Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1988-03-10

              Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL. 66   NO. 10
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Rabbi Gifter
To Speak At
BJ.'Siyum'
Robert Binsky,' president
of the Beth Jacob congregation, announces that Rabbi
Mordechai Gifter, Talmudic
scholar and Rosh Yeshiva of
Telshe Rabbinical College in
Cleveland, will be the guest
speaker at a siyum (the completion of Tractate Megillah)
to be held on Tuesday,
March 22.
This will be the third time
that Rabbi Gifter has addressed Beth Jacob on the
occasion of completing a
Talmudic volume. In Feb.
1981, he led in the siyum of
Tractate-Brachot; in 1985 he
spoke at the siyum of volume
Kiddushin. He also gave the
keynote address when the
community mikveh was
.dedicated at Beth Jacob in
1971, and he spoke at Religious Emphasis Week program in the early 1960s.
Rabbi Mordechai Gifter
Rabbi Gifter is a native of
Connecticut and attended
Yeshiva University in New
York City. Prior to the
.Second World War, he undertook advanced Talmudic
studies in Telz, Lithuania.
He is a frequent contributor
to numerous Talmudic
Torah journals. He serves on
the Board of Trustees of
Torah Umesorah, the
national organization of the
day school movement. Rabbi
Gifter is also a frequent contributor to the ArtScroll
Bible series.
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Public Jewish Criticism Of Israel
Harmful, Warn Shamir And Abram
The Passport '88 logo gives a hint of the evening's
special theme. The event will be held on April 23 at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Passport 588 To Continue
Gala Tradition At Center
Momentum is steadily
building for Passport '88, the
gala set for Saturday evening, April 23 at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center. Ina
Sue Rosenthal, Passport '88
chairwoman, says the evening prohiises'to be ''even bigger and better than last
year's premiere!" She
reports that a. special, cash
prize of $1,000 this year will
make the evening even more
enticing.
"Once again, the Center
will come alive with a dynamite evening filled with
music, dancing, fabulous
decorations and. exotic food, ';■
as well as casino activities
and both live and silent auctions," she reports.
The food will have a
special international theme,
and auction items will include trips, weekend getaways, fashions, "fantasies," electronics, original
artwork 7arid other s,elec-
•tionsje';;.: 7 7'..
^ipj^uction items will be
quality items.of good value,"
Rosenthal notes. One of the
new developments this year
is that the live auction will be
held in the Roth/Resler
Theatre, which will accommodate the anticipated
crowd.
Last April, more than 500
people joined in on what was
billed as the Center's "event
of the year," says Rosenthal.
"Now excitement for
another Passport, again with
•something for everyone,' is
building again."
All proceeds from the
event, sponsored by the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center and
Saint Anthony Medical
Center/Saint Anthony Mercy
Hospital, benefit Jewish
Center programs and services.
Preparations for the gala
have been under way for
several months, and invito-'
tions are currently being
mailed to the community.
For more information about
Passport '88 or to make a do
nation of an item or service
to the live or silent auction,
call Jeff Gutterman at the
Jewish Center, 231-2731.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Premier Yitzhak Shamir
warned American Jewish
leaders last week that criticism by diaspora Jewish organizations of Israeli
policies "does much more
harm than any . . . violent
demonstrations in Gaza and
elsewhere."
Addressing the closing of
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations'four-day mission to Israel, Shamir said,
"It is inconceivable that,
God forbid, any American
Jews would permit themselves to be used in this campaign against us, even if they
have criticism or doubts of
their own with regard to
some of Israel's policies and
practices."
Shamir returned twice to
the subject during questioning by conference'delegates, who hosted him at a
reception at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel on Mount
Scopus here.
Describing himself as "a
firm believer in unity" and
the American Jewish com-
Itzhak Perlman Concert A Highlight Of
Community's 'Israel 40' Celebration
On Wednesday evening,
May 11, at 18 p.m., Itzhak
Perlman, one of the premier
violinists in the world, will
perform in concert at the
Ohio Theatre.
The concert is sponsored
by the Columbus Association
for- the Performing; 'Arts,
with a section of orchestra
■seats reserved for ticket
sales through the "Israel 40"
Celebration of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center.
Following the concert,
there will be a reception for
"Israel 40" ticket holders in
the Galbreath Pavilion, to
which Perlman has been
invited. The chairwoman for
the concert is Karen Moss,
and the reception will be
chaired by Diane Cummins.
Tickets will go on sale at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center's Box Office on Wednesday, March 16, at 10 a.m.
There is limited seating
available, and everyone is
encouraged to purchase tickets well in advance of the
performance. "The concert
is expected to be a sell-out,"
reports Moss.
. The ticket price is $50 per
person (this includes the
concert as well as the reception) '. Separate tickets to the
reception will only be sold to
CAPA subscribers, who may
purchase a reception ticket
for $25. Tickets can be purchased in persbnat the Jewish Center's Box Office or by
MasterCard or VISA over
the telephone by calling
235-2058.
Itzhak Perlman
"Israel 40" celebration
corporate sponsors include
BancOhio National Bank,
Bank One Columbus, Cardinal Industries, Huntington
National Bank and Nation-
THE WORLD'S WEEK
U.S. Holocaust Museum To Exchange
Materials, Services With Yad Vashem
WASHINGTON (JTA) -The U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council and Yatt Vashem, the world's only two national Holocaust institutions, last month agreed to their first official exchange of materials and services. The agreement comes less
than a year after the council's agreement with the Polish
government archives to exchange materials. Sam Eskenazi,
council spokesman, said negotiations are under way to sign
agreements with other countries, but he would not disclose
any names.
wide Insurance Company.
For more information
about the performance/
reception, call the Jewish
Center's Box Office at
235-2058.
'Corps Of Service'
Seeking Volunteers
Jews in Ethiopia, urgently
need a physician.
A young kibbutz in the
Israeli desert is looking for a
business analyst to help
attract a viable industry.
Jews in Costa Rica are
looking for a Jewish teacher
for their children.
The Jewish community of
Switzerland requires a
French-speaking person to
run formal and informal
educational programs.
To fill the needs of these
and other Jewish communities around the world, the
Corps of Service to the Jewish People has been established by the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations "to lift the Jewish
spirit and literacy of needful
communities," according to
Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, UAHC president.
The Corps of Service was
proposed by Rabbi Schindler
and adopted by the Reform
Jewish movement late last
year.
The new program is open
to Jewish communities
regardless of ideological affiliation and has already elicited requests from Jewish
communities on^ four
continents.
Rabbi Daniel Syme, vice-
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munity as "a bastion in Israel's defense," Shamir said
that Arab opponents of Israel were using disagreement among Jews in "driving a wedge between Israel
and American Jewry and
then between Israel and the
United States."
Several American Jewish
organizations including Presidents Conference members
the American Jewish Congress, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
and the Central Conference
of American Rabbis have
publicly criticized reported
indiscriminate beatings of
Palestinian protestors by Israel Defense Force troops.
But they and 49 other U.S.
Jewish organization signed a
Feb. 4 statement in support
of Israel coordinated by the
conference.
Shamir made his remarks
following a statement in
which conference chairman
Morris Abram reiterated
that "Israel's policy is to
exercise restraint in responding to the acts of vip-
lence its soldiers face each 7
day."
The conference statement
also called the Mideast diplomatic mission of U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz a
"highly positive and hopeful '
new development" and the
current situation in Israel
"unacceptable" and resolvable only by political
means.
In an interview last Thursday, Abram said, "I reject
the idea that Jews don't have
a right" to speak out against
Israeli policy, "but 1
strongly suggest that there
are better ways, more effective ways and more prudential ways of doing it.
"The best way of doing it is '
to talk to the Israelis directly," said Abram, maintaining that no American
Jewish leader is denied access to the upper levels of Israeli government.
Abram, a lawyer and
chairman of the National
Conference of Soviet Jewry,
spoke in glowing terms of a
briefing given delegates at -
the IDF central command
base in Samaria, north of
Jerusalem.
The organization presidents heard Gen. Amram
Mitzna and officers and soldiers stationed in the territories describe their roles in
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