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The Ohio Jewish Chronicle
Serving Columbus and the Central Ohio
Jewish Community since 1922
VOLUME 70
NUMBER 22
MAY 28, 1992
25 IYAR 5752
DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS
Rabbi 41an Ciner to be
honored by Bonds
page 2
Gerald Cohn to receive
'Life with Dignity' Award
page 2
Israel's national elections
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Gallery Players plans
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page 4
Foundation grant sends
OSU student to Israel
page 5
Jewish Center Board
to be installed June 9
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Jerusalem is to be a light unto the nations of the world, and    walk at thy light, and the kings at the brightness of thy rising."
they will follow her light as it is written: "And the nations shall Isaiah 60:3
i COMMUNITY FEATURE
Columbus salutes Jerusalem
From ancient to modern
times, the story of the city of
Jerusalem is rich with history.
According to a popular Mi-
drach, the name Jerusalem
(pronounced Yerushalayim)
comes from the two Hebrew
words **/*-,"meaning "city;"
and "Shalom," meaning
"peace." But the "City of
Peace" has been known by
other names as well, such as
"God's City," the "City of
Justice," the "Faithful City"
and the "Holy City," handed
down by the prophets and later Hebrew poets.
The present-day walls of the
Old City were built in 1538 by
the Turkish sultan, Suleiman
the Magnificent. The existing
seven gates of the city — Herod's, Damascus, Jaffa, Zion,
Dung, Lions and the New
Gate — are thought to be
identical to the gates of antiquity. Within the walls of the
Old City, where until the middle of the 19th century all inhabitants lived, are four quarters: The Christian Quarter,
which is around the church of
the Holy Sepulchre; the Armenian Quarter, in the southeast;
the Muslim Quarter, in the
center of the northeast, and
the Jewish Quarter, in the,
southeast.
The Jews of Jerusalem have
the longest unbroken historical association with the city,
dating from nearly 3,000 years
ago when King David made
Jerusalem his capital. It was
the capital of the Jewish nation between 1000 B.C.E. and
586 B.C.E., and again between
516 B.C.E. and 70 A.D.
From the mid-19th century
until 1948, Jerusalem took on
many changes. The Jewish
population began to move
outside the walls as their numbers grew, the Hebrew language became more evident ih
newspapers and journals and
businesses began to flourish.
Many important buildings
were erected, including the
Biblical Institute, the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus,
the King David Hotel and the
Rockefeller Museum.
It was during this time that
the Arab-Jewish clashes began
to take place and as a result the
Today, Jerusalem serves as
an experimental ground for
the understanding of different
cultures, for cooperation between two people and the integration of the various communities within its bounds. When
the confrontation between
these people ends, then Jeru-
JERUSALEM DAY FESTIVAL
Sunday, May 31, Agudas Achim
• 1-6 p.m. — Food and Arts
Festival
»3 p.m. — Taped program
featuring Jerusalem Mayor
Teddy Kollek and vistas of
Jerusalem
• 3:30 p.m.
Concert
Schlock Rock
city became divided. From
1948 to 1967, the two sections
of Jerusalem were cut off from
each other by barbed-wire and
minefields with virtually no
contact between them. The
Jewish people were denied access to the Western Wall. In
1949, Jerusalem became, once
again, the capital of Israel, and
the creation of new buildings
commenced.
It was not until June 1967,
after the Si,j Day War, that
Jerusalem was reunited. The
walls and barbed-wire fences
were taken down, the roads
between the two sections were
joined making Jerusalem one
city and the Jewish people
once again had access to the
Western Wall and the Old
Jewish Quarter.
salem will assume the place
assigned to it by the Hebrew
prophets as the "City of
Peace."
The week of May 28 to June
5 has been designated "Jerusalem Week," in celebration of
the reunification of the city
and the accomplishments of
the last 25 years. The first
event to take place will be held
at Congregation Tifereth Israel, Thursday, May 28 at 8
p.m., featuring guest speaker
Ambassador Uriel Savir, whose
talk will be "Jerusalem: The
Search For Peace Continues."
Savir, serving as consul genr
eral of Israel in New York, is
Israel's chief representative to
the United States in the New
York Metropolitan area. Before coming to New York in
1988, Savir held a four-year
tenure as media advisor and
bureau chief for Shimon Peres.
He is a second generation Israeli diplomat.
Refreshments will be served
at the event which is free and
open to the entire community.
The evening is sponsored
by the Community Relations
Council (CRC) and Israel Development of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and the Columbus Board of Rabbis.
During the weekend of May
29-31, "Jerusalem Shabbat"
will be observed, with rabbis
and ministers throughout central Ohio directing their sermons and classes towards the
theme of "Pray for the Peace
of Jerusalem."
On Sunday, May 3.1, from 1-
6:30 p.m., Agudas Achim Synagogue will host the "Jerusalem Day Festival." There
will be an ail day food and arts
festival with a 3 p.m. specially
taped program featuring Israeli Mayor Teddy Kollek and
vistas of Jerusalem. Then.at
3:30 p.m., the Jewish musical
group "Shlock Rock" will perform. This program is Sponsored by Agudas Achim Synagogue in cooperation with the
CRC and Israel Department
of the Federation.
Throughout the week, an art
exhibit by the children of the
Jesse Cohen neighborhood of
Holon, a Project Renewal
neighborhood of Columbus,
will be on display at the various events. The art work features the children's impres-'
sions of Jerusalem. A banner,
created by the children in honor of Jerusalem's 25th anniversary, was presented to Mayor
Greg Lashutka when he inaugurated the children's art exhibit on his recent trip to Israel. The banner will accompany
the art exhibit.       '.'...
On Wednesday, June 3, at
see JERUSALEM pg. 13
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