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VOL.66   NO. 6
FEBRUARY 11,1988-SHEVAT 23
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Director Of NCSJ
Resigns Position
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Jerry Goodman, founding
executive director of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry, has announced
that he will leave the agency.
Goodman, who helped
organize the conference in
1971, said he intends to pursue other areas of professional endeavor.
Goodman announced his
intention to resign at the
group's executive committee meeting on Jan. 10. The
news was reported by NCSJ
Chairman Morris Abram the
following day, -at a meeting
of the group's board of
governors.
But the news was not made
public until more than two
weeks later. NCSJ press
spokesman Jerry Strober
said there was no particular
reason for the timing of the
announcement.
Goodman said that he was
influenced in his decision by
several important milestones in the Soviet Jewry
movement, including the
release of many long-term
refuseniks whom he had personally known and the success of the Dec. 6 Freedom
Sunday Mobilization in
Washington.
Goodman will, remain in
his position until a successor
is found and will serve as
adviser to the search committee appointed by Abram
to fill the job. Myrna Shin-
baum, NCSJ associate
director, remains in her
position.
B'nai B'rith To Examine Setting Up Shop
InUSSR
WASHINGTON (JTA) -B'nai B'rith International decided
recently to take the first steps towad establishing its presence in the Soviet Union. The B'nai B'rith board of governors, meeting at its headquarters here, made the decision
based on the sense that a large majority of the estimated two
million Soviet Jews would likely remain there because of
Soviet emigration policy. It is believed that no Jewish organization from abroad currently has an office in the Soviet
Union.
Views Of Presidential Candidates
Collected In AJCommittee Booklet
Rome's Jews Concerned
After Protestors Fight Jewish Youth
ROME (JTA) — Leaders of the Jewish community here
requested an urgent meeting with Interior Minister Amintore
Fanfani following recent fist fights between young Jews and
pro-Palestinian leftists outside the main synagogue in the
historic ghetto. Six people were injured before police broke
up the melee. The Jewish community has charged that the
leftists deliberately entered the ghetto after a march and
mass rally for the Palestinian cause in downtown Rome. The
rally, sponsored by the ultra-left Proletarian Democracy
Party, drew more than 8,000 people from all over Italy. Tne
party secretary, Giovanni Russo Spena, said his people entered the ghetto by mistake on their way to their buses and
were set upon by Jewish youths.
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Presidential candidates
from both major parties all
support a continued strong
U.S.-Israel alliance but
differ on how to advance the
Arab-Israel peace process as
well as on church-state issues, according to their responses to a questionnaire
distributed by the American
Jewish Committee.
Their short essay answers
to 14 questions on their positions on the Middle East,
U.S.-Sovtet relations and domestic issues traditionally
considered important to the
Jewish community are compiled in the booklet "Presidential Elections '88: The
Candidates on the Issues."
The questionnaire was
sent in September to all announced candidates for the
presidential nominations of
Democratic and Republican
parties, and was answered
by all of them: :
Vice President George
Bush, Sen. Robert Dole of
Kansas, former Gov. Pierre
duPont of Delaware, former
Secretary of State Alexander
Haig, Rep. Jack Kemp of
New York and former evangelist Pat Robertson, all Republicans; and former Gov.
Bruce Babbitt of Arizona,
Gov.  Michael  Dukakis  of
Joint Reform
The three Reform synagogues of greater. Columbus,
Temple Israel, Congregation
Beth Tikvah and Temple
Beth Shalom, will join
together for the annual Joint
Reform Sabbath Feb. 26-27.
This year, all events will
take place at Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 6121 Olentangy
River Rd., in- Worthington.
The rabbis and members of
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all three congregations will
lead the worship and join in
the program.
Mary Ellen Withrow,
forty-second treasurer of the
State of Ohio, will be presented with the State of Israel's 40th Anniversary
Medal at a dinner, March 15
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
State Treasurer To Receive
Israel's Anniversary Medal
velopment Corporation for
Israel, State of Israel Bonds,
in conjunction with the 40th
Anniversary of the State of
Israel.
Presenting the award to
Treasurer Withrow will be
Pinhas Dror, minister for:
Economic Affairs.
The only woman holding a
statewide elected office in
Ohio, Withrow was first
elected treasurer in 1982 an
re-elected in 1986. As
treasurer she is responsible
for having developed and instituted a variety of plans to
improve Ohio's economy and
strengthen the state's business environment:
"Mrs. Withrow recently
returned from Israel. She
was impressed with what
she saw and would like to encourage joint business ven-
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Mary Ellen Withrow
The dinner will be held
under the auspices of De1-
Rabbi Richard Address
The scholar-in-residence
for the Sabbath is Rabbi
Richard F. Address. Rabbi
Address is the regional
director of the Pennsylvania
Council of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations. He serves as the
national staff coordinator of
both the UAHC Committee
on the Synagogue as a
Caring Community and the
Committee on Bio-Ethics.
He is the recipient of the
UAHC National Social
Action Award and the
Human Relations Award of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
On Friday evening, Feb.
26, for the 8 p.m. service,
Rabbi Address will speak on
the theme "Bioethical Chal
lenges and the Jewish
Response." On Saturday
morning, following a breakfast at 9 a.m., he will discuss
the concept of "The Synagogue as a Caring Community." Rabbi Address has
been instrumental in helping
synagogues develop programs to become a "caring
community" for the less fortunate and will share his
insights.
The community is invited
and encouraged to participate in both the Friday and
Saturday programs. Call the
Beth Tikvah office; 885-6286,
by Feb. 19 as reservations
are required for the Saturday breakfast program.
Soviet Jewish
Emigration Dips
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (JTA)
— Soviet Jewish emigration
in January dropped almost
20 percent from the December figures, and Soviet Jewry officials are worried that
the deline and other indicators augur more difficult
times for refuseniks.
According to the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
722 Jews left the Soviet
Union in January, compared
to 899 Jews who emigrated in
December. The January
figures indicate the third
consecutive monthly drop in
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Massachusetts, Rep.
Richard Gephart of Missouri, Sen. Albert Gore of
Tennessee, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson and Sen. Paul
Simon of Illinois.
Former Sen. Gary Hart
(D-Colo.) was not then a candidate.
Two broad trends emerged
from the candidates' responses:
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AJC Names Fred Yenkin
Columbus Representative
sents my ideals."
Yenkin, who received his
masters degree in chemical
engineering from Ohio State
University in 1934, was president of the Zionist Organiza-
tin of America from 1948-51,
president of the Columbus
Hebrew School from 1948-52
and an officer of the Columbus Jewish Center from
1960-66. He is a member of
the Anti-Defamation
League, the NAACP and the
Masons and Shriners, He
was a board member of the
Planned Parenthood Association and the Columbus
Tuberculosis Society. He is a
member of.the Columbus
Athletic Club and the
Winding Hollow Country
Club.
Fred Yenkin, a past
president and campaign
chairman of the Columbus
Jewish Federation, has been
named the American Jewish
Congress representative to
the Jewish community of
Columbus, it was announced
by Henry Siegman, executive director of the organization, and Rabbi Haskell
Bernat, associate executive
director.
''A jCongress takes
courageous, forthright
stands on issues critical to
American and Jewish life,"
Yenkin said. "I'm honored to
be able to volunteer my time
to furthering the work of the
American Jewish Congress,
an organization that repre-
Jewish Community Campaign
Closing Luncheon Scheduled
For February 23 At Center
The 1988 Columbus Jewish
Community Campaign's culminating event, a Campaign
Closing Luncheon, will take
place on Tuesday, Feb. 23,
noon until 1:30 p.m. at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center.
"The next couple of weeks
are crucial to the Campaign
as we try to reach every
community member who
has not yet had the opportunity to make a commitment to
the 1988 Campaign," said
Norman L. Traeger, general
campaign chairman.
"During the course of the
luncheon we will pay tribute
to the hard work and dedication of our volunteers and
hear from those whose lives
have been touched by the
Campaign," said William
Glick, Campaign Closing
chairman.
"The Campaign is the lifeline of our Jewish community and is not complete
until we. have the opportunity to express our recognition and gratitude to those
who made it happen. It is because of the dedicated individuals who volunteer their
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