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VOL.64   NO. 23
JUNE5.198G-IYAU27
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals
Rabbinical Assembly
Sets Up Committee
To Rescue Falashas
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
(JTA) —The Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of
Conservative, rabbis," announced here recently that it
set up a new committee to
rescue the estimated 10,000
Jews remaining in Ethiopia
from what they said was religious intolerance, famine,
disease, forced resettlement
and separation from their
families in Ethiopia.
The 1,200 members of the
RA, attending their 86th annual convention, said they
will seek aid from the U.S.
and Israeli governments and
other countries to develop a
new "Operation Moses and
Sheba" to bring Jews out bf
Ethiopia. They urged the 850
Conservative congregations
with 1.5 million members in
the U.S. and Canada to participate in the project.
About 10,000 Ethiopian
Jews were brught to Israel in
the winter of 1984-85 in a
secret airlift from Sudan
dubbed "Operation Moses."
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Four Israelis And One American
Face Arms Smuggling Charges
Rabbi Alan Ciner Receives
Rabbinic Leadership Award
Rabbi Alan Ciner (center) is receiving the/NCSY
Rabbinic Leadership Award from Rabbi David Stavsky (right) as Jay Perler, chairman of the Agudas
Achim Youth Services Committee, looks on.
1 NEW YORK (JTA) —
Retired Israel Defense
Force Gen. Avraham Bar-
Am was arrested at Kennedy
Airport last week along with ,
three other Israelis and an
American lawyer alleged to
be involved in an illegal plan
to sell $2 billion worth of
American combat aircraft
and other weapons to Iran.
The four men had been in
Bermuda since April 21
where, according to U.S.
authorities, they went to
finalize the arms deal. They
were held in custody at U.S.
request and deported from
the British colony last May
28.
They were scheduled to
appear May 29 before a federal magistrate in MahhatT
tan. In addition to Bar-Am, a
52-year-old veteran of 30
years in the IDF, the suspects are William Northrop,
who holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship; Israel
Eisenberg and his son Guri
Eisenberg, both Israeli nationals, and Samuel Evans,
an American lawyer alleged
to have master-minded the
deal.
The five are among 17 persons of Israeli and other nationalities   who  were   ar
rested or had warrants
issued for their arrest in
April. According to Assistant
U.S. Attorney Lorna Sco-
field, 10 of the 17 are now in
custody.
U.S. Attorney Rudolph
Giuliani alleges that the suspects conspired to sell and
ship to Iran American-made
missiles, tanks, jet fighters
and military transport aircraft in defiance of the U.S.
arihs embargo on Iran. The
weapons were said to be
stored in several foreign
countries awaiting shipment.
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Prime Minister Thatcher's Visit To Israel Marked By Friendship
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher's three-day visit to
Israel was marked by genuine friendship and an
acknowledged commonality
of interests between Britain
and Israel in, many areas.
,!But?it also-underlined .sharp
differences of opinion with
respect to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip and ways to resolve the Palestinian issue.
The visit, the first to Israel
by an incumbent British
Prime Minister, ended last
..week.,with,all the pomp and
circumstance befitting such
an occasion. It reflected not
only the demands of protocol
but a feeling on both sides
that, all-in-all, the visit was
successful and that Thatcher
and Premier Shimon Peres
had achieved a personal rapport.
Paradoxically,   Thatcher,
known as the "Iron Lady"
for her uncompromising conservative positions in international affairs, elicited a
more positive response from
Israeli doves than from its
hawks in her comments on
regional political matters.
. When she said that most of
her Israeli interlocutors had
agreed with her that the continued military occupation of
Arab populated territories
was not in Israel's own interests, she mentioned
Peres, Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and Abba
Eban, the former Foreign
Minister   who   chairs   the
Knesset's powerful Foreign
Affairs and Security Committee.
She pointedly omitted
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, the leader of Likud,
who will replace Peres as
Premier when the rotation of
power agreement goes into
effect next October.
Thatcher conceded there
was no "clear or agreed
route" toward a peace settle-
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Governor Celeste Creates
Holocaust Education Council
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The Victor Weinstein Shalom House for mentally re-,
tarded/developmentally disabled adults is under construction on the Jewish Community Campus on College
Ave. Photo by Lee Schulman.
Jewish Family Service To Open
Victor Weinstein Shalom House
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center's
Annual Meeting Set For June 9
Columbus is once again
leading the way in providing
an innovative, one-of-a-kind
service to the community,
according to David Small of
Jewish Family Service. Construction of the Victor Weinstein Shalom House, on the
Jewish Community Campus
on College Ave. is now in
progress and will be completed late this summer.
Small has been named
director of Shalom House.
A concerted effort is now
being made to identify all
handicapped members of the
community who are eligible
for and in need of the services Shalom House will provide, Small explained.
. Under the auspices of Jewish Family Service, the
home will offer residential
and program services to 13
mentally retarded/develop-
. mentally) disabled" adults'.^
respite residence will also be
available for emergency or
other short-term use.
The home is one of the first
of its type in the U.S. to be
operated under the auspices
of a. Jewish Family Service
Agency. The project's name
honors a member of the Columbus Jewish community.
Features of Shalom House
will include the maintenance
of kashrut; the teaching of
Jewish values; the observance of Shabbat and the
celebration of other Jewish'
holy days, customs and rk
tuals.
All residents will receive a
professional, comprehensive
assessment to determine
their medical, social, psychological, , communication
and educational needs. A
qualified professional team
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All members of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center are
invited to attend the Center's
annual meeting on Monday,
June 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Center's Roth/Resler Theatre.
The theme for the event is
"An Evening with the Stars
—Part II." Featured will be
awards presentations;
honoring of outstanding
volunteers, and a gourmet
dessert bar. Similar to Oscars, Emmys or Tonys, the
Center will present its "Leo"
awards for outstanding service at the Center, including
the Continuous Dedication
Award; Koach Leadership
Award; Mitzvah Volunteer
Award; David Goldsmith
Kavod Gadol Teen Leadership Award, and the Rabbi
Nathan Gaynor Jewish Cultural Award.
In addition, eight outstanding programs will be cited
and this year's Don
Erkis/Lou Berliner High
School Jewish Scholar/Athlete winners will be honored,
as will all Center volunteers,
including a "Volunteer of the
Year" in each of the Center's
programming 'depar£nl<iiitij6
Chairpersons for the event
are Ina Sue Rosenthal and
Dr. Jeff Tilson.
The Board of Trustees for
1986-87 will be installed at
the meeting. Chairman of
the Nominating Committee,
Michael Talis, announces
the proposed slate of officers
includes Dr. Al Tyroler,
president; Ruth Ann Blank,
vice president; Ted Fisher,
vice president; Harvey
Handler, vice president;
David Milenthal, vice president; Dr. Al Herstig,
treasurer, and Ann Roth,
secretary.
Re-elected for a three-year
term as members of the
board are Jackie Benis, Nate
Gordon, Elsie Krause, Melvin Schottenstein and
William Schottenstein.
New board members
nominated for a three-year
term are Jody Altschule,
Brett Avner, Jeff Coopersmith, Geraldine Ellman,
Carole Genshaft, Ken Gilman, Rob Knable and Bea
Roth. Nominated for a one-
year term will be Fred
Luper.
Seating for the meeting is
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Governor Richard F. Celeste recently signed an
executive order creating the
Ohio Council on Holocaust
Education. The Council will
look at present efforts by
school systems to teach children about the Holocaust
and recommend a Holocaust
curriculum that can be used
by Ohio schools.
The Governor made the
announcement at the Annual
Holocaust Memorial Service, the fifth one to be held
in the Statehouse Rotunda.
"The Council is a natural
outgrowth of these ceremonies at the Statehouse,"
the Governor said. "It is a
means of ensuring that we
always remember, while
teaching our future generations non-violent means of
resolving conflict."
The Council will be
chaired by Dagmar Celeste
and Max Friedman, past
president of the Cleveland
Jewish Community Center
and member of the board of
the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation.
In addition to reviewing
available Holocaust curriculum in Ohio and other
states and making recommendations, the Council will
help develop teacher training seminars on the Holocaust and coordinate these
efforts with those already
working in the area of Holocaust education in Ohio.
Members will be selected
for their knowledge regarding .both''{tie $6fo<&U£h'and'
the field of education. The
Council will remain in existence until Aug. 15, 1987. It
will submit a report of its recommendations and findings
to the Governor— both in the
form of an interim report in
Jan. 1987, and a final report
in Aug? 19871
Gayle Bloom Is
'Teacher Ot Year'
At its May 27 graduation
ceremony, Kol Ami, the
Community Hebrew School
of Columbus, presented its
first "Teacher of the Year"
Gayle Bloom
award in honor of one of the
school's founders, the late
Frayda Turkel. Recipient of
the award, Gayle Bloom,
taught bet classes at Kol
Ami's Agudas Achim and
Temple Israel branches this
year. '
In presenting the award
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