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DECEMBER 24,1987-TEVET 3
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
B J. Rebbe's Tisch
To Be Held Dec. 26
It's still not too late to
make reservations for the
second Beth Jacob Congregation Rebbe's Tisch to be
held this Saturday, Dec. 26.
Those who would like to attend should call 237-8641
immediately.
The program is a family-
oriented one which encompasses various features of
Shabbos. Participants will
hear a D'var Torah, enjoy,
zemirot (songs) led by Cantor Epstein and Dr. Alfred
Golding, test Rabbi David
Stavsky with an "Ask The
Rabbi" session and be
treated to a Chassidic story
as told by Joel Stavsky.
Those who attend will be
served a hot cholent and
other Shabbos delicacies.
The Rebbe's Tisch received an award several
years ago at the National
Convention of the OUJC
when it was featured as a
unique and creative Torah
educational program.
Reservations for the Tisch
are required and must be
made in advance. Cost is $4
adults and $2 children.
Security Measures In Territories
Create Image Problem For Israel
At last year's "Mishpacha Day," at the Jewish
Center families participated in creative craft activities.
'Mishpacha Day'for Families Set
For December 25 At Jewish Center
"Share-a-Shabbos" and
share the family fun at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center's Mishpacha Day, this
Friday, Dec. 25, invites J.J.
Alter of the Jewish Center.
Mishpacha Day is a program designed specifically
for Jewish Center families to;
gather on a traditionally1
non-Jewish day. This year's
program will be filled with
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special Shabbat activities,
including challah baking,
candle making and craft
acitvities. Also included is a
family-style lunch and the
showing of a family film.
Families with children of
all ages are encouraged to
attend this day. The program is scheduled from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be
held at the Jewish Center.
Cost for the day is $2.50 per
adult and $1.50 per child.
Registration can be made at
r- the front desk 'ofthe Center.
For more information, call
Alter at the Center, 231-2731.
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel faced challenges on the
diplomatic, domestic and _
propaganda fronts last week '
as it tried to quell the worst
outbreaks of violence in 20
years in the Gaza Strip and
West Bank.
Friendly Western
countries, including the United States, Britian and West
Germany, have expressed
concern and displeasure
over the mounting toll of
Palestinian dead and
wounded in clashes with the
Israel Defence Force. Similar felings were conveyed by
Mohammad Bassiouny, the
ambassador of Egypt, the
only Arab country at peace
with Israel.
Menawhiie, unrest is East
Jerusalem, linked to events
in the territories, has spread
to Israel's normally
quiescent Arab population.
Peaceful demonstrations
of solidarity with their peers
in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip were held in Nazareth,
the largest Arab township in
Israel, and, in several Arab :
villages Dec. 16. They were,
organized by the Democratic
Front for Peace and Equality, a front of Israel's Communist Party.
At the same time, the National Committee of Arab
Mayors, considered the most
influential Arab organization in Israel, has urged the
government to leave the territories to put an end to the
bloodshed..The mayors are
considering calling a general
strike in sympathy with the
West Bank and Gaza Arabs.
In addition, Israel is facing
an image problem that may
be as serious as the one during the Lebanon war in 1982.
For more than a week now,
television and front-page
newspaper photographs all
over the world have shown
IDF troops in full battle gear
roughing up Palestinian
rioters.
The Reagan administration has already told Israel
at the highest levels that it
opposes many of its actions
in the territories. United
States Ambassador Thomas
Pickering met with Premier
Yitzhak Shamir <tb discuss
the situation.
Shamir expressed Israel's
regret for the loss of lives,
but he blamed the Palestine
Liberation Organization and
"Arab inciters"! for aggravating the situation.
He stressed to the American envoy that the IDF and
the police are exercising
maximum restraint to avoid
clashes with the local population and expressed confidence that the territories
will soon be calm.
In Washington, visiting
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin made similar statements Wednesday. He insisted that Israel would not
bow to pressure from hostile
elements.
In The Chronicle
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At The Center  U
At The Federation    4
Classified  12
Editorial Features .   1,2,16
Fifty Years Ago   H
Here And There 10
Marketplace 13
Obituaries 12
Social News 10
Synagogue Services 12
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FEATURE.
The Night The (Chanukah) Lights
Went Out At Broad And High
Governor Richard F. Celeste accepts the final report
from the Ohio Council on Holocaust Education. The
Council's report contains three major recommendations for institutionalizing the teaching of the Holocaust. From left to right are Co-Chair Max Friedman,
Cleveland; Governor Celeste, and Co-Chair Dagmar:
Celeste, Ohio's first lady. Photo by Steve Harrison.
Governor Celeste Receives Report From
Ohio Council On Holocaust Education
The Ohio Council on Holocaust Education last week
presented its final report to
Governor Richard F. Celeste
—recommending that a center for Holocaust education
activities and a position of
coordinator for that center
be created in Ohio.
The council's report also
recommended that:
• curriculum identified by
the Ohio Council of Holocaust ; Education be made
available to teachers for use
throughout Ohio, and
'■:■• teacher training programs on Holocaust education be provided at selected
colleges and universities
throughout Ohio.
"I believe that council's
emphasis on education and
recommending ways to institutionalize the teaching of
the Holocaust is the right
course to take — a course
that reflects our commitment to peace education and
the non-violent resolution of
conflict," the Governor said.
In accepting the report,
the Governor noted that "in
a December some 39 years
ago — not unlike today, as
Christians were preparing
for Christmas and Jews
were celebrating Chanukah
—the Jews in Nazi Germany
were banned from universities,
"But I point; this out to you
— you who know and have
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By Judith Pier Franklin
News Editor
. By 10 last Friday night,
Dec. 18, the newest addition
to holiday decorations at the
Ohio Statehouse was gone.
The Chabad/Lubavitch-
sponsored menorah, which
was erected on the Statehouse grounds last week
and lit for the first time
Thursday, Dec. 17, was hurriedly dismantled after
numerous complaints about
its presence on public property were received.
The complaints came from
a wide cross-section of the
community, from Jews and
Christians alike, according
to Ann Zeller, executive
director of the Ohio office of
the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU).
This was just one of the
many skirmishes, which
have been occuring nationwide, in what some are calling the' "war of the symbols." At issue, according to
a recent Jewish Telegraphic
Agency report, is a fundamental question of constitutional rights and a restatement of the basic Chanukah
theme: "What is the best
way to protect the religious
freedom of the minority, despite the symbolic and cultural influence of the majority?"
Lubavitch, the Brooklyn-
based Hasidic sect also
known as Chabad, maintains
that the best way to protect
Jewish rights is by insuring
"equal treatment." They
contend that a Constitution
that allows Christmas trees
and other holiday decorations to be displayed on
public property should protect the lighting of menorahs
there, also.
For other groups, like the
ACLU and such major Jew-
ish  organizations  as  the
AJCongress and the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith (ADL), the answer is
to remove all religious symbols .— crosses, creches and
menorahs—from public property and government buildings.
The controversy centers
on the issue of the separation
of church and state and the
definition of what constitutes
a religious symbol V
According to Rabbi Chaim
Capland of the Chabad
House of Tradition on The
Ohio State University campus, the organization which
erected the menorah, "fair
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is fair." To him, trie
presence of a Christmas tree
on the Statehouse lawn and
Christmas carols in the Rotunda means that Jewish
symbols, like the menorah,
have an equal right to be
represented. He feels that
"paranoia on the part of
some of my co-religionists"
and pressure from "Jewish
organizations like the AJC,
ADL and ACLU," caused the
State Department of Administrative Services to rescind permission for display
of the menorah. "We protect
the rights of Nazis to march
but not Jews to put up
menorahs," Rabbi Capland
points out. "I'm not a rabble
rouser, but I've got to do
what I've got toxlo. Those organizations don't represent
the rank and file of the Jewish community."
He feels those organizations don't represent all
members of the Christian
community, either, as evidenced as by the large number of telephone calls and
messages received after the
articles about the menorah
appeard in the Columbus
Dispatch. Callers expressed
-* dismay at the menorah's re-
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