Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1987-02-05

              w
':.'-*?i9~ro'"?*r2i'.r>
I o^kVb»tMS1ii*.Aj
LIBRARY,   OHIO   H iSTOR tCAL SOC4*/Tt^
198E  VELMA   AVE.
COLS.' 0,     43211.
EXCH
ZJtj\/^ervlng Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community lor Over to Years     vJ/)K
VOL.05   NO.6
FEBRUARY 5,1987-SHEVAT 6
Devoted to American
and Jewish ideals.
FOCUS ON ISSUES
They Came To March For Brotherhood
Theater Cancels Anti-Semitic Play
LONDON (JTA) —The Royal Court Theatre announced recently that is has cancelled the presentation of a play which
depicts Zionists as collaborators with the Nazis in the mass
destruction of Hungarian Jewry during World War II. The
play, titled Perdition, was due to open shortly for a five-week
run at the prestigious West End theater. It was withdrawn
following angry protests by the Jewish community and by
scholars and historians who branded it a vicious travesty,
after reading the script. The playwright, Jim Allen, is a Trot-
skyist who makes no secret of his antipathy for Zionists
though he claims to be pro-Jewish.
Supreme Court Refuses To Reconsider
Appeal by Nazi War Criminal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States Supereme
Court last week declined to reconsider its Dec. 1 refusal to
hear an appeal by convicted Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas
against his deportation to the Soviet Union. The court's action prompted demands by prominent Republicans and
Democrats that Attorney General Edwin Meese carry out
Linnas' deportation as soon as possible. In. 1981, the Federal
.District Court on Long Island, NY, stripped Linnas, now 67,
of his U.S. citizenship, after finding him responsible for multiple acts of murder committed during his wartime service
as chief of the Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia.
According to the Justice Department, more than 12,000 persons were murdered at the camp. Linnas was ordered de-
ported in. 1983 and has beenheldsince April 1986 at the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City.
ATLANTA (JTA) - The
massive march on rural For- a;
syth County, Ga„ on Jan. 24
was more than a demonstration against the hostile
racism that occurred there
one week earlier. Rather, according to consensus, it was
a collective show of solidarity against the racial intolerance that has occurred recently in Howard Beach,
N.Y., at The Citadel in
Charleston, S.C., ,and in
recent racial incidents in
Philadelphia and Boston.
"This thing developed a
life of its own," said Sherry
Frank, Southeastern director of the American Jewish
Committee] Frank commented that the Ku Klux
Klan's hostile appearance.
Jan. 17 in Forsyth County,
situated 38 miles north of Atlanta, shocked the sensibilities of the nation and was
the straw that broke the
camel's back.
The largest civil rights
march in more than two decades, estimated at 15,000 to
20,000, bore witness to the
change that has occurred
with the passing of time.
Nearly half the marchers on
Jan. 24 in Forsyth County
were white, and this time the
law was on the side of the
demonstrators, not against
them as it was in the 1960s.
Demonstration Resembled
An Army Camp
In fact, the scene of the
demonstration resembled an
army camp: Some 1,700
Georgia National Guardsmen in riot regalia were
Worldwide B'nai B'rith Mobilization
For Soviet Jewry Set For Feb. 26
"Feb; 26 will mark a day
long remembered by Jews
throughout the world. At 12
noon in 46 countries around
the globe, the B'nai B'rith
family will unite as never before, to dramatize the Soviet
government's unwillingness
to allow Soviet Jews their
freedom to emigrate and to
observe their religion," according to Rick Handler,
president of Zion Lodge and
program co-chair..
B'nai B'rith International,
B'nai. B'rith Women, the
Anti-Defamation League,
Hillel and the B'nai B'rith
Beth Jacob Brotherhood Names
M.Weinstoek'Man Ot The Year'
Marc Levison, president of
the Beth Jacob Brotherhood
has announced that Morris
Weinstock has been unanimously elected the recipient
of the Brotherhood's 1987
Man of the Year award.
Morris Weinstock
Weinstock has been a
member of the Beth Jacob
Congregation,for 55 years.
He served as president from
1942 to 1945 and has served
as a gabbi rishon of the
Chevra Kaddisha since1946.
He is a lifelong member of
the Brotherhood.
He was born in 1904 to
Eliezer and Leah Faiga
Weinstock, came to the
United States in 1913 and settled in Montgomery, Ala.
A recipient of numerous
awards and citations, he received Beth Jacob's Shofar
Award in June of 1973 and
•the "Rabbi's Medallion," a
three dimensional sculpture
of the synagogue presented
by Rabbi David Stavsky to
individuals who have demonstrated a special devotion to
the office of the rabbinate.
"Moishe, as he is called, is
a very popular figure in the
Jewish community and has
endeared himself to everyone who meets him," said
Levison. "We are" looking
forward to a special evening
with Mr. Weinstock at the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Youth Organization will join
forces on Thursday, Feb. 26,
and almost simultaneously
read the names of 12,000 refuseniks at city halls, state
capitals, government centers and college campuses
around the world.
With hundreds of thousands of Jews and non-Jews
participating in this mobilization, the message to Soviet
General Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev will be clear,
Handler says. It is, "Return
to the high levels of emigration of the late '70s, end the
harrassment of those who
apply to emigrate and release all Prisoners of Conscience and allow them to
emigrate."
The Central Ohio Soviet
Mobilization is being jointly
coordinated by the local
B'nai B'rith family. Chairpersons for the day, in addition to Zion Lodge's Handler,
are Sharon Eisenberg and
Sharman  Michaelson  of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 5)
joined by law enforcement
officials from the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation, the
Georgia State Patrol and a
myriad of law enforcement
officials from jurisdictions
in and around metropolitan
Atlanta.    v
In all, a force of nearly
3,000 kept an angry group of
about 1,000 counterdemon-
strators at bay, staving off a
potential confrontation with
the marchers.
Frank said that Jews,
from Atlanta and elsewhere,
were well represented in
Scout Sabbath Will Be Held
On Feb. 13 At Agudas Achim
The Central Ohio Council,
Jewish Committee on Scouting invites all Scouters, their
families and friends to the
18th annual Scout Sabbath on
Friday, Feb. 13 at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue,
2767 E. Broad, at 8 p.m.
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner will officiate, and Ritual Director
Moises Herszage will participate in conducting the services.
Several Boy and Girl
Scouts and adults will be
receiving recognition, and
awards at the services. The
Lehavah Award for Brownies and Junior Girl Scouts
has been earned by Zivit and
the Bexley Methodislt
Church, and Daniel holds a
First Class ranking with
Unit 417 which meets at the
Upper Arlington Lutheran
Church.
,^4W*Hfc'<'- TO ^
Rabbi Alan Ciner
Adi Javetz, daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Hanan Javetz, 2572
Muskingum Ct, Both girls
belong to Troop 1676 which
meets at Cranbrook School.
The Aleph Medal for Cub
Scouts will be presented to
Brian O'Koon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard O'Koon, 2801
Fair Ave., and to Adam Rad-
zely, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Radzely, 30 S. Dawson
Ave. Brian and Adam belong
to Pack 166 which meets at
the Bexley Methodist
Church.
Jason O'Koon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard O'Koon,
and Daniel Shapiro, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford
Shapiro, ,3695 Seaford Dr.
will receive the Ner Tamid
Boy Scout Award. Jasonjs a •
I Star Scout with Troop 166 of
Dr. Fred Kapctansky
The Lahavah Award can
be earned by young Girl
Scouts who fulfill requirements which include learning about Jewish customs,
traditions, holidays and history. Parents, specially
trained counselors and
rabbis help the girls with
their work. The Aleph Award
is achieved through workshops for Cub Scouts, and the
Ner Tamid Award provides
the opportunity for advanced
work and learning.
Rabbi Alan Ciner and Dr.
Fred Kapetansky will be
recognized for their service
to Jewish Scouts and will be
presented with the Shofar
Award. The Shofar Award is
given to those persons who
have volunteered over three
years of service to Scouting.
Rabbi Ciner was named
chaplain of the Central Ohio
Region for the Boy Scouts of
America and has participated in many youth leadership activities. He is a member of the Jewish Committee
on Scouting. Dr. Kapetansky
achieved Star ranking while
he was a Boy Scout, and he
has served as treasurer of
the Jewish Committee on
Scouting. He has also been
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)
proportion to their percentage of the country's population. And if it had not been
for the Shabbat, she said,
more Jews would have participated.
"The words of the counter-
demonstrators last week
(Jan. 17) were an affront to
Jews as well as to Blacks,"
she said.
On Jan. 17, about 90 people, men, women, children,
both Black and white, went
to Forsyth County to march
for brotherhood in the all-
white county. Blacks have
not been welcome there for
75 years. But, to the surprise
of everyone, the brotherhood
marchers were met by 400
screaming Ku Klux Klans-
men and their allies. Obscene racial epithets were
hurled at the group as was a
barrage of bottles and rocks.
The  organizer  of  the
march, civil rights veteran
Rev. Hosea Williams, said
afterward it was the most
violent, hate-filled group he
had  ever  encountered.
Representatives  of  three
Jewish groups joined with
Atlanta's;Black leaders to
plan the second march for
brotherhood  in  Forsyth
County. They were the Atlanta chapters of the American Jewish Committee, the
Black-Jewish Coalition and
the American Jewish Congress.
A permit was secured.
Law enforcement, housing
and transportation were arranged. But, no one anticipated the outpouring of support  that  came  from
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16)
Community
To Celebrate
Tu B'Shevat
Tu B'Shevat, the New
Year of the Trees, is Feb. 14,
and the Jewish National
Fund, in cooperation with
the Israel/Judaic Committee of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, will host a community celebration at the
Center on Sunday,1 Feb. 15,
between 2-4 p.m.
The Annual JNF Tu
B'Shevat Children's Art/
Poetry display will be open
to the public during this celebration. Students of the Jewish community religious and
day schools participate in
this Art/Poetry event. This
year's theme is "Trees, the
Bible and You."
Traditional refreshments
and entertainment will be
part of the celebration. The
entire community is encouraged to attend.
For more information, call
the Jewish National Fund,
231-1397Ji