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VOL.62   NO.49
DECEMBER G, 1984-KISLEV12
Devoted io American
and Jewish Ideals
Consecration Service
Set By Temple Israel
1 On Friday evening, Dec.
14, a special Shabbat Service
will be held at Temple Israel
celebrating the formal beginning of the children's religious education. Members of
the 1984 Temple Israel Consecration Class (first grade
students who have not been
previously consecrated) will
be called to the bema to lead
the congregation in prayer
and song.
As part of the Consecration Ceremony, eacn child
Will be called individually
before the Ark to receive
his/her blessing from the
rabbis. In addition, each
child will receive a special
gift from the Brotherhood
and an Israeli coin from
Rabbi Goldman which is to
be exchanged for a gift following the ceremony of Confirmation.
This year's Consecration
Class has been practicing
under the Religious School
music teacher, Barbara
Dowell, - and first grade
teachers, Elaine Newman,
Joni Akselrad and Andrea
Yokum. Joan Eolpe is principal of the Temphrlsrael Religious School.
The entire congregation is
invited to attend this celebration.
Former State Dept. Official Predicts
That U.S. Will Not Embark On New
Mideast Peace Effort In Near Future
Charity Newsies Newspaper Sale
Scheduled For Saturday, Dec. 15
Participants in the 77th annual Newspaper Sale of
Charity Newsies will include: (first row, 1. to r.) Dr.
Frank P. Sobolewski, Howard Lewinter, Bill Callif,
Dick Traphagan, Meyer Hoffman and Bob Elzey,
(back row) Alan Rosen, Garry Beim, Harold Wonnell,
Marvin Grossman, Harlan Ruben and Barney Green-
baum. The sale will be Dec. 15, with the annual Pep
Dinner and Auction Dec. 13.
HAIFA (JTA) - The Reagan Administration will not
embark on a new Mideast
peace effort in the near
future — in part for fear of
upsetting the .delicate balance in the Israeli government.
This was the prediction
voiced here last week by
Lawrence Eagleburger, who
recently retired as the State
Department's senior Mideast policymaker. His view
was disputed by Ambassador Sol Linowitz, who was
President Carter's special
envoy to the inconclusive Israel-Egypt talksonPalestin-
Columbus-Israel Study Mission For Youth
Scheduled For June 18 Through July 24
In keeping with tradition,
the Israel Department of the
Columbus Jewish Federation is again offering a sum-.
mer teen trip to Israel. The
Columbus-Israel Study Mission For Youth is a 36-day
program in Israel designed
to  combine  touring  and
The Dreidle Olympics will be part of "Mishpacha
-    Day," a day of family-oriented activities.jon Dec. 25 at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Dreidle Olympics Returns To
'Mishpacha Day' At Center
The Dreidle Olympics returns-to the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center this year as
part of the "Mishpacha
Day" at the Center. The
Dveidle Olympics are 14 different games that must be
played as a family.
."Mishpacha Day," Dec.
25, from 1-6:30 p.m. is a day
of family oriented activities.
From 1-3-p.m., there will be
movies, games, open lounge
activities, family swim and
Chanukah art projects. At 3
p.m., tbe Dreidle Olympics
is scheduled to begin and a
family, dinner will be held at.
5 p,m. The day will conclude
with the playing of Jewish
Family Feud.
Registration is required in
advance for the dinner and is
suggested for the Dreidle
Olympics. A free grab bag
gift is available at the front
desk of the Center for the
first 50 families who register.
The day is sponsored by
the Family Services Committee, Al Herstig, chairman. For more information,
call Michael Hopkins at the
Center 231-2731.
studying. Teens experience
both the land and the people.
This mission is intended
for students, ages-15 through
18, and will take place from
June 18 through July 24. Participants will visit major attractions,.cities and Kibbutzim, archaeological sites,
museums, field schools, attend theatrical, musical and
political events and have
some free time to meet with
friends and relatives. This
program will also include activities with Israeli youth
and home hospitality in The
Jesse Cohen neighborhood,
Columbus' Project Renewal
partner.
This mission is being subsidized by the Columbus
Jewish Federation, and the
pricefor each participant is
$1,650. Additional financial
assistance is available as
needed. This year participants will be offered an
optional extension of five
days in Paris for an additional $250.
Prior to the trip, activities
will include individual parent and student interviews
and information sessions.
Six preparatory sessions and
a week-end retreat will be
held prior to departure. At
these sessions, participants
will study useful Hebrew,
facts about Israel and get to
know each other and their
advisor.
Joan Z. Weinberger, who
has accepted the position of
chairwoman of this mission,
said that she. wishes when
she was a teenager she had
the. opportunity to participate in such an exciting pro-
gram.
This program has been organized by the Israel Department of the Columbus
Jewish Federation with the
cooperation of The Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Ya'acov Fried, saliach and.
the director of the Israel Department, said, "Having
'taken part in tours such as
this one, I can only say that it
will be long remembered
and cherished by the participant — this is an experience
of a lifetime!"
For further information or
. application forms, contact
the Israel Department at the
Columbus Jewish Federation, 1175 College Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43209 or call
(614) 237-7686.
ian autonomy in 1980.
The two men spoke at a
day-long seminar on Is-
rael-U.S. ties at Haifa University. The university's
president — and the moving
spirit behind the event — is
Ephraim Evron, formerly
Israeli ambassador to the
U.S. Eagleburger said the
U.S. ought to know that there
were times "to shut up" —
and the present was one such
time.
But both Linowitz and
Labor MK Abba Eban
warned that ongoing inaction could be dangerous, and
both urged Washington to revive its peacemaking efforts. Linowitz advised that
there should be a resuscitation of the autonomy talks
and said he was convinced
the still-outstanding issues,
such as land-rights and
water-rights, could be resolved.
 -Eban dismissed-le'autbn-'
omy talks in 197981 as "desultory" .and urged that
Washington build on the new
Israel government's readiness to withdraw from
Lebanon as a first stage towards regional progress.
Former Defense Secretary
James Schlesinger,:who is
remembered in Israel as the
man who organized the vital
Yom Kippur War arms airlift, said that to ask if Israel
.was perceived in Washington, and especially in the
First Annual Chanukah Lecture
Set For Dec. 11 By Beth Jacob
"Jews in History, Accident
or Destiny," is the topic of a
special lecture on Judaism
today to be given by Rabbi
Nachman Bulman on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. at the
Beth Jacob Synagogue.
Rabbi Bulman, who lives
in Israel, is a-native New
Yorker who received his rabbinical ordination from' the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanon Theological Seminary and is a
graduate with a major in
philosophy from Yeshiva
University. The founding
editor of the" Jewish Observer, a monthly magazine
of Orthodox Jewish thought,
he has lectured extensively
oh contemporary issues
throughout the United
States.
At the height of his rabbinical career, in 1975, he. left
the United States to become
the founder of the interna-
tionally known Baal T'shu-
vah Yeshiva, "Or Samaich,"
- where he served as dean of
.men.and lectured on philo
sophy, Talmud and ethics.
Prior to his going to Israel,
he served pulpits in Newport
News, Virginia, and the
Young Israel of Far Rock-
away, Long Island. He established the Sarah Schenirer
Teachers Seminary for"Girls
in Brooklyn, N.Y.     "
Presently Rabbi Bulman
is the chief rabbi of Kir-
yat Nachliel, a community
which he founded in the Galilee in 1979. Starting with four
families, the community of
western immigrants has
grown to over 70 families in
four years. He has been a
confidante of the leaders of
Israeli government.
Rabbi David Stavsky said,
"It is a rare privilege to listen to Rabbi Nachman Bul-
man's lectures. A scholar of
the first rank, he is an original thinker,with an analytical mind and encyclopedic
knowledge of both Torah and
secular worlds. It is a treat
for the Jewish community in
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Pentagon, as an asset or a
liability was "the wrong
question."
Fundamentally, he argued, American foreign policy was founded on moral
considerations: only policies
which were broadly supported by public opinion as
"right" proved viable and
long-lasting. And support for
Israel's security and survival fell squarely into that
category and accounted for
the sturdy basic strength of .
the Israel-U.S. relationship,
the former defense secetary
(and later secretary of energy under Carter) contended.
Anti-Semitic Incidents
On Decline In Europe
LONDON (JTA) — Anti-
Semitism in Europe nearly
40 years after the defeat of
" Hitler,' Was examined by
representatives of nine
European Jewish communities at a day-long session
here recently under the
auspices of the European
Committee on Anti-Semitism of the World Jewish
Congress.
The sober assessment was
that anti-Semitism still
exists to a degree that demands constant vigilance
and preventive measures.
The discussants, all specialists in the field, agreed that
the anti-Semitic pressures
which European Jews have
felt in recent years, has lessened somewhat.
They noted that the
strength of neo-Nazi type organizations has not increased and the number of
anti-Semitic Incidents has
declined. But it takes only a
few extremists to commit
acts of terror and vandalism
and therefore security measures must be kept fully
operative, the experts concluded.
JDC Feeding Stations
To Open In Ethiopia
NEW YORK (JTA) - A recent communique received
from the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee representative in Ethiopia advised that the overseas relief agency had received permission to operate
feeding stations in the Gondar region, according to an.
announcement made by JDC
executive vice president
Ralph  Goldman.   The  an-
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