Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1984-10-25

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OCTOBER 25,1984-TISIIRE129
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France, Jordan
Hearing Major
Deal On Arms
PARIS (WNS) - French -
Defense Minister Charles
Hernu held talks last week
with Jordanian officials
reportedly to finalize a
major arms deal which will
include - French missiles
equivalent to U.S.-built
Stingers.
Reports here say France
has agreed to sell Jordan an
undisclosed number of Mistrals, a surface-to-air missile not yet in production and
described by French officials as superior to the
Stinger.
President Reagan last
March cancelled a deal to
provide Jordan with 1,300
shoulder-held Stinger mis-
' siles. Jordan started negotiating soon afterwards with
both France and the Soviet
.' Union for equivalent weapons.
France had then already
agreed to provide Jordan
with the Mistrals, 13 Mirage
F-l jet fighters and electronic equipment as well as
early warning material.
Finakagreement oh these
sales was reportedly*
reached Oct. 14,, and Hernu
reiterated France's earlier
decision to continue to provide Jordan with all the
defensive weapons it needs.
- France and Jordan have
set up a joint committee to
study Jordanian military
needs and the means to
finance French arms sales to
the Hashemite kingdom.
BACKGROUND REPORT
Confusion Apparent Over Issue
Of Moratorium On Israel's Debt
Judge Beatrice K. Sowald speaks after being sworn
recently in as the first woman judge on the Franklin
County Court of Domestic Relations.
Celeste Appoints B. Sowald
To Seat On Franklin County
Court Of Domestic Relations
Ohio Governor Richard F.
Celeste has appointed Columbus Attorney Beatrice K.-
Sowald, 57, the first woman
judge to sit on the Franklin
County Court- of Domestic
Relations. Judge Sowald is
also the first woman judge to
sit on any Fjranklin County
court and one of only two
' women of the "37 municipal
and county judges in the central Ohio area.
Although Judge Sowald
made history when she was
sworn in by the governor
only hours before the start of
Rosh Hashanah, she also
made history in 1980 by opening this city's first mother-
daughter law firm with her
daughter, Heather, who was
Over $3 Million Pledged At
Federation Major Gifts Affair
commented on the leadership role that those" present
at the event assumed in
Columbus' efforts to achieve
the 1985 goal"of $5 million.
"We have reached ' new
heights — we are helping to
write the Jewish history
books so that future generations will know that we, with
unprecedented opportunity,
chose togiveof ourselves to
build a strong Israel, a vibrant Jewish community in
Columbus and to help our
people world-wide," said
Traeger.
General Alexander Haig,
former secretary of state,
was the- keynote speaker.
"Haig held us spellbound.
We felt the access and sup-
- port of an outstanding statesman," said Gary Robins,
. 1985 general chairman.
General Haig addressed
the role of the United States
in four Areas: Lebanon, the
■ war jn Iran and' Iraq, the
peace process and Israel's
economy. "In troubled
times', it is necessary for
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Columbus Jewish community history was made on
Monday evening, Oct. 15,
when 85 men and women of
the community gathered and
made a combined commitment of over $3 million to the
1985 United Jewish - Fund
Campaign.
"For the first time in the
history of our community we
' have surpassed the extraordinary total of $3 million at
a Federation campaign
event~" remarked 'Leslie
Wexner, host of the annual"
Major Gifts Affair. Wexner
was referring to pledges announced at the event to the
1985" Campaign totalling
$3,050,000, representing an
increase of $500,000 over the
1984 campaign value,
"We have opened the 1985
Campaign with an unprecedented start," added Wexner, "and I am especially
- pleased to continue the tradition of hosting this vitally
important event,"
Norman Traeger, chairman of the 1985 Campaign's
Advance  Gifts  Division,
eight when her mother nrst
started law school at The
Ohio State University.
"The most obvious contribution that I can make is to
provide a non-male perspective to the bench of the
Franklin County Court of
Domestic Relations, too long
lacking in,*this county,".
-Judge Sowald stated.
The Court of Domestic
Relations hears cases concerning, divorce, dissolution,
annulment, separation, child
custody, juveniles r and
parentage determination.
Although .Ohio law in these
matters has undergone great
change in the last decade,
Judge Sowald is not a
stranger to family law matters. Domestic relations
cases have comprised the
great majority of her 17
years of legal practice.
She has led the local
domestic relations scene by
chairing the Family Law
Committee of both the Columbus and Ohio State Bar
Associations.
Further, she has in-
structedflaw students, as an
adjunct professor of family'
law at the OSU College of
Law and lectured practicing
lawyers at the Ohio Legal
Center Institute for Continuing Legal Education in
Domestic Relations. Lawyers also refer to the Domestic Relations Forms chapter
which she edited for the 1984
Banks Baldwin Ohio Domestic Relations Law.
Judge Sowald trained and
monitored a number of lawyers during her eight years
as supervising attorney af
the Family Law Unit of the
'Legal Aid Society of Columbus. She practiced at the
Legal Aid society for 13
years prior to opening her
own firm in 1980.
Other professional leadership activities include ser-
. vice as vice-chairwoman of
the Columbus Bar Associa-
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(JTA)—Israel's economic
crisis dominated its relations with the United States
.last week and gave rise to
confusion as to whether Premier Shimon Peres obtained
hard commitments from the
Reagan Administration during his Washington visit or a
series of contingency measures proposed to help Israel
put its economy in order.
Conflicting reports
emerged from Jerusalem
and Washington over an
alleged~U.S. offer of a moratorium on the payment by
Israel of $500 million in debts
which fall due during the
next three months.
According to the story circulated in Israel, Peres said
that he and Deputy Premier
Yitzhak Shamir who accompanied him at most of his
meetings in Washington, had
serious doubts about the
. offer because of the adverse
impact a debt moratorium
could have on Israel's credit
standing in the world's
money markets.
But, according to the local
report, Peres said he was
reassured by the Americans
that Israel needn't worry
about its credit-worthiness
in light of the public expressions of confidence in Israel
by the Administration,
including President Reagan
during his White House
meeting with Peres.
The Americans pointed out
furthermore that the world
was well aware of Israel's
economic troubles so there
was no point trying to conceal them.
Moreover, Israel's immediate cash needs will be met
by the Administration's
agreement to pay the entire
$1.2 billion in economic aid
for fiscal 1985 in a lump sum
now rather than in the usual
quarterly installments. This
money is a grant" and need
not be repaid.
The story from Washington was somewhat different.
Reagan  Administration
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Westerville Resident Honored
For Heroism During WW II
Jewish Scientist
Wins Nobel Prize
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Cesar Milstein, one of three
immunologists who won the
1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine,, began his scientific
career in Argentina where
his father, a Jewish immigrant from the- Ukraine,
settled in 1897. Among the
honors he received prior to
the Nobel Prize, Milstein
was also the recipient four
years ago of the Wolf Prize
in Medicine from the Wolf
Foundation in Israel.
The other two winners of
the $190,000 Nobel Prize
were Georges Koehler, 38, of
the Basel Institute of Immunology in Switzerland, and
Niels Jerne, 72, professor
emeritus in the institute. The
prize; announced last week
by the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, will be divided
equally between the three
recipients.
Their research into the
body's natural defense
against disease and their
development of a revolutionary new technique for producing antibodies "opened
up completely new fields for
theoretical and applied biomedical research," the
Karolinska Institute said.
Antibodies are chemicals
that the body's immune defense" system produces to
attack virus, bacterium or
other molecular invaders of
the body.
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
On Thursday, Oct. 4, Jack
Wallick, president of the
Columbus Jewish Federation, presented Westerville
resident Alice Paulus the
Federation's Tree of Life
Award for her "great acts of
humanity during World
War II."
That is when Paulus and
her late husband Paul hid a
Jewish family from the
Nazis for two-and-a-half
years at immense personal
danger to themselves. They
were able to do so, she said,
because of their great
"Christian. belief and
prayer" and because their
home was located in the
Dutch countryside, away
from the usual haunts of the
Jtfazis.
"There were many people
hiding Jews in Holland during the war," Paulus noted.
In fact, after the war, she
found out that Paul's six
brothers also had been
hiding Jews in their homes.
They didn't really believe
they were in much danger at
the time, she remembered,
but still became anxious
whenever they heard footsteps outside.
The family they hid, Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Nathans
and their toddler daughter,
were represented at the presentation by Michael, who
still lives in Holland but has
kept in close contact with
Paulus over the years.
Rabbi Harold Berman of
Congregation Tifereth Israel, pointed out that 95 percent of Holland's 140,000
Jews perished in the Holocaust. Of the 24,000 who went
into hiding, 16,000 — little
more than the current Jewish population of Columbus
— were saved by people like
the Pauluses. "We pay tribute tonight," Rabbi Berman
said, "to those who put their
lives on the line."
\\ Michael Nathans, of the Netherlands, and his second
wife (far left) were present for the ceremony on Oct. 4
at which Alice Paulus was presented with the Columbus Jewish Federation's Tree of Life Award for her
"great acts of humanity during World War II." She
and her late husband, Paul, hid the Nathans family
from the Nazis in Holland. Nathans is holding the book
on artist Marc Chagall, which was given him by CJF
President Jack Wallick on behalf of the Federation;
Paulus is displaying tbe Tree of Life Award.