Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1988-03-17

              -Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL. 66   NO. 11
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Second Annual
Singles Weekend
ToBeHeldAtHyatt
The second annual Singles
Weekend, "Say Hello Columbus 88, Regency Rendezvous," will be held March
25-27 at the Hyatt Regency at
The Ohio Center.
"The weekend promises
opportunities for the Jewish
singles to meet new people,
develop Jewish awareness
and share ideas and interests," say co-chairpersons Cari Shore and Barry
Nateman. "The excitement
begins Friday evening at the
Oneg Shabbat at the Hyatt."
On Saturday, March 26,
the "Wonderful Workshops"
include topics on Intimacy,
Relaxation, Jewish Values,
Shyness, Careers and Lpv-
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In Wake Of Super Tuesday Races,
Jewish Vote Is Still Up For Grabs
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Israel's Defense Minister Yitzak Rabin and Rabbi
Bradley Bleefeld; of Temple Israel, shake hands during'^ Tecent National Israel Bond Rabbinic Briefing
held'in Jerusalem:
Leslie Wexner Selected To Receive
Temple Israel Humanitarian Award
Leslie H. Wexner, founder,
president and chairman of
the Board of the Limited,
Inc. has been selected to
receive Temple Israel's
Humanitarian Award. The
award will be presented at
Sabbath Services on Friday,
March 25, at 8 p.m. at the
Temple.
The award, given annually
since 1949 by the Temple
Board of Trustees upon nomination of the Honors Committee, recognizes those citizens of Franklin County
whose concern for the community and love of humanity
are an example to everyone.
Wexner's impact on Cen-
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tral Ohio, as well as the
national  and  international
scene, is well known. In the
White House Welcomes Senators'
Letter Of Concern About Shamir
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The White House welcomed
last week a letter by 30 senators to Secretary of State
George Shultz implying that
Israeli Premier Yitzhak
Shamir was obstructing the
peace effort in the Middle
East by opposing Shultz's
land-for-peace formula.
The letter/signed by many
of Israel's most staunch supporters in the Senate, also
criticized Jordan for "backing away" from its earlier
support of a Jordanian-
Palestinian delegation to
negotiate with Israel.
"The views of these senators are helpful to us and
probably instructive to other
parties in the region," White
House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater s^id.
''The' administration, of
course, welcomes the support and actyice from this
group; they are senators of
considerable stature and interests and involvement in
Middle East affairs."
Fitzwater, however, declined to comment on
Shamir's views. "We'll have
to undergo any number of
discussions in the weeks
ahead," he said.
. Meanwhile, Jewish groups
have criticized the letter as
interfering in Israel's
domestic affairs. The Zionist
Organization of America's
executive committee released a statement saying
the senators' criticism "will
only serve to embolden the
enemies of Israel, the Jewish
people and the' American-
Israel alliance."
- Rabbi Milton Polin, president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America,
said the letter "is ill-timed
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city of Columbus, he has
seryed on the Board of Directors'- of the Columbus.
Area Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Urban
League and the Capital
South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation.
He has served as a trustee of
the Columbus Symphony
Orchestra and the Columbus
Museum of Art and as chairman of The Ohio State University Foundation.
Wexner*has been a major
force in upgrading the giving
levels of both theUnited Way
and United Jewish Appeal
campaigns and his Wexner
Art Fund, established in
1986, is a leader in funding
local art organizations. Additionally, in support of Ohio
State University and as an
" indjcation of his faith and
confidence in Central Ohio,
Wexner donated the largest
monetary gift in the history
of O.S.U. targeted for the
new center of the Visual
Arts.
All Temple members and
interested guests are invited
to join in honoring Wexner.
An Oneg, co-sponsored by
the Honors Committee, will
follow services. Roger Blair
is chairman of the Temple
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The results of Super Tuesday
may mean that large numbers of Jewish voters will
find it hard to decide who to
support in the November
presidential election.
Vice President Geore
Bush, who swept the Republican primaries, winning
about half of the 1,139 delegates he needs for the nomination at the Republican
National Convention in New
Orleans in July, is viewed
with suspicion by many in
the Jewish community, despite his many statements of
support for Israel.
On the Democratic side,
-the Rev. Jesse Jackson
emerged with about 350 delegates, just behind Massa-
chussets Gov. Michael Dukakis, who won 360 delegates,
and ahead of Sen. Albert
Gore^Jr. of Tennessee, who
won about 320. This ensures
that Jackson will have an
important voice, if not the
deciding one, at the Demo-;
cratic National Convention
in Atlanta this August.
Jews who voted did so
mainly in the Democratic
primaries and appeared to
go overwhelmingly for
Dukakis.
In Florida, which Dukakis
won, exit polls found that
eight put of ten Jews voted
for the Massachusetts
governor.
Jews, who make up 4.7
percent of the Florida population, are concentrated in
the southeast part of the
state, from Miami to Palm
Beach. The majority are
retirees from the Northeast
and they turn out in large
numbers for any election.
Dukakis, whose wife,
Kitty, is Jewish, also won in
the two other Super Tuesday
states in which Jews account
for more than four percent of
the population: his home
state of Massachusetts and
Maryland.
Whether Dukakis is the
first choice of most Jewish
Former West German Official
May Be Tried For War Crimes
BONN (JTA) — The former prime minister of the federal
state of Baden-Wuertemberg, Hans Filbinger, may be tried
for war crimes, based on information obtained from the
United Nations war crimes files, which were opened in New
York last year. Filbinger is one of approximately 4,000 West
Germans whose names were discovered in the files and
passed onto the Ludwigsburg-based Federal Office for the
Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals in December. The Lud-
wigsburg office sent the Filbinger file to the state prosecutor
in Stuttgart, who must decide whether to open a formal investigation. Filbinger is accused of participating in massacres in Scandinavia during the closing months of World War
II, when he was a military judge with the German occupation
forces. He has flatly denied the allegations, declaring he
could not be charged on legal or moral grounds.
Soviet Human Rights Conduct Scored
GENEVA (JTA) — Soviet human rights policy is far from
perfect even in this era of glasnost, the U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations Human Rights Commission said here last
week, The Cuban-born envoy, Armando Valladares, said the
United States believes that the changes in the Soviet Union in
general have been "more superficial and cosmetic than fundamental." He estimated that at the current rate of emigration, the 375,000 Jews waiting to leave will have to wait 46
years to do so.
European Parliament Rejects
Three Economic Accords With Israel
STRASBOURG, France (JTA) '— The Parliament of
Europe overwhelmingly rejected here last week ratification
of three economic agreements Israel signed last year with
the 12-nation European Community.
Many of the deputies said afterward that their negative
votes were cast as "a sanction" against Israel's policies in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip and what they considered
Israel's refusal to start negotiating peace agreements with
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Democrats could become
clearer in the April 19 New
York primary.
Another sign would be if
his victories in the South
bring in campaign contributions from wealthy liberal
Jews in New York and Los
Angeles, who have remained
so far on the sidelines.
Gore is also making a concentrated effort in the Jewish community. He has a
record of strong support for
Israel, as do all the candidates, except for Jackson.
On the Republican side,
the candidate with the most
appeal to Jewish voters,
Rep. Jack Kemp of New
York, was virtually eliminated. Senate Minority ,
Leader Robert Dole of Kansas also has a record of a
long rapport with the Jewish
community/but unless he
Wins Illinois, the Republican
nomination will be wrapped
upby Bush.
1..,.. Bush's problem with the:
7 Jewish community is more
perception than reality. He
has continuously echoed the
Reagan administration's
strong support for Israel and
has backing in the Jewish
community, including such
important leaders as Max
Fisher and Gordon Zacks of
Columbus.
But many in the Jewish
community, noting the vice
president's friendship with
Saudi Arabia, fear that a
Bush presidency could mean
a return to the"even-
handed" policy of the State
Department Arabists.
Bush was critical of Israel
during its 1982 invasion of
Lebanon and after it bombed
an Iraqi nuclear reactor in
1981. He was quoted as
saying during the 1985 TWA
hostage-taking incident that
Israel should release
"people being held against
international law," a reference to Lebanese Shiite prisoners being held by Israel.
In defending his role in the
secret U.S. sale of arms to
Iran, Bush has seemed to
place the blame on Israel.
At the same time, Bush
has been a leading administration spokesman to the
American Jewish community. When there were
charges of dual loyalty because of Jewish opposition to
the sale of AWACS to Saudi
Arabia in 1981, it was Bush
who publicly refuted the
charges. It was also Bush
who personally arranged the
rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in 1984 and 1985.
Bush's problem for the Re-
publicans in the Jewish community may be offset by the
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