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VOL.61   NO. 34
August 25,1983-ELUL16
RYAN RELEASES REPORT ON BARBIE
ofoaizes To France
Heritage House Resident Ida Ellis enjoyed a previous Family Picnic with her daughter, Shirley, and son-
in-law, Leonard Siegel.
Annual Heritage House Family Picnic
To Take Place On Sunday, Sept. 11
Heritage House's 3th
Annual "Super Summer
Family Picnic" in honor of
National Grandparents Day
will be celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 11:30 a.m.
Residents and their
friends and family {members
can look forward to a buffet
At Ahavqs Sholom
Ahavas Sholom' Congregation announces the reappointment of David Weis-
fogel ks Cantor for the forthcoming High Holidays.
Cantor David Weisfogel
Cantor Weisfogel formerly
of New York, is a resident of
Columbus and now owns his
own business here. He has
had a wide range of experience chanting for synagogues. He is a graduate of
the Hertzliah School of
Music and, in addition, has
had vocal training from Dr.
Avshalom Zfira of Brooklyn.
The Synagogue has available a limited number of
seats for those in the Columbus Jewish community who
would like to hear Cantor
Weisfogel during this year's
High Holiday Services.
Non-members may attend
for $36 a seat. Mail checks
and reservations to Ahavas
Sholom, 2568 E. Broad St.
Columbus, 0. 43209.
For further information,
call Mort Rising, 253-5189, or
Pearson Press, 237-1068.
brunch of favorite picnic
foods, which include: barbe-
qued chicken, barbequed
beef, corn on the cob, potato
salad, baked beans, homemade, rolls, watermelon
boa.ts, homemade cookies
and angel food cake. Luncheon for adults is $6.50 and for
children $3.50. Reservations
to join the" Heritage House
residents for the luncheon
may be made through the
Program Department at
237-7417 by Sept. 5.
Celebration of National
Grandparents Day is an
annual tradition, which this
year features a special visit
by the Vintage Car Club of
America who. will display
several antique cars. Musical accompaniment during
the luncheon will be provided by Village Volunteer
Mrs. Rose Nafzger.
The Community is invited
to join their family and
friends at the "Super Summer Family Picnic" and all
of, the day's festivities in
honor of National Grandparents Day^
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The United States government has apologized to
France because- U.S. army
intelligence officers prevented Klaus Barbie, the
wartime gestapo leader in
Lyon, from being extradited
to France 33 years ago by
lying about his whereabouts
and then helping him to flee
from Germany to South
America.
Allan Ryan, Jr., a special
assistant in the criminal
division in the Department
of Justice, said he urged the
apology in submitting his
report Aug. 9 to Attorney
General William French
Smith oh the- U.S. government's involvement in the
Barbie case. He said the
State Department presented
a note of "regret" to the
French Embassy here last
, Aug. .12."
The 216-page Ryan report
and more than 600 pages of
supporting documents were
made public at a press-conference at the Justice
Department; The^yB^r^s,-
Ryan was director of the:
office of Special Investigations, which investigates and
prosecutes Nazi war criminals injhe U.S., when he was
asked to devote iiis fulltime
to the Barbie case, which he
has done since March 15.
The study was made after
allegations about U.S. complicity in Barbie's escape
cropped up after Barbie was
extradited in February from
Bolivia to France to face
charges of crimes against
humanity  in  Lyon.   Ryan
Columbus Hebrew School
Schedules Class Openings
Dr. David Salczer, director of the Columbus Hebrew
School, announces the opening of the fall term, Monday,
Sept. 12; Tuesday, Sept. 13;
Wednesday, Sept. 14, and?
Thursday, Sept. 15.-
The Columbus Hebrew
School is a community
school maintaining three
branches and is a beneficiary of the Columbus Jew-'
ish Federation. Its educational services are open to
the Jewish community of
greater Columbus, regardless of congregational affiliation.
Registration is now being
accepted in" the Primary
Program at the Agudas
Achim and Temple Israel
Branches, as well as in the
•five-year instructional pro-'
gram for students entering
the third or fourth grade in
the public schools. Thft five-
year program is available at
all three branches (Agudas
Achim, Beth Tikvah and
Temple Israel).
Registration is. also open
for qualified students in
other grades and for students with special needs who
will be accommodated in
CHS' Special Education Program.
Classes in the five-year
program will nifeet Monday^
and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m.
(beginning Sept. 12) at the
Agudas Achim Branch, and
Tuesday and Thursday from
4:15-6 p.m. (beginning Sept;
13) ait the Beth Tikvah and'
Temple Israel Branches,
The Primary Program
will meet at the Agudas
Achim Branch Sunday from
10' a.m. to 12 noon and
Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m.
(beginning Sept. 14), at the
Tempje Israel. Branch Sunday from 9 to 11 a.m. and
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stressed that his study did
not consider whether Barbie
was giuUty in the deportation
and deaths of at least 11,000
Jews and French,resistance
leaders in wartime France,
but whether the U.S. had
prevented his extradition to
France. "A principle of
democracy and of the rule of
law is that justice delayed is
justice  denied,"  he  said.
"We haye delayed justice in
Lyon."
But also stressing the U.S.
government should apologize for having provided
France with false information, Ryan said that those
who actually did cover up
Barbie's whereabouts should
not themselves be personally
liable to prosecution because
they acted "to protect what
they believed to be the interests of the United States
Army and #ie United States
government." He also said
he did not believe his studies
show that any new legislation is warranted.
Ryan said that Barbie was
employed by the U.S. Army
Counter-intelligence Corp
(GIG) in Germany from 1947
to 1951. :
Jewish Famity Service To Sponsor
Religious Wedding Ceremonies
For New Americans In Columbus
The Jewish Family Service is offering a special
opportunity to the New
Americans from the Soviet
Union who have settled in
Columbus.
Jewish, religious ceremonies are forbiden in the Soviet
Union. Therefore, New
American couples will be
marriedin & Je\vish wedding,.
ceremony on Sunday, Aug.
28, at the LeoYassenoff Jewish Center.
A special reception will
follow the ceremonies.
Arnold White, chairman of
the eventy indicates that,
"The ceremonies and reception will bring a sense of
Jewishness to the participants who were unable to
have this kind of atmosphere
at their civil marriage ceremonies in Russia."
Phyllis Katz, JFS president, felt that, "The fact that
18 people will be participating in the ceremonies provides an additional Jewish
touch."
The participating couples
range in age from 28 to 73.
The celebrants are: Mr. and
Mrs. Solomon Dynin, Mr.
and Mrs. Moisey Gurke, Mr.
and Mrs. Semyon Koman-
ovsky, Mr. and Mrs. Boris
Krongauz, Mr. and Mrs.
Mikail Krongauz, Mr. and
Mrs. Vladimir Landa, Mir.
and Mrs. Anatoly Nabutov-
sky, Mr. and Mrs. Ilya
Pasechnik, and Mr. and Mrs.
Felix Rosenfeld. One couple
is proud of the fact that they
celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary in the
United States this past year.
In addition to chairman
Arnold White, the other committee members include
Rabbi Harold Berman, Beth
Berman, Geraldine Ellman,
Phyllis Katz, Dorothy
Rubenstein, Jay Schottenstein, Jeannie Schottenstein,
Ernest Stern and Stan
Yenkin.
Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein, co-chairpersons of the
Sponsors Committee, have
lined up many special sponsors.
Columbus is one of ten
communities that is having
such an event. Those that
have already been held .were
well received and provided a
special excitement to all who
participated, the JFS
reports.
Local Gathering Told Of
Missionary, Cult Threat
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
"The missionary and cult
threat has grown to alarming proportions," according
to; the Task Force on Missionaries and Cults,:(TJFMC);
of the New York Jewish
Community Relations Council. "Many thousands of
young Jewish men and
women are members of over
2,500 identified cult and missionary groups in the United
States, including the Unification Church, Divine Light
Mission, The Way, Hare
Krishna and Jews for
Jesus," they contend.
One of the most effective
ways to combat these statistics, Dr. Philip Abramowitz,
TFMC"director, told a
gathering at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center on Sunday,
Aug. 21, is to hold seminars
such as the one they were
attending for high school
seniors and college freshmen and their parents to
acquaint them with the
methods used by cults and
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missionary groups to recruit
new members and with the
dangers inherent in such
groups.
Sponsored by the Community Relations Committee of
the Columbus Jewish Federation,, the Seminar on
Cults andf Anti-Israel Propaganda drew a wide cross section of the community, from
students to senior citizens.
They heard Dr. Abramowitz
speak on cults and missionary groups; listened to a presentation by Michael Lieberman, community consultant
•..of .the Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana Region of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, on anti-Israel propaganda on campus and heard,
a wrap-up by Rabbi Howard
Alpert, director of the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation at
The Ohio State University, in
which he explained what students at OSU are doing to
counter Arab propaganda
and cults.
In addition to holding
informal seminars, Dr.
Abramowitz stressed the importance of good relationships between parents and
children and providing children with good, sound Jewish educations to prevent the
influence of cults.
Lieberman noted that the
best way to fight Arab propaganda is to be well informed
and cited the New Republic,
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