Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1983-07-07

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VOL.61   NO. 27
July 7,1983-TAMMUZ26
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'Two By Two' Is Final Production
Of Current Gallery Players Season
Gallery Players of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
finalizes its 34th season with
the production of Two by
Two, the musical dramatization of the story of Noah's
Ark. The show opens Saturday," July 9, and continues
through Sunday, July 24,
with matinees every Sunday.
Based on the Clifford
Odets play, The Flowering
Peach, the musical portrays
with sentiment and humor
the threat of world destruction and the generation gap
between Noah and his sons.
This Richard Rodgers' creation has lyrics by Martin
Charnin and book by Peter
Stone.
Lloyd K. Lewis is directing. A past executive director of the Columbus Junior
Theatre of the Arts and
founder of Music Stage Community Theatre Jn Springfield, Ohio, Lewis is currently chairman of the Theatre Department at Springfield South High School and
is also a Ph.D. candidate in
theater at Ohio State University. At Capital University,
he directed and choreographed I Do! I Do!, Dames
at Sea and The Fantastiks.
Other choreographic credits
include Pajama Game,
Paint Your Wagon and Annie
Get Your Gun.
Musical director for Two
by Two is Robert D. Sedoris,
professor of music at Ohio
State University Lima
campus and conductor of the
Springfield Symphony Chorale. Sedoris is also music
director and conductor of the
Music Stage Community
Theatre in Springfield.
Mark C. Zetterberg is
scenic and lighting designer,
and Jay Alan Brad is assistant director.
Tickets are available to
students and senior citizens
and a discount and special
rates are offered to groups of
ten or more. For more information on tickets and curtain times, call 231-2731.
Eight Organizations To Receive Grants, Awards
At Columbus Jewish Foundation Annual Dinner
Special grants and Awards
of Merit will be presented to
eight organizations at the
Third Annual Dinner Meeting of the Columbus Jewish
Foundation on Monday evening, July 11, at the Leo Yas- -
senoff- Jewish Center.
The organizations were
selected on the uniqueness of
their programs and will
receive special grants totaling $53,350. These grants are
made from the unrestricted
and undesignated General
Fund of the Foundation. A
broad spectrum of community activities, humanitarian
causes provided by social,
-welfare, health and educational agencies were considered in making these grants.
Organizations receiving
recognition for their creative
programs include Heritage
Village for its Health Assessment Clinic; Jewish Family
Service for the Family Life
Education Program; Hillel
Foundation at Ohio State University for the Outreach Program:   Columbus   Hebrew
School for the Special Learning Needs of Handicapped
Children; Columbus Jewish
Historical Society for its
initiative in remembering the
past history of Columbus
Jewry; Marburn Academy
, for its Family, Network Project—Extension of Self-
Development Program; the
Jewish Center for the special
program for handicapped
children; Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra for the Symposium on the Holocaust
along with a musical presentation—"Through Roses."
Herbert Schiff, president
of the Foundation, will make
the presentation to representatives of the various organizations.
Judith Swedlow is serving
as chairwoman of the Planning Committee. Tom Kaplin, Jr., and Cookie Krupman
are vice chairpersons. Members of their committee
include Bevlyn Simson,
Mickey Schoenbaum, Shir-
lee Levitin, Anne Swedlow
and  Gertrude  Kreisman,
Former Refusenik Asserts
Anti-Zionist Policies Hide
Soviet Crackdown On Jews
Pictured at a working meeting of the planning committee for the Columbus Jewish Foundation Annual
Dinner on July 11 are (top photos, 1". to r.) Tom Kaplin,
Jr., Judie Swedlow, Cookie Krupman, (bottom photos,
1. to r.) Cini Paine, David Roth, George Rosenberger,
Augusta Frank and Connie Meizlish	
Invitations; Jim Goodman,
David Roth, Janet Leeman
and Elaine Lewin, Telephone ; Cookie Krupman,
Dinner, Reception and
Physical Arrangements;
Ben Goodman and Augusta
Frank, Hosts;.Rita Munster
and Cynthia Paine, Graphic
Exhibitions; George Rosenberger and Barbara Brandt,
Organizations; Edie Garli-
kov and Connie Meizlish,
Registration and Seating;
Herbert H. Schiff, Tom Kaplin, Jr., and Ben M. Mandelkorn, Program, and Helen
Nutis, Publicity.
The purpose of the Dinner
Meeting is to report oh. the
activities of the Foundation
during the past year, honor
the leadership and the
donors who have established
funds and to interpret the
program and services of the
Foundation.
Sanford Solender, executive consultant, Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies of
New York, will be guest
speaker following the 6 p.m.
dinner. He has selected as
his topic "Challenges and
Opportunities for Tzeda-
kah."
Reservations may be
made by contacting the
Foundation at the Melton
Building, 237-7686.	
Board Of Rabbis
Elects Officers
Rabbi David Stavsky of
the Beth Jacob Congregation
was recently elected president of the Columbus Board
of Rabbis.
Rabbi Stavsky has been at
Beth Jacob since Aug. 1957,
A former army chaplain,
Rabbi Stavsky was gradu-.
ated from the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanon Theological Seminary, Yeshivah University,
and holds an M.A. from
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Steven Kapetansky
CHS Student
FinishesThirdln
Bible Contest
Eleven-year-old Steven
Kapetansky, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Fred Kapetansky,
Gimel class student at the
Columbus Hebrew School, is
the third place winner in the
English Division: ages 11-13
Category of the 24th Annual
Bible Contest that was held
on May 15 in New York City.
Carl Wasserman, the other
finalist representing the CHS
also ranked high at the competition.
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New "anti-Zionist" and
intensified anti-emigration
policies in the Soviet Union
are a "smokescreen" behind
which the government is
increasing its crackdown on
Jews, a former Leningrad
chemical researcher said in
Columbus recently.
The atmosphere is "like a
new 1953," warned Dr. Lev
Utevskii, referring to the
final year of the Stalin
regime. Then, only the dictator's death aborted the
planned mass deportation of
Jews to Siberia.
Dr. Utevskii, who left Russia in 1980 for Israel,
appeared as part of a tour
organized by national and
local Jewish agencies to
combat the new Soviet propaganda. The propaganda is
highlighted by the claim that
all Jews who wanted to leave
Russia already have.
"I personally know many
Jews in Leningrad who want
to leave," Dr. Utevskii said.
"Many have applied for
visas and have been waiting
for years."
Among them are his own
daughter, her child and
her husband, Eugenia
Utevskaya, 25, a graduate in
chemical engineering of the
Leningrad Technology Institute must work as a cleaning
woman because she asked to
emigrate to Israel, her
father said.
Like her father before her,
Eugenia Utevskaya has been
active in the Jewish cultural
movement in Leningrad.
Supporting Dr. Utevskii's
assertion that many Russian
Jews still wish to leave was
Reynoldsburg resident,
Dora Levenstein, who emigrated from the Soviet
Union. She said she, too,
knew of many Jews who
would leave if they were permitted to do so.
"Why now the fantastic
campaign of anti-Semitism—in which any kind of
Jewish gathering is persecuted—and the 'anti-Zionist
Committee'?" Dr. Utevskii
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