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BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Sakharov Is Hero To World Jewry,
Soviet Jewish Emigration Movement
Columbus Residents Honored
At Yeshiva University Dinner
Columbus residents Herbert H. Schiff (center) and
his wife, Betty, (top photo) and Jerome Schottenstein
(right) and his wife, Geraldine, (bottom photo) were
presented with Centennial Medallions by Yeshiva
University at its national Centennial Chanukah Dinner
and Convocation at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New
York City on Dec. 14. Dr. Norman Lamm (left in both
photos) marked his tenth year as University president
at the dinner. The medallions, created to mark the
university's 100th birthday, were presented-to benefactors —individuals who have given $1 million or more to
the institution.
By Maurice Samuelson
LONDON (JTA) - Andrei
Sakharov, the Soviet human
rights champion, is a hero to
world Jewry and to the Soviet Jewish emigration
movement. He has not only
spoken out for the right to
emigrate to Israel, but has
stoutly defended the Jewish
State an Zionism at a time
when both are reviled by his
own country.
This emerges from a record of his support for Jewish
causes published on the eve
of his recent release from
internal exile, by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the research arm of the World
Jewish Congress.
Writing in the Institute's
journal, Soviet Jewish Affairs, William Korey, director Of B'nai B'rith International Policy Research, recalls that as .early as 1968,
the then 47-year-old physicist raised the Jewish issue
on both internal and external
- levels.
He sharply attacked the
backsliding into anti-Semitism in the appointments policy of the Soviet Communist
Party and said Soviet support for the Arabs had given
Moscow a direct responsibil
ity for the outbreak of the
Six-Day War. Sakharov had
described Russia's Arab allies as, in no way socialist
and said Israel had undertaken a preventive war.
Played A Prominent Role
In 1970 Trials
In the Leningrad and Riga
trials of Jewish activists,
Sakharov assumed a prominent, if not central role in the
struggle for fundamental
freedoms, adds Korey. On
Dec. 24, 1970, a Leningrad
court handed down harsh
verdicts, including two death
sentences for an attempted
plane hijacking.
Four days later, Sakharov
appealed to President Pod-
gorny to prevent the execution of Mark Dymshits. and
Eduard Kuznetsov. He
pointed to extenuating circumstances, noting that the
group did not endanger anybody's life.
Sakharov's protest was
taken seriously. When the
appeal of the Leningrad Eleven was heard before the Soviet Supreme Court in Moscow, he was admitted into
the courtroom and was able
to inform Western reporters
of the revocation of the death
penalties and the reduction
of other  sentences.  Sak-
Federation Announces Institute
To Train Future Leadership
In Area Ot Jewish Education
Karen Gold Anisfeld To Coordinate
'Anne Frank In The World1 Exhibit
The "Anne Frame in the
World: 1929-1945" steering
committee announces the
appointment of Karen Gold
Anisfeld as program coordinator for the event.
Anisfeld will serve as the
liaison between the steering
committee and those organizations, schools and media
interested in the project, according to Carol Rich and
Dennis Aig, program co-
chairpersons.
Through the Columbus office, located in the Esther
Melton Federation Building,
Anisfeld is currently accepting volunteers to assist with
group tours, ancillary events
and pre-program publicity."
Anisfeld is studying for a
master's in public, relations
at Ohio State, with her areas
of interest in corporate and
international public relations. She also teaches a
course at the university
called "The Culture of Contemporary Israel.'"
"It is a pleasure working
on the 'Anne Frank' exhibit
because the lessons of'the
Holocaust and the hope of
this young girl are shared by
those who are truly 'good at
heart,'" said Anisfeld.
"Anne Frank in the World:
1929-1945" is an extensive
photographic exhibit, which
places the life of Anne Frank
and her family within the
political and social context
of the Second World War.
Pages from Frank's famous
diary and a scaled model of
the house in which the Frank
family hid will also be on display- __
Yassenoff Foundation, the
Ohio Humanities Council
and the Virginia Shuller and
Chester B. .and Harriet D.
Isaac funds of the Columbus
Foundation.
The public is.invited to see
the exhibit at the Ohio His-.
torical Center from Feb. 15
to March 8 and at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
from March 12 to 26. For
more information and to
schedule group tours call
2394)800.
Miriam Yenkin, president
of the Columbus Jewish Federation, has announced the
formation of an institute to
develop and train lay leadership in the area of Jewish education.
Yenkin noted, "The Federation has clearly made Jewish education a priority area.
We have not only significantly increased our allocations to our beneficiary
agencies, but have also
developed funding programs
to support congregational efforts. The Jewish Education
Leadership Institute is
another step to ensure the
strong and-viable future of
the Columbus Jewish community."
The Institute is a new concept being introduced by the
Federation's Jewish Education Committee chaired by
Michael Talis.
"The Columbus Jewish
community is a changing
community, subject to
forces and trends that pre
sent a variety of challenges
to those responsible for ensuring Jewish continuity,"
said Talis. He explained that
recent  education  develop-
Judith Resnik Memorial Dinner
To Benefit Rehabilitation Facility
' Karen Gold Anisfeld
The exhibit is presented in
Columbus by Temple Beth
Shalom with support from
the Columbus Jewish Foundation, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Leo
A campaign is underway
in the United States to raise
funds for Beit Halochem, a
rehabilitative facility for Israeli War Veterans in Jerusalem.. A wing of Beit Halochem will consist of a
rehabilitative gymnasium
with physiotherapeutic
facilities and the latest
instrumentation. This wing
is being built in memory of
the first-Jewish astronaut
and Ohio native, Judith Res-
. ink, and. her fellow crew
members who were killed
aboard the Challenger Space
Shuttle last January.
The Columbus Jewish
Singles event chairpersons,
Howard Newman and Anne
Mirman, in conjunction with
the Jewish War Veterans of
Columbus and their commander Edmond Schecter,
invite the members' of the
community to join Dr. and
Mrs. Marvin Resnik; Amos
Yaron, Israel's military at-
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Miriam Yenkin
ments, such as the design of
grant programs for congregations, the revitalization of
the community Hebrew
school and the establishment
of a Jewish Teacher Resource Center, .represent a
response to meet the growing challenges in the area of
Jewish education.
Talis stressed, "The ability of the Columbus Jewish
community to respond to a
changing society and to ensure its Jewish future, can
be measured by a knowledgeable, trained leadership, aware of the major
issues and trends in Jewish
education and capable of
developing strategies to
strengthen Jewish identification and affiliation."
The Jewish Education
Leadership Institute will involve 25-30 participants in an
intensive six-month program designed to explore the
critical issues and areas that
impact Jewish educational
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harov s presence in the
courtroom encouraged the
Jews to believe they were
not alone in the USSR struggle for emigration.
It was there, too, that he
met Yelena Bonner, a relative of the Kuznetsov's, who
later became his wife and
was to share his exile to the
closed city of Gorky. Sak- ,
harov himself was born into
a Russian Orthodox family.
Yelena BOnner had a Jewish
mother and Armenian
father.
On March 19, 1971, Sakharov turned to the question
of anti-Jewish discrimination in employment and
higher education made possible by the internal passport
system prevailing in the
USSR which records citizens
nationality. Together with
two other leading academics, he appealed to the
Soviet leadership to abolish
registration of nationality in
passports and questionnaires.
Iii 1971, too, he questioned
the Soviet official view of
Zionism and the Jewish desire to go to Israel. As a
member of the Soviet Committee on Human Rights, he
associated himself with a letter defending Zionism
against the Soviet press description of it as reactionary
and practically fascist.
The Committee's letter
stated that Zionism was no
more than the idea of Jewish
Statehood and one can only
admire the persistence of an
ancient and persecuted people who, in very difficult circumstances, have resurrected a long-vanished State.
In 1972, Sakharov again
intervened physically on a
Jewish issue when, after the
massacre of Israeli Olympic
athletes in Munich, he joined
a small group of Jewish activists demonstrating in .
front of the Lebanese Embassy in Moscow. The protest against the massacre
was quickly ended by the
police who arrested the demonstrators, including Sakharov.
In 1973, he intervened over
the much more politically
sensitive issue of American
trade credits for the Soviet
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