Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1990-03-01

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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years
VOL.68 NO. 9
MARCH 1, 1990-ADAR 4, 5750
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Griffin To Speak
At Joint Meeting
Archie Griffin, two-time
Heisman Trophy winner,
will be the guest speaker at
the. first ever joint Brotherhood meetings of the Agudas
Achim and Temple Israel on
Tuesday, March 13, at 6:30
p.m. at the Agudas Achim
Synagogue, 2767 E. Broad St.
Ken Palestrant, president
of the Agudas Achim
Brotherhood, and Stan
Cooper, president of Temple
Israel Brotherhood, invite
all Brotherhood members to
the kosher dinner and program which is free to all paid
Brotherhood members.
UJA Delegation Finds Intimidation,
No Violence Against Soviet Jews
' Archie Griffin
.Griffin, memher of the
College National Football
■ Foundation Hall of Fame,
has won virtually all the top
honors any single athlete
could win in college football.
Griffin is the only two-time
winner of the prestigious
Heisman Trophy, symbolic
of "The Outstanding College
Football Player of the Country." "
Reservations for the dinner
meeting 'are requested by
March 9. Temple Israel
Brotherhood members are to
call 8664010; Agudas Achim
Brotherhood members should
call 237-2747.
"Heritage House residents were recently honored by
Temple Israel Sisterhood as part of that group's 100th
anniversary celebration. Pictured (top photo, 1. to r.)
are Bevlyn Simson,'Fannie Thall, Dee Kates, Sherrah
Blair (not pictured Joyce Simson) and (bottom photo,
1. to r. seated) Sylvia Cohen, Florence Cohen, Cheri
• Friedman holding Rachel, Laura Weinblatt, (standing) Kay Friedman, Ellen Weinblatt holding Scott.
Temple Israel Sisterhood Marks
Anniversary At Heritage House
The year 1990 is the 100th
anniversary of Temple Israel Sisterhood. Many special
activities are planned in the
community to commemorate this year.
On Feb. 13, Temple Israel
Sisterhood celebrated the
generations of involvement
of women residents of Heritage Village.who are also
members of Temple Israel.
Families of the residents
were invited, and special
recognition was given to
families of two and more
generations.
The following women re-
Hadassah Donor
For March 22 At
The Hadassah Donor Dinner, the culmination of the
Hadassah Medical Organization Campaign, will be held
on Thursday, March 22, at
, 6:30 p.m. at Winding Hollow
'-.Country Club. A $75 minimum contribution is required for attendance.
Dr. Gideon Holan, a pediatric dentist who is in Columbus as parrt of the Wexner
Exchange Program between
Children's Hospital and the
Hadassah Hospitals in Israel, will share his experiences.
In addition Hadassah associate members will be
honored,. Currently, over
23,000 men have become affiliated with Hadassah. The
money from associates'
memberships goes into an
endowment fund, the inter-
Dinner Planned
Winding Hollow
est from which is used to provide .research grants presently supporting cardiac re
ceived, recognition; Josephine Bennigson, Tillie Cho-
dosh, Florence Cohen, Sylvia.
Cohen, Laura. j Dworkin,
Mary Ann Felsenthal, Tillie
Frank, Harriet Goldberg,
Essie Goorey, Edythe
Greenberg, Rose Halpern,
Lilian Herman, Esther Rich-
man, Sylvia Sachs, Ann
Schmidt, Florence Shatz,
Frieda Schreiber, Pearle
Sillmah, Helen Smith, Fanr
nie Thall, Greta Weyl,
Frieda Wise, Ida Belle
Shaucet, Miriam tevitt,
Marian Polster.
Fannie Thall, Florence
Cohen and Sylvia Cohen, residents, were also given special recognition as part of
four generation families actively involved in Temple
Israel.' .■
Special recognition was
given to residents 90 years of
age and more. Essie Goorey,
Sylvia Cohen, Fannie Thall,
Greta Weyl received this
honor.
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Although many Jews are fearful and feel intimidated,
there have been no reports of
physical violence against
Jews in the Soviet Union, according, to members of a
United '• Jewish Appeal delegation that recently arrived
here from Moscow.
That was the case at least
up to two weeks ago, the UJA
leaders reported.
On Feb. 13, while the UJA ,
group was in the Soviet
Union, the Moscow newspaper "Trud" reported that
Jewish apartments, in the
Ukrainian city of-'.Kharkov,
were broken into and that
about '20 Jews there were
beaten. But the Trud report
has not been independently
' confirmed. >
Marvin Lender, national
chairman-elect of the UJA,
told Israeli and foreign journalists here that his delegation got much of its information about the state of Soviet
Jews from the Va'ad, the re-
_ cently^^teblishedjumbrella
organization representing
more than 200 Soviet Jewish
communities and organizations from the Baltic to Siberia.
Lender reported that
Va'ad representatives informed the visiting Americans at meetings in Riga and
Moscow that "although
there have been no incidents
of physical violence against
Soviet Jews as yet, there are
regular and frequeniintimi••
dation attempts against
Jews known to be waiting for
an exit visa or ticket to Israel." ,  ...
Lender.said he himself felt
intimidated when the UJA
group, touring the old Jewish
ghetto in Riga, noticed it was
being followed by two men in
a car.   '' '.
''Although ho physical violence actually took place, we
certainly felt very intimidated," he said.
He said local Jews told
them of several similar incidents which "created ner
vousness and fear among the
Jews," though no one was
physically assaulted.
The UJA delegation raised
the matter with Soviet government officials and was
assured they would do everything in their power to prevent attacks on Jews,
Lender said. _
He said the purpose of the
UJA mission was. to observe
firsthand the emigration of
Jews from the Soviet Union
and their resettlement in Israel.   .'■.'
Lender is chairman of Operation Exodus, a special
UJA' campaign aimed at „
raising $420 million over the
next three years to help Israel  absorb  Jewish  immi
grants from the Soviet
Union. An additional $180
million is being raised in
Diaspora communities other
than the United States by
Keren Hayesod.
For the first time in their
history, American Jewish
federations are being asked
to guarantee they will raise
the pledged sums, according
to Joel Tauber of Detroit, a
member of the UJA delegation. Some federations have
signed written commitments, he said.
. Lender stressed that the
campaign "is special in that
it is above and beyond the
regular UJA yearly contribution" to Israel of over $500
million.	
Michael Weisbond (right), a representative of the
New American community, presented Rabbi Meir Kahane (left) with a certificate for trees planted in Israel
as a token of the New Americans' respect, gratitude
7 and love.
New Americans Thank Kahane
Michael Weisbond, threw
his arms around the Rabbi
and hugged him saying, "On
behalf;of Columbus' New
Americans, thank you.
Thank you, Rabbi." He
spoke in Yiddish, but the
meaning was clear ihx any
language, as he wiped his
teary eyes. -
"It had all started," according to Weisbond, "with a
Congregation Beth Tikvah Plans Annual Art Auction
Gail Franklin
habilitation at Mt. Scopus
Hospital.      7
Entertainment will be pro-
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Congregation Beth Tikvah
will host its fourteenth annual Art Exhibition and Auction on Saturday, March 3, at
6121 Olentangy River Rd.
According to event organic
zers, the fund-raiser is more
exciting this year than ever
before because of the ground
breaking' for the expansion
of the building scheduled for
the following morning during Religious School. Hors
d'oeuvres, drinks and viewing of the art works'will begin at 6:45 p.m., with the
auctioneer beginning at 8
p.m. ,
All art works are unconditionally guaranteed by Genesis Galleries of Atlanta, Ga.,
and all are custom framed
and certified. Price ranges
will be available from $35 to
several thousand dollars.
Works will feature Rockwell,
Leroy Neiman, Chagall,
Agam, David Lee, Calder,
John Kelly, Boulanger,
Miro,•. Michel Delacroix,
Jane Wooster-Scott and
more in lithographs, original
oils, watercolors, seri-
graphs, engravings and
etchings. Visa, Mastercard
and .American Express ate
accepted.
Hourly door prizes will be
given away. The public is invited to attend andean order
tickets in .advance for $6
teach or purchase tickets at
the door for $8. Sponsors'
tickets are $30 per couple
and will be eligible for a special sponsor drawing. More
information is available by
calling 885-6286.
voice in Brooklyn that
echoed a call from the dawn
of Jewish history: 'Let my
people go!' A quarter of a
million Jews have been rescued from communist tyranny, and perhaps a million or
more will be saved in the
next few years.
"But before there was
freedom, there was a movement. And, before there was
a movement, there was a
zealot. That zealot's name
was Rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahane cried, 'Let my people
go!' because he was determined that 'Never Again'
was not simply a slogan, but
a sincere commitment; not
just a hope, but a delinite
promise that put the world
on notice," Weisbond explained.
More than 60 of Columbus'
New Americans attended
RabbL Kahane's program.
"The event was particularly
meaningful to them and
their families," Weisbond
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