Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1984-08-09

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AUGUST9.1984-AV11
Devotad to American
ond Jewish Ideals
Four Prominent U.S. Jews Warn
ainst Amending Law Of Return
Jewish War Veterans, Capitol Post 122
Presents U.S. Flag To Heritage Village
When Heritage House needed a new United States flag to welcome visitors to its cam- -
pus, the Jewish War Veterans, Capitol Post 122 presented one which had recently flown
over the White House. Led by Commander Herman Rosen and Claire Gelband, commander of the Department of Ohio Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., the flag was presented (photo at right) to the Heritage House family, represented by the home's Grandparents of the Year Mollie Zukerman and Albert Rosen. Acceptance remarks were
made by Louis Robins, president of Heritage Village, with prayers for relatives and
friends in the service of their country offered by Rosina Kohn, Yetta Rosen, Lillian
Glanz and Jules Mindell. Heritage House resident and Navy veteran Jack Bloom
(photo at left), pictured with Herman Rosen, had the honor.of retiring the previous
flag. Heritage House residents and their family members enjoyed entertainment
provided by pianist Bea Betker and vocalist Mitzie Monroe.
Jewish Leaders
Express Anger
At Press Club
NEW YORK (JTA). -
American Jewish leaders expressed anger, and consternation at the National Press
Club for providing Black
Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan with a platform last
week for his anti-Jewish and
anti-Israel rhetoric.
But the club's president,
John Fogarty, who is Washington bureau chief of the
San Francisco Chronicle,
defended the club's decision
and said that if the opportunity had been provided, he
would have invited Hitler to
address the Club.
Fogarty also said he would
allow Rabbi Meir Kahane,
the New York-horn leader of
the extremist rightwing
Kach movement in Israel, to •
address the club now that
Kahane has been elected to
the Knesset.
Farrakhan addressed the
press club for some 90
minutes, part of which was a
speech, followed by a brief
question and answer period.
He assailed the American
Jewish leadership as "spiritually blind," and accused
them of having "abnormal"
power over the United States
government.
The head of the Chicago-
based Nation of Islam group
also said that "the Israel
that is the creation of the
Zionists" is "based on.false-
hood and cannot exit when
truth comes." He said
American Blacks are the
"real Israel" and the "real
chosen people."
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Memorial Service For Israeli Athletes
Held In LA. Before Olympic Games
Over 500 community leaders and former Olympians
participated in the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center's memorial service for the 11 Israeli athletes slain during the 1972 Munich Olympics on the eve
of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles. A news
conference was also held during which some of the participants called upon the International Olympic Committee to make a fitting memorial for the Israeli athletes and coaches murdered by Arab terrorists on Sept.
5-6,1972. Participants in the news conference included
(1. to r.) Gur and Mimi Weinberg, son and w'ife of the
late Moshe Weinberg, Israel's wrestling coach who
was the first victim of the terrorists; Shlomit Nir-Toor,
member, Israeli Olympic swim team, 1968 and '72;
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi David Baron, head of the Ad
. Hoq Committee for Remembering the Eleven.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Four prominent American
Jews warned here last week
that any amendment to the
Who is a Jew Law might split
the unity of the Jewish
people and create serious
breaches in Israel-diaspora
relations.
The warning was raised at
a press conference by Theodore Mann, president of the
American Jewish Congress;
Dr. Simon Greenberg, vice
chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America; Rabbi Jack Cohen
of B'nai -B'rith an* Rabbi
Richard Hirsch of the World
Union for Progressive
Judaism. Their organizations published a quarter
page ad in The Jerusalem
Post entitled "Am Ehad —
Preserve Our Unity."
The call was part of an
overall effort by the non-
Orthodox trends in Judaism
Israel Closes Off ice in Lebanon
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel announced that it has closed its
liaison office in Lebanon at the urging of the Beirut government. The 30 Israeli diplomats, military and commercial attaches who had lived and worked there for more than a year,
were flown hbme.by helicopter. The closure ends in effect Israel's attempts to maintain at least quasi-diplomatic relations with Lebanon, one of the main though unannounced
objectives of its war in Lebanon.
USSR Reacts To Israeli Elections
LONDON OTA) — The Soviet Union has reacted cynically
to the results of the elections in Israel by denying that there is
any serious difference between the Likud and the Labor
Alignment and that both are out to serve American interests.
This is the main theme of Soviet radio broadcasts and press
commentaries monitored here. A broadcast in Hebrew, on
Moscow's Radio's overseas service, likened the result of the
election to "some sort of broken Rubik cube which can no
longer be set properly."
Fabius To Work on Ties Between France, Israel
PARIS (JTA) — Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius has
promised in a letter to Israel's Ambassador that he will "personally work at reinforcing the links of cooperation and
friendship between France and Israel." Fabius' promise of
Continuing and even reinforcing the policy of his predecessor
Pierre Mauroy was included in a letter thanking Ambassador
Ovadis Soffer for his message of congratulations upon his
appointment as Premier. The Premier also said he and his
government will do all they can to help Israel and the Arab
states reach a just and lasting peace. r
Shcharansky Placed Under Strict Regime
NEW YORK (JTA) — Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Anatqly Shcharansky has been placed tinder strict,
regime in Cristopol Prison, according to information re^
ceived by the Greater New York Conference of Soviet Jewry
from his wife, Avital. In a letter which his brother Leonid received oh July 30, Shcharansky reported that under this new
regime his rations have t>een halved and his daily walks-have
been restricted to 30 mihtues from the previously allowed 60
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to foil attempts by the reli-,
gious parties in Israel to secure a promise from whichever party forms the/next
government to change the
Who is a Jew Law so that it .
would recognize only those
conversions performed
according to halacha (Jewish law), that is, according to
the Orthodox interpretation
of halacha.
The present Who is a Jew
Law, or the Law of Return,
gives every Jew the right to
enter Israel and receive
automatic citizenship. It was
adopted shortly after Israel
declared its independence in
1948. It applies to born Jews
and converted Jews but does
not establish criteria for
such conversions.
CAJE Conference
To Be Aug. 26-30
Florence Melton will be
one of more than 1800 Jewish
educators from the United
States, Canada, Israel and
other countries who will
meet on the campus of Stanford University, Palo Alto,
Calif., Aug. 26-30, for the
ninth annual conference of
the Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education
(CAJE).
A grassroots organization,
dedicated to finding and
sharing innovative approaches to Jewish education, CAJE is a relative newcomer on the Jewish education scene. Its annual conference, always considered a^
highlight of the CAJE
experience, .has grown in
attendance from 350 in 1976
when the meeting was held
at Brown University in
Providence, R.I., to 1800 in
1982 at Brandeis University
in Waltham, Mass.
"Advance registration for
this year's conference is running far ahead of any previous year" says Janice Alper,
CAJE's Conference Chairperson, "so it seems reasonable to predict that our 1984
attendance willj be the largest ever,"
Columbus Jewish Federation Announces New Executive Intern Program
The Columbus Jewish
Federation has announced
the establishment of the
Senior Executive Intern Program. The purpose of this is
to afford an individual of
demonstrated skills, who
comes from another vocational field, the 'opportunity
to become exposed to and involved in Federation work
and to prepare that person
for the assumption of a full-
time Federation professional executive track posi
tion. At the same time, the
intern will provide additional support to the work of
the Federation.
The Senior Executive
Intern Program is designed
to foster the application of
seasoned professional skills
and experience combined
with a fresh perspective and
objectivity to the furthering
of Jewish goals and ideals.
Jack Wallick, Federation
president, and Alan H. Gill,
executive  director,   an
nounced that Bruce Forstein
of Columbus has been
awarded the position of
senior executive intern
effective Aug. 1. Forstein's
background encompasses 14
years in management with
Sears Roebuck and Company and three years with
Shoe Corporation of America
"(a division of SCO A Industries). He held a variety of
positions including customer
service manager, operations
manager, regional program
coordinator and director of
systems development and
planning. This background
includes extensive involvement with fiscal planning
and budgeting, defining business needs and the development of human resources
and coordination of activities tQ address those needs.
The senior executive
intern will have professional
responsibilities in the United
Jewish Fund Campaign;
community  planning  and
allocations; community
relations; public relations;
systems management and
administration.
The senior executive
intern program has an
accompanyng. academic
component with a link to the
faculty of the College of
Social Work at Ohio State
University. In addition to
specialized £oursework at
OSU, Forstein will meet in
instructive sessions with a
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