Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1986-11-27

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NOVEMBER 27,1986-CHESHVAN 25
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Teaching Catholicism In Public Schools
Is Disturbing Issue For Italian Jewry
ROME (JTA) - The
Quadrennial Congress of the
Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UIJC) is focussing
on what is perhaps the most
disturbing issue for Italian
Jewry since the last Congress four years ago — the
teaching of the Catholic religion in the Italian school
, system.
Classes on Catholicism at
all grade levels were introduced as a result of the 1985
accord between the Educa-
Federation Campaign Breaks $5 Million
The 1987 United Jewish
Fund Campaign total has
reached $5 million. "We can
be proud," said Norman
Traeger, 1987 General Campaign chairman, "of the
leadership and our Jewish
community — a community
that recognizes the responsibility that we have to providing a quality Jewish life for
our families in Columbus
and our brothers and sisters
in Israel and around the
world."
Traeger explained that the
$5 million raised since the
Campaign Opening on Aug.
25 "will position us well, if
we receive total community
support, to reach our goal of
$6.2 million. Our leadership
and workers are committed
'as one' to working to
achieve our goal. The pace is
set but it's going to take
everyone to help us reach the
top. The ten weeks until our_
Campaign Closing in February will be very decisive."
Norman Traeger
The Campaign provides
funds for Jewish education,
help for young people or,
families in crisis, program-
, When Temple Israel
Sisterhood and the Columbus
Section, National Council of,
Jewish Women, meet
together next Tuesday,
Dec. 2, to hear Dr. Ruth
Gruber, it will mark a
historic meeting of two of the
oldest Jewish women's
organizations, in the git}
Council, Temple Israel Sisterhood
To Hold Joint Meeting On Tuesday
meeting, and their first project was to buy an organ for
the Temple, which they accomplished in 1904. They are
still using the organ, in their
present-day Temple at 5419
E. Broad St. Now known as
the Rose E. Lazarus
Sisterhood, to honor one of
its founding members and
past presidents, the local
Sisterhood became a founding member of the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913,
Co-presidents of Sisterhood this year are Elaine
Tenenbaum and Mary Warren. Vice presidents are
Alma Covitz and Tussy
Shnider. In charge of the luncheon meeting are Sandy
Summer and Marie
dayman. Program chairwomen are Marilyn Ogg and
Becky Palmer.. Cheli Lef-
man is handling decorations,
and Alma Covitz is in charge
of publicity for the meeting,
Council of Jewish Women
ming and care for seniors.
Local  agencies  and  programs  supported  by  the
Campaign are: B'nai B'rith
Hillel (Ohio State and Ohio
Universities),   Columbus
Jewish • Historical  Society,
Columbus Torah Academy,
Government  Affairs  Committee of Ohio Jewish Communities,  Heritage House,
Jewish  Community  Blood
Doribf Council, Jewish Community High School, Jewish ■■■
Education Committee, Jewish Family Service, | Jewish
Student  Higher   Education
Loan  Program,   Jewish
Teacher  Resource  Center,
Kol Ami Community Hebrew
School   of  Columbus, • Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center and
Tifereth   Israel   Weekday
School.
"In addition to local agencies and programs, our fund-
raising arm stretches to Israel, 'the light unto the nations,' the Jews from Ethiopia; the Soviet Union; Arab
lands; North Africa, and to
other lands of distress as
well as Eastern European
countries where Jews are
unable to emigrate," added
Traeger.
The annual United Jewish
Fund Campaign supports
over 50 humanitarian programs and services in
Columbus, the. U.S., Israel
and in 33 countries around
the world.
num Longer!
Temple Israel Sisterhood
began in 1890 as the Hebrew
Ladies Aid Society. Members »paid., dues, of ,i,o,«, per
tion Ministry and the
Catholic Episcopal Conference. While they are voluntary, there is no feasible
alternative for the very
small minority of Jewish and
other children who do not
want to participate.
The problem was high on
the agenda of a three-day
conference attended by delegates from the Jewish communities of Rome, Milan,
Turin, Florence, Naples,
Venice and many smaller
cities all over Italy. Youngsters from the Italian Jewish
Youth Federation handed
out pamphlets at the entrance to the Palazzo Bar-
berini, where the conference
was taking place, calling for
repeal of the 1985 accords.
The UIJC has compiled
numerous case histories
testifying to the ill-effects of
the new law on norirCatholic
children, particularly in nursery and kindergarten. It is
especially alienating for
Jewish children who cannot,
Torah Academy's
Scholarship Dinner
One Week Away
Just one week remains
until Columbus Torah
Academy's 26th Annual
Scholarship Dinner, and reservations can still be made.
The dinner will take place
. on  Sunday,   Dec.  7,   at
5:30 p.m.  at  the Radisson
HoteL
At least 500 guests are expected at the dinner, which
according to chairman Jay
Schottenstein, will be a delectable fun-filled evening,
with everything from three
rooms of hors d'oeuvres to
comedian Gabe Kaplan as
the entertainment. The evening will end with a Viennese
sweet table.
For reservations and information call Judy Hessing
at 235-3028 or Torah Academy at 864-0299.
at their age, understand why
they must be separated from
their friends while Catholic
ideology is taught, the UIJC
points out.
Vittorio Ottolenghi, one of
the four Jewish representatives on the eight-member
"Mixed Commission" (government and UIJC) which is
charged with revising and
updating the 1930 treaty between the UIJC and the
Italian state, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
there is hope the present law
may be suspended.immediately and revised within two-
Palestinians May Be Moving Away From PLO
WASHINGTON (JTA) ~
Gen. Ephraim Sneh, the
civilian administrator of the
West Bank, believes that
most of the 800,000 Palestinians in Judaea and Samaria
are moving away from the
Palestine Liberation Organization.to a more "realistic"
position.
"I believe the majority of
Palestinians understand that,
Israel is a fact" and "they j
have to live peacefully beside Israel," Sneh said, in an
interview with the Jewish!
three years, at least as it
applies to nursery and kindergarten.
Italian Jews. have been
joined in protest by the Wal-
densian Protestants. Concerned Moslem parents in
Italy also reportedly intend
\to make themselves heard
through the channels of Arab
Embassies in Rome.
The Congress is the
gathering where every four
years Italian Jews elect
their official representatives, plan their future and
try to gain perspective on
their past.
Passage Of Senate Bill 316
Viewed As Deterrent Against
Vandalism, Ethnic Intimidation
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week. "They understand the
slogans of the' PLO to
destroy the Jewish State are
irrelevant and far from
reality."
Sneh admits that the
"sympathy of the Palestinians is still with the
PLO." But he said there is a
growing "disillusionment"
with PLO terrorist activities
which they see offer no hope
for a solution of the Palestinian problem. "Most of
the Palestinian residents of
i the \Vest Bank reject terror-
^CpNJiHUgB.pN.PASS.4),.
A bill which would toughen
the penalties for crimes of
vandalism and ethnic intimidation passed in the Ohio
House /of Representatives
Nov. 19 and the Senate Nov.
20. Seriate Bill No. 316, sponsored by Senator Lee I.
Fisher (D-Shaker Heights),,
is modeled after legislation
drafted by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
The bill is designed to confront, a recent upsurge in
Ohio both in vandalism"
against houses of worship,
schools and other community institutions and acts of
ethnic assault and harassment. These include a series
of racially-based crimes in
Toledo arid Cleveland rang-y
ing from cross-burnings to
bombings; the vandalizing
and harassment of a predominantly black Baptist
church in Columbus by the
white community which surrounds it, and an increase in
anti-Semitic harassment experienced during 1985 by
Ohio's Jewish communities.
"Our experience has
taught us that ethnic bias ■
crimes generally have a
more devastating effect on
the victims and upon an
entire segment of the society
than do similar crimes committed for other reasons,"
said Alan S. Katchen, director of the Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana Regional Office of
the Arfti-Defamatton
League. "These crimes provoke thoughts of past persecution and fear that such oppression will reoccur. Increasing penalties for these
" crimes, therefore, is important because it furthers a
state's interest in protecting
; the emotional and physical
well-being of its citizens," he
. stated;.
&B43i6^Anv%fi&>.>essen-.
tially three sections. The
first amends existing Ohio
laws regarding the desecration and vandalism of houses
of worship? cemeteries and
other comriiunity institutions by increasing the
penalties for committing
these crimes. The second
section increases, by one
degree, the sentences for
crimes of intimidation when
committed by reason of
another person or persons'
race, color, religion or national origin. It would also
add a subsection to the crime
of cririiinal mischief that
would make, it illegal to
place personal property that
has been set on fire on the
land of another — to cover
cross-burnings and the like.
Section three creates a civil
action for victims of vandalism and ethnic intimidation
and holds parents liable for
up to $5000 of a judgment
rendered against their minor
children.
"ADL believes that the
passage of S.B.316 makes it
clear to would-be perpetrators of racially and religiously-based crimes such
as those committed in
Toledo and elsewhere in
Ohio, that this State will not
tolerate bigotry when mani-
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