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VOL.64   NO. 3
JANUARY 16,1986-SHEVAT6
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Ruth Ann Blank To Coordinate
SUPER SUNDAY On February 2
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"Ruth Ann Blank's leadership roll as the 1986 SUPER
SUNDAY chairwoman will
bring strong organization
and dynamism to the day,"
said Dennis Mellman, 1986
General Campaign chairman, in making the appointment. Blank will coordinate
the daylong event which is
scheduled for Sunday, Feb.
2, and will involve more than
200 volunteers in an intense
fundraising phonathon for
the 1986 United Jewish Fund
Campaign.
"Ruth Ann has demonstrated her superb leadership skills in a number of
important projects," Mellman said. "We.are pleased
that she will be in charge of
SUPER SUNDAY, which is
really the part of the campaign that reaches out to the
entire community ... to as
many as 2,000 homes in a
single day."
"The sixth annual SUPER
SUNDAY will be held at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center, 1125 College Ave.,
beginning at 9 a.m. There
will be six, two-hour phoning
shifts that will conclude at 9
p.m. Throughout the day,
beginning with a balloon
launching, there will be
family entertainment, celebrity visits, food and prizes.
"I am looking forward to
the challenge SUPER
SUNDAY '86 represents,"
said Blank. "Columbus has
set a goal of $5.4 million.
SUPER   SUNDAY   repre-
Leo Yassenoff Center Schedules
Parent/Youth Awareness Program
A program for young
people from junior high
through high school age, as
well as their parents, will
take, place  at  the  Leo
""YastJenuffacwlMhemiter this""
month.
The Youth Services Department, in conjunction
with the Franklin County
Mental Health Board, North
Central Mental Health Services and Columbus Youth to
Youth, will be sponsoring a
parent/youth awareness
program entitled "Choices
. for Teens and Parents." The
three part seminar is set for
Jan. 21, Feb. 4 and Feb. 18 at
7:30   p.m.   at   the  Leo
, Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The presentations will
focus around positive and
negative coping mechanisms which deal with life
choices. The first seminar
will focus on communication
which will comfortably lead
into the topics for the last
two sessions of teen suicide,
health and substance abuse.
The program is designed
and" intended* for" students'"
from seventh grade through
high school as well as' their
parents and other concerned
community members.
According to Denise Blank,
chairwoman of the Youth
Services Committee, it is not
an attempt to preach or use
scare tactics, but rather an
attempt to convince individuals to seriously consider
consequences before and not
after the fact. The program
was developed out of a
response to many requests
from parents and ju-,
nior/senior high students.
Parents are encouraged to
attend these presentations
with their sons and daugh-
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Rena Failer Appointed Director
Central Ohio State Of Israel Bonds
Development Corporation
for Israel announces the appointment of its new Central
Ohio State of Israel Bonds
Executive Director, Rena
Failer, formerly Staff Associate of the Columbus Jewish
Federation.
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Rena Failer
Failer brings to the bond
organization years of campaign experience that also
includes being Field Representative for the United Jewish Appeal in Ohio and Michigan. Her commitment to Israel began very early in her
life in a family with strong
Zionist affiliations. She was
a member of Habonim, The
Labor Zionist Youth Movement at the time of Israel's
Independence and has maintained her concern,and caring over the years.
"Next to making Aliyah,
working for Israel and the
Jewish community is the
best that I can do to keep the
chain of the Jewish people
strong and unbroken," said
Failer.
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South Africa's Reform Jews Leading
Jewish Struggle Against Apartheid
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sents the time for those who
have not had an opportunity
to make a pledge1 to become
a part of an extremely important campaign. We have
to keep pushing to meet increasing needs and-keep
pace with, inflation. The
campaign helps to support
more than 50 humanitarian
programs and services in Israel, throughout the United
States, around the world as
well as at home here in
Columbus."
Members of the community who would be willing to
volunteer on SUPER
SUNDAY should call the Columbus Jewish Federation,
237-7686.
TORONTO (JTA) - Reform Jews in South Africa
are in the forefront in the
battle against apartheid, but
they themselves are considered second class Jews,
says a leading Reform rabbi
from South Africa.
Rabbi Norman Mendel,
spiritual leader of the
Temple Emanuel in.-
Johannesburg, told an
audience here recently that
Reform Jews, known as Progressive Jews in South
Africa, are leading the Jewish fight against apartheid,
which they consider "indefensible, immoral and evil."
But Reform Jews in South
Africa, who number about
5,000 families of a total Jewish population of between
110,000 and 112,000, are a
"beleaguered, anxious"
community who are taking
more and more risks in
speaking out against South
Africa's policy of racial
segregation, Mendel said.
He said Reform Jews are
fighting apartheid "against
Wilt Co-Sponsor Hadassah's
Jennie Roland Education
The Columbus Chapter of
Hadassah Jennie Roland
Education Day, co-sponsored this year by the Adult
Department of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, will be
held on Thursday, Jan. 30, at
• 7:30 p.m. at, the Center, 1125
College Ave. A dessert and
"Meet the Author" reception
will follow the program. The
public is invited.
The speaker for this year's
Education Day is. Gerald
Posner. In 1981, Posner, an
attorney, was involved in legal research to determine
whether a group of surviving
Auschwitz experimental victims could file a, lawsuit
against Germany for extra
compensation for their injuries.
After two years of research at the personal.expense of $20,000, the lawsuit
was dropped. However, the
material gathered was too
valuable to be forgotten.
Much information regarding
Josef Mengele, the infamous
Nazi doctor, "Angel of
Death," had surfaced. Published McGraw Hill was interested and encouraged
Posner to complete his research on Mengele for publication.
Deadline for reservations
is Monday, Jan. 27. To make
reservations, send check for
$2,50, made payable to the
■ Columbus Chapter of Hadassah, to Gertrude Oden-
heimer, 6057 Barberry Hoi-
Day
low, Columbus, Ohio 43213,
or Sally Epstein, 834 S. Cassingham Road, Columbus,
Ohio 43209, or Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, Adult Department, 1125 College Ave.,
Columbus, Ohio 43209.
a backdrop of Jewish discrimination" emanating
from the Orthpdox community.
"There is day to day
diminishment in the Reform
movement in South Africa.
Reform are considered a
second class Jewish community," said Mendel, a native of Oakland, Calif, who
moved to South Africa in
1978 after having served
communities in Fremont,
Calif., Kansas City, Missouri, and Boca Raton, Fla.
,      Orthodox Jews
Joining The Fight
Orthodox Jews are only
now beginning to do something about apartheid,
Mendel maintained.
"They're beginning to
realize it's more sophisticated than they thought," he
said.
Reform Jews, he said,
have been fighting apartheid
for years by holding educational programs with Blacks
and "coloreds," or those of
mixed race, and in going "on
record, as abhoring apartheid." Mendel called on Re-
-form-congregations in the
United States and Canada to
join in the battle by "adopting" sister Reform congregations in South Africa.
Part of the problem in
apartheid is in the attitude of
Afrikaners — white, native-
born South Africans who are
"an obdurate, stubborn"
people, far more "intractable" than other whites,"
Mendel said.
"The Afrikaner sees himself as the Israeli of South
Africa. It is his people, his
folk (being threatened). His
sense of peoplehood must
dominate. He believes his
people will be pushed into
the sea." By the year 2000.
Blacks in South Africa will
number 50 million from the
current 25 million, Mendel
said.
In general, the rabbi maintained,. South African Jews
have not been "as forthcoming" about apartheid as they
should be.
"Excruciating Moral
Dilemma"
Mendel hinted that more
economic sanctions against
South Africa may not be in
the best interests of Blacks
and coloreds, since current
sanctions are costing about
1,000 jobs a week, mainly
among non-whites.
Jews face "an excruciating moral dilemma" in serving in the South African
army, which must patrol
Black townships, with violent results almost daily, he
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As for the sensitive issue of
economic and military ties
between Israel and South
Africa, Mendel said that on
paper, trade between the two
nations is still "much less"
.than between South Africa
and other countries. Israel,
whose people have suffered
from racism more than any
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Jordan Bendier To Benefit
From Danger Brothers Concert
Gerald Posner
Transportation is available at a nominal' charge
through the Center's Senior
Adult Department, 231-2731.
Deadline for transportation
sign-up is Monday, Jan. 27.
Cost for this transportation
is $1 for senior adult Center
-members and $2 for all
others. Limited car pools
will be coordinated by Ellen
Schottenstein, 258-7104.
1965 Israel Bond Sales
Hit Record $505 Million
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
total of $505,030,000 in cash
proceeds were mobilized in
1985 for Israel's economic
development by the State of
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Six month old Jordan
Bendier, son of Bill and Lisa
Bendier and grandson of
Julius and Roselyn Margulies of Columbus is in need
of a liver transplant.
Bill, a musician with the
Danger Brothers Band, will
participate in a fundraiser
for Jordan, with his band
members, on Jan. 25 at
Valley Dale Ballroom, 9:30
p.m. Proceeds will help fund
a liver transplant for the infant who was diagnosed recently with Biliary Atresia.
Jordan has been in Children's Hospital in Columbus
for the last four months, and
has had three operations,
none of which have remedied
the situation; f
The goal, Bendier says, is
to raise $150,000 to pay for
the delicate operation and
other expenses involved in
the lengthy recuperation.
Jordan is expected to be
transferred soon from Columbus to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., where
the operation is to be per-
- formed.
'''We,can't,think of a better
way to begin reaching our
goal than by putting on this
concert for Jordan," Bendier said.
Jordan Bendier
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Pre-sale concert tickets
are available at all Central
Ticket Office locations for
$10. Tickets at the door will
be $12. Local personality
Eric Gnezda will entertain
prior to the appearance of
the Danger Brothers.
Contributions to the Jordan Bendier fund can be sent
to Jordan Bendier, P.O. Box
1019, Columbus, O. 43209.