Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1989-01-19

              VOL.67   NO. 3
JANUARY 19,1989-SHEVAT13
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
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Scholarships
Available For
Soviet Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
need for Russian speaking
rabbis, educators and social
and community workers to
serve Soviet Jewish emigre
communities has prompted
the Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture to institute
an annual $5,000 scholarship
program,
"There are an estimated
500,000 Soviet Jews—including children born to them
since leaving the USSR —
living in Israel, the United
States and other countries,"
explained Lord Jakobovits,
chief rabbi of the British
Commonwealth and president of the foundations.
"They heed rabbis, cantors, shochtim and moha-
lim," he said^ "Our goal is to
encourage more men and
women from their own^anks
to enter careers serving the
community of which they
are a part." |
The foundation is especially interested in Russiari-
speaking students training
for careers as Jewish
educators, deadline for ap-
piic^tipns■■'■i&Jan.- 31.^Write
Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture, 15 E. 26th
St., New York, N, Y. 10010,
or contact Jewish Family
Service at 231-1890.
Shabbat Services To Be
ion
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Shabbat services will be conducted at two Washington
synagogues for the inauguration of George Bush as
president, the first time Jewish services have been part
of. the official inaugural
program.
The services will take
place on Jan. 21 — the day
after Bush and Vice President-elect Dan Quayle are
inaugurated — at Washington's Conservative Adas
Israel Congregation and
Orthodox Beth Sholom
Congregation.
1 Tu B'Shevat
New Year Of The Trees
Saturday, Jan. 21
France Formally Asks Syria To Extradite Nazi
PARIS (JTA) — France has asked Syria for the extradition
of Alois Brunner, one of the last major Nazi war criminals
known to be alive. The French ambassador to Syria, Alain
Grenier, presented the formal request to the Syrian authorities in Damascus on Dec. 27, Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld
disclosed here last week. Syria has stubbornly denied for
years any knowledge of Brunner's whereabouts, contrary to
all evidence, including an interview Brunner gave to. a Chicago Tribune reporter in Damascus last year. Now France is
exerting the full force of its diplomatic weight to bring him to
justice, Klarsfeld said. The French extradition request is
based on new documents Klarsfeld filed with the Ministry of
Justice in 1987.
n The Chronicle
Israel Striking Conciliatory Note
On Taba, Mideast Peace Talks
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Israel is seeking a swift,
amicable agreement with
Egypt to settle outstanding
issues over Taba, the strip of
beach on the Red Sea
awarded to Egypt by international arbitration last
year.
The Inner Cabinet met last
week to map strategy for the
final talks between the two
countries on the matter.
Prime  Minister  Yitzhak
World Jewish Congress President
The Stump For Jewish Unity
By Judith Franklin
OJC Managing Editor
Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish
Congress, is a man with a
mission. And it is this mission which is taking him to a
different community each
month.
On Jan. 12, it was Columbus' turnpand-ihei community turned out in force
Thursday night at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center to
hear what Bronfman had to
say.     " '
Earlier in the day, in an
exclusive interview with the.
Chronicle, Bronfman, chairman and CEO of the Seagram Co., explained that
"Jewish unity was never
, more important than it is
, today.
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Edgar Bronfman
"I'd like to discuss with
people what is really happening in the Jewish world
and the State of Israel," he
said. "It is important that
the American Jewish community understands the situation and becomes unified."
According to Bronfman,
the recent uproar over the
"Who Is a Jew?" is§ue
clearly demonstrated the
lack of understanding of the
American Jewish scene by
Israelis and vice versa.
Further, he feels that
while Diaspora Jewry has
the right to try to influence
what happens in Israel, it
needs to realize that the deci
sions are going to be made in
Israel by Israelis, and "if
you have a criticism of
Israel, make it there, don't
make it here.
"I will speak but I Will
speak to them — not to The
New York Times, not to The
Wall Street Journal, not to
the Columbus Dispatch," he
emphasized.
Most importantrhe thinks
the community should be
supportive of Israel during
the current crisis. "The
status quo which existed for
the last 20 years has been
fundamentally altered," he
said. "Now demographics
dictate a political settlement
must be reached."
The community should
also be supportive of Mikhail
Gorbachev and his policy of
glasnost, he continued,
because "it is by no means a
sure thing he'll succeed." No
one knows how long Mr. Gorbachev will last, he noted.
His new ideas have "irritated the military, irritated
the Communist Party, irritated the bureaucracy. He
has built the expectations of
the populace and now is having difficulty satisfying
them.
"If Gorbachev is overturned,he ywill be replaced
by someone much more conservative," he predicted. "It
will be a sorry day for Jews
in the Soviet Union. We all
must pray for, watch for and
hope for the success of Mr.
Gorbachev."
And that's not all, Bronfman said. The Jews remain- ]
ing in the Soviet Union must!
be convinced to take advantage of the opportunities currently being offered them to
become Jews in more than
name only. "Permission is
only the first and indeed
maybe only a small step. It
won't happen unless we keep
going over there and send
our top people," he pointed
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Finally, he feels that Jews
in this country must overcome their complacency. He
points out that as Nachum
Goldmann, founder of the
World Jewish Congress said,
"When things are good for
Judaism, they are bad for
Jews and vice versa ..."
"Nowhere in the world
right now are the Jews in terrible condition," he said.
"The memory of the Holocaust is fading, the lack of
anti-Semitism is being taken
for granted. We should be
more conscious of the fact
we are a small people. We
should be proud of our
heritage.
Bronfman Youth Fellow
Part of Edgar Bronfman's.
plan for Jewish unity
includes the Bronfman
Youth Fellowship in Israel
which brings together 25
high school seniors from
throughout the United States
for five weeks each summer
in Israel. Last summer, local
resident Tanya Schlam,
daughter of Kol Ami Principal Helena Schlam and her
husband, Carl, attended.
The Columbus Alternative
High, School senior was
chosen from among 400
applicants. According to
Tanya, the program was
instituted to help future Jewish leaders understand the
diversity of Jewish opinion
and experience and to create
a communications network
among them. She has
already attended a reunion
of participants in New York
last October and will be leading seminars with other
Bronfman fellows for this
year's Midwestern finalistn.
The program in Israel consisted of speakers and discussions, Tanya said, "intense discussions" because
of the vastly different backgrounds and interests of the
participants. "It wasn't just
a tour," she explained. "We
were learning in context."
Tanya noted that more stu-
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Shamir and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens are clearly
reconciled to the arbitration
decision and hope that its full
implementation will improve relations with Egypt
and the political climate generally.
Israel in fact seems to be
enjoying a rare — and possibly short-lived — period of
goodwill on the international
scene.
Arens, who just completed
an intensive around of diplomatic talks in Paris, found a
readiness among European
diplomats attending an
international conference
there to reserve criticism of
Israel and hear him out.
That was coupled with
firmly articulated expectations of new ideas from
Israel to match the Palestine
Liberation Organization's
perceived new moderation.
Arens, for his part, urged
the world community to give
Israel time to formulate its
peace ideas, without pressure and without taking
; sides.    •
Shamir and his aides,
meanwhile, continued to
foster an image of
moderation.
The prime minister and
his Likud coalition have been
adamantly opposed to the
idea of an international
peace conference under U.N.
auspices, which is favored
by the Labor Party and by.
many of Israel's friends and
allies abroad.
Now Shamir is saying the
framework of peace talks
does not really matter. He
told a group of visiting members of the European Parliament that big power or U.N.
auspices were possible for
direct talks between Israel
and its neighbors.
Yosef Ben-Aharon, direc-
.tor general of the Prime;
Minister's Office, said the
question of auspices was
"marginal," as long as the
talks themselves are direct.
The Jerusalem Post
quoted him as citing the U.N.
role in bringing about a
cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq
war as a- precedent worth
studying.
Government sources are
stressing, however, that
Israel will make no concessions toward the PLO or to
the idea of withdrawal from
the West Bank and Gaza
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They indicated that
Shamir and Arens will eventually produce a revamped,
more; generous version of
Israel's longstanding autonomy plan, rejected in talks
with Egypt under the now
defunct Camp David framework.
There is also renewed talk
in government circles of
I holding elections in the
administered territories and
an explicit readiness of
Israel to talk to the elected
Palestinian representatives.
Columbus Jewish Federation
To Sponsor Community Event
The Columbus Jewish Federation, as part of the Community Phase of the 1989
Jewish Community Campaign, CommUNITY for the
90's, is sponsoring a special
CommUNITY Event.
Leonard Fein
- "Prospects for Peace: The
Roles of Israel, the United
States; arid the PLO" is the
topic, of the CommUNITY
Event panel discussion with
Drs. Yosef Olmert and Eli
Rekhess as panelists and
Leonard Fein as moderator.
The CommUNITY Event
will be Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7
p.m., at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center—Schottenstein Auditorium, 1125 College Ave. The event is open
to the entire community at
no charge. A dessert reception will follow with dietary
laws observed. Seating is
limited with R.S.V.P.'s
requested no later than
Feb. 5.
Moderator Fein is a
teacher and writer whose
latest book, published by
Harper & Row, is "Where
Are We? The Inner Life of
America's Jews."
In 1974, he founded
Moment magazine, where he
served as editor and publisher until 1987. More than
300 of Fein's articles and
essays have appeared in
various magazines and
journals.
In 1985, Fein founded
Mazon: A Jewish Response
to Hunger, the Jewish com-
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