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VOL.66   NO. 15
APRIL 14,1988-NISAN 27
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
LaRouche Organization
Fielding 16 Candidates
In June 7 Iowa Primary
NEW YORK (JTA) - Sixteen members of the Lyndon
LaRouche organization have
filed petitions to run on the
Democratic ticket in the
June 7 Iowa primary for
state legislative and U.S.
congressional seats.
The LaRouche candidates
are running under the organization's official name, the
National Democratic Policy
Committee, which is known
to epouse wild conspiracy
theories that are often anti-
Semitic.
This is the largest number
of LaRouche candidates to
file in any Iowa election to
date, according, to Daniel
Levitas, research director of
Prairiefire, a Des Moines-
based farmers rights
advocacy group that monitors right-wing, racist activ-v
ity in the farm belt.
This was corroborated by
Joe Shannahan, Iowa Democratic Party legislative director, who said that only
three LaRouche candidates
ran for office in 1986.
AJCongress Director Rejects
Orthodox Call For His Ouster
Exiled Soviet Director In Israel
Receives Invitation From Moscow
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A 70-year-old Soviet stage director,
who has been living in Israel for the last year, has received
permission to return to Moscow next month to preside over
the opening of a production on which he was working before
he was exiled from the Soviet Union four years ago. Yuri
Lyubimov, who is not Jewish but received Israeli citizenship
by virtue of his marriage to a Jewish woman, is the founder
of the avant-garde Taganka Theater. In March 1984,
Lyubimov was fired from the theater and expelled from the
Communist Party. He moved to Israel last year.
West Germans Cracking Down
On Rising Neo-Nazi-Activity
BONN (JTA) —Police will take harsher measures to limit
the activities of neo-Nazis in the West German federal state
of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state's interior minister, Herbert Schnoor, said last week. In a statement released in the
city of Duesseldorf, Schnoor charged that "the increased provocative and violent activities of neo-Nazis in some towns
have become unbearable." The local councils of the towns of
Essen, Bottrop, Bielefeld and Dortmund have recently imposed a ban on renting town-owned facilities, such as meeting halls, to neo-Nazi groups. Other town councils in the
federal state are in the process of considering such proposals.
Heritage Village Hires
First Arts Administrator
Heritage Village has taken
another step in establishing
itself as one of the major arts
presenters in Ohio by hiring
Fran Resch as its first full-
time arts administrator.
"We are thrilled at having
an experienced arts professional like Fran involved in
our Arts at Heritage Program. His experience will
enable us to accomplish
things we never dreamed
possible in previous years,"
stated Marti Greenberg, co-
coordinator of Arts at Heritage Village.
Resch will oversee the
fourth annual Sculpture at
Heritage Village exhibition,
which is slated to open June
l, and the Performance at
Heritage Series, this year,
for the first time, Heritage
will implement a year-round
arts program including
artist residencies, workshops and performances.
"The opportunity to
_ expand the programs on a
' year-round  basis  enables
Heritage Village to add
another dimension to our approach of "Life with Dignity"notonly for pur Village
residents but also the central
Ohio community at
large,"explains Betty Tie-
man, director of Human
Resources at Heritage
Village.
Resch comes to Heritage ■'.
Village from The Ohio State
University Gallery of Fine
Art where he was graduate
curatorial assistant and
handled much of their
exhibition and performance
programming. He is the former director of the Art Galleries at Allegheny College
in Meadyille, Pa. and is also
an  active  performance,
Fran Resch
installation and media artist
in own right.
Resch has a diverse curatorial and technical background. He has produced
over 50 multi-media performances as well as multi-
image slide programs and
16mm  films  and  videos.
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i NEW YORK (JTA) - The
executive director of the
American Jewish Congress
rejected a call for his dismissal made by Orthodox
groups and described their
criticisms of his recent remarks as a attempt "to
silence anyone who is critical of a position chanted" by
Israel's Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir.
Henry Siegman responded
last week to a statement released by the presidents of
six major Orthodox Jewish
organizations, which condemned remarks he made
during a speech at the
AJCongress biennial convention in March. The remarks
were highlighted in a March
22 story in The Washington
: Post.
In the speech, Siegman
reiterated his organization's I
support of territorial compromise as a solution for
peace in the Middle East. He
also condemned "important
elements in the coalition that
supports'7 Shamir who
"have publicly disparaged,
the importance they attached to democratic values
and humanitarian considerations."
Siegman told convention
delegates that' proposals to
focibly transfer Arabs outside Israel and the administered territories have moved
from the "fringe," led by
Knesset member, Meir.
Kahane of the extremist
Kach party, to "more centrist elements in that coalition." •"■''
It was the next few sentences, however, that incited
the Orthodox groups' ire: Israel's religious parties, said
Siegman, "openly affirm the
supremacy of religious law
over democratic values.
; Some even question publicly
the principle of the sanctity
of human life when applied
to non-Jews."
In their March 28 statement, the Orthodox presidents responded: "In
employing such bigoted
language, Siegman pits Jew
against Jew — irtdeed, non-
Jew against Jew—and goes
beyond acceptable norms of
debate."
"Siegman's statement
defies credulity and unjustly
condemns the very religious
tradition which gave birth to
the Western world's concept
of the sanctity of all human
life," the statement also
said.
It called on AJCongress
and "the entire Jewish community" to condemn Siegman's "irresponsible dema-
goguery."
The signers of the statement were Beverly Segal of
Emunah Women of America, Dr. Harold Jacobs of the
National Council of Young
Israel, Rabbi Fabian Schon-
feld of Poalei Agudath Israel, Rabbi Milton Polin of
the Rabbinical Council of
America, Herman Merkin of
Religious Zionists of America and Sidney Kwestel of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America.
In a statement Siegman
read during a telephone interview, the .AJCongress
leader said this about the
paragraph of his speech in
question:
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Community College Classes
To Focus On Israel At 40
In conjunction with the
coming "Israel 40" celebi --
tion, community members
can enrich their understanding of Israel with four
classes sponsored by the
Community College for
Adult Jewish Studies. All
classes will be held at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
1125 College Ave. To register, call the Center's
Adult Department, 231-2731,
no later than two days prior
to the class.
"Israel at 40 ... Political
Challenges of Middle East
Diplomacy" will be held on
Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m.
Dr. Ilan Avisar, professor of
Judaic and Near Eastern
Studies i^ The, Ohio State
University, will lead the presentation. There is no
charge. .
The "Learn To Read Hebrew in One Day" workshop
will be held on Sunday, May.
1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Class
members will study the language of Israel and leave at
the end of the day able to
read simple prayers and
songs. The workshop will be
held at the Center and at the
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Columnist, Professor To Deliver
Arthur Loeb Memorial Address
At Temple Israel Annual Meeting
Schlezinger To Be Honored By Jewish Theological Seminary ( »^
Renee and George Levine,
co-chairpersons of the
Jewish Theological Seminary Committee of Congregation Tifereth Israel, have
announced this year's Seminary award will be presented to Edward F. Schlezinger, long time leader in
the Columbus Jewish community. The award will be
presented on Thursday evening, April 2d, at a reception
at the home of Leonard and
Ellen Schottenstein, 389
Northview Dr. The program
is open to the public and will
begin at 8 p.m.
"Ed Schlezinger, a member of the Synagogue Board
of Trustees and active
participant in many of our
programs, is being honored
both for his commitment to
Conservative Judaism and
for his leadership in many
kinds of community activities. He has served,, as president of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, the Leo Yassen?
.off Jewish Center, the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation
Board and Zion Lodge of
B'nai B'rith. He is also a former vice president of Heritage Tower and general
chairman of the United
Jewish Fund Campaign,"
according to Renee Levine.
"It is an honor for us to have
Ed Schlezinger as a leader in
our congregation and in the
Conservative Movement."
Schlezinger is retired as
president of I. H. Schlezinger
Sons, Inc. He and his wife
Madalyn have three childen
and seven grandchildren.
Rabbi Neil Gillman,
associate professor of
Jewish philosophy at the
Jewish Theological Seminary and former dean of the
Seminary's Rabbinical
School, will be guest speaker
for the program. The award
will be presented by Rabbi
Harold J. Berman of Congregation Tifereth Israel.
Further information is
available from Congregation
Tifereth Israel, 253-8523.
Max Lerner, professor,
author and nationally-known
syndicated columnist, will
deliver the Arthur E. Loeb
Memorial Address at the
142nd Annual Meeting of
Israel to be held Sun-
April 24, at 7 p.m. at the
Temple, 5419 E. Broad St.
Lerner will speak on "Election '88: Jesse Jackson, the
Jews, the Outlook."
Lerner, in addition to his
wildely read column, syndicated by the Los Angeles
Times, has taught at Harvard, Williams, Sarah Lawrence, Brandeis, Pomona
and the University of Florida
and has held the Chair of
American Studies at the
University of Notre Dame.
Since 1974, he has taught
human behavior at the Graduate School of Human Behavior at United States International University in San
Diego and divides his time
between the east and west
coasts.
His best known book,
America As A Civilization,
has been republished in a
30th anniversary edition.
Among his other books are:
Ideas Are Weapons, The Age
of Overkill, The Mind and
Faith of Justice Holmes,
Values In Education, and
Ted and the Kennedy
Legend. He has completed a
collection of his constitutional essays from the 1930s
to the 1980s and is currently
at work on a personal book,
The Affirmation of Life.
Now 85, he laughs at the
idea of retiring. His re-
sponsel to aging has been to
divide his writing and teaching schedules. "To live is to
function," he says, "and to
function involves both work
and love."
Roger Blair, Annual Meeting chair, and his committee
have planned the meeting. In
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