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Vol. 39, No. 43
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 196!
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Devoted to American end  Jewlin   Ideall
Mary Gorman Guest Speaker For JFS
Mra. Mary Gorman, director of the Department of Public Wel¬ fare for the State of Ohio, will be the principal apeaker at the an¬ nual Jewlah Family Service meet¬ ing to be held Sunday, Oct. 29, at 1:30 p.m. in the Adult Lounge of the Jewish Center. The public is cordially Invited to attend.
Mrs. Gorman, appointed Welfare Director in January of 1959, has long been active and influential in civic and State organizations. She haa been affiliated with the Parent Teachera Aasociation, has served as president of the Cincin¬ nati League of Women Voters, as chairman of the Advisory Board
Mrs. Mary Gorman
'BLOOD DAY' IS 'EVERYONE'S DAY'
This is a true story. It hap¬ pened ao recently, that for some the memory is still much too strong. It could happen to you, it could happen to me, it could hap¬ pen to a dear one. We hope, we pray, we beseech that It will not, but if it does—what can we do?
A few short weeks ago a call came to the president of the Jew¬ ish Community Blood Donor (Council from the Blood Bank of a local hospital. A member of our Jev/ish Community waa in critical condition and needed "live." not bottle blood at the rate of two pints per day. To complicate mat¬ ters, the type of blood needed was the rarest type and the number ot known donors to the Red Oosa is so small that their numbers were soon exhausted. Because of the cooperation of the Jewish community In the past and the comprehensive records kept by the Blood Donor Council of this cooperation, donors were found from our own ranks, emd the flow of blood waa kept up without In¬ terruption.
What can we do? We can give our pint of blood at the Jewish Center, Wedneaday, Nov. 1. By doing thla, everyone la assured of free blood if and when it ia need¬ ed. Remember, "B" Day ia "Elvery- one's" Day—because v/e all bene¬ fit by giving, and If you have been Inadvertently missed by our phone committees and our community mailings, please don't hestltate to come. Phone (CA. 1-6773 and make your own reservation.
Our thanks to the following donors who gave live blood at a momenta notice, without flinch¬ ing, without hesitating, without queatlon—they knew how import¬ ant it waa for them to give and their giving makea our above story true: Larry (Coodman, David
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of Rent Stabilization, the State Housing Board, and the Cincin¬ nati and Hamilton County Mental Health (Council. She is a board member ot the Citizens Develop¬ ment Oommittee (Sub-(Committee on Urban Renewal Slum (Clear¬ ance), the Mental Health Federa¬ tion, Ohio Division National As¬ sociation for Mental Health, and the Cincinnati (Community (Chest Budget Review (Committee.
Married in 1926 to Mr. Robert N. Gorman, she is the mother of Robert, 25, and David, 31, Judge of Hamilton County (^ourt and is a grandmother.
Mrs. Gorman's talk will deal with the relationship between the •public welfare agencies and the private family agencies.
The Jewish Family Servloe Is closely allied with the Ohio State Department of Welfare, being licensed by them to place child¬ ren for adoption and In foster homes. Many JFS clients are re¬ cipients of public welfare assis¬ tance funds which are jointly fi¬ nanced by (County and State.
The jre alao participates In the Ohio Welfare (Conference which la sponsored by the State Welfare Department Because of local wel¬ fare crises members of the JFS Board meet with the boards ot other family agencies concerned over the lack of adequate funds for public welfare programs.
Mrs. E. J. Gordon will present the Distinguished Service Award to Mrs. Max Rieser, the only living- charter member of the Jewish Welfare Federation which was organized in December of 1908. This was the original name of what is known as the Jewish Fam¬ ily Service.
Other participants of the meet¬ ing will be Mr. Robert Aronson, Dr. Jerome D. Folkman, Mrs. Joseph Horchow, Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein, Mr. Justin Sillman, and Mr. Robert Weller, Sr.
Mr. Justin Sillman is the out going president of the JFS. Mrs. Harry Roth is chairman of the annual meeting. (Committee mem-
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SCHOLARSfflP FUND CHAIRMEN
Pictured above are Pearson Press, left, and Richard Solove, right, general scholarship fund chairmen for the (Columbus Torah Academy.
Scholarship Dinner This Sunday, Oct. 29
Final preparations for the Scholarship Dinner Of the Oolum¬ bus Torah Academy, which will be held on Sunday, Oct. 29, are in process. This semi-formal affair will take place at 6 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Deshler Hilton Hotel. Sam Levinson, noted comedian, will entertain the as¬ sembled guests.
Mr. Harry Gilbert, president and founder of the Academy will be honored for his work In the creation and development of this new Jewish educational Institu¬ tion.
The General chairman of the Scholarship B\ind Drive are Mr. and Mra. Pearson Press and Richard Solove. Leon Schotten¬ steln has served as Dinner chair¬ man,- aaalsted by Sam Schionsky. The Toastmaster for the evening will be Abe A. Wolman, who will Introduce (Cantor Michaelson of (California. (Cantor Michaelson will
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ASS'N. BB LODGES 40TH GONVENTION
The Ohio Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges wiil hold its 40th Annual (Convention Saturday, Oct. 28 and Sunday, Oct. 29 at the Na¬ tionwide Inn, 4101 W. Broad St.
(Cooperating In the event will be the Ohio Association of B'nai B'rith Chapters who will jointly hold their 24th annual meeting. All Oolumbus B'nai B'rith mem¬ bers, their wives and guests are cordially Invited to participate in the two day program.
• AMONG THE MANY highlights of the affair will be a cocktail party on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. honoring the chapter and lodge prealdents and featuring a Mr. and Mra. Style Show.
The convention banquet will be
held Saturday evening with Mar-
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Heritage House
Heritage House Dedication
State, city and local government win be represented Nov. 12 when Heritage Houae, the new (Colum¬ bus Jewish Home for the Aged, is formally dedicated.
Lt. Gov. John Donahey will rep¬ resent the state of Ohio and ex¬ tend the personal greetings of (Cov. Michael V. DlSalle. Mayor W. Ralston Westlake will extend the best wishes of the (City of (Co¬ lumbus and Mayor William Sch¬ neider those of the City of Bexley.
Samuel M. Shinbach, chairman of the dedication planning com¬ mittee, who wiil extend the cere¬
monial welcome, announced that invitations to the dedication have already been sent out.
He stressed the importance of returning the enclosed reservation cards for the 12:30 p.m. luncheon Nov. 12 as quickly as possible be¬ cause of the unusually large num¬ ber of guests expected to attend.
Mr. Shinbach also Issued a re¬ minder that only three days re¬ main until the (Cct. 30 deadline for printing the dedication book¬ let that will Include the names of a 11 contributors t o- Heritage House.
"Thla Is absolutely the last op¬ portunity," he said, "for thoae who have not yet contributed to thia splendid new facility to do so cmd have their names Included in the dedication booklet."
With the dedication ceremony less than three weeks away, the finishing touches are already be¬ ginning to be applied to the mod¬ ern, 50-bed home at 1151 College, Ave.
The first occupaijts of Heritage Houae will move Into their new quarters aeverais daya after the ceremony.
Soviet Restrictions Against Jews
LONDON, (JTA)—Sharp condemnation of restrictions and dls- crimlnatlona against Jews in the Soviet Union, especially In regard to religious practices and cultural aaplratlons, were voiced at a con¬ ference ot leading British political and Intellectual figures, non-Jewlah as well as Jewish.
At the (Conclusion of a seriea of reporta, many ot them based on personal observations and experiences in the USSR, the conference adopted a reaoiution which.
1. Enumerated many antl-Jew¬ lsh articles in the controlled Rua- alan preaa.
2. Listed restrictions on the practice of religious rights by Jews In the Soviet Union.
3. (Condemned the limitation of Jewish cultural activity in Rua- aia.
4. Pointed out that Russian Jews were "forcibly separated" from other members of their families outside the USSR and appealed to the Soviet authorities "not to remain insensitive to the voice of public opinion in this matter."
The conference had been aum- moned by two membera of Parlia¬ ment, Richard Grossman and Lord Boothby, and by Israel M. Sieff, prominent Angio-Jewiah leader. Emanuel Litvlnov, British author who visited the Soviet Union, pre¬ sided. He gave the conference a detailed report on the situation ot Soviet Jewry. He declared that "Individual Jews" were rehabilita¬ ted after the death of Josef Stalin In 1953, "but nothing was said about the injuatice done the Jews aa a group."
Soviet authoritlea deny that there ia diacriminatlon against Jews, Mr. Lltvinoff said, "but a halt million Jews who declared in the last census that Yiddish is their mother-tongue have almoat no preaa or hooka, while about the same number of the amall sect of Marls living in the USSR have 17   newspapers."  He   pointed   out
that there are only 233,000 Yakuts in the Soviet Union, and these people have 28 newspapers. "At the aame time," he said "Ruaaian Jewa are hungry for culture."
¦Every publication in Yiddish, said the author, is "snatched from the bookatalla as soon as It ap¬ pears." Yet, he said, many Rua¬ aian Jewa atill wait for copies of "Sovletlsch Helmland," the new Yiddish periodical published re¬ cently, which was Issued only in 20,000 copies.
¦"There, is also anti-Semitism In many areas," Mr. Lltvinoff con¬ tinued, "though it is often dis¬ guised aa antl-rellglous propa¬ ganda. The synagogue remains the only Jewish address." WTiile the Baptists, he said, have one chapel for 1,100 congregants, there is only one synagogue for 20,000 Jewish   worshipers.
Turning finally to Russia's ban on emigration, he said: "The ina¬ bility of membera of Russian Jewish familiea to be reunited with membera of their familiea In Israel has created many tragedies. The Jewish problem In Ruaaia re¬ mains unsolved, 44 yeara after the revolution."
The only non-British participant In the conference, Manus Sper- ber, a well-known French author, told the conference: "The Russian Jews remain a people, whatever the Soviet theory may be. Many of them live aa the Marranoa did,
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Named UJFC Gen'l Campaign Chairman
William V Kahn, president of UJFC, has announced that Morris Skilken will be the 1962 General (Campaign (Chairman. He auceeds Ben A. Yenkin.
Mr. Kahn atated that Morris Skilken, a native of Columbus, comes well prepared for thia high¬ ly reaponslble assignment in our community. He is well known in the Jewlah community and has been very active in many com¬ munal organizations.
Morris Skllken who has served aa the 1961 Advance Gifts Divi¬ sion (Chairman, tdao served as as¬ sociate chairman of Advance Gifts. He has been a member of the UJFC board ot trustees for several yeara. He has been a board member of the Jewish Center an-d is currently on the board ot Heri¬ tage House. He is a member ot B'nai B'rith, Brandeis Univei-slty, Excelsior Club and Winding Hol¬ low (Country Club and the ZIoniat Organization of Ameriea. He ia affiliated with Ahavas Sholem and Temple Tifereth Israel (Congrega¬ tions. Nationally, he la a member of the American Technion Society.
Mr. Skilken ia also active In the general and business community. He is a member of the (Columbus and Ohio Chambers of Cornmerce, the Builder's Exchange of Colum¬ bus, the Executive (Club of Colum¬ bus and Big Brothers' Associa¬ tion.
Mr. Skilken is president of the Morris Skilken (Construction Com¬ pany. He is married to the former Farmle Horkln and has two sons, B. Lee and Stanley Skllken.
Recently Mr. Skllken returned from an emergency meeting of the
Morris Skllken
United Jewish Appeal in New York. There he received flrat hand reporta from outatanding Ameri¬ can and Israel leaders on the major rise In the Immigration to Israel from Europe and North Africa, a rise which had not been planned for financially. This In¬ creased Immigration, it was re¬ ported, will not decrease, but In all likelihood increase in numbers in the suceeding months. This will require maximum contributions in 1962 and a top flight organization to achieve a successful campaign. Also of great Importance is the meeting of our responsibilities at home and In America whose needs are vital to the development p£ a strong viable Jewish (Community.
Mr. Skilken stated he was now in the process of building the cam¬ paign organization for 1962.
Be A Donor-Give On "B" Day Next Wednesday, November 1