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C. Rinkov To Chair
Newcomers Program
The Shalom Newcomers
program, chaired by Claudia
Rinkov, has developed plans
to help Jewish singles and
families moving to the Columbus area meet other
members of the community
and become oriented to community organizations and
agencies.
A special facet of this program is the Jewish community Welcome Wagon, which
will provide opportunities
for Jewish newcomers to be
personally welcomed to Columbus. Volunteers are
sought to host a Shabbat,
Passover or High Holy Day
dinner or to host a newcomer
event. In addition, they are
needed to assist newcomers
in learning about Jewish
community services, agencies and resources, as well
as about the general community.
LAST CHANCE!
Have you always wanted to share your views with
your contemporaries, to see your writing in print, to
become involved in the community in a meaningful
way?
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle would like to give you
the chance to accomplish all of these goals and
more. Turn to page 16 for details about the Fourth
Annual OJC Wordworks.
U.S. Jewish Press Disturbed
By Pollard Espionage Affair
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jonathan Pollard's espionage in the United States for
Israel, his subsequent life
sentence and Israel's reaction all disturbed editorial
writers of the American
Jewish press last week in a
variety of ways. ■
James Brenner To Be Installed
As President Of Temple Israel
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Claudia Rinkov
Volunteers and newcomers, alike, are asked to contact Meryl Weissmann, at
the Columbus Jewish Federation, 237-7686, for more information on the Jewish Welcome Wagon program.
James Brenner will be installed as president of Temple Israel at the 141st Annual
Meeting scheduled for Friday, April 3, 6 p.m.
Brenner, a native of Cleveland, is presently district
manager for APCOA, Inc. A
graduate of Case Western
Reserve, he has been active
as a member of the Chamber
of Commerce, Building Owners and Managers Assoc,
and the National Parking Association. He was a founding
member of the American
Jewish Congress office in
Cleveland and serves on the
New Prospects Committee
and the Education and Culture Budget Committee of
the Columbus Jewish Federation.
A member of the Temple
since 1963, Brenner has
served as president of
Brotherhood, co-chairman of
the Religious School Committee, a member of the
Board of Trustees and assistant treasurer, treasurer and
vice president of the Temple.
He and his wife, Barbara,
have four children.
Other Temple leaders to
be installed at the Annual
Meeting are: Officers—first
vice president—Rita Cohen;
vice presidents — Mark
Feinknopf, Jr. and Fred
Summer; secretary—Arline
Altman; assistant secretary
— Henry Epstein; treasurer
— Marvin Pliskih; assistant
treasurer — Leonard Nus-
bauih. Board of Trustees
members to be installed include: Roger Blair, Jeff
Glassman, Hope Kaplan, Dr.
Cols.Chapter Hadassah Supports
Medical Organization Campaign
The 375,000 members of
Hadassah throughout the
United States consider themselves as the bridge to the
future of Hadassah and Israel, and Columbus, with
over 1250 members, considers itself part of' the
philosophy of service to
mankind.
In addition to financially
supporting the two Haddas-
sah hospitals in Israel,
Hadassah chapters raise
money for hospital supplies.
In 1916, a handful of sewing
and knitting groups made
garments and collected
linens for Hadassah projects
in Palestine; today the supplies have been changed
from 'in kind" contributions
to fund-raising
In the past supplies provided extras not budgeted
for in the chapter quotas.
Today they do the same, but
they are given exclusively to
the Hadassah Medical Orga
nization (HMO), providing
sheets, linens, blankets, hospital garments, uniforms
and layettes. The over subscription of the HMO quota
by the local chapter will go
toward providing these
items for the medical installations.
Hadassah members are
also bolstering Israel's industries and providing employment for Israel's citizens by purchasing in Israel
(whenever possible) the tens
of thousands of items needed
to run the Cities of Science at
Ein Karem and Mt. Scopus.
Members attending the
Champagne-Buffet Supper
on Sunday evening, April 5,
at Winding Hollow Country
Club will celebrate the success of the achievements of
the local chapter. Cantor
Kathryn Wolfe Sebo, of
Bethaynu Congregation,
Pepper Pike, Ohio, a gradu-
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James Brenner
Kurt Malkoff, David Milenthal, George Rosenberger,
Dr. Robert Ruberg, Beverly
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Rabbi Harold Berman Named
To Head R.A. Interfaith Unit
Rabbi Harold Berman of
Congregation Tifereth Israel
has been named to chair the
Interfaith Task Force of the
Rabbinical Assembly Social
Justice Committee. Announcement was made by
Rabbi Alan Silverstein,
chairman of the Committee
for the International Association of Conservative Rabbis.
Rabbi Berman's position
will involve him in writing
materials and participating
in consultations for the Rabbinical Assembly and other
religious groups. The Rabbinical Assembly has already
accepted for publication
papers on Jewish/Moslem
dialogue, based on experiences in Columbus, and
guidelines for general interfaith contact for synagogues,
federations and communities.
Representing the Rabbinical Assembly and also the
Rabbinic Cabinet of the
United' Jewish Appeal,
Rabbi Berman and several
members of the Rabbinic
Cabinet European Mission of
1987 met in February with
Bishop Henryk Muszynski in
Warsaw, Poland. Rabbi Berman and the delegation were
the first rabbis to meet in
Poland with church hierarchy after the church's decision to move a planned
convent from the site of the
Auschwitz concentration
camp.
Rabbi Berman has served
on the national staff of the
Joint Commission on Social
Action of the United Synagogue of America and was
editor of "Judaism in Social
Action" from 1970 until 1975.
He has published a number
of articles for national distribution on interfaith issues.
Rabbi Harold J. Berman
Rabbi Berman is a past
president of the Interfaith
Clergy  Association of the
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They disagreed on the affair's impact on U.S.-Israel
relations and two papers
blamed the United States for
not sharing intelligence data
with Israel in the first place.
The Jewish Week of New
York was one of the latter,
contending that ■ American
Jews can justifiably condemn both Israeli and American actions — Israel for
using Pollard and then
deserting him and the U.S.
for creating the need for
espionage by not sharing
intelligence with Israel as
promised.
The editorial said it was
unfair that • Pollard will
spend the rest of his life in
U.S. prison "abandoned by
the very people whose lives
will be more secure for years
to come because of what he
did."
"As for the nonsense that
now the loyalty of all Ameri-
can Jews will be suspect,"
the editorial continued, "the
only people currently making an issue of this are
-American■•■ Jews --•. andTwe .
have more important things
with which to concern ourselves."     ■
The Long Island Jewish
World agreed that dual
loyalty wasn't the issue. "A
Jew has a singular loyalty to
his conscience," its editorial
explained. The editorial expressed, "simply ... sadness" over Pollard's guilt
and life sentence.
The Jewish World considered Israel callous for
promoting Pollard's handlers, and in terms less harsh
than those of the Jewish
Week wondered if "maybe
the United States could have
been more generous in sharing intelligence to its most
loyal and lonely ally."
The U.S.-Israeli relationship won't suffer, the Jewish
World contended, as it is
based on "geopolitical reality and a common spirituality that hasn't changed."
However, the Baltimore
Jewish Times and Detroit
Jewish News, both published
by Charles Buerger, sensed
Local Author, Ruth Abramson,
To Speak 'Wednesday At One'
On Wednesday, April 1,
Ruth Abramson, author of
Benjamin: Journey of a Jew,
will be guest speaker at a
get-together at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125
College Ave.
Abramson writes about
the man who was her husband for more than 30 years,
the man who emigrated
from Europe to become a
doctor of medicine in. America, who was a linguist,
humanist and the embodiment of the term "Renaissance man."
The open meeting extends
an invitation to all community members. The Columbus Jewish Historical Society, The 55 Plus (or Minus)
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a rupture in U.S.-Israeli ties.
The life sentence "underscores how serious the U.S.
considered the crime," their
editorial noted.
Following the Tower Commission's finding that Israel
and the U.S. had different
reasons for selling arms to
Iran, the affair "should
serve as a sober remind to
all who believe that the Jerusalem-Washington relationship is indivisible," the editorial continued.
Israel has blundered in the
affair, it noted, and like the
U.S. should utilize an independent commission; to
investigate "who knew and.
approved..."
The task now, the editorial
argued, "is to assure that
relations between the U.S.
and Israel are returned to
the high footing they have
enjoyed..."
The Jewish Advocate of
Boston was ''hard-pressed to
find justification" for Pollard's life term because
other spies have cooperated
with the^government...^yhen-
caught and'.'received lighter
sentences and because the
recipient of the information
was Israel, an ally unlikely
to share it with ''other countries.
. "Appropriate legal pro?
cesses to make certain that
full justice is done to Jonathan Pollard and his wife,
Anne, which could include
reduction of the term of their
sentences, now at life and
five years, respectively,
should be initiated," the editorial concluded.
Heritage Publications in
southern and central California wrote of its shame over
the affair. With Pollard a
friend of Israel, the editorial
asked, "alas, who needs enemies?"
Considering this espionage
"the most futile and foolish
and least worthy" of all such
cases, the editorial concluded that the affair "underscores the fact that the
joys and sorrows of Israel,
her achievements and
failures, are intertwined
with the destinies of all our
people."
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