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VOL.65   NO.49
NOVEMBER 26,1987-KISLEV 5
Devoted to American
and Jowlsh Ideals.
Should Have Checked On Waldheim
Says Austrian Who Nominated Him
Carole Genshaft and Nathan Gordon have been
appointed chairpersons of the community's Israel 40
Program Planning Committee.
Genshaft, Gordon To Chair
Celebration For 'Israel 40'
"Through the combined
efforts of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, in honor of Israel's 40th
birthday, we are planning
the most dynamic and exciting Israel celebration this
community has ever experienced," commented Carole
Genshaft, chairwoman of the
Israel 40 Program Planning
Committee of the Columbus
Jewish community.
The community's Israel 40
program will begin in April
during the week of Israel's
40th birthday. The community will celebrate with a variety of educational and cultural programs for children
and adults that will continue
during the following weeks.
Some of the activities of
the Israel 40 program will
include: speakers and discussions, education in the
schools' (both public and
Jewish), special cultural
events, children's activities
and other programs that will
give community members of
all ages a "taste of Israel,"
"Our committees have
begun working to plan this
exciting program, and it's
extremely gratifying to see
our community work together to make this special
birthday celebration a
memorable and stimulating
exjierierice—one that we will
all be proud to have had a
party in!" noted Genshaft.
Serving with Genshaft is
Nathan Gordon, program
vice-chairman. Genshaft
and Gordon were appointed
by B. Lee Skilken, Columbus
Jewish Federation president, and David Milenthal,
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
president.
Genshaft currently serves
on the boards of both the
Federation and the Jewish
Center. She has served on
several committees of the
Israel Department of the
Columbus Jewish Federation, including the Programs
on Israel Committee, and is
currently the chairwoman of
the Israel Department. She
has also served as chairwoman of the Center's Adult
Services Committee and the
Community College for
Adult Jewish Studies.
Gordon also serves on both
the Federation and the
Jewish Center boards. He is
currently the president of
the OSU B'nai B'rith Hillel
Board of Trustees.
"Israel 40" is a jointly
sponsored project of the
Columbus Jewish Federation and the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center.
For more information on
the project, contact Michael
Hopkins at the Center,
231-2731, or Meryl Weissmann at the Federation,
237-7686.
VIENNA (JTA)-Former
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of
Austria has admitted he
erred When he proposed Kurt
Waldheim for the office of
United Nations secretary
general in the early 1970s.
The World Jewish Congress reports that Kreisky
told a packed lecture audience at a Vienna concert
hall that he had failed to gather detailed information
about Waldheim.s Nazi past.
Kreisky, a leader of the
Austrian Socialist Party and
a non-practicing Jew, served
as chancellor from 1970-83.
Waldheim was elected president of Austria in July 1986,
having served as U.N. secret
tary general from 1972-82.
"I proposed and supported
the candidacy of an official
of the Foreign Ministry
(Waldheim) for the job of
U.N. secretary general who
quite obviously had not told
the truth about himself,"
Kreisky said.
He hinted that the United
States and the Soviet Union,
which both supported Waldheim for secretary general,
knew more about his past
than he had.
•Waldheim concealed for 40
years the fact that he had
been an intelligence officer
with the German army in the
Balkans during World War
II. His unit was involved in
the deportation of Greek
Jews and atrocities against
partisans and civilians in
Yugoslavia. Its commanding
general was hanged as a war
criminal in 1947.
Waldheim's connection
was exposed during his
presidential election campaign, largely through the
efforts of the World Jewish
Congress. He won a landslide victory. It emerged
later that Waldheim's name
is in the files of the Allied
War Crimes Commission,
among some 25,000 Class A
suspects on whom there is
sufficient evidence to warrant prosecution.
The files" of the long defunct commission were
turned over to.the United Nations when its investigations
were completed and are now
kept at the U.N. archives in
midtown Manhattan.
Until recently they were
accessible only to governments of member states. But
after persistent appeals by
Orthodox Rabbis To Gather
In Columbus December 1,2
Rabbi David Stavsky, vice
president of the Rabbinic
Alumni of The Yeshiva University, said that over 35
rabbis will gather in Columbus for a two-day seminar
sponsored by the Max Stern
division of Communal Services of the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva
University. The seminar will
be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 1 and 2, and
will take place at Beth Jacob
Congregation and Agudas
Achim Synagogue. Rabbi
Stavsky said that this will be
the largest convocation of
orthodox rabbis held in
Columbus in the history of
the city. Rabbi Alan Ciner is
the co-chairman of the conference.
The opening session will be
held on Tuesday with Rabbi
Edward A. Garseck of
Toledo, chairman. Rabbi
David Indich of Cincinnati
will give D'Var Torah to be
followed by a workshop on
"The Halachic Implications
of Gairus and Intermarriage
for Synagogue and School."
Speakers will be Rabbi
Moishe Kletmk, chairman
and presenters Rabbi Chaim
Hisegar of Columbus and.
Reuvan Drucker of Detroit,
Mich.
The two session "Am
Echod, Diversity vs. Uniformity," will feature Rabbi
Sam Fox, chairman, and
presentors Rabbi Yakov
Feitman, Rabbi Melvin
Granatstein and Rabbi
Simcha Weinberg.
Rabbi Moses Tendler will
then present a shiur on the
subject of "Gezerot V'Tak-
anot Rabbinic Decrees and
Inactments." Chairman will
be Rabbi Alan Schnall.
Following the evening services, a dinner for rabbis
and special guests will be
held at Beth Jacob Synagogue. Rabbi David Stavsky
will be chairing the session.
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Israel, the 17 former members of tfye war crimes commission agreed to open the
files containing dossiers on
more than 40,000 Nazi war
criminals, to scholars, re-
searchers, historians and
journalists.
Waldheim has been placed
on the "watch list" of the
U.S. Department of Justice
as an alien to be denied
admission to the U.S.
Sharansky Visits Columbus
To Promote Participation In
Mobilization For Soviet Jewry
As of presstime on Monday
evening, Nov. 23, former
Soviet Prisoner of Conscience Natan Sharansky
was scheduled to visit
Columbus on Tuesday, Nov.
24, as part of a nation-wide
campaign to ensure that
Jewish emigration and
human rights for Jews in the
Soviet Union continue to
remain on the U.S.^oviet
agenda,
A rally for the community,
including OSU students and
faculty, numerous state and
local government officials,
was to be held at 8 p.m., in
the Ohio Union Ballroom at
Ohio State University, Tlie
rally was co-sonsored by the
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at OSU, Community
Relations Committee of the
Columbus Jewish Federation and the Ohio-Drake
Unions Activities.
Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Chronicle
had to go to press on Monday
evening and was unable to
include extended coverage
of the rally in this week's
paper. It will, however, be
covered in depth in next
week's issue.
Sharansky, a Soviet Jewish dissident and human
rights activist, who served
seven years in Soviet prisons
and labor camps after being
convicted of "treason" and
"anti-Soviet agitation and
propaganda," walked into
West Berlin and freedom
from East Germany on Feb.
11,1986, His release had been
negotiated and agreed upon
at the November 1985 Summit Meeting between President Ronald Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. His plight
had mobilized Jewish activists and human rights advocates throughout the world;
Sharansky's name became
synonymous with Soviet
human rights violations and
the harsh realties pf life, {or
Jews in the Soviet Union.
Sharansky is promoting
participation in the National
Mobilization for Soviet
Jewry in Washington, D.C.
on Sunday, Dec. 6. A Columbus contingency of over 344
people will take a chartered
jumbo jet to join more than
100,000 others in Washington.
Jews and non-Jews from all
over the United States will
march and peacefully demonstrate on the eve of the
Reagan/Gorbechev Summit
meeting.
"Seats are going fast on
the jet bound for Washington
D.C. on Dec. 6.1 urge everyone to join us and participate
in the Summit Rally. Send in
your applications and payment beforeall the seats are
taken!" said Miriam Yenkin, chairwoman of the
Columbus Mobilization for
Soviet Jewry. Yenkin will
lead the Columbus contingent to march in the nation's
capital.
Members of every congregation and major Jewish organization and agency will
be participating and all are
fully behind the mobilization, Yenkin said.
To show their support for
rights for Jews and others in
the Soviet Union, Columbus
area leaders will be joining
in the mobilization, including Ohio Governor Richard
Celeste; Amos Lynch Sr.,
general  manager  of  the
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