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Pictured above is Rabbi David Stavsky with a number of his colleagues at a March 19 White House Briefing on the Middle East. Left to right are Ambassador
J.William Middendorf; Israel Friedman, executive
vice president of the Religionist Zionists of America;
Rabbi William Hershkowitz, Israel Commission, Rabbinical Council of America; Rabbi J. Slomowitz,
Queens, N.Y.; Rabbi Fabian Schonfield, National
Council of Young Israel; Rabbi Louis Bernstein, president of Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi; Rabbi Gilbert
Klapperman, president of the Rabbinical Council of
America, and Rabbi Stavsky.
Rabbi David Stavsky Attends
March 19 White House Briefing
n Situation In Middle East
Robert McFarlane, assistant
to the President for National
Security Affairs, spoke on
the importance of strengthening the relationship between Israel and the United
States.
Ambassador J. William
Middendorf II, U.S. representative to the Organization
of American States, welcomed the rabbis and invited
them to a kosher reception
after the briefing.
Rabbi David Stavsky of
the Beth Jacob Congregation
was one of 40 rabbis invited
to a special White House
briefing on the Middle East
which was held on Monday,
March 19, in the Old Executive Office Building.
Together with an additional 40 ministers representing
Protestant denominations,
the rabbis were briefed on
"U.S. Policy in Central
America" and "The Situation in the Middle East."
NEW YORK (JTA) -
report to the American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust, to be released at the
beginning of April, concludes that American Jewish
organizations were faulty in
their efforts to save the victims of the Holocaust because they were not united.
The author of the report,
Prof. Seymour Finger of the
Graduate School of the City ,•
University of New York and
the Commission's director of
research, said in a telephone
interview with the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
"the American Jewish organizations had relatively little
power (during the Holocaust
in Europe) but they did try to
save the Jews. They tried,
but they were hampered by a
lack of unity. There was not
a sustained unified effort on
the part of the Jewish organizations to save the Jews
of Europe."
Finger, and Rabbi Moshe
Sherer, president-of-Agudah
Israel of America and a
member of the Holocaust
Commission, also' told the
JTA that a story in the New
York Times on the report
was "incorrect," mainly because it failed to point out
that the report is not the
a
e Victims
Commission's report but
report submitted to it by
Finger.
According to Finger, the
main points of the report are
that "Hitler was the arch
criminal who was responsible, for the Holocaust and
that the Allied governments
had the power to do something to rescue the Jews of
Europe but were unwilling to
divert resources from the
war in order to rescue
Jews."
aims Lack Of Unity Accounted
itions
aust
tions, who gave top priority
to saving the Jews," Finger
pointed out.
Finger said that members
of the Commission have seen
the report but were not
asked "to approve it or disapprove it."
Sherer said that the report
"is purely the view of the
professional staff of the
Commission and not of the
Commission members themselves."
Finger said that the Jewish organizations "had more
faith in the willingness of
President Roosevelt and
Churchill to give priority to
saving the Jews than was
justified by the events."
He said that, in addition,
the Jewish organizations in
America at that time were
"too patriotic" and were not
willing "to break the law." in
order to save the Jews. "An
exception to that was the
Orthodox Jewish organiza-
Saul Kaufman To Be Honored At
B'nai B'rith Youth Alumni Reunion
of Agudas Achim Synagogue
and Brotherhood, B'nai
B'rith Men and the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The weekend celebration
begins at 7 p.m. at the Leo
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Chronicle Welcomes
Saul Kaufman will be honored at the Columbus B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization's
(BBYO)   Alumni  Reunion,
Advertisement For Holocaust Revisionist Group
Appears In Academic Journal Through 'Oversight'
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
A full-page advertisement
for the Institute for Historical Review, a group dedicated to the denial of tHe
Holocaust, appeared in the
winter issue of the academically prestigious German
Quarterly through an "oversight," according to Quarterly Editor Henry Schmidt.
Professor Schmidt, who
teaches German at The Ohio
State University, explained,
that the ad, which has drawn
sharp criticism from the
Wiesenthal Center as well as
many other organizations
and individuals, was placed
through the journal's business office in New Jersey
and was not seen by the editorial staff until it appeared
in print.
-Published by the American Association of Teachers
of German and supported, in
part, by a grant from the
OSU German Department
and College of the Humanities, the German Quarterly
does not endorse the IHR ad,
Schmidt stressed. In fact,
the spring issue, which will
appear the end of April, will
carry a statement from the
organization's executive director to that effect in addition to a letter written by
Holocaust survivor Professor Ruth Angress of Princeton University, a former
Quarterly editor.
The ad  promoted  the
IHR's new book, The "Holocaust" —120 Questions and
Answers, by Charles E.
Weber. The text of the ad described the "extensive Jewish mortality during the Second World War" as "allegations." It further labelled the
death of six million Jews in
the Holocaust "the extermination thesis ... derived
from Zionist sources."
Saul Kaufman
City Convention and Awards
Night to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April
13-15. The weekend is part of
the international celebration
of the 60th anniversary ■ of
BBYO, the world's largest
Jewish youth organization.
The weekend's theme is "Columbus BBYO — Proud of
Our Past and Dealing in Futures."
Kaufman was a founding
member of iPops -Dworkin
SUPER SUNDAY '84 Chairman Tilson
Asks Community To 'Answer The Call'
Of UJF Volunteers On Sunday, April 1
'Amidst balloons, banners, buttons, sights, sounds
and spirit, we are going to
raise the greatest number of
dollars in a single day for the
1984 United Jewish Fund
Campaign when community
members 'answer, the
call,' " promised Dr. Jeff
Tilson, 1984 SUPER SUN-'
DAY chairman.
On April 1, between the
hours of 9:30 a.m. and 7
p.m., 150 Federation volun
teers will call 2,000 Columbus area homes. They will
explain the needs of Jews in
Columbus, Israel and
throughout the world and
thereby make people aware
that each can have a share
in helping to improve,
strengthen and sustain quality Jewish life worldwide
through a monetary commitment to the Campaign.
"Our  SUPER  SUNDAY
challenge is to reach a large
number of people, the broad
base of our Campaign, and
thereby, together; to achieve
Columbus' United Jewish
Fund Campaign goal for 1984
of $4 million. We can do
it—no foolin'," Tilson continued, mindful of the April 1
theme, "No Foolin', it's
SUPER SUNDAY." The 1984
Campaign total to date
stands at $3,575,000.
The  SUPER  SUNDAY
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AZA, the city's first permanent BBYO chapter chartered at Tifereth Israel on
March 14, 1932. Kaufman
had an active BBYO career,
serving in a variety of chapter offices, planning a plethora of programs and representing the ■,, Jewish community on the 1937 championship athletic team.
He then continued his devotion by serving as a volunteer advisor to Pops for oyer
35 years. During that time,
he touched the lives of countless Jewish youth and served
as a continuing role model of
the value of the volunteer in
the Jewish community. He
helped his chapter incorporate the BBYO program by
planning Jewish heritage,
community service, social
action, social, athletic and
cultural programs. During
the 1960s, he bridged the generation gap by instituting
BBYO" participation in Sabbath services at the Heritage
House.
Kaufman has received International B'nai B'rith's
highest volunteer honor, the
Gold Key award. An annual
Columbus BBYO trophy is
now named in his honor.
Kaufman and his wife
Dorothy have two daughters
and eight grandchildren.
Upon his 1981 retirement
from Yenkin Majestic Paint,
he resumed his studies at the
Ohio State University. Like
the young men he advises, he
misses meetings only to
study for important exams.
Kaufman is also a member
This week, the Chronicle
introduces a columnist new
to its pages, Dr. Joseph
Cohen, director of the Jewish
Dr. Joseph Cohen
Studies Program at Tulane
University and professor of
English in its Newcomb College.
Dr. Cohen is the author
and editor of three books and
over 100 articles and literary
columns. He is the literary
columnist for 20 Jewish
newspapers in the United
States and Canada.
Dr. Cohen's column,
"Views and Reviews," can
be found on page 2.
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