Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1984-08-23

              Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community (or Over 60 Years     \}P§X
VOL. 62   NO. 34
AUGUST 23,1984-AV 25
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.. '   Geri Ellman
Ellman Elected
To National Post
Geri Ellman has been
elected to the national Board
of Directors of the Association of Jewish Family and
Children's Services.
The association is the national organization serving
all Jewish Family Service
agencies in North America.
There are 143 Jewish family
and children's agencies
belonging to the association.
Mrs. Ellman is the immediate past president of the
Columbus Jewish Family
Service and remains very
active on the local board as
well. She is on the board's
Executive Committee and
serves as the chairwoman of
the JFS Board Development
Committee and chairwoman
of the Group Home Committee.
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To Russia, With Love
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli tennis players will be going to
the Soviet Union at the end of next month, to take part in
matches in the finals for the World Davis Cup. News of the
Soviet agreement to the participation of Israelis was transmitted to the Israel Tennis Federation last week bythe International Tennis Federation in London, which had received a
cable from Moscow stating that the Israelis would be invited
to the matches, to be held in the Ukraine, and requesting personal details of the Israeli players.
Argentina's Human Rights Leader
To Be Honored By B'nai B'rith
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A U.S.-born rabbi who became
Argentina's leading fighter for human rights, who created
one of that country's largest and most active synagogues and
who founded Latin America's only rabbinical seminary will
be honored by B'nai B'rith International during its biennial
convention Sept. 4 at the Sheraton Washington Hotel here. He
is Rabbi Marshall Meyer and he will receive B'nai B'rith's
' Dor L' Dor (Generation to Generation) Award for "outstanding achievements in the service of humanity, which uplift
and ennoble us and generations to comb."
N.Y. Philharmonic Rejects
Malaysian Government Demand
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Mayor Shlomo Lahat of Tel Aviv has
congratulated orchestra "conductor Zubin Mehta and the
members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for "not
surrendering to anti-cultural malice" and refusing to perform in Malaysia after that country demanded that the
orchestra drop a score composed by the Jewish composer
Ernest Bloch during its concerts there next month. Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur, meanwhile, dismissed as
"mischievous and malicious" the assertion by Rep. Stephen
Solarz (p. NY) that Malaysia's action barring the performance of the Bloch piece because it contained "Jewish elements" was "patently discriminatory, prejudiced and anti-
Semitic."
Maikovskis Ordered Deported
From U.S. For Past Activities
Ohio Secretary Of State S. Brown To Speak
At JNF Keren Dorot Family Fund Reception
Sherrod  Brown, -Ohio's
'"    secretary of state, will be the
Jewish National Fund guest
speaker for the Keren Dorot
Family Fund Reception on
Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 7:30
'     p.m., at the home of Bella
'<■    Wexner.
i A Keren Dorot Family
Fund is established with a
1. $1000 gift (Israel Bonds
accepted) to the Jewish
= National Fund. Each year,
I for ten years, the donor's
'. designated recipient, such as
' a child or grandchild,
^ receives a $100 gift check
I from Israel on their birth-
5 , day, Chanukay or anniver-
- sary, accompanied by a cer-
;, ]■ tificate in recognition of the
" t donor. Funds received
p \ through the Keren Dorot pros'--! gram help restore the Land
! lof Israel through reclama-
V i tion projects.
H- "A Keren Dorot Family
I* £ Fund,*' state Reva Shaman
riband Janet Leeman, co-chair-
[p>;women for the event, "is a
|iunique program whereby the
|£|;jdonor supports Israel and,' at
JlJI^he same time, gives an
biannual gift to a loved one.
Ulrhis beautiful program links
;eneration to generation and
Ives a lasting relationship
tipth Israel." ,     -,
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Sherrod Brown, elected in"
1982 at the age of 29, is the
youngest secretary of state
in the nation. Through a
variety of innovative programs, the focal point of his
administration is to boost
voter registration and
improveawareness and participation in public elections.
Martin Hoffman, president of the Jewish National
Fund Council in Columbus
states, "We are very happy
to have a dynamic person
such as Sherrod Brown with
us at the Keren Dorot Reception."
Members of the reception
committee are: Bunny
Cowall, Roberta Kohn,
Miriam Paine, Lois Rubin,
Jean Schottenstein, Sara
Schwartz, Bella Wexner,
Rose Wolman and Eleanore
Yenkin.
For reservations, call the
Jewish National Fund,
231-1397.
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Boleslavs Maikovskis has
been ordered deported from
the United States for having
concealed his past activities
as a police official in Nazi-
occupied Latvia during
World War II when he applied for entry into the U.S.
in 1951.
The order, issued last
week by the five-member
Board of Immigration Appeals, reverses a decision in
July, 1983, by a federal immigration judge in New-
York who ruled that the
80-year-old resident of Mine-
ola, Long Island, was "not
deportable," because Maikovskis' past conduct did not
rise to the "level of depravity" needed to make his alleged crimes "contrary to
human decency."
The Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations, responsible for bringing Nazi war criminals to
justice in the U.S., appealed
the decision issued in a Man-
" hatfan court by Judge Francis Lyons.
Maikovskis can appeal the
Immigration Board's decision to the U.S. Court of.
Appeals for the Second Circuit and finally to the United
States Supreme Court. It
was hot known whether he
would make such an appeal. ■
Should the final verdict of
the legal process be deportation, Maikovskis could be
sent back to his country of
origin, Latvia, now under the
rule of the Soviet Union,
which had convicted him in
absentia -in 1965 of war
crimes and sentenced him to
death.
Most likely, Maikovskis
would probably be allowed to
choose a destination as has
occurred with past war
criminals who have been deported from the U.S. He arrived in the United States
from West Germany and
could possibly be sent there.
The Immigration Board's
decision is part of an eight-
year old legal effort by the
Sherrod Brown
A Mansfield native,
Brown, at the age of 21, was
elected to the Ohio General
Assembly. In' the Legislature, Brown authored numerous bills and was prime
mover in the creation of the
Golden Buckeye Card discount program for senior
citizens. ,
Temple Israel Adult Ed. Committee
To Welcome Rabbi Akselrad Sept. 9
The Adult Education Committee of Temple Israel will
welcome their new assistant
rabbi, Sanford D. Akselrad,
and his wife,' Joni, with a
special evening which will
mark the opening of Temple
Israel's 1984-85 Adult Education Series.
Rabbi Akselrad will speak
on "The Holocaust — Is It
Being Mistaught?" on Sunday evening, Sept. 9, at 7:30
p.m. ins the Temple Social
Justice Department to deport Maikpv§kis. The Department has charged that
he failed to disclose when he
entered the United States in
1951 that he had been a member of the Latvian police
guard which, the Department charges, had exterminated about 20,000 Latvian
Jews and other Latvian citizens.
Maikovskis ,has maintained his innocence of the
war crimes charges.' He declared upon entering this
country in 1951 that he had
been a bookkeeper during
World War II when Latvia
~was occupied by the Germans.
Maikovskis was born on
January 21, 1904, in Stir-
nience, Latvia, completed
his high school education
there around 1930 and immediately enlisted in the Latvian Army where he became
a sergeant. On May 20,1939,
he married Janina Ritins
and about that time he joined
the Aizsargi, a national
guard type organization,-ac-
cprding to immigration files.
During the Nazi occupation of Latvia in 1941, Maikovskis held the rank of captain in the Aizsargi and
"helped the German occupation authorities for a few
months restoring order in his
country," the file says, adding, "Wfien the Germans
evacuated Latvia in 1944, the
subject claimed they ordered him to do likewise and
eventually settled in Germany."
Maikovskis' home in Mine-
ola was firebombed by unidentified assailants in Sept., ■
1981. The home was slightly
damaged. In Aug., 1978, the
alleged war criminal was
shot in his home by unidentified assailants. He was hit in
the right knee by a bullet but
he recovered soon afterwards.
Columbus Jewish Federation
Annual Meeting On Sept, 16
To Be'Very Special Event'
~ "The 58th Annual Meeting
of the Columbus Jewish Federation on Sept. 16 will be a
very special event," said
Jack L. Wallick, Federation
president, "and I have
appointed Diane Cummins to
serve as chairwoman. Diane
is a highly creative and
knowledgeable woman and
will bring to the responsibil-
ity much energy and
enthusiasm."
Hall. The Holocaust is his
area of expertise.,
Rabbi Akselrad was ordained in June 1984 at Hebrew Union College, Jewish
Institute of Religion, Cincinnati. He received a B.A.
degree in political science,
magna cum laude, at the
University of California, Los
Angeles, Calif., and his master of arts in Hebrew Letters
at the Los Angeles branch of
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Diane Cummins
Mrs. Cummins is very
active in both the Jewish and
general community. She is
past Women's Division
chairwoman of the Columbus Jewish Federation and
past member of Federation's Board of Trustees. She
has received plaudits for the
Regional Women's Division
$5,000 Major Gifts Events,
which she chaired in Columbus in 1982 and Detroit in
1983. Currently, Mrs. Cummins carries the Major Gifts
Portfolio for United Jewish
Appeal Region II Women's
Division Cabinet.
"The entire Columbus
Jewish community is invited
and we really hope to attract -
broad-based participation,"
said Mrs. Cummins. "We
want the evening to reflect a
feeling of warmth arid a
spirit of togetherness in celebration of a memorable year
of service to the Columbus
Jewish community."
Members of Mrs. Cummins' Annual Meeting Planning Committee are: Rabbi
Harold Berman, Judah Bit-
ton, Sherran Blair,, Ahren
Cohen, Dr. Ronald Erkis,
Herman Geichman, Rabbi
Harvey Goldman, Rhea
Kaplan, Harold Kayne, Martin Kopp, Phyllis Loeb,
Selma Mellman, Ina Sue
Rosenthal, Shirley Sacks,
Betty Schiff, Felice Schiffman, Ernest Stern, Joan^
Wallick and Bernard Yenkin.
The 1984 Columbus Jewish
Federation Annual meeting
will feature the fifth Abe I.
Yenkin Memorial Address.
Additional highlights will
include the election of officers, the honoring of outgoing leadership and the
presentation of both the
Therese Stern Kahn Young
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