Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1988-11-03

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NOVEMBER 3,1988-CHESHVAN 23
Devoted to Amerfcan
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Six Jews Running For U.S. Senate,
lunnina For Seats In The House
The 50th anniversary of
the Kristallnacht will be
commemorated at a special
outdoor memorial service on
Saturday night, Nov. 5, at
6:15 p.m., near the fountain
in front of Heritage House.
Joel Stavsky, Beth Jacob
youth director, said the program will be part of the 28th
Annual "Shabbos with the
Rabbi" Shabbaton sponsored by the National Conference of Synagogue Youth
and the Beth Jacob Congregation. Each participant will
light a candle for Hayadalah
services and will receive a
thick piece of broken, faceted glass, similar to the
glass used to construct the
Star of David and Burning
Bush stained glass windows
at Beth Jacob. Rabbi David
Stavsky will explain why he
thought it important for the
youth to have these chunks
of glass as a zecher.
In commemoration of the
Kristallnacht, which
launched the Holocaust on
Nov. 9, 1938, Rabbi Mark
Cohen, regional director of
N.C.S.Y., will speak.
Participating in the
candlelighting vigil will be
children of Holocaust survivors, who are Beth Jacob
N.C.S.Y. alumni, headed by
a committee composed of
Eric Hoffman, Elizabeth
Szames, Mark Ebner, and
Michael Weisz. Rabbi
Stavsky, former national
chairman of the Holocaust
Commission of the Rabbinical Council of America
and the founder of the local
"Yom HaShoah: Memorial
Day Commemoration" has
prepared a special' reading
for the program.
According to Joel Stavsky,
the theme of the weekend is
"Middos"— ethical responsibility. The faculty will include Rabbis Alan Ciner and
.Hillel Fox of Congregation
Agudas Achim; Rabbi Dr.
Henoch Millen, headmaster
of Columbus Torah Academy; Mark Cohen, and
David Winters of the National Officeof N.C.S.Y.
Myrna Yashon is chairwoman of the Housing Committee, and Beatrice Binsky
heads the Youth Committee
at Beth Jacob.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The number of Jews in Congress could increase next
year. Three Jewish newcomers are seeking election to
the Senate Nov. 8, along with
three Jewish incumbents. In
the House, 18 Jewish candidates are seeking to join the
28 Jews now serving as U.S.
$4,750,000 Raised To Date In
Jewish Community Campaign
Pictured is the Stained Glass Holocaust Window in
/1 the main sanctuary at Beth Jacob Synagogue. The
{i        i: artist was Harold Tanenbaum..
NCSY Outdoor Memorial Service
i   To Commemorate Kristallnacht
Over 80 community
leaders' gathered Oct. 24, for
the 1989 Jewish Community
Campaign's Major Gifts Dinner. The event, hosted by
Leslie H. Wexner, featured
political analyst and Pultizer
Prize-winning journalist,
George Will.
Will, introduced by 1989
Associate General "Campaign Chairwoman Marilyn
Knable, stressed the need for
stronger positions to be
taken on the part of the
United States, including
moving the U.S. Embassy to
Jerusalem and the need to
understand and cultivate
democracy in the Middle-
East through support of Israel. •
During the evening,
recognition was given to the
Jewish Community Campaign by Marvin Lender,
United Jewish Appeal's National Major Gifts chairman.
Lender, of New Haven, Ct.,
made a special presentation
on behalf of the UJA Prime
Minister's Council recognizing Columbus as one of the
very top Jewish Community
Campaigns in the United
States:
Major Gifts Division
Chairman Herbert Glimcher
emphasized the need for
Major Gifts leadership to
work together to insure success for the 1989 Jewish
Community Campaign:
Those present rallied to the
economic and services challenges with commitments,
demonstrating their support
and dedication to the Colum
bus Jewish community and
Jews throughout the world.
"I am pleased, excited and
appreciative that our community's major givers are
united in facing this year's
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representatives.
In the Senate, where seven
Jews now serve, Howard
Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) is
seeking his third term and
Chic Hecht (R-Nev.) and
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
are each running for their
second. •
The three Jewish challengers, all Democrats, are
Connecticut state Attorney
General Joseph Lieberman,
who is running against three-
term Sen. Lowell Weicker
Jr.; Rhode Island Lt. Gov.
Richard Licht, who is facing
two-term Sen. John Chafee,
and   Herbert  Kohl,   the
wealthy owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball
team, who hopes to succeed
Sen. William Proxmire (D-
Wis.), who is retiring after 31
years in the Senate.
Hecht, the only Republican among the Jewish senatorial candidates, is also considered the most likely of the
three incumbents to lose his
seat.
Although his prospects
have improved lately, Hecht
is the underdog in a race
against Nevada's popular-
governor, Richard Bryan.
The   Democratic   governor
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JNF Mounting Reafforestation Effort
Volunteers for the Jewish National Fund's "Tree for a Tree" telethon in Israel recently took pledges from supporters of the agency's reafforestation efforts, following
recent waves of arson throughout the Jewish state. Since April 1988, nearly 35,000 acres
of Israel's forests and pasturelands have been ravaged, at a cost of over $40 million.
The campaign, conducted in association with Israel television and Galei Zahal Army
radio station, was immensely successful, raising contributions which will allow for the
replanting of 250,000 trees. Moshe Rivlin, JNF/Jerusalem world chairman, termed the
campaign "a fitting answer to malicious arson" and expressed the hope that "the
Jewish community in Israel will serve as an example to our brethren wherever they reside, spurring every Jewish family to make its contribution to this vital campaign." In
Columbus, Jewish National Fund National phonethon, GREEN SUNDAY, will take
place Nov. 20. The community will be called upon to plant trees for. each family member to help reaf forest the burned out forest land. Volunteers are needed to contact community members from a central calling center. Call JNF, 231-1397.
FEATURE
Eyewitness Adcounts Of Kristallnacht
. By Sharon Mandel Peerless
Cleveland Jewish News
(©1988, JTA, Inc.)
On Nqv. 9 and 10, 1938, a
wave of terror and destruction swept over the 300,000
Jews of Germany and Austria. "    .  777V'-".'
Frenzied mobs, led by
Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth, broke into
thousands of Jewish-owned
shops and homes. They
looted, threw valuables out
of  broken  windows,   and
heaved furniture over terraces. They set fire to 191
synagogues, and smashed
dozens of others with hammers and axes.
Jews were chased up and
down the streets, as the
crowd threw mud at their
victims and chanting curses.
They lit bonfires, threw in
Torah scrolls and prayer
books, and rejoiced as these
revered Jewish volumes
went up in smoke.
More than 30,000 Jewish
men were arrested and sent
to concentration camps at
Dachau, Buchenwald and
Sachsenhausen. Ninety-one
Jews were killed. The Nazis
themselves dutjbed those 24
hours of terror Kristallnacht, < or; "The Night of
Broken Glass."
They tried to make their
pogrom look like a spontaneous uprising, sparked by
popular indignation over the
assassination of the Ernst
vom Rath, third secretary of
the German Embassy in
Paris, by Herschel Grynsz-
pan, a Polish-born Jew. Vom
Rath was shot on Nov. 6, and
died on Nov. 9. When news of
his death reached Hitler, the
rioting began, and it contin- ■-.
ued through the night and into the following day.
Historical records, however, reveal that the so-
called spontaneous demonstrations had been orchestrated by Joseph Goeb-
bels, the Nazi propaganda
minister, and that the death
of vom Rath was merely a
pretext to. get the pogrom
underway.
Fifty years later, that pogrom has come to be known,
not only as "The Night of
Broken Glass," but also as
the "Prelude to the Holocaust," which took the lives
of 6 million Jews while the
world, for the most part,
turned its head and looked
the other way.
But now the world is remembering what survivors
of that nightmare can never
forget. People from all over
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