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Mezuzahs Go Into Space
NEW YORK (JTA) — Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, a crew
member aboard the five-day mission of the space shuttle Discovery, carried in his iperspnal flight kit four mezuzahs and
two atarot, the inscription on the collar of a tallit. The
40-year-olcl Hoffman of Clear Lake City, Texas, a suburb
near Houston, is the first Jewish male astronaut to go up into
space. Judith Resnik was the first Jewish woman to go into
space when she was a crew member last June aboard the
shuttle Discovery.
Jewish Organizations In Paris
Ask Police For More Security Measures
PARIS (JTA) — Jewish organizations in Paris have asked
police to increase security measures to protect Jewish installations and facilities in the aftermath of the recent bombing
of Bank Leumi, the fourth such attack against the bank since
1977. The extemist leftwing group, Direct Action, claimed responsibility for the bombing as well as for separate bombings
during the day of a French government office dealing with
immigrants and the office of an exteme rightwing newspaper, Minute.
Feelings Of Outrage In Israel Over
Reagan's Visit To German Cemetery
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
The White House announcement that President Reagan,
after all, will visit a concentration camp site when lie is
in West Germany next
month, has not reduced the
feelings of outrage here over
the President's decision to
place a wreath at a German
war cemetery where members of the notorious Waffen
SS—the executioners of the
"Final Solution"—are
buried.
The shock and anger
aroused by Reagan's plans
was expressed by national
leaders April 17 and 18 as Is-
Community Celebration Of Yom Ha'atzmaut
This Sunday, April 28, At Jewish Center
The community celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut,
Israel's anniversary, is this
Sunday, April 28,12-5 p.m. at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center, 1125 College Ave.
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- The balloons and Israeli
flags are ready to be distributed to everyone. The Israeli food festival1 will be bigger and better, than ever,
with  all  sorts   of   Israeli
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dishes to eat for lunch and as
a snack. Felafel, pizza
bagels, fried eggplant,
humus, desserts, salads and
drinks are available for
everyone to enjoy_.
The Israeli bazaar with all
sorts of gift items-will be
open. Items from the Kibbutz Store are going to be
featured. Handwoven place-
mats, key chains, dolls, mosaics, bags, mezuzahs and
Israeli glass have arrived.
Israeli coin sets, posters,
candy, food products, including felafel mix, Hebrew alef-
bet soup, chocolate Spread
and felafel flavored chips
. will, be available. There will
even  be  Hebrew  bazooka
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rael began its annual Yom
Sho'ah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It wasf marked
from sundown Wednesday to
nightfall Thursday with
flags at half mast, all restaurants and places of entertainment closed and radio
and television devoted to
music and broadcasts related to the Holocaust.
At noon Thursday, air raid
sirens wailing all over the
country brought traffic to a
halt. Drivers and pedestrians alike stood for two
minutes of silence with
bowed heads remembering
the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi regime.
Former President Yitzhak
Navon, presently Minister of
Education, told a Holocaust
memorial service that Reagan's advisers had let him
down very badly by suggesting that a visit to a concentration camp site would balance one to a Wehrmacht
cemetery. There can be no
mixing or mingling of the
two commemorations,
. Nayon said.
Premier Shimon Peres,
addressing the main memorial service at the Yad
Vashem Wednesday night,
was oblique in his criticism
of the President. While one
can be reconciled with one's
enemies, there can be no
reconciliation "with evil.
There is no cause to tear off
the yellow star," he declared.
Yitzhak Arad, chairman of
the Yad Vashem,.urged Reagan to cancel his visit to the
German military cemetery
at Bitburg where SS men are
buried. He said the visit
would only'be exploited by
those around the world who
try to deny that the Holocaust ever occurred. Gideon
Hausner, chairman of the
Yad Vashem's International
Council who prosecuted war
criminal Adolf Eichmann in
1961, stressed in his address
the deliberate failure of the
United States and Britain to
try to save victims of the
Holocaust from death.
'Walk With Israel'To Be Held
In Honor Of Israel's Birthday
The balloons and Israeli flags are ready to be distributed at the community Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day celebration, at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center oh Sunday, April 28. V
Author Nora Ephron
At May 1 Council Luncheon
Nora Ephron, who will be
the guest speaker at the
Council of Jewish Women's
Spring Luncheon next Wed:
nesday, May 1, at the Winding Hollow Country Club,
grew1 up as the recalcitrant
daughter of playwrights
Pheobe and Henry Ephron.
She is considered a writer's
writer, with three books to
her credit and numerous articles in Esquire Magazine.
Her third book, Scribble,
Scribble, is a collection of
columns on the news media,
which appeared there and is
considered a collector's collection. :';v:;.. ,  ;'   ';"■".•_ '
Ephron was married to
Dan Greenberg, after graduating from Wellesley College
in 1962, and worked for
Newsweek, the New York
Post, free lance and for
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Israel turns 37 and Sunday, April 28, the annual
J'Walk with Israel" will be
held in her honor. More than
300 men, women, and children are expected to participate "heart and sole" in this
display of solidarity that is
co-sponsored by the Columbus Jewish Federation and
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center.
The five kilometer (3.1
miles) -walk will begin at
1 p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff
Center, 1125 College Ave.
The route, which will be pri-.
marily in Bexley, will begin
with a walk through the College Avenue campus area
and include Heritage Manor,
House and Tower.
Tee-shirts bearing the
Israel 37 logo will be given to
the first 350 people who register. Balloons and Israeli
flags will also be distributed.
This' year as in the past,
Peres, in his address, observed that the Holocaust
victims were helpless because for them there was no
sovereign Jewish State to
flee to. In our own time, he
said, the situation is deteriorating for South American
Jewry and they should
choose to settle in Israel
while they can. He said Israelis must be prepared to
lower their living standards
for a long time in order to
provide the resources for
immigrant absorption;
the walk is expected to be
spirited and reflect a strong
feeling of kinship with the
people of Israel. Public officials will be present at the
opening ceremony that will
feature "David Ben Gurion"
(portrayed by a local actor)
reading Israel's Declaration
of Independence.
People are invited to
"Walk" with their families
or to participate in groups
and if they desire, carry banners designating their
organization.
Harvey Handler and Joseph Strapp. serve as co-
chairmen of the "Walk for
Israel." Steve Brazina, Jeff
Milgrom, Harvey Schwager
and Beth Zimelirian are
members of the committee.
For further information
about the "Walk for Israel",
phone Columbus Jewish
Federation, 237-7686, Ext. 15.
Reagan Defends Proposed Visit
To German Military Cemetery
The President, who made
his remarks in response to
questions at a White House:
meeting with a group of editors and publishers, said he
would not cancel his visit to
the cemetery because it
would then appear that he
had "caved in" to pressure.
"I think that it would be
very harmful and all it would
do is leavei me looking as I
caved in in the face of some
unfavorable attention;" Reagan told the group. His plan
to lay a wreath at the cemetery where at least 30 members of the notorious Waffen
SS are buried, created a
furor in the Jewish community, especially as it followed
cancellation of a projected
visit to the site of the Dachau
concentration csunp.
Reagan repeated, in re^
spouse to questions, that
cancellation of the Dachau
visit was the result of a misunderstanding. He said he
had been under the impression that an individual
rather than the.West German government had suggested it. But when Chancellor Helmut Kohl informed
him otherwise, the cancellation was reversed, he said.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
President Reagan, defending his planned visit to a German military cemetery at
Bitburg next month, said
last week that most of the
2,000 soldiers buried there
were 18 year-old boys conscripted into the army and
"they were victims just as
surely as the victims of the
concentration camps."	
American Jews
Distressed Over
Reagan's Plans
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The deep distress in the Jewish community over President Reagan's plans to lay a
wreath at a West German
military cemetery next,
month overshadowed the annual. Day of Remembrance
ceremony in the Rotunda of
the U.S. Capitol on April 18.
Elie Wiesel, chairman of
the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council,' told Reagan's representative at the
Yom Hashoa ceremony, Secretary of State George
Shultz, "Please be our emissary. Tell those who need to
know that our pain is genuine, our outrage.is deep and
our perplexity is great."
Shultz did not reply directly to Wiesel. But he departed
from his prepared address to
say, "I share with you also
the.deep conviction that
there is no place within the
deep spirit we feel of reconciliation and compassion...
of understanding for those
who took part in the perpetration of the Nazi horror."
Reagan has defended his
plans to lay a wreath on the
graves of German soldiers
buried in the Bitburg military cemetery as part of his
effort to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of World
War II in a spirit of reconciliation.
Jewish Representatives
Attend Torah Sessions
WASHINGTON (WNS)--
For the past year-and^-half,
Jewish Democratic and Republican representatives
have been meeting twice a
month, in the Capitol to discuss Jewish life, tradition
and literature,' according to
the program's sponsor, Rep.
Charles Schumer (D. N.Y),
Schumer said that Christian legislators have sponsored prayer breakfasts in
the Capitol for years. He
added that the Torah sessions have given Jewish representatives "a chance to
take advantage of a unique
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