Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1987-08-13

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Community Invited
To Participate In
Torah Dedication
On Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. at the
Ahavas Sholom Synagogue,
2568 E. Broad St., the Jewish
community is invited to celebrate the dedication of- two
new Torah scrolls.
The first Sefer Torah will
be dedicated by Thomas
Schottenstein and family, in
memory of his father, Leon,
and in honor of his mother,
Jean, and in honor of his wife
Leah's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Meir Levy. The second
Sefer Torah will be dedicated by Dr. Samuel Port-
man and family, in memory
of his father, Harold, and in
honor of his mother, Celia,
and in memory of his wife
Susan's parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Jacob Ziskind.
The scrolls will be completed by their sofer
(scribe), followed by a parade of both children and
adults, Hakkafos and reception. While the actual inscribing of the Sefer Torah
helps to assure the continuity of Jewish heritage, the
commitment and celebration of every individual of a
community is equally necessary and vital, the Schotten-
steins and Portmans note.
"Please join in this important mitzvah — to honor the
Torah."
Jackson Making Overtures
To The Jewish Community
Norman Traeger, General
Campaign chairman of the
Columbus Jewish Federation's 1988 Jewish Community Campaign, has announced the members of his
Campaign Management
Team who will be working
with him in the months
ahead. "This is a special
group of people who share
the spirit, experience and
commitment of working
toward a goal of meeting the
many needs of our fellow
Jews both locally and world-
Finkelstein To Address
Jewish Center Leaders
From Throughout Nation
Allan Finkelstein, executive director of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, was
appointed to the faculty of
the JWB Executive Development Training Program, to
begin next week at the Tentr
pie University Conference
Center in Philadelphia.
Allan Finkelstein
Finkelstein's lecture topic,
"On Becoming ah Executive," will be focus of the introductory session of a ten-
day seminar for assistant
directors of Jewish Community Centers from through-
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Pictured are Alan Wasserstrom (left), associate
Campaign chairman, and Norman Traeger, General
Campaign chairman, who will lead the 1988 Columbus
Jewish Federation Community Campaign.
Jewish Community Campaign
Management Team Announced
wide," said Traeger.
Alan- Wasserstrom, president of N. Wasserstrom and
Sons, has been appointed associate chairman of the campaign and will assist Traeger
in organizing and directing
this year's drive. During the
1987 campaign, Wasserstrom served as the general
•vice-chairman responsible
for major gifts.
Six vice-chairpersons
comprise the balance of the
management team with responsibilities for overseeing
and coordinating the various
aspects of the campaign.
They include: Irving Baker,
Nelson Genshaft, Marilyn
Knable, Robert Schottenstein, Ellen Siegel and Judie
Swedlow.
Baker, associated with
Baker Rentals, is a member
of the Federation Board of
Trustees and has long been
active with numerous community organizations. He
has worked in the Campaign
for many years and has held
numerous positions including Special Gifts Division
chairman and Young Men's
Division chairman. He was
the 1968 recipient of the
Therese Stern Kahn Young
Leadership Award. He will
chair the Major Gifts Division and assist with the Keynote Division.
Genshaft, in his second
year as a general vice-chairman, is, a local attorney and
partner in the firm of
Schwartz, Kelm, Warren
and Rubenstein. He is assistant treasurer of the Federa-',
tion Board of Trustees and
he is a past chairman of a
Training mission to Israel in
1986. He was co-recipient of
the 1985 Therese Stern Kahn
Young Leadership Award.
His responsibilities will include working with the leadership and $250 Divisions
and the Attorney's Event.
Knable, who also served
on last year's management
kicks off a two-year program
designed for executives to
enhance leadership and
management skills, as well
as to look at emerging Jewish issues and enduring
models of Jewish leadership.
Finkelstein, who participated in a similar JWB program (torn 1981-83, was invited back to address the
topic, "Reflections on Expectations and Realities"
and to share how the JWB
program prepared him for
his current responsibilities.
Finkelstein became the executive director of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center in
1982.
JWB is the central leadership and service agency of
the North American Jewish
Center network of 275 JCCs,
YM-YWHAs  and  camps.
Jack I. Fox, associate
executive director of the Iaeo
Yassenoff Jewish Center, is
one of 16 individuals chosen
from throughout the nation
to participate in the Executive Development Program.
The  Philadelphia  seminar
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
For the past year the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, whose 1984
presidential campaign was
plagued by allegations of
anti-Semitism, has been
making overtures to the
Jewish community.
Jackson has met with Jewish leaders privately and in
public forums, spoken before
Jewish organizations such as
the Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism and
given interviews to Jewish
newspapers.
"It is a different Jackson
in 1988 than in 1984," observed Abraham Foxman,
national director of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith. "One has to recognize
and welcome that certain
sensitivity he is now showing.^- ,_
Jackson has "gone out on a
limb like that now just once,
but several times, so there is
a clear-cut pattern of an effort to reach out'to the Jewish community, and the community ought to respond,"
added Rabbi" IJavid Saper-
stein, co-director of the Religious Action Cehtelr of Reform Judaism.
But while Jewish leaders
applaud Jackson's efforts,
they remain skeptical to
what extent he can put his
past problems with the community behind him. Jackson,
said Marc Perl, Washington
representative of the American Jewish Congress, carries a "significant amount of
baggage" that Jewish voters
are unlikely to forget.
The heaviest load in this
baggage remains Jackson's
association in 1984 with the
Black Muslim leader Louis
Farrakhan, whose preaching is marked by virulent
anti-Semitic rhetoric. In recent New York Times article, Jackson said "the simple fact is that Farrakhan is
not connected to my campaign in any way. That's all
that's need to be said."
But most Jews disagree.
"What Jews want and will
continue to want is for Jackson to repudiate Farrakhan.
There's a feeling that he has
yet to do this," said Hyman
Bookbinder of the American
Jewish Committee.
Frank Watkins, Jackson's.
press secretary, said as a
religious leader Jackson
"does not repudiate the per-
sohhood of anyone, even an
enemy, let alone the person-
hood of a friend and ally in
the '84 campaign, at least to
a certain extent, because
there is always the possibility of redemption."
Even if Jackson can put
Farrakhan behind him, his
views on the Middle East
still disturb Jewish voters,
many of whom see Israel as
a litmus test for support of a
candidate. Jackson no longer refers to Palestine Liberation Organization chairman
Yasir Arafat, whom he
publicly embraced in 1978,
as an ally, but he remains
critical of U.S. military
assistance to Israel and Israel's occupation Of the settlements.
According to Watkins,
Jackson advocates a four-
point approach to the Middle
East: a secure Israel within
'' internationally recognized
boundaries"; Palestinian
self-determination and justice including the right to
determine their own representation; respect for Lebanon's territorial integrity,
with U.S. assistance in helping them to rebuild, and normalizing ties with other
Arab countries.
Ginny Tennenbaum
Wins Twirling Title
Ginny Tennenbaum was
crowned "International Miss
TU Majorette" — Twirling
Unlimited's World Majorette
for her age group.
Jewish Agency Sending Hebrew Teacher
To Yugoslavia
JERUSALEM (JTA) —The Jewish Agency will send a Hebrew teacher to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, the organization's first
official emissary to Yugoslavia ever, it was learned here recently. The Agency's Department for Education in the diaspora will send the teacher to the city in which about 2,000 of
Yugoslavia's 5,000 Jews live.
Barenboim Appointed Director
Of New Bastille Opera In Paris
PARIS, (JTA) — Israeli conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim has been appointed artistic director of the Paris Bastille Opera, which plans to vie with New York's Metropolitan
and Milan's La Scala for top international recognition. The
44-year-old Buenos Aires-born Barenboim currently directs
the Paris Orchestra, a post he will continue to assume. The
Bastille Opera will be inaugurated on July 14,1989, to mark
the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, The new
opera house on the Place de la Bastille will be larger than the,
old Opera in the heart of Paris. The French government is
planning to bill some of the world's best-known operatic stars
for the new theater and has given Barenboim a free reign for
Ginny Tennenbaum
The competition, held in
Niagra Falls, N.Y., Aug. 1,
involves three parts: twirling competition routine,
show routine and modeling
in an evening gown. Scores
from the three parts are
added together to arrive at
the final overall placement.
Girls from all over the United States and Canada competed for the title.
Tannenbaum is 14 years
old and has been working
toward this title since she
began twirling six years ago.
During that time she has traveled to 25 states for twirling
competitions.
Tennenbaum will be in the
ninth grade at Bexley High
School this fall. She is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
James Tennenbaum.
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