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' :",W!'- M . • •fl! I}. ; i\ fi' LTSnAaY, OHIO HISTORICAL 7S<>Q4^tY 1SU2 VELM-v AVE. ~ 43H11 VCXCH COU>* On VOL.67 NO. 18 MAY4.1989-NISAN29 Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals. New Human Rights Law Could Split World Jewry, Reform Leader Fears Kapelye, a Yiddish/Klezmer Band, will perform at the Agudas Achim Synagogue on Tuesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. Kapelye To Perform May 23 At Agudas Achim Synagogue Kapelye, a Yiddish Klezmer Band, will perform at the, Agudas Achim Synagogue on Tuesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. asa highlight of the six-week Yiddish Festival sponsored by the Agudas Achim Synagogue and the Leo; Yassenoff Jewish Center.' ';.,v.,777.-.-7 According to Melva Schottenstein, co-chairwoman of the concert, "No one has Maltz first" became involved with Yiddish music as a young bby when lie was .-/.called upon to play the clarinet at family occasions;He has received degrees in music education, composition and performance from Hdfstfa University, C.W. Post and Yale University. He has also performed extensively in thefields of com- ..'■'.'■' (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) done more to bring together the streams of Jewish, expression found in Klezme^ music, Yiddish theatre and Yiddish folk songs than Kapelye; they are the pior neering Klezmer group whose blend of authenticity and entertainment has delighted audiences throughout the world." Performers at the May 23 concert include Michael Alpert, who plays the fiddle and sings; Eric Berman, the tuba player; Ken Maltz, who offers clarinet and vocals, and Henry Sapoznik, an artist of tenor banjo and song. Alpert grew up in a Yiddish-speaking family and has Jjeeri involved with Yiddish music since childhood. He majored in Slavic languages at UCLA, resided for a year in Yugoslavia and is known for his performance of vocal styles from— Serbian to Mexican, He is involved in documenting and researching traditional music among New York's diverse Jewish communities. Berman has performed with the-San Antonio Symphony, the American Symphony, the American Concert Band and a variety of jazz and chamber groups. He holds the degrees of juris doctor ahd doctor of philosophy (music), and is a specialist in entertainment law. WASHINGTON (JTA) -A proposed Israeli law guaranteeing human rights has as much potential as the "Who Is a Jew" amendment to split American and Diaspora Jewry from Israel, the head of the Reform movement's rabbinical seminary warned last week. • The reason is that "while in principle it contains pro1 visions for the free expression of religion, it de facto separates out from that the areas of marriage and divorce," Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewsih Institute of Religion said here. "Authority in those key areas is maintained by the Orthodox religious courts," he told reporters at a National Press Club breakfast meeting. He was referring to the fact that weddings and divorces performed in Israel by Reform and Conservative rabbis are not recognized by the government as valid:.' The new law is seen as a step toward a written constitution. It provides for a special constitutional court that would rule on whether proposed legislation violates the provisions of the human rights law. Gottschalk said that while some members of the Knesset would like to see marriage and divorce included in the law, they appear to be willing to go along with the exclusion to prevent opposition by the Orthodox parties to the entire law. Justice Minister Dan Meridor has predicted that the law will be adopted by a broad majority "within a reasonable period." "As a political compromise, it is "understandable. As a compromise of principle, it is incomprehensible," Gottschalk said. "At this juncture in the development of the state it should certainly have been included in the total package." * Gottschalk said he believed that if the human rights bill contained provisions for the complete free exercise of religion, it would put an end to the Orthodox parties'efforts to amend the Law of Return to reject as Jews those converted by Reform and Conservative rabbis. An agreement by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last December to back such ah amendment caused a storm of protests from American, Jews, which re- 'Freedom Sunday1 Phonathon Set for May 21 An all-day phonathon is scheduled 'for Sunday, May 21, to aid in the Columbus Jewish Federation's "Passage To Freedom" drive. Over 100 volunteers will make phone calls reaching out to the Columbus Jewish community over a 12-hour period. From a bank of telephones at Campaign Headquarters, the Esther C. Melton Community Services Building, volunteers will call community members on Freedom Sunday to ask for their financial support. "This is a new exodus in our time," said Herbert Glimcher, co-chairman of the "F'assage To Freedom" Campaign. "Welcoming and resettling these recently released Soviet Jews, denied freedom and basic human rights for so long, will take a community-wide effort." More than 40,000 Jews will be released from the Soviet Union this year with 100 expected to reunite, with their families, and settle in Colunj- bus. Sixty new arrivals aire expected before Jul'x 1,1989. Several families who recently arrived here waited eight to ten years for permission to emigrate. "It's critical that members of our community understand that this is an emergency situation," says Jack Wallick, co-chairman of the "Passage To Freedom" Campaign. "For years we demonstrated in support of Soviet refuseniks. Now we must unite: congregations, major Jewish organizations and members of our Columbus Jewish community, to help meet the costs of resettling these refugees." Opportunities to help on Freedom Sunday are as fol lows: 9:15 a.m. to noon, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. Two additional evening phoning sessions are scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday/May 22, and Wednesday, May 24. Each phone session allows time for orientation ahd training, as well as an opportunity to contribute to the "Passage To Freedom" Campaign. To reserve a phone, call Barbara Love Abrams at the Columbus Jewish Federation, 237-7686. Beth Jacob Testimonial Dinner To Celebrate 90th Anniversary Co-chairpersons Ron Golden, Irv Flox and Ruth Stavsky announced that the date for the 1989 Beth Jacob Congregation Testimonial Dinner has been changed to June 11. Ron Golden, general chairman for this event, said, "History1 isnot juist written; history is made. We at Beth Jacob have groiyh from a handful of Jews who started a minyoh in 1899, to a vibrant and nationally recognized institution of Orthodox suited in Shamir backing off. While the issue "was put to rest for now," the amendment is still in the Knesset and "will come to light again, certainly by the time the next election comes around," Gottschalk said. "The human rights bill gives us an opportunity to discuss this issue again before it heats up and surfaces" in the next election, he said. ' Torah Judaism. In those 90 years, thousands of people have passed through the portals of our synagogue buildings, first on Donaldson Avenue, then on Bulen Avenue and for the past 20 years in our new and beautiful edifice on College Avenue. We had presidents .who served with heart and soul, We had founding families who proved their loyalty to our congregation through thick and thin. We are proud to say (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) While conceding that the Reform movement is not completely happy with the Law of Return as it is" presently written, he said that "one could live with it." But he stressed that any attempt to amend it will result in the non-Orthodox losing ground ] they have gained in Israel. He said the issue does not personally affect a large number of people, although (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) Yiddish Festival To Open With Theater Presentation A reflected "Ray from the Yiddish Theater" will be seen or rather heard, when Gallery Players presents its Caravan Theater in readings from The Dybbuk at the opening of the "Hooray For Yiddish Theater In America!" exhibit this Sunday, May 7, at 5 p.m- The exhibit, to be housed at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, is part of a local six-week Yiddish Festival sponsored by the Center and Agudas Achim Synagogue. A reception, open to the entire community, will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday. The material for the Caravan Theater program has been adapted and written by Harold M. Eisenstein, Gallery Players' artist-in-residence. Eisenstein will also present his thoughts on the Yiddish theater. The Dybbuk, which has been referred to "as the gem of Yiddish dramatic literature," is concerned with the old Chassidic superstition of transmigrated souls, the spirits of the discontented dead, which suddenly possess the bodies of the living. S. Ansky was the pen name of Shloyme Zaynvi Rappa- port, the Russian-born playwright, folklorist, essayist and short-story writer, whose play The Dybbuk has undoubtedly been the most frequently performed Yiddish play. It has been performed in at least a dozen languages and has been turned into an opera by several cdhiposers and even a ballet by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein. In thd Caravan Theater presentation, the role of Leah, the young, possessed . bride, will be read by Mara Lieberman. Julian Barnett will'narrate the role of the wonder rabbi of Mirapol who has been persuaded to exorcise the dybbuk from the .young girl's body. Barnett enacted the same character in the revival of the Ansky script during Gallery Players' 25th anniversary season, 15 years ago. Others who will participate in the performance are Irene Braverman, who will be Leah's grandmother; Benton Bloch; Larry Samuels, and Jay Brand. The tradition of Yiddish theater in the UnitedTStates is a long and rich one, according to Yiddish Festival co-chairwoman Esther Pass. "As the immigrant gen- ■ eration was assimilated into the modern' American scene, thp richness of Yiddish culture was lost. The goal of this exhibit and festival is to bring to the forefront the expressions of the culture,' adds co-chairwoman Nancy Levin. "Hooray for Yiddish Theater in America I" can be seen for six weeks in the Jewish Center's Goldberg Gallery. The free exhibit, organized by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibit Service, is an adaption of original work done by the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum.^ The six-week Yiddish Festival also includes films, " classes and a Klezmer concert and is being made possible by the support of the Columbus Jewish Foundation, Leo Yassenoff Foundation, tlie Sara and Harry Schwartz Cultural Fund of Agudas Achim Synagogue and Bella Wexner. m*mmm**»>" At1toe,C««iter-*-*VK., **'4$ JSuitorlii! IS*«atw«$,.. «*'.»*." % #mtAn&'tyfa.-.«.f^,<1il ■ H&a&aJtptaw,. .V. *: 1%,,*> \% UbSttWWS ,l,rH(,,,»,'nJ I(j s««aMNfi?« ♦* t. *..«'«v»V;7-* ^ft^pi^'i|^le^\i^.y>;'| ' \ . , .V.\\\ •'< v , , , ' ' " \\ > 7, .V.'.WYi i r,V '. > . ■ 'y7y^!';'^',y^^^^^^^^!l^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^,»!>^>' ■■■»;
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Full Text | ' :",W!'- M . • •fl! I}. ; i\ fi' LTSnAaY, OHIO HISTORICAL 7S<>Q4^tY 1SU2 VELM-v AVE. ~ 43H11 VCXCH COU>* On VOL.67 NO. 18 MAY4.1989-NISAN29 Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals. New Human Rights Law Could Split World Jewry, Reform Leader Fears Kapelye, a Yiddish/Klezmer Band, will perform at the Agudas Achim Synagogue on Tuesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. Kapelye To Perform May 23 At Agudas Achim Synagogue Kapelye, a Yiddish Klezmer Band, will perform at the, Agudas Achim Synagogue on Tuesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. asa highlight of the six-week Yiddish Festival sponsored by the Agudas Achim Synagogue and the Leo; Yassenoff Jewish Center.' ';.,v.,777.-.-7 According to Melva Schottenstein, co-chairwoman of the concert, "No one has Maltz first" became involved with Yiddish music as a young bby when lie was .-/.called upon to play the clarinet at family occasions;He has received degrees in music education, composition and performance from Hdfstfa University, C.W. Post and Yale University. He has also performed extensively in thefields of com- ..'■'.'■' (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) done more to bring together the streams of Jewish, expression found in Klezme^ music, Yiddish theatre and Yiddish folk songs than Kapelye; they are the pior neering Klezmer group whose blend of authenticity and entertainment has delighted audiences throughout the world." Performers at the May 23 concert include Michael Alpert, who plays the fiddle and sings; Eric Berman, the tuba player; Ken Maltz, who offers clarinet and vocals, and Henry Sapoznik, an artist of tenor banjo and song. Alpert grew up in a Yiddish-speaking family and has Jjeeri involved with Yiddish music since childhood. He majored in Slavic languages at UCLA, resided for a year in Yugoslavia and is known for his performance of vocal styles from— Serbian to Mexican, He is involved in documenting and researching traditional music among New York's diverse Jewish communities. Berman has performed with the-San Antonio Symphony, the American Symphony, the American Concert Band and a variety of jazz and chamber groups. He holds the degrees of juris doctor ahd doctor of philosophy (music), and is a specialist in entertainment law. WASHINGTON (JTA) -A proposed Israeli law guaranteeing human rights has as much potential as the "Who Is a Jew" amendment to split American and Diaspora Jewry from Israel, the head of the Reform movement's rabbinical seminary warned last week. • The reason is that "while in principle it contains pro1 visions for the free expression of religion, it de facto separates out from that the areas of marriage and divorce," Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewsih Institute of Religion said here. "Authority in those key areas is maintained by the Orthodox religious courts," he told reporters at a National Press Club breakfast meeting. He was referring to the fact that weddings and divorces performed in Israel by Reform and Conservative rabbis are not recognized by the government as valid:.' The new law is seen as a step toward a written constitution. It provides for a special constitutional court that would rule on whether proposed legislation violates the provisions of the human rights law. Gottschalk said that while some members of the Knesset would like to see marriage and divorce included in the law, they appear to be willing to go along with the exclusion to prevent opposition by the Orthodox parties to the entire law. Justice Minister Dan Meridor has predicted that the law will be adopted by a broad majority "within a reasonable period." "As a political compromise, it is "understandable. As a compromise of principle, it is incomprehensible," Gottschalk said. "At this juncture in the development of the state it should certainly have been included in the total package." * Gottschalk said he believed that if the human rights bill contained provisions for the complete free exercise of religion, it would put an end to the Orthodox parties'efforts to amend the Law of Return to reject as Jews those converted by Reform and Conservative rabbis. An agreement by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last December to back such ah amendment caused a storm of protests from American, Jews, which re- 'Freedom Sunday1 Phonathon Set for May 21 An all-day phonathon is scheduled 'for Sunday, May 21, to aid in the Columbus Jewish Federation's "Passage To Freedom" drive. Over 100 volunteers will make phone calls reaching out to the Columbus Jewish community over a 12-hour period. From a bank of telephones at Campaign Headquarters, the Esther C. Melton Community Services Building, volunteers will call community members on Freedom Sunday to ask for their financial support. "This is a new exodus in our time," said Herbert Glimcher, co-chairman of the "F'assage To Freedom" Campaign. "Welcoming and resettling these recently released Soviet Jews, denied freedom and basic human rights for so long, will take a community-wide effort." More than 40,000 Jews will be released from the Soviet Union this year with 100 expected to reunite, with their families, and settle in Colunj- bus. Sixty new arrivals aire expected before Jul'x 1,1989. Several families who recently arrived here waited eight to ten years for permission to emigrate. "It's critical that members of our community understand that this is an emergency situation," says Jack Wallick, co-chairman of the "Passage To Freedom" Campaign. "For years we demonstrated in support of Soviet refuseniks. Now we must unite: congregations, major Jewish organizations and members of our Columbus Jewish community, to help meet the costs of resettling these refugees." Opportunities to help on Freedom Sunday are as fol lows: 9:15 a.m. to noon, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. Two additional evening phoning sessions are scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday/May 22, and Wednesday, May 24. Each phone session allows time for orientation ahd training, as well as an opportunity to contribute to the "Passage To Freedom" Campaign. To reserve a phone, call Barbara Love Abrams at the Columbus Jewish Federation, 237-7686. Beth Jacob Testimonial Dinner To Celebrate 90th Anniversary Co-chairpersons Ron Golden, Irv Flox and Ruth Stavsky announced that the date for the 1989 Beth Jacob Congregation Testimonial Dinner has been changed to June 11. Ron Golden, general chairman for this event, said, "History1 isnot juist written; history is made. We at Beth Jacob have groiyh from a handful of Jews who started a minyoh in 1899, to a vibrant and nationally recognized institution of Orthodox suited in Shamir backing off. While the issue "was put to rest for now," the amendment is still in the Knesset and "will come to light again, certainly by the time the next election comes around," Gottschalk said. "The human rights bill gives us an opportunity to discuss this issue again before it heats up and surfaces" in the next election, he said. ' Torah Judaism. In those 90 years, thousands of people have passed through the portals of our synagogue buildings, first on Donaldson Avenue, then on Bulen Avenue and for the past 20 years in our new and beautiful edifice on College Avenue. We had presidents .who served with heart and soul, We had founding families who proved their loyalty to our congregation through thick and thin. We are proud to say (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) While conceding that the Reform movement is not completely happy with the Law of Return as it is" presently written, he said that "one could live with it." But he stressed that any attempt to amend it will result in the non-Orthodox losing ground ] they have gained in Israel. He said the issue does not personally affect a large number of people, although (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) Yiddish Festival To Open With Theater Presentation A reflected "Ray from the Yiddish Theater" will be seen or rather heard, when Gallery Players presents its Caravan Theater in readings from The Dybbuk at the opening of the "Hooray For Yiddish Theater In America!" exhibit this Sunday, May 7, at 5 p.m- The exhibit, to be housed at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, is part of a local six-week Yiddish Festival sponsored by the Center and Agudas Achim Synagogue. A reception, open to the entire community, will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday. The material for the Caravan Theater program has been adapted and written by Harold M. Eisenstein, Gallery Players' artist-in-residence. Eisenstein will also present his thoughts on the Yiddish theater. The Dybbuk, which has been referred to "as the gem of Yiddish dramatic literature," is concerned with the old Chassidic superstition of transmigrated souls, the spirits of the discontented dead, which suddenly possess the bodies of the living. S. Ansky was the pen name of Shloyme Zaynvi Rappa- port, the Russian-born playwright, folklorist, essayist and short-story writer, whose play The Dybbuk has undoubtedly been the most frequently performed Yiddish play. It has been performed in at least a dozen languages and has been turned into an opera by several cdhiposers and even a ballet by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein. In thd Caravan Theater presentation, the role of Leah, the young, possessed . bride, will be read by Mara Lieberman. Julian Barnett will'narrate the role of the wonder rabbi of Mirapol who has been persuaded to exorcise the dybbuk from the .young girl's body. Barnett enacted the same character in the revival of the Ansky script during Gallery Players' 25th anniversary season, 15 years ago. Others who will participate in the performance are Irene Braverman, who will be Leah's grandmother; Benton Bloch; Larry Samuels, and Jay Brand. The tradition of Yiddish theater in the UnitedTStates is a long and rich one, according to Yiddish Festival co-chairwoman Esther Pass. "As the immigrant gen- ■ eration was assimilated into the modern' American scene, thp richness of Yiddish culture was lost. The goal of this exhibit and festival is to bring to the forefront the expressions of the culture,' adds co-chairwoman Nancy Levin. "Hooray for Yiddish Theater in America I" can be seen for six weeks in the Jewish Center's Goldberg Gallery. The free exhibit, organized by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibit Service, is an adaption of original work done by the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum.^ The six-week Yiddish Festival also includes films, " classes and a Klezmer concert and is being made possible by the support of the Columbus Jewish Foundation, Leo Yassenoff Foundation, tlie Sara and Harry Schwartz Cultural Fund of Agudas Achim Synagogue and Bella Wexner. m*mmm**»>" At1toe,C««iter-*-*VK., **'4$ JSuitorlii! IS*«atw«$,.. «*'.»*." % #mtAn&'tyfa.-.«.f^,<1il ■ H&a&aJtptaw,. .V. *: 1%,,*> \% UbSttWWS ,l,rH(,,,»,'nJ I(j s««aMNfi?« ♦* t. *..«'«v»V;7-* ^ft^pi^'i|^le^\i^.y>;'| ' \ . , .V.\\\ •'< v , , , ' ' " \\ > 7, .V.'.WYi i r,V '. > . ■ 'y7y^!';'^',y^^^^^^^^!l^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^,»!>^>' ■■■»; |
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