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V0L.G6   NO. 27
JULY 7,1988-TAMMUZ 22
Devoted to American
and Jcwisri Ideals.
.  1BRAIiY,   OHIO   HISTORICAL   SOCw'i
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Romania's Chief
Criticizes Visa Decision
(piockwise from upper left) Karen Kurtz and David Missy Liepack. Ruth Ann Blank was honored for her con-
Dachher hosted the Jewish Center's 1988 Annual Meeting, tinuous dedication to Center activities and objectives. In a
held on June 29. Dr. Ralph Rosenblum (left) and Helen surprise tribute, Center staff member Barbara Weinberg,
Nutis, shown with "Leo" statuettes and award certifi- director of Family Services, was honored by the Center
cates, received the Center's Mitzvah Volunteer Award for membership for her many years of directing the Jewish
their efforts. Ina Sue Rosenthal (center), last year's reci- Center's Preschool. ..Preschool graduates from 1974
pientof the Koach Leadership Award, is shown presenting through 1987 joined her onstage and presented her with
Carole Genshaft and Fred Luper with the award this year, roses. She is shown with her husband, Sanford, and son,
Caryn Pawliger (left) and Matt Minkin (right) receive the David.
Teen Leadership Award from one of last year's recipients,
More Than 300 Attend Jewish Center Annual Meeting
More than 300 Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center members
and friends attended, the
Center's Annual Meeting on
Wednesday evening, June
29, in the Center's Roth/Res-
ler Theatre. Annual Reports
were distributed highlighting the Center's accomplishments of the past year, and
the 1988-89 Center Board of
Trustees and officers were
installed.
Also highlighting the meeting were awards presentations to outstanding Center
volunteers, leaders and programs; memorable musical
numbers from Gallery Players' Annie and Taking My
Turn and a dessert; reception. The theme of the meeting was "Looking Back,
Looking Ahead — The Center's 75th Year."
David Milenthal was re-installed as Center president,
and in his address he asked
Center members to be
proud. "You're doing something special here that will
be a model for your children
and a model for the nation to
follow," he said.
"I am truly proud that I
should be asked to oversee
this special place this hub of
Jewish identity and activity,
this heart and spirit of our
Jewish community," he
added. "My mind spins with
the memories of the spectrum of successful events
that have occurred this past
year... From eight days old
to 80 years old, they keep
coming and reveling in the
love and fun of being Jewish
at our Jewish Center."
Milenthal also cited that
the Center now operates on
three sites, including the
Hoover Family Park,
"which we!ye  only  just
started! to develop," aIM* a
new outreach facility on the
northside.   ,;7:
He then related that with
such : growth, the Center
must face several challenges
in the coming year, including staff retention, as well as
controlling and refining the
Center's budget "rather
than to continue to push the
community pocketbook
much further."
"We are working on these
challenges in a productive
and positive way," he said,
relating that a new Personnel Retention Task Force
will help to keep and enrich
staff and a new Program
Evaluation Committee will
analyze the success of Center programs.
"Our strategic plan, which
we began to implement this
year, will allow us to plan
ahead and make the right
moves in management, in
marketing and in programming to move the Center
forward.
"But our greatest challenge," he concluded,."is to
build on our excellence and
our strength in a careful and
efficient way and most importantly in a way that continues to unify our Jewish
community and bring it together no matter what our
members' age, no matter
what our members' denomination, no matter
where our members live in
this growing Central Ohio
.area."' ■ ..'*   '
In,other business at the
meeting, installed as Center
vice presidents were Ruth
Ann Blank, Ted Fisher,
Harvey Handler and Robert
Schottenstein; installed as
treasurer was Dr. Ron Er-
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of
Romania delivered one of
the strongest attacks yet on
the Israeli government's recent controversial decision
to allow Soviet Jews leaving
the USSR on Israeli visas no
option but to come to Israel.
"If Theodor Herzl were to
arise from his grave today,
he would drop dead of
shame. The decision is a
shameful blot on Zionism,"
Rosen told the Jerusalem
Post in an interview. He was
referring to the founder of
the Zionist movement.
Rosen also was sharply
• critical of Israel's entire approach to the Soviet Jewry
problem, which he thought
was too public, too political
and to secular.
The Cabinet decided by
majority vote June 19 to issue visas only to those Jews
in the USSR who are committed to settling in Israel.
To ensure that commitment,
they will be required to fly
directly to Tel Aviv via Romania, after picking up their
visas at the Israel Embassy
in Bucharest.
The policy "will create a
new category of prisoners of
Zion, people who are forced
to come here," Rosen said.
"Prisoners of Zion" is the
term applied by Israelis to
Jews imprisoned, by the
Soviet authorities because
they were active for aliyah.
Rosen's criticism of the
Cabinet's action is shared by
such prominent former refuseniks as Natan Sharansky
and Yosef Mendelevich, who
live in Israel, and by a significant number of Israeli
commentators and politic
cians.
Jerusalem Plans
New City Hall
JERUSALEM (JTA) - A
new $65 million city hall will
be constructed in Jerusalem,
uniting under one roof all the
departments of the municipality/which are now dispersed around the city.
i ^art of the project's funding will be provided by the
Reichmann family of Toronto, billionaire financiers
who are the developers of the
Battery Park project in
Manhattan.
Two members of the
Reichmann family, Albert
and Edward, joined President  Chaim  Herzog.
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FEATURE
We Should Stand With Israel
By Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
EDITOR'S  NOTE:   Jeane  J.
Kirkpatrick  is former   United
States ambassador to the United
Nations. This article is excerpted
-froirv her address to.the Anti-
• Defamation   League's   1988
National Leadership: Conference
in Washington, DC.
"These are the times that
try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink...'"
I believe those words are
just as true for Israel today
as for the American colonists in their struggle for independence when Tom Paine
wrote them. There is today
an agonizing problem which
Israel and its friends all over
the world confront.   It  is
agonizing because the stakes
are so high. It is agonizing
because the toughest, most
basic questions of value are
involved,
Israel is clearly engaged
in a war which is not the less
deadly because it is widely
unrecognized. We know
there is a war against Israel
because those who conduct
that war tell us so ... again
and again.
Muammar Qaddafi has
told us repeatedly' that the
war against Israel will continue until victory, The
Ayatollah Khomeini, has told
us that Israel must be driven
from the face of the earth.
Yasser Arafat has spoken
frankly and boldly about it.
In Algiers, for example, at
the end of the Palestine Liberation Organization conference of unity last year, Arafat made a major speech
which received too little
attention. He said:
" .. .'■ There will be no
peace until there is a just,
lasting, comprehensive
peace that respects the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people... to reclaim
their land, and their self-
determination, and their
establishment of an independent Palestinian state.. .on
national Palestinian soil
W»th Jerusalem as its
capital."
A series of resolutions
adopted at that conference
affirmed the legitimacy of
armed struggle by all Arabs
against the Zionist entity
(naturally, the State of
Israel was not mentioned by
name); rejected Security
Council Resolution 242, the
Camp David accords and the
Reagan autonomy plan as
bases for peace; rejected
any Palestinian entity which
exists in confederation with
the state of Jordan and a
demand for two independent
states, Palestine and Jordan; condemned Egypt for
its peace accord with Israel;
reaffirmed the "Zionism is
Racism" resolution;
attacked those who sought
its repeal or criticized it, and
passed a declaration in favor
of extending that resolution
and another calling for the
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