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V . ''■I''" I! 1)6 H( 1 I H. > Pi if. \> :*; Kl ••; ? {! *'*, if' 3,!v I ii: OHIOJE HRONICLE L'BRAKY ; OH 10 H jSTOR JCAU SOO<Wi 1'gaa VELMA AVE* C0US,.0..43ail ■.,. -EXOH 2Kuy Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over to Years \J[\^ 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 .^•'fS 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- " nbttain Tribute Dinnorat the tyrta~» 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE M) 'l wil 'i :-'vl jV; is**. ^■■.H-^^t^V.^XM)^ ^M-^gfc ■. ■■ i-j.-s.*:-;
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Title | Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1983-05-12 |
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Title | Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1983-05-12, page 01 |
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