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THE OHIO JEWISH CHRONICLE
NEW YEAR EDITION
SEPTEMBER 29,1986
FEATURING:
■ The Jewish Epicure—a special feature section about how
to plan the perfect party and what and where to eat in
Columbus
■ Short Stories by Local Authors
■ The Annual, updated Guide to the Jewish community
■ organization Annual Reports
■ Pictorial and Chronological Highlights of the Past Year
■ New Year Greetings to the Community
■ The New OJC Community Calendar
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Community College For Adult Jewish Studies
Announces Schedule Of Fall Semester Classes
Where can a person study
with four different rabbis
and more than a dozen other
outstanding educators; daytime or nighttime, three
days a week?
Nowhere in Columbus —
except the Community
College for Adult Jewish Studies!
Beginning its third year in
full swing, the award-winning Community College, a
cooperative effort of 15 local
organizations, brings all segments of the community together i'to Begin or to further
their Jewish education as
adults. ,
In addition to all levels of
Hebrew language' instruction and textual study, the
upcoming semester will
offer many new classes,
including the introduction of
several daytime classes.
Most classes are scheduled to begin the week of
Sept, 21 and are housed in
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center, 1125 College Ave. '
Classes will include:, "The
Russian Jewish Community," taught by Eve Levin,
assistant professor, OSU
Department of History;,
"Celebrities in American
Jewish History, 1654 to the
Present," taught by Bette
Roth, a Ph.D. candidate,
University of Michigan, with
specialty in American Jewish History; "So You Want
To Go To Israel.,. .■.," instructed by Zilla Loon, who
holds an M.A. in adult education and teaches Hebrew,
Contemporary Israel at OSU
and "The Book of Samuel,
Continued," led by Dr. Irving Fried, principal, Columbus Torah Academy.
Classes will also be led by
local rabbis Harold Berman
(Congregation Tifereth Israel); Chaim Capland
(House of Tradition); Alan
Ciner (Agudas Achim Synagogue), and David Stavsky
(Beth Jacob Congregation).
The fall semester Hebrew
faculty includes Orly Eldar,
an art and language specialist who taught in the Israeli
Defense Services; Esther
Javetz, a Ph.D. candidate in
instructional design and
technology and graduate
teaching assistant in Hebrew
at OSU; Zilla Loon, and David Salczer, who holds a
Ph.D. in foreign language
education and teaches -Hebrew extensively in Columbus.
The   Melton   Center   for
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JERUSALEM: Premier
Shimon Peres' surprise two-
day visit to Morocco which
ended last week apparently
amounted to little more than
a frank exchange of views on
the Middle East between the
Israeli leader and his host,
King Hassan II.
But that in itself was regarded by many observers
as an accomplishment, as
was the joint communique
published simultaneously in
Jerusalem and Rabat which
made clear, politely, that the
two leaders could rieach no
agreement. But-the possibility was held out fort further
contacts in the future.
"I don't think anyone expected that in one meeting
we would reach agreement
on all subjects," Peres told
reporters after his arrival at
Ben Gurion Airport. He
added, "It certainly contributes to speeding up the
peace process."
The joint communique described the meeting as "of a
. purely exploratory nature,
aiming at no moment at engaging in negotiations." It
outlined in general terms the
positions of Hassan and
Peres.
The Moroccan ruler, who
is chairman of the Arab
League, urged Middle East
peace on the basis of the resolutions adopted at the Arab
League summit conference
of September 1982 at Fez,
Morocco, which called for Israel's total withdrawal from
the occupied Arab territories, negotiations with the
Palestine Liberation Organization and the creation of a
Palestinian state.
Peres! informed  the
monarch that those terms
are unacceptable to Israel.
According to the communique, "Peres clarified his
observations on the Fez
plan, putting forth propositions pertaining to conditions
he deems necessary for the
installation of peace." The
communique did not elaborate;
Hassan-Israel Connection
nity, was elected to the
Moroccan parliament.
Shimon Levy of Casablanca
hs been repeatedly reelected
as a member of the city
council. And David Amar,
president of the Moroccan
Jewish community since
1956, is a close confidant of
the King.
By Harry Milkman
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Harry Milkman
is the Middle East research analyst in
the International relations department
of the American Jewish Comrjiittee.)
NEW YORK (JTA)-King
Hassan II of Morocco
ascended to the throne on
March 3, 1961, following the
death of his father during
routine surgery. He has been
educated in France, received a law degree in Bordeaux and is considered
thoroughly Westernized, although, like his fellow
Moroccans, he desires to
assert an authentic Arab
identity.
Like his predecessors of
the Alawi dynasty, he has always accorded his nation's
Jewish.minority .the.fullest
measure of tolerance and
equality. In 1985, Jo Ohanna,
a Jew from Meknes, a city
that has no Jewish commu-
'One Woman Show1 To Highlight
Israel Conference On Sept. 10
Melvin L Schottenstein Elected
Chairman of Agudas Achim Board
Melvin L. Schottenstein
was elected chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the '
Agudas Achim Synagogue at
a meeting of the Board following the Annual Meeting
of the-Congregation. Leslie
H. Wexner was reelected as
vice chairman of the board.
Schottenstein is the president of Schottenstein, Zox
and Dunn. He has served on
the Board of Trustees of numerous organizations. He is
the immediate past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Columbus Area
Chamber of Commerce. Bernard K. Yenkin, immediate
past chairman of the board,
announced that the Agudas
Achim looks forward to the
quality of leadership that
Schottenstein will bring to
the synagogue.
Elected to the Board of
Holly S.
Knable,
stein, Dr.
Kastan, Marilyn
Sanford Lichten-
Joseph Schlonsky,
Trustees at the Annual Meet-
Yiddisli and  Culture, of    ing were: Michael Goldberg,
Melvin Schottenstein
William Schottenstein, Ellen
Siegel, David Spialter and
Bernard K. Yenkin.
Continuing member of the
Board of Trustees are:
Randall Arndt, Robert Feldman,  Morris  Fleishman,
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Tamir, in a "One-Woman
Show," will be the feature of
the 1986 Israel Conference, a
program of the Columbus
Jewish Federation's Israel
Department. The Conference will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Roth/Resler Theatre of
the Leo Yassenoff Jewsih
Center.
An actress and a dancer,
Tamir, takes the audience on
a journey through Israel's
human landscape as she
transforms on stage into six
diverse characters: a Zionist
farmer, a religious Zealot, a
Catholic nun, an Israeli
right-wing extremist, a
Palestinian Arab and a Roumanian immigrant. These
characters raise questions of
universal human concern
while at the same time
examining Jewish identity
and the essence of life in Israel. This is not a manicured
presentation of Israel but
rather an examination of the
fundamental issues of the
country's existence.
The show is an adaptation
of the book In the Land of Israel, by Amos Oz, which portrays his country (through
conversations. From these
conversations, the actress
Tamir has recreated a portrayal of the characters. '
A panel discussion will fol
low,   focusing   on  issues
raised by the show. Panelists
Tamir
will be an Israeli sociology
professor, an Israeli Arab,
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Upon assuming power,
Hassan, legalized the emigration bf Moroccan Jews to
Israel. The organizational
requirements of Jewish emigration created a framework
of contacts between Moroccan and Israeli authorities,
as well as a climate of trust
conducive to cooperation in
other fields of central importance to Morocco.
The King has periodically
called for a fusion of "Jewish
genius and Arab might" in
order to accelerate the development of North Africa.
In addition, since 1975
Morocco has received un-
publicized Israeli aid in
fighting the Algerian-supported Polisario guerrillas in
the western Sahara.
Two Assassination Attempts
Libyan-backed terrorists
attempted to assassinate
Hassan in July 1971 and
again in August 1972. In the
summer of 1977, Israeli intelligence services discovered ;■
a Libyan plot to assassinate
. Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat. King Hassan arranged a meeting in Casablanca between the Israeli
and Egyptian intelligence
chiefs in which the plot by
Libyan leader Muammar
Quaddafi was revealed.
Sadat's rection was two-
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Beth Tikvah Celebrating
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago a
handful of families living on
the north side of Columbus
decided to form a new congregation, Beth Tikvah.
Today, the congregation
(now at 6121 Olentangy
River Rd.) has 266 families,
a Religious School with 240
children and plans for commemorative events throughout 1986-87.
On Saturday night, Sept.
13, the Kleveland Klezmorim
will perform at the synagogue to kick off the celebration. Admission will be free,
and the concert will be open
to the public.
Other events planned are
an art exhibit, a winter
forum, a spring family
gathering and special Sisterhood activities. From scrap-
books, pictures and old bulletins, a history of the congre-
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