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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 40 Years
VOL. 68 NO. 12
MARCH 22, 1990-ADAB 25, 5750
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.   -
Schottenstein, Wexner To Head
'Operation Exodus' Fundraiser
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Columbus Jewish Federation President Benjamin L.
Zox announced at the March
7 Campaign Closing Luncheon that two leaders of the
Columbus Jewish community, Irving Schottenstein and
Leslie H. Wexner, have
agreed to co-chair the Operation Exodus/1990 Jewish
Community Campaign.
Irving Schottenstein
"This is one of the most
important fundraising challenges we will soon face as a
Jewish community. I'm confident that we will meet this
challenge with success under the guidance and leadership of Irving and Leslie,
both experienced campaigners and community leaders
with long-term associations
with the Federation and its
family of agencies and services," Zox said.
Operation Exodus is a na-"
tional effort to raise $420 million from U.S. Jewry to aid
in the absorption of 250,000 to
500,000 Soviet Jews in Israel.
Funds pledged to Operation
Exodus in the coming
months will be payable over
three years.
Schottenstein, president
and CEO of M/I Schottenstein Co., was general campaign chairman in 1977-78.
Following involvement in
Jewish and non-Jewish organizations throughout Columbus, Schottenstein's
most recent devotion has
been to the Columbus Jewish
Foundation. He continues to
serve the foundation as president, a position he has held
since 1984.
Wexner, founder, president and chairman of the
board of The Limited, Inc.,
oversees more than 3,500
women's specialty stores
and mail order divisions. His
involvement within the Jewish and general civic community has touched nearly
every major organization
and agency in Columbus,
both Jewish and non-Jewish.
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Nationally, Wexner is a national vice chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal; currently playing a riiajor role
in the national Operation
Exodus effort.
Leslie H. Wexner
"With planning currently
underway, leadership being
recruited and the experienced guidance and commitment of Irving and Leslie behind us, I am confident that
our endeavors on behalf of
Operation Exodus will be 100
percent success," Zox
said.
-Further information regarding Operation Exodus
will be forthcoming from the
Columbus Jewish Foundation, 237-7686.
Bush Says Jerusalem
Should Not Be Divided
Beth Tikvah Board of Trustees broke ground for the
new educational and office wing to be added to their
present building (top photo). Students of the Beth
Tikvah Religious School also, participated in the March
4 groundbreaking ceremony (bottom photo).
Beth Tikvah Breaks Ground For
Addition To Existing Building
Members and the Board of
Congregation Beth Tikvah
broke ground  on  Sunday,
March 4, to begin construction on an addition' to ;the
existing building at 6121
Olentangy River Rd. The
new wings will include classrooms and a youth lounge as
well as added space for the
sanctuary, library, gift shop
and staff offices.
Congregational President
Dr, Evie Freeman stated in
her opening remarks at the
groundbreaking ceremony
that the building expansion
is "a dream over four years
in the making." Members of
■ the congregation voted in
favor of the building expansion ai the annual meeting
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Reviewing an initial sketch of Heritage Village's-
retirement housing facility: Sanford GoIdston.Tco-
chairman Building and Expansion Committee; Bonnie.
Fass, chief operations officer; architect Stephen S7
Schwartz; Gerald N. Cohn, executive vice president;
Bill Huhn, administrator, Environmental Services,
and Sylvia Schecter, chairwoman of the Congregate
Housing Committee.
Heritage Village Community Plans
Apartments For Active Adults
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
President Bush has reaffirmed that Jerusalem
"must never again be a divided city." But he also
maintained, in a letter to Jerusalem Mayor Teddy
Kollek, that the city's final
status "should be decided by
negotiation."
Kollek released the March
13 letter last week at a news
conference in London.
In the letter, Bush nostalgically recalls a visit to Jerusalem and praises "Israel's
exemplary respect for the
holy places," as well as
Kollek's "farsighted leadership."     7
Affirming that Jerusalem
should remain united, Bush
says, "We did not approve of
the status quo before 1967; in
no way do we advocate a return to it now."
He adds, "Our efforts in
[the peace process are in no
way designed to promote the
division of Jerusalem. We
would oppose any such effort."
i ^ut at the same -time, the ;
president  says  "the  final
status of this most special of
cities should be decided by
negotiation." •
And he adds that "all sides
should be taking steps to get
to negotiations and avoiding,
steps that could prejudice
the prospects for these negotiations."
Israel considers Jerusalem the eternal capital of Israel and is not willing to consider relinquishing the eastern part of the city, which
was annexed in i%7.    .
Buslj/ raised deep concern
in Israel and in the American Jewish community when
he expressed opposition, at a
March 3 news conference, to
Jewish "settlement in the
West Bank and East Jerusalem."
In his letter to Kollek, the
president did not address the
issue of whether Israel has
the right to settle portions of
Jerusalem that lie beyond its
1967 border.
Shalom Paul To Give
April 1 Friends' Talk
Professor Shalom Paul
will deliver this year's Melton Center for Jewish
Studies lecture on. Sunday,
April 1, at 8 p.m. at the Faw-
cett Center for Tomorrow,
2400 Olentangy River Rd.
His lecture, "Genesis on
Genesis," is the most recent
Friends' event.  -
Paul, distinguished visiting professor at The Ohio
State University, is internationally recognized as an
authority in Biblical and
Near Eastern languages, literatures and cultures. His
latest book - is | "The' Illus-"
trated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible."
Dr. Paul is currently professor of Bible at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.     '
At this Friends' Event,
Paul will be awarded the
Melton Center's 1990 Distinguished Humanist Award.
This award is presented annually to a person who has
made a significant contribution to Jewish life and culture. On this occasion, students who have excelled in
their study of Judaica or He-
braica may also receive
awards.
The public is invited to attend.
E. Germany Donates Shoah Artifacts To Museum
Sylvia Schecter, chairwoman of Heritage Village's
Congregate Housing Committee, announced that,
based on the strong interest
and demonstrated needs of
the community, senior retirement apartments for the1
independently active older
adult would soon be located
within the Village campus.
"Many members of our
Jewish community have indicated an interest and need
for housing for adults that
will provide programming,
socializing, health care ser
vices, security and other features," noted Schecter in an
October 1988 survey of the local community. "As a response to this demonstrated
need, Heritage Village is finalizing plans for a top-
grade senior citizen apartment, complex which will
provide the above and be designed for the independently
active mature, members of
the community. It will provide these benefits within a
graciously, appointed apartment community, while al-
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -
East Germany donated hundreds of artifacts to the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial museum last week, ranging from
Nazi euthanasia instruments
to an IBM machine used by
Nazis to register Jews.
Gerhard Herder, the East
German ambassador to the
United States, made the presentation at the museum's
office here to Miles Lerman,
chairman of the museum's
international relations committee.
The presentation, said
Herder, "underlines that my
government is serious in
stating that the entire German people has a responsibility for the past. That is
why the negotiations with
Jewish organizations to provide material support to
those who became victims of
the Holocaust in the years
from 1933 to 1945 will be continued."
The one other East European country that has contributed artifacts to the museum is Poland, which contributed barracks from the
Auschwitz and Birkenau
concentration camps as well
as a railway car used to
transport Jews.
In addition, the museum
has received archival material from Eastern Germany,
Chechoslovakia, Hungary
anil the Soviet Union.
The Nazi euthanasia program killed roughly 500,000
Germans and set a precedent for the mass killings of
the Holocaust.
The registration machine,
an IBM Hollerith punch card
tabulating and sorting machine, was originally developed in the United States
for the census of 1890.
., In 1933, 1935 and 1939, the
Third Reich used the machine to conduct national
censuses, which provided a
vital link in the chain of identifying Jews;* Gypsies and
other ethnic groups. ,
East Germany also presented V-2 rocket parts
made by slave laborers.
More than 10,000 of the 60,000
slave laborers died in the
Holocaust, some killed by
the SS, others dying from
grim working and living conditions in the underground
tunnels.
In addition, the museum
received portions of tree
' trunks inscribed with messages from prisoners of the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The Holocaust museum,
which is under construction
here, on a federal site near
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