Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1985-08-15

              Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL.03   NO.33
AUGUST 15,1985-AV 28
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Korean Clergy Receive Certificates
At Hebrew University
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Fifty Christian clerics from South
Korea received certificates attesting to their completion of
an intensive three-day course on "The People, the Book and
the Land" at the Martin Buber Institute for Adult and Continuing. Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
This was the largest such contingent to participate in this
program at the University since it was begun 13 years ago.
Deletion Of 'Zionism' From Final Document
Sparks Enthusiasm At Women's Conference
Poland To Show Documentary On Holocaust
PARIS (JTA)—Poland will show both on television and in
cinemas the nine hour film Shoah, which describes in painful
detail the horrors of the Holocaust and recalls some of the
worst incidents of local collaboration with the Nazi authorities. The screening of the film, first decried by the Warsaw
government a§ "anti-Polish propaganda," was announced
last week by the Polish government spokesman, Jerzy
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Jewish Candidate Heads Election List
For Alfonsin's Radical Party
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) -pThe electoral listfor the district
of Buenos Aires of President Raul Alfonsin's Radical Party,
for legislative elections in the fall, will be headed by a Jew,
Marceld Stubrin, the World Jewish Congress reported. On
Nov. 3 there will be legislative elections in Argentina to
choose members for seats up for renewal in the Chamber of
Deputies. These elections, taking place two years after the
establishment of the present democratic regime, will be the
first popularity test for the Radical Party.
NEW YORK, (JTA) -
Whether repercussions from
the United Nations End of
the Decade Women's Conference in Nairobi will include
the liberation of women on a
worldwide scale is undetermined, but for Bernice Tannenbaum, chairwoman of
the World Zionist Organization-American Section, the
consensus to strike the word
"Zionism" from the final
document listing the obstacles to the advance of women
was enough to induce a small
spark of enthusiasm.
Tannenbaum, who recently" returned from the
Conference in Nairobi, reflected here that "the constant pressure to insert the
word 'Zionism' into the document ... went on relentlessly — late into each night.
At the eleventh hour, Kenya
made the plea to substitute
for j'Zionism' in Paragraph
95 I (of the document) the
words 'and all other forms of
racial discrimination.' "
The proposal, Tannen-;
baum stressed, was a pro-
Hebrew University Team Uncovers
Major Archaeological Find in Israel
Jerusalem (JTA)—The
very first houses built in Jerusalem have been unearthed
in the Kidron Valley, just
southeast of the Old City
walls.
Hebrew University archaeologist Yigal Shilo, coming to the end of his eighth
and last season's dig at the
City of David, last month
struck bedrock—and exposed on the bedrock neat little homes built 3,000 years
ago.
His team of local students
and overseas volunteers are
now smashing through a section of a later wall to discover whether these first
houses — the beginning of
settlement in the city 1,000
years before King David —
were surrounded by a pro;
tective wall or merely a village-like complex open to the
surrounding hillsides.
The unearthed houses
comprise walls with built-in
benches protruding from
them and surrounding a central living area. Shilo told reporters that such construction is common in the proto-
.urban phase in Palestine —
the early Bronze Period contemporaneous with the
Patriarchs.
Exciting Aspect Of The
Kidron Settlement
He noted that much older
dwellings have been discovered, in Jericho and else-'
where. But the exciting aspect of the Kidron Valley settlement, close to the Siloam
spring, is that it makes the
start of uninterrupted settlement in Jerusalem from
3,000 years ago to the present
day. '
Archaeologists have not
been able to trace a continuous  proto-urban  develop
ment in Jericho or in other
more ancient sites: there is
an unexplained lacuna between the prehistoric remains and the more modern
ruins.
Shilo said it was, natural
for the first, nomadic settlers to ichdose a site close to
the source of fresh water —
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Orthodox Rabbis Ban Husbands
From Presence At Child's Birth
NEW YORK (JTA)-A'
warning has been issued to
observant Jewish husbands
throughout the world that
they may not be present in
the delivery room when their
wives are giving birth.       r
The warning, in the form
of an issur (ban), was issued
at a special meeting of the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
the United States and Canada, Rabbi Hirsch Ginsberg,
director of the rabbinical organization's Beth ,Din (rabbinical Court), toldthe Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
He said the meeting was
called when the Orthodox
rabbinical leaders learned
that the practice by non-Orthodox Jews and non-Jews of
accepting suggestions by
doctors to be present in the
delivery room had recently
been spreading among Or
thodox Jews.
Ginsburg told the JTA that
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,
president of the rabbinical
organization and one of the
world's leading authorities
oh halacha, had approved
the practice about ten years
ago, in apsak (rabbinic ruling) in his book Iggeret
Moshe (Letter of Moses) but
under strict conditions.
The conditions were that
the husband did not look at
his wife uncovered for delivery or the actual birth because both would violate the
halachic code on znius (modesty). Ginsburg said that the
growing number of observant Jews following the
practice of being present in
the delivery room made the
problems of their observance of the rules of not look-
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duct of a WZO year-long
campaign challenging the
Zionism-Racism resolution
of 1975 in the UN Gerferal Assembly. A resolution "condemning and repudiating"
the Zionism-is-racism equation, recently passed in the
UiS. Senate, was presented
by Tannenbaum • to Ambassador Alan Keyes, the chief
adviser to the U.S. delegation, who referred to it in his
statements at the Conference.
"The United States was remarkably firm in their support for their goals," remarked Tannenbaum,
"Maureen Reagan (the head
of the delegation), deserves
a great deal of credit; Ambassador Keyes was a
source of strength . . . like a
rock. .. On the issue of Zionism, he was absolutely unyielding. It was absolutely
unacceptable for the U.S.
government that that word
should be used."
Ben Zox Named To Chair
Federation Annua! Meeting
"Ben Zox, vice president
of the Columbus Jewish Federation, will serve as chairman of the Federation's 59th
Annual Meeting," President'
Jack L. Wallick announced.
"Ben is a dedicated,
thorough and committed
individual, who will bring
quality leadership to this
important position," said
Wallick.
Zox has been active in the
Federation for many years.
He is a 1973 recipient of the
Therese Stern- Kahn Young-
Leadership Award. He is a
past United Jewish Fund
Campaign chairman and
presently serves on the Allocations Steering Committee.
Zox is active in imany
general community organizations. Currently, he is
president of the board of
Pilot Dogs, Inc., secretaryof
the United Way of Franklin
County and of Columbus
Academy; board member
and vice chairman of the
board of St. Ann's Hospital.
A partner in the Columbus
law firm of Schottenstein,
Zox and Dunn, he was
recently installed as president-elect of the Columbus
Bar Association for the
1985-1986 year.
He and his wife Julie are
the parents of three children,
Holly, Melissa and William.
"The 59th Annual Meeting
of  the   Columbus   Jewish
Ben Zox
Federation is a showcase
event and we invite the
entire Jewish community,"
said Zox. The evening features the Abe I. Yenkin
Memorial Address; the presentation of the Therese
Stern Kahn Young Leadership Award and the Community Award of Excellence. "A new president,
officers and board members
will be installed and outgoing leadership will be
honored," added Zox.
The 1985 Columbus Jewish
Federation Annual Meeting
will be held on Sunday, Sept.
22, at 7:30 p.m. at Beth Jacob
Synagogue, 1223 College
Ave.
ADL Announces Competition
For Fourth Korczak Awards
- NEW YORK (JTA)-Writ-
ers of recently published.
books for and about children
have been invited to submit
them as entries for the
Fourth Annual Janusz Korc-.
sak Literary Competition
sponsored by the International Center for Holocaust
Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.   •
Nat Kameny, chairman of
the Holocaust Center Advisory Board, said the deadline
for entries is next Jan. 27 and
presentations will be made
in the spring of 1986,
Kameny said entries will
bcjudged on the way they
exemplify the courage, hu-
manitarianism and leadership of Korczak, a Polish
Jewish doctor, educator,
author and orphan home administrator. He died m the
Treblinka gas chambers
when he refused to foresake
the children left in his care.
Kameny said a first prize
of $1,000 and a plaque will be
awarded authors of the best
books in two categories: fiction  and  non-fiction  for
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Once the U.S. declared its
position on the issue, "it fell
upon parliaments of other
governments to follow the
example of the U.S.," Tannenbaum said. "It was very
heartening," she added, as
she witnessed the "Soviet
Union cave in and accept the
compromise proposal."
She was also present when
"the PLO delegate rose to-
deafening applause and said
'my delegation and Palestinian women are under Zionist
occupation. We are in a
country which suffered
apartheid just as my country
suffers under Zionism. But
there is blackmail in this
hall, so we accept the Kenyan amendment.' "
With the resolution being
adopted by consensus, "each
country, whether they came
reluctantly or not, accepted
a document which, if it's implemented properly by the
variovis governments of the
world, can mean a lot for the
women of the world," Tannenbaum noted.
AgreementReached
On Mormon Center
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The president of the Mormon
Brigham Young University,
Prof. Jeffrey Holland, in a
written pledge handed last
week to Mayor Teddy Kollek, promised there would be
no missionary activity in the
educational center it is constructing next to the Hebrew
University on Mt. Scopus.
The center is to be an extension of Brigham Young
University.
Kollek expressed his satisfaction regarding the sighed
commitment, adding that he
had never doubted the Mormons' verbal promises not to
engage in proselytizing at
■•'; the center.
The construction of the
Mormon center has come under large-scale attack by Orthodox circles, including the
two Chief Rabbis of Israel,
who have warned that its
real purpose was to try to
convert Jews. The charge
was vigorously denied by
Mormon representatives,
N among them Dr. Ellis Ras-
mussen, former dean pf religious education at Brigham
Young, following a press
conference last month by
eight Christian denominations which also oppose the
center,
Holland said that "it is important for everyone to
understand that this is not a
missionary center; it is an
extension of the University.
Mayor Kollek has understood that all along."        '
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