Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1987-09-17

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VOL.65   NO.38
SEPTEMBER 17,1987-ELUL23
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
JNF Explains Need
For Trees To Replace
Those Destroyed In Fires
Harold I. Zeidman, president of the Jewish National
Fund Council of Columbus,
has sent a letter to the Columbus community explaining the pressing need for
their help in replanting the
forests destroyed by recent
fires in Israel. An urgent
drive is being launched by
the JNF to replace each of
these forests.
"The news of the devastating forests fires in Israel on
July 29, 1987, destroying
more than 80,000 trees,
makes this coming year one
of urgent rebuilding and replanting for the Jewish National Fund and the State of
Israel," states Zeidman.
Four different fires ravaged
1,150 acres of forests with an
estimated damage of $2 million.
"The most heartrendering
was the completely destroyed Children's Forest in
the B'nai B'rith Martyrs'
Forest—200 dunams of trees
planted by children in the
memory of the children who
perished in the Holocaust,"
continues Zeidman.
The Jewish National Fund
is encouraging the Community to plant gardens of trees
or to plant individual trees
for the High Holidays "to rekindle our commitment to Israel. We cannot succeed in
our replanting efforts without the help of the community," exclaims Zeidman.
To plant trees or for more
information, call the JNF,
231-1397.
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Local Jewish/Catholic Clergy,
Lay Leadership Meet Sept. 11
The cover of the Chronicle's 5748 New Year Edition
was specially designed by Lee Pinsky, OJC circulation
manager, to reflect the childlike quality of local youngsters' art which illustrates this year's Jewish Community Calendar.
New Year Edition, Calendar
Should .Arrive Next Week
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
New Year Edition and Jewish Community Calendar
will be in subscribers' homes
sometime next week, filled
with High Holiday greetings
from fellow community
members, area businesses,
organizations, agencies and
synagogues.
Vatican Meeting With Pope
Leads To Renewed Hopes
For Jewish/Catholic Dialogue
Jewish community on non-
religious, non-theological
matters," a recognition that
"Jews are people not only of
faith but also of social concerns and political interests."    .
Schindler said this would
mean that the Vatican would
now heed not only its representatives . from 21 Arab
countries but Jewish sources
as well, "thus reducing the
likelihood of a repetition of
the (Kurt) Waldheim affair."
Two other Jewish figures
who met with the Pope aired
their feelings about their
meeting on WCBS Radio's
"Let's Find Out." Speaking
with host Art Athens were
Rabbi Mark Tanenbaum,
international affairs director
of the American Jewish
Committee, and Seymour
Reich, president of B'nai
B'rith International.  ",
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NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jewish figures who met
Sept. 1 outside Rome with
Pope John Paul II have
come away from their unprecedented dialogue with
the leader of the Roman
Catholic Church with refurbished hopes for Catholic-
Jewish relations.
Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, noted that "Catholic-Jewish dialogue would no
longer be limited to the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the
Jews, but would be elevated
to the level of the office of the
Vatican Secretary of State
and the papal office itself."
He said that the nine-member delegation had "received the strong impression
that the Vatican plans to
create a kind of "diaspora
desk* that would initiate an
ongoingrelatiohship with the
New this year is a redesigned personal greetings
section. Illustrated with artwork by Rina Mandel and
Orly Eldar of OR Graphic
Design, this section has been
moved to a prominent position in the front of the issue.
In addition to the greetings, the New Year Edition
also contains other interesting reading material. Included are fiction by Word-
works winner Laura Pienk-
ny Zakin, "2087: Starting
Over;" and ^Holiday High
Reflection— From Shacharit to Neilah" bjr Tifereth Israel's Rabbi Harold Berman
and an article detailing Saint
Anthony Medical Center's
partnership with the Jewish
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By Judith Franklin
News Editor
Pope John Paul IPs week-
long visit to the United
States has been significant
not only to the nation's
Catholics but to the Jewish
community as well.
Following on the heels of a
Sept. 1 meeting near Rome
between the Pope and his
highest advisors and a
delegation of Jewish leaders,
the Pope's remarks to approximately 200 representatives of the Jewish community in Miami on Friday,
Sept. 11, served to further
the expanding dialogue between Catholics and Jews.
And in order to bring that
dialogue to the local Jewish
and Catholic communities,
Alan Katchen, director of the
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Region of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, along
with the Catholic Diocese of
Columbus, invited Catholic
and Jewish clergy and lay
leadership to the Esther C.
1 Melton Building to view a
telecast of the historic meeting, followed by a discussion
of the issues raised.
The group heard Rabbi
Mordecai Waxman, a stand-
in for Rabbi Gilbert Klaper-
man, president of the Synagogue Council of America,
one of two Orthodox1 groups
which did not attend the
meeting in protest over the
Pope's audience with president of Austria, Kurt Waldheim, tell the Pope of the
pain the Jewish community
felt over the Waldheim meeting. "Obviously, the differences expressed at last
week's, meeting have not
been totally resolved," Wax-
man said in his speech.
"However, this opportunity
for us to express the pain and
distress in the Jewish
community  in  face-to-face
meetings and for you and the
leaders of your church to
listen with respect and openness represents an important confirmation of the progress our communities have
made in recent decades."
And that progress, everyone in the local discussion'
group conceded, is the overriding result of the Waldheim affair. "The misunderstanding was painful," Father William Linn of Pontifical College-Josephinum
noted, "but it may have been
providential in moving the
Jewish/Catholic dialogue
ahead by at least a decade."
It has also resulted in the
Pope's promise on Friday of
a Papal Encyclical on the
Holocaust and the possibility
of Papal archives on the
Holocaust being opened for
study, by scholars.
While the Pope, in his
24-minute statement, declared that anti-Semitism
was wrong, many of the
rabbis present pointed out
that the Catholic Church's
2000-year history of anti-
Semitism would be difficult
to overcome.
Although he was impressed by the Pope's words
which he agreed with Rabbi
Waxman came "from the
heart and not the lips,"
Rabbi David Stavsky of Beth
Jacob Congregation said
that "deeds must follow
words."
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld of
Temple Israel noted, however, that while*"2000 years
of history will not change
overnight," he was optimistic that there would be "a
significant change in Catholic/Jewish relations."
USSR Grants
To Longtime
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The decision of. the Soviet
authorities to grant exit
visas to four prominent longtime refuseniks and others
sparked optimism here that
a general relaxation of emigration restrictions is under
way in the Soviet Union.
The four, all former Prisoners of Conscience, expected to arrive in Israel
soon are Iosif Begun, 55;
Viktor Brailovsky, 52; Vladimir Lifshitz, 46, and Sem-
yon Yantdvsky, 78. But aliya
sources noted that 23 other
former prisoners are still
waiting for exit permits.
Chaim Chester, secretary
general of the Public Council
for Soviet Jewry, stressed
that pressure must continue
on the Soviet leadership on
their behalf.
Robert Schottenstein To Be Presented
Therese Stern Kahn Leadership Award
Robert H. Schottenstein,
Columbus Jewish community leader, will be presented
with the Federation's Therese Stern Kahn Young Leadership Award at the 61st Annual Meeting on Oct. 4.
Schottenstein has been active in the Federation for.
eight years. He began his
service as a member of the
Young Men's Division Cabinet in 1979 and'has subsequently served on many
committees. Presently he is
a general vice-chairman of
the Federation's 1988 Jewish
member of the Executive
Committee and serves on the
Board of Trustees,
In addition to his Federation leadership role, Schottenstein is the current president of Columbus Torah
Academy. He also lends his
leadership experience to the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
as a vice-president, where he
is also a member:of the
Executive Committee and
Board of Trustees. He is an
active member of Agudas
Achim Synagogue and Congregation  Tifereth  Israel
Community-Campaign,^<a.'.vand.has<participated in the
Wexner Heritage Foundation Leadership Development Program./
An attorney and partner
with the firm of Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn, Schottenstein is married to Janice
Kauffman Schottenstein and ,
they are the parents of Alissa, Leah and Joshua.
As a result of winning this
community award, Schottenstein will receive an all expense paid trip to the General Assembly of the Council
of Jewish Federations,
which will be held in Miami
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Exit Visas
Refuseniks
Premier Yitzhak Shamir
expressed hope that the
others, including such
prominent activists as Ida
Nudel and Vladimir Slepak,
will soon be allowed to leave.
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres sent congratulations
to Begun and Brailovsky.
"Your dedication to the idea
of the renaissance of the
Jewish people in its homeland is the great light illuminating our way," his
cable said.
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