Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1986-08-14

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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over to Years
VOL.64   NO.34
AUGUST14.1986-AV9
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Jewish Sites
To Be Restored
In E. Germany
EAST BERLIN (JTA) -
Official East German media
outlets have publicized restoration efforts for a former
synagogue and a Jewish
cemetery ravaged by the
Nazis in the late 1930s, the
World Jewish Congress reported here.
The East German News
Agency said the synagogue
on Berlin's Orienburger
Street, which was set on fire
by the Nazis during the Kris-
tallnacht anti-Jewish rampage of 1938, is to be rebuilt
on the basis of the existing
structure. The reconstruction project is to be in line
with the original building.
The press department of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported the reopening
last month of the Adas
Yisroel cemetery in Berlin.
"Members of the Jewish
communities in the German
Democratic Republic and
descendants of members of
this community, blotted out
by the Nazis in 1939, from the
Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great* Britain, Israel, Sweden,?.
Switzerland, the United
States and West Berlin took
part in the ceremony," the
Foreign Ministry said.
A memorial stone was in-
naugurated bearing the
names of Jews killed in concentration camps whose
urns were installed in the
cemetery between 1939 and
1942. The Foreign Ministry
also said that the day's ceremonies included the unveiling of a commemorative
plaque on a building situated
in East Berlin where there
had been a community center, a synagogue and a rabbinical seminary of the Adas
Yisroel Congregation.
Shcharansky Says His Family
Will Be Allowed To Leave USSR Soon
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Anatoly (Natan) Shcharansky says
his family will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union in about
two weeks. In an interview Aug; 3 on Israel Radio, Shcharansky said he had spoken by telephone to his mother, Ida Milgrom, and she, her voice choked with tears, had told him she
was being allowed to join him in Israel together with his
brother, Leonid, and his family. He said he believed the permits had been issued as a result of pressure in the West. And,
reacting to the reports of imminent consular talks between
the USSR and Israel, Shcharansky warned against hasty
establishment of such ties. He urged that any ties be made
conditional on easing emigration restrictions."',
Vice President Bush Optimistic
About Peace In Middle East
Long-Term Refusenik Arrives in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — Aleksandr Kushnir, 38, a refusenik
since 1977, has been reunited with his family in Israel, after
13 years' separation, according to the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry. His mother, Rachel, and his brother, Efim,
have been in Israel since 1973, where his grandparents live.
His father, Semyon, was killed in a tragic work accident in
Odessa in 1970, at the age of 42. Aleksandr, a construction engineer, studied nights and worked as a porter to support himself while living alone in Odessa. Having served in the Soviet
Navy, he waited the customary five years from his demobilization to apply. However, since his application, he lived
under constant threat of arrest. He could not find work in his
profession and was forced to work as a building technician in
. a small town near Odessa.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Vice President George Bush
said last week that he has returned from his ten-day trip
to fhe Middle East with a
"more optimistic feeling"
about the prospects for
peace in the region.
Bush said this feeling was
based on the talks he had in
Israel, Jordan and Egypt; on
the agreement by the
leaders of those three countries to a statement of five
common goals for negotiations, and what he called Israeli Premier Shimon Peres'
"historic and courageous"
trip to Morocco for a meeting with King Hassan II.
The Vice President discussed his Mideast trip at a
press conference with seven
American Jewish and Israeli
journalists in his White
House off ice.
Although Bush was accompanied in Israel by a video
camera crew to film his visit
for use in his upcoming campaign for the Presidency, he
Jewish Calendar For Central Ohio
Unveiled By 'Chronicle' Publisher
By Judith Franklin
News Editor
Chronicle publisher Milton
J. Pinsky recently unveiled
plans for a Jewish calendar
specifically designed for the
Central Ohio area.
The calendar, which will,
contain all important Jewish
and secular dates, will also
list the dates of major events
of local Jewish organizations. "We have contacted
Norman Traeger Is Appointed
"The 1987 Campaign plans
are underway and our community can anticipate a vigorous and successful 1987
Campaign," said Norman
Traeger, the 1987 General
Campaign chairman of the
Columbus Jewish Federation. When the announcement of Traeger's appointment was made by Miriam
Yenkin, Federation president, Yenkin called Traeger
"a doer and a visionary with
a drive and commitment
that will cpntinue to build on
Columbus' extraordinary
1986 achievement ($5,651,766
— exceeding the $5.4 million
goal) and the ever-increas*
ing challenge of meeting the
needs of Columbus and
worldwide Jewry."
Traeger sees joy and a
cause for celebration in the
giving of Tzedakah. "It is
just incredible how we in Co-
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lumbus have the opportunity
to make an impact on so
many millions of lives," he
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representatives of all organizations, synagogues and
agencies, and they have
been most co-operative in
providing us with the dates
of their upcoming events,"
Pinsky noted. "Many have
also agreed to distribute a
business reply card to their
members, which when filled
out and mailed in will enable
us to send any non-subscriber a free calendar and a
two-month complimentary
subscription to the Chronicle. This gives lis the opportunity to make the calendar
easily available to the entire
community. Our goal is to
have an OJC Jewish Community Calendar in every
Jewish home in Columbus."
Chronicle subscribers
need not fill out a card, Pinsky added. They will receive
the calendar along with the
f OJC New Year Edition,
' which will be mailed around
Sept. 29.
Sponsors of the calendar,
in addition to the Chronicle,
include Saint Anthony Medical Center, Epstein Memorial Chapel and the Columbus Jewish Federation.
"These community-minded
sponsors have helped to
make it possible for us to
provide this calendar to the
community absolutely free,"
Pinsky said.
Calendar illustrations
highlight the Federation's
60th Anniversary through
the use of pictures from the
files of the Columbus Jewish.
Historical Society. "The.pic-
tures selected for the calendar represent a wide cross-
section of individuals involved in an. equally wide
variety of activities," noted
Sandi Dubin, Federation director of communications,
"and all are in some way
connected with the Federation as a community-building organization." Calendar
planners felt that people
would enjoy trying to identify their friends and acquaintances in the pictures,
she explained. '
The calendar will be at-,
tractively designed in two
colors Pinsky said and suggested it be used as a handy
wall or desk planner. "We
are happy to be providing
this service for the community and hope that everyone
enjoys using this unique
Jewish community calendar
as much as we enjoyed putting it all together," he concluded.
West Point Chapel
Receives Award
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
The West Point Jewish Chapel has received a significant honor, the United States
Department of Defense's
"1986 Award for Design
Excellence."
The  Chapel's  architect,
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denied that his Mideast trip
was political. He maintained
he went to the Mideast to advance United States foreign
policy. "Anything I do
domestically" or in foreign
affairs "is put in a '88 context," he said. He added that
if the trip helps his political
prospects, then "great." 1
Encouraged By Talks
.With Peres-
Biish spoke glowingly of
his meetings with Peres. "I
am just more convinced than
ever of his determination to
try to move the peace process forward," the Vice
President said. He said he
did not feel this would
change when Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir becomes Premier in October.
"I felt convinced when he
(Shamir) told me he really
wanted things to move forward," Bush said.
However, Bush added that
.there were domestic problems in Israel which he saw
.when he met with the. Knes;
set Foreign Affairs arid
Security Committee arid witnessed the : differences between Labor and Likud. He
did not elaborate.
Bush said the statement of
common goals, which he
read before leaving Cairo,
was first brought up in Jor
dan and then agreed to by Is-
rael and Egypt after
negotiating changes. Peres,
. King Hussein of Jordan and
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak all agreed to the
five points listed.
The first goal is that "a
just and lasting peace is essential, urgent and can only
be reached through negotiations." The second goal is
that "negotiations should
produce peace treaties
between the parties based on
the recognition of the right of
all states and peoples in the
region to a life of peace and
security."
The third goal said that
"Negotiations must take into
account the security needs of
Israel, the security needs'of •
all other states in the region
and the aspirations of the
Palestinian people." Negotiations to resolve the
Palestinian problem within
"the context of a" relationship between Jordan, the
West Bank and Gaza" was
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U.S. believes '"far tne importance of face-tc-face negotiations. We recognize that direct negotiations may involve the framework of an
international conference or
forum structured in such a
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Laura Sussman Named Director
Of Health, Phys. Ed. Department
At Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center, 1125 College Ave.,
announces that Laura A.
Sussman has been named to
the position of director of the
Center's Health and Physical Education Department,
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Formerly associate director of the department, Sussman most recently was its
acting director.
1 "We are excited that
Laura is the first woman
physical education director
at a major Jewish Center in
the country," says Dr. Al Tyroler, president of the Center. "We are proud of
Laura's achievements iri the
field. Laura has been a
member of our staff for
seven years, and she has
demonstrated her leadership
ability,"
Sussman will oversee the
health and physical education area of the Center, including the new wellness
program with the Saint Anthony Medical Center, and
will also be developing many
new areas bf programming.
•V "In addition to keeping our
competitive leagues strong,
we hope to develop other new
areas of interest, such as
wellness, outdoor pursuit activities arid individualized
fitness. We want to provide
more of the services bur
members are looking for.
We're also looking for increased involvement with
our committees as well as
more volunteer participation," Sussman says.
Sussman  initiated  the
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