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VOL.61   NO. 18
May5,1983-IYAR22
Shultz Tells Israeli Leaders
Time To Decide' Is At Hand
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Walk-a-Thon Co-Chairpersons Carol Handler and Ralph Pariser (photo, top left)
were happy with the turnout—about 300—for the Third Annual Walk-a-Thon in solidarity jwith Israel. Carrying "Israel 35" balloons and wearing caps donated by Majestic
Paint and bearing an "Israel 35 Walk-a-Thon" sticker, marchers headed east on Livingston just after the start of the Third Annual Walk-a-Thon April 24 (photo, top right).
Two dozen volunteers (photo, bottom left) worked hard to register the participants in
the Walk-a-Thon. Walkers signed in with their pledge cards at tables in front of the Jewish Center. The first of two stops on the ^kilometer Walk-a-Thon circuit, at Roosevelt
and Main, combined a checkpoint and soft drink stand. Orange drink was donated by
the McDonald's at 3500 E. Broad St., and volunteers kept the cups full (photo, bottom
right).
Nearly 300 Marchers Participate In
Third Annual Walk-A-Thon For Israel
Nearly 300 marchers
turned out for the Third Annual Walk-A-Thon in solidarity with Israel—held as part
of the community's Israel 35
celebration—on. Sunday,
April 24.
The release of dozens of
helium-filled blue and white
Israel 35 balloons signaled
the start of the walk. Participants covered a five kilometer (3.1 miles) course
from the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center
through Berwick and Bexley
and back to the Center.
Glenn Says PLO
Should Be In On
Peace Negotiations
GENEVA (JTA)-Sen.
John Glenn (D. Ohio), who
announced recently that he
will seek his party's nomination for the Presidency in
1984,* believes the Palestine
Liberation Organization
should join in the Middle
East peace negotiations,
according to an interview
with the former astronaut
published in the Swiss
weekly, Construire.
- "No permanent solution to
the conflict will be possible
without the participation of
the PLO,'' Glenn was quoted
as saying. He said that while
the U.S. should be responsible for Israel's security, U
should not support the creation of new.settlements by
Israel in the occupied terri-
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"We think the Walk went
well. The enthusiasm it generated carried over to.the
rest of the afternoon's Israel
35 activities at the Center,"
said co-chairpersons Carol
Handler and Ralph Pariser.
Walk-A-Thon prize winners included: the Barry
Wolinetz family, .2785 Powell
Ave., most money raised;
the Rabbi Chaim Capland
family, 32 N. Roosevelt Ave.,
most family members participating; largest non-family group, Beth Tikvah sixth
grade; oldest participants
(tie), Meyer Hoffman, 5830
Forestview Dr., and Saul
Kaufman, 3227 Astor Ave.,
and most pledges, Barbara
Manson, 4211E. Broad St.
The Walk committee was
unable to determine the winner in the youngest participant category. Anyone who
may know of the youngest
individual who completed
the route is asked to contact
the Community Relations
Committee, 237-7686.
Dignitaries on hand for the
opening ceremony included
Congressman John Kasich,
State Senators Michael
Schwarzwalder and Richard
Pfeiffer, State Representative David Leland, Columbus City Council member
Dorothy Teajter, Bexley
Mayor David Madison and
Marian Harris representing
U.S. Senator Howard
Metzenbaum.
, Present as grand marshals were 'Rabbis Chaim
Capland, Harold Berman,
Harvey Goldman, Robert
Levy, .Howard Apothaker,
Marvin Possick,  Howie
Alpert and David Stavsky.
The walk raised about $800
in pledges from participants
and another $1,000 in contributions from corporate sponsors, the co-chairpersons
said. Corporate sponsors
were: Schottenstein Stores,
Youthland, Worly Plumbing
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Secretary of State George
Shultz met with Premier Menachem Begin for 90 minutes
April 29 before flying to
Beirut to continue his shuttle
diplomacy aimed at achieving an agreement between
Israel and Lebanon.
The American diplomat
spent time listening to Israel's leaders appraise the
situation with respect to the
negotiations with Lebanon
and their explanation of Israel's position. At a dinner
given in his honor by Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
Shultz did not deal in specifics. But his speech, obviously carefully and pointedly
worded, stressed that the
time for talk has ended and
"the time to decide" is now
at hand.
"The negotiation has gone
on for four months," Shultz
noted. "If the remaining
issues had been easy, they
would already have been settled. They have been debated, analyzed, pored over,
agonized over. Now is the
time to resolve them. As the
Bible tells us, to everything
there is a season.... Now is
the time to decide. As in
every negotiation, there
must be compromise. For
every risk that is taken,
there is gain. And the risks of
failure are far greater than
any risks of an agreement as
it is now envisaged."
AH arrangements have
been made for the May 12
Anti-Defamation League of
Arrangements Complete For May 12
ADL Dinner Honoring John Fisher
Economic Advisors. The
event will take place at the
Hyatt Regency.
Adding to the spirit of the
tribute, the Anti-Defamation
League is now celebrating
its 70th anniversary. The
problems that the ADL has
faced since 1913, when a
small group of people
started the organization with
a handfull of stationery and
two desks in a Chicago law
office, have changed somewhat. But the ADL has remained true to the course set
in its original charter: "To
stop the defamation of the
Jewish people; to secure justice and fair treatment to all
citizens alike."
In 1913, ADL began the
"battle to protect American
Jews from the consequences
of defamation as experienced in the'painful Jewish
history of persecution. In
1983, as the League looks
back upon its 70 years of battles, in behalf of the Jewish
community and the democratic way of life, it sees remarkable and positive
achievements. And difficult
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John E. Fisher
B'nai B'rith's Americanism
Award Dinner honoring John
E. Fisher. Fisher is general
chairman and chief executive officer of Nationwide Insurance Company and
serves as chairman of the
Columbus Area Chamber of
Commerce.
John W. Kessler and Melvin L. Schottenstein are dinner chairmen. The guest
speaker will be Alan Greenspan, former chairman of
the President's Council.of
Shultz added: "If we succeed in Lebanon ... we will
have enlarged the circle of
peaceful relationships between Israel and its neighbors. The peace process continues. It must continue and
it must advance."' He
warned that "To cease our
efforts is to allow bitter
wounds to fester. ... President Reagan is committed to
working with you on the
noble enterprise of peacemaking."
Shultz appeared to be indicating in those remarks that
once an accord with Lebanon
is achieved, the Administration will want to move ahead
briskly with its efforts to revive Reagan's September 1
Middle East peace initiative.
But neither the Reagan plan
nor the Palestinian issue was
raised during the .Secretary
of State's meetings with Israeli leaders. Shultz is concentrating on one issue at a
time and an agreement between Israel and Lebanon
clearly.has top,priority on
his agenda at present.
The Israelis, for their part,
sought to focus American
attention on what they regard as the growing menace
of the Soviet presence in
Syria. Begin pressed that
point at his meeting with
Shultz, attended by Israel's
ranking civilian and military
policymakers.
Begin insisted that Israel
and the U.S. had an urgent
and abiding mutual interest
in standing up to this
"threat." Shultz also expressed concern about the
Soviet build-up in Syria. But
members of his entourage
expressed some surprise at
the intensity with which Begin pushed the view that
security in the north involved not only local problems along the Lebanese
border but the strategic military challenge posed by Soviet-backed Syrian forces in
eastern Lebanon. Begin
introduced Shultz to Israel's
new chief of military intelligence, Gen. Ehud Barak,
who told the Secretary that
new, Soviet-manned electronic warfare helicopters
are flying over Syria; 800
Soviet T-72 tanks have been
added to Syria's stock of
3,500 tanks; a .Soviet communications facility near
Damascus enables direct
contact with Moscow and
that Syria is increasing its
standing army to 400,000
men by deferring mobilizations and calling up new
groups of soldiers.
Government officials
promptly supplied that information to the news media,
which published it immediately after it was submitted
to Shultz. American journalists accompanying the Secretary of State pondered the
significance of this Israel
ploy.
Some suggested that Begin
is looking for political support at home for a withdrawal from Lebanon in
order to reduce the risk of
war with Syria. Others maintained that Begin is trying to
divert American opinion to
the issue of a Soviet menace
in order to justify a continued Israeli presence in
Lebanon.
IMF Campaign
Concludes With
June 1 Dinner'
Edwin M. Ellman, 1983
United Jewish Fund General
Campaign chairman, has set
Edwin Ellman
Wednesday, June 1, for a
celebration of campaign
achievement at the Campaign Closing Dinner. Although the final total will be
revealed that evening, Ellman indicated that this
year's total has far surpassed previous campaigns
not only in the dollars collected but in numbers of
workers and leaders.
"The Columbus Jewish
community understood the
uniqueness of the times in
view of the national economy
represented by budget cuts
and the special needs of
Israel struggling for peace
and security," Ellman
stated. "They responded
magnificently," he added.
The entire Jewish community is welcome to participate in the celebration at 6
p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center. For further
information, call the Federation office at 237-7686.
School Rededicated
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Stratford College, the Jewish
secondary school of Dublin,
which was destroyed by
arson in 1980, was recently
rededicated.
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