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VOL.65   NO.43
OCTOBER 15.1987-TISHREI22
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Veterans Sabbath
Set For Nov. 13
At Temple Israel
Post #122, Jewish War
Veterans, announces that
there will be a Veterans Sabbath at Temple Israel at 8
p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, with
an oneg following. Rabbi
Bradley N. Bleefeld will be
the speaker.
The community is invited
to attend.
For further information
about any of the Jewish War
Veterans programs, contact
Edmond Schecter, commander, at 221-4544 or 239-8530.
Temple Beth Shalom
To Hold Art Auction
Temple Beth Shalom will
once again be sponsoring its
Art Expo and Auction.
This year's event, on
Saturday, Oct. 17, will begin
with a public preview party
at 7 p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center. Wine,
cheese and dessert will be
served as guests have an
opportunity to view the artworks to be auctioned. The
bidding will begin at 8 p.m.
with starting bids as low as
$25 and works ranging
upwards to $2,500.
The collection to be auctioned includes works by'
Picasso, Chagall, Miro,
Matisse, Kaufman, Amen,
Calder; Mingolla, Lebadang,
Dali, Yu and Vickers. Works
in a variety of styles and
media will be available:
original signed lithographs,
paintings, etchings, oils,
watercolors and enamels.
Works, for the auction are
being supplied by Marlin Art j
Inc. of Deek Park, N.Y.
Tickets are available from
Beth. Shalom for $4 per person in advance of the auction
and $5 at the door. For more
information, call the Temple
at 231-4598.      V
Proceeds from the auction
will be used to support the
many programs and ser^
vices Temple Beth Shalom
provides for the community
and its membership.
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Nudel Granted Permission
To Leave Soviet Union
Pictured above at the dedication of tlie Leona ahd I
Gilbert Master Family Tennis Complex at the Jewish
Center on Oct. 11 are ipr. Bernard Master (background) and (I. to r.) his parents Leona and Dr. Gilbert
,. Master,'for whom the complex is named, and Ted
Fisher, Jewish Center vice president.
Jewish Center Dedicates
Gilbert And Leona Master
Family Tennis Complex
Trustees of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125
College Ave., dedicated the
Center's new $150,000 family
tennis complex on Sunday,
Oct. 11, with a day-long
schedule of events wrapped
around a 6 p.m. formal dedication ceremony.
Dr. Bernard F. Master, a
local physician and presi-
deht of Health Power, Inc., a
statewide health maintenance organization based in
Columbus, was the major
financial contributor to the
project, which is named The
Gilbert and Leona Master
Family Tennis Complex in
honor of his parents.
Other donors to the new
facility included Dr. Elliott
Feldman,, Merilyn and Tom
Kaplan, Mr. and Mrs. David
Roth, Frances and Irving
Schottenstein, Lenore and
Melvin Schottenstein, B. Lee
Skilken, Morris Skilken,
Joan and Jack Wallick and
Herb Wolman,
The new facility is part of
an ongoing capital improvement program at the Jewish
Center and includes four of
the finest lighted hardcourt
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JERUSALEM (JTA) - "I
am not a refusenik anymore," a joyous Ida Nudel
told reporters in a telephone
interview from Moscow last
week. But she does not
believe her exit visa signals
a new policy of the Kremlin
toward Soviet Jews.
Nudel, 56, was told by the
Soviet authorities that she
will be allowed to leave the
USSR to join her sister,
Elana Fridman, in Israel,
whom she has not seen for 16
years. He name reportedly
headed the list of. former
Prisoners of Conscience
which Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres gave Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze when they
met in New York Sept. 23.
But she feels the Soviets
are using her and other
prominent refuseniks recently granted exit visas to
achieve certain diplomatic
goals and improve their
image. "In ancient times,
the Pharaohs used to please
the ; chiefs of neighboring
countries with very exotic
things," Nudel said. "I feel
that I am a white crocodile. I
was used to please Mr.
Reagan and Mr. Shultz before a meeting of the superpowers.''
Observers here tended to
agree. They suggested Nudel
was granted her visa on the
eve of Yom Kippur because
of the added public relations
impact. Nudel, an engineer-
economist, was in Moscow
for a hearing for permission
to resume residence there
after being forced for five
years to live in the Moldavian city of Bendery. Before
that she lived in exile in
Siberia from 1978-82.
But instead of getting her
Moscow residency permit,
she was summoned by
Rudolf Kutznetsov, head of
the Moscow OVIR (emigration bureau) and told to re-
. turn to Bendery to get her
papers in order because she
had permission to emigrate.
Nudel told the Israeli reporters that it will take
several weeks before she
leaves for Israel, due mainly
to the volume of paper work.
"I will not remain here even
one extra moment," she
said. "I am so excited I want
to cry. I am looking forward
Women's American CRT To Honor Karen Moss
Women's American ORT
(Organization for Rehabilitation through Training), Columbus Region, will hold its
Donor Luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the home of
Helene Lehv, 78 Park Dr., in
Bexley. The Donor Luncheon
is being planned for people
who pledge a minimum of
$100 to ORT during the year.
The Golden Donor level is
, $250. Co-Chairwomen of the
event are Kathi Wolinetz and
Diane Zeidman.
At the luncheon, Karen
Moss will be honored as the
1987-88 Friend of ORT. The
"Friend of ORT" award is
presented tp a member of
the Columbus community
who represents the ideals for
which Women's American
ORT strives. Moss is a community leader and an activist on Soviet Jewry issues.
She is currently on the
Executive Committee and
the Board of Trustees of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), in
New York. In addition, she
serves on the NCSJ Travel
Committee, briefing American travelers on travel to the
Soviet Union.
Last February, Moss
served as a delegate to the
Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe, held
in Vienna, Austria. The Conference dealt with an international review of the Helsinki Accords. * Moss has
traveled to the Soviet Union
where she met with Jewish
activists in Moscow.i Kiev
and Leningrad.
Currently, she is a member of the Columbus Jewish
Federation Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Community
Relations Committee.
to come home, to Israel."
She added, ."I am beginning to accept the fact that I
am not a refusenik any
more. Most of all, I want to
be a normal Israeli citizen
and take my place in Israeli
society. And I will, of course,
work for the release of all
my friends who I will be
leaving behind."
Moss formerly chaired the
CRC's Soviet and Overseas
Jewry Task Force and
served as past vice-chairwoman on Soviet Jewry for
tlie. United Jewish Appeal
(UJA) National. Young
Women's Leadership Cabinet.1 Nationally, Moss is a
board member of the American Zionist Youth Foundation. She is a member of
JAC-PAC, the Joint Action
Committee for Political Affairs — the only national
Jewish women's PAC (political action committee) for Is-
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Attempting to ease secular-religious tensions, Rabbi
Benjamin Levene will present "The Four Faces of
Israel," on Oct. 31st at Agudas Achim. From left
(clockwise) are a Chasidic rabbi from Mea Shearim,
an Egged bus driver, an American tourist and a
French artist.
Agudas Achim To Present
'The Four Faces Of Israel'
The Agudas Achim Synagogue will present "The
Four Faces of Israel," an internationally acclaimed performance by Rabbi Benjamin Levene, assistant director general of Gesher, on
Saturday, Oct. 31 at 8:30
p.m. in Che Silberstein Social
Hall, announced Naomi
Schottenstein, chairwoman
of the Program Committee.
The religious-secular
polarization "is the most
serious problem facing Israel today, a problem that
could, G-d forbid, create a
civil war in the country,"
said Rabbi Levene in a re^
cent interview.
The problems "are no one
person's or one group's
fault; it's everyone together,
and the solution must come
from everyone together"
maintained Rabbi Levene.
There are no easy solu
tions,," he said, "no magic
formulas to make it all
okay." But Gesher is doing
what it can, mainly in the
form of education programs
aimed at Israel's youth, to
ease the tensions.
. Despite — or perhaps because of—the serious nature
of the conflict, one tactic
Gesher has selected to tackle
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