Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1962-05-25

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Vol. 40, No. 21
FRIDAY,    MAY   25,    1962
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The World's Week
Compiled from JTA  Reports
In Washington, a delegation from the conference of Major American Jewish Organizations conferred last week with Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk. Their subject was the Middle East.
At the United Nations, Israel and Arab .states have agreed on a United Nations plan whereby Israel will re¬ lease an additional $700,000 of cash deposited in small Israel banks by Arab refugees.
In Hellbronn, West Germany, two former members of special German commando units charged wTth the murder of 40 to 50 Jews near Chelm, in Nazi-held Poland^ in the sjpring of 1944 . . , went on trial last week. The defendants are Paul Helig and Rudolph Theimer.
In Amsterdam, the proposal to merge the two compet¬ ing Confederations of General Zionists was subject to basic discussion as the Halprin-Golcistein Confederation convened for its world conference.
In Jerusalem, the Housing Ministry requested a special allocation of 100,000,000 pounds (.?33,333,333) to build an additional 10,000 dwellings for new immigrants.
It was also announced In Jerusalem that the number of immigrants to. Israel will reach a record figure for May for recent years, according to S. Z. Shragai, director fo the Jew¬ ish Immigration department.
In London, it was reported that two Soviet cruisers are to be transferred to the United Arab Republic within the next three months, giving Egypt, the strongest naval force in the Mediterranean area.
Ai'gentine Jewish leader, Dr. Isaac Goldenberg told a news conference in New York, that unstable political and economic conditions in Argentina and other Latin Ameri¬ can lands have enabled groups, calling themselves national¬ ists, but in fact "typical Nazi formations" to secure added strength. Dr. Goldenberg is a World Jewish Congre.s.s leader.
The NaUonal Council on Jewish Audio-Visual Materials, sponsored by the American Association for Jewish Educa¬ tion, has awarded a citation to the film, "Judgement al Nu¬ remberg,"- for its "eloquent and dramatic presentation of the relationship of law to tnan's moral obligations."
Press Assn. Notes 20th Anniversary
WUllain Sohlff '
WILLIAM SCHIFF TO BE HONORED AT YESHIVA DINNER
A notable event In the conv- muraal life of Columbus will take place on Sunday, June 24, at the Deshler Hilton Hotei when Wll¬ Uam Sohlff, Oolumbus oomimunal leader, will be honored at a testi¬ monial dinner sponsored by the Coluinbus Friends of Yeahlva University. A vice president and director of the Shoe Corporation of America, Schlifif has Cor many years been Identified with Zion¬ ist activities and tihe cause ot Jewish education in the Ameri¬ can   Jewish  Community.
Harold Schottenstein and Ixils M. Levin are serving as dinner co-chairmen. Serving as vlee chairmen of the dinner are: Lou- la R. Goidfarb, Jerome Schotten¬ stein, Joe Swartz and Dr. Charles Young. Mrs. Milton J. Ijceman has been named chairman of the Women's Division.
RabbI Samuel W. Rubenstein, spiritual leader ot Cong^regation Agudas Aohlm and Raibbi Davli Stavsky, spiritual leader of Con¬ gregation Beth Jacob, IbotJi aluinnae of Yeshiva University, will also receive citations the evening of the dinner In reoognl- (contlnued on peg* 4)
PRESENT BOOKS TO UBRARY
Through the courte.sy of Zion Lodge of B'nai B'rilh, tho Columbus Public Library is 15 volumes richer this week. Ernest Stern, president of Zion Lodge, is .shown pre.senting 15 copies of "Some Of My Best Friends . . . ", the Anti- Defamation League's new study ot discrimination against Jews, for placement in each of the branches of the Columbus Public Library. Accepting for the library are: (left to right) Miss Rowena Alson, librarian in the Humanities Division of the Main Library, Stern, Mrs. Kathleen Holt, represent¬ ing Ordering and Processing, and Joel Ollander, Community Consultant'of the AYiti-Defamation League's Ohio-Kentucky Regional Office in Columbus. Copies of "Some Of My Best Friends . . ." will be placed in each of the library neighlxir- hood branches.
'Threepenny Opera' To Open On May 26
ISAAC AND BRENER GET AWARDS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
Sol Morton Isaac, lawyer and civic leader, and Lazar D. Bre¬ ner, director of the Heritage House, were given the 1962 Social Services Award by Miss Betty Sikking, president of the Central Ohio Chapter of the National As¬ sooiation of Social Workers at their annual dinner last week at D'Ascanlos Restaurant.
The annual award made on be¬ half ot the local chapter, to one social worker and non-social worker each year recognized Sol Morton Isaac, a graduate of Yale and Harvard L.aw Schools, "for his effective and extensive ser¬ vice to his community as a board member and officer of the United community pouncil and the United Appeal". The award to Is&ac, as a non-social worker also took note of his Initiative and suceessful efforta in developing closeT working relatlonsihlp be¬ tween lawyers and professional social workers through the or¬ ganization of National Conference of Liawyers ahd Social Workers of  wihlch   he  is   co-chairman.
Lazar D. Brener ¦ received the highest armual local award of sq,cial work for "his effective and continued service as a leader with a broad, well-balanced and for¬ ward-looking point of view and his services to the community in the development and admini¬ stration of a new and excellent social welfare program for the aged   at  Heritage  House."
Howard F. Gustafson, execu¬ tive director of the Community Service Council of Metropolitan Indianapolis, Ind., key-note speak¬ er of the annual meeting and first vice president of the Nation¬ al Association of Social Workers, discussed the proposed amend¬ ment to the current national wel¬ fare legislation declaring "that the face lifting of welfare through¬ out the nation was a must. He stated that welfare needed revi¬ sion and uip-dating.
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On Saturday night. May 26, the "Threepenny Opera" will have its Coiumibus premiere In the air- conditioned Jewish Center Audi¬ torium where the Gallery Players will open the savagely Ironic musi¬ cal, which flourished tor almost seven years in New York City. Curtain is at 8:40.
"The Threepenny Opera" has never been seen in the Central Ohio area before. The production is studded with the music that helped to make it famous through¬ out the world including the hit parade favorite, "Mack the Knife", which will be sung by Ted Prit¬ chard. Pritchard, recently seen as the younger brother In the Gal¬ lery Players production of "Deal¬ er's Choice", enacts the role of a street-beggar, ballad-singer who in the play serves to set the mood and iocal<; of each scene.
Two refugees from Hitler's Germany, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill used John Gay's early 18th century "The Beggar's Opera" tor source material when they originally wrote "Der Dreigros- chenoper" for a group of German actors in 1928.   ,
Estelle Center, as Jenny Diver, sings and acta the tremendously gripping "Pirate Jenny" song which has been the trade mark of Lotta Lenya, Kurt Weill's wid¬ ow. Mra. Center's first appear¬ ance with the Gallery Players was in 1955 as the young, demon- possessed bride in "The Dybbuk."
She also appeared in "Fifth Sea son" and "Golden Boy." '
Maclt the Knife is portrayed by PhUip'Kautt, an engineer at North American, who will be rememoer- ed tor his t\'.v: ii.g singing in "The Connecticut Yankee" at Stadium Theatre last season. His sweet¬ heart, Polly Peachum. Is played by Joyce Lightfoot. Miss Light- foot was also seen to great ad¬ vantage in "Connecticut Yankee." Playing her parents are John Crawford and Mary Kostanden. Seen as members of Mack's g'ang are such popular Gallery Players as .Eddie Kaye, Marv BonowiUi and Jules Vogel. Another member of the gang is Richard Price, former Center life-guard, making his   first  appearance.
Among those portraying notor¬ ious "ladies of tho evening" will be Bea Roth, whose last appear¬ ance In a Gallery Players major production was in the "Flowering Peabh." She has also been seen as the nurse In the "Hasty Heart" and appeared in the first Gal¬ lery Players production, "Hay Fever," In 1950. Aiso appearing in the parade of "party giris" is Sue Kaye, last seen in "Once In A Lifetime"; Zelda Austen, "Major Barbara" and "Dealer's Choice"; Rosa Kerstein, who appeared In the "Oriental Nightingale"; and Sima Edison. Abe Green is seen as a graft reeeiying commisioner of police. Tiger Brown. Green has (continued  on  pege  4}
Three "ladles-of-lhe-evening," played by (left lo right) Jo Stamm, Estelle Center and Sharon Kinny, gather around the underworld king, Macheath, played by Philip Kautt in a rehearsal Of the Berlolt Brecht-Kurt Weill hit musical "The Threepenny Opera" which will receive ita Midwest premier by the Gallery Players at the Jewish Center on May 26.
Jewish leaders throughout the I nation. In congratulating the American Jewish Press Associa¬ tion this week on its 20th anni¬ versary, stressed the ever import¬ ant service rendered by the Eng¬ lish-Jewish newspapers in their reapectlve   communities.
Highlighting the occasion wlU be the inauguration of "Ameri¬ can Jewish Press Week" at the a3Socia:tion's annual convention on May 24-25 at the Overseas Press  aub.   New  York   City,
Joseph Weisberg, executive edi¬ tor of the Boston Jewish Advo¬ cate, President, will preside at a special luncheon to mark. the event. Some 30 editors and pub¬ lishers will partleiipate In a sym¬ posium on the "Bole at the Jew¬ ish CommunUy Newspapers dn the U.S."
Milton J. Pinsky, managing edi¬ tor of The Chronicle, Is attending the convention in New York City. Pinsky Is treasurer of the Ameri¬ can Jewish  Press Association.
Jewish leaders throughout the nation have expressed congratu¬ lations to the American Jewish Press Association on the celebra¬ tion of its 20th anniversary.
Dr. Joachton Prlnz, president of the American Jewish Congress sent the folloiwing noessage to the American  Jewish   press:
"The American Jewish Con¬ gress warmly greees the 20th an¬ niversary convention of the Amer¬ ican  Jewish  Press.
"For many years the American Jowish presS'haa rendered distinc¬ tive service in the dlsseiraiinatlan of Jewish information, in deepen¬ ing Jewish awareness, and in de¬ fending the rights and freedoms ot  the  Jewish   people.
"The American Jewish press thus deserves praise for striving to articulate the function of a free Jewish press in a free socie¬ ty. It would be idle to pretend that all American Jewish news¬ papers meet this obligation and responsibility; but It can be stat¬ ed that an Increasingly large pro¬ portion of them are making sin¬ cere efforts in this direction. . . " Philip M. KluUnlck, of the United States Mission to the United  Nations  said,
"My views as to the im^rtance of the American Jewlsih press have been stated candidly on sev¬ eral occasions. Recent observa¬ tions by a very distinguished American Jewish historian sug¬ gesting the ultimate transforma¬ tion of the American Jewish press into community organs do not fit my vision of the future, We need a free and' Independent press in our community, no less than a free nation needs a free press.
". . . In your constructive ef¬ fort^, to keep the American Jew¬ ish press free, independent and accurate you have my very best wishes."
From Samuel Belkin, presideht of Yeshiva University, came the following  message:
"I am pleased to extend my warmest greetings to the Ameri¬ can Jewish Press Association on the occasion of Its anniversary. The past 20 years have been mo¬ mentous In the annals of Jewish history. Throughout this period the American Jewish Press has played a significant role in dis- aomilnatlng information among our brethren and in furthering, an appreciation and uriderstanmng of the vital issues of our time. I hope that the American Jewish Press will continue to broaden its scope and sphere of ir.'fluence in the service of the American Jewish community and that It v/lll gain Increased suipport In the years ahead."
' . . . My sincere coi^ratuia- tlons to the men and to the wo¬ men who have done so remark¬ able a job, who have worked ao hard, oftesi under-rated and un¬ der valued by the community, but
wjio are the unsung heroes of American Jewish life," said lUieo- dore Brooks, National Command¬ er, Jewish War Veterans of the United   States   of   America.
Dr. Nahum Goldinann, chair¬ man of the World Jewlah Con¬ gress, said, "Please accept my best wisihes on the occasion of your 20th anniversary conven¬ tion,
"Jewish Press has a great task to fulfill within the American Jewish community to keep It well informed on the great Is¬ sues of Jewish life.
"May you continue to make on i'raportant contribution In (ul- flUing  this  task."
"One cannot conceive ot the wide scope of American Jewiys organized activities for bhe adi- vancement of Jewish communal and cultural life at home and for the massive support of historic causes such as the establishment and develoipment of Israel with¬ out the enlightened cooperation of the English-Jewish press," said Abraham Felnberg, president of State of Israel Bonds.
In his congratulatory niessaf^, Emanuel Cellar, Congressman, lllh District, New York City, said, "I believe that the Ameri¬ can Jewish press renders an In- vaJualble service to the Jews in our country. Not only does it high¬ light Jewish activities and Jewish personalities In American life, but it also expresses the attitudes and opinions of American Jews on matters qf national and inter¬ national  tnteJ-e'sl;."
General
General Chiam Bar-Lev To Be Speaker At Israel Bonds Event
General Chiam Bar-Lev, Chief of Israel's Armored Florces, and an outstanding hero who haa played a major role in the suc¬ cess of his country's military op¬ erations, will be Israel's repre¬ sentative at the Dr. B. W. Albram¬ son Testimonial Dinner, Sunday evening, June 17, at the Desihler- Hilton Hotel, it was announced today by the chairman of the dinner. Max I. Ziskind.
General Bar-Lev will present a special award from the State of Israel to Dr. B. W. Abramson for his outstanding leadership on behalf of  the Israeli people.
THE OENERAL began his .lildl- itary career in 1948 when he join¬ ed the Pabnach, the strUtini; force of the Haganah, the Jewish Deifense Force organized during the British Mandate of Palestine- When the State of Israel pro¬ claimed its Independence in May of that year he was transfelrcd to   Israel's   Armed   Forces.
Ho entered the Palmaoh as et private and In less than a yeat, worked his way up to the position of battalion commander. During Israel's War of Liberation, Oil Israel fought to maintain Its lini^ (coattnued on peg* 4)