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VOL.G5   NO. 22
MAY28.1987-IYAR29
. Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
CJHS Schedules
Annual Meeting
The Columbus Jewish
Historical Society's^ Annual
Meeting will be held on
Wednesday, June 17, at the
Jewish Center, beginning at
7:30 p.m. (Note that date has
been changed;)
The guest speaker, Rabbi
Morton M. Applebaum,
rabbi emeritus of Temple
Israel, Akron, will present a
lecture and slide show on
Jewish ceremonial art objects. Rabbi Applebaum's
collection spans a 20 year
period and covers ceremonial objects purchased
throughout his world-wide
travels. .'■;'•■
Dr.' Applebaum is already
well-known to many in Columbus having served as interim senior rabbi of Temple
Israel during the summer of
1986. His theological career
has been paralleled with
communal service and he is
the recipient of many honors
and awards.
CJHS President Robert
Glick, said, "We are delighted that Rabbi Applebaum will be our guest
speaker for the evening. His
presentation is outstanding
. and we hope the community
will join us on the 17th and
share the benefit of his
knowledge and expertise."
Exhibits including "Name
that Punim" photos will be
on display and refreshments
will be served. Everyone is
welcome.
Decision To Bar Kurt Waldheim
From U.S.'Symbolic Gesture'
Two West Point Cadets
Bar Mitzvahed At Chapel
West Point Cadets, David Santo and Columbus resi-
dent Robert Paley, both 22, recently celebrated their
.Bar Mitzvahs at the West Point Jewish Chapel. The •
first cadets to be Bar Mitzvahed at the new Jewish
Chapel, they are also the first to have ever received
Bar Mitzvah training at the U.S. Military Academy
under a new program resulting from therecently completed West Point Jewish Chapel. Chaplain (LTC)
Marc A. Abramowitz, the rabbi stationed at West
Point, has instructed the cadets on a weekly basis in
Hebrew and Jewish history and culture. The cadets
never had any previous formal religious training.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Reagan Administration's decision to bar Austrian President Kurt Waldheim for the United States
was an important "symbolic
gesture," according_to a
senior Justice Department
official.
"It is a declaration to the
world that this nation is and
will be inhospitable to persons who have acted in the
way Mr. Waldheim appears
to have done during the war,
namely, participating in
atrocities against Jews and
other groups in southeastern
Europe," Deputy Attorney
General Arnold Burns told
the legal division of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith in Los Angeles recently.
The action by the Justice
and State departments bars
Waldheim as a person, but
not in his capacity as president. But it serves an educa-
Beth Jacob Members To Burn Mortgage
At Testimonial Dinner Sunday, May 31
follow the 5:30 p.m. cocktail
hour. Martin Hoffman,
chairman of the Rededication Committee, said members of the community are
encouraged to make their
reservations soon by calling
Fay Grinblatt at 235-3504.
"A page in the history of
our congregation will be
written this Sunday, May 31,
with the liquidation of the
mortgage on the College
Avenue Synagogue," said
Ronald Golden, president of
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Beginning at sundown on Tuesday^ June 2
The Feast of Weeks
• Commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai
• Celebrates the harvest of wheat and the ripening of
the first fruits in the Land of Israel
Beth Jacob Synagogue.
A gala affair will be held,
according to Jack Rubin,
testimonial dinner chairman. Tribute till be paid to
the many members of the
Bingo Committee, who, for
over two decades, worked
every Wednesday night to
raise the funds to pay off the
mortgage, under the leadership of Irv Flox and Bernard
Hirsch. Special tribute will
be paid to the participants
in the "revitalization"
and rededication campaign
and program, which was
launched three years ago by
Golden. The portals of entry
to the synagogue and social
halls; windows in the main
sanctuary and the Windows
of Creation, designed by Hal
Tanenbaum, will also be
dedicated.
A special feature of the
program will be a multimedia presentation of the
ground breaking ceremonies
in 1965, the construction of
the synagogue through 1968
and finally the processional
of the Torah and dedication
of the synagogue in May,
1969. '::'
Ronald Feerer, chairman
of the Entertainment Committee, said that Van Harris,
humorist, will perform that
evening.
The gourmet dinner will
tional purpose, Burns explained.
"It states that racial hatred and violence — which
are inextricable — are ugly
and wrong; and that we have
to make a clean break with
it," he said.
In his speech, a copy of
which was made available
last week by the ADL office
here, Burns also defended
the deportation of Karl Linnas to the Soviet Union for
his participation in the murder of thousands in the Tartu
concentration camp in his
native Estonia and pledged
to continue the Justice Department's efforts against
hate groups in the United
States.
On the Linnas case, Burns
noted that Linnas did not
contest the evidence against
him, but relied on "a plea for
decency and compassion"
because of the death sentence imposed on him by the
USSR in absentia.
He stressed that deporta-,
tion is not extradition, which
is made at the request of a
foreign government; "Deportation involves no recognition of the criminal justice
system of the country to
which the person is deported," he said.
Burns denied that the Justice Department had sought
to  provide  a  last-minute
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Prior   to
presidency
assuming  the
in  June,   1984,
Louis Robins First President
In Heritage Village History
Nominated For Fourth Term
"Louis Robins will be the
first president in the history
of Heritage Village to have
the pleasure of being nominated for a fourth, term,"
stated Sylvia Schecter,
chairwoman of the Nominating Committee. The installation of Robins is one of the
highlights of the 1987 Heritage Village Annual Meeting, to be held on Sunday,
June 28 at Heritage House,
1151 College Ave.
Serving with Schecter on
the Nominating Committee
were J. Maynard Kaplan, co-
chairman; Mrs. Herbert
Glimcher; Martin Greenberg; Myer Mellman; Neil
Moss; Mrs. Jack Resler; Edward Schlezinger; Mrs.
Howard Schoenbaum; Mrs.
Albert Shkolnik; Morris Skilken; Kenneth Warren; Sol
Louis Robins
Robins had served as vice
president and chairman or
member  of  every  major
committee of the Heritage
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haven for Linnas in Panama
to prevent his being sent to
the Soviet Union.
He said Linnas' lawyer
told the Department that
Panama might accept him,
and this was investigated because all deported Nazi war
criminals are given the opportunity to find a country
that will take them.
"I asked the State Department to see whether this offer was valid," Burns said.
"It was not. And in any
event, it was not something
our department had sought
out. Upon learning that there
was no 'Panama offer,' we
proceeded according to
law."
Election Of Delegates
To Zionist Congress
Currently Ming Place
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Close to a million ballots
were mailed within the last
few weeks to members of
American Zionist organizations to elect delegates to the
31st World Zionist Congress
which will open in Jerusalem
on Dec. 7, it was announced
here by the American Zionist
Federation (AZF), the umbrella group for all the Zionist membership organizations in the United States.
Eligible voters will choose
from nine slates representing a broad spectrum of
views on issues of concern to
the Jewish people.
Benjamin Cohen, AZF
president, and Raymond
Patt, Area Election Committee chairman, said recipients of the ballots have
until June 30 to return them.
While the AZF is the coordinating body for the election,
voters have been instructed
to mail their ballots directly
to the American Arbitration
Association (AAA) which is
overseeing the election. Any
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At The Federation  \t
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f"ominunity Calendar,..,   2
Editorial Feature* *.   2
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Obituaries  13
Social News  M
Synagogue Services 13
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