Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1963-11-22

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Vol. 41, No. 48
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1963 — 6 KISLEV, 5724
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Shaffer WiU Chair New UJFC Division
The emergence of young men under 35 yeans of age into the community spotligiit will be a major development in the forthcoming United .Jewish Fund and Council campaign.
A new Young Men's Division has been formed to work witl-. the 35 anrl under group exclusively. This new division will re¬ port directly to the UJFC campaign leadership.
Operating as separate units within the new division will be the Maccabbees, Young Adults
and a special group of men under 35 years of age. The division will be headed by Lawrence D. Schaf- fer, campaign chairman. Assisting him are vice presidents Gerald M. Friedman and Bernard K. Yenkin.
"The Young Men's Division has been organized to give young men in the community an opportunity to play a more active role in the campaign and in year-round UJFC activities,"  said Schaffer,
"Through this division's activi¬ ties," he continued, "it is hoped that many young men will attain a more meaningful level of giving and gain the neces-sary experience so vital to their future roles as community  leaders."
Division leadership will be sup¬ ported by a 22-man executive com¬ mittee under the chairmanship of Gordon Zacks. Serving on this com¬ mittee are: Willard Bornstein, How-
Lawrence Schaffer
ard Bver, David Cohen, Millard Cummfns, Edwin Ellman, James Feibel, David Forman. Gerald Friedman, Jules Garel, Victor Goodman, Stanley Katz. David Madison, John Resler, Lawrence Schaffer, Gordon Schiffman, Lee Skilken, Meivin Schottenstein, Alan Weiler, Leslie Wexner, Bernard ¦^'enkin, Barry Zacks and Benjamin Zox.
"This committee is composed of a broad base of the younger men who are already devoting consider¬ able time and energy to community affairs." said Schaffer. "We are confident the new Young Men's Di- vision will arouse vigorous sup¬ port."
Schaffer brings to his post of campaign chairman a wealth of extensive civic experience. This year, he served as campaign chair¬ man for the Maccabbees and is currently a board member of both UJFc" and Tifereth Israel, second vice president of the Hillel Advisory Board, national treasurer of Sigma Alpha Mu and chairman of the UJFC leadership development pro¬ gram. He is immediate past chair¬ man of the Alumni Interfrat^rnity Council .'¦t Ohio State University.
SYNAGOGUE AND YOUTH CENTERS TO BE BUILT
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Corner- storie-iaying ceremonies were held recently for the new synagogue and Youth Center of Congregation Knes- eth Israel in Far Rockaway now being built at an estimated cost of $750,000. The new structure, comprising a four-unit complex, is the first Orthodox Jewish house of worship in the United States to reintroduce a broad range of anc¬ ient and medieval synagogue fea- ' tures in an ultra-modern design.
The World's Week
Compiled horn JTA  Reporh
IN STOCKHOLM, Professor Eugene Paul Wigner, an American Jewish nuclear physicst of Princeton University, was na,med one of three physicists to share the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1963. Another winner is Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer of the University of California.
Professor Wigner, 61; was born in Germany. He came to Princeton in 1930 and became an American citizen jSeven years later. Dr. Mayer was born in Poland and became an American citizen in 1933. The two Americans will share the $51,000 prize with Prof. J. Hans D. Jensen of the University of Heideltferg, Germany.
IN WASHINGTON, indications that the anti-Ziojnist American Council for Judaism may be collaborating with the Palestinian Arab delegation to the United Nations have been received here. The indications came from Arab press reports. On the basis of these reports, inquiries have been made with the United States Department of Justice on whether the anti-Zionist group was registered as a foreign agent.
IN HOLLYWOOD, FLA., Isaac Toubin, executive di¬ rector of the American Association for Jewish Education, urged the representatives of the American Jewish commu¬ nity to join together for the form tion of a grand design toward creation of community-wido jnning in the field of Jewish education.
Mr. Toubin was one of a number o-.f the country's out¬ standing Jewish educators participating Curing the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in symposia dealing with Jewish education and culture.
Jewish education, said Mr. Tobin, must be given a sense of community purpose, in which ideoloe-ical move¬ ments and communities are seen as coherent parts of the whole. He urged that the entire Jewish educational set-up, including kindergartens, afternoon schools, Sunday schools, secondary schools, adolescent and adult education as well as chairs in schools of higher learning be se'en as part of an integrated process, out of which the Intelligent Jewish lay¬ man and the competent Jewish civil servant ultimately emerge. Such a pattern, he said, cannot be devised by sepa¬ ratist efforts wo^-king in isolation. It can be created only , by community jilanning on the local and national levels.
LOCAL UJFC LEADERS AT FUND MEETING
Pictured above on the right is Mrs. Leonard Was.ser- strom, with Philip Bernstein, executive director of the Coun¬ cil of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, who attended the national meeting, Nov. 6-10 as the award winner of the Theresa Stern Kahn Leadership Award. Coiumbus repre¬ sentatives attending the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in Miami, Fla., are shown below. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Samuel M. Melton, Samuel M. Melton, Mrs. Herman M. Katz, Herman M. Katz. Standing, left to right: Ben M. Mandelkorn, Mrs. Leonard Wasserstrom,  Dr. Leonard  Wasserstrom.
Jewish Groups Hail Vatican Statement
A resolution hailing the statement on the Catholic attitude toward Jews presented to the Ecumenical Council at the Vati¬ can, as the most imporl.;mt development which helps eliminate one of the major sources of hostility and prejudice against the Jews throughout the ages, was adopted unanimously at the concluding session of the General Assembly of the Council of Jewi.sh Federations and Welfare Funds.
¦ The Vatican statement was intro¬ duced last week in Rome by Au¬ gustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, for discussion and vote by the Ecumenical Council now in ses¬ sion there. It is not yet known whether a vote will be taken at this session of the Council, or at the next session, which will take place in 1964. The statement con¬ tains the following high points:
1) The Church has a deep bond with the Chosen People of the Old Testament: 2) The responsibility for the death of Jesus falls on all mankind; it is unjust to call the Jewish people a deicide people or to consider the Jews cursed by God; 3) The Church can never forget that it is from Abraham's stock that Christ's mother and the apostles were born; 4) The death of Jesus Christ cannot give rise to disdain or hatred or persecution of the Jews; 5) Catholic priests are ad¬ monished never to preach a con¬ trary position and, furthermore, are urged to promote understand¬ ing and esteem toward Jews.
A. M. Sonnabend, president of the American Jewish Committee, said the statement is an historic event and had been put forward in a spirit that recognizes the historic values of Judaism as a living re¬ ligion and creed. Viewing the state¬ ment as a decree conceived out of a sense of Catholic concern for the elimination of centuries-old tensions, he said it may well augur a new
era in Catholic-Jewish relations. Predicting that acceptance of the decree will make it impossible "for anyone to instigate hatred for Jews and claim sanction or support in Church dogma or teaching" Son¬ nabend declared.
On behalf of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Dora Schary, ADL president, hailed pres¬ entation of the document to the Ecumenical Council as a magnifi¬ cent development, presaging a ma¬ jor and positive change in attitudes throughout the world. As an official Catholic Church statement, he pre¬ dicted, the decree's influence "will be world-wide, perhaps the single, most important and decisive step in removing a root cause of pre¬ judice against Jews in all of mo¬ dern history."
Dr. Nahihs^Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, hail¬ ed the document holding the Jews blameless for the death of Jesus, as an historic event which would help remove misunderstanding and hostility that had caused the Jews 2,000 years of suffering.
CHURCH   & JEWS  TOPIC AT  BB
At the joint Zion and Buckeye B'nai B'rith Lodges luncheon meet¬ ing, to be held on Nov. 26 at 12 noon at the Maramor, a prominent member of the Columbus Catholic Diocese will speak on "The Catholic Church  Looks  At  Anti-Semitism."
L saiiS IHadassah Fashion Show Nov. 26
Mrs. Samuel Rubenstein, wife of
Rabbi Rubenstein, was elected to the national board of the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America at the close of the 38th annual na¬ tional convention of the women's religious-Zionist organization.
She will participate at the na¬ tional policy level in the develop¬ ment and operation of the organi¬ zation's extensive network of child- care, social welfare and vocational education projects in Israel.
Mizrachi Women's national board serves as a steering committee for more than 350 local chapters, coun¬ cils and regions of the organization.
Interest and excitement arc running high, as the date ap¬ proaches for the showing of Isrncli fashions to be presented by the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah, next Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 12:15 p.m. at the Columbu.s I'laza. Reservations are .still being accepted for tho luncheon and fashion show by Mrs. Arthur Meizlish, but bec;iuso of hotel requirements, all reservations must bo picked up by 12:15 p.m. that day, or they will be turned over  to  those  who  come  without I    . „ ,     ,   ,        , .      .,, l
All proceeds of the affair will be used to meet the goal of the Co¬ lumbus Chapter for its vocational education quota, to help maintain tho network of schools, trEuning centers, guidance bureaus and workshops in Israel.
reservations. Unclaimed reserva¬ tions will be available from 12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. The price for the afternoon, including the lunch¬ eon, which is one of the first to be scheduled St the new Columbus Plaza,  is $6 per person.
Prayer In The Public Schools To Be Topic Of Center Public Affairs Forum
"Prayer in the Public Schools" will be the subject for dis¬ cussion at the first meeting of the Jewish Center's Public Af. fairs Forum which will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 8:30 p.m, at the Center.
This successful series opens with a pane! of exports dis¬ cussing this controversial subject which has been of great con¬ cern to members of our community.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Ran¬ kin M. Gibson will be a leading member of the panel. Justice Gib¬ son will bring an interpretation of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding prayers in the school.
He will be joined by David Ster¬ ling, English instructor at Ohio State University, who recently at¬ tacked the Columbus schools for their support of daily prayers in the school. He represents the Cen¬ tral Ohio Civil Liberities Union.
A third speaker who favors pray¬ ers in the school will be announced shortly.
Dr. Sam Stellman, Center as¬ sistant executive director, will act as moderator for the meeting.
Members of the Center's Public Affairs  Committee  include:   Capt. r«    c       f. n
Robert Clithero, Mrs. Harold Edei- °'- Sam Stellman
stein. Mrs. Ben Gordon, Fred Grail, Nakrin, Mrs. Charles O'Koon, Dr. Hershel.Hausman, Thomas Kaplin, Henry Samuels, Burton Schiid- M. Marx, Mrs. Ernest Moser, Jerry loontlnu.d on P9g« 4)
The fashion show is touring American cities in behalf of these projects, and Columbus is one of the few cities where it will be shown. The 27 exciting creations were designed and made by stu¬ dents of the Alice Seligsburg High School for Girls in Jerusalem, sup¬ plemented by original designs creat¬ ed (Especially for the show' by a group of talented young Israeli de¬ signers. They will be modelled by members of the local chapter who include, in addition to those pre¬ viously listed, Mrs, Raymond Kahn, Mrs, Mel Schottenstein, Mrs. Gor¬ don Schiffman and Mrs. Jack Sil¬ berstein.
Hostesses for the afternoon under Mrs. Arthur Westerman, include: Mesdames Carl Mellman, Abe Flicker, Michael Karr, Harold Felnstein, Morris Skilken, Robert Paine, Julius Cohen, Alvin Schot tenstein, Irwin Lichtenstein, Jule Mark, M. S. Tarcov, Milton Parker, Ernest Stern, Jack Palestrant, Al¬ len Blair, David Guttman, Richard Golden, Charles Talis, Alexander Pollack, Sam Subow, Albert Shkol- nik, Joseph Goldslager, Joseph Schaefer  and William Stone.
Mrs. Edward Hirsch, chairman, and Mrs. Edmund Klein and Mrs. Norman Rosansky, co-chairmen, are being assisted by the following women in making telephone calls
for reservations for the affair: Mesdames Lawrence Winner, Je¬ rome Fisher, Sam Mellman, Harold Schwartz, Morris Mendel, William Brown, Morris Fleischman, Her¬ man Horowitz, Herman Jacobs, Ja¬ cob Solomon, Irv Chasin, Lee Friedman, Nathan Gorenstein, Paul Rehmar, Myer Zukerman, Sam La- vine and Miss Faye Corrall.
Tickets are available from Mrs. Herbert Meizlish or from Mrs. Jack Marks, chairman and coordinator of the project for all local Hadassah ,groups.
For those who need a ride to the Columbus Plaza, Mrs. Jack Pale¬ strant may be called at BE.1-7187, and arrangements for transporta¬ tion will be made by her.
Piano accompanist for the fash¬ ion show will be Mrs. Milton Levi- tan, and commentator is Mrs. Ben. Goodman. s
Specially designed centerpieces which will carry out the theme of the afternoon, "A Stitch in Time Saves , , . ", will be carried home as table prizes. Howard Johnson's East has graciously donated a week-end for two, complete with meals and lodging, as an attend¬ ance gift for the afternpon.
A contribution of $6 to the voca¬ tional education' project of Hadas¬ sah is the biggest bargain yet ih fund-raising; luncheon at the gla¬ morous new Columbus Plaza, even before its grand opening date,, a viewing of the fabulously colorful Israeli style show, Stars in Style, an opportunity to spend a week-end at Howard Johnson's East, and, above all, the privilege of being a part of Hadassah's work in Israel for the development of productively trained young men and women, in the many centers of vocation^ edu¬ cation, supported and matotained by Hadassah.
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