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JANUARY 18, 1990-TEVET 21, 5750
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Joyce Bloch Elected President
Of Jewish National Fund Council
At the November Jewish
National Fund Council
meeting, Joyce Bloch was
unanimously elected president of the Council for
1990-1991.
Joyce Bloch
Bloch has been extensively
active with the Jewish National Fund for the past
seven years. "I was fortunate enough to be able to
chair the JNF mission to
Israel in 1984 and saw the
wonder^ of JNF. I always
knew of the afforestation and
knew how important it was
to Israel. What I didn't
realize until I saw it with my
own eyes was how important
JNF. is for the development
of the Land. Since then, my
efforts have been to increase
the knowledge of our community of this very vital
agency for the Land of
Israel," states Bloch.
Bloch is the wife of Dr.
Benton J. Bloch, and mother
of Phillip (Vivienne), Columbus, and Andy (fiancee,
Mercedes Ganon), California.
She has served as executive vice president on the.
Council for the past two
years, had been a chair-
wornan for Green Sunday for
three years and served as a
volunteer for the trade and
industry dinners. In addition* she is a board
member of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center and is its
immediate past chairwoman
of the Drama Committee;
has been president of B'nai
B'rith Women, Candlelight,
Chapter, and is active in
many other organizations
and agencies.
At the Jan. 17 meeting of
the Council, Rabbi Harold
Berman installed Bloch as
the first woman president in
the Columbus Council's
hist6ry. Also installed was
the Council, which included
the Advisory Board: Martin
Hoffman, Meyer Hoffman,
William   Borden,   Morris
Fleishman, I.M. Harris,
Morris Skilken and Board
Chairman and Immediate
Past President Harold Zeid:
man.
Also installed was the Executive Board: Ely Zofan,
executive vice president;
Stephen Brazina, Gary
Covel, Bunny Cowall,
Howard Schoenbaum - vice
presidents; Ron Dolinger,
treasurer; Annette Tanen-
baum, secretary.
And members of the General Council were installed:
Gilda   Abramson,   Garold
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Religious Ministry Rules
Against 'Women Of The Wall'
Helen, Gerald Rosen Win Raffle
Pictured above, Henry Schwarz, treasurer of the
Beth Jacob Congregation, presents a check for $30,000
to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Rosen, who won the second annual Beth Jacob Lottery on Dec. 2. Left to right are
Martin Hoffman, chairman of the board; Schwarz;
Gerald Rosen; Helen Rosen, and Jack Rubin, president.'''
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
new regulation enacted by
Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs will essentially
make criminal the activities
of the "Women" of the
Wall," overseas supporters
of tlie Israeli women's prayer group said last week.
The new ruling forbids
"the holding of a religious
ceremony, which is not in accordance with the custom of
a (holy) place and which offends the sensibilities of the
worshipers towards the
place."
Findings Of Study On Soviet Jewish Acculturation Released
. According to a recently
completed study on Soviet
Jewish Acculturation over
the past decade, an overwhelming majority of Jews
who immigrated to the United .States from the Soviet
Union between 1977-1981 are
advising their Jewish friends
and relatives still in the Soviet Union to leave. Approximately 42 percent feel their
friends should "just leave"
while 26 percent feel they
should emigrate to the United States and 7 percent feel
they should go to Israel.
This is a finding of the
_ study released by the North
American Jewish Data
Bank, a joint project of the
Council of Jewish Federations (CJF) and the City University of New York
(CUNY).' The study, conducted by the CUNY Center
for Social Research arid
made possible by a grant
from the CJF Endowment
Fund, surveyed Soviet Jews
from "the Class of '79" who
immigrated to the'U.S. be-
. tween 1977-1981 and are now
residing in six large Jewish
communities ~ Baltimore;
Cleveland; New York; North
Shore, MA; Los Angeles, and
Philadelphia. :
The purpose of the study,
was to provide these "New
Americans" with an opportunity to voice their opinions,
beliefs and personal strug-
. gles as they make lives for
themselves and their families. Participants, were ask- .
ed to respond to a variety of
questions related to their
Jewish behaviors, denominational identification, synagogue and/or Jewish organization memberships and
J'ewish education.
Among the most compelling findings which resulted
from the survey are:
• Although 68 percent of
those interviewed encountered problems with learning English, 95 percent now
speak English, 92 percent
read English and 87 percent
write English;
• Nearly 95 percent said
that the majority of their
friends are Jewish' and that
although   they   miss   their
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Rachel The Clown
Ready For 'Funday'
Rachel "the.clown" Rin-
kov and her family are
ready for Super Sunday
Funday, Jan. 21, and prom-
Rachel Rinkov
ise entertainment for the
entire family, from baby to
zadie. "Under the Big Top'/
activities, sponsored by the
Columbus Jewish Federation and to be held at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center from 12-3 p.m., will include Israeli dancing, face
painting, art projects, a
special music program for
preschoolers through second grade, the musical
mime team pf Hetzi-Hetzi
and dairy lunch. More details inside.
Russian friends, 86 percent
said that their close friends .
are .Jews from the Soviet
Union;
•Fifty-five percent expressed difficulty in finding
new jobs although the annual
median household income of
$34,000 is above the U.S. national average. About six
percent earn more than
$80,000/per year but close to
23 percent are still strug-.
gling and earn under
$20,00Q/year;
• About 41 percent regularly visit the homes of
Americans even though the
survey found that 45 percent
still find it hard to make
friends.
"It was fascinating to find
that the consensus of the
group sampled is that they
don't want to be labelled as
Russians or Soviet Jews, but
rather as New Americans or
American Jews," Dr. Barry
Kosmin, CJF director of research and director of the
North American Jewish
Data Bank, who supervised
the study said that "these
are very significant findings
in that they will better prepare us to assist in resettling
the tens of thousands of new
Jewish immigrants from the
Soviet .Union who will opt to
come to the United States in
the coming months."
The Council of Jewish Federations, is the continental
association of .200■Jewish
Federations, including the
Columbus Jewish Federation, the central community
organizations which serve
nearly 800 localities embracing a Jewish population
of more than 6.1 million in
the United States. T
571 Shop Replica To Highlight
'Celebration Of Life' At Center
In the 1940s, there was a
small Jewish enclave in the
500 block of'E. Rich St. On
the north side one found the
Columbus Hebrew School.
Across the street at 555 was
the Schoenthal Center, and
one door east in.a grayish
"white stucco building that
still stands was The 571
Shop-a bakery and hand-
sewing "emporium" run by
new Jewish immigrants;
A/facsimile of The 571 Shop
will be at the Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center ,on Monday,
Jan. 29, during the award-
winning Celebration of Life
program which this year is
"Celebrating the Immigrant" The shop will be
replete with samples of baked goods made from original
recipes and with "571" linge
rie, linens and other sewn
goods on loan from Columbus community members:
On Jan. 27 at 2 p.m.;
Marilyn Skilken will lead a
panel and audience discussion on the lore of The 571
Shop. Use Kerschner and
Hattie Haas, who baked and
sewed in the original shop,
will be part of the panel and
will be joined by several
others who remember it
well. Those attending will receive a booklet of original
571 recipes that include such
phrases as."3 sifters of flour"
or "bake until done."
Old advertisements for
this unique shop read "If you
want the unusual and wish to
help folks who are helping
themselves this is the per-
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The 1,000-member International Committee for the
Women of the Kotel called
the move "the epitome of arbitrariness and discrimination" and vowed to fight the
regulation in court. -
"This outrageous enactment is an affrontjo every _
Jewish woman as well as to
Jewish men who care about
the quality of Jewish religious life and equity in the administration of Israel's holy
places," the group said in a
.statement..
The regulation was signed
by both Zevulun Hammer,
the minister of religious affairs, arid Dan Meridor, the
minister of justice.
On Jan. 1, the government
submitted a copy of "the new
regulations to Israel's Supreme Court.
The court is presently considering a petition by the
Women of the Wall, asking
the government for protection of their right to pray collectively at the Western
Wall, wearing tallitot and
carrying a Torah.
Women's ORT Plans
Annual Dinner Dance
The Columbus Region of
Women's American ORT
(Organization for Rehabilitation through Training)
will hold "A Taste of Chicago," its annual dinner
dance and raffle, on Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m., at
Winding Hollow Country
Club, 3900 Westerville Rd.
Tickets are $30/person or
$55/couple. A cash bar will
be available. Send checks to
Sarah Arndt, 2567 Fair Ave.,
Columbus 43209 by Jan. 20.
Proceeds from the raffle
benefit the new Zarem/
Golde ORT Technical Institute, future ORT resource
center in Chicago.
The school, to open for enrollment by fall, 1990, plans
courses covering the prin-
" ciples of Advanced Manufacturing Technology including
Automation and Robotics,
Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Computerized Integrated Manufacture, Computer- Aided Design and
Communications and Information Processing. The
school will cooperate closely
with local business and industry in order to enhance
employment prospects of
graduates. As part of. the
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Columbus Jewish-Federation's
Super Sunday Telethon and Funday- January 21
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