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MARCH 29.1990-NISSAN 3, 5750
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Million Soviet Jews
Expected In Israel
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
(JTA) - One million Soviet
Jews so far have received
permission to emigrate, and
Israel is expected to absorb
them over the next three
years, according to Simcha
Dinitz, chairman of the
World Zionist Organization
and Jewish Agency Executives.
In addition, Israel expects
at least 10,000 Romanian
Jews to immigrate this year
and thousands more from
Ethiopia, Argentina and
other Latin American countries, Dinitz said.
His disclosure was the first
from an authoritative Israeli
source since Israel announced two weeks ago that
it was imposing a blackout
on aliyah figures as a protective measure.
The WZO leader addressed
more than 400 young American Jews here recently at
the first Kesher Conference
of the WZO's aliyah department.
Dinitz said there were
20,000 Jews in Romania and
60,000 still living in Ethiopia.
He did not specify how many
Ethiopian Jews were expected in Israel this year, but indicated a number already
have arrived.
The increase is attributed
to the warming relations between Israel and Ethiopia,
which restored diplomatic
ties in November.
W. German Media Impressed WJC Will Meet In Berlin
WEST BERLIN (JTA) - The West German press is impressed that the World Jewish Congress has selected this
city, the probable capital of a united Germany, as the site of its
next meeting. It will be the first time the organization holds a
major meeting on German soil, the news agency DP A observed. The WJC was founded in Geneva in 1936, three years
after Hitler came to power.
Senator Says Jews'Complacent'
About Waning Support For Israel
Pope Affirms Church Teaching On Judaism
ROME (JTA) - Pope John Paul II took a step toward healing the breach that has developed in Catholic-Jewish relations in recent years by meeting recently at the Vatican with
a delegation of American Jewish leaders. The pontiff reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's adherence to the 1965
Nostra Aetate decree of the Second Vatican Council, proposing "a systematic study of the council's teaching" on the irrevocable nature of God's bond with the Jewish people. "It is
the task of every local church to promote cooperation between Christians and Jews," the Pope was quoted as telling
the delegation, which included top officials of the American
Jewish Committee. Y	
NEW YORK, (JTA)-Sen.
Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.)
delivered a verbal spanking
to the American Jewish community last week, chastising
it for being "silent" and
"complacent" in the face of
threats of reduced support
for Israel from the U.S. government.
"It seems to me that the
Jewish community has quit,"
the outspoken senator told 75
members of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations.
He said Jewish constituents have not been speaking up strongly enough to
members of Congress
against the proposal by Sen.
Rus Devorah Shatkin To Return To Columbus
Rus Devorah Shatkin, conductor, arranger, singer and
teacher, is returning to Columbus this weekend, March
31 and April 1, to share her
awakening of Jewish awareness. Shatkin has mastered
, the interface between feminism and orthodoxy and the
potential for women as spiritual leaders within the
Torah.
On Saturday, March 31, at
4:15 p.m. at the home of Nancy and Bruce Kay, 120 Eastmoor Blvd., participants will
David Milenthal, Karen Moss
Plan Tenth Foundation Dinner
Columbus Jewish Foundation President Irving Schottenstein announces the appointment of David Millen-
thal and Karen Moss as co-
chairpersons for the Foundation's Tenth Annual Dinner
Meeting, scheduled for Monday, July 23, at 6:15 p.m. at
the Hyatt Regency Columbus.
evening filled with valuable
information, historic perspective, gracious dining
and appropriate individual
tributes," Schottenstein explains.
learn Torah with Shatkin.
"The specialness of learning
with Rus is that you are
learning with Rus. She's a
one-of-a-kind," said Chani
Capland, rebbetzin of the
Chabad House of Tradition.
Later, at 9 p.m. at a Melava
Malka for women only at the
home of Sharon and Steve
Goodman, 79 Ashbourne Rd.,
"you will have an extraordinary experience," said
Sharon Goodman. "Rus puts,
on a show that is very unusual for Columbus. It's very
special because she pulls
from many dimensions in
one's life. You will be laughing, learning, singing and
eating - all at the same time
with women like yourself,
varying greatly in age.
Please come join in the fun."
To complete the Shabbaton, there will be a slide
presentations on Sunday
morning,   April   1,   at  the
home of Julie and Phil Win-
erman, 92 Stanbery Ave., at
10:30. Shatkin will be sharing her recent mission to the
Soviet Union.
Robert Dole (R-Kan.) to reduce foreign aid to Israel.
They also have not been
vocal enough about the Bush
administration's attempt to
link $400 million in housing
loan guarantees to a freeze
on settlements on the West
Bank.
Holocaust Program
Scheduled April 25
• The fifth annual Holocaust
Memorial Program sponsored by the1 city of Columbus under the auspices of
Mayor Dana G. Rinehart, in
cooperation with the Community Relations Council of
the Columbus Jewish Federation, will take place
Wednesday, April 25, at
noon, in the City Council
. Chambers, 90 W. Broad St.
Rus Devorah Shatkin
The weekend is being
sponsored by Ahavas
Sholom, Agudas Achim,
Chabad House of Tradition
and Share-A-Shabbos.
Steven Friedman Appointed To
Head Maos Chitim Campaign
David Milenthal
"Karen and David were
asked to chair this event for
the third consecutive year
due to the tremendous job
they have done with the past
two Annual Meetings. We've
enjoyed record attendance,
providing participants  an
Karen Moss
In addition to recapping
the Foundation's 1989-90 activities and achievements,
the Annual Meeting traditionally honors those who
have made Foundation commitments during the past
year. Awards of Merit are
presented to community organizations which have been
recipients of Foundation
grants whose achievements
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Rabbi David Stavsky,
president of the Men's Miz-
rachi Organization, announced that Steven Friedman, 2751 Wellesley Rd„ has
been appointed chairman of
the Mizrachi Maos Chitim
Campaign for Columbus.
'^Following in the footsteps
of his great-grandfather,
David Schwartz, Steven has
accepted the responsibility
of this important chairmanship, so vital to the needs of,
our fellow Jews in Israel,"
Rabbi Stavsky said. Upon
the death of Harry Schwartz,
son of the late David
Schwartz, Friedman, the son
of Joan and the late Gerald
Friedman, volunteered his
services.
Founded 75 years ago by a
handful of Jews who be
lieved in the ideals of religious Zionism, the Mizrachi
organization flourished during the second World War.
For the last 30 years, under
the leadership of Rabbi Stavsky, it has conducted the atw
nual campaign for matzah
and Passover needs for fellow Jews in Israel,
Friedman has been a
member of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, Agudas
Achim Synagogue and Tem-
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•OPERATION EXODUS'
SOVIET RESETTLEMENT
This Week
Israel Expects  l Million
Soviet Jews  , I
Celebration Of Freedom. II
Former Refusenik .,.,....,11
Fran Wasserstrom
The annual event provides
the opportunity for the community, both Jewish and
non-Jewish, to gather and remember the six million Jewish martyrs who perished
during the Holocaust. As
Holocaust survivor, author
and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel has written,
"We must remember for our
own sake, for the sake of our
own humanity... Not to remember the dead now would
mean to become accomplices to their murderers."
"We want our children to
not look at the Holocaust as
an arcane historical event,
but as significant in their
own lives," stated Fran Wasserstrom, Holocaust Education Committee of the CRC
chairwoman, and chairwoman of the Holocaust Memorial Program.
As part of the community
commemoration, students
from the Columbus Alternative High School will share
reflections on the Holocaust.
Morris Dach, a Holocaust
survivor, will share his personal memories and testimony on surviving the Holocaust.
The Memorial Program is
free and open to the entire
community.   According  to
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Most recently, he said,
Jews have not spoken loudly
enough in support of a united
Jerusalem. They have been
taking congressional support
for granted, he said.
D'Amato's "kick in the
pants was well-deserved,"
Seymour Reich, chairman of
the Conference of Presidents, commented afterward. He agreed that there
has not been enough grassroots pressure on members
of Congress from the Jewish
community.
Michael Miller, executive
director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of
New York, also conceded
that "there are some Jewish
communities that are not
reaching out to congressmen
and senators."
In New York, the fact that
congressional representatives have been so traditionally supportive of Israel
"has led to a certain complacency," he said.
Gerald Cohn Elected
Chairman Of Council
J. M. Wolfe, chairman of
the Coalition for Cost Effective Health Services, announces that Gerald N.
Cohn, executive vice president of Heritage Village, has
been elected vice chairman
of the Extended Care Council of Coalition.
Gerald Cohn
Current projects of the Extended Care Council include
the proposed Long Term
Care Health Plan, health
care costs, care of elderly
parents of employees, appropriate and high quality housing for elderly persons, nursing home bed needs, hospice
services, emergency medical services and indigent
care. *
Wolfe stated, in announcing Cohn's appointment, that
he was optimistic that this
appointment could have a
very positive impact on cost
effective health services
giyen the outstanding and
well-deserved reputation of
Cohn and Heritage Village.