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VOL.61   NO. Id
May 12,1983-1YAR 29
!. Glick To Head Heritage Village
annual Meeting Planning Committee
Morris Skilken, president
of the Heritage Village
Board of Trustees, recently
announced the appointment
of Robert Glick as chairman
of the Heritage Village Annual Meeting Planning Committee.
Expressing great confidence in Glick's selection for
this important position, Skilken noted that he was currently serving Heritage
Village as a member of other
key Committees of the Village, which include Endowment Fund, Food Service,
Furnishings, Long Range
Planning and Public Relations
"Bob really has the energy
and enthusiasm to coordinate Heritage Village's Biggest event of the year,"-
stated Skilken. "We're really excited about all of the
plans he and his Committee
this year's Heritage Village
Annual. Meeting.
Also serving with Glick on
the Annual Meeting Planning Committee are Mrs.
David Brandt as co-chairperson, Mrs. Harold Boro-
vetz, Don Erkis, Mrs. Gerald
Friedman, Bernard Gerson,
Allen Gundersheimer, Jr.,
William Kahn, David Levison, Mrs. Harold Monett,
Mrs. Herman Rosen, Mrs.
Howard Schoenbaum, Mrs.
Edward Stan and Gerald
Wedren.
Robert Glick
are putting together for this
year's Annual Meeting."
Skilken encouraged the
community to reserve Sunday, June 12, as the date for
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Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Comden And Green To Appear
In Benefit At Yassenoff Center
Betty Comden and Adolph
Green, noted lyricists, will
stage their touring show at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center's Roth/Resler Theatre on June 18, marking the
first annual benefit for Columbus' newest theater. The
event will include a catered
supper, and tickets are
available to the public.
'"We are delighted to be
able to bring such world-
famous talents to the
Roth/Resler Theatre," says
Theatre OperationsCommittee chairman, Bea Roth.
"The Comden and Green
revue received outstanding
notices on Broadway during
the late 70s, and they've been
touring successfully with it
ever since."
The revue is titled, "A
Party with Comden and
Green" and, according to
several national reviewers,
everybody has fun at this
party, including the stars.
Said Newsweek magazine of
the show*. "A wonderful
time! A smashing bash! A
spectacle that puts most recent million-dollar musicals
toBhame!"
With few frills—just Comden and Green and a piano
accompanist—the duo
spends an evening offering
both nostalgic and hilarious
reminiscences of their
careers, and the show is
packed full of songs from
their shows. Audiences will
remember the Comden/
Green collaborations in "On
the Town," "Bells are Ringing,'' "Singing in the Rain,"
"Peter Pan," "Auntie
Mame" and many more.
"Their ability to make a
large theater seem like a
small living room is truly remarkable,'* said dive
Barnes of the New York
Times, and he went on to
praise them as "fantastic
performers."
"When a'man and woman
have written a lyric with
their blood," he added, "and
that lyric is allowed to jump
into life with the seemingly
easy music of the likes of
Jule Styne, Cy Coleman or
Leonard Bernstein, there is
here the "possibility of an
event."
For information regarding
the Roth/Resler theatre
benefit, call the Center's Cultural Arts Department,
231-2731.
Shavuot
For lo, the winter
is past
The rtunJis''ovef';'
and ,gone,
The flowers appear
on the earth
The time of singing
has come
These words, immortalized by King Solomon
in the Songs of Songs,
aptly describe the feeling
with which we welcome
Shavuot—a three-fold
celebration commemorating:
The giving of the Torah on
Mount Sinai,
The harvesting of wheal in
Israel,
The ripening of the first
fruit in the Holy Land.
6 Sivan 7
18 May 19
The Festival of Weeks
Concerned with the secular as well as the Jewish community, Rabbi Rubenstein
,   served as an official delegate fright) of the United States government to the 32nd
session of the International Conference of Public Education in Geneva, Switzerland,
in 1970. He is pictured at left with his wife, Dorothy.
PEOPLE IN PROFILE
Samuel W. Rubenstein—
A Rabbi For All Seasons
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
Editor's Note: On Sunday, May 15,
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein, recently
named Rabbi Emeritus ot Agudas
Achim Synagogue, will be honored (or
Ms 3* years of service lo the cangrega-
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vogue.
According to Brooklyn
born Samuel W. Rubenstein,
he did not attend Yeshiva
College in New York City
with the intention of becoming a rabbi; he went to study
Torah. Nevertheless, in 1941,
he was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and, in August
1942, with his new bride,
Dorothy, set out for Fitzgerald, Ga., his first pulpit.
There, in south-central,
rural Georgia, the transplanted New Yorker says he
became "a circuit riding
rabbi," serving not only
Fitzgerald, with its eight to
ten Jewish families, but
. other small communities
and military installations
within a 200 mile radius. And
there began his  practical
Controversy Erupts Over Canal Project
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
The proposed Mediterranean-Dead Sea canal has
emerged as a center of controversy after Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai accused
the Finance Ministry of diverting about $100 million,
raised for the massive hydroelectric project through
the sale of Israel Bonds, to
other purposes.
The Finance Ministry did
not deny the charge nor did it
deny reports that it has had
second thoughts about the viability of the canal project.
The Ministry maintained
that purchasers of Israel
Bonds earmarked as "seed
money" for the canal were
informed that their invest
ments might riot in fact be
used for it.
Nevertheless, Modai's
charges and the Treasury's
response are likely to have
severe repercussions in the
U.S. and other countries
where the Israel Bond Organization mounted major
campaigns to finance the
canal. According to Modai,
the Finance Ministry has
been spreading doubts about
the efficacy of the project.
He accused the Ministry of
adopting policies "which
stifle development projects
and redirect resources, including huge foreign currency loans, to meet current
expenditures."
education in the profession
he has practiced for the last
42 years.    ■
Pulpits in Cheyenne, Wy.,
and Charleston, S.C., followed, and in June 1949,
eight years after his ordina-
"tiorij"' Rabbi' Rubenstein assumed the post he was to
hold for the next 34 years,
that of spiritual leader of the
Agudas Achim Synagogue in
Columbus.
"Judaism is not a sect
... We try to bring people
back to the traditional
norms of our religion by
love and devotion, but we
do npt reject anybody."
The situation when he arrived here was not good, the
Rabbi says, with the orthodox congregation losing
large numbers of its members to the reform. Moreover, the synagogue occupied two buildings located
a half mile apart. The sanctuary was on the corner of
Washington and Donaldson
Streets; the religious school
and synagogue offices were
housed in the Agudath
Achim Self Development
School building on Bryden
Road. Not only was this arrangement inconvenient and
inefficient, Rabbi Rubenstein explains, but it was
also dangerous, since the
neighborhood, which was
rapidly deteriorating, was
not safe at night and the Jewish population was moving
east.
Convinced that his biggest
job would be to "make these
people believe in themselves" once again, he says,
"I insisted that changes take
place in administration.
There were new rules ... no
buying tickets for the holidays ... you had to be a
member ... I reorganized
the Sunday School and
breathed new. life into the
Junior Congregation... The
Sisterhood was revitalized,
gaining 100 new members."
And most important, he
feels, he helped put together
the team which was responsible for moving the new
building project forward.
By the High Holidays in
1949, the congregation had
grown to 350-400 members,
the Rabbi remembers, and
in the spring of 1950, ground
was broken for the new facility at its present site on East
Broad Street, still considered a prime location
today. "The people who
selected the site are to be
commended for their
vision," he says, noting, "We
built a physical building but
He always tried "to
dignify Orthodoxy, give it
a sense of decorum".
resurrected an old spirit."
As a result, people flocked to
become members, once
again making Agudas Achim
the "Big Shule" in town.
During a tenure filled with
significant accomplishments, Rabbi Rubenstein is
especially proud of his work
with the Minyannaires, originally the Ear Mitzvah
Club, whose main purpose,
he says, "was to instill in the
hearts of young people that
you can be an Orthodox Jew
and observe the mitzvahs
and riot be ashamed'' and his
role in establishing the Columbus Torah Academy.
Heritage Houss and kosher
meals at Hillel.
Vitally concerned with the
non-Jewish community as
well, Rabbi Rubenstein co-
chaired the Interfaith Conference on Race and Religion held in 1966; served as
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