Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1988-11-10

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VOL.G6   NO. 46
NOVEMBER 10,1988-KISLEV 1
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Analysts Bemoan Election Results,
Say Israel Lacks Clear Direction
ADL Dedicates New Office
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Office of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith dedicated its
new offices recently. The ceremony of the mounting of
the mezzuzah took place at the new site, 529 E. Engler
St. Present for the ceremony were: (1. to r) Daniel J.
Kayne, ADL Regional Advisory Board chairman;
Rabbi Alan Ciner; Alan S. Katchen, regional director;
Bonnie Milenthal, ADL development chairwoman;
Robert Knable, owner of The Engler Companies; Samuel Kaplan, director of development, and Michael Gel-
ler, assistant director.
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Israeli and American observers offering instant analysis of the Israeli election
results bemoaned the fact
that neither Likud nor Labor
had received a clear mandate from the electorate
Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Even Likud supporters appeared subdued discussing
the results on a special postelection broadcast over the
Council of Jewish Federation's closed-circuit satellite
network Tuesday evening,
just a few hours after the Israeli polls had closed.
Although they felt confident that party leader Yitzhak Shamir could piece together a ruling coalition with
Gerald N. Cohn Elected
To National AAHA Post
Gerald N. Cohn, executive
vice president of Heritage
Village, was elected a director on the Board of Directors
of the American Association
of Homes for the Agiqg
(AAHA). AAHA is the national organization consisting of 3200 Protestant, Jewish, Catholic and public
homes and housing facilities
across the country.
Conn's election to the
Board of Trustees will enable Heritage Village to be-
on the cutting edge of all that
is occurring on the aging
scene.
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Major Gifts Dinner Features
Political Analyst George Will
The 1989 Jewish Community Campaign's Major Gifts
Dinner, held Oct. 24 and hosted by Leslie H. Wexner,
featured political analyst and Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, George Will. Over 80 community leaders attended the black-tie event. Pictured are (1. to r.) Leslie
Wexner, honorary Major Gifts chairman; Marilyn
Knable, associate Campaign chairwoman; George
Will; Alan Wasserstrom, General Campaign chair:
man, and B. Lee Skilken, Columbus Jewish Federation
president. Additional photos of the event are inside.
the cooperation of the religious parties, the Likud
analysts joined others in talk
of reforming Israel's parliamentary election system, to
allow voters to send a clear
signal .to their leaders and
the world what course they
want to see charted in
foreign and domestic policy.
"It is a pity from our point
of view that people did not
give a very clear vote,"
Jewish Agency Treasurer
Meir Sheetrit said in an
interview from Tel Aviv.
Once a rising star in Likud
ranks, Sheetrit said that
while Israelis seemed to
haye shifted clearly to the
right, "it may be time to act
seriously to change the elections."
More than a dozen Israeli
and American experts were
interviewed during combined broadcasts from New
York and Jerusalem. They
based their opinions on early
projections of a virtual dead
heat between Likud and
LaI^^7y4^y.;,fte7.|^igious
parties'holding the balance
of power.
The program, sponsored
by a coalition of American
Zionist organizations, was
aired in 32 cities in the
United States and Canada.
For North Americans, the
program offered, a rare
glimpse of Israeli politics in
action. Footage of both
major party headquarters
showed no revelry or American-style hoopla, but an
atmosphere of gloom that
infected panelists in both
countries.
In Jerusalem, none
seemed as dismayed as
Hirsh Goodman, the former
military correspondent for
the Jerusalem Post and a
Gerald N. Cohn
The election took place in
Orlando, Fla,, as AAHA celebrated its 27th Anniversary
with a conference and exposition attended by 4200 participants at Marriott Orlando
World Center.    ''
Heritage Village President r
Irving Barkan attended the
Conference and attended
workshops helpful to him as
the board presiding officer.
Bonnie Fass, chief operations off icer and a member
of AAHA's House of Dele-,
gates, also participated in
the conference and House
meetings.
Veterans' Sabbath
To Be Held Nov, 11
Capitol Post 122, Jewish;
War Veterans of the U.S.A.,
will conduct their annual Veterans' . Day Sabbath at
Temple Beth Shalom, 3100 E.
Broad St., Friday, Nov. .11,
, at 8 p.m.
Rabbi Howard Apothaker
will officiate. PostComman-
der Larry Felsenthal will de-'
liver a brief address in honor
of all veterans. The entire
community is invited to attend and join in the social
hour following the service.
The Jewish War Veterans
of the U.S.A. is America's
oldest active veterans' organization, . having been
founded in 1896, and serves
as "the patriotic Tvoice of
American Jewery."
Three Detained By Police In Istanbul
For Protesting Waldheim Visit To Turkey
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld, Rabbi
Avraham Weiss of New York and another American were detained twice last week by Turkish police in Istanbul and reportedly beaten following their second detention, after
demonstrating against visiting Austrian President Kurt
Waldheim.
Greek Court Overrules President On Museum
ATHENS (JTA) — The High Court of Justice here has
decided in favor of the Jewish community's request to
change the status of the Jewish Museum in Athens from a private institution into the ward of a foundation. The decision
overruled President Christos Sartzetakis of the Greek republic, who since 1986 has twice denied the request for a change.
The presidential signature is required for such transformations. The court ruled that the president's position was unreasonable and groundless/The case was the first time a religious minority in Greece appealed against a presidential
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strategic fellow at the
Washington Institute for
Near East Studies.
"I'm disappointed, but I
suppose we should have seen
the writing on the wall," said
Goodman.
There exists, he said, a
potential for a national
consensus, but Israel "lacks
the leadership able to deliver
it. The future is decided by
minorities," meaning the
smaller parties, he said.'
"'You won't fund my
yeshiva, you won't give me
money for another settlement, I'm leaving the government,' " he said the reli-
gious parties might
threaten.
Goodman had scorn for
two scenarios that he said
could shape up in back
rooms over the next few
weeks. Either Shamir would
head another schizophrenic
unity government, or Labor
would sit in opposition to a
Likud government ruling,by
the narrowest of margins.
But the vote appeared
' decisive to one 'expert;7In
New York, Yosef Qlmert, an
analyst at the Shiloah Insti-
tute at Tel Aviv University,
said the election results are
portentous for Labor.
"They appear to be at the
end of the road, even after
making some internal
changes," said Olmert,
whose brother, Ehud; was
re-elected to the Knesset on
the Likud list. "They need an
extensive soul-searching.
Among Israeli Jews, a decisive majority have swung to
right-wing parties."
Samuel Lewis/who served
as U.S. ambassador to Israel
from 1977 to 1985, also believes that, based on historical precedent, an Israeli
government could act decisively with only a slim
majority.
For Lewis, that possibility
could have a significant effect on "the fundamentals of
U.S.-Israeli relations."
If Likud makes good on
promises of using harsher
measures to put down the
nearly 11-month-old Palestinian uprising or pumps
new life into the settlement
program in the territories,
said Lewis, "that sort, of
policy has the potential of
stirring up quite a lot of
static in Jerusalem  and
Washington."
Joining Lewis in New York
was Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
who put a positive face on
the likelihood of a Shamir
government.
According to Abram, Shamir has appeared willing in
the past to engage in direct
negotiations with Arab
leaders with "no preconditions." Abram said others'
fears of intransigence on
Shamir's part "may prove to
be a shibboleth."
In Jerusalem, one expert
argued that Likud may
represent a modicum of
continuity for the next
administration.
"When it comes down to it,
the American government
feels peacemaking depends
on actions taken in other
parts of the Middle East,"
said Eytan Gilboa, a senior
research fellow, at the Leonard Davis Institute for
.International Relations at
Hebrew University.
Another analyst-" had a
good word to say about a
unity government. Alan
Dowty, a professor of political science at Notre Dame
University, said in New York
that despite its deadlock on
foreign policy, t,he unity
government succeeded over
the last four years in stabilizing Israel's once wildly inflationary economy.
But for most, another four
years of "unity" seemed a
disheartening proposition.
Said Haim Ramon, a member of Labor's young guard
interviewed in Jerusalem:
"The best thing for Israel
would be a government
based on the present situation for the next six to 12
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