Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1989-09-14

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Ohio  Hist. Society  Libr.
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VOL. 67  NO. 37
SEPTEMBER 14, 1989-ELUL 14
Devoted to American
and Jewish (deals.
ADL Is Suing
German 'ADL'
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith is suing an anti-
Semitic group which calls itself the "German-American
Anti-Defamation League."
ADL charges that the German group is making unauthorized use of their
name, which is registered
with the U.Sv Patent and
Trademark Office.
Moreover, according to
the suit filed by the ADL in
federal court, the group is a
"hate-mongering organization that spouts anti-
Semitism, supports the creation of a _pui*e Aryan race
and engages in a course of
bogus historical revisionism
to discount events such as
the Holocaust.
"All of these.activities are
done ostensibly to accomplish the association's stated
objective of fighting anti-
German sentiment."
The ADL first learned of
the group's unauthorized use
of the name in 1986.- At that
time, the matter was settled
out of court when-the group
agreed to change its name to
the "German-American
Information and Education
Association."
But in May, the ADL learned that the organization had
resumed using the name and
that "ADL" had appeared on
an anti-Semitic newsletter.
Israeli Envoy to Press Washington
On Arafat Visa, Egyptian Initiative
Presenting Heritage Village's upcoming community
awareness program on Long Term Care Insurance are
J. Maynard Kaplan, past president of Heritage
Village; Gerald N Conn, executive vice president; I.
David Cohen, Versatile Investment Planners, and Saul
Sokol, Sokol Insurance.
Heritage Village Will Present
Community Awareness Program
On long Term Care Insurance
, If a long term illness
meant months, perhaps
years, in a nursing home,
would your current insurance plicy cover it? Knowing
that Medicare will only pay,
on the average, two percent of all nursing home expenses, many people consider an insurance policy to
cover nursing home care.
But of the policies which are
currently available, which
one is the best one for your
own situation?
These   and   many  other
questions will be answered
at the Community Awareness Program entitled
"Nursing Home/Long Term
Care Insurance" which will
be presented on Sunday,
Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. at Heritage Tower, 1145 College
Ave.
There is no admission
charge for the program.
., Presenters for the program will be Saul Sokol,
Sokol Insurance; I. David
Cohen, Versatile Investment
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) «
Washington's renewed efforts to breathe some life into Israel's flagging peace initiative has created new friction, between Labor and
Likud anef also within high
echelons of Likud.
Israel at the same time, is
mounting a diplomatic campaign to forestall the unpalatable prospect of a U.S.
visa being granted to
Palestine Liberation
Organization leader Yasir
Arafat, so he~can come to
New York to address the
U.N. General Assembly.
Washington is reportedly
trying to persuade moderate
Arab states and the PLO to
support a ten-point paper
drawn up by Egypt regarding Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir's proposal,
for Palestinian elections in
the West Bank , and Gaza
Strip. .
American officials are
said to be pledging that if the
Arab states accept this position paper, Washington will
press all sides^to agree to
hold the elections.
The Egyptian paper proposes that East Jerusalem
Arabs be allowed to participate in the elections and
that the referendum lead to
negotiations  based  on  the
Community Turns Out For Federation Annual Meeting
With over 400 community
members in attendance, the
Columbus Jewish Federation commenced its 63rd
Annual Meeting, this past
Sunday, Sept. 10, at Congregation Tifereth Israel, electing Benjamin L. Zox as
president.
The Annual, Meeting,
chaired by Robert Glick, serves as the Federation's
prime event to share with
the Jewish community the
year's achievements and
accomplishments^, look
ahead to the challenges pf
the upcoming year and present awards y to deserving
community, members,
organizations and programs.
This evening also provides
the community its yearly
chance to elect Federation
officers and board members
for the 1989-90 term. Elected
this year as officers along
with President Zox, succeeding B. Lee Skilken, were:
Edwin M. Ellman, vice president; Melvin L.'Schottenstein, vice president; Ellen
Siegel, vice president; Alan
Wasserstrom, vice president; Lawrence D. Schaffer,
treasurer; Nelson Genshaft,
assistant treasurer; Gary
Robins, secretary, and Rob
ert H. Schottenstein,. assistant secretary.
Award presentations included the Therese Stern
Kahn Young Leadership
Award presented to Holly S.
Kastan for outstanding leadership and commitment to
the Federation, Jewish
communal agencies and the
general community. The
award is endowed by William V. Kahn, Federation
past president, in memory of
his late first wife.
Benjamin Zox
The Community Award of
Excellence was conferred
during the evening's ceremonies. The recipient, "The
Adult   Mini-School:   The
Florence Melton Program of
Jewish Learning," a program of the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center, was selected
in recognition of meritorious
achievement which strengthens Jewish identification
and quality of life.
A new feature this year
was the Columbus Torah
Academy choir singing a
medley of songs in English
and Hebrew complementing
a slide show depicting agency services.
The Annual Meeting was
enhanced by the attendance
of a large contingent of New
Americans, for some their
first Jewish experience and
community participation.
Everyone Attending was
able to warmly,welcome and
greet their new neighbors
and help them feel comfortable, at home and part of
Columbus' Jewish family.
Highlight of the evening
was Professor Irwin Cotler,
defender of Soviet prisoners
of conscience, delivering the
annual Abe I. Yenkin Memorial Address oh the current
condition of Soviet Jewry:
The Columbus Jewish Federation is the primary vehicle for the support of Jewish  programs and human
services in the central Ohio
area. A volunteer-based
organization, offers a variety of cultural, philanthropic and educational
opportunities.	
"land-for-peace" principle.
Both of these positions are
unacceptable to Likud,
though acceptable to Labor.
The fear in Likud circles is
that if the U.S. efforts are
successful and the PLO, succumbing to pressure from
the United States and
. moderate Arab states, accepts the ten-point paper,
President Bush would accede to Arafat's visa request.
Likud ministers, Shamir
among them, are said by
reliable sources to be angry
at Foreign Minister Moshe
Arens for having engaged in
separate dicussions with the
American and Egyptian ambassadors over the
substance of the Egyptian
position paper.
Arens, who is himself a
Likud ally of Shamir's,
recently told the envoys that
he personally rejects the
participation ■ of East
Jerusalem residents in the
elections, though this is not
the position of the government as such, since the
Labor half of the coalition
supports it.      .   .
Labor's only condition is
that the actual voting take
place outside of Jerusalem
municipal boundaries.    .
But Shamir maintains that.
Israel need not consider any
details whatever, unless and
until the Arab side accepts in
principle the Israeli initiative, which sees the elecT
tions as part of a two-phase
neogotiation process.
Shamir and other Likud
ministers fault Arens for being drawn into substantive
Torah Academy Opens Aug. 28
Columbus Torah Academy opened its doors Monday;
Aug. 28, for the 1989-90 school year to a record enrollment of 210 students. For the first time in the school's
history, 40 students make up three kindergarten
classes. Double classes also exist for the first time in
three grades: first, second and fourth./According to
Headmaster Henoch Millen, "This marks the wave of
the future. If the past two years serve as any indication, enrollment at CTA will reach 300 by the 1992.
school year." Many new programs have been introduced for the new school year. The Learning "Resource
Center for students with special needs, as well as the
enrichment program both General Studies and
Judaica, have been expanded to include more grades
and  additional   students.
discussion at this stage,
especially since Arafat's Al
Fatah wing of the PLO was
hostile toward the Israeli
proposal in a statement
issued at the end of its convention in Tunis last month.
, Shamir points out, too,
that the Egyptian position
paper has never formally
been submitted to Israel.
That can soon become moot
of the Americans are persuaded to transmit the Egyptian paper to Israel.
President Hosni Mubarak
of Egypt is scheduled to visit
Washington later this month.
Center To Again Offer
Hebrewln ADay
"Learn to Read Hebrew in'
One Day" will be held on
Sunday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125 College Ave. The fee for the day
is $35, which includes lunch,
a textbook and all other materials. Class size is limited
to provide the best learning
experience.
After mastering the Hebrew alphabet, participants
can continue learning Hebrew with the Community
College's Fall Semester Hebrew classes. "We offer an
integrated program that
allows language development in both conversational
Hebrew and reading skills,"
according to Judy Blair.
Community College classes start the week of Oct. 16 a t
both the Jewish Center's
Northside Facility, 4747 Sawmill Rd., and at the Center's
Eastside Facility, 1125 College Ave.
For further information or
■a brochure of all course listings, contact Reuven Spero
at the Center, 231-2731.
ZBT Outlaws Hazing
OVERLAND PARK, KS
(JTA).-. It's goodbye to fraternity hazing, hello to
immediate initiation for the
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
The Jewish-founded national college fraternity,
founded in 1898, has officially abolished pledging as
part of its recruitment policies and replaced it with a
policy of initiating its new
members within 72 hours of
"rush" or recruitment.
Previously, new members
were known as "pledges",
prior to initiation and often
were subject to humiliating
or dangerous activities'
designed by older members.
The change goes into effect  immediately   in   the
. fraternity's 100 chapters and
groups in the United States
and Canada.
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