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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL.65   NO.7
FEBRUARY 12,1987-SHEVAT13
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals
CJF Announces
Record-Breaking
'87 Achievement
"The 1987 Federation campaign achievement will sur-
pass $6 million — that is
record-breaking," said Norman Traeger, 1987 General
Campaign chairman. "I
want to encourage everyone
who has worked so diligently
to make the campaign a success to join our Campaign
Closing Celebration on Feb.
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The Campaign Closing, "A
Toast to the Tops," will feature a tribute to the 1987
Campaign workers and leadership. The luncheon will be
held from 12 noon-l:30 p.m.
at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center. The cost is $6 per
person.
Rep. Salo Burton
Dead At Age 61
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Rep. Sala Galant Burton (D.
Calif.), one of two Jewish
women members of Congress, died Feb. l of cancer.
Sbe was 61 years old.
Burton was elected to the
House in 1983 to succeed her
husband, Phillip, and was reelected in 1984 and 1986.
When she was unable to be
present to be sworn in on
Jan. 6 to the 100th Congress,
the House passed a resolution allowing her to be sworn
in at her home. The oath was
administered the next day
by Rep. Don Edwards (D.
Calif.), chairman of the
California delegation.
Burton was born in
Bialystok, Poland, and fled
with her parents to the
United States in 1939 ahead
of the Nazi occupation of
Poland. She said she learned
from this experience that
"politics is everybody's
experience."
She grew up in San Fran-
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Cantorial Diplomas Will Be Granted
To Women At 1987 Commencement
NEW YORK (JTA)' — The
Jewish Theological Seminary of America will begin
granting the diploma of Haz-
zan (cantor) to women in its
1987 commencement, a certificate JTS reserved only
for men until now.
The announcement by JTS
Chancellor: Ismar Schorsch
at a press conference here
last week is viewed as an historical break with the tradition, but one which Schorsch
contended followed suit with
JTS' 1983 controversial decision to ordain women as
rabbis.
Critics of the new decision
said it is even a more serious
breach of halacha than the
earlier one because they will
be obligated to serve a function halacha forbids women
from doing.
Schorsch called the decision a logical extension of
Council Of Jewish Women To Bring
Dick Cavett To Columbus March 7
On Saturday, March 7, at
7:30 p.m. at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel, the Colum-
Dick Cavett
bus Section, National Council of Jewish Women will
present a gala evening,
beginning  with  a   Cham
pagne Buffet. Guest, speaker
for the evening will be well-
known television entertainer, Dick Cavett. A
musical ensemble will also
be part of the program.
According to Eva Stein
and Sandi Steiman, Council
program co-chairwomen,
the evening will begin at 7:30
p.m. when guests will have
an opportunity to chat informally with Cavett. Following cocktails and dinner,
Cavett's presentation will
take place in another room
with a theater-type seating
arrangement.   A, question
and answer period will
follow his talk.
Arrangements have been
made for parking at $1 per
car in the Nationwide
Garage across the street
from the Hyatt. A covered
walkway extends from the
garage to the hotel.
Cost of the evening is $24
per person for members or
patron admission of $100 per
couple. Non-members are
welcome at a fee of $28 per
person. Seating is reserved,
with numbered tickets, for
Cavett's presentation.
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Hadassah, Center To Sponsor
Jennie Roland Education Day
Thursday, April 23 is the
date set this year for Hadas-
sah's Jennie Roland Education Day, which will be co-
sponsored by the Adult
Departinent of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The speaker is Dan Kurz-
man, author of Ben Gurion:
Prophet of Fire, who will address "The Dream and the
Reality." He will discuss
David Ben Gurion's dream ■
for Palestine and how Ben
Gurion would react to
developments in Israel if he
were alive today.
Ben Gurion: Prophet of
Fire won the 1983 National
Jewish Book Award. Kurz-
man, a former foreign corre
spondent for The Washington Post, has written or
broadcast from almost
every country in Europe,
Asia, Africa and Latin
America. He has also served
as Paris'correspondent for
the International News Service and Jerusalem correspondent for NBC News.
According to Education
Day Chairwoman' Rose
Papier, the topic is timely
because it coincides,with the
100th anniversary of Ben
Gurion's birth and Israel's
Independence Day.
The Columbus Chapter of
' Hadassah named Education
Day in honor of Jennie Ro-
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Toby Portman is pictured above wearing the
Norwegian blue fox coat, which will be raffled by Council of Jewish Women on March 7 at their Gala Evening
with Dick Cavett.
the ordination of women.
"Implicit within the decision
(to ordain women) was obviously a step towards
awarding women the
diploma of Hazzan,"
Schorsch said.
Two women now studying
in the Cantorial Institute/Seminary College of
Jewish Music are expected
to be the first recipients of.
the diploma of Hazzan in the
1987  JTS  commencement.
Erica Lippitz and Maria
Rosenfeld-Barugel, both expecting to receive their
diplomas in 1987, agreed the
decision was a victory and a
profound joy for themselves
and other women who want
to receive the diploma. They
called the decision "a new
chapter in Jewish history."
Schorsch defended his decision as in accordance with
Jewish law, saying he had
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Greg Nicholson, Jane Byrnes and Jay Brand (1. to r.)
are pictured rehearsing for their roles in Albert and
Eve, a comedy to be presented this month by Gallery
Players.
World Premiere Of Play
To Take Place At Center
Starting Feb. 14, Gallery
Players will be producing ^47-
beri! and1 five, the company's
third show this season.
Albert and Eve, the winner
of last year's Gallery
Players playwritihg contest,
is a comedy in two acts written by Janis Keating, a Cincinnati resident. The play is
about a young lady named
Eve who conjours up Albert
Einstein on her computer
and falls in love with him.
The cast of Albert and Eve
includes Jay Brand, who has
appeared in Tenth Man,
Funny Girl, The King and I
and various Popcorn
Players productions in acting and production roles.
Brand teaches developmen-
tally handicapped children,
supervises a program for
gifted and talented children
and is a drama specialist at
the Jewish Center's summer
camp.
Jayne Byrnes, who plays
Eve, has appeared in
Scrooge for players Theater,
Shadow Box and Veronica's
Room (for this role she won
a worthy award) for
Worthington Players and for
Gallery Players she won an
acting award from OCTA for
her performance in Contours.  Byrnes  has  also
worked backstage for several Gallery Players shows.
Greg Nicholson, who plays
Albert, is making his Gallery
Players debut in Albert and
Eve. Greg appeared in Black
Comedy at Ohio University
where he earned his theatre,
degree and received the
Royal Society Silver Medal
of Achievement for Fine
Arts. He is a puppeteer in the
group Imagination Unlimited, a juggler, guitarist,
singer; and makeup artist.
For this production, he has
created his own makeup for
Albert.   .    i
The director of Albert and
Eve is Ric Halterman, who
has an extensive background
in theater. Among his directing accomplishments are A
Day in Hollywood, A Night in
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