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VOL.64   NO.21
MAY22.1986-IYAR13
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Former Yugoslav Nazi
Gets Death Sentence
PARIS (JTA) - Andrija
Artukovic, who was the Interior Minister of the Nazi
puppet state of Croatia
during World War II, was
last week sentenced to death
by a five-panel tribunal in
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, for his
war-time activities, according to reports here. Artu-
kovic's lawyers have 15 days
to file a written appeal of the
court decision.
The sentence was handed
down by District Judge
Miklo Gajski, culminating a
month-long trial against the
86-year-old Artukovic. He
was accused of complicity in
the murder of some 900,000
Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and
others in his post as minister
in the fascist Ustasha
government that ruled
Croatia from 1941-1945.
Artukovic has denied all
charges against him. He was
extradited from the United
States to Yugoslavia last
February after living in
California for 37 years.
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Gaston Defferre Dies At Age 75
PARIS (WNS) — Gaston. Defferre, a veteran politician
and one of Israel's oldest and staunchest friends, died here
May 7 at the age of 75, He was the mayor or Marseilles for 30
years and had been a minister in a dozen different governments. During his service in the war-time. anti-Nazi resistance movement and in all of his successive posts, Defferre,
who was not Jewish, remained an outspoken friend of the
Jewish people and of Israel. As Mayor of Marseilles, he
twinned his city with Haifa and visited that port city on more
than a dozen occasions.
Shcharansky Says Reagan Has
'Historic Opportunity' To Aid Jews
Who Want To Leave Soviet Union
Federal Court Panel Upholds Deportation
Of War Criminal
NEW YORK (JTA)—A three-judge panel in federal court
here has unanimously upheld the deportation order against
Karl Linnas, an alleged Nazi war criminal who was sentenced to death in absentia in the Soviet Union for his part in
the execution of 12,000 people, including 2,000 Jews at the
Tartu concentration camp in his native Estonia during World
War II. Linnas, 66, was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981
and was ordered deported to the Soviet Union in 1983 by the
U.S. Immigration Naturalization Service (INS). He lives in
Greenlawn, L.I. The deportation order was affirmed by the
Board of Immigration Appeals last year. Linnas took his case
to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan
where it was rejected by a 3-0 vote.
Kol Ami Community Hebrew School
To Graduate 34 Students May 27
Kol Ami, the Community
Hebrew School of Columbus,
announces it will graduate 34
members of this year's Hay
class. The Commencement
and Awards Ceremony will
be held at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Avei at 8 p.m. on tfuesday,
May 27. The graduating
students; will present a program they have planned and
prepared in honor of former
Soviet prisoner, Anatoly
Shcharansky.
All the 281 students currently enrolled in Kol Ami,
their families and friends
and the public ;are invited to
share in this occassion. Special music, dancing and refreshments will complete the
festivities.
Kol Ami's first graduates
include: Karen Steinfeld,
daughter of Mir. and Mrs.
Bruce Steinfeld; (from
Agudas Achim) Erin Janis,
daughter or Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Janis; Betsy Kaufman, daughter of Robert K.
Kaufman and Terri Schottenstein; Daniel Levinson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan
Levinson; Allan Moss, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moss;
Daniel Schottenstein, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schottenstein; Douglas Schottenstein, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Schottenstein; Julie
Solomon, daughter oft Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Solomon;
Lisa and Marni Switkin,
daughters of Rabbi and Mrs.
Sheldon Switkin; Eric Wasserman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Wassermen; Joiwind
Wasserman,  daughter  of
Nancy Wasserman; Jeffrey
Worly, son of Mrs. and Mrs.
Jay Worly.
(From Beth Tikvah) Eric
Esses, som of Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Esses; Marc Goldman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Goldman; Ashley
Koff, daughter of Dr, and
Mrs. Stephen Koff; Benjamin Levy, son of Mr. and
Mrsi Howard Levy; Michael
Lisbe, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
Berger;, Karen Sabgir;,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Sabgir.
(From Temple Israel) Suzanne Bowden, daughter of
Shelly Bowden; Teri Epstein, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Epstein; Jeffrey
Feiertag, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gil Feiertag; Matthew
Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Foster; Neil Glass,
son of Mr and Mrs. Robert
Rabbi Abner Weiss
To Speak At Hillel
On Thursday, May 22,
Rabbi Dr. Abner Weiss will
be the featured scholar at
the 16th Annual Rabbi Harry
Kaplan Scholar-ln-Residence,
Rabbi Weiss will be speaking on "Judaism Confronts
Modern Medical Technology: The Ethics of Tissue
Transplants." This community address will be held at
the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave., at 8
p.m. The community is invited to attend the evening's
program, followed by a re-
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Glass; Chad Hersh, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hersh;
Michael Kass, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frederic Kass; Robert
Levine, son of Mr. and Mrs.
David Levine; Jon Milenthal, son of Mr. and Mrs.
David Milenthal; Andrew
Rubin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Billy Rubin; Dana Sanders,
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Natan (Anatoly) Shcharansky said last week that he
told President Reagan that
he has the "historic opportunity" to bring about the
emigration of all Jews who
want to leave the Soviet
Union. ,
"The fate of 400,000 Soviet
Jews, to a great extent, is in
his (Reagan's) hands,"
Shcharansky said at a press
conference following his
more than 30-minute meeting, with Reagan at the
White House. "I am sure
that he is the President who
can reach success, who can
help make the Soviet Union
to open the gates."
Shcharansky explained
that Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, more than his
predecessors, understands
the "catastrophic situation"
of the Soviet economy and
that it needs trade with the
United States.
He said it was thus up to
the President not to be "deceived by cosmetic improvements" in human rights
while Congress must not lift
trade barriers until Jews are
allowed to emigrate. The
latter was a reference o the
Jackson/Vanik Amendment.
Thanks Reagan For His
Strong Campaign
Shcharansky arrived at
the  White  House  accom-
'A Sunday In The Park'Gala
Reservations To Close May 23
Reservations for the June
1 kickoff gala for the Sculpture at Heritage Village Exhibition will close Friday,
May 23.
The theme of the gala is
based on Seurat's painting,
"A Sunday in the Park." Its
soft pastel colors and idyllic
setting will be reproduced on
the grounds of Heritage Village with a billowing white
tent decorated in pinks and
greens. Jeff Charles of Jeff
Charles Designs, Inc., has
created novel floral arrangements using the theme
colors artistically combined
with glass. The buffet starting with hors d'oeuvres and
champagne served in the
gardens, will be prepared
under strict dietary laws by
Executive Caterers. Music
for dinner and dancing will
be provided by the Hank
Marr Trio, and strolling violinists will perform as guests
arrive to view the sculpture.
Vans will be available to
transport people to various
areas of the campus. Coprdj-
panied by Secretary of State
George Shultz. Others
attending the meeting were
yice President George Bush,
National Security Advisor
John Poindexter and White
House Chief of Staff Donald
Regan.
Shcharansky said that
after his arrival in Israel he
telephoned Reagan to thank
him for his efforts in gaining
his release after nine years
in Soviet prisons. He said he
was able to express "my
deepest gratitude"
personally.
"I am sure that my release
would never have been possible if there were not such a
strong, open campaign for
me, and if President Reagan
personally did not take such
a strong, open position on my
behalf," Scharansky told reporters outside the White
House.
The White House did not
release any details of the
meeting in keeping with its
quite diplomacy approach on
human rights. Scharansky,
who said he was "very
encouraged" by the meeting, said he was not
surprised that there should
be differences between him
and the President.
"We sit in different
chairs," he said at the press
conference. "He is the president of the United States of
America and I am previously a Prisoner of Zion
and now,' thank God, an ordinary citizen of the State of
Israel."
But he stressed to
reporters at the White House
that "quiet diplomacy, from
my point of view, can help
only if it is supported by
strong public pressure, so
that for the Soviet Union
there will be no illusions that
the question of human
rights, the question of Soviet
Jews, the question of emigration are very closely con-
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nating the entire gala are
chairwoman lime Isaac,
Betsy Kent, and Felice
Schiffman.
Sponsored by Heritage Village Auxiliary, Sculpture at
Heritage Village opens on
June 1 and will run through
Sept. 15. Marty and Pauli
Greenberg, Auxiliary Art
Committee chairpersons,
have been selected to coordinate the exhibition for the
second year. "This year's
show is even more exciting
than last year's, if that's possible," commented the
Greenbergs. "Perhaps that
is because this year we are
known. We don't have to sell
ourselves. People are
anxious to be a part of this
event."
The sculpture in this exhibition represents the work
of 31 of Ohio's most prominent artists, having been
selected from a large group
of highly competitive pieces.
A panel of jurors composed
of Jonathan W. Green, direc-
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Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, (left), D-Ohio, confers
with Anatoly Shcharansky, (center). Metzenbaum
spoke with Shcharansky May 13, during a Senate reception for the Soviet human rights activist at the U.S.
Capitol. Also pictured at right is a Shcharansky aide
and at far right, Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Arizona.
Elie Wiesel Is Guest Speaker
At Capital U. Commencement
By Judith Franklin
News Editor
"What's a nice Jewish boy
doing in a place like this?"
That's the question one
might have asked of historian and author Elie Wiesel,
who was the guest speaker at
Capital University's 125th
commencement exercises on
Sunday, May 12.
His answer: "I am surprised that a Jew such as
myself would be invited to
give the commencement address for a Lutheran college.
I wonder what Luther would
have said about it. But I am
glad to have been chosen. We
are all children from the
same father. Whatever
threats and whatever promises, we all face them together. And if we do not, then
the promise of one becomes
the threat of the other."
Wiesel, whose novels and
speeches have chronicled
the Holocaust for the world,
was not only asked to be
Capital's commencement
speaker  but  received  a
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