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VOL.66   NO.44
OCTOBER 27,1988-CHESHVAN 16
Devoted to American
arid Jewish Ideals.
Ohio Woman Rabbi
Delivers Sermon
In Rio De Janeiro
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
Associacao Religiosa Is-
raelita synagogue in Rio /de
Janeiro welcomed Rabbi
Margaret Meyer as the first
woman rabbi to speak from
the bimah in Latin America.
In her sermon, Meyer, of
Temple Beth Sholom ip Mid-
dletown, Ohio, told the 1,000
Jews in attendance, "That I
am able to stand here with
you in this service shows
how far we have come. But
the struggle for women's
rights in Judaism yet has
ground to cover."
Meyer's visit this summer,
accompanied by her husband, Professor Michael
Meyer, a noted historian,
was sponsored by the World
Union for Progressive Judaism, the umbrella organization of international Reform
Jewry.
Of the 500,000 mostly unaffiliated Jews in Latin America, an increasing number'
are joining non-Orthodox
synagogues, according to
Rabbi Clifford Kulwin, international affairs director for
the World Union.
Four new tie form
congregations, with World
Union sponsorship, have
been established in Latin
America in the past three
years.
Reports Of Increased Ties Between
Israel And China
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Signs have proliferated in recent
days that Israel and the People's Republic of China are moving toward trade agreements and other forms of cooperation,
though formal diplomatic relations still seem beyond the
horizon. According to Haarete, the director general of the
Foreign Ministry, Avraham Tamir, made a secret visit to Peking this year and reached an agreement with Chinese officials to expand economic ties and proceed toward diplomatic relations. Tamir admitted "there have been contacts,"
but refused to comment on his reported trip.
Italians Mark Two Anniversaries
ROME (JTA) — Italian Jews marked the 50th anniversary
last week of the imposition of anti-Semitic laws by the fascist
regime and the 45th anniversary of the Nazi deportation of
the Jews of Rpme. $olemn ceremonies at the Campidoglio
(the city hall) were attended by Giovanni Spadolini, president of the Italian Senate, and other leading political figures.
Prominent members of the Jewish community included
Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff of Rome and Tullia Zevi, president of
the organization of Italian Jewish communities.
Future Chief Rabbi Of Turkey
Comes To U.S. For Training
NEW YORK (JTA) — The desire in Turkey to have Western-trained, English-speaking rabbis has generated enough
support from the country's 23,000-member Jewish community to send a potential chief rabbi to study at Yeshiva
University in New York. "The Jewish community sent me
because they need young rabbis," 18-year-old Naftali Haleva
said. "If you go to school in America, you are thought to be
more intelligent." The cost of sending Haleva, son of the assistant chief rabbi of Turkey, is being shared by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the University and the
Jewish Community Council of Turkey, on which Haleva's
father sits.
American Jews Favor Dukakis
By Four-One Margin, Poil Finds
NEW YORK (JTA) -r-
American Jews favor Michael Dukakis for president
over George Bush by a margin as high as 4-1, according
to the results of a nationwide
poll released last week.
Of 647 Jews of voting age
contacted by telephone in
seven urban centers around
the country, 60.6 percent
said they would vote for Dukakis, 15.5 percent said they
would vote for Bush and 22.5
percent were undecided.
The poll was conducted between Oct. 10 and 13. The results are subject to an error
of plus or minus four percent.
While the Republican
Party seems to have failed to
broaden its base among
Jews, and has lost as much
as 50 percent of its Jewish
support since the last election, the undecided voters
will determine how largcthe
fall-off will be.
If those undecided voters
who favored President Reagan in 1984 were to switch to
Dukakis intl\esame^ proportion as those Reagan-supporters indicating a preference
have already done, Dukakis
would win 76 percent of the
Jewish vote, beating Bush in
the Jewish community by a
3-1 margin.
Despite intense efforts of
the Republican campaign to -
link Dukakis with the pro-
Palestinian sentiments of
Jesse Jackson, only 18 percent of Jewish voters said
Jackson's presence in the
campaign affected their
choice "a great deal."
Of all those surveyed, 27
percent said they saw Jackson's presence in the campaign as a positive factor, 41
percent viewed it negatively
and 30 percent said it made
no difference.
A "One-Party Community"
"Jews are becoming — if
they haven't become already
— a one-party community,"
said  William  Helmreich,
professor of sociology and
Judaic studies at the City
College of New York and the
Graduate Center of the City
liniversity of New York.
Helmreich directed the
poll, which was commissioned by three Jewish
weekly newspapers and conducted by Byron Research
and Consulting of Great
Neck, N.Y,
The newspapers commissioning the poll we,re the
Long Island Jewish World,
the Palm Beach (Fla.) Jewish World and the Washington Jewish Week.
According to Helmreich,
who announced the survey
results at a news conference
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Gallery Players To Open Season
Oct. 29 With Webber-Rice Musical
Carol Luper To Be Narrator In 'Stars In Dust5 Oratorio
Carol Luper, well known to
Columbus as a newscaster at
Channel 10, will be featuered
as_,narrator in the Wednesday, Nov. 9, world premiere
of "Stars in the Dust," an
oratorio composed in commemoration of the 50th.
yahrzeit (anniversary) of
Kristallnacht. The work will
be performed at Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E.
Broad St., at 7:30 p.m. The
event is free and open to the
general public.
Jewish communities of the
entire country. Almost 100
Jews were killed almost 200
synagogues were destroyed
and 7000 Jewish businesses
were looted. Thirty thousand
Jews were deported, and the
the direction of Allan Finkelstein, with a musical ensemble comprised of violin,
cello, flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano and percussion.
The Congregation Tifereth
Israel Adult Choir will also
Kristallnacht Eyewitnesses Sought
,;; MftrUptSkUken, dial* of the committee overseeing
performance of'"Stars in th« Dust," fe looking for.
"^*)vitnesses ol Kristallnacht to participate in the com-
"tfinjw>oraUve program ojiNov, 9. "I would greatly ap-
, pnceciate heariwg from people who were in Germany at
tW'tmw.of Krtetallftacbt In November 1938. If you
; v/ofe, please coptact me at 239-0456. We would like to
-teeograzeyou at thaprogram ottN&v, 9, and you might
'have aomej'speciaJ. irisighte as to how we should $true-
- tare the eveiM»^,pjrograo>."
of Buffalo, she has resided in
Columbus for over 20 years
and has worked at Channel
10 almost ten years. She received a B.S. in marketing
from The Ohio State University'and has always been active in the community in
many ways. In recognition of
her community involvement, she was named the recipient of the Therese Kahn
Young Leadership Award of
the Columbus Jewish Federation.
The composer of "Stars in
the Ernst," Samuel Adler,
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Gallery Players will open
its 40th Anniversary Season
on Saturday, Oct. 29, with
the Andrew Lloyd Webber.-
Tim Rice musical, "Joseph
and the Amazing Tec/ini-
cofor Dreamcoat" Opening
night curtain time is 8:30
p.m. in the Roth/Resler
Theatre of the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, 1125 College
Ave.
The musical, based on the
Biblical story of Joseph, his
brothers and the "coat of
many colors," was the first
collaboration between Web-
; ber and Rice who later
teamed to write Jesus
Christ, Superstar and Evita.
Making her Gallery Players debut as stage director
for "Joseph" is Teri Devlin.
Devlin became artistic director of Gallery Players
last March. Musical director
for the production will be Ed
Wiles, who also served as
musical director for Gallery's hit production of "Annie" last spring and of its recent revue, "Flashback:
First 40 Years."
Carol Luper
Kristallnacht, the Night of
Broken Glass, took place
Nov. 7 to 10,1938, throughout
Germany. On those dates, a
government-organized pogrom took place against the
relentless march to the Holocaust was begun. "Stars in
the Dust" is one of the many
ways in which this anniversary will be marked throughout the world. This oratorio
was actually co-commissioned by over a dozen synagogues across the country,
each of which will present
the premiere simultaneously
on Nov. 9.
In addition to Luper, the
performance will featijre-vo-
cal soteistsXIantor^r'icki Axe
of Temple Israel and Cantor
Jack Chomsky of Congrega?
tion Tifereth Israel. Th6
work will be presented under
play an important role in the
work which was written by
Samuel Adler and Samuel
Rosenbaum. A brief program will precede the performance of "Stars in the
Dust." Featured speaker
will be Leatrice Rabinsky, a
nationally known educator,
author and lecturer on the
Holocaust.
Luper is a general assignment reporter at WBNS-TV
Channel 10 in Columbus and
is also producer/moderator
of "The. Issue," a weekly
public affairs program on
Channel 10 which airs Sundays at 12:30 p.m. A native
Wallenberg Exhibit To Arrive
In Columbus On October 30
"A Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg" a photographic exhibit depicting the repeated
heroic acts of the Swedish
diplomat during World War
II, will be on display from
Oct. ,30-Nov. 22, at the
Columbus Public Library, 96
S. Grant St. The exhibit is
open to the entire community at ho charge.
Dr. Michael Berenbaum,
associate professor of theology at Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution, and
project manager of the.
United States Holocaust Me
morial Museum, will be the
keynote speaker at the
dedication of the exhibit, on
Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m.
Topic of his address is "Evil
and Heroism; The Lessons
of Raoul Wallenberg." Columbus Public School's
Board of Education Building, 270 E. State St., will be
the site of the lecture.
Upon completion of Beren-
baum's remarks, at approximately 8:15 p.m., the group
will walk to the Columbus
Public Library to view the
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Following the opening;
there will be performances
on Oct. 30, Nov. 2,3 and 10 at
8 p.m.-, Nov. 5 and 12 at 8:30
p.m., and Nov. 6 and 13 at 2
p.m. The Nov. l and 9 performances are sold-out.
"Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat" is
being underwritten by the
Franciscan Health System
of Central Ohio, Inc., parent
corporation of St. Anthony/Mercy Hospital.
Tickets for "Joseph" are
available by calling the Gallery Players box-office,
235-2058, Monday through
Friday, between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m. Tickets can also be
purchased in advance at the
Gallery box-office in the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
during those hours.
. "Joseph" will be followed
in January by the comedy
Social Security. Arthur Miller's drama "All My Sons"
will be presented in March
and the season concludes
with Rodgersand Hammer-
stein's "The Sound of
Music" in May and June.
Subscriptions for Gallery
Players' 40th Anniversary
Season will be available
through the run of "Joseph"
and can be ordered by calling or visiting the Gallery
box-office.
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