Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1986-04-24

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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL. 64   NO. 17
APRIL 24,1986-NISAN 15
Devoted to American
and Jewish ideals.
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IDF Official Who Commanded Entebbe Raid
Praises American Air Strike Against Libya
TEL AVIV (JTA) - A
senior Israel Defense Force
officer declared last week
that the American air strike
against Libya was the opening round in a war against a
On the committee in charge of National Council of
Jewish Women's installation meeting and luncheon are
(seated, 1. to r.) Ilene Danziger, Sandi Steiman,
(standing, 1. to r.) Eva Stein, Marilyn Friedman and
Lee Spotzer. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May
6, at the John Galbreath Pavilion.
Professor Of Sociology To Speak
On 'Jewish American Princess'
At Council's May 6 Installation
Dr. Bernard Beck, professor of sociology at Northwestern University, will
speak on the subject of "The
Jewish American Princess
and Other Fairy Tales" at
the installation meeting and
luncheon of the Columbus
Section, National Council of
Jewish Wome'n.on'Tuesday,
May, 6, at the John Galbreath
Pavilion, 55 E. State St., at 12
noon.
Melanie Hitsman, vice president of fund raising; financial secretary, Kathy Kellerman; personnel, Becky
Luck; bulletin, Marilyn
Friedman. Other members
of the board and officers will
be installed at this time.
Sheila Feinknopf will be
installing officer.
Hostesses for the afternoon include Marilyn Friedman, Rhoda Linder, Judy
Uhrman, Ilene Danziger,
Lee Spitzer and Sandy
Dubin. Program chairwomen are Eva Stein and
Sandi Steiman. Sari a
Schwartz will deliver the
opening prayer,
May 1 is the deadline for
reservations.
May this season
which reminds us
of the eternal
struggle
for freedom,
lead us also
to peace.
Passover Greetings from
\M Agudas Achim Brotherhood To Sponsor
May 17 Scholar-ln-Residence Shabbat
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Luncheon and installation
of newly elected officers and
board members will precede
the program. Reservations
are by check for $10 to Sandy
Steiman, 314 Drexel Ave.,
Bexley, 43209.
President Ruth Longert,
who is continuing in office,
will be joined by Judy? Maybruck, vice president of communications and education;
Hillard Abroms and John
Skuller, chairmen, announce
that the Agudas Achim
Brotherhood will sponsor a
Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat on Saturday, May 17,
Shabbat Emor.
The theme/for the Shabbat, the first following Israel
Independence Day, will be
Religious Crisis in the State
of Israel. Rabbi Daniel Trop-
per, founder of the Gesher
Foundation, will be the
scholar-in-residehce. Gesher
was founded fin 1970 to de
velop mutual understanding
and tolerance between the
religious and non-religious
communities in Israel and to
intensify Jewish identity.
Rabbi Emanuel Rackm'an
wrote in The Jewish Week,
Dec. 13,1985, "I wish that for
once they would take the
spotlight off Rabbi Meir
Kahane and focus it on other
American rabbis who made
aliyah and gladden the
hearts of Israelis. One, for
example, is Rabbi Danny
Trooper; who came to Israel
after  graduating  from
Yeshiva University and has
played a very important roll
in the educational system
there.
"While still a Yeshiva student, he conceived an educational program that would
promote national unity by
bringing Orthodox and non-
Orthodox youth together for
instruction in both Judaism
and the democratic way of
life. With support from both
the Israeli-government and
American philanthropists,
he founded the Gesher move-
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state which openly supports
international terrorism and
that the U.S., "once having
begun a fight against terrorism, must continue" it "until
.it achieves results.'' ■
Maj. Gen. Dan Shoinron,
deputy chief of staff of the
IDF who commanded the
Entebbe hostage rescue
operation on July 4, 1976,
also stressed in a television
interview that the raid
proved the effectiveness of
modern U.S. air weaponry
and the ineffectiveness of
Soviet-ground-to-air missiles
with which the Libyans are
armed.
Shomron lavished praise
on the U.S. for undertaking
the strike against Libya. It
was the first time a major
power has taken action
against international terror-
ism, he said. 	
"The harm (to Libya)
doesn't lie in the damage to
houses or in the numbers
killed. The harm lies in the
damage to a ruling center.
This is the first time that, in
the context of terrorism, an
administration has been hit
and the head of that administration himself, namely
(Muammar) Qaddafi, the
ruler of Libya," Shomron
said.
Far-Reaching Significance
"The significance is far-
reaching. But it must be
borne in mind that Libya is a
unique phenomenon ... a
state whose ruler supports a
revolutionary ideology. In
fact he is involved everywhere in the world where
there is unrest and revolt,"
the IDF general said. "In
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Dr. B.B. Caplan To Be Honored
For His 50 Years As Physician
Dr. B.B. Caplan will be
honored on Saturday, April
26, at the Scioto Country
' Club for his 50 years of continuous service,as a physician and for his many
achievements throughout,
those years.
Dr. Caplan has worked as
a medical missionary in
many of the 114 countries he
visited.
Some of the 89 city, state,
national arid five international awards he has received are: the State of Ohio
Governor's Award for Hu-
manitarism; the City of Columbus Mayor's Award for
Community Service; the
American Medical Association Humanitarism Service
Award; Physician of the
Year Award presented by
the Ohio Nursing Home Association; the Project Hope
Award; Project Viet Nam
Service Award; Service
Award from both Care and
Medico; the International
Service Agencies Award;
recognition from the
Government of Bolivia fpr
immunizing 21,200 children
against Polio in Santa Cruz,
Bolivia; Flowers for the Living Award-Agudas Achim
Synagogue;   the  Myrtle
Wreath Hadassah Award in
association with Dr. Arthur
James and Dr. Robert Zollinger.
Dr. Caplan has received
the Bexley Citizen of the
Year Award and has been
nominated for the Martin
Luther  King  Award;   re-
Dr. B.B. Caplan
ceived the Multiple Sclerosis
Community Award; the Jefferson Award; the first Columbus J. C. Penny Golden
Rule Award; the first Columbus Boy Scouts of
America Service Award; the
Sanford I. Lakin B'nai B'rith
Award; awards from the
Kiwanis and the Rotarians.
Dr. Caplan also received
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REVIEW
'Shoah' Helps Viewers Come To Terms With Holocaust
By Amy Schildhouse
EDITOR'S NOTE: Shoah will.be
shown locally,at the Drexel Theatre,
MM E. Main St.. May 7 through the 32.
The May 7 Columbus premiere is
being sponsored by the Community
Relations Committee of fhe Columbus
Jewish Federation, the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center ant) the Children ol
Holocaust Survivors. Tickets for the
premiere may be purchased at the
Center, 1139 College Ave. Tickets for
other performances are available at
the Drexel.
Since its Parisian premiere last spring, Shoah,
Claude Lanzmann's powerful riine-arid-one-half-hour-
long documentary of the
Holocaust, has surprised
thousands of moviegoers the
world over. Wherever it is
shown, this imaginative, Shoah (Hebrew for "anni-
provocative film bestows hilation") differs signifi-
upon its viewers a comple-    cantly from all other film
'Treblinka was a primitive but efficient production
line of death . ..'
tcly new method of seeing —
and thus coming to terms
with—the Holocaust.
documentaries of the Holocaust in that it includes not a
single frame of archival foot
age. Gone are the familiar,
horrifying images of starved
concentration camp inmates. Gone,, too, the news-
reel clips of marching German . soldiers or the amplified sounds of Hitler's orations before Nazi rallies. In
their places, Lanzmann substitutes hours and hours of
personal interviews, culled
from 350 hours of filmed footage. He questions survivors,
former German SS officers,
Polish peasants who inhabited the villages that bordered the camps of Sobibor,
Treblinka, Chelmno and
Auschwitz, a former Polish
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