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Central Ohio Mayors Communicate
Concern For Rights Of Soviet Jewry
On the eve of President
. Reagan's departure for summit meetings with Soviet
Secretary General Mikhail
Gorbachev, several central
Ohio mayors communicated
their concern for .the human
rights of Soviet Jews to the
President.
In an open letter to the
President published in last
Thursday's Washington
Post, Columbus Mayor Dana
G. Rinehart, Bexley Mayor
David H. Madison and
Marion Mayor Donald L.
Malone joined with 100 other
mayors from cities large and
small all over the country
encouraging  President
'The Answer Is Blowln In The Wind.. ■'
Mary Travers To Address
Question Of Soviet Jews
At Dec. 1 Women's Plea
Reagan to emphasize
America's concern for emigration rights and for the
right to freedom of worship
for Jews and other Soviet citizens during his meeting
with the Russian leader in
Geneva. Mayor Donald L„
Mason of Zanesviile expressed his own concern in a
separate letter to the President.
The mayors noted that
only 820 Soviet Jews have
been allowed to /emigrate
during 1985 compared to
51,000 in 1979. The Soviet-
goVernment has maintained
a campaign of suppression of
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stand before Heritage Tower's new. wallhanging (top
photo). Cutting the Tower's birthday cake (bottom'
photo, 1. to r.) were David Levison, Tower resident
Martha Schiff, Betty Talis and Sylvia Schecter;
Rothman Wallhanging Presented
At Tower's Seventh Anniversary
The addition of a massive
handcrafted wallhanging to
the entrance of Heritage
Tower now provides a cheerful welcome to family members, residents and their
guests. '      '
Agudas Achim
Charters New
NCSYChapters
Rabbi Mark Cohn, regional director of National
Conference Synagogue
Youth, visited the Agudas
Achim Synagogue Wednesday, Nov. 6, to charter two
new NCSY groups at the
synagogue. .
In separate meetings
throughout the day, Rabbi
Cohn met. with Rabbi Alan
Ciner, Sylvia Mellman,
Peggy Ginsburg, youngsters
in grades seven and eight
and teens in grades 9
through 12. He met as well
with members of the Synagogue Youth Services Committee. During these conferences, he outlined the programming offered by the
National and Regional
organization and highlighted
local program opportunities
and ideas for the synagogue.
He noted the high level of
youth programming existent
at the Agudas Achim and indicated that Agudas Achim
would be an asset to the
NCSY movement..
NCSY is the youth arm of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America,  Through educa-
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Designed and stitched by
resident Max Rothman, the
wallhanging was.presented
to the Heritage Tower family ,
members at the Tower's recent Seventh Anniversary
Party. Depicting splashes of
bright colors moving upwards in graceful curves,
the wallhanging creates an
immediate atmosphere of
warmth and caring.
Although Rothman has
had much experience in cre-
a.ting  custom-designed
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"The Answer My Friend is
Blowin' in the Wind. . .
The Answer is Blowin'
■   in the Wind..."
sitigs Mary Travers of
Peter, Paul and Mary
Jews across the country
are hoping that the answer to
the plight of the Soviet Jews
will lie in the Summit — the
'first talks between the.
United States and the Soviet
Union in six years.
"At this pivital juncture, it
is vitally important to keep
the issue of human rights for
Soviet Jews in the forefront," said Barbara Greenberg, chairwoman for the
1985 Women's Plea for Soviet
Jewry. "Another answer is
to keep the issue alive in our
own community. To that
end, we are urging the com-
munity to attend the
Women's Plea and to hear
not . only 'Blowin' in the
Wind', but songs of freedom
and hope sung by the talented Mary Travers of
Peter, Paul and Mary." '"
Barry Cik Orchestra To Entertain
At Torah Academy Annual Dinner
The Barry Cik Orchestra
from Cleveland will feature
Israeli vocalist Barak Galil
at the Annual Columbus
Torah Academy Scholarship
Dinner, Sunday, Nov. 24, at
the HyattrRegency Hotel.
Barry Cik
Galil is best known for his
starring role in the Israeli
Chassidic Folk Festival
Troupe  which   toured   the
United States in 1984; He will.
join ten other musicians, including contemporary and
Jewish vocalists, in presenting a sample of the
Barry Cik repertoire. A
large range of American
contemporary, ballroom,.Israeli, Klezmer, Chassidic
and continental music will
be played.
In addition to enjoying the
orchestra, guests at the dinner will view a new video
documentary,, entitled
"Torah Academy: A Celebration of. Excellence," and
recognize Miriam and Bernard Yenkin for 20 years of
service to the school.
Proceeds from the Annual
Scholarship Dinner epable
needy children to attain an
Orthodox Jewish day-school
education at Columbus
Torah Academy. Reservations for the strictly kos-
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Mary Tra«. •_■!;
Travers will be the guest
artist at the Women's Plea
for Soviet Jewry on Sunday,
Dec. 1, at'7:30 p.m. at Capital University's Mees, Hall
Auditorium. She will describe her experience meeting with refuseniks and sing
songs reflecting the Soviet
Jewish struggle for freedom.
Travers visited the Soviet
Union in 1983 at the invitation of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. She
viewed first-hand the indignities and injustices perpetrated against the Soviet
Jews 7— the refuseniks with
whom she spoke "are not
guilty of any crimes, they
are not enemies of the USSR,
they just want to go home —•
to Israel," she says.
Why would a non-Jew become involved with the
struggle for freedom of Soviet Jews she is asked. Her
reply is simple: "It is not
only a question of religion,
but a question of human dignity."
The 1985 Women's Plea for
Soviet Jewry will be convened by the B'nai B'rith
Women of Columbus and is
open to the public. Sponsoring organizations include: B'nai B'rith Women,
Hadassah, National Council
of Jewish Women, Women's
American Ort, Agudas
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Jewish culture, imprisoning
Jewish teachers and community leaders and vilifying
Judaism in the state controlled press.     .
The mayors took note of
Soviet failure to live up to
their commitments in the,
final act of the Helsinki Accords, in which they promised ito allow emigration
for the sake of repatriation
and family reunification.
They stressed the need for
caution in making new^
agreements with Russia in
view of Soviet unwillingness
to honor their own international commitments made in
Helsinki and elsewhere.
Adolescents In Crisis Subject Of
NCJW Panel Discussion Dec. 10
"Kids in Crisis" will be
presented in a paner discussion by the Columbus Section, National Council of
Jewish Women, on Tuesday
evening, Dec. 10, in the
Schottenstein Auditorium of
the Yassenoff Jewish, Center.
Ruth Longert, president of
Council, has announced that
this meeting; which' will
launch the publication and
distribution of the up-dated
"Telephone and Information
Teen Survival Guide;" will
be moderated by Dora Marie
Sterling, legislative affairs
chairwoman for the Section.
Panel members will be Wil-
bert Jansen, executive secretary, Frankin County Children's Services; Marjorie
Bott, supervisor of Columbus Public Schools se'e-
ondary and vocational
school counselors, and Dr.
Eugene Arnold, adolescent
psychiatrist, author and professor at Ohio State University. The discussion will
be followed by a question
and answer period.
Reservations for the meeting must be made by Dec. 5,
by sending a check for $3.50
per person to Sandi Steiman,
314 S. Drexel Ave., 43209.
The meeting will be followed
by a dessert tea.
Sue Lifter, vice president
of Community Services for
the Section, has stated that
Donna Zelkowitz and Harri-
-ette Gold were in charge of
updating and editing the new
^pamphlet.
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Sue Lifter
The pamphlet, "Kids in
Crisis," was undertaken in
the fall of 1980, when the
Columbus Section of NCJW
decided to initiate a new
project. After much discussion and research, it was determined that NCJW volunteers could be most effective
by responding to the needs of
children and their families in
crisis situations. That win-
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