Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1989-11-02

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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community lor Over £0 Years
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Women's ORT To
Tour "Treasures"
Women's American ORT
"(Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) invites all members to spend
their lunch hour at jthe
Columbus Museum of Art,
480 E. Broad St., on Friday,
Nov. 10, from noon to 2 p.m.
Members will tour the
"Treasures from the Jewish
Museum" and enjoy a box
lunch. This is an opportunity
to view works of art of historic and religious significance.
The exhibit contains more
than 50 examples of Judaica
from the fifth through twentieth century featuring superb examples of liturgical
and fine arts that recall Jewish traditions and achievements originating from the
Near East, Asia, Europe and
the Americas. Pieces were
chosen for their intrinsic
aesthetic and symbolic
significance and meaning.
The cost per person is $8.
Reservations can be made
by calling Margot Morrisey,
431-9529.
ORT was originally founded in czarist Russia to train
Jews for professions from
which, they had been traditionally excluded. Today,
ORT is a global network
comprising more than 800
schools with an annual enrollment of over 130,000 students. v  	
8,442 Jews Leave Soviet Union
n Massive September Exodus
Gearing up for Charity Newsies' drive season are:
(Front row, 1. to r.) Gil Feiertag; Mike Callif; Garry
Beim, Drive chairman; Meyer Hoffman; (second row)
Jeff Lieberman; Geoffrey Stern; Scott Sher; Michael
R. Hurwitz; Randy Gold; (back row) Stuart
Grossiriart; Mike Gbldfeg; Marvin Grossman, and
Mark Schwartz. The Charity Newsies begin their
season with a banner raising at Broad and High Streets
at noon on Friday, Nov. 10, and conclude the season
with their newspaper sale on Drive Day, Saturday,
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Charity Newsies Drive Begins
The Charity Newsies will
kick off their 83rd annual
drive season with a banner
raising ceremony on Friday,
Nov. 10, at 11:30 a.m. on the
northeast corner of Broad
and High Streets. The
ceremony launches the fund-
raising campaign to clothe
needy central Ohio children.
The theme of Uiis year's
drive is: "No child will be a
failure as long as he has a
friend."
The goal of the. Charity
Newsies is that no children
Annual Schottenstein Reception
Scheduled By Friends Of Hillel
one of the founding directors
of The Kitchen from 1973 until 1978, when he left New*
York to take up the post of
director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. In 1982, Stearns was appointed director of performing arts at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. For six
years at Walker, he oversaw
the nation's largest
museum-based performing
arts program.
The first of many revolutionary works' is the building
itself. The vanguard California-based group Antenna
Theater will offer tours of
the building through an inventive audio production.
People coming to the center
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The Friends of Hillel invites all members of the
community to its ninth Annual Leon Schottenstein
Memorial Reception on Wednesday, Nov. 291'
This year's event will
begin in the Wexner Center
for the Visual Arts; A reception will immediately follow
at the Hillel Foundation on
the OSU campus. As in the
past, this year's event serves
as the major annual fund
raising event benefitting the
B'nai B'rith Hillel Fouhda-'
tion for its ongoing programs and- functions on*
behalf of Jewish students at
. Ohio State University.
The evening will start at 6
p.m. in the Wexner Center
for the Visual Arts, At. 7:30
p.m., an address will be given
by the director of the Center,
Robert Stearns, who assumed his post in October
1988,
Stearns brings to the Wexner Center an extensive
background in both the
visual and the performing
arts, A graduate of the
^University of California-San
Diego, he began his career
as assistant director of the
Paula Cooper Gallery in
New York City (1970-72)
before going on to become
are kept out of school due to
a lack of adequate clothing.
Last year, more than 300
Charity Newsies members
raised over $450,000 and pro- '
vided clothing for more than
11,000 children.
The drive season
culminates in a newspaper
sale on central Ohio street
corners on Saturday,
December 9. Other events
leading up to Drive Day include: - a breakfast for corporate leaders hosted by
Honorary Pep Dinner Chair
R. David Thomas, chairman
of Wendy's International, at
Wendy's, 257 E. Broad St., on
Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 8'to
9:30 a.m.; A Mayor's Luncheon for mayors from central Ohio at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the Columbus Maennerchor, 966 S.
High St. and a Pep Dinner
and newspaper auction at
the Marriott North, 6500
Doubletree Ave., on Thursday, Dec. 7, at 5:30 p.m.
One-hundred percent of all
funds raised through the
Charity Newsies Drive Day
newspaper sale goes directly
to charity. The Newsies are
not affiliated with any other
fund-raising organization.
Clothing applications are
s^ill being, accepted from
needy families at Charity
Newsies headquarters, 716 S.
High St. between 9 a.m. and
2 p.m. weekdays. For further, information, call
444-3446.
More than 40,000 Jews
have left the Soviet Union in
1989, including 8,442 in
September. Of these, 97 have
been resettled in Columbus.
This year should see the
largest exodus of Soviet
Jews in history, with another
22,000 expected to arrive in
the United States by the end
of December and an increasing number going directly to
Israel.
In addition to the 97 mentioned above, another 100 Soviet Jews will be resettled in
Columbus by Dec. 31,
according to Federation
Board action on Oct. 25.
An emergency national
meeting was held on Oct. 11,
in which the sudden opportunity to resettle 18,000 additional Soviet Jewish
refugees was discussed It
was at that meeting that all
communities were asked to
1 accept a proportionate share
of the 18,000 (with Columbus'
share being 100).
Between Jan. 1 and Sept.
30, 1990, another 66 Soviet
Jewish emigrants will make
Columbus their" home, bringing Columbus' total of resettled "New Americans" to 263
within less than two years.
For decades, American
Jews have spared no effort
so that their brethren behind
the Iron Curtain could emigrate and begin new lives in
freedom and dignity. In
December 1987, nearly
250,000 Americans rallied in
Washington, D.C. in support
of Soviet Jewry.
Earlier this year, the national United Jewish Appeal,
in partnership with Jewish
Federations throughout
America, launched its Passage to Freedom Special
Campaign for Soviet Jewry
to help pay for the refugees'
resettlement in Israel and
the United States. To date,
almost $40 million has been
raised toward the goal of $75
million and the funds collected have been distributed for*
overseas and local resettlement needs.
Columbus' own "Passage
To Freedom" efforts have
raised just under $800,000
toward a goal of $1 million.
Under the leadership of Co-
chairs   Herbert   Glimcher
and  Jack  Wallick,   Vice-
Chair Miriam Yenkin and
Honorary Co-Chairs Samuel
M. Melton, Jerome Schottenstein and Leslie H. Wexner,
efforts are still underway to
involve all those who have
not yet made a 1989 "Passage To Freedom"  contribution. Checks may be sent
to  the  Columbus  Jewish
Federation,   1175  College
Ave. 43209. Phone pledges
are  being  accepted,  with
payment required prior to
Dec. 31.
' 'We have come to begin a
new life," said Alexander
Fridgan, an engineer from
Kharkov, who had just arrived in the United States with
his wife, son and in-laws.
"We were on the bottom,"
said Helen Polevoy from
Kiev. "With all the economic
difficulties, everything was
blamed on the Jews. You had
to tell neighbors that you
weren't Jewish or they
wouldn't let their kids play
with your kids."
"Being a Jew, I had an
uncomfortable feeling all the
time. I left because I wanted
my children to have the opportunity to make their lives
without any man or government in • their way," said
Gregory Varchnyansky, a
mining engineer from Kiev.
On Sept. 28, 1,356 Soviet
Jews landed at Kennedy Airport in New York City. This
was the largest group of
Jewish refugees to arrive in
the United States on any
single day since the end of
World War II.
For further information or
to make a pledge call
237-7686.
'Yitz' Greenberg To Lead
In-Depth Study Series At
Agudas Achim Nov. 15
"The Agudas Achim Synagogue is pleased that. Rabbi
Irving Greenberg, president
and co-founder of CLAL
(National Jewish Center for
Learning and Leadership),
will inaugurate their in-
depth study series on "Genesis: Images and Mysteries"
on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at
7:30 p.m., announced Herbert Glimcher, chairman of
the Board of Trustees.
Jerilyn Wolman, chairwoman of the Program Committee, noted that the Agudas Achim is gratified to be
the first synagogue in the
United States to offer an
opening lecture seminar presented by CLAL scholars.
CLAL is a North American-
based organization dedicated to preparing Jewish
leaders to respond to the
challenges of a new era in
Jewish history. Co-founded
by Rabbi Greenberg, Elie
Wiesel and Rabbi Steven
Shaw, CLAL's basic principle is that education and
renewed encounters with
Jewish  sources  and  vital
Jewish experiences are the
keys to renewed religious
growth. "Genesis: Images
and Mysteries" was selected
as the theme for study since
the Torah is the wellspring of
Jewish ideas and values
from which all of Jewish insight, knowledge and tradition flow," Wolman stated.
Temple Israel To House Homeless
Temple Israel will soon become Columbus' first Jewish
congregation to join an interfaith housing coalition by •
bringing three to four homeless families to the synagogue to eat and sleep there
for a week. Between 12-18
persons will stay at the Temple from 6 p.m.- to 7 a.m.,
Sunday, Nov. 5, through Friday, Nov. 9. The participating
congregations are expected to repeat this involvement bi-monthly.
Thirty-two Protestant and
Catholic churches in Columbus are already involved in
the interfaith effort by helping homeless families that,
for the most part, have been
evicted or otherwise lost
their homes recently, undergone economic hardship or
been anguished by loss of the
household breadwinner.
"Our Temple family is
housing Homeless families
because we must," said Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld, spiritual leader of Temple Israel
and the driving force behind
this Temple social action effort.
"It is our Jewish tradition
and dedication to "Tinkun
-Olam" (to repair and improve
the world) that prompt
us as a faith arid as a community to help the less fortunate. The prophetic vision of putting values into
practice is the basis for the
Reform movement and we,
at Temple Israel, are responding to our fellow hu-
manbeings."
The interfaith coalition is
the brainchild of Richard
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Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Rabbi Greenberg has selected Genesis Chapter 1 for
his presentation entitled
"Creation and Perfection: Is
G-d an Overachiever or
Underachieved?"
An ordained Orthodox rabbi, a Harvard Ph.D and scholar, Rabbi Greenberg has
been a seminar thinker in
confronting the Holocaust as
a historical transforming
event and Israel as the Jewish assumption of power and
the beginning of a third era
in Jewish history. He has
published articles and monographs on Jewish thought
and religion. His first book,
"The Jewish Way: Living
the Holidays," a philosophy
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