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esident Of Israel Describes
Interrogation By KGB In Leningrad
Pictured at last year's B'nai B'rith Children's Home
Day at the Ohio State Fair are Richard Grundstein
(left), co-chairman, and Richard Handler (right),
chairman of the event both this year and last, with
Governor Richard Celeste. Some of the children who
enjoyed the day are pictured below.
Co-Chairpersons Announced For
B'nai B'rith Children's Home Day
Richard Handler, chairman of this year's B'nai
B'rith Children's Home Day
at the Ohio State Fair, announced that Eleanor Resler, Leslie Wexner, Gordon
Zacks, Melvin Schottenstein,
Leo Weinberg and Richard
Grundstein will serve as co-
chairpersons for the annual
event.
Committee members include: Garry Beim, David A.
Belinky, Willard C. Bornstein, Irvin S. Dworkin,
Maxine*Dworkin, Gilbert E.
Feiertag, Randy Gold, N.
Victor Goodman, Eugene J.
Hameroff, Marshall B.
Harris, Marvin Horkin, Wil
liam Kahn, Victor Krupman,
Diane Levi, Lawrence A.
Rubenstein, Larry S. Samuels, Dr. Edmond Schecter',
Ernest Stern, A. C. Strip,
Carol. Strip, Charles Weinstein, Bella Wexner, Dr.
Marvin A. Zuravsky.
Children's Home Day will
be held on Monday, Aug. 6.
On that date, B'nai B'rith
. will treat over 1500 children
and their chaperones to a
day at the Fair, including admission, rides and favors.
Lunch, for the ninth consecutive year, according to
Handler, is being provided
free by Wendy's.
PARIS (JTA) - Prof.
Ephraim Katzir, former
President of Israel, and his
wife, Nina, were detained for
nearly 90 minutes by KGB
agents — one of them Hebrew-speaking — in Leningrad last week after they attempted to visit the home of
a Leningrad-Jewish refusenik.
He and his wife were treated courteously but vey firmly, Katzir said describing the
incident at an airport press
conference. He was Israel's
fourth President, having
held office from 1973-78. He
is a biochemist by profession, associated with the
Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth. He spent
two weeks in the Soviet
Union attending the Congress of the European Federation of Biochemists.
Israel Delegation .
Well Treated
Katzir said that more than
100 Israeli scientists attended the Congress in Moscow,
including Prof., Michael
Sela, president of the Weizmann Institute, and his wife.
They received a warm and
even friendly reception and
were treated with the same
courtesy extended to the
other foreign delegations,
Katzir said.
He believes the local KGB
in Leningrad detained him
and his wife mistakenly and
went through with the interrogation in order to cover
their error. But it was an
ordeal. v   ■   "
Katzir spoke to the press
during a brief stopover here
enroute to Boston to address
a scientific gathering at Harvard University. Appearing
calm and relaxed, he explained, "I had been given
by an Israeli family the
name and address of one of
their relatives living in Leningrad. On Sunday (July 1),
my wife and I took a taxi and
drove from our hotel to the
man's home.
"We entered the building,
and even before we entered
the elevator, three men in
civilian clothing barred our.
way. One of them who looked
non-Jewish but spoke He-;
brew, showed us their KGB
cards and asked us to accompany them to police"
headquarters for interroga-
tion," Katzir said.
HAILED AS HUMANITARIAN
Heart Attack Claims Life
Of Alvin lo Schottenstein
All the tributes to Alvin E,
Schottenstein, who died suddenly of a heart attack on
Friday, July 6, had one thing
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of the Year Award and the
O.R.T. Israel Scholarship
Award:"
He is survived by his wife,
Beverly Freedberg Schot-
tenstein; three sons,
Charles, Robert and Gary;
daughter, Randee of Chicago; five grandchildren;
two brothers, Jerome and
Saul; sister, Mrs. Irving
(Selma) Harris of Cincinnati. He was preceded in
death by his brother, Leon,
in 1971.
Must Empty Pockets ____
He said he clearly identified himself as Israel's ex-
President, but this made no
impression. He and his wife
were driven in a military
jeep accompanied by the
three KGB agents and several armed soldiers to an official building, about ten,
minutes drive from the
building where they were arrested.
They were asked to empty
their pockets and Mrs. Katzir had to show the contents
of her handbag. The Hebrew-
speaking KGB man acted as
interpreter during their interrogation. The KGB wanted to know what they had
been doing and with whom
they met since their arrival
in the USSR two'weeks earlier.    •
Katzir saidthe KGB seized
an album of photographs of
Israel, a book of Israeli
songs and some Israeli coins
intended as gifts for the Leningrad refusenik. Their own
possessions, including a
Jewish prayerbook, were returned.   Katzir   would   not
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Alvin Schottenstein
in common. They, all hailed
him as a humanitarian, a
man dedicated to his family,
his community and his business.
Schottenstein, 64, was
president of Schottenstein
Stores Corp. He was one of
four sons of Ephraim Schottenstein, a Lithuanian immigrant who started the family
business in 1917 on Parsons
Avenue.
Over 800 people attended
his funeral held on Sunday,
July 8, at Agudas Achim
Synagogue. Rabbis Samuel
W.' Rubenstein, Alan G.
Ciner and David Stavsky and
Cantor Baruch Shifman officiated.
Schottenstein was a member of Agudas Achim, Beth
Jacob and Ahavas Sholom
Synagogues; Jewish War
Veterans; Yeshiva University; B'nai B'rith; a lifetime
member of the NAACP;
founder and board member
of Columbus Torah Academy; chairman for 15 years
of Bonds for Israel. He was ,
also an active supporter of
the United Way.
Schottenstein was recipient of an award from the
NAACP; Community Service Award; Governor's
Man of the Year Award for
Bonds for Israel; 1982 B'nai
B'rith Award for Men's and
Boys' Apparel; Agudas
Achim's Flowers for the Living Award; Beth Jacob Man
I,., '   II
Local Residents Receive Awards
At JWB's Biennial Convention
Harvey Handler (second left) and Dr. Ronald Erkis
(second right), of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center of
Columbus, were two of the four recipients of the New
Leadership Recognition Awards at the JWB Biennial
Convention in Boston, Mass. Allan Finkelstein (right),
is the executive director of the Center. Mark Doyne
(left) is a past award recipient. A third winner of the
vaward, Stephanie Mendelson (bottom left), was unable
to attend. Nancy Paul (bottom right), the fourth winner, similarlyiwas not present, See story on page 14.