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VOL. 67 NO. 36
SEPTEMBER 7, 1989-ELUL 7
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
France Grants Asylum To Palestinian
Deported By Israel From West Bank
Wexner Heritage House Begins
Find Phase Of Construction
The creation of the final phase of construction for the
Wexner Heritage House began last week with the completion
of the razing of the original structure. The previous removal
of one residential wing of the original Heritage House prepared the site for the creation of Phase II. The final razing
will be immediately followed by the creation of one 50-bed
wing specially designed for residents suffering from Alzheimers Disease and another 50-bed wing for those residents
requiring maximum care, multi-purpose program areas,
speech and physical therapy clinics and resident service
areas. Completion of the construction program for the
Wexner Heritage House is estimated at 12-14 months.
TEL AVIV (JTA) -Israel
deported five Palestinians
from the West Bank last
week and, in an extraordinary move, France
granted asylum for one of
them.
He is Dr. Taysir Aruri,
who taught physics at Bir
Zeit University in the West
Bank until it was shut down
by the Israeli authorities,
He is one of five Palestinians whose final appeals
against expulsion were
recently rejected by Israel's
High Court of Justice. All
were expelled.
Israel claims that the men,
who have records of security
offenses and have long been
in cutody, are leaders of the
Palestinian uprising in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Setting  something of a
Dr. Barry Chazan To Deliver
Annual Gaynor Lecture At JC
Dr. Barry Chazan, former
director of the Melton Center
for Jewish Education at
Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, Israel, will
deliver the Rabbi Nathan
Gaynor Memorial Opening
Lecture to kick off the Fall
Semester of the Community
College for Adult Jewish
Studies. The program is set
for Monday, Sept. 25, at 8
p.m., to be held at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center,
1125 College Ave. The lecture
is free and open to trhe
public. A reception with
refreshments will follow.
"We are so excited to be
able to attract such a commanding figure in the field of
Jewish education," says
Sylvia Gaynor, who has endowed the lecture. "Dr.
Chazan brings unique insight
and a remarkably gentle
sensitivity to his subject,
which is such a high priority
in the Columbus Jewish
Community."
Dr. Chazan is the brother
of Bob Chazan, a former
resident of Columbus who
was director of the Melton
Center for Jewish Studies at
The Ohio State University.
The topic for the evening
will be "Can Jewish Adults
Learn?" Dr. Chazan intends
to answer this question
through a panel discussion
with his "guests", Erik
Erikson (a contemporary
educator) and Rabbi Akiva
(a scholar who lived in
Palestine during the 2nd century C.E.) Participants will
also have the opportunity to
engage in some Jewish learning.
Torah Academy Sets Scholarship Dinner
The Columbus Torah'
Academy announces its 29th
Annual Scholarship Dinner
has been scheduled for Sunday evening, Nov. 12, at,the
Hyatt Regency Columbus,
Co-chajrwomen Arlene
Sapir ahd Karan" Tanenbaum and their committees
have begun making plans for
the annual fund-raising
event, which this year will
feature entertainer Theodore Bikel as the special
guest attraction.
"Although invitations will
be extended to the entire
community within the next
month, we urge everyone to
mark the Nov. 12 date on
their calendar now. We anticipate a maximum attendance, so early reservations
following receipt of your
invitation is encouraged,"
they added.
Those requiring more
information prior to the invitation mailing may contact
Sapir, Tanenbaum or the
Torah Academy office at
864-0299.
Dr. Barrv Chazan
"The Gaynor Memorial
Lecture will kick off the Fall
Semester of the Community
College for Adult Jewish
Studies, now in it's sizth
year," says Judy Blair,
chairwoman of the Community College Steering
Committee. "Our theme this
semester is 'Jewish Books:
Sources for Living.' Our
courses will explore Jewish
texts from the Bible and
Talmud to mystic texts and
modern Israeli poetry."
The community College
for Adult Jewish Studies is a
cooperative venture of Columbus synagogues and
agencies involved in Jewish
education. The Community
College serves the entire
Jewish community, providing courses over a broad
range of topics at both
elementary and more advanced levels.
For more information, call
Reuven Spero, director of
Jewish Education at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center,
231-2731.
precedent, Israeli authorities permitted the five to
select where they wanted to
be deported.
Aruri, who is a member of
the Palestinian Communist
Party, chose France. He
said he feared for his life if
sent to Lebanon, the place
where Israel usually expels
those it deems security
risks.
The other four deportees
were flown by helicopter to
the southern Lebanon secur-,
ity zone, where they were
given medical checkups and '
some money before friends
drove them further north.
France has consistently .
condemned the deportation
of Palestinian civilians from
the West Bank. But Aruri's
request for asylum put the
French in an awkward position.
To accept him could be
interpreted as implicit
approval of his deportation.
But by turning down the request, Paris would belie its
tradition of welcortiing political refugees.
The French finally decided
in favor of Aruri, whose request for asylum was.conveyed by the International
Committee of the Red Cross.
In Paris, a ranking French
official told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the
government's move "can by
no means constitute a prece
dent." But experts could not
recall another instance of a
European country granting
asylum to Palestinian expelled by Israel.
Aruri, who lived in El-
Bireh, had been held under
administrative detention,
without trial or charges, for
four years, from 1974 to 1978.
The others deported Sunday were:
• Mohammed Matur, 40, a
lecturer at a nursing school,
whom the Israelis say was
active in the intifada in the
Jerusalem-Ramallah area;
•Odeh Ma'ali, a member
of the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine,
who served a year in prison
for subversion in 1984 and resumed his activities upon his
release;
•Magid Labadi of Abu
Dis, near Jerusalem, also of
the Democratic Front, who
was sentenced to 15 months
in jail in 1981 and was subsequently held in administrative detention.
•Bilai Shakhshir of
Nablus, another Democratic
Front member.
Gen. Dan Shomron, the
Israel Defense Force chief of
staff, said that the deportations would continue,
though not on a regular
basis. According to the IDF
commander, they may spark
some unrest in the short
term, but in the long run they
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld Appointed
To Committee Of AIDS Coalition
Temple Israel Senior Rabbi Bradley N. Bleefeld has
been appointed to the Education Committee of the AIDS
Community Advisory Coalition.
Rabbi Bradley N. Bleefeld
Active for several years in
AIDS victim counseling arid
family crises intervention;
Rabbi Bleefeld addressed
the need for compassion in
AIDS treatment while serving as founder and president
of Hospice of Metropolitan
Erie in his previous pulpit.
The rabbi has worked with
the local General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church
in writing and preparing
their instructional material
on AIDS.
The task of the Education
Committee, in conjunction
with the Columbus Health
Department, is to prepare
instructional material and
teachers for AIDS education
in the public schools, the
workplace and in the home.
"By. awareness and caution we can help prevent the
spread of AIDS, and by kindness and gentle understanding we can comfort the afflicted and their families,"
said Bleefeld.
are an effective way to reduce terrorism.
Dr. Sabine Himmelfarb
To Speak On Sept. 14
The Columbus Chapter of
Children of Holocaust Survivors has scheduled a
general meeting for Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center.
The feature speaker,
psychologist Sabine Himmelfarb, will discuss the impact of the Holocaust on
present-day children of survivors in her presentation,
"Children of Holocaust Survivors Are Different.."
Dr. Himmelfarb, who
earned her A.|B. at the.
University of Chicago and
her Ph.D. at O.S.U., has
treated both survivors and
their children in private
practice.
The meeting will begin
promptly at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets Still Available
For'Boys Night Out'
"There are a few tickets
still available for the Agudas
Achim Brotherhood 'Boys
Night Out' evening starring
Louis Nye and co-starring
Susie Goldstein on Tuesday,
Sept. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue,"
announced Robert A.
Shapiro, Brotherhood
general campaign chairman.
"The Boys Night Out"
evening offers a complimentary open bar, hors
d'oeuvres, a prime rib dinner, the opportunity to have
a great time and support the
Brotherhood projects, all for
a $50 ticket," noted Shapiro.
Garold Beim and Ken
Palestrant are in charge of
food for the event. Sandy
Lichtenstein and Marc
Lichtenstein will handle the
dinner arrangements. Ed
Solomon serves as "Boys
Night Out" treasurer. Steve
Shkolnik coordinated the Ad
Book. Fred Needham was
Ad Book vice-chairman.
Dinner and raffle tickets
are being distributed: by
Chairpersons Morris Fleishman and William Goldsmith,
For further information
regarding tickets, contact
themor the synagogue office, 237-2747.
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63rd
Annual
Meeting
COLUMBUS JEWISH FEDERATION
Sunday, September 10 • Congregation Tifereth Israel • 7:30 p.m.
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