Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1989-04-20

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VOL.67   NO. 16
APRIL 20,1989-NISAN15
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State To Commemorate
Holocaust On May 3
The Hebrew Union College
— Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), Cincinnati,
in cooperation with the Jewish Community Relations
Council of Cincinnati, will
serve as host for the 1989
Ohio Holocaust Commemoration on Wednesday, May 3,
at noon, in the Capital
Theater of the Vera Riffe
Center for Government and
the Performing Arts, 77 S.
High St., Columbus. This
ninth annual commemoration ceremony is sponsored
by Governor Richard F.
Celeste, under the auspices
of the Government Affairs
Committee of Ohio Jewish
Communities.
Members of Ohio's Jewish
community are encouraged
to attend this remembrance
ceremony, which will feature music and special readings. The use of the band new
Capital Theater will enhance
the experience.
The responsibility for
programming the observance traditionally rotates
between eight Ohio Jewish
communities. This is the
first year that HUC-JIR has
coordinated the program.
For more information,
contact Dr. Abraham Peck
at- HUC-JIR, (513)-221-1875,
or Frances Lesser of the
Government Affairs Com-,
mittee. 463-1835.
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National Jewish Leaders Grill
Shamir During CJF Broadcast
To officially launch the "Passage To Freedom" special
cash campaign, Marvin Lender of New Haven, Conn., national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal drive (top
photo, left) was keynote speaker of the event. Special campaign co-chairmen Herbert Glimcher and Jack L. Wallick, as
well as Leslie H. Wexner, honorary co^hairman, joined together to demonstrate their support (l.to rJ.Also attending
the kick-off, to raise funds for resettling Soviet Jews, was
Jerome Schottenstein, (bottom photo, left), honorary co-
chairman, pictured with Lender.
'Passage To Freedom'Drive
Begins At Meeting On April 13
B. Lee Skilken, president
of the Columbus Jewish
Federation, announces the
appointment of Herbert
Glimcher and Jack L.
Wallick as co-chairmen of
Columbus' Holocaust Memorial
To Be Held On May 2 At Noon
The fourth annual Holocaust Memorial Program
sponsored by the city of
Columbus under the
auspices of Mayor Dana G.
Rinehart, in cooperation
with the Community Relations Council of the Columbus Jewish Federation, will
take place on Tuesday, May
2, at noon, in City Council
Chambers, 90 W. Broad St.
The annual event provides
the opportunity for the community to gather and
remember the six million
Jewish martyrs that perished during the Holocaust,
"As noted Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace
Prize winner Elie Wiesel has
written, 'We must remember for our own sake, for the
sake of our own human
ity ... Not to remember the
dead now would mean to become accomplices to their
murderers.'
We want our children to not
look at the Holocaust as an
arcane historical event, but
as significant in their own
lives," stated Fran Wasserstrom, Holocaust Education Committee of the CRC
chairwoman, and chairwoman of the Holocaust
Memorial Program.,
As part of the community
commemoration, students
from the Fort Hayes Career
Center Department of
Theater will read excerpts of
poetry and writings from the
diaries of Jewish children
consumed by the Holocaust.
Faye Grinblatt, a Holocaust
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the Federation's "Passage
To Freedom" drive, a special cash campaign to raise
needed funds to help pay for
the resettlement in Israel
and the United States of the
estimated 30,000-40,000 Jews
expected to leave the Soviet
Union in 1989. "
Three prominent local
Jewish leaders, Samuel M.
Melton, Jerome Schottenstein and Leslie H. Wexner,
have been named honorary
co-chairmen of the special
campaign. Miriam Yenkin,
past Federation president
and a national vice-chairwoman of the United Jewish
Appeal, has accepted the
position of vice-chairwoman
for the local "Passage To
Freedom" effort.
Nationally, the goal of the
Passage to Freedom Special
Campaign for Soviet Jewry
is to raise $75 million. These
funds are needed to assist
the thousands of Soviet Jews
passing through Rome and
to provide housing, maintenance, medical care, job
retraining, education and a
wide range of humanitarian
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Even as they praised Yitzhak Shamir for his success in
shoring up Israel's image
during his talks with the
Bush Administration, Jewish leaders in 15 cities challenged the Israeli prime
minister last week with
some of the toughest questioning of his ten-day visit.
Would Shamir be willing to
trade land for peace? Is he ,
prepared to make any concessions to achieve a settlement to tlfe Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Is his stated
oppositon to a Palestinian
state already a violation of
his own claims for "no pre-
condiions"?
The questions came during
a live closed-circuit broadcast carried by the Council
of Jewish Federations Satellite Network. They were surprising in that they cameaiot
from confrontational journalists, but from members of
the mainstream American
Jewish leadership.
Shamir's answers in turn,
displayed the new-found gift
for public relations that
made his Washington visit a
success.
For example, when asked
• by Boston lay leader Joshua
Katzen about land for peace,
a smiling Shamir replied, "I
think there in not a need for
any theoretical formulas."
Shamir, who has in the
pajjt declared that he would
relinquish "not one inch" of
the West Bank or Gaza Strip,
said that both sides will be
able to present their proposals, "without any preconditions," during a second stage
of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to follow elections in
the territories.
The purpose of such talks,
he said, "has got to be a solution that would be acceptable to both parties."
Rosalyn Weiss, a lay
leader with the Jewish
Federation of Greater Buffalo, N.Y., followed up by
asking what concessions
Shamir was prepared to
make.'
"I don't think we have to
decide now that we have to
make concessions," said
Shamir, his smile barely
flickering. "After an interim
period, we will go to negotiations without any preconditions. That is an excellent
formula, and we are working
with it."
Lawrence Katz, president
of the Baltimore Jewish
Council, returned to the line
of questioning.
"If you refuse to recognize
a Palestinian state, isn't that
violating the principle of
open negotiations without
preconditions?"
"We cannnot accept the
idea of a Palestinian state,
because Israel will not be
able to exist," said Shamir.
"But in a process of negotiations over a permanent
status, maybe the Palestinian side will propose a
Palestinian state. Israeli
representatives will not
accept this."
Eventually, he repeated,
both sides may be. able to
find a reasonable formula.
A stalwart opponent of
land for peace called in with
concerns about Shamir's
moderate-sounding language.
' "Can we rely on you to
hold firm?" asked Dr. Ivor
Robinson, representing the
Zionist  Organization  of
America in Dallas.
"All of us are concerned
that with this proposal we
are taking risks. Sometimes
you have to take risks," said
Shamir.
"But we know very well
our interest and the demands of our interest. So
please, my friend, rely on
us."
In a telephone interview
the next day, Robinson said
his purpose was not to imply
mistrust in Shamir.
"His intentions are good,
but I wonder if he isn't being
forced step by step into this
land for peace •— also known
as the Munich process," said
Robinson. He was referring
to Britain's capitulation to
Adolf Hitler in 1939.
Nazi Hunter Beate Klarsfeld
To Deliver Holocaust Lecture
Nazi Hunter Beate Klarsfeld will be giving a public
lecture on Tuesday/May 2,
at 7 p.m. at The Ohio State
University. The lecture, to
be held on Yom HaShoah,
the national day for commemoration of the Holocaust, will be sponsored by
both the campus and Columbus chapters of the Children
of Holocaust Survivors. It
will be open to the public.
German born Klarsfeld is
a leader in the drive to
unmask war criminals now
serving government and
industry in Germany,
France and around the
world. She and her husband
are responsible for revealing
the identity of former SS
Captain Klaus Barbie, "The
Butcher of Lyon," who was
extradited to France where
he is still standing trial.
Klarsfeld vows that she
will hot rest until she "has
brought to justice everyone
responsible for millions of
deaths in the Holocaust. She
was nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1977,1985 and
1986, for "actions which she
has taken for ten years
throughout the world and at
the risk of her liberty and
her life, against anti-Semitism, against the impunity of
the Nazi criminals and in
favor of peace between the
Arab states and Israel." In
1986, she was the subject of
the ABC-TV film, "The
Beate Klarsfeld Story," starring Farrah Fawcett.
In addition to Klarsfeld's
lecture,: thwje other pro-
' grams will take place on
' campus. OnSunday, April 30
at 7 p.m„'the campus chapter of the Children of Holocaust Survivors will sponsor
the movie "The Beate Klars
feld Story." This will take
place in the Memorial Room
of the Ohio Union, 1739 N.
High St.
From noon, May 1, to
noon, May 2, the Children of
Holocaust Survivors campus
chapter will hold their second annual 24-hour Holocaust Memorial Vigil on the
oval. During that period, students will read names of people who perished in the Nazi
Holocaust, while surrounded
by pictures explaining that
time period in detail.
Coinciding with the vigil,
at sundown, Monday, May 1,
campus fraternities, sororities, churches and residence
halls will light memorial
candles to be displayed in
windows facing the street.
The candles will burn 24
hours to show that the OSU
community remembers victims of the Holocaust.
Klarsfeld's lecture will
take place in the West Ballroom of the Ohio Union. A
parking garage is adjacent
to the building. It is open to
the community and free of
charge. The 1989 Yom
HaShoah Holocaust Memorial program is sponsored
by Children of Holocaust
Survivors, B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation, Jewish Issues
Subgroup of Residence and
Dining Halls, Jewish Student
Activities Board, Ohio Drake
Union Activities, RHAC Plus
Committee with the support
of Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha'
Epsilon Pi, Campus Ministry, Delta Phi Epsilon, The
Graduate School, JaNELL,
Melton Center for Jewish
Studies, OSU Special Events
Fund, Sigma Alpha Mu,
Sigma Delta Tau, Tau Epsilon Phi and Zeta Beta Tau.