Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1986-05-15

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Three Jews Appointed
To Costa Rica's Cabinet
SAN JOSE (JTA) — The new President, Dr. Oscar Arias
Sanchez, who takes office May 15, has appointed three members of the Jewish community, all women, as Deputies to key
Cabinet offices. They are: Ophelia Rubinstein, Housing;
Sandra Pisk, Planning; and Rebecca Grynspan,( Treasury.
Wiesel Reappointed To Panel
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Elie Wiesel, author and lecturer,
will be appointed to a second term as the head of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council, the White House announced last week. The announcement, issued during President Reagan's visit to Tokyo for the economic summit, came
almost a year after Reagan visited the West German military cemetery in Bitburg where members of the Waffen SS
are buried. Wiesel decried the President's visit there.
Peres Vows To Bring Nudel 'Home'
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Shimon Peres sent a special message to Ida Nudel on the occasion of her 55th birthday in which he vowed that "we shall neither rest nor be silent until we have brought her home." Nudel, an aliya activist known as the "guardian angel" of the Soviet Jewry
movement, lives in enforced isolation in Bendery, Soviet Moldavia. She served four years of Siberian exile for publicly
campaigning for Jewish emigration rights. She herself first
applied to emigrate in 1971 to be reunited with her sister,
liana Fridman, in Israel.
Shcharansky In U.S.
For Ten-Day Visit
Betty Tieman, Heritage Village staff sculpture
liaison, admires a sculptor's construction of monumental art in the Sculpture at Heritage Village exhibition.
Sculptors Install Creations
On Heritage Village Campus
During the next few
weeks, Heritage Village residents, their family members
and friends will have the opportunity |to witness the creation of outdoor art, the outrageous and the traditional,
on the landscaped gardens of
Heritage House, Heritage
Tower and Heritage Manor.
The widespread activity is
all in preparation for the
June 1 opening of Sculpture
Rabbi Abner Weiss Selected By Hillel As
Rabbi Harry Kaplan Scholar-ln-Residence
The B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation at The Ohio
State University announces
that Rabbi Dr. Abner Weiss
is the 1986 Rabbi Harry Kaplan Scholar-in-Residence.
This annual event was initiated by friends of the late
Rabbi Harry Kaplan, who
served as director of the
O.S.U.'s Hillel from 1935 to
1969. According to Rabbi
Alan Ciner, this year's chairman, "An outstanding
scholar in Judaic studies has
been invited to our community for lectures, seminars
and discussions with students, faculty and the community."
Rabbi Weiss is currently
the rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills,
Calif. He, is from Johannesburg, South Africa. He received a graduate degree
from Bet Midrash Le-Rab-
bonim in Johannesberg and
was ordained from Yeshivat
Keren B'Yavne in Israel. Dr.
Weiss got his B.A. from the
University of Witwaters-
rand, Johannesburg by special permission of the academic senate with four full
majors in English literature,
Hebrew language and literature, world history and psychology. He received his
M.A. from Yeshiva University as well as his Ph.D. His
dissertion was "Human
Nature and Morality in the
Writings of Rabbi Loew of
Prague."
Prior  to his  duties • in
Beverly Hills,, Rabbi Weiss
Was the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, in Riverdale, N.Y., from 1977 to 1985.
From 1969-1976, he was the
chief minister of the Durban
United Hebrew Congregation in Durban, South Africa.
From 1970 to 1976, Dr. Weiss
had beeita full professor and
head of the Department of
Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
University of Natal, Durban.
He is currently an adjunct
professor of philosophy in
the Division of Jewish
Studies, Yeshiva University.
of Prague: Human Nature
and Moral Philosophy in the
Jewish Tradition." This will
be held at the Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave., at
8 p.m.
On Thursday, at noon,
there will be a brown bag
lunch with Rabbi Weiss at
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at Heritage Village, sponsored by the Heritage Village Auxiliary. -
Thiry-one sculptors have
been selected to participate
in this year's Sculpture.
Show, each of whom demonstrates exceptional diversity
in style, form and concept.
Village residents have also
shared in the excitement by
participating in a five week
series entitled "Looking at
Art," sponsored by the Heritage Village Auxiliary as an
educational preview to the
Sculpture Show.
Sculpture at Heritage Village directly benefits the
current and future residents
of Heritage Village. Not only
does the art show beautify
the Village campus, all proceeds from the sale of sculpture and the upcoming Gala
are applied to the Auxiliary's $83,000 pledge towards
the Heritage House "We Are
Their Children" Campagih.
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'Pic' Fleishman To Be Honored
At Annual JNF Blue Box Brunch
Rabbi Dr. Abner Weiss
"We are extremely fortunate to have someone of
Rabbi Dr. Weiss's caliber be
our 16th Rabbi Harry Kaplan
Scholar," says Sara
Schwartz, who is serving on
the planning committee,
"especially this year as
Hillel is reaching its 60th'
birthday."
On Wednesday, May 21,
Rabbi Weiss will deliver his
O.S.U. faculty-address on:
"The Writing of Rabbi Lowe
Meyer Hoffman, president
of the Jewish National Fund
Columbus Council, announces, "The JNF annual
Blue Box Brunch will be held
on Sunday, June 29, and we
are proud to have Morris
"Pic" Fleishman as this
year's Jewish National Fund
honoree." Hoffman continues, "This choice was a
unanimous one and was applauded by the Jewish Na-
tional«Fund Board of Directors. Pic's dedication to the
residents of the Columbus
Jewish community, Israel
and the continued education
of tradition to youth makes
him an overwhelming choice
for this honor."
Pic has been an active
member of the Jewish National Fund Columbus Council since the local office
opened in 1979. He has
served on the Executive
Board as vice president and
executive vice president and
presently serves as a member of the Advisory Board.
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Former Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly
Shcharansky arrived in the
United States last week for
the beginning of a ten-day
visit which includes a meeting with President Reagan in
Washington and an appearance at the 15th annual Solidarity Sunday rally for
Soviet Jewry here.
"I'm going to speak out
about those I left behind me
in Russia," Shcharansky.
told-reporters at a news conference after arriving at
Kennedy International Airport, referring to the more
than 20,000 Jews who have
been refused permission to
emigrate and the some
400,000 who haye begun the
emigration process and seek
. to leave the Soviet Union.
7 Shcharansky also thanked
President Reagan for helping to secure his release last
February as part of an exchange of East-West prisoners. In addition, he said he
Currently, Pic is the chairman of the Agudas Achim
membership committee and
a member of the Board of
Trustees. He also has served
Morris Fleishman
as the chairman and vice-
president of the synagogue.
He was a past president ,of
the Agudas Achim Brotherhood and presently is a
member of its Board of
Trustees. He was a recipient
of the Agudas Achim
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believed progress on the
Soviet Jewry emigration
issue can be achieved
through better U.S.-Soviet
relations.
He said the "atmosphere
of trust" needed between the
two superpowers;to facilitate
increased emigration can be
achieved by the Soviet
Union's adherence to its
human rights commitments,
such as the Helsinki Accord.
"The Helsinki Accord is a
very good example of an
agreement which was signed
but was never fulfilled in the
Soviet Union," he said.
The 38-year-old mathematician arrived ii) Israel on
Feb. 11 from the Soviet
Union, where he served nine
years of a 13-year prison sen-
tance for alleged jtreason and
anti-Soviet propaganda. His
wife Avital, 35, did not accompany him tojthe U.S. on
the advice of her doctors.
Avital is in her second month
of pregnancy,    i
Linda Harris, Randy Cooper
Named 1986 Recipients Of
Erkis/Berliner Scholarships
The recipients of this
year's Don Erkis/Lou
Berliner High School Jewish
Scholar Athlete Scholarship
Award are Linda Harris of
math team, president of the
Foreign Language Club, a
four-year Varsity field hockey and softball player, and
a two-year basketball
player. She received all-conference honors in field hoc-
Key her last three years,; as
well as team MVP those
years. She captained in all
three sports and was offered
a scholarship to the Olympic
Linda Harris
Bexley High School and
Randy Cooper of Whitehall-
Yearling High School.
Harris is active in many
scholastic and athletic endeavors. She is a member of
Quill and Scroll, co-editor of
Lamplight Literary Magazine, a member of the Bexley
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Randy Cooper
Development Camp in Field
Hockey. Harris is a member
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