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Governor Celeste's Office Sends
Proclamations, Petitions To Soviets
Petitions bearing more
than 500 signatures on behalf
of Soviet Jewry and proclamations from more than a
dozen national, state and
local officials urging the
Kremlin to end its oppression of Russian Jews were
sent from Governor Richard
F. Celeste's office last week
to the Soviet Embassy in
Washington.
One of the proclamations
was from the governor himself. Signers of the others included U.S. Senators John
Glenn and Howard Metzen-
baum, Ohio Congressmen
Chalmers P. Wylie and John
R. Kasich and a host of General Assembly members.
"We asked Governor
Celeste to send the material
for two reasons," explained
Claudia Rinkov, chairwom-,
an of the 1983 Columbus
Women's Plea for Soviet
Jewry. "The governor was
our featured speaker at the
Plea two years ago, so we
knew he was familiar with
the plight of Soviet Jews.
Secondly; the Soviet Embassy in the past has refused
to receive material we
mailed through the Columbus Jewish Federation.
1 "This year, with Governor
Celeste's help, we hope to get
the petitions and the proclamations past the embassy
guards and onto the desk of
Ambassador Dobrynin."
Mrs; Rinkov said the idea
behind the petitions and the
proclamations is to keep the
oppression of the two million
Soviet Jews—and the grow
ing use of anti-Semitism as
official policy in Russia—
in the spotlight. Such publicity in the past has helped improve conditions, she added.
The governor's proclamation notes in part that
"Soviet Jews are denied
their basic human rights and
freedoms to worship, to
learn and to teach their religious and cultural traditions" and "are subjected to
economic and social harassment, trial and imprisonment in their effort to seek
emigration to Israel."
It also asserts that since
Americans enjoy freedom
and human rights, "we must
strive to work for those who
are denied" such rights.
Mrs. Rinkov said that
since the record year of 1979
when 51,000 Jews were permitted to leave the Soviet
Union, emigration has been
choked off. Last year barely
more than 1,000 were
granted exit visas.
In addition, an intense official campaign against Judaism, the teaching of Hebrew,
Jewish observances and culture and. any thing related to..
Israel is Underway inside the
U.S.S.R., Mrs. Rinkov noted-
Jews are being denied not
only the right to emigrate but
also, excluded from educational and economic opportunities and cut off from contact with relatives and other
Jews overseas.
Other proclamation signers
included State Senators Paul
Gillmor, Michael Schwarz-
walder, Richard Pfeiffer and
Senate President Harry
Meshel; State Representatives Ray Miller and David
Leland and House Speaker
Vern Riffe; Columbus City
Council, Whitehall Mayor
John Bishop and former Columbus Mayor Tom Moody.
The petitions were circulated among Columbus synagogues and several area
churches.
"We hope by actions such
as this to remind the Soviet
government that Americans
have not forgotten and will
not forget the plight of Russian Jews," Mrs. Rinkov
said.
Israel Expresses Regret
Over Chile's Refusal To Expel War Criminal
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel expressed "profound regret"
last week over Chile's refusal of its request to expel Nazi war
criminal Walter Rauff. A Justice Ministry spokesman said
Israel would continue its efforts to secure Rauff's expulsion
or extradition in order to bring to justice a man responsible.
for the murder of at least 250,000 Jews during World War II.
Soviet Jew Sentenced To Three Years
NEW YORK (JTA)-Moshe Abramov, a 28-year-old Orthodox Jew from the city of Samarkand, received a three-year
sentence, according to information obtained last week by the
National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Unable to observe
Jewish dietary laws in prison, he is subsisting on only bread
and water. Abramov was arrested on Dec. 19 on charges of
"hooliganism" and incarcerated in the town of Katta-Kurgan
about 100 kilometers from Samarkand. His arrest followed a
dispute with heal authorities in which he was asked to withdraw a request to emigrate to Israel, submitted in 1980. He
refused to do so. '
Liberation Of Budapest Ghetto Marked
BUDAPEST (JTA)—A wreath-laying ceremony was held
here recently to mark the 39th anniversary of the liberation
of the former Jewish ghetto from the Nazis. Imre Heber,
president of the Central Board of Hungarian Jews, delivered
formal remarks on the occasion of this solemn event. The
ceremony was held at what is now a school on the corner of
what was the former entrance of the ghetto.
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Local UJF
Advance Gifts
Post Increase
"Columbus has led communities across the country,
from Atlanta, Ga, to Santa
Barbara, Calif., in increased
levels of giving at an advance gifts event. More than
$2 million, representing a 72
percent card for card increase, was raised at the
Dec. 12 Advance Gifts Affair
at the home of Leslie Wexner, featuring guest speaker,,
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman," announced Melvyn H.
Bloom, assistant director of
United Jewish Appeal.
"The outstanding achievement set the pace for the Columbus 1984 Campaign success to date which now
stands at $2.9 million," reported Edwin M- Ellman,
1984 general chairman.
The dollars raised fund
over 50 beneficiaries in Columbus, Israel and throughout the world. "Sharing the
Vision means maintaining
one's individual responsibil-
ity in helping fellow Jews to
have many of the basics —
housing, medical care and
education," stressed Ellman.
The 1984 United Jewish
Fund Campaign of the Columbus Jewish Federation
established a $4 million goal
for the regular campaign
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Jimmie Crum To Be Featured Speaker
At Interfaith Brotherhood Month Program
Jimmie Crum will be the
featured speaker at the. Interfaith Brotherhood Month
Program being held at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue on
Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30
p.m. His topic will be "People Touching People."
to the entire community on
behalf of the Agudas Achim
Synagogue. There will be
short messages from the
Rev. Wayne Weiss, pastor at
Brookwood Presbyterian
Church; the Rev. T. Conrad
Selnick, assistant minister
at St. Alban's Episcopal
Church, and the Rev; Jacob
J. Ashburn, pastor of the
Oakley Baptist Church and
president of the Baptist Pastors Conference!
Entertainment will be furnished by the Bexley High
School choral group, under
the direction of Joel Ma-
thias. An appropriate dramatic reading by Sid Silvian
will introduce the program.
; Chairman of the event is
Herbert L. Solomon. Serving
on the planning committee
are Robert Shapiro, Sol Der-
fler, Harry Topolosky, William Goldsmith and Sid Silvian. Gary Beim, Brotherhood president, stated that
the community is invited to
attend and that a social hour
will follow the program.
Recent Theological Conference
Deplored By Synagogue Council
Jimmie Crum
Although well known in
Central Ohio as sports director at WCMH-TV and recognized as a sports authority,
Jimmie Crum is also well respected for his humanitarian
and communal interests.
Crum has dedicated himself to "Recreation Unlimited" and raised almost
$800,000 for this project to
send handicapped children
to summer camp. He helped
organize the American Federation of TV and radio artists. In 1983, he received an
Award of Distinction from
the Touchdown Club of
Columbus for 30 years of service to the community.
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner will
bring a message of greeting
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
recent conference of the
American Jewish Congress
and the Vatican Commission
for Religious Relations with
the Jews in Lucerne was deplored last week by the Synagogue Council of America
(SCA) as "jeopardizing" 18
years of "unified and unifying" Jewish consultations
with the Vatican.
At the same time, the Rab-.
binical Council of America, a
constituent agency of the
SCA, also criticized the
AJCongress for holding the
conference because it "has
divided the solidarity of the
Jewish community" in dealing with representatives of
the Vatican.
In its statement, the SCA,
the organization representing the rabbinic and congregational arms of American
Judaism, said that although
the SCA "recognizes the
right of any Jewish group to
hold discussions with representatives of the Christian
community, it deplores" the
conference on The Authority
and Interpretation of Scripture in Judaism and Christianity. The meeting was
held Jan. 16-18.
Continuing, the statement
said: "The SCA has always
maintained that fruitful discussions with other representative international Christian
organizations can take place
only when the subject matter
is acceptable to all segments
of the Jewish,religious community and when the spokesmen are truly representative
of the entire spectrum of Jewish sensitivities.    <
These statements were is-
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