Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-03-27

              Best Wishes For A Joyous Passover Holiday
Vol.42, No. 13
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FRIDAY, MARCH 27,  1964 — 14 NISAN, 5724
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Mrs. Michael Karr
COLUMBUS CHAPTER OF HADASSAH WIU INSTALL OFFICERS
Mrs. Michael Karr will be in¬ stalled as president ot the Colum¬ bus Chapter of Hadassah at a luncheon to t)e held on Wednesday, April 15, at 12:15 p.m. at nonkas. Elected to serve with her as vice president coordinators are Mrs. Er¬ nest Simon, Mrs. Carl B. Mellman, Mrs. Malcolm Robbins and Mr.-,. Edward Goldin.
Mrs. Karr has previously served Hadassah as conresponding secretary and fund-raising and membership vice presidents of the Liloh group. She has been Zionist affairs chairman for the chapter and for the past two years has been education vice president tor the Columbus chapter., Mrs. Karr also has worked for the United Jewish Fund and Council as a member of the steering cormnittee of the Young Matrons Division for four years. She is a past solicitation chairman of that group. In addi¬ tion, she has been a member of the UJFC leadership development program and its planning commit¬ tee. Mrs. Karr is a member of the board of Brandeis Women's Com¬ mittee and belongs to th^, Council of Jewish Women, TiferelJi Israel Sisterhood, Downtown Lions Auxili¬ ary and the Franldin County Men¬ tal Health Association. Mrs. Karr is a graduate of Olvio State Uni- (contlnucd on  pege  4)
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COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN UUNCH NEW SCHOOL FOR GOMMUNITY ACTION AT OSU
The Columbus Section, National Council of Jewish Women will launch a unique new Information-for-action program, the NCJW School for Community Action, to be sponsored by the School of Social Woric, Ohio State University on Monday, April 13, 20 and 27 at the Ohio Union.
Mrs. Allan Meyer, director of the school, announced that in its first year the NCJW school will be devoted to the subject of "Equal Opportunity for Youth." Lectures and seminars will high¬ light needs of public education, preparation for employmeflt, hous¬ ing and other factors affecting youngsters in our community.
A faculty comprised of prominent local educators, sociologists and ex- perls in the fields of housing and family life, as well as experienced Council members will present clear, current, objective information as a basis for individual and group ac¬ tion on behalf of young people.
The guest lecturers will be: Rob¬ ert P. Beynon, Director of Re¬ search, Oliio state Department of Education; William A. Briggs, Di¬ rector of Special Education, Ohio Civil Rights Commission; James H. Ethridge, Director of Housing, Co¬ lumbus Urban League; Dr. Leon¬ ard P. Schnelderman, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, O.S.U.; and Dr. Samuel D. Stell¬ man, Asociate Professor, School of |
Social Work, O.S.U. and assistant director, Jewish Center.
The NCJW School for Community Action will teach how to combat school drop-outs, insure better vo¬ cational training programs and im¬ proved education for all youth, with special emphasis on programs for children from culturally deprived families.
Action programs for outofschool,
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Chronicling
The News
Editorial 2
Society    10, 11
Shopping Guide 22
Synagogues    22
Sports     9, 12, 21
Teen Scene 13
Passover's Ageless Appeal
By DR. HELEN HIRSCH
(Standard Feature Syndicate)
Man invariably yearns for those things of which he has been deprived. During the long and crucial millennia of its existence, the Jewish people have often been forced into bitter awareness of the absence of right and justice in their relentlessly persecuted lives and of the humiliating recognition of how small a part their harassed minority played in the affairs of an inimi¬ cal world, which repeatedly imposed its iron will upon them. The Background of the
Passover   Festival
In our eager search for the source of the festival, it becomes evident that the seasonal transition from icji winter to balmy spring has been one of the main factors. From hoary antiquity on, this has always been the time for eager planting as well as the birth of the firstlings of the flock. Around this period of welcome change, filled with the hopes and anxieties of the people, it naturally evokes, have accumu¬ lated customs and prayers all di¬ rected to the same end that life shall prosper, that people should not want and live in peace and harmony. To mankind everywhere, springtime means a happy feeling of renewal and release associated with our two spring festivals, Pur- im and Passover.
The Feast ot Unleavend Bread (the bread of affliction) begins on
the 14th day of Nisan. It commem¬ orates Israel's redemption from Egypt's slavery, a memorial for¬ ever.
The evening before the first Seder is called "the night of observance" (Ml Shimurim), because the Al¬ mighty's infinite love had for a long time been directed to the night of deliverance of the cruelly enslaved Hebrews from Egypt in wiiich the Jews perceived one of the greatest acts of their God.
Because of its prrfound and ex¬ traordinary significance, both for the popular consciousness and the historical life of Israel, the month of the redemption from Egypt be¬ came the first month as ordered by the Almighty: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying: 'This month shall be unto you the be¬ ginning of months: it shall be' the (continued on  page   17)
21ST ANNIVERSARY OF WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING APRIL 9
The 21st anniversary of the War¬ saw Ghetto Uprising will be com¬ memorated on April 9 and the World Jewish Congress has sent an appeal to all its affiliates in 64 countries to mark the occasion, and keep alive the memory of the Ghet¬ to fighters who perished 21 years ago. The appeal to Jewry through¬ out the world was issued by Dr. Gerhart M. Riegner, director of coordination of the World Jewish Ongress.
Dr. Riegner, in his message, ex¬ pressed the hope that all communi¬ ties would commemorate the anni¬ versary as in the past, "with dignity and fervor." Dr. Riegner further urged that commemorative cere¬ monies be held in synagogues and community centers and at those monuments and memorials erected in many parts of the world in honor of the victims of Nazism.
JEWS ORDERED TO REFUSE MATZOH SENT TO RUSSIA.
LONDON (JTA)—Local authori¬ ties throughout the Soviet Union have ordered Jews to refuse to accept parcels containing matioh sent by relatives abroad, it became known here from reports received from the USSR.
These steps are being taken in spite of the fact that an announce¬ ment by a Soviet official in the Washington embassy stated a month ago that matzoh shipments address¬ ed to individual recipients in the USSR would be permitted. The So¬ viet official went so far as to list five firms in the United States spe¬ cifically licensed by the Soviet au¬ thorities to accept such shipments.
An article in an issue ot Pravda Vostoka, of Tasiikent, Uzbekistan, received here confirms the fact that pressures are being applied against local Jews in regard to matzoh ac¬ ceptance. The article in the issue of March 17, stated: "Receipt of parcels of matzoh constitutes ideo¬ logical sabotage against the Rus¬ sian people."
Pravda Vostoka, which is the or¬ gan of the local Communist Party in Uzbekistan, reports that "pro¬ test meetings" against the import of matzoh were being organized "all over the country." It was em¬ phasized here that no "protest meetings" can be held anywhere in the Soviet Union without official government permission and per- , haps  encouragement.
RUSSIA'S RAN ON MATZOH IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETE
Like an ever-tightening noose, the ban began in outlying cities and towns as early as 1957, and gradually encompassed aU but Mos¬ cow by 1961. In 1962, with its ap- pUcation to Moscow as well, it became total. The ban covered the production and sale and/or distri¬ bution of matzoh in both state bak¬ eries and synagogues that possessed matzoh-baking machinery on their premises.
The very first "explanation" of the ban in Moscow was that it was a purely "technical" matter. The machines in the state bakery as¬ signed to matzoh production had broken down, it was alleged. This explanation was eagerly seized up¬ on, and widely republished and dis¬ seminated by all Communist media in the outside world; it remained the line for nearly a year.
Just prior to Passover 1963, a new official line was worked out, and has been generally adhered to ever since. It goes Ss follows: In the USSR, church and state are separate and neither impinges on the other. ¦ It is therefore unconsti¬ tutional 'and illegal for state-owned bakeries to produce and sell re¬ ligious foods. That is why matzoh is no longer being produced there. And just to prove that no anti- Jewish discrimination' is intended, it is pointed out that state bakeries also no longer produce kulichi, the communion cakes used by the Rus¬ sian Orthodox at Easter.
The analogy with kulichi, is gross¬ ly misleading and defective in sev¬ eral respects. In the first place, though both are symtMlic wafers used for religious purposes, the ana¬ logy ends there. In being deprived of matzoh, the Soviet Jew is de¬ prived not only of a symlxil, but of a basic food and, not least, of a fundamental religious food.
The provision of an adequate sup¬ ply of matzoh in the USSR requires a major enterprise. If the state (continued  on  pege  4]