Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-04-03

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Vol. 42, No. 14
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1964 — 21 NISAN, 5724
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ROSE SCHWARTZ TO BE HONORED MAY 3 AT PUZA DINNER
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Zacks and Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Neustadt, committee co-chairmen, announce a dinner honoring Mrs. A. R. (Rose) Schwartz to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, at the Columbus Plaza.
The dinner committee, which formed sporttaneously^lnvites the general community to share an evening with Mrs. Schwartz, a lady who has dedicated her life and her career to child development activities.
Speaking on behalf of the com¬ mittee Mr. Zacks said, "Rose Schwartz's evening is 'special' in that it expresses solely the genuine feelings of her 'children' and their parents and Rose's colleagues. We have issued 1,500 invitations, but We feel certain that we have in- E^vertently omitted many people in our organizing and in our invita¬ tions. Please give us your assis¬ tance in extending invitations to all of Mrs. Schwartz's friends by con¬ tacting our dinner co-chairmen."
Diners at the $5 per plate affair have their choice of broiled chicken, fish, or fruit plate. Reservations deadline is Friday, April 24, ac¬ cording to reservations co-chair¬ men, David Madison and " Fred Grail.
Chairmen of the various provis¬ ional committees involved in th"? Rose Schwartz dinner May 3 are: arrangements, Marty Adler ahd Mrs. David Madison; decorations, Mrs. Hy Goldberg; finance, Mr. Madison and Mr. Grail; program, Allan Gundersheimer; publicity, Burt Schildhouse and Robert Reed; telephone, Mrs. Millard Cummins, Mrs. Bernard R. Shaw serves as the committee's secretary.
The committee urges any indi¬ vidual who wishes to participate in arrangements for the Rose Sphwartz dinner to contact Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Neasfedt at 228- 4008 or Mr. and MrsO Barry Zacks at 221-2089.
Shown from left to right are/Samuel J Schlonsky, Edward Schlezinger, Harold Schottenstein, Joseph Meyer- hoff, Herman M. Katz and Herbert H. Schiff.
Marked Increase In '64 UJFC Campaign
Harold Schottenstein, general campaign chairman, and Edward Schlezinger, chairman for Advance Gifts, were pleased to announce that at the formal opening of the 1964 UJFC campaign^ held March 24 at Winding HoUowT Country Club, all divisions reported a total of more than $512,000. This is about 70 per cent of last year's total campaign achievement.
Approximately 140 persons att^n^ed this $500 mlnimurh annual affair, a major increase in
attendance over that of last year. Mr. Schottenstein reported furthei: that approximately 50 per cent of the Advance Gifts showed increased giving, a most heartening response to the 1964 campaign needs.
Samuel J. Schlonsky, an outstand¬ ing campaigner for many years, was lauded for his service. In addit¬ ion to receiving a plaqufe, a group of his friends in the fund provided Sam with an expense free trip to Israel and Europe. He will be going with the UJFC sponsored trip which leaves Columbus, April 19.
Joseph Meyerhoff, general chair¬ man of the National United Jewish Appeal, the principal speaker, point¬ ed out the mounting overseas needs as seen by the major increase in the flow of immigration to Israel, 60,000 to 70,000 being anticipated. They are coming from the East Eluropean countries, North Africa and other parts of the world. There are over 400,000 still in need of care in Israel and over 300,000 in other parts of the world whose prime support for their care comes
from the Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee and the Jewish Agency, beneficiaries of UJA. The plight of the Jews, he explained, has not lessened, in fact has increased. America must still provide major assistance. Israel provides the major place ot Jiaven.
Harold Schottenstein highlighted the needs of the local, national and overseas agencies other than the UJA. The Columbus Jewish com¬ munity in its dynamic and progres¬ sive manner reflected its increased requirements through the increased local services and its responsibil¬ ity for meeting more fairly its national responsibilities.
Herbert H. Schiff, president of the fund introduced Mr. Meyerhoff. Herman M. Katz, whq arranged the details for the affair was chair¬ man of the meeting.
Harold Schottenstein lauded the work to date of the workers and leadership. He urged that there be no lessening in their effort io con¬ clude the campaign as quickly as possibje by good coverage and in¬ creased giving.
Anti-Semitic Book Causes World Wide Repercussions
LONDON (JTA)—Obviously perturbed over the protests which the anti-Semitic book, "Judaism ^ylthout Embellish¬ ment," published by the Ukrainian Academy of Science In Kiev, has provoked throughout the world, even among Communist parties In the free world, the Soviet authorities have stopped the sale of the book In Moscow book stores. However, the book is still sold In Soviet Ukraine.
Israel's Five Year Program
By PINHAS SAPIR Minister of Finance of the Slate of Israel
It is very significant for us and for American Jewry that the Israel Bond Organization is celebrating its Bar Mitzvah al the same time that we are floating a new Israel Bond issue. The extent to which^ Israel Bonds have helped develop our economy during the past 13 years has very clearly established them as the most important and the most reliable 'financial instrument for Is¬ rael.
The progress of the past year is typical of the continuing growth f our economy. Our Gross National Product has continued to grow at the rate of approximately 10 per cent per annum. Our exports rose from $492,000,000 in 1962 to $600,000,- 000 last year, and we expect to reach $700,000,000 in 1964. We have continued to liquidate our debts and apart from other loans, we began last year to redeem the first Israel Bonds that were sold 13 years ago. This year, in 1964, we shall redeem $40,000,000 worth of Bonds. For other countries this might be an enviable record. May I add, with¬ out sounding immodest, that the state of our economy today enables us to take these payments in stride. . Let me indicate in a few words what is on our agenda for the im¬ mediate future. I am glad to say that the time has passed when we worked and planned from day to day or month bo month. We are now In the process of putting the last touches on a Five-Year  Plan for
the next phase in the economic de¬ velopment of Israel. It is this plan which prompts us to come and ask you to take part in the flotation of our next Bond Issue for $400,000,000.
These are the tiighlights of this plan.
First: During the last three years, we have taken in 170,000 immi¬ grants and by the end of this decade we shall have three million Jews in Israel. Our planning is geared to sustain this large population and to lay the foundation for the fourth million which we will reach in the 1970's.
Second: The primary target of the development plan is to continue the rapid growth of our-national product at an annual rate of nine to 10 per cent. We plan to reach 15 billion pounds by 1970. This will irisure full employment for our growing latxir force.
Third: We want to reduce the gap in the balance of goods and services by 250 million dollars before this decade is over. Our exports then will be close to one billion five hun-
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dred million dollars. As you know, we have been negotiating for many monttis with the European Com¬ mon Market. While these talks are not yet concluded, I may say that there are hopes for an agreement that will safeguard this most im¬ portant outlet for Israel's agricultu¬ ral and industrial production.
Fourth: We have to populate the empty spaces of Israel; develop the desert of the Negev and the un¬ settled areas of Galilee. Most of 01 r population is concentrated in the coastal plain. We have to direct newcomers and our young people to these new pioneering areas.
Fifth: We have to utilize fully the limited natural resources we have been blessed with—-the potash of the Dead Sea, the phosphates of the Negev, and the natural gas and oil of the Arad region.
Sixth: In order to achieve the national pf-oduction mentioned above, we have to double our in¬ dustrial production.
Seventh: To do this, to settle the Negev and Galilee, to build the new industries, we need two basic ele¬ ments, more water and more power. You have heard about the proposed cooperation between the United States and niy country on the de¬ salination of water. We are not newcomers in this field. Our plant is operating in Elath; another one in Beersheba and the third, using a different principle, will be started in Elath. All of these are small pilot plants. Our electric generat¬ ing   capacity    now   installed   has
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SHOCKED OVER PUBLICATION
Communist discipline in the West was shattered this week by con¬ tinuing shock over the publication of the book.
Communist parties and sections in France, Britain, Italy, the United States and Sweden rebuked the Soviet Union with varying degrees of indignation and demanded ac¬ tion to halt distribution of the book and to punish those responsible for its writing and distribution. The de¬ mands were without precedent in Communist party relations.
A highlight of the debate which has wracked the parties was an exchange between Neue Presses, the Yiddish-language paper of the Jewish section of the French Com¬ munist party, and Novosti, the So¬ viet press agency, which specializes in rebutting charges of bias against the Soviet Union. In an extraordi¬ nary action, Neue Presses formally called on Novosti for an explana¬ tion of how such a book could have been published. Novosti replied that T. Kitchko, the author, perhaps had not carried out his task "in the best way" but that he had acted under the Soviet constitutional guarantees of the right to conduct anti-religious propaganda.
Neue Presses flatly rejected the reply, asserting that "the book ought to be withdrawn immediately
from circulation as harmful to the USSR, that an investigation ought to be mad^ as to how it was pos¬ sible that the book and its cartoons could have appeared and that pro- 1^ measures ought to be taken to see that such books should not be permitted to appear in the Soviet Union." The cartoons were of a type described in the West as in the tradition of the worst published in Der Stuermer, by Julius Streich- er, the most rabid of the Nazi anti- Semites.
L'Humanite, the official organ ot the French Communist party, re¬ printed the original Neue Presse denunciation of the book, and then reprinted the Neue Presses rejec¬ tion of the Novosti reply.
Such pro-Soviet organizations in France as the Movement for Peace and Against anti-Semitism and the Organization France-USSR also as¬ sailed the book. The left-leaning "Liberation" demanded that those responsible be punished "in accord¬ ance with Soviet laws against the promotion of racism."
The Italian Communist party said, in commenting on the Novosti re¬ ply, that no excuses could justify the book's "classic anti-Semitic" cartoons and asked the Soviet gov¬ ernment to "isolate" the book un¬ der Soviet laws agtunst anti-Semi¬ tism.
SCHOOL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION OPENS WITH LOOK AT SCHOOLS AND DROPOUTS
Columbus Section's NCJW "School for Community Action" will open Monday, April 13 with eight well known east-end Council women participating as lectureres, resoirrce and fact finders and discussion group leaders.
Mrs. Theodore Schlonsky, president of the Columbus sec¬ tion of. the National Council of Jewish Women, stated: "We feel that Council's School is Important because it offers study with direct active purpose. It gives our memtiers an opportunity to leam about the urgent issues of our time, and to find out what we can do about them ri^t here in Colum¬ bus. We are particularly plesised with the interest of persons in the general community who are enroll¬ ing in Council's schools."
Mrs. Mayer Rosenfeid will pre¬ sent the opening lecture, entitled, "We Are Living In Tomorrow's Worid."
Morris Swedlow
Following a present-day look at our public schools by Robert Bey- non, director, of research, Ohio State Department of Education, Mrs. Jules Garel, Mrs. Irwin Lak- ritz, Mrs. Joseph Stein and Mrs. Robert Greene will lead discussion groups with Mrs. William Moser, Mrs. Robert K. Levy, Jr. and Mrs. Bertram Dinman serving as re¬ source panelists.
School will recess for one hour and reconvene after luncheon at which time William Briggs, director of special education for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission will pre¬ sent the third lecture on the prob¬ lems of school drop-outs, entitled, "Those Who Are Being Left Be¬ hind."
Council participants will take home reading assignments and questions to be answered when school opens for the second session, Monday, April 20.
Persons wishing to enroll in the NCJW "School for Community Ac¬ tion," should contact Mrs. Allen Meyer, director or Mrs. Joseph Horchow, associate director.
DR. LOUIS NEMZER LOCAL DELEGATE TO CONFERENCE
The appointment of ^Dr. Louis Nemzer as the representative of the Columbus Jewish Community Relations Committee to the Ameri¬ can Jewish Conference on Soviet Jews is announced by Mark D. Feinknopf, chairman. Dr. Nemzer, an active member of the CRC, is professor of political science at Ohio State University. He will at¬ tend the two-day conference which will meet in Washington D.C. on April 5 and'8, at the Hotel Willard, to deal with the problem of grow¬ ing discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union.
The conclave has the most repre¬ sentative organizational sponsorship of any Jewish meeting in American Jewish history and is expected to draw communal leadership from communities in all sections of the country.
Witliin the past two years, there has been an Intensification of Soviet denial of equal religious, cultural and nationality rights to Jews, and that informal representations to Soviet leaders and others have proved unavailing.
The projected conference is seen by its sponsoring organizations as a means of conveying to the entire American public their concern on this important problem. It is their expressed hope that the nation and the world may be aroused to halt "what may be a threat to the very
MORRIS SWEDLOW IS CHOSEN CHAIRMAN OF MULTIPLE APPEALS
Harry Schwartz, chairman of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Fund and Council, has announced the appointment of Morris Swedlow as chairman of the tiple Appeals Committee..
more than a year of study the Council approved and endorsed a plan to guide the conmiunity in the area of fundraising drives tak¬ ing place in the Jewish community of Columbus. These drives involve collections of funds for local, na¬ tional and overseas organizations not all of which are included in the annual campaign of the UJFC.
It was the general consensus of the Council of Organizations that something should be done to bring some order into this area because of the increasing nature of this problem. It appeared that if noth¬ ing were done it would become more difficult in the near future for all, valid appeals.
Towards a solution or ameliora¬ tion, the Multiple Appeals Commit¬ tee was recently formed. Its pur¬ pose is not to control or determine what appeals can or cannot be held but rather to seek the cooperation and assistance of all organizations conducting or planning to conduct drives so as to avoid conflicts, ar- . range*better scheduling of events and to offer counseling where ne¬ cessary. The ultimate objective is to' permit organizations to obtain better results and the community to hqve a more orderly program.
The Multiple Appeals Committee work, Mr. Swedlow stated, will be accepted and will be effective if it can obtain cooperation through re¬ spect and trust rather than through methods of enforcement.
The Committee is now preparing a questionnaire to mail to all ..or¬ ganizations to obtain information on all fundraising activities.
Members of the Committee are the following: Morris Swedlow, chairman; Lou Ackerman, Al Blank, Mitchell Cohen. Louis Gold¬ farb, Allen Gundersheiiher, Sr., William V. Kahn, Arthur Katz, Mrs. Norbert Kruger, Louis Levin, George M. Levine, Mrs. C^l Mell¬ man, Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Her¬ bert H. Schiff, Mrs. Herbert H. Schiff, Samuel J. Schlonsky, Ern¬ est Stem, Harry Schwartz, MrK Harry Schwartz, Allan Weller and
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