Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1988-01-07

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VOL.66   NO. 1
JANUARY 7,1988-TEVET17
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Yugoslav Envoy Says
Israel And Yugoslavia
Must Resume Relations
GENEVA (JTA) - Yugoslavia must resume full
diplomatic relations with Israel, contends the Yugoslav
ambassador to the United
Nations here, Marko Kosin.
''Yugoslavia recognized
the fact that Israel should
have a right for her sovereignty," said Kosin in the
first official interview given
by a high official from his
country to an Israel Journalist.
"Israel is a main factor in
the Middle East and there
can be no 'solution to the
Problem without Israel consent and participation.
Therefore, we have to improve our relations with Israel."
He said Yugoslav public
opinion and most member of
Parliament favor reestablishing relations with Israel.
Only the government is not
unanimous on the subject.
"We had prior to 1967 full
diplomatic relations and
therefore will re-establish
them as before," he said.
The. relations were broken
following the Six-Day War.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Senate Confirms Appointment
Of Jewish Envoy To Vienna
WASHINGTON (JTA) -The Senate last week confirmed
Henry Grunwald to be U.S. ambassador to Austria. He was
confirmed by voice vote without debate.
Should U.S. Jewry Take Unified
Or Pluralistic Stand On Peace?
Aide To Peres Named Israel's
Next Consul General In New York
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Uri Savir, a close aide to Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, has been named the next consul
general in New York, one of Israel's most important and
prestigious diplomatic postings. Savir, 33, who is presently
Peres' media adviser, will succeed Consul General Moshe
Yegar, who is slated to become Israel's ambassador to Sweden.
Argentine Justice Official Asks
Denaturalization For Schwammberger
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —An Argentine official has moved
to revoke the citizenship of Nazi war crimes suspect Josef
Schwammberger, the World Jewish Congress reported here.
Schwammberger is being held in La Plata pending a West
German extradition request on allegations that he was reson-
sible for the deaths of about 1,000 people, mostly Jews, while
he commanded two labor camps in occupied Poland during
World War II. "       '
Traeger: 'Next Three Weeks Critical"
To Jewish Community Campaign
"The next three weeks,
culminating with Super Sunday on Jan. 24th, are critical
to the success of the 1988
Jewish Community Campaign. There is every indication that we will have a
record setting year, reaching our goal of $6,456,000,"
announced Normal Traeger,
1988 General Campaign
chairman.
Traeger noted that while
this campaign year has been
marked by unprecedented
giving, there are still about
2,500 individuals who have
not yet made their 1988 Campaign pledge. A major effort
is now underway to contact
these individuals, with the
majority of the calls to be
made on Jan. 24.
Chaired by Dr. Ron Erkis,
the day-long fundraising
event will involve 150 volunteers. Those called will be
given an opportunity to learn
more about the Jewish Com
munity Campaign and its
beneficiaries and to make
their annual gifts to the
Campaign.
For the second year, the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
will serve as Super Sunday
headquarters and will coordinate Funday programs
and activities in the afternoon for the entire family,
focusing on an Israel Beach
Party theme in honor of Israel's upcoming 40th Anniversary.
"The campaign achievement to date is incredible,
but it is essential that we
have complete community
participation in order to
reach our goal. On behalf of
the '88 Campaign leadership,
I urge the entire community
to answer the call on Jan. 24,
thus helping to ensure Jewish strength and continuity
for our-fellow Jews in Columbus, Israel and around the
Norman Traeger
world," Traeger commented.
The Federation's annual
Jewish Community Campaign is the primary instrument for raising funds which
support humanitarian and
social service programs in
Columbus, throughout the
United States, in Israel and
33 countries worldwide.
For further information on
Super Sunday or the 1988
Jewish Community Campaign, contact the Columbus
Jewish Federation, 237-7686.
NEW YORK K JTA) - Do
American Jews have the
right to participate in the
internal Israeli debate on the
peace process?
Will the breakdown of the
unified Jewish stand on the
administered territories undermine the Jewish community's ability to project its influence in Washington and
help maintain a strong
U.S.-Israel relationship?
These questions have resurfaced in the wake of the
tough measures Israel
adopted to quell violent riots
in the Gaza Strip, the West
Bank and East Jerusalem.
On the one hand, the organized Jewish community,
reacted quickly to what
many perceived as an excessively critical reaction in the
American news media and
the supposedly evenhanded
U.S. government policy
statement blaming Israel
and the Palestinians in equal
measure for the disturbances.-
On the other hand, important voices within the Jewish
mainstream expressed
views that placed some of
the blame on Israel for failing to break the political impasse responbile for the
riots.
Statements issued by the
heads of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
Anti-Defamation League of '
B'nai B'rith, B'nai B'rith International and other groups
sought to shift culpability for
the riots to the Palestine
Liberation Organization and
Arab extremist refusal to
negotiate directly with Israel.
Morris Abram, chairman
of the President's Conference, said that the "continuing series of riots and acts of
violence" have been
"planned, instigated and incited by Palestinian terrorist
groups."
At the same time, leaders
of other mainstream Jewish
groups publicly gave voice to
a different analysis of the
crisis.
Rabbi Alexander Schin-
dler, president of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations, argued that the
riots "should shock" the Israeli government into the
realization that the status
quo .in the territories is inherently unstable and "corrodes the Jewish and democratic character of the
state,"
In line with the position
adopted at a UAHC conven:
tion in November, the Reform leader urged the Israeli
government to "seek and
find" partners for peace
negotiations.
His statement, expanded
into an op-ed article in The
New York Times, represented a departure from the
community norm, which
might be characterized as
circling the wagons whenever Israel is under assault.
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The Jewish Community
Blood Drive held on Dec. 24
at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center culminated in the
donation of 157 pints of blood
to the American Red Cross.
Co-Chairmen Richard'
Grundstein and Richard
Handler declared the event
successful, having passed
the goal of 150 pints.
This Blood Drive .was dedi
cated to the memory of
Charles Weinstein, president
of the Jewish Community
Blood Donor Council for the
past two years. Weinstein
died Dec. 10.
Among the participants of
the December Blood Drive
were many long-time givers.
Cantor Baruch Shifman of
Agudas Achim, who has donated over 100 pints of blood
to the American Red Cross,
said he began donating while
he was in the Israeli army.
He became a regular giver,
however, while in South
Africa in 1973.
"During the Yom Kippur
War I saw Jews and non-
Jews (in Johannesburg)
giving blood to Israel. From
that time on, I gave blood
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Although there have always been groups on the
fringes of the community advocating controversial positions on the Arab-Israeli dispute, the development of an
openly pluralistic community debate on the peace
process is of recent vintage.
Traditionally, whenever
Israeli security — no matter'
how broadly defined — was
directly involved, American
Jews tended to defer to the
Israeli government, which
was seen as enjoying a
"higher authority."
Jews felt that Israelis, who
would have to live with the
consequences of any proposed action (or inaction),
should have riot only the last,
but the only, word on the subject And until the Lebanon
war, there appeared to be a
solid bipartisan consensus in
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oTLech^.cj, Jewish Community Blood Drive Reaches Goal, 157 Pints
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January 11, 1988:
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