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Zeidman And Singer
Receive ADL Award
Harold I. Zeidman of
Columbus and Dr. Leonard
J. Singer of Cincinnati were
selected as this year's recipients of the Julie Linker
Award of the Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana Regional Advisor}'
Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,
it was announced by Daniel
J. Kayne, chairman of the
board.
Harold Zeidman
The Julie Linker Fund was
established by the Regional
Advisory Board to award
young men and women the
opportunity to attend ADL's
annual National Leadership
Development Conference in
Washington, D.C.     7
"This award will enable
Zeidman and Dr. Singer to
attend the League's 1989 National Leadership Conference, and by doing so,
they will return even better
prepared to carry out the important work of the League,"
Kayne said.
The fund was named in
honor of Julie Linker, who
was a leader in the Louisville
Jewish community. She was
a past chairwoman of the
United Jewish Campaign's
Young Women's Division,
vice-prekident of thje
Women's Cabinet and vice-
chairwoman of the Major
Gifts Division of the Women's Division of the Louisville Jewish Federation and
an involved member of the
National Council of Jewish
Women, Adath Jeshunin and
Hadassah.
Her husband, Alan Linker,
is a" past chairman of the
ADL's Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana Regional Advisory
Board, a past vice-chairman
of the League's National
Fact Finding Committee and
serves at present as a Regional Civil Rights chairman
of the ADL's Regional Advisory Board.
The Ohio-Kentucky-
Indiana Regional Office of
the ADL is one of 31 regional
offices in the United States
conducting an ongoing education and action program to
combat anti-Semitism and
other forms of bigotry and
discrimination and to promote interreligious and
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Library Board Okays Liberty Name
MILWAUKEE (JTA)—Despite weeks of protest by area
Jews and non-Jews alike, the new public library being
planned for the village of Grafton, Wis., will be named after
the U.S.S. Liberty. The Grafton Library Board voted to
accept donations for the construction of the library which
stipulate that it be named after the U.S. Navy surveillance
ship that was attacked by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Israel called the attack an accident, apologized and paid
reparations. Veterans of the ship have charged the attack
was deliberate. The charge has been accepted by a number
of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel organizations, who use it to
discredit Israel and attack U.S. support of Israel. Demanding
the name as a condition of their donations were brothers Benjamin and Theodore Grob, local industrialists who donated
$400,000, and the Kapco Co., a Grafton manufacturing firm
that donated $5,000, Supporters of the name, including village
president James Grant, have said the sole intent of the name
is to memorialize the 34 sailors killed in the attack.
Arafat Invited For First Time
To Address European Parliament
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Palestine Liberation Organization
chairman Yasir Arafat has been invited to visit the Parliament of Europe in Strasbourg. He will be there Sept. 13 and
14, when the 518-member assembly, the European Community's legislative body, is in full session. The invitation, the
first ever to a Palestinian leader, was extended by the Socialist bloc, the largest single faction in the parliament. Rudi
Arndt of West Germany, the faction leader, explained why.
"After having had a very useful meeting with Shimon Peres,
we thought it would be appropriate to hear Yasir Arafat's
opinion, as chairman of the PLO,f on the situation in the Mideast," Arndt said.
Sympathy For Israel Has Dropped
But Poll Finds No Gain For Arabs
NEW YORK (JTA) -
American public sympathy
has declined for Israel and
risen for the Arab nations
since the beginning of the
Palestinian uprising,
according to a Roper poll
conducted in April on behalf
of the American Jewish
Committee.
However, while sympathy
for Israel declined by 11 percentage points since Fel>
ruary 1987—from 48 percent
to 37 percent — sympathy
with the Arab nations
increased by only three per-;
centage points, from 8 percent polled in February 1987
to 11 percent in April 1988.
In addition, a March poll
taken by the Roper Organization that asked an identical question about sympathies in the Middle East
conflict indicates that sympathy with Israel may be on
the upswing. The March poll
showed sympathy for Israel
as low as 30 percent and
sympathy with the Arabs at
12 percent.
The latest poll is the fifth
in  an annual  series  con-
Line-Up Announced For Annual
Jewish Center Sports Spectacular
The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center's Sports Spectacular
Committee, chaired by Hal
Block, announces the line-up
for this year's upcoming
golf-and-tennis event. The
day will be held Monday,
Aug. 15, at the Winding Hollow Country Club, and will
feature keynote speaker
Dick Vitale, golf pro Billy
Casper, tennis pro Bob Lutz
and Jimmy Crum, who will
return as master of ceremonies.
The seventh annual
Spectacular will be open to
both  members  and  non-
, members of the Jewish Center and includes lunch,
tournaments, tips from the
pros, dinner, a souvenir
photo and more. Major sponsors of the event at press-
time include BancOhio
National Bank, The Glimcher Company and Odd Lots
Stores.
Vitale, sports commentator for ESPN, ABC-TV and
the ABC Radio Network, is
best known for his flamboyant analysis of NCAA and
NBA basketball. He has developed a loyal following
with his thorough knowledge
of basketball and a, style,
exuberance and vocabulary
that are uniquely his.
Golfer Casper has been a
MfteilrttW^to&'PGA'iSenior
Tour since 1981 and has a
career highlighted by 51
PGA Tour titles, including
winning the 1966 U.S. Open in
an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer.
Tennis pro Lutz has been
ranked in the U.S. Top Ten in ■
tennis (singles) nine times,
and has an impressive
doubles history with partner
Stan Smith.
During the Sports Spectacular, a raffle will be held for
a Hawaiian Holiday, for two.
Tickets for the raffle are
available from the committee for a $50 donation. AU
proceeds from sales of the
ticket, as well as from Sports
Spectacular itself, will support the Jewish Center's
many programs, says Block,
The winner need not be present at Sports Spectacular to
win.
Members of the Sports.
Spectacular 1988 committee
include Myrna Brandwein,
Ron Feerer, Dr. Elliott Feidman, Dr. Roger Friedman,
Tom Kaplin, Dr. Bernard
Master, P.J. Maybruck, Dr.
Bruce Meyer, Sig Munster,
Connie Robins, Larry Samuels, Sandy Solomon and
David Valinsky.
More than 200 people attended  last  year's  Sports
Spectacular, which featured
•' keynote speaker, Coach Gary
Dick Vitale
Williams,, golf pro Corey
Pavin and tennis pro Fred
StoIIe.
For more information,
contact Jack Fox at the Jewish Center, 231-2731. Invitations will be mailed to the
community soon.
Israeli Tourism
Down 8 Percent
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel
suffered an eight percent
decline in tourism during the
first six months of this year,
compared to 1987.
About 669,000 tourists
arrived from January
through June 1988, according
to figures released last week
by the Central Bureau of
Statistics.
A breakdown of tourists
showed that 507,500 arrived
by air during the first six
months, down ten percent
from the corresponding
periodiiv 1987, ,-.•,>,,.,.,.,..,!
ducted by, Roper and
AJCommittee that probes
American public attitudes
toward Israel and American
Jews.
Four identical questions
have been included since the
first poll was conducted in
1984, allowing for what Dr.
David. Singer, director of
AJCommittee's Information
and Research Services
Department, called "a clear
and consistent trend-line
established over time." The
previous poll. was taken in
February 1987.
Roper interviewed 1,982
respondents — a representative national sample of men
and women 18 and older—in
their homes between April 16
and April 29.
Roper did not report a
sampling error.
While a plurality of correspondents continue to
believe that Israel is a reliable ally of the United
States, the number dropped
to 43 percent in April from 49
percent in February 1987.
Still, Egypt and Jordan continue to be regarded as
unreliable by a plurality of
respondents, and Syria by a
clear majority at 60 percent.
Responding to specific
questions about recent
events, an almost equal
number thought Israel's
response to the uprising was
"too harsh" (28 percent) as
felt it was "about right" (26
percent). Eleven percent felt
it was "too lenient."
A majority of those having
an opinion — 36 percent —
favored some form, of Palestinian autonomy as a solution to the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict.
But 59 percent indicated
they did not know which they
preferred as a solution, saying they hadn't followed the
situation closely enough. ,.
'Asked about Israel's
refusal to negotiate with the
Palestine Liberation Organization, 44 percent said they
agreed with Israel and 27
percent disagreed.
On the matter of whether
the hews media have shown
bias against Israel in their
coverage of the uprising, 31
percent said the media had
shown bias and 36 percent
said they had not..
the current poll's findings
are slightly less upbeat than
similar polls conducted
recently by both the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith and the American
Jewish Congress.
Singer said that optimists
can conclude from the poll
that a decline in support for
Israel is "not as bad as one
might have imagined."
However, Singer added,
"anyone who wants to claim
that Israel's image has not
changed in any way, those
people are simply wrong."
Federation Community Shaliach,
Ben Sif rony, Returns to Israel
"Enlightening the Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish
community to a different
perspective of Israel, not
what is pictured in the
media," said Ben Zion Sifrony, Columbus Jewish
Federation's community
shaliach since 1985, in describing what he feels has
been his primary achievement. "Conveying that Israelis are like Americans;
they laugh, cry, love and
face the daily struggles of
living and in spite of living in
a country that has had to defend itself for the past 4d
years, are fun loving, interested in art and music
and have created normal
lives for themselves," he
said.
During his three-year tenure which concludes this
month, the Israel Department has initiated new programs: Israel-American
Dialogue — offering an opportunity to exchange perspectives on controversial issues; Passpprt. tq JsrfteJ —
I^K^ing'to'as^ure'that'eVery
Jewish child in Columbus
has the opportunity to visit
Israel; Wilberforce University Program — enabling
four black students to spend
three months in Israel working on a kibbutz and learn
about Israel; Singles Trip to
Israel — in cooperation with
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
allowing single adults to visit
Israel; OTZMA Program — ■
young people age 18-24 to
spend a year in Israel in a
leadership training program.
"I am taking back to Israel the experiences of being
exposed to a different culture. Getting to know
another point of view; seeing
different ways and methods
than I had grown up with, a
unique opportunity to better
understand the Jewish community in Columbus," continued Sifrony, "the experience doesn't end after three
years, I will take back and
share with Israelis the information and knowledge I ac-
, .quired.of, Jews ii^ Cohim-
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