Emigration From USSR Reduced
To Trickle, State Department Report Says
Chanukah Beloved By Children
Chanukah is and always
will be a holiday especially
beloved by children. Pictured above is Julie Anna
Freedman watching older
brother   Adam   light  the
Chanukah candles. The last
day of Chanukah is Saturday, Dec. 18. The last light is
kindled on Friday evening,
Dec. 17, before the Shabbos
candles.
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Emigration by Jews from
the Soviet Union continued to
be just a trickle during the
last six months while repression of activists and discrimination of Jews continued to
increase in the USSR, according to a State Department report issued last
week.
"The repression of Jewish
activists has paralleled the
repression of other dissenters," it was noted in the 13th
semi-annual report by the
President of the Commission
on Security and Cooperation
in Europe on the Implementation of the Helsinki Final
Act.
"The precipitous drop in
Jewish emigration, which
began in 1980 has continued,
and current emigration
levels are so drastically low
that emigration has all but
ceased to be a practical
option for Soviet Jews," the
report said.
The report, which covers
the period from June 1 to
Nov. 30, was submitted by
Secretary of State George
Shultz to Rep. Dante Fascell
Jerusalem Museum Exhibit To Be At Hillel
The internationally acclaimed photographic
exhibit "Jerusalem: Keeping the Past Alive" will be on
display in Columbus, Jan.
3-21 in the auditorium of the
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. The exhibit is a unique,
50 panel photographic essay
depicting Jerusalem's
ancient beauty and historical significance.
A champagne reception
for Friends of Hillel on Jan. 9
will mark the exhibit's opening. The receptfon, to be held
at the Hillel Foundation, will
include an introduction to
the exhibit by Dr. Reuven
Ahroni, faculty member at
the Ohio State University,
and is sponsored by the
David and Anne Genshaft
Foundation.
The exhibit is on loan courtesy of the Israel Embassy,
Washington, 'D.C, as a part
of a year-long tour of North
American cities. In photographs and explanatory
essays, the exhibit focuses
on Jerusalem's archaeological past and various projects
in the restoration of its civil
and  religious   architectual
heritage. Most memorable
of the displays is that which
chronicles the restoration of
the ancient Jewish Quarter
of the city from the ruins in
which it was found in 1967 to
the living neighborhoods of
today. Religious sites4mpor-'
tant  to  Christianity  and,
Islam are also shown and
their restoration depicted.'
Archaeological findings are
detailed and explained.
The Columbus exhibition
was arranged by the Institute of Students and Faculty
for Israel and is co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Gallery of Fine aArt
and* the B'nai B'rith Hillel    a* •   ■     a#j
Foundation, ft will be open   CnlunlCI@ Olf&fS
for viewing at the  B'nai   V1IIWIIVW VIIVI9
B'rith Hillel Foundation, 46
E. 16th Ave., Mondays
through Fridays,, 11 a.m.-S"
p.m., and Sundays from
5:30-8 p.m. For further information, call 294-4797.
Dr. Irving Greenberg
New Columnist
Berkowitz And Tilson Co-Chair
Federation's'Night For Life'
Dr. Jackie Berkowitz and
Bethanne Tilson have been
appointed co-chairpersons of
the 13th annual Columbus
Jewish Federation "Night
For Life," it was recently
announced.
"Night For Life," scheduled for Saturday night, Jan.
15, wilt be held in the new
Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center. Several surprises
are planned for this year's
event.
Mrs. Tilson has been involved in the Young
Women's Division Cabinet
for several years. In addh
tion, she recently served as
co-chairperson of the Young
Leadership Mission to Is-
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In its continuing effort to
present its readers with articles on contemporary
topics of concern, the Ohio
Jewish Chronicle announces
that beginning this year, it
Will feature a column by Dr.
Irving Greenberg, director
ol the National Jewish Resource Center in New York.
Dr. Greenberg, a summa
cum laude graduate of
Brooklyn College, received
his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In addition to his position at the NJRC, he is the
associate editor of the
Journal of Ecumenical
Studies. He also writes for
numerous other Jewish publications.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 9)
(D. Fla.) chairman of the
Commission. It noted that
emigration figures for Jews,
ethnic Germans and Armenians, the three groups that
have been allowed to emigrate have dropped sharply.
"Only 2,207 Jews were
allowed to emigrate in the
first nine months of 1982,"
the report said. "If projected
to the end of the year, this
would result in the emigration of less than 3,000 Jews in
1982, compared to 51,300 in
1979, when emigration from
the USSR reached its
zenith."
The report added that
"there are reports from a
number of areas in" the USSR
that local offices of visas and
registration (OVIR) officials
have been telling prospective emigrants that 'Jewish
emigration is coming to an
end.' Many Soviet Jews attribute this decline to the deterioration of East-West relations in the past several
.-years and to Soviet fears of a
Jewish 'brain-drain.' Soviet
Jewish sources estimate that
there still are more than
300,000 Soviet Jews who
possess the letters of invitation from Israel necessary
for application to emigrate."
The report noted that at
least 14 persons have been
arrested this year for
"merely indicating a desire
to emigrate." The applica-
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tion process has become
"even more difficult" and efforts to receive documents
are "very time consuming
and often, because of
bureaucratic obstructionism, virtually impossible."
Jewish refuseniks have
been intimidated into ending
their contacts with foreigners, according to the report. It noted that, in September, the KGB warned the
leading Moscow refusenik,
Aleksandr Lerner, to end his
contacts with diplomats, cor-
respondents and other
visitors or face trial and imprisonment.
Western Tourists Treated
With Crudeness
In addition, the report
noted that "the authorities
have treated Western
tourists who met with dissidents, religious believers or
refuseniks with usually
heavy-handed crudeness and
have denied visas to others
whom they have suspected
of intending to do so."
This has been particularly
true in Leningrad, but also in
Moscow and Kiev. "For instance, an official of a U.S.
Jewish organization was
warned by-several strangers
in her Moscow hotel to 'start
behaving responsibly' by
ceasing to meet with refuseniks," the report said.
The report also noted that
one of the most active Jewish culture-Hebrew study
circles in Moscow led by
Pavel Abramovich was suspended in June under pressure from the authorities.
"There have been numerous reports of discrimination against Jews, such as
denial of access to higher
education," the report said.
It said that 11 Jews had their
higher  degrees  revoked
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PEOPLE IN PROFILE
Author Nancy Rubin Examines 'The New Suburban Woman9
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
Nancy Rubin, author of
The New Suburban Woman,
was in town last week to
speak at the annual paid-up
membership luncheon of the
Columbus Section of the
National Council of Jewish
Women at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel and to conduct research for her forthcoming, but as yet untitled,
book on piodern motherhood.
Rubin, herself the mother
of two- and a New York
suburbanite, realized several years ago that her role
as a suburban woman was
' changing. Because this w,as
a topic about which very
little had been written, she
decided to use her background as a newspaper and
free lance writer and experience working in a publishing
house to write a book on "the
new suburban woman."
This project took her, a
little over two years ago, to
such cities as Dallas, Chicago, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, San Francisco—even
Columbus, and through
organizations like the
League of Women Voters,
the YWCA, the Urban
League  and' the National
Council of Jewish Women,
she was put in touch with
women from all walks of life.
Frota these women, she
learned that the image of the
"dull, spoiled, sterile, pill
popping, neurotic" suburban
woman with the station
wagon, staying home to take
care of hubby and the kids,
was very much on their
minds and was.-in fact, causing them many identity
problems and feelings of
inadequacy. "People kept
saying they were not the
typical suburban woman,"
Rubin noted, and she found
that women felt they were not
"living up to their own ex
pectations,"
Why was Columbus among
the cities she chose for her
research? "Because it is a
small midwestern city," she
explained, "and being a test
market is fairly representative of national trends." Any
change taking place in the
nation, she was certain,
would be evident in Columbus. And it was.
She found that women in
Columbus had the same con*
cerns as their counterparts
in larger cities and were,
like them, developing expanded roles while moving
away from the traditional
suburban ones.
Rubin, who has written for
the JVew York Times and the
Ladies Home Journal, is a
fellow in Child Development
and Social Policy at Bush
Center at Yale, a fellow at
MacDowell in Peterborough,
N.H.; a Time, Inc., Scholar
at the Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference in Middlebury,
Vt., and has been interviewed on hundreds of television and radio programs,
including 'Phil Donahue' and
the 'CBS Morning News.'
She speaks to as many
groups as possible when her
busy schedule allows, .because she feels, "We women
need all the encouragement
we can get."
Her book, The JVew Subur-,
bah  Woman,  is available
Nancy Rubin
locally or from her publisher, Coward, McCann, Inc.