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VOL.61   NO. 40
SEPTEMBER 29,1983-TlSHREI 22
Oevofed io American
and Jewish (deals
Shamir Receives Mandate
To Form A New Government
Holy Day of Joy
in the Torah
Celebrates the -completion of the annual
cycle of reading the
Torah —the Five
Books of Moses—and
the beginning of, reading the Torah anew.
The Torah ends with
the death of Moses
and begins with the
creation of the world,
underscoring the idea
that out of seeming
death comes life.
September 30
23 Tishrei
Some of the members of the Hospitality Committee
for the Oct. 4 National Council of Jewish Women meeting are pictured above. They are (I. to r.) Elise Stein;
Sandy Steinman; Rachel Stern, chairwoman; Linda
Zipes and Kathy Kellerman.
NCJW To Hold Birthday Party
At Center On Tuesday, Oct. 4
Next Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 12
noon, the Columbus Section,
National Council of Jewish
Women, will celebrate the
90th birthday of the national
organization at a luncheon
meeting at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The program for the afternoon will include a tribute to
life members and an original
dramatic presentation by
Frances Kopp, featuring
Sandi Greenball and Harriet
Robins and enhanced by a
slide show. A period Fashion
Show, moderated by Andrea
Verona, will show fashions of
the past decade and earlier,
modeled by the following
members of the Section:
Margalit Meidar, -Sandy
Steinman, Shelly Callif, Na-
tine Rosenzweig, Barbara
Topolosky, Phyllis Loeb, Ar-
lene Roth, Cindy Ruberg and
Eva Stein. The presentation
and fashion show will high-
light "Nine Decades of
Achievement—a Time for
Celebration"—for the
National Council of Jewish
Women.
Committee Members
working on the luncheon include Kathy Kellerman and
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-
Likud leader Yitzhak
Shamir received President
Chaim Herzog's mandate
last week to form a new
government. In delegating
the task to Shamir, Herzog
spoke of the "longing" in the
political community and
among the broad public for a
national unity coalition embracing Likud and the Labor
Alignment He also stressed
that the transition period between the present care-taker.
regime and the next government be as short as possible.
Shamir promptly accepted
the responsibility delegated
to him. He told reporters
that his first move will be to
call on Labor to join .a
national unify government.:
Labor Party chairman
Shimon Peres has agreed to
meet with Shamir. But political observers see very little
chance, that  a  national
government will materialize.
According to Herzog, in his
statement  announcing  his'
choice of Shamir,, a majority
of the Knesset factions with
which he consulted during
the past few days want a
broad-based  government
and this desire reflects wide
public sentiment. He said '
people believe that a unity
government could best face
up to the urgent economic ?
situation and other severe
problems that burden the
country.
When Shamir was elected
leader of Likud, a week after
Menachem Begin first announced his intention to resign, he pledged to try his •
best to form a unity government. Labor's position has
been that such a government
would have to be headed by a
Labor Prime Minister, if
only  because  the . Labor
Dinitz Feels U.S. Withdrawal From Lebanon
Would Be 'A Very Terrible Thing Politically'
By Eric Rozenman
CRC Director
Columbus Jewish
Federation
Special to the Chronicle
"It will be a very terrible
thing politically if the United
States is seen to be folding,
withdrawing its Marines
under fire in Lebanon," according to Simcha Dinitz,
Israel's ambassador to the
First Central Ohio 'Autumn Walk'
To Be Held This Sunday At Center
"The Health and Physical
Education Department of
the Leo . Yassenoff Jewish
Center is sponsoring an
'Autumn Walk,' Sunday,
Oct, 2," states co-chairperson for the event Sandy
Simon. "The event, to be
held at-12 noon,* is the first of
its kind to be held in Central
Ohio," Simon adds.
The walk is a one mile fitness event and a four mile
timed walk through a flat
residential area of Berwick.
The start and finish are at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center with rest benches
along the one mile course,
water stops along both
courses, splits at, each mile
and police control.
Registration is limited to
1500 walkers, ages 18 and
older. The entry fee is $8,
which includes a T-shirt and
souvenir booklet. Trophies
will be awarded in the four
mile walk only to the fastest
Jewish Center walker, the
three top overall finishers
and three top finishers in
each age division. Registra-
tiqn packets may be picked
up from 9-11:30 a.m. the
morning of the walk.
Simon is encouraging participants to sign up early as
there are hundreds of
walkers who have been waiting for a first time walk like
this to occur. _ For more
information on registering,
contact the Health and Physical Education Department
at the Center, 231-2731.
Carnegie Foundation Recommends
High School Study Of Holocaust
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, in its recently released
plan on how to improve
American high schools,
recommended that all students learn about the Holocaust.
The report, written by
Ernest Boyer, president of
the Princeton, N.J.-based
foundation, made the suggestion in a section discussing the need for students to
learn the roots of Western
civilization.
This is the first time that a
major-non Jewish national
educational organization has
urged that the Holocaust be
taught to students, according to $ob Hochstein, a
spokesman for the Carnegie
Foundation.
The Foundation has been a
major influence in the
American school curriculum
and the report is expected to
play a significant role in the
changes now going on to improve American education.
Boyer, a former U.S. Commissioner of Education,
noted in  the report  that
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United States frc-m 1973
through 1978. Such a retreat
"will send a very bad signal
throughout the Arab world,"
he said.
Veteran diplomat, political advisor to Prime
Minister Golda Meir, Labor
Party activist and now vice-
presidertt of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dinitz
spoke to about 350 people in
Beth Jacob Synagogue at the
57th Annual Meeting of the
Columbus Jewish Federation on Sept. 18.
At a speech and subsequent press conference in
Columbus, the former ambassador carefully recounted U.S. involvement in
Lebanon:
"The Marines are there
because the government believes it serves American
interests. Once you decide to
have them there, remember
they are Marines, not
ducks—sitting ducks. That is
unacceptable.
"Israel never asked the
United States or anyone to
send troops. The Multi-
National Force, was sent
originally at the request of
the P.L.O. to supervise their
removal from Beirut."
Hastily withdrawn, the
MNF returned for "phase
two," as Dinitz explained,
after the assassination of
President-elect Bashir
Gemayel and the Sabra and
Shatilla refugee camp massacres. The several thousand American, British,
French and Italian soldiers'
main purpose now is to show
support for the government
of Amin Gemayel. !
"Somehow I don't see this
history repeated (by the
press) these days," Dinitz
added.
Predicting early elections
in Israel following an "interim" Shamir government—
"Beginism without Begin"
—he said he would run as a
Candidate for the Knesset.
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Alignment is the largest single party in the Knesset.
This is unacceptable to
Likud.
It is not known what Cabinet portfolios Shamir is likely to offer Labor but political
observers expect that
Shamir and Peres will mere-'
ly "go through the motions,"
after which each will attempt to blame the other for
failure to form a unity
government.
Fighting In Lebanon
Called'Sideshow1
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
President Amin Gemayel of
Lebanon, in a television in-
| terview broadcast last week,
said the fighting between the
Lebanese and Syrian-backed '
Moslem militias is a "sideshow" aimed at preventing
the withdrawal of Syrian
troops from Lebanon.
Gemayel, whose interview
w,as taped for the ABC-TV
"This v Week With David
Brinicley" program, said it is
"clear" thati the "Syrians
are behind" the fighting now
going on. He said the result
is that "nobody is talking"
about the withdrawal of
foreign forces from Lebanon
but instead are concentrating on the current fighting.
The Lebanese President
said that if he were able to sit
down face to face with Druze
leader Walid Jumblatt, "we
would be able to reach an
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Jennie Roland Named
BBW Menorah Honoree
A well-deserved honor will
be bestowed on B'nai B'rith
Women's Menorah honoree
for 1983—Jennie Roland—at
the luncheon on Sunday, Oct.
30, at Winding Hollow
Country Club.
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Jennie Roland
Just how does this yougg
senior citizen spend her 24
hours per day, 365 days per
year? "Life is a kaleidoscope of'events," she stated.
"Things happen one after
the other so fast that there is
no time to assimilate or
analyze an occurrence. However, there comes a time in
life when we set back and
take inventory of all that has -
happened in our time"—and
this is a short summary of
Jennie's accomplishments
since she came to Columbus
as a young bride in 1922.
Her organization life went
hand-in-hand with her
family life—the mother of
three children, Harvey (now
residing in South Bend),
Evelyn Nateman (an active
member of the community)
and Alice Weiss (a resident
of a North Chicago suburb).
She' is proud of her children,
her ten grandchildren and
one great grandchild.
Her organization affilia-^
tions are many—a charter
member (as well as a life
member) of B'nai. B'rith
Women, life membership in
Hadassah, Council of Jewish
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