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VOL.67 NO. 47
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and'Jewish ideals.
Women's ORT Plans
Annua! Donor Brunch
Women's American ORT's
(Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) annual donor brunch will be
held Sunday, Nov. 19, at 11
a.m. at Winding Hollow
Country Club, 3900 Westerville Rd. A style show featuring fashions designed by
students from the ORT
dressmaking , and design
classes will be the highlight
of this event.
Any member pledging a
minimum contribution of
$100 is invited to attend this
affair. *The Silver Donor
Level is $250. Donor contributions to' ORT are unrestricted funds to be used
wherever needed7 within
ORT's worldwide network of
vocational schools. Door
contributions can be divided
into several payments
throughout the year. If there
are any questions regarding
becoming a donor, contact
Donor Chairwoman Lisa
Block, 868-0367.
Women's American ORT,
an organization of 145,000
members throughout the
United States, has been in
the vanguard of social and
humanitarian action for over
60 years, building schools
and training students in
Jewish communities around
the world.
Israeli Vote On Five Points Welcomed,
But U.S. Raises Doubts On 'Assurances'
NCJW Clothes
Newly Arrived immigrants
Columbus Section, National Council of Jewish
Women volunteer Jane Lubel is surrounded by clothing
to be marked and displayed for the newly-arrived Russian families to select. NCJW locally has been allowing
all newly-arrived people to select clothing, at no
charge, for their families. Any donations of slightly used or new clothing for men, women and childrenmay
be brought to the Nearly New Shop, 3667 E. Broad St.
All donations are taxdeductible. The Nearly New Shop
proceedsare used to support such community activities as: transporation of the frail elderly to the
Heritage Day Health Center; publication and distribution of a teen guide of helping agencies in the community; Challenge for Child Care; sponsorship of Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center Bookfair speaker, and an an- '
nual scholarship to the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
Day Camp.	
Program On Alzheimer's Disease
To Be Presented November 20
"Alzheimers Disease:
Drug Intervention Strategies
.- Present Status and Future
Yeshiva University Dedicates
Three Facilities Endowed By
Schottenstein, Shenk Families
Yeshiva University dedicated the Schottenstein Center, the new multi-faceted
student activities building at
its Main Center in New York
City, and two of its major
facilities - the Schottenstein
Theater and Florence and
Sol Shenk Synagogue - at the
annual meeting of the
University's Joint Boards on
Tuesday evening, Nov. 14, in
New York.
The Schottenstein Center,
a four-story brick and marble building located at 560 W.
185th St., was acquired with
the aid of a major gift from
local business and communal leaders -Jerome and
Gerry Schottenstein, Saul
and Sonia Schottenstein and
Beverly Schottenstein and
their families.
It was dedicated in
memory of Ephraim and Anna Schottenstein, the parents
of Jerome and Saul, and
Leon and Alvin E. Schottenstein, Jerome and Saul's
brothers.
Jerome Schottenstein, a
member of Yeshiva University's Board of Trustees, is
chairman of the board of
Schottenstein Stores Corp.,
Valley Fair Corp., and
American Eagle Outfitters.
Saul Schottenstein is vice
chairman of the board and
director ,of Schottenstein
Stores Corp. Beverly
Schottenstein is the widow of
Alvin E. Schottenstein.
The Schottenstein
Theater, housed on the
building's lower level, was
endowed with a major gift
from Jerome and Gerry
Schottenstein and their family and Saul and Sonia Schottenstein.
The  Shenk  Synagogue,
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Development" will be pre-,
sented by Heritage Village
on Monday, Nov.'20, at 7
p.m. at Heritage Tower, 1145
College Ave. ' >
• The program will be presented free of charge by the
Schecter Alzheimer Disease
Research Fund of Heritage
Village and the Heritage Village Auxiliary. November
has been designated National Alzheimers Disease
Awareness Month.
EARLY DEADLINE
Deadline For The Thursday, Nov. 23, Issue
Is Noon Thursday, Nov, 16
Deadline For The Thursday, Nov. 30, Issue
Is Noon, Wednesday, Nov. 22
The OJC Office Will Be Closed On Thanksgiving,
Thursday, Nov. 23
Dr. Ronald Mervis
Alan Weinberg, M.D., will
serve as chair for the program. Dr. Weinberg currently serves as a vice president of the Heritage Village
Board of Trustees and is
chair of the Village's
Medical Advisory Committee.
Speaker for the evening
will be Ronald Mervis,
Ph.D., director of the Brain
Aging and Dementia Research Group of The Ohio
State University. "Although
there is presently no known
cause of the disorder nor a
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The State Department has
welcomed as "a step forward", the decision by
Israel's Inner Cabinet to accept Secretary of State Baker's fivg-point proposal for
an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.
The next step is for Egypt,'
which "has been working
very closely with the Palestinians," to "announce its acceptance, State Department
deputy spokesman Richard.
Boucher said last week.
He indicated that when
this occurs, Baker will invite
Israeli Foreign Minister
Moshe Arens and his Egyptian counterpart, Esmat Ab-
del Meguid, to Washington to
discuss setting up the dialogue.
But Boucher took great
pains to try to separate Israel's acceptance of Baker's
five points from the conditions set by the Inner Cabinet.      .'■'•■•
The 9-3 vote in Jerusalem
on Sunday was based on the
"understanding" that the
United States provide assurances that Israel would not
find itself engaged in negotiations with the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Boucher denied that Israel
had set conditions, maintaining the Israelis talked about
"assumptions."
"We know that both Israel
and Egypt are likely to request certain clarifications,"
Boucher said. The United
States is prepared to discuss
these "assurances, assumptions or clarifications, as
long as they are consistant
with the spirit of the five
points and the process they
are designed to facilitate."
Boucher said that while
Egypt is expected to seek its
own assurances, the Palestinians have not so far asked
for any clarifications, either
privately or publicly;
The State Department
maintains that the United
States has not discussed Baker's five points in its talks
with th^ PLO in Tunis. Instead, the United States says
it is simply asking the PLO
not to block the effort to bring about elections in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Egypt is talking to "the
Palestinians" about the five
points, Boucher acknowledged, though he did not explicitly say the talks were with
thePLO.
A State Department official indicated that Israeli
and Egyptian requests for
assurances will be discussed
at the Washington meeting,
which is the fifth and only
one of Baker's points whose
wording the State Department has confirmed.
The  official  repeatedly
stressed that the requests for
assurances are a second issue  apart  from  the  five
points,  which provide  the
basic framework for the
Israel-Palestinian dialogue.
CJF Government Affairs institute
To Feature Officials From Ohio
In conjunction with the
Council of Jewish Federation's (CJF) 58th General
Assembly in Cincinnati, the
CJC Washington Action Office will sponsor a Government Affairs Institute, coordinated by the 13-state
Federation offices.
The Government Affairs
Institute is an'opportunity
for lay leadership and professionals involved in public
policy issues to exchange
views and information with
counterparts from around
the country. Participants
will be able to learn from innovative projects and
develop strategies that will
improve their Federation's
participation in state level
decision-making in the
human: services field. The
smaller, intimate setting of
the Government Affairs
Institute encourages participants to share their own experience and to learn from
each other as well as from
the speakers. Lay leaders
and professionals are encouraged to attend this institute, beginning Tuesday
evening, Nov. 14 and ending
Wednesday afternoon.
This year, three Ohio public officials will be featured.
Ohio Senate President Stan
ley J. Aronoff will be the keynote speaker at dinner Tuesday evening. Senator Aronoff
will discuss the Jewish community . involvement in advocacy at the state level. The
topic will include, an exploration of the natural
areas of public/private sector cooperation, such as
church/state relations,
social services and state relations with Israel.
Dr. Carol Austin, director
of the Ohio Department of
Aging, will be the guest
speaker at a Wednesday
morning session on family
issues. Dr. Austin will
discuss Ohio's new Eldercare Initiative, and plans for
implementation, including
the unique features of Ohio's
programs, and comparisons
of initiatives in other states.
State Senator Lee I. Fisher
will address the Wednesday
luncheon on "There Is No
Such Thing as an Apolitical
Jew."   '-•.■"" 7'7
Other items on the agenda
of the Government Affairs
Institute include: refugee resettlement partnerships with
state and local governments
and dealing with religiously
divisive issues at the state
level.
JFS President Makes Presentation
At Council Of Federations G.A.
Rabbi Harold Berman,
president of Jewish Family
Services, made a presentation today, Nov. 16, at the
General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations. His presentation was
part of a workshop on the
volunteer contribution to
Soviet Resettlement.
Rabbl Harold Berman
Eighteen thousand Soviet
Jews are expected to arrive
in the United States by the
end of December. Federations and Jewish Family Ser
vice agencies around the
country will be faced with
the challenge of providing
services to this latest wave
of refugees. Rabbi Berman
stated, "This momentous opportunity means more members of die Jewish community
will have to become involved
in a volunteer capacity to
augment our current volunteers and our professional
Staff."
Columbus will resettle 100
additional New Americans
during this time period. This
is part of the national effort
to help the thousands of Jews
who have been waiting in
Rome, Italy for the past two
to six months for the American government to act on
their status,!
The General Assembly is
the Annual Conf erence of the
Council of Jewish Federations. This year's conference,
is being held in Cincinnati.
The Passage to Freedom
Campaign, recently sponsored by the Columbus Jew-
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