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VOL.61   NO. 41
OCTOBER 6,1983-TISHREI29
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Conservative, Reform Leaders Urge Shamir
To Reject Efforts To Amend Law Of Return
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Pictured aire inductees for this year's Jewish Center
Sports Hall of Fame, (top, 1. to r.) Don Erkis, Al Kauffman, (bottom, 1. to r.) Lou Levin and Harry Munster.
Four Former Jewish Athletes
To Be Inducted, October 23,
Into JC Sports Hall Of Fame
The Health and Physical
Education Committee of the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
will be honoring four former
Jewish athletes at its Fifth
Annual Sports Hall of Fame
ceremony to be held Sunday,
Oct. 23 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Those being inducted in
this" year's program are Al
Kauffman, Lou Levin, Harry
Munster and Don Erkis 'who
will be inducted posthumously.
Erkis, who died unexpectedly last week, played varsity tennis and basketball at
East High School and varsity
basketball in college. In 1960,
. he? won the Grossinger's Pro
Amateur Golf Championship
and in 1980, was the Center's
Racquetball Masters Division Champ.
Kauffman, who lettered in
baseball- basketball, and
football at South High
School, was signed in 1947 as
a professional, baseball
player with the New York ■
Giants and later played with'
the Boston Braves.
Levin, who played semi-
professional football and a
pro league in Cleveland, also
coached a baseball team at
the Jewish'Center.
Munster earned letters in
„ football, basketball, baseball
and track at East High
School and in 1928, was voted
winner of the Agonis Club
AthleterScholar program at
East. ■  .
:   Special guest for the program is Gene Slaughter, ath-
t JeMc director ,qnd head foot;
ball coach at Capital Univer-"
sity. Master of ceremonies
will be Dick Otte, managing
editor of the Columbus
Dispatch.
Cost for the event, which
includes a kosher, dairy
lunch, is $7.
For reservation information, contact the Center.
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Representatives of Conservative and Reform Judaism
called on Israel's Knesset
and the government of
Prime Minister-designate
Yitzhak Shamir to reject efforts by the country's Orthodox rabbinate to amend Israel's Law of Return, asserting that such a change was
"contrary to the interests .
and welfare of world
Jewry."
At a news conference in
the headquarters of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations (UAHC),
leaders of the rabbinical and
congregational branches of
Conservative and Reform
Judaism in the United States
and Canada joined in a statement assailing current attempts to change the Law of
Return that would hold in-
„ valid all conversions to the
Jewish faith performed bj
non-Orthodox rabbis.
"The change in theJLaw of
Return would do violence to
the principle of Jewish unity
"""an3? jeopardize the sense 61
solidarity that binds tho
Jewish people everywhere tithe State of Israel," the joint
statement declared.
"In deciding' whether a
conversion performed in th«'
diaspora is or is hot authentic—basing their opinion not
on how the conversion was-
performed, but on who performed it—the Israeli rabbinate and, if they achieve
their  purpose,   the  State,
would arrogate to themselves authority over the religious lives of Jews throughout the world."
major unifying force in Jewish life, would thus become a
force for injecting divisive-
ness."
ports Israel and
nourished by it."
is in turn
"The change in the Law of Return would do violence
to the principle of Jewish unity..."
Continuing, the statement
said: "By explicitly rejecting the legitimacy and
authenticity of non-Orthodox
movements, the Knesset
would be taking a judgmental action totally beyond its
competence.; This would
damage the capacity of the
State to call upon every Jew
equally for economic, political and moral support, and
weaken the appeal for aliya.
The  State  of  Israel,   the
The six religious leaders,
who said they spoke on be-.
half of the Reform and Conservative Jewish communities of the U?S. and Canada,
with combined constituencies of more than three million Jews, declared that
their presence together at
the news conference "is an
earnest manifestation of our
recognition of the vital symbiotic relationship through
which diaspora Jewry sup-
The six religious leaders
signing the statement were:
Rabbi Joseph Glaser, executive vice president, Central
Conference of American
Rabbis (CCAR); Rabbi Wolf
Kelman, executive vice
president, Rabbinical Assembly; Rabbi Morton Leif-
man, vice president, Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America (JTS); Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president,
UAHC; Prof. Gordon Tucker, director, Institute for
Religious arid Social Studies,
JTS; and Rabbi Eric Yoffie,
executive  director, ARZA.
CJF Women's Division To Hold Educational Forum
Marilyn Knabie and Ar-
lenp Weiss will co-chair the
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Women's  Division  Third
Annual Educational Forum
to be held on Sunday, Oct. 16,
at 7:30 p.m. The Forum will
take place at Agudas Achim
Synagogue, 2767 E. Broad
St., with Rabbi Alan G. Ciner
acting as moderator.
"Inside the Arab Mind1' is
the.-subject of the Forum.-
Professor Gerald M. Mei-
ster, director of the Ramapo
Institute of New York, a
research center specializing
in international relations
and political theology, will
be the guest speaker.
The presentation will be
followed by audience participation in a question and
answer session.
Refreshments will be
served at the conclusion of
the evening. There will be no
solicitation and the Forum is
Investiture Of Rabbi Alan Ciner As Spiritual Leader
Of Agudas Achim To Take Place Sunday, Oct. 30
The Investiture of Rabbi
Alan G. Ciner as the Spiritual Leader of the Agudas
Achim Congregation will
take place on Sunday, Oct.
30, at 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Ciner will be officially installed, as the 11th
Rabbi of the oldest and largest traditional synagogue in
Columbus'? The Rev. Kalmon
London was the first spiritual leader,, serving from
1881 until 1894. Rabbis I. Alt-
feld, Solomon Luie1, Joseph
Rappaport and Saul Silver
served during the years of
1895 to 1907.
In 1907, Rabbi I. Werne
became the spiritual leader,
in the "new" building at
Washington and Donaldson.
In.1913, Rabbi Morris Taxon
was elected spiritual leader
of the • congregation. He
served until 1918 and was
replaced by Rabbi Solomon
Neches.
Rabbi I. Werne returned to
the congregation in 1923 and
did a great deal to expand
the synagogue program. He
served until 1931. Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprung was then
Rabbi Alan Ciner.
selected to guide the congregation. He served from 1932
until 1948.    '    ™
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein
came to Columbus and the
Agudas Achim in 1949. It was
through his efforts that the
present building at Broad
and  Roosevelt  became  a
reality. Rabbi Rubenstein
led the congregation for 34
years. Feb. 1, he retired and
was named Rabbi Emeritus.
Rabbi Ciner, a 1968 graduate of Yeshiva University,
assumed the pulpit Feb. 1.
Rabbi Ciner was ordained by
the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary of -
New York in 1971. He
received his masters degree
in Jewish History from the
Bernard Revel Graduate
School at Yeshiva University
in the same year.
Since coming to Columbus,
Rabbi Ciner has introduced
an innovative program of
prayer, study and spirituality at. the Synagogue.
Rabbi Ciner has served as a"
speaker for numerous,
groups throughout Columbus
as well as a spokesperson on
local TV and radio. The
Rabbi led a contingent of
teens and adults to New
York to march in the Salute
to Israel Parade, marking
the first time that a group
from the Midwest participated in this major event.
Arlene Weiss
open to the community at no
charge.
For further information
about the Educational
Forum, call Columbus Jewish Federation office at
237-7686.
Margey Cheses is 1984
chairwoman of the Federation's Women's Division and
Jacki Yenkin is co-chairwoman.
Gerald N. Cohn Named
To National Commission
Sheldon Goldberg, executive vice president of the
American  Association  of
Gerald Cohn
Homes for the Aging
(AAHA), announced the appointment of Gerald N. Cohn
as the Association's representative on the National
Professional and Technical
Advisory Commission on
Long Term Care of the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Long
Term Care facilities.
Cohn, executive vice president of Heritage Village, was
elected chairman of the,National Commission at a re-,
cent meeting at the Commission's headquarters in' Chicago.
. AAHA represents over
2,000 not for profit Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,
governmental and fraternal
sponsored homes for the
aging across the country.
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