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VOL. 66   NO. 16
APRIL 21,1988-IYAR 4
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Temple Israel
Annual Meeting
Set For April 24
Roger, Blair, Temple
Israel Annual Meeting chairman, noted that reservations
can still be made for the
Temple Israel's 142nd Annual Meeting on Sunday,
April 24, at 7 p.m., featuring
Max Lerner, national syndicated columnist, who will
deliver the Arthur E. Loeb
Memorial Address. Lerner
will speak on "Election'88:
Jesse Jackson, the Jews, the
Outlook."
The Annual Meeting will
also feature the installation
of Temple and Foundation
board members. Nominated
to the Temple Board of Trustees for a three-year term
are: Jane Mattlin and David
Selcer. Re-nominated to
serve an additional three-
year term on the Board are
Robert Burman, Stanton
Feerer, Robert Garek, Mark
Herman, Nancy Lurie and
Ken Warren. Nominated for
the Temple Foundation
Board of Trustees to serve a „
three-year term are Paul
Brisk, Kenneth Gilman and
Jodi Scheiman. Renominated for a second three-
year term are Harvey Dunn
and Bea Krakoff.
Reservations for the Annual Meeting can be made
by calling the Temple office,
866-0010.
Nominations Open
For Turkel Award
The Kaplan Scholar Lecture Committee of the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation at
The Ohio State University is
accepting nominations for
the 1988 Frayda Turkel Memorial Award. The award is
made in memory of Frayda
Turkel, who was a force in
the development of Hillel
and the Jewish community,
on the O.S.U. campus.
Criteria for the selection of
the recipient are: demonstrated commitment over
, time to the Jewish community on campus especially in,
but not limited to; the areas
of Jewish education, the
arts, student programming,
community relations; religious life and others the
Committee deems appropriate.
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Rare Yiddish Films To Be Shown In Turin
ROME, (JTA) — Practically unknown Yiddish-language
films from the 1920s and 1930s will be among the highlights of
a ten-day festival of Jewish culture in Turin, beginning Tuesday and ending April 21. Live theater and music concerts also
will be featured at the festival, organized with the assistance
of the Turin Jewish community and the Piedmont regional
cultural office.
Poll Finds Most U.S. Jews Si
Shultz Plan, Palestinian Autonomy
40 Honored In Holland For Saving Jews
.AMSTERDAM" (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Award was presented here recently to 40 Dutch families or groups who
saved Jewish lives during the Nazi occupation of Holland in
World War II. The presentations were made by the ambassador of Israel, Zev Suffoth, in the presence of Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands. Although the award has been made here on
25 previous occasions, this was the first time a member of the
Dutch royal family attended the ceremony. The queen's presence was in acknowledgement of the 40th anniversary of Israel's independence.
NEW YORK (JTA) - An
overwhelming majority of
American Jews support the
American proposal for a
Middle East peace conference, according to a poll
conducted by the Los
Angeles Times.
The survey indicates that
most American Jews also
endorse increased autonomy
for Palestinians in the Israeli-administered territories and believe that both
Israeli and Arab attitudes
must change in order to
bring about peace.
The survey reports that
American Jews favor Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres of the Labor Party
Columnist Mike Harden To Keynote
ADL Regional Advisory Board Meeting
Columnist Mike Harden of
the Columbus Dispatch will
be the keynote speaker at the
annual meeting of the Anti-
Defamation League of B!nai
B'rith's Ohio-Kentucky
Indiana Regional Advisory
Board; The meeting will take
place at the Hyatt Regency
Columbus on the weekend of
April 30-Mayl.
Mike Harden
Harden began writing his
award-winning "In Essence" column for the Dispatch in 1983. A Columbus
native and 1973 graduate of
the Ohio State University
School of Journalism, he has
worked as an associate
editor of Ohio Magazine and
contributing editor of Columbus Monthly. His work has
appeared in a variety of publications including everything from the Country
Music Star News to the JView
York Times; He is the author '•■
of five books, the latest of
which, Fight for Life, was
the subject of an ABC made-
for-TV movie.
Harden's address at the
dinner on Saturday evening,
April 30, will be entitled
'"Slouching Toward Bethlehem': Twenty-Five Years
After the March on Washington." Harden will. present
reflectoins on the struggle
for civil rights in America.,
The community is also
invited to attend a Saturday
afternoon panel discussion
on "Countering Anti-Israel
Comments in the Regional
Press and Media." Joining
in the discussion will be Gail
Gans, associate national director of ADL's Research
Department in New York.
She is a co-author of major
reports publisheld by the
League, including "Louis
Farrakhan: An Update" and
several publications about
political cult leader Lyndon
LaRouche.
A highlight of the two-day
meeting will be a presentation at the Sunday luncheon by Rev. Richard P.
McBrien entitled, "Religion
and Politics in America".
Father McBrien is chairman
of the Department of Theology at the University of
Notre Dame and an author.
His recent book, entitled
Caesar's Coin: Religion and
Politics in America, has received rave reviews. He also
writes a syndicated column
for the Catholic press and
serves as an on-air commentator on Catholic events for
CBS television, most recently for the Pope's second
visit to the United States.
1 These three events are
open to the public by reservation only. Contact the ADL
office at 239-8414 for more
information.
over Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir of Likud. They also
overwhelmingly support
Secretary of State George
Shultz.
Both Jews and non-Jews
surveyed demonstrated continued support of Israel. But
the poll also found that most
Americans feel there should
be "some sort of accommodation with the Palestinians."
A majority of both Jews
and non-Jews said that only
a small part of their feelings
about Israel were affected
by Israeli government treatment of Palestinians recently.
While an overwhelming
majority of American Jews
favored American support
for Israel,! half of the non-
Jews polled said they "don't
know."
The poll was conduced by
telephone between March 26
and April 7. No calls were
placed on the Jewish Sabbath or on the first two days
of Passover, according to the
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For the survey's purposes,
Jews were classified as
"anyone who identified himself as brought up in the
Jewish faith or considered
himself or herself Jewish."
Jews also were asked to describe their Jewish religious
and political affiliations.
Over 60 percent of both
Jews and non-Jews polled
indicated they favored
Shultz's plan for an international peace conference,
with 17 percent opposed.
Two-thirds  of American
Nitza Ben Elissar To Speak
At Golda Meir Luncheon
Nitza Ben Elissar, director
of the Institute for Leadership Development of the
Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, will be the guest
speaker at the State of Israel
Bonds Golda Meir Luncheon,
on Wednesday, May 18, at
noon at Winding Hollow
Country Club. The yearly
luncheon, is hosted by Eleanor Resler, Reva Shaman,
Bella Wexner and Eleanore
Yenkin for women who purchase a minimum of $5,000 in
State of Israel Bonds.
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A Joint program o( the Columbus Jewish Federation
and the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
Special Section
Schedule of Activities
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Jews polled believed that Israel should "come to some
sort of accommodation with
the Arabs in the occupied
territories," rather than
transfer the Palestinians to
some other Arab country.
But less than a majority of
Jews polled on giving up territory for peace, 43 percent,
advocated relinquishing the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Although the figures for
non-Jews polled on these
questions are similar, there
is disagreement over how
these measures should be
undertaken.
Forty-five percent of Jews
polled indicated that accommodation with the Arabs
should take the form of increased Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. But the poll
seems to indicate that Jews
envision a more limited ver-.
sion of autonomy than do
non-Jews.
Asked about giving the
Palestinians a "homeland of
their own" in the Israeli-
administered territories,
Jews opposed the measure
by 45 to 29 percent, while'
non-Jews replied in the affirmative by 50 percent, with 18
percent opposed.
On the question of whether
continued occupation of the
territories "will erode Israel's democratic and humanitarian character," 35
percent of both Jews and
non-Jews replied in the affirmative. Forty-five percent of the Jews polled disagreed with this, as compared to 32 percent of non-
Jews.
The survey also indicates
that 41 percent of Jews and
65 percent of non-Jews "feel
there is an element of racism
involved in the attitude of Israelis towards Arabs."
On this question, there was
a slight divergence of
opinion between older and
younger Jews, with 59 percent of older Jews citing racism in Israeli attitudes
compared to two-thirds of
younger Jews.
Jews and non-Jews agreed
in rejecting the idea that the
intransigence  of  any  one
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Nttza Ben Elissar
, Ben Elissar, chairwoman
of the Public Committee for
Jews in Egypt and a mem-,
ber of the International
Parliamentary Wives for
Soviet Jewry, is a graduate
of the Jerusalem Teachers
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