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VOL. 61   NO. 21
MAY26.1983-SIVAN14
upreme Court Justice Says
ews Couldn't Have StooDed Hitler
Members and sympathizers of Americans for a Safe
Israel, the National Council of Young Israel and the
Jewish Mobilization Committee held a demonstration
outside the New York Hilton to protest the policies of
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The Secretary
was inside the Hotel at the time addressing a luncheon
given by the American Jewish Committee.
Weinberger insists He Is
Strong Supporter Of Israel
NEW YORK (JTA)-De-
fense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger denied publicly
allegations that he was anti-
Israel and declared that he is
a strong supporter of Israel
and believed that a strong Israel is in the best interests of
the United States.
Addressing some 600 Jewish leaders at a luncheon
given by the American Jewish Committee at the New
York Hilton Hotel recently,
the Secretary declared:
"I want to say, as forcefully as I can, that this (the allegation that he is against Israel) is simply not true. I am
a strong supporter of Israel
and an admiring witness to
the democracy they have
built and preserved under
the most trying conditions. I
thoroughly enjoyed my visit
(to Israel) last year and was
most hospitably received.
"We have all had occasional disagreements with, some
policies of Israel, as with
other sovereign nations. I
have, as is my responsibility, sought to pursue policies
in these matters, as in all
others, that I felt in the best
interests  of  the  United
States."
He continued: "But even if
I were not a strong admirer
of Israel, which I am, and all
they have accomplished,
even if the American people
were not bound to Israel by
emotional ties, as Secretary
of Defense I would still be a
strong supporter of Israel."
Weinberger said, "leaving
all sentiments aside, looking-
only at our own-national interests, it is clear that we in
the United States have an
important stake in-lsrael's
security." He asserted that
the United States has an
enormous strategic interest
in the Middle East and that
Israel is a most effective
military force, and that because it is a democracy, it is
one of the most stable governments in the region.
Weinberger observed that
the Soviets "would dearly
love to control the Middle
East resources and strategic
checkpoints; but Israel
-stands determinedly in their
way. He affirmed America's
commitment to Israel, declaring that the U.S. is bound
to Israel by strategic interests.
CHICAGO (JTA)-Arthur
Goldberg, chairman of the
American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust, recently revealed his personal
experiences and emotions
during the Hitler era to a
standing-room only audience.
at Chicago's Kent College of
Law.
Born in the lf.S. of-parents *
who came to this city in 1894,
the former Supreme Court
Justice and Ambassador to
the United Nations said that
were it not for that event, he
too "would have, been in
Auschwitz or in one of the
other 1,000 death camps."
For that reason, he said, he
feels as if he had the concentration camp numbers tattooed on his arm "almost
physically.!'
Goldberg dealt directly
with the sensitive issues of
what the American Jewish
community knew 40 years
ago about the Holocaust, and
what they could have done.
The "verdict is beyond challenge that nothing the
American Jews could do
would have deterred Hitler,"
he said.      " \
The Allied  governments .
certainly had some power of
deterrence which was not
used,  Goldberg said.  But
even that might not have
stopped  the  murder  machine, as evidenced by Adolf
Eichman's use of railroad
facilities to send Jews to
. death camps, when the German army was in a desperate retreat to the Branden-
berg Gate in Berlin.
t
U.S. WasUrged To
Bomb Auschwitz
Goldberg revealed that, in
1943, he was stationed in
London as a member of the
U.S. Office of Strategic Services, when he was
approached by Shmuel Zie-
gelman, a member of the
Polish government-in-exile.
Ziegelman showed him
photographs and affidavits
ifrom Auschwitz, smuggled
out of Poland by a brave non- ,
Jewish Pole, disguised as an
Esthonian policeman. Zier
gelman begged Goldberg to
convince the Allies to bomb
the rail-line to Auschwitz.
After William Donovan,
head of the OSS, had seen the
evidence, he told Goldberg
. that American planes could
not be "diverted"—although
planes were bombing a German, war plant only five
miles away. The day after
Goldberg gave, Ziegelman
news of the refusal, Ziegelman committed suicide.
J.C. Annual Meeting To Feature
Awards For Outstanding Service
Dr. Al Tyroler, Awards
Committee chairman, announces that several awards
will be presented for outstanding service to the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center at
the Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m.
Irvin Flox is the recipient
of the Continuous Dedication
Award. Flox, an active participant of the Center for
many years, has been very
involved in the Physical
Education Department and
has chaired the Annual
Sports Hall of Fame program the past two years.
The' Koach Leadership
/ Award will be presented to
co-recipients, Mrs. Stephanie Mendelson and Harvey
Handler. Mendelson's dedication to the Center's Early
Childhood Services Committee has played a major role
irt the successful growth of
programs for pre-schoolers.
Handler, chairman of the
Health and Physical Education Committee the past two
years, has been very involved in all aspects of the
Physical Education Department.
Mrs. Karen Kurtz and
Mrs. Bethanne Tilson will be
awarded the Mitzvah Volunteer-Award, Kurtz has committed a great deal of her
time to work in the Physical
Education Department and
is a co-chairperson of the
Women's Health and Physical Education Committee.
She was also this year's,
chairperson for the Women's
Day program.,
Tilson has devoted her
energy to the Early Childhood Services Department.
She has been involved in all
special and class events and
is largely responsible for organizing the Parents' Support Group, a group of volunteers who work with Popcorn
Players, Children's Repertory Theatre. "
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Goldberg said that European Jews had not realized
the danger until too late because they were "benumbed.'.' --And so were
American Jews who might
have done more, he added.
In his view, only the American Orthodox Jews were
sufficiently vigorous in their
protests, which were ineffective to the general public because they conducted their
meetings in Yiddish.
The American Jewish
community, which then did
not have the political influence it has today, was intensely loyal to President
Roosevelt, who "couldn't
stand up to the pressure,
including from labor and the
isolationist public," who
were all against relaxing immigration restrictions, Goldberg said.
No More "Quiet
Diplomacy"
For Goldberg, the "lesson
is broader than' the Holocaust" : unbridled violation
of human rights' should
never be countenanced and
so-called "quiet diplomacy
is singularly ineffective."
He cited his own experience as a U.S. delegate at the
Belgrade Conference on the
Helsinki Treaty. There he
had approached the Soviet
delegates and "offered a
deal":   if  the  dissidents
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signed to meet the needs of
the Temple and adjacent
Jewish community for the
next 30 years..
Inquiries  concerning
Temple Israel' Memorial
Garden may be made by
contact Ms. Barbara Solo-
way, administrator, Temple
Israel.
Temple Israel Announces Completion
Of Memorial Garden At Forest Lawn
Temple Israel announces
the completion of its Memorial Garden, a final resting
place, created for congregants of Temple Israel, with
special provisions for use by
members of the Jewish faith
of the Columbus community,
who may or may not be affiliated with other congregations.
The sanctified grounds are
located on Taylor Station
Rd., immediately north of
Broad St., and adjacent to
the northeast portion of
Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The completely private
grounds are marked by
monumental granite pillars
and handcrafted wrought
iron gates.
Individual monuments will
be of solid bronze, uniformly
set at grass'level, providing
dignified identification without obscuring the natural
panorama of trees, shrubs
and landscaping of the surrounding environment.
-Perpetual care is provided
and included with all grave
sites.
The central drive of
Temple Israel Memorial
Garden has been named
Folkman Drive, in honor of
Temple Israel Rabbi Emeritus, Dr. Jerome Folkman,
This drive surrounds the
David A. Weinberg Memorial, a granite walled garden
encampassing year round
foliage.
The Memorial Garden
marks the third cemetery
Temple Israel Memorial Garden
Board Of Education Adopts
Controversial History Text
created in the history of
Temple Israel. The first was
in in Mt. Calvary. Cemetery,
the second was at Greenlawn
Cemetery. Available grave-
sites in those areas are now
depleted and only a few remain available.
Temple Israel Memorial
Garden at Forest Lawn is de-
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
The Columbus Board of
Education, at its Tuesday,
May 17, meeting, voted five
to one to adopt a tenth-grade
history textbook, History
and Life—The World and Its
People, which had been criticized by the Columbus Jewish Federation's Community
Relations Committee for its
presentation of events in the
Middle East.
The CRC, in a letter sent to
the School Board, Scott-
Foresman Publishing, Dr.
James Hyre, superintendent
of Columbus schools, and
James Ferguson, assistant
superintendent, stated that
the committee had serious
concerns about the pages
dealing with contemporary
Middle Eastern nationalism.
"We found repeated errors
of omission and historical in-
accuracies," the letter''
stated. The latter; included
the text's account of oripins
of the Palestine $\ibera-:cn
Organization, to- P.L.O's
role in the Lebanese Civil
War, the equating of guerrilla war and terrorism, repeated misrepresentation of
P.L.O. and Arab states' demands versus Israel, and
even Israel's constitutional
history," the letter stated.
Paul Langdon, board
member who cast the dissenting vote, said that the
book misstates facts and arrives at wrong conclusions
on several issues. "I think
we just aren't doing our jobs
as educators if we adopt this
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