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VOL. 64   NO. 43      ~ ~J~
OCTOBER 16,1986-TISHREI13
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toil Ambassador Benjamin Varon
To Speak Oct. 25 At Agudas Achim
Ambassador Benjamin
Varon of Israel will speak at
the Shemini Atzereth Service, Oct. 25, at Agudas
Achim on behalf of the State
of Israel Bond Drive.
Ambassador Varon, currently a professor of history
and modern language at
Boston University, was born
in Austria. Three months
prior to his receiving a medical degree, Austria was annexed by Hitler and he was
forced to flee. He managed
to reach Ecuador. By
mid-1940, he was "one of
Latin America's most widely
read columnists" according
to the New York Times.'
In 1946, he was invited to
join the political effort of the
Jewish Agency in favor of a
Jewish state. The Encyclopedia Judaica credits him
and a colleague with swinging the decisive Latin American vote towards the Palestine Partition Resolution of
UN, which led to the establishment of Israel. From
New York and later from
Jerusalem, he directed Israel's information services
and cultural relations with
Latin America, Spain and
Portugal. In 1964, he was appointed the first Israeli ambassador to the Dominican
Republic. In 1966, he became
ambassador to Jamaica. As
Paraguay, in 1968, joined the
Security Council of the UN,
Ambassador Varon established an Israeli Embassy in
Asuncion, where in 1970 he
Pro-Summit Meeting Focuses On Soviet Jewry
Four Inductees To Be Honored
Af Sports Hall Of Fame Brunch
On Sunday, Nov. 9, At Center
Four inductees will be
honored at this year's Hall of
Fame program slated for
Sunday, Nov. 9, at 1 p.m. at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center. They include Meyer
Kravitz, Jeff Nacht, Zalman
Rosenfeld and Sigmund
Munster.
Meyer Kravitz (1913-1974)
was involved in handball for
many years. He won a number of tournaments, including the 1960 City Handball
Double Championships.
Kravitz was also instrumental in the formation of a
city-wide handball league
and in bowling, baseball,
basketball and softball.
Jeff Nacht was a diversified athlete. He played tennis, football and baseball
while at Bexley High School
from 1953-1957. Nacht was
selected all Central Buckeye
League in football and baseball his senior and junior
years, as well as All-State in
baseball his senior year. At
the age of 13, Nacht was one
of two catchers selected to
try out for the St. Louis Cardinals* Farm Club. He was
also very active with the
United Jewish Fund.
Zalman Rosenfeld (1914-
1986) won varsity letters in
football, basketball, baseball, swimming, track and
tennis at East High School
for 1930-1932; His most recognized accomplishments were
in the boxing arena. Rosenfeld was the Golden Gloves
Welterweight Boxing Champion of Columbus from
1933-35, as well as the AAU
and American Legion State
Boxing Champion in 1935,
His lifelong interest and participation in athletics were
evfdeh'cea^by'-his >1nV0lveA'
ment in the Jewish Center's
softball and basketball
leagues between 1949-1985.'
Sigmund Munster won 12
varsity letters at Columbus
Academy. He was All
League in football, basketball, and baseball in 1953-
1954. Munster played baseball at Ohio State and was
honorable mention All Big
Ten in 1957. He also enjoyed
recreational basketball,
baseball and softball. Minister's support for the Jewish
Center and its Physical Education Department has been
shown by his being a major
sponsor of the Annual
"Sports Spectacular" program.
The community is invited
to join the committee in
honoring these men at the
Awards Brunch, the eighth
annual "Hall of Fame" program at the Center.
Local Community Leaders Meet
With Secretary Of State Schultz
Benjamin Varon
escaped the bullets of an assassination attempt. He also
served as a member of Israel's Delegation to the UN.
While studying medicine
in Vienna, he supported himself as an entertainer. A poet
in German, he published his
first novel in Spanish, three
years after his arrival in
Quito. In 1970, he had a bestseller   in   Spanish,   Si   Yo
Fuera   Paraguayo,   which
was quoted in Reader's Digest. Vie has since contributed to scores of journals, including Commentary, Midstream and general and Jewish periodicals as well as
such newspapers as the New
York Times, The Christian
Science  Monitor  and "the
Boston Globe.
Secretary of State George
C. Shultz met with 400
American Jewish leaders on
Oct. 8 to discuss the administration position on Soviet
Jewry before leaving with
President Reagan for the
"mini-" summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Columbus Jewish  Federation  President
Miriam Yenkin; Community
Relations Committee
(CRC.) Chairman Dr. Jeffrey Tilson; Marilyn Skilken,
Past Women's Division
chairwoman, and Karen
Moss, of the C.R.C. cabinet,
participated in the day of
Washington meetings and
strategy talks with politi-
Pictured in Washington D.C, with Morris Abram
(second from left), chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, are Columbus Jewish Federation leaders (1. to r.) Karen Moss; Miriam Yenkin,
president; MarilyrifSkilken? and Dr. Jeffrey Tilson,
chairmaribf the Community Relations Committee.
cians and other public figures.
Dr. Tilson explained,
"Shultz forcefully told us,
'Without human rights there
can be no peace.' The significance of the meeting is that
the Secretary of State publicly signaled the importance with which the administration views human rights
in general and Soviet Jewry
in particular. Although we,
received private assurances
before the Geneva Summit,
no such public meeting took
place to underscore the
President's position."
These meetings brought
together Federations and
C.R.C.s from across the
country with the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
the Council of Jewish Federations, the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council, the Conference
of Presidents of major Jewish organizations and the
United Jewish Appeal.
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Ohio Secretary Of State To Speak At OSU On Plight Of Soviet Jewry
Ohio Secretary of State
Sherrod Brown will speak to
OSU students and faculty on
the plight of Soviet Jewry on
Wednesday, Oct. 22. He will
speak at the Ohio Union Terrace Lounge on the Ohio
State University Campus at
4 p.m.
Brown recently returned
from a trip to the Soviet
Union with 32 other business
and professional people. According to Brown, the trip
"perhaps most importantly,
brought home (to me) again
and again how precious
America's freedoms are,
especially the right to practice one's religion ..; nowhere was that more evident
than in the plight of Soviet
Jewish refuseniks."
Ohio's forty-sixth secretary of state is most widely
known for his leadership in
what the Washington Post
termed in a front page story,
"probably the most intensive and wide ranging voter
registration program in the
nation." Through this program in 1984, Brown signed
Cohn Appointed
To Task Force
Gerald N. Cohn, executive
vice president of Heritage
Village, has been appointed
a member of the National
Alzheimer Disease Task
Force of the American Association of Homes for the
Aging.
The appointment took
place at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the National Association representing over 2300 Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish not for
profit homes, housing and
services for the aged.
At the conference held in
New York City, Cohn, a past
president of the National As-
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'You shall live in booths seven days; all that are Israelite born
shall dwell in booths; that your generations may know that I made
the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt...' (Lev. 23:42-43)
SUKKOT* 5747
Begins Friday evening, October 17, al sundown
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up 800,000 new voters. At
present, he is working with
the General Assembly to
enact finance reform laws.
Brown's past political experience includes membership
in the General Assembly and
a four time member of the
Ohio House of Representatives.
Brown's talk is sponsored
by the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry of the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation. The
group presents educational
programs on behalf of Jews
in the Soviet Union who are
denied their religious freedom and cannot act for
themselves.
For more information call
SSSJ Co-chairs Sharon Eiser
or Becky Galerston at
294-4797.
Sukkot Celebration
Set For October 16
The entire community is
invited to the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, Thursday,
Oct. 16, to help decorate the
Sukkah and enjoy music,
dancing and refreshments.
The most joyous festival of
the fall holidays is Sukkot,
and the most prominent feature of celebrating this holiday is building and decorating the Sukkah.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m. a
light dinner will be provided
for a fee of $3 for Center
members, $4,50 for non-
members and $2 for children
12 and under. AU dinner par-
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