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VOL. 61   NO. 51
DECEMBER 15? 1983-TEVET 9
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Concerned Members Of Jewish Community
Join Dec. 11 Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry
student created a menorah
in honor of the Consecration
ceremony.
A special Oneg Shabbat in
the class' honor followed the
service.
The following students
were consecrated: Rebecca
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Temple Israel held Consecration for its first grade
religious school students during Shabbat services, Friday evening, Dec. 2.
Temple Israel Holds Consecration
At Shabbat Services, December 2
Temple Israel's Annual
Consecration Service was
held during Shabbat evening
services, Friday evening,
Dec. 2, when the group led
the Congregation in prayer
and song.
Consecration is the celebration of the beginning of
Jewish learning and is held
at Temple Israel during
Chanukah of the student's
first grade year or in second
or third grade if thejchild has
not previously been consecrated; *\
Each child is called to the
ark and receives a special
blessing, after which he/she
is presented with a mezzu-
zah from the Brotherhood, a
certificate of Consecration
and a special Israeli coin
from Rabbi Goldman, which
is redeemable for a special
gift at the time of the student's Confirmation. Each
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
In light of the escalation of
anti-Semitism in the Soviet
Union and the severe cutback in the emigration of
Soviet Jews, a concerned
portion of the Jewish community met last Sunday
"night, Dec. 11, at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center at 7
p.m. as part of a national
Women's Plea for Soviet
Jewry.
Sponsored locally by the
Community Relations Committee of the Columbus Jewish Federation, the National
Council of Jewish Women,
B'nai B'rith Women, Hadassah and Women's American
ORT, the meeting was convened by Columbus Section,
NCJW President Gail Hollander and chaired by Clau-
Saunders Calls For Resumption
Of Diplomatic Process To Seek
Palestinian Self-Determination
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Harold Saunders, who as
assistant secretary of state,
for Near Eastern and South
Asian affairs in the Carter
Administration helped negotiate the Camp David agreements, called for a "resumption of the diplomatic
Refusenik Granted Visa After 12 Years
NEW YORK (WNSJ-Soviet Refusenik Eitan Finkelstein
and his family have finally been granted exit visas, 12 years
after applying for them, it was reported here recently. They
will be leaving their home in Vilnius for Israel this month.
Bonn Authorizes Loan For Israel
BONN (JTA)—The Bonn government has signed an agreement to provide Israel with a 140 million Mark development
loan which the Israelis are to use for special projects such as
road construction, construction of electric power stations and
investment in high-tech industry.
New Argentine Interior Minister Vows
Fight Against Anti-Semitism
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—Dr. Antonio Troccoli, chosen by
President-elect Paul Alfonsin to be the minister of interior in
the new constitutional government of Argentina, described
anti-Semitism as "a barbarian attitude" which "ought to be
definitely and forever eliminated from the country," the
World Jewish Congress reported.
Early Copy Deadline
Chronicle office closed Monday, Dec. 26, and
Monday, Jan. 2.
Copy deadline for the Dec. 29 issue will be
inoon, Thursday, Dec, 22. Deadline for the Jan, 5
issue will be noqn, Thursday, Dec, 29,  .
dia Rinkov, NCJW. Honorary co-chairwoman was
Carol Rapp, WTVN-TV.
From Mrs. Rinkov, who
called for a rededication to
the struggle of Soviet Jewry,
to Congressman John Kasich, who said, "We owe
them our commitment until
we bring them all to liberty
and freedom," to State Senator Richard Pfeiffer, who
stated that "the message is
strongest as we are strong,"
the speakers were unanimous in their support of the
two and a quarter million
Soviet Jews and the neces-.
sity for action on their behalf
by the people of the free
world.
Karen Moss, co-chairperson of the Israel and Overseas Jewry Task Force of
the C.J.F. Community Relations Committee, preceded
her introduction of keynote
speaker, Dr. William Korey,
director of Policy Research
for the International Council
of B'nai B'rith, with a personal account of her meeting
with Prisoner of Zion Josef
Begun's wife during her
recent visit to the Soviet
Union.
Dr. Korey's address was
followed by a slide presentation entitled, "Sunday in
Moscow with the KGB," a
menorah lighting by New
American children for those
still in the U.S.S.R. and a call
to action by Boris Pittel, a
former refusenik currently a
member of the mathematics
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'Fer Voss? Why?'
Young Soviet Jews Question
Their Treatment By U.S.S.R.
process' to seek self-determination for the Palestinian
people. I
Saunders, now a resident
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
said the United States should
seek to make up some of the
defects of the Camp David
accords by pressing for self-
determination for Palestinians on the West Bank and
Gaza. However, he added,
this did not necessarily
mean a Palestinian state and
I also required safeguarding
the self-determination of
both Israel and Jordan.
Saunders' remarks were
made late last week at the
close of a three-hour panel
discussion on the Middle
East which was part of the
AEI's Public Policy Week
held at the Mayflower Hotel
here.
He said it has been so very
long since negotiations have
been held that it is now
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Seal Appointed
Director Of JTA
NEW YORK (JTA)^-Mar-
tin Fox, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, has
announced the appointment
of Mark Seal, JTA business
manager, as executive director. He .will, replace John
Kayston, JtA executive vice
president, who is retiring
after 48 years.
Fox also announced that
Kayston was named consultant to the JTA Board of
Directors and management
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
"Fer voss? Why?" This is
the question being asked,
over and over again, by
young Soviet Jews, according to Dr. William Korey,
director of Policy Research
for the International Council
of B'nai B'rith. Dr. Korey
was the keynote speaker at
the Sunday, Dec. 11, Wom-
en'h Plea for Soviet Jewry at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center.
Drawing a comparison between the four questions of
the Passover Haggadah and
the questions being asked by
Soviet Jews, Dr? Korey
stressed that within the
Soviet Union, Jews are considered, not a religious en
tity, but a nationality. However, unlike other nationalities, Jews are not permitted
to have their own school system, publications, communal organizations and so on.
They are, in fact, Dr. Korey
pointed out, forbidden to
even teach Hebrew privately, such activity being
considered "subversive"
and resulting in long prison
terms like the unprecedented 12 year sentence imposed on Josef Begun recently.
The Soviets have succeeded "not only in the obliteration of Jewish institutional life but in a pulverization of Jewish consciousness," Dr. Korey. explained,
for according to Russian histories, there was no Babi
Yar, where tens of thousands
of Jews were massacred
during World War II, and no
Holocaust with its six million
victims.
In addition, the Jewish
population of the Soviet
Union is currently subjected
to the most virulent .campaign of anti-Semitism since
the Stalin era. Reminiscent
of that era, an Anti-Zionist
Committee, headed by a
Jew, General David Dragun-
sky, equates Zionism with
Hitlerism, among other
things, and preaches that the
Torah and Talmud inspire
the Jews to dominate the
world.
Morever, with the rein-
statement of. stringent
quotas, Jewish enrollment in
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This is Soviet hate, not "humor." In a cartoon from the Ukranian satire magazine
Peretz, obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, an evilly grinning, black-
clad, hook-nosed, bearded character labelled "Zionism" holds up a plan of the Auschwitz, Maidenek and Buchenwald concentration camps. He tells the Israeli soldiers with
him, "Begin to build camps [for Arabs] on the tried and true model." In the background (partially shown), more armed soldiers surround the smoldering ruins of Arab
homes, The same "Zionism" figure has appeared before in Peretz's pages.
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