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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community lor Over 60 Years
VOL.67 NO. 53
DECEMBER 28, 1989-KISLEV 30
Devoled to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Maccabee Lodge
To Hear E. Claman
WSYX-TV news anchor/-
reporter Elizabeth Claman
will be the guest speaker at
B'nai B'rith Maccabee
Lodge's general membership meeting on Thursday,
Jan. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the
Woodview Party House, 1785
Woodview Ct.
Claman, a native of California, will talk about the
television news business and
offer her perspective on the
growth of the community
and how the media covers
the events that go on in central Ohio.
Dinner will be served to
begin the evening, with daman's presentation to follow.
A brief business meeting will
conclude the evening's activities.
Reservations may be
made by calling Garry Beim
at 231-3696 or Andy Meyers
at 258-5408. Prospective new
members are welcome to
join in' the evening's activities.   ■
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Meeting With Glemp Sparks Debate
On How Far To Pursue Past Remarks
Yeshiva University Conference
On 'Challenges Facing Clergy'
At a conference on "Challenges and Conflicts Facing
the Clergy," at Yeshiva University, Wurzweiler School
of Social Work (WSSW) on Nov. 14, Sister Mary
Vincentia Joseph (center), professor at Catholic
University of America in Washington, and Sister Ann
P. Conrad (right), assistant professor at CathOlic
University, confer with Herbert Schiff (second from
left), of Columbus, chairman of the Board of Governors of WSSW; Dr. Norman Linzer (second from
right), acting Dorothy ahd David I. Schachne Dean of
WSSW, and Dr. Irving Levitz (left), Carl and Dorothy
Bennett Professor of Pastoral Counseling at WSSW and
conference coordinator.
NEW YORK (JTA) --
When Cardinal Jozef Glemp
of Poland delivered a vitriolic speech in August that
contained harsh words about
world Jewry and an open refusal to abide by a 1987
agreement to relocate, the
Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, world Jewry cried out
unanimously in a chorus of
hurt and outrage.     ,
But now that progress toward relocation of the convent is being made, a disagreement has arisen
among prominent American
Jews over how, or whether
at all, to include Glemp in
present efforts at Polish-
Jewish dialogue.
Glemp, who heads the Polish Catholic Church, has acquiesced to Vatican pressure
and agreed to the convent's
relocation. But he has not yet
apologized  outright  for
U.S. Representative Pat Schroeder To Speak In Columbus Jan. 22
"Feminism did not push
women out of the home,
family finances did. If
families waited until they
were financially able to have
children, octogenarians
would be giving birth to
babies." .
These are the words of
U.S. Representative Pat
Schroeder who will be the
featured speaker at a community-wide program co-
sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women-Columbus Section and Action for
Children. The luncheon program will be held on Monday, Jan. 22,11:15 a.m.-1:30
p.m. (lunch served promptly
at 11:45); Hyatt Regency
Columbus at a cost of $25 per
person. City Council member Cindy Lazarus will make
introductory remarks.
Rep, Schroeder has served
in the House since 1972. A
longtime spokeswoman for
children and families, she
has called for a national
policy that will address the
concerns and needs of
today's diverse families: affordable child care, minimum health care coverage,
family and medical leave,
retirement security, etc. In
1988, Schroeder, Harvard
pediatrician Dr. T. Berry
Bra zelton and "Family
Ties" producer Gary David
Goldberg embarked on the
"Great American Family
Tour" to put family insues
on the national' political
agenda.
"Pat  Schroeder  is  dy-
namic and inspiring and ad
dresses family issues not only as a legislator but as a
wife and motherX said
Evelyn Rossman, NCJW
event chairwoman. "We can
promise you that this is a
program  (and  a  fabulous
lunch) that you won't want to
miss."
For further information,,
call National Council of Jewish Women, 235-4133, or Action for Children, 224-0222.
Third Annual Celebration Of Life To Be Held At IC
The third annual Celebration of Life will be held Jan.
28 and 29 at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, 1125 College Ave.
The two-day event, sponsored by the Center's Adult
. Division, has won numerous
awards on both the local and
national level, and this year
will move in a new direction,
focusing on celebrating the
immigrant.
Pauli Greenberg is the
chairwoman, with committee members: Dorothy and
.Mayer Rosenfeld, Helen
Samuels, Ethel Izeman, Anita and Harold Eisenstein,
Lillie Lewin, Bea Cohen,
Korene Hausman and Marilyn Skilken.
The theme, Celebrating
the Immigrant: Family
Memoirs, will highlight the
challenges New Americans
faced moving to a new country and a new culture. Upon
entering the Jewish Center's
lobby, participants will step
back in time in this re-crea
tion of an Ellis Island immigration station
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EARLY DEADLINE
Deadline For The Thursday, Jan. 4, Issue
Is Noon, Thursday, Dec. 28
The OJC Office Will Be Closed On
Jan. l
HAPPY NEW YEAR 1990!
Pauli Greenberg
"Passports" will be issued
at the door, to give modern-
day "immigrants" an entrance visa to the world with1
in. Lobby exhibits will include family trees tracing
many of the immigrant
families settling in Columbus from the early 20th century to the present.
Other highlights include a
giant photo display of early
Columbus immigrants, courtesy of Columbus Jewish
Historical Society, and a recreation of the well-known
571 Shop, where New Americans would come to bake and
sew. This is how many immigrants earned a living until
they became acclimatized to
their new country and were
absorbed  into  the  work
force.
The Gallery Players'production of "The Immigrant"
will be featured both" days,
with a special performance
for seniors only on Monday,
Jan. 29, at 10:30 a.m.
Other events scheduled include a Sunday brunch, followed by Yiddish singing
with Cantor Baruch Shifman; a presentation and discussion on "Movie Heritage
of the Immigrant" led by
Frank Gabrenya, film critic
for they "Columbus pis-
patch" and a slide show and'.
presentation by Carole Genshaft, associate museum
educator at the Columbus
Museum of Art, on "Jewish
Themes in 20th Century
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"This event promises to be
exciting, informative and a
wonderful way to slip back in
time," said Greenberg. "The
entire community, youngsters and 'oldsters'/alike, are
invited to participate."
For additional information
on the Celebration of Life
call Marlene Raiz, event coordinator, at the Jewish Center, 231-2731.
slandering world Jewry,
whom he accused of violating Polish sovereignty
and spreading anti-Polish,
feeling, through the news
media:
In agreeing to meet with
the Polish primate two
weeks ago, American Jewish
Congress leaders sent a
clear signal that they were
putting the bitterness of the
convent crisis behind them.
AJCongress President
Robert Lifton and Henry
Siegman, the group's executive director, spoke to Glemp
on Dec. 4 about the interfaith
center that will adjoin the
convent once it is relocated.
They also discussed working
at the parish level in Poland
to raise public awareness
about anti-Semitism.    ".
Prior to the meeting,
AJCongress gave Glemp a
Polish translation of its condemnation of his August
speech. But the two leaders
did not bring up the matter
directly during the session.
Glemp  indicated  to  the
AJCongress officials that, he;
is involved in programs to
fight anti-Semitism among
Poles.
That, Siegman asserted, is
"as close as Polish primate
comes to saying he was
wrong."
But to Rabbi Avraham
Weiss and his attorney, Alan
Dershowitz, the mere fact of
participating in such a
meeting was a surrender of
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Jewish pride and a concession to a proven anti-Semite.
Dershowitz publicly slammed the AJCongress officials for their actions in a
recent speech at a Yeshiva
University dinner here. He
held lip Siegman and Lifton
as examples of "bankrupt"
Jewish leadership and characterized their meeting with
Glemp as going "hat in
hand" to a known anti-
Semite.
By not confronting Glemp,
Lifton and Siegman were
condoning the cardinal's remarks through their silence,
Dershowitz maintained.
More specifically, Weiss
and Dershowitz claim that
the AJCongress meeting, as
well as public statements
made in Poland by Lifton
and Siegman, derailed
promising efforts to extract
an apology from Glemp for
his August remarks.
It was Weiss' demonstration on the grounds of the
convent last July that initially triggered Glemp's tirade
^a|aPolish feastin the city of
*'Czestbchowa. ':
In addition to using derogatory words to describe the
Jewish people as a whole,
Glemp implied that when
Weiss and his group climbed
over the convent wall at
Auschwitz, their intention
was to inflict physical harm
on the nuns living there.
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A downtown event to celebrate new possibilities for
peace and freedom in the
world is planned for Sunday,
Dec. 31, from 1 to 3 p.m., beginning in front of Central
High School.
Downtown Event To Celebrate
Possibilities For Peace, Freedom
well. He hopes that the Jewish community will be well
represented at this event.
"We hope that everyone
who has been moved by the
historic and hope-filled
changes in Eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union will join
this Celebration for Peace,"
said Cliff Arnebeck, who
chairs the celebration's program committee.
According to Arnebeck,
participants will begin at
Central High School, cross
the Town St. Bridge arid
walk down Civic Center
Drive to City Hall, At City
Hall, there will be a brief
ceremony, where walkers
will write their names and
personal resolutions for
peace in 1990. Individuals
will also be invited to step up
to a microphone and say
"peace" in English or
another language.
Organizers hope that the
Columbus event will inspire
other cities and towns to hold
similar celebrations.
Rabbi Bradley N. Bleefeld
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld,
president of the Columbus
Board of Rabbis and senior
rabbi of Temple Israel, is on
the Planning Committee of
this event and has been instrumental in assuring that
Jewish voices be heard as
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