Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1986-01-09

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VOL.64   NO.2
JANUARY 9,1986-TEVET28
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B'nai B'rith Women, Men Plan
Paid Up Membership Event
B'nai B'rith Women of
Columbus and B'nai B'rith
Men Maccabee Lodge #2848
SUPER SUNDAY
Phonathon Set
For February 2
The Columbus Jewish Fed-
eration's sixth annual
SUPER SUNDAY will take
place on Sunday, Feb. 2. The
day long phonathon will be
held at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center.
This year, more than 2,000
individuals in the community will be called on behalf of the 1986 United Jewish Fund Campaign. Volunteer phoners will be asking
individuals to help fellow
Jews in Israel, Eastern
Europe, North Africa, South
America, throughout the
United States, as well as at
home in Columbus, through
a commitment to the 1986
Campaign.
Volunteers are needed to
man the phones in two hour
shifts. Shifts offered are: 9 to
11 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m:; 12 noon to 2 p.m.; 2 to 4
p.m.; 4 to 6p.m.; and6:30 to
9 p.m.
The highlights of the day
will include family entertainment, prizes, celebrity
visits and food: Babysitting
will be available.
Anyone interested in
volunteering for SUPER
SUNDAY, may register by
calling the Federation,
237-7686, Ext. 13.
Ruth Ann Blank is the 1986
SUPER SUNDAY chairwoman. Dennis Mellman is
the 1986" General Campaign
chairman.
announce their upcoming
Joint Paid-Up Membership
Event.
B'nai B'rith Women have
' joined the B'nai B'rith Men
this year to make for a successful dinner-dance. It will
be held Saturday night, Feb.
1, at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel, 5419 E. Broad St.
An open bar will begin the
evening, followed by a prime
rib dinner and dancing.
Kosher meals are available
upon request. The cost is $15
per person.
Only paid up members
(1986 dues) of B'nai B'rith
Women or Maccabee Lodge
may attend. For information
and reservations, contact
Lauri or Ely Zofan, 861-7951.
Reservations, are due by
Jan. 20, as seating is limited.
A check is a reservation.
Jean Robbins is president
of..B'nai B'rith Women of
Columbus and Ron Gurvis is
president of Maccabee
Lodge. Debbie Belford is
BBW membership chairwoman and Ely Zofan is the
Lodge's membership vice
president. Ely Zofan and
Shelley Mattes are coordinating this event.
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Jewish Leaders Call
For Decisive Action
Against All Terrorism
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Jewish War Veterans Staff
US0 On December 25,26
Pictured are some members of Jewish War Veterans, Capitol Post #122. Volunteers from JWV staffed,
in shifts, the USO Center at Port Columbus, Dec. 25 and
26, so that regular USO personnel could celebrate
Christinas. The JWV volunteers were: Claire Gelband,
Sandy Rose, Herman Rosen, Nate Coopersmith, Herb
Greff, Marvin Rose, Al Malyn, Irv Dworkin, Steve
Goldman, Sam Coopersmith, Jerry Kresge, Richard
Grunstein, Sandy Lichtenstein,;Bill Goldsmith, Ben
Cohen, Herb Soloriion, Sol Derfler, and Ed Schecterv :.-
Library Sabbath To Be Held At Tifereth Israel
Library Sabbath will be
held on Saturday, Jan. 11,
when the Minnie Cobey Me-'
mortal Library at Congregation Tifereth Israel will
once again be honored. Selected books will be displayed at the kiddush following services when
Cecelia McAdams will speak
on "Teasers of Jewish Arts
and Letters."
McAdams, director of the
Reynoldsburg Branch of the
Gail Feinstein Appointed Center's
Israel-Judaic Program Supervisor
The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center announces that Gail
Feinstein hais been appointed to the position of Is-
rael^Judaic Program super/
visor.
Gai! Feinstein
Feinstein, a native of Fint,
Mich., came to Columbus 13
years ago to complete a B.A.
degree  in Jewish > Studies
from the Ohio State University. Upon graduation, she
began her career as a Jewish
educator by teaching morn-
ling classes in the Jewish
Center's pre-school and eve-
nings at the religious school
;■ of Tifereth Israel Synagogue. ; :'.!';■' ■..': ,"'.'''•'■'■'
While on staff at Tifereth
Israel, Feinstein worked as a
youth director, developed
and implemented High Holiday. Youth Services, led services for the Young Peoples
Synagogue and acted as
teacher representative to the
Tifereth Israel Board of
Education.'     .
As a member of the Jewish
Center program staff, Feinstein will continue to program holiday events, unique
Jewish educational opportunities and focus on activities relating to Jewish history, culture and tradition.
Public Library of. Columbus
and Franklin County, has
been a teacher, and librarian
for many years, having held
executive positions in high
schools ;as well as other
branch libraries: in Colum-.
bus. Holding advanced degrees frbm SUNY.f Mc:-
Adams will address herself
to varied Jewish books,
novels, essays and poetry. ;
The Minnie Cobey. Memorial Library is considered
the outstanding Jewish reference library in the Midwest. Listed with universities and high schools
throughout this area and
open to the general public, it
is utilized by laymen,
teachers and theologians
and theological students of
all faiths,
Manne Aronovsky, librarian and certified media specialist, is present to assist
patrons on Mondays through
Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m.
and on Sunday mornings
from 9:30 t6 12:30. The library itself is open on school.
days from 9 tp 6 p.m. and until 3 p.m; on Fridays and before holidays, in addition to
Sunday morning,
- Permanently endowed by
the late Harry Cobey and his
family in memory of their
wife and mother, Minnie
Colaey, the Minnie Cobey Memorial Library Foundation
is maintained by the Cobey
and Melton families to insure the procurement of additional books. Members and
friends of the congregation
may remember dear ones on
significant occasions
through gifts to the Library,
also.
Ralph Cobey and Sam Melton are co-chairmen of the
Library Committee. At the
conclusion of. Shabbat Services, congregants may visit
the library and the book display in the Social Hall. The
kiddush, hosted by the Cobey
and Melton families, will
complete the morning.
NEW YORK (WNS) -
Leading Jewish organizations urged governments
around the world to take
decisive action against terrorists and called for punishment of nations which provide refuge to terrorists.
At a recent press conference, Kenneth Bialkin,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, issued a statement;
saying that the Palestinian
terrorist war "against the
travelling public requires urgent action by the international community. The indiscriminate terror in Rome
and Vienna reflects a barbarism and a primitive mentality which cannot be
reached by reason or the
ruleof law."
He outlined nine steps that
must be taken to end the
scourge of terrorism:
• "Serve notice that support by the PLO and other ',
Palestinian terror groups
must end. Saudi Arabia must
end its payments of extortion
which finance this grotesque
machine; Jordan must close
the PLO bases it has sanctioned; Tunisia must expel
the PLO forces who train
and plan there; Syria and
Iraq must terminate their
maintenance of PLO factions; Libya must be called
to account.
• "Diplomatic support
must cease; the PLO observer delegation to the UN
Congregation Ahavas Sholom
To Mark 75th Anniversary
Members of the com-,
munity will soon be offered
the rare opportunity of having a share in writing a
sacred Sefer Torah Scroll, in
honor of the 75th anniversary of Congregation Ahavas
Sholom.
Each person desiring to do
so will be able to authorize a.
scribe (sofer) to write the
letters or; words selected.
Relatives have traditionally
been honored and yahrzeits
commemorated through the
writing of selected portions
of a Sefer Torah. :
At this time, the sofer has
already been engaged to
write« this special Torah
Scroll and plans are being
made for the ceremonies in
its honor. A planning committee has been; appointed,
headed by the synagogue
president, Dr. Samuel Port-
man, and former Sisterhood
president,   Mrs.
(Thea) S. Press.
Pearson
must be expelled and their
offices in New York closed,
Turkey, Greece, Spain,
Italy j Cyprus and other
European countries must
withdraw their recognition
and diplomatic support from
the PLO.
• "Countries .which give
sanctuary or free passage to
known murders must be
warned that consequences
; will follow their craven act.
• ' 'Leaders must be extradited and brought to justice
— damage suits by victims
must be heard and enforced
in courts of law—and victims
compensated by the PLO.
• "Diplomatic and economic sanctions must be taken
against those countries who
fail to cooperate in an international program to combat
terrorism and deny sanctuary £6 leaders and followers of the PLO.
• "Wbrld opinion must be
mobilized against the deception and deceit of Palestinian
radicals who clothe their
cause in the language of
freedom and human rights
but whose real message and
causeis conquest and rejection of peaceful coexistence
with Israel.
• "We support Secretary of
State Shultz in his rejection
of any political justification
for terrorist acts, and we call
upon the United Nations and
the nations of. the free world
to develop a program of action which goes beyond the
welcome words of condemnation of terrorism.
• "Sadly, but necessarily,
so long as the rule of law cannot cope with terrorism, the
right and duty of national
sovereignty and protection
must be recognized to take
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Dr. Marc Raphael To Speak
At Temple Israel, Jan. 24
The Community Concerns
Committee of Temple Israel
invites the community to attend the Community Concerns Sabbath on Jan. 24 at 8
p.m. featuring Dr. Marc
Raphael as guest speaker.
Committee Chairwoman
Rosanne Rosen announces
the participation of Dr.
Raphael in this program. Dr.
Raphael, well known to the
community for his history of
Columbus Jewry and the
publication of his book Jews
and Judaism in a Midwestern Community: Columbus, Ohio 1940-1975, will
speak about Columbus
Jewry today and its place in
the non-Jewish community
as well as in American
Jewry.
Dr. Raphael is currently a
professor of history at The
Ohio State University and
has recently published his
fifth book, entitled Profiles
in American Judaism.
The purpose of the Comi
munity Concerns Committee
is to bring to the forefront issues that concern the Jewish
community and. the congregation of Temple Israel. For
Eidditional information on
he Community Concerns
Sabbath, call the Temple Israel office, 866-0010.