Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1983-08-18

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VOL.61   NO. 33
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Brandeis University Professor Alarmed
Over The Bitterness Of Jewish Debate
Gov. Richard F. Celeste (top photo, center) presents
a proclamation commemorating Monday, Aug. 8, as
B'nai B'rith Children's Home Day at the Ohio State ^
Fair. For the 19th year, over 2400 children and their
chaperones from children's homes across Ohio
received free admission, prizes and lunch compliments
of B'nai B'rith. For the tenth consecutive year,
Wendy's International, Inc., provided the children and
their chaperones with lunch at no charge. Receiving
the proclamation are co-chairmen, Richard Handler
(right) and Richard Grundstein (left). Eleanor Resler
is at far right. In the bottom photo, Gov. Celeste and
participants of B'nai B'rith Children's Home Day at
the Ohio State Fair enjoy their free lunch provided by
Wendy's.
Chairman Thanks Community
For Successful B'nai B'rith
hiidren's Home Day At Fair
"Thanks to the massive
support from members of
the Columbus B'nai B'rith
Lodges and many volunteers, over 2400 children and
chaperones attended a wonderful day at the Ohio State
Fair on Monday, Aug. 8,"
said Richard Handler, 1983
Children's Home Day chair-
-man.
Proclamations of appreciation were given to Eleanor Resler by former Gov.
James Rhodes; to Gov.
Richard F. Celeste by Co-
chairman Richard,. Grundstein; to R. David Thomas of
Wendy'.s by Dr. Richard
Gurevitz,
The Governor's proclamation designating Aug. 8 Children's Home Day was presented to Handler by Gov.
Celeste.
Co-chairman Leo Weinberg will present proclamations to Leslie Wexner and
Bella Wexner, who were
unable to attend. *■
According to Handler, the
B'nai B'rith office at the
Jewish Center has already
received numerous letters of
thanks and appreciation
from many of the homes
which participated in the
day.
Initial planning is already
underway for next year's
Children's Home Day, Handler noted. He asked that all
members of B'nai B'rith and
the community in general
who made pledges this year
send them in as soon as possible.
TORONTO (JTA)-A
Brandeis University professor, who specializes in ra-
binnic thought,tyoiced alarm
here at the bitterness in the
debate among Jews which
has emerged with special
vehemence since the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon a year
ago*
Marvin Fox, director of
the Lown School of Near „
Eastern' and Judaic Studies
ab'idrandeis University, indicated in an interview with
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that Brandeis has
not been spared.the rancor
which has pervaded the
American university scene.
Fox, in Toronto as Beth
Tzedec's "Scholar-in-Residence," said spokesmen for
Peace Now are strongly
represented on the Brandeis
campus and their influence
can be felt in much of the discussion on the Mideast.
During the last campus
campaign for the United
Jewish Appeal, members of
the Peace Now.coalition on
the Brandeis campus wanted
to circulate materials
through which the Brandeis
fund-raising effort would
dissociate itself with the Begin government. Fox indicated that he had personally
intervened to persuade his
associates not to include
such a disclaimer.
Hostile To Begin
The Brandeis professor,
who spent much of his early
academic career at Ohio
State University, feels that
the Peace Now forces are
made up primarily of Begin-
haters who are unable to accept the fact that the Labor
government is no longer in
office. *
Asked if the Peace Now
movement has influenced
the thinking of students on
the Brandeis campus, Fox
replied:
"The first thing that you
have to understand is that
Peace Now represents the
'positive' wing among the
forces critical of Israeli society. There are other Jewish academics who are far
more hostile."
Fox says that during a recent visit to the campus of
Brandeis University by
Noam Chomsky, the linguist,
who has written the preface
to a book by the notorious
French  historian  Robert
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Ernest Stern To Serve As Chairman
Of CJF Annual Meeting, Sept. 18
Ernest Stern, past president of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, will serve as
chairman of this year's Annual Meeting, Federation
President Millard Cummins
announced. "Mr. Stern is a
dedicated, thorough and
committed individual, who*
will bring quality leadership
to ttiis important position,"
remarked Cummins.
Stern-has been active in
local Jewish community
affairs for many years. He is
past president of Temple
Israel; Zion Lodge, B'nai
B'rith, and OSU Association
Brandeis University Approaches
Historic Milestone On October 9
WALTHAM, Mass., (JTA)
—When Brandeis University
inaugurates Evelyn Hand-
ker as its fifth president Oct.
9 at Boston's historic Symphony Hall, it will also be
celebrating another university milestone—its 35th anniversary.
"You know, most people
are amazed when you
remind them that Brandeis
is so very young," said Dr.
Abram Sachar, Brandeis'
founding president who was
inaugurated at Symphony
Hall Oct 7,1948. "It is as if
they cannot believe we have
come so far, so-fast."
The university is named
for Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
"the people's lawyer" and
the first Jew to sit on the U.S.
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Ernest Stern
of B'nai B'rith Lodges and
past vice president of the Columbus Jewish Center. He
has served on the advisory
boards of the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel. He is
presently a vice president of
the Columbus Jewish Federation as well as a member
of the board of the Federation.
In addition to serving as
president of the Federation
from 1976-78, he has served
on many of its committees
' and was general chairman of
the 1973 United Jewish Fund
Campaign.
A local businessman,
Stern is a graduate of The
Ohio State University and
holds an L.L.B. and J.D.
from Franklin University
College of Law.
"The 57th Annual Meeting
of,the Columbus Jewish Federation is intende#,to be a
showcase event anathe community is invited," said
Stern. It features the Abe I.
Yenkin Memorial Address
by a nationally-known
speaker and additional highlights include the presenting
of the Therese Stern Kahn
Young Leadership Award
and the Community Award
of Excellence. "Federation
officers will be installed and
out-going leadership will be
honored," added Stern.
The 1983 Columbus Jewish
Federation Annual Meeting
will be held on Sunday, Sept.
18, at7:30 p.m. at Beth Jacob
Synagogue, 1223 College
Ave.
EXCERPTS FROM HIS RUSSIAN JOURNAL
Congressman Examines Plight Of The Soviet Jews
By Congressman
Dan Gllckman
(D-Kansas)
At the invitation of the
Supreme Soviet of the
U.S.S.R.,' the chief legislative body of the Soviet Union,
I was fortunate to be a part
of a delegation of 19 members of the House of Representatives who' traveled to
Russia. White other Members of Congress have
visited the U.S.S.R., we were
the first delegation to be formally invited to the Soviet
Union in over four years. We
met on issues relating to
trade, arms control, regional
conflicts such as Poland and
Afghanistan and human
rights. The following are
excerpts from a journal I
wrote during the trip.
July 2,1983
We left London Heathrow
Airport for Leningrad
aboard an Air Force C-9.
Two Russian navigators
were on board. I introduced
myself, but they spoke no
English.
On the airplane, sevaral
warnings were given by U.S.
Embassy personnel about
the fact that we were to
assume that we would be'
watched, listened to and followed all the time. One State
Department aide was particularly concerned that we
would be jeopardizing the
lives of any Soviet refuseniks
we might meet in the
U.S.S.R. because they have
been categorized^ as "enemies of the State." Most of
us in the delegation, however, felt that anyone who
wanted to see us already was
in jeopardy and it was
important to let them know
we cared about their freedom.
Curiously, before we left
London, we were told by
embassy personnel that our
refusenik visit in Leningrad
was going to be scheduled at
the same time as our trip to
the Hermitage, one of the.
great museums in' the world.
Could this be mere coincidence, or could the Soviet
officials have decided that
fewer members of the delegation would want to visit
with refuseniks so as not to
miss* the Hermitage? We
shall see.
July 3,1983    •
Meeting with' refuseniks:
Among them were:
Evgeny Lein, a mathema
tician, who was imprisoned,
is now a stoker in a bath
house; he also tutors a bit.
Five years ago.'he applied
for a visa to Israel. His wife
also lost her job. He earns 60
rubles a month and pays 50
for rent. He was supposed to
have kicked a military man
but was really arrested for
helping with Jewish history
lessons. He was put in jail
before the trial and spent six
and a half months in prison.
His visa was rejected
because he was in the'Army
once and authorities said he
had state secrets.
Abram Kagan, senior
■ researcher in the Soviet
Academy of Sciences, He
applied for a visa in 1977 and
maintains his current job
because of strong support
from American scientists.
This is an atypical situation.
The Institute of Hydrometeo-
rology expelled his son.
Some institutes, which are
less prestigious, will admit
Jews. Medicine has a very
strong anti-Semitic tradition
here.
Jacob Rabihowitz. His
wife and children got visas
and left threre years ago.
His son is at Brandeis in Boston, He said the situation
with Jewish people is getting
worse. They cannot get
together to talk about Jewish
history, can speak Hebrew
only in a small group.      • *
We also met Eygeny
Matskyn, a refusenik who
has been corresponding with
two of my Kansas constituents, Rick and Betty Shore in
Wichita.- An  unbelievable
coincidence. My wife and I
were invited to his flat. -
After our meeting with the,
refuseniks, we had time to
visit the Hermitage after all.
It was disheartening to see
Rembrandt, Picasso, Renoir
in various states of deterioration. Art and Jews are not
treated well here. On our
way out of the Hermitage, a
consulate official told me
that there is a rapidly grow-
• tag Baptist movement in the
U.S.S.R. which is a thorn in
the Soviet's side and may
., prove problematic with the
number of growing minorities in the country. No mat:
te'r how they try to keep religion down, it seems to have
fertile development. The
other interesting point he
made was in describing the
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