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VOL.62   NO. 35
AUGUST 30,1984-ELUL 2
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Rumania Invites Israel To Participate
In Ceremonies Celebrating
Liberation From Nazis
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Rumanian government has
officially invited Israel to participate in celebrations commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Ru-.
mania from Nazi occupation, it was reported recently. Israel's Ambassador in Bucharest will represent Israel in the
ceremonies.
atriek Says Reagan
Has Made Positive
tion
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Reagan Affirms U.S. Position
On Nairobi Conference
WASHINGTON (WNS) - President Reagan met with a
delegation of prominent Jewish women leaders and provided
assurances that the United States would, at the United
Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi next year, counter
any repeat of the anti-Zionist attacks that occurred at similar
conferences in Mexico City in 1975 and Copehagen in 1980.
ADL Raps Brazil
NEW YORK (JTA) —The Brazilian government's decision
to allow an international terrorist organization to open an
office in its capital was denounced by the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith. Abraham Foxman, ADL's associate
national director- and head of the agency's International
Affairs Division, said the opening of an office by the Palestine Liberation Organization in Brasilia serves "only to legitimize and aid international terrorism."
DALLAS (JTA) - Jearie
Kirkpatrick, the United
States Ambassador to the
United Nations, said last
week that by taking the UN
"seriously," the Reagan Administration has been able to
make positive changes in the
world organization.
"By taking the United Nations seriously, we have been
able to reverse some very
negative trends that have developed in the United Nations," she told more than
100 persons attending a reception sponsored by the National Jewish Coalition for
Reagan-Bush at the Dallas
Hilton Hotel.
Kirkpatrick said that no
trends were "more nega-
' tive" than the constant attacks on the United States
and the continuing efforts to
make Israel a "pariah" and
"delegitimize" the Jewish
State.
She said before President
Reagan took office, there
was a tendency at the UN by
the United States and others
that "no matter what kind of
outrageous resolution was
adopted, no matter what sort
of incredible attacks were
made on the United States
and on our friends, people
just shrugged to their neighbors and said, 'Oh well;
that's just the UN ... they
are just letting off steam.' "
'Turkish Bath* Theory
Abandoned
Kirkpatrick called this the
"Turkish bath" theory of the
Temple Israel Institute For Jewish Life And
anting To Begin On Wednesday, Oct. 24
The Temple Israel Institute for Jewish Life and
Learning will hold the second year of fall classes at
Temple Israel beginning on
Wednesday evening, Oct. 24.
The Wednesday evening
Institute which was started
last year received an award
of merit from the Foundation of the Columbus Jewish
Federation in recognition of
outstanding programming.
Fall classes include a film
series   featuring  Jewish
works of literature made
into screen productions. Two
feature length films are
based on the works of two
prominent contemporary Israeli authors. They are
Amos Oz's My Michael to be
shown on Oct. 24 and A. B.
Yehosua's Three Days and A
Child which will be presented Oct. 31. The third film in
the series is adapted from
Isaac Bashevis Singer's
work'Nightmare and Mrs.
Pupko's Beard and is sched-
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COLUMBUS CITBEN-JOURNAL • HAMEROFF/MILENTHAL • LEO YASSENOFF JEWISH CENTER
The Senior Olympics will be held on Labor Day
Weekend at the Jewish Center.
Senior Olympics Scheduled For
Labor Day Weekend At Center
Jewish Center members
are showing strong support
for the Senior Olympics to be
held at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, Labor Day
Weekend, Sept. 2 and 3.
One of the co-chairmen,
Irv Flox, has registered for
the one and three mile runs
as well as for free throw
shooting.   Flox  has been
training for the Olympics by
playing A.K. Basketball and
participating in a daily running program.
The oldest woman participant in the Olympics, at 84,
is Eva Bernstein, who will be
matching her skills against
her peers in the 50 and 100
meter freestyle swim and
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uled for Nov. 7. Dr. Marc Raphael, Ohio State University
professor and chairman of
the Melton Center for Jewish
Studies, will lead a discussion following each film.
The institute will sponsor a
class, "A Look at the Arts,"
which will consist of four lectures on Wednesday evenings, Nov. 14 through Dec.
12. Rosanne Rosen, chairwoman of the institute committee, announced that on
Nov. 14, the institute would'
present a first for the Columbus community. Sylvia Wiener, representative of the
Jewish Museum of New
York, will present a slide
and lecture program entitled .
"The Jewish Museum
Comes to Columbus."
Other programs include a
film about the artist Marc
Chagall, Jewish music discussed by Cantor Jack
Chomsky of Tifereth Israel
Synagogue and a look into
the Jewish Theatre wilh
Harold Eisenstein of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Two other classes which
will run the same evening as
the arts lecture series include the Rabbi's course
taught by Rabbi Harvey
Goldman which will deal
with the differences between
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstruction-
ist Judaism. Dr. Han Avisar,
Ohio State University Hebrew Department, will teach
a four part course dealing
with Hebrew literature
which will emphasize Hebrew poetry, literature and
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UN. "One thing we, have
done in this Administration
is to abandon the Turkish
bath theory of the United Nations," she said.
She said actions at the UN
do have an effect on what
happens throughout the
world. She said that when
she attended the 20th anniversary of Burundi last year,
one of the banners carried in
the parade declared "Zionism is racism." She noted
that the small African country had few Moslems or
Jews.
Kirkpatrick  said  that
Rabbi H. Berman To Receive
Federation Rabbinical Award
"Rabbi Harold Berman of
Congregation Tifereth Israel
has been selected as the 1984
recipient of the Rabbinical
Award of the Columbus Jewish Federation," announced
Jack L. Wallick, Federation
president. "Rabbi Berman
has a special record of leadership ^within the Federation and the Jewish community at large," Wallick
added.
Appeal Rabbinic Cabinet. He
has served as liaison with
other rabbis of Columbus to
help interpret the United
Jewish Fund Campaign
within their congregations.
"This award is not an
annual one but is given as
the Federation leadership
recognizes outstanding rabbinical leadership to the
Jewish community at large.
Rabbi Berman is certainly
most deserving of this
special recognition," said
Wallick. Past recipients of
the Federation's Rabbinical
Award include Rabbi David
Stavsky,7' Rabbi Harvey
Goldman and Rabbi Samuel
Rubenstein:
The award carries with it a
trip to the Council of Jewish
Federations General
Assembly in Toronto, Nov.
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while she was a friend of Israel, she had not gone to the
UN to defend Israel. But her
concern about Israel devel-
oped "as I saw the extraordinarily unfair treatment to
which Israel was regularly
subjected." She added that
attacks .on Israel are frequently coupled with attacks
on the United States.
Kirkpatrick, a Democrat
who has proven to be extremely popular here, not
only with Jews but with delegates to the Republican national convention, was also
the guest of honor at a reception given by the American-
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Tuesday
night.-
Cites U.S. Support Of Israel
In The UN
She stressed that her efforts at the UN in support of
Israel were not her personal
policies but those of Reagan
and his foreign policy officials, including Secretary of
State George Shultz and his
predecessor, Alexander
Haig.
Kirkpatrick noted the particular success the Reagan
Administration has had in
blocking efforts to expel or
bar Israel .from UN bodies.
White House-counselor Edwin Meese, who was also at
the Jewish coalition event,
said that one of the first
things Reagan made clear
when taking office was that
"if the United Nations moves
to expel Israel, then the
United States will walk out
arm-in-arm'' with Israel.
Rabbi Harold Berman
A member of the Board of
Trustees of the Columbus
Jewish Federation, Rabbi
Berman is presently co-
chairman of Federation's
Community Relations Committee.
During the past year,
Rabbi Berman has served on
the National United Jewish
Soviet Brochure
Blasts'Zionists'
NEW YORK (JTA) ■■- A
brochure recently published
in Moscow, "Yad Sionizma'.'
(The Poison of Zionism),
charges that "Zionists" — in
effect, the Jews — are responsible for the deterioration that has taken place in
East-West relations in the
past few years. The "Zionists" are portrayed as able
to torpedo detente through
their "control" of the military-industrial complex in
the West in general and the
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100 Mexican Indian Families
Claim To Be Orthodox Jews
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
—Venta Prieta is a small village which resembles thousands of other anonymous
and sleepy Mexican hamlets
one frequently sees from the
vantage point of Mexico's
new or newly improved highway system. A large market
square where much fo the
village life is conducted,
dominated by a large Catholic church) appears no different than any other.
Yet, there are significant
differences. For among the
5000 inhabitants of the village, Venta Prieta is the
home to more than 100 Mexican Indian families professing to be Orthodox Jews,
tracing their lineage to the
early Spanish conquests of
Mexico almost 500 years ago
and to the Marranos, who
were among the earliest
families of Spanish conquistadors.
There are many__similar-
ities between Mexico's
Indian Jews and the Beta
Israel (the Jews of Ethiopia). Both are proud peoples
who trace back their Jewish
origins many generations.
The Mexican Indian Jews,
like their Falasha brothers,
have experienced a life of-
poverty, violence and discrimination. Nevertheless
they have refused to assimilate and give up the basic
tenets of their faith.
Recent research by rabbis
and scholars has indicated
the likeliness of the Marranos inter-marrying native
women in Mexico shortly
after their arrival in the
country, who although outwardly practicing Catholicism, secretly passed on the
faith of their fathers to their
wives and children.
According  to legend,
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