Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1990-09-13

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VOL.68 NO. 37
SEPTEMBER 13, 1990-ELUL 23, 5750
Devoted to American .
and Jewish Ideals.
Rabbi Ciner Elected
To RCA Exec. Board
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner, spiritual leader of the Agudas Achim Synagogue, was elected
to the National Executive
Board of the Rabbinical
Council of America at their
annual convention, and he
attended the first meeting of
the new Executive Board
held Aug. 29 in New York.
Rabbi Alan G. Ciner
The RCA is the largest Orthodox Rabbinic Organization in the world including
members from the United
States, Canada, Israel, Europe, South America and
South Africa. The Executive
Board is the governing body,
of the RCA and makes policy
for the organization between
conventions.
The RCA deals with mat- ■
ters of mutual concern to the
.Jewish community, the Orthodox community and the
Rabbinic community. A
member of every major umbrella organization in
America, the RCA is a supporter of Israel and Zionism.
Seventy percent of the membership of the RCA are graduates of Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Wolfish, executive
director of RCA, stated that
"we are very pleased that
Rabbi Ciner has joined our
Executive Board. He is a
young, dymanic, effective
rabbi. We welcome his erudition and expertise and we
know his contribution will be
singular to our deliberation
and our work."
In addition to serving on
the Executive Board of the
RCA, Rabbi Ciner is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the UJA
National Rabbinic Cabinet,
the National Rabbinic Cabi-
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Reported U.S. Arms Offer To Israel
Would Enhance Defenses Against Iraq
This drawing by Bruce David portrays the city of Jerusalem during the Messianic Age of Peace. The unity
and harmony of the life is depicted both inside and outside the city, while the city may be found to be composed of the traditional accompaniments to Judaism,
the foundation on which it is established. This and
other works by David are on display in the Goldberg
Gallery at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center through Sept. 30.
Jewish Artist To Present
Slide Show/Lecture At JCC
Bruce David, a Louisville-
born Jewish contemporary
artist who has been making .
a name for himself in the art
world, will be coming to the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center (JCC) to present a slide show entitled
"Traveling with Torah". on
Monday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m:
This mini-lecture is a complement to David's work,
which has been on exhibit in
the Goldberg Gallery since
Aug. 22.
This is the first showing of
David's work in the Columbus area. Included in this exhibit is "On Eagles Wings,"
his largest composition,
which took him almost eight
months to complete and has
won national acclaim. The
work.contains the entire Bible story from Abraham
through Moses.
"The viewer will find a
never-ending delight in the.
study of these most unique
drawings," said Mazelle Van
Buskerk, a lecturer in fine
arts at Indiana University.
"I was amazed, especially
wlien I found out he was self-
taught."
David hopes that people
will develop a better understanding of G-d, Judaism
and life in general through
his work. He has also written
books emphasizing the need
to appreciate life and hopes
to produce an album of spiri
tual songs. Eventually, he
sees himself producing a
series of educational videos
on his art that would be used
to help adults, students and
children to better understand their Jewish heritage.
Reservations for the slide
presentation can be made at
the JCC front desk. The
event is free to members,
with a $2 fee for non-mem-
.feers.
An open house is being
held in conjunction with JCC
Month on Sunday, Sept. 16,
from 2-5 p.m. At this time
David will be available to
discuss his work.
By Hugh Orgel
TEL AVIV (JTA) -- The
Bush administration's reported promise of up to $1
billion worth of advanced
weaponry to Israel, if true,
would provide the Jewish
state with immediate long-
range aerial capability to
thwart any Iraqi offensive.
The intended transfer of
sophisticated military hardware reportedly is meant to
strengthen Israel's hand in
the event of an Iraqi attack
and to compensate for last
week's $2.3 billion emergency arms sale to Saudi Arabia
for the same purpose.
Details of the arms package are still being hammered out between Washington and Jerusalem, but the
deal is said to include F-15
and F-16 fighter planes, Patriot ground-to-air missiles,
M-60 battle tanks and
Apache anti-tank helicopters.
However, Israeli newspapers reported last week that
the deal could be far smaller
than the $1 billion figure
cited by "The New York
Times."
Ze'ev Schiff, "Ha'aretz's"
well-informed military and
political commentator, said
the quote of $1 billion was a
guess with little basis. "If
the plan were to supply Israel with new items, especially
produced for Israel and at
list price, the figure could be
even larger," he said. But
the list of arms appears to be
of "older equipment, taken
from stock or transferred
from army units where they
have been in use," and therefore would be "far below $1
billion."
Analysts here say that the
speed with which Israel can
acquire the sophisticated
equipment is far more important than the amount of
it. In-a very short period of
time, the military hardware
would significantly enhance
the Israel Defense Force's
overall aerial defense and
deterrent capability, wrote
Ron Ben-Yishai, military
analyst for the mass-circulation daily Yediot Achrondt.
BenrYishai said the additional defense aid will enable
Israel to receive, within the
next few months, F-1E( and
F-16 fighter jets and Apache
anti-tank helicopters, which
Israel had intended to obtain
outside the regular U.S. military aid.
The main new item would
be Patriot ground-to-air missiles^ thebest of their kind in
Jewish School To Open In Ethiopia
JERUSALEM (JTA) - A new Jewish school will be opened'
shortly in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the World
Zionist Organization announced last week. The school will
serve the thousands of Jews who have come to the capital
from strife-torn regions in the north and who are reported ailing and despondent as they wait to leave for Israel.
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the world, which can intercept incoming missiles.
They would be a difficult
shield for Iraq to penetrate.
The deal also includes an
unknown number of U.S. Army surplus M-60 battle tanks
"at a very good price," similar to that which Eqypt received a few months ago. the
Egyptians received the
tanks free but had to pay
transport costs.
In ordinary conditions, Israel would not acquire these
tanks, because they would
come at the expense of producing Israeli-made Merkava III tanks, which are far
superior to the M-60s. Nonetheless, it appears that the
proposed cost of these tanks
is attractive enough to convince the IDF that their acquisition is worthwhile.
Conditions of payment for
the arms are not presently
clear, but it can be assumed
that Israel will demand that
the entire sum be a grant
that would not come at the
expense of future military
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High Holy Day Appeals Planned
For Synagogues By Israel Bonds
J COMMUNITY HAUY•-
'STAND UP FOR FREEDOM    SEPT. 30
Vandals Deface Warsaw Monument
WARSAW (JTA) - Government officials and Jewish leaders alike are deploring the defacement early last week of a
monument to Warsaw victims of the Holocaust. Vandals
scrawled an anti-Semitic slogan on the white marble wall located at the site of the Umschlagplatz, the railway sidings at
the northern edge of where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood.
The slogan "A good Jew is a dead Jew," was scrawled in big
red letters.
Unification Treaty Signed Without Reference To Nazi Era
BONN (JTA) - Despite vigorous protests from the Jewish
community, leaders of the two German states signed a unification treaty that makes no reference to the Nazi era. The
treaty, signed in East Berlin by West German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble and East German State Secretary
Gunther Krause, forms the legal framework for the unification that will take place Oct. 3. The document contains nearly
1,000 pages dealing with every conceivable ramification of
unification. It includes mentions of politics, economics,
sports, what to do with the files of East Germany's late secret
police, the Stasi, and how to deal with the issue of abortion.
As in years past, several
synagogues, Agudas Achim,
Tifereth Israel and Beth Jacob, will hold High Holy Day
Appeals for State of Israel
Bonds.
The Bond Organization is
conducting "Operation Aliyah" this year in order to
raise urgently-needed capital to finance the creation of
jobs and housing for Soviet
Jewish immigrants now arriving in the country.
All Israel Bond proceeds in
1990 are being used by the
Government of Israel for the
absorption of Soviet Jews
and other newcomers. '
, According to Jay Schottenstein, Bond leadership, "the
need is immediate. We have
all read about the resurgence in Soviet anti-Semitism and the dangers and
threats to the Jews remaining in the Soviet Union."
The  Bond  Organization
has just issued a new Zero
Coupon Dollar Savings
Bond, the Infrastructure and
Absorption Jssue, in an effort
to make participation in the
Bond program more accessible to ^a- wider range of
friends of Israel.
Schottenstein continued,
"We hope that during the upcoming High Holy Days, all
(synagogue) members will
respond wholeheartedly to
Israel's call for Aliyah support and that members of the
congregations will consider
the purchase of an I.V.R.I.
($5,000 minimum) Bond or
the new Zero Coupon Bond.
"This year, it is truly a
matter of "Pikuach Nefesh"
-- the saving of a Jewish
soul."
The hew Central Ohio Israel Bond office is located at
2706 E. Main St. For further
information on a Bond purchase, call 231-3232.
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