Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1965-05-28

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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1965—26 lYAR, 5725
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B'nai B'rith Planning Local Convention
Coulmbus Jewry will have a rare opportunity—a once in a lifetime occasion — on Saturday evening, July 10. This evening will mark the 100th Anniversary ot the organi¬ zation of Zion Lodge. B'nai B'rith, and will be held as a special fea- "tUre of the 113th annual meeting of District No. 2. Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith when they convene at the Columbus Plaza (Sheraton- Columbus) from July 10 through the 13.
Committees headed by Chairmen Herbert Wise, representing the Lodge, and Mrs. Albert A. Blank, representing the Women's Chapters, have been making preparation to see that Columbus hospitality will mark this as the best convention in the fiistory of the organization.
Delegates will assemble at the convention representing eight states:    Kentucky,    Indiana,    Mis-
I souri. Kansas. Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Ohio.
Another rare treat to be given delegates and guests at the Con¬ vention will be the opportunity ot being the first district group to meet and hear the new president of the Supreme Lodge, to be elected at the tri-ennial convention in Israel, the last of this month.
Co-chairmen of the convention include Ernest Stern, Mrs. Melvin Furman. Mrs. Abe Green and Mrs. Louis Robbins.
Mrs. Joseph Blum is serving as secretary and Leon Friedman, treasurer for the convention.
Columbus B'nai B'rith members are asked to reserve the evening ot Saturday. July 10 and attend the Centennial Celebration of Zion Lodge, B'nai B'rilh at the Colum¬ bus Plaza.
Protest Rally Draws A Capacity Crowd
BY   MICHAEL   FEINSTEIN
Leonard J. Stern, presiding chairman, greeted more than 1.000 people who croWdcd into the Agudas Achim Synagogue Sunday to protest Soviet anti-semitism and express their concern for their brethren behind the Iron Curtain.
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein delivered the invocation, nnd Abe Yenkin. President of the United Jewish Fund and Council, gave the welcoming address. Mr. Yenkin stated that anti-semitism in Russia has existed since 1791. and that this rally would |
Shown at the Protest Rally held Sunday are, left to right: Abe Yenkin, Governor James A. Rhodes, Rabbi David Stavs¬ ky, Monroe Sheinberg, Mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner and Harry Schwartz: The Rally was held at the Agudas Achitm Synagogue.
Pictured above are workers for the B'nai B'rith conven-' tion'to be held here. Seated: Mrs. Joseph Blum, Mrs. Albert A. Blank and Herbert Wise. Standing: Leon Friedman, Mrs. Melvin Furman, and Ernest Stern.
Atlanta Plays Host To American Jewish Press
ATLANTA (JTA)—A resolution strongly urging the United States Senate to adopt the pending Williams-Javits measure which would pre¬ vent boycott activities by Arab slates against Americans doing business with Israel was adopted here at the concluding session of the annual convention of the American Jewish Press Association.
At the same session, terminating the association's four-day parley, the AJPA re-elected Morris Janoff, editor-publisher of the Jewish Standard, oersey City, N. J..'aS president.
Another resolution adopted un¬ animously expressed the associa¬ tion's appreciation to the U. S. Senate for its action in protest against the mistreatment of Soviet Jewry* by the Soviet Governmeni;. The AJPA also decided to launch a project for standardizing the transliteration of Hebrew terms used frequently in the English- language Jewish press.
Among the highlights ot the con¬ vention was an address by 'Philip Slomovitz. editor-publisher of the Jewish News in Detroit, who took exception to a survey published by B'nai B'rith, characterizing the Jewish press as "dull" and as "dis- proportinnately" devoted to social news. In   addition   to   re-electing   Mr.
The World's Week
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporti
JERU.SAIjEM (JTA)-~Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced here that he would be willing to head the Mapai-Ahut Avodah election list for the next Knesset (Parliament) it ho would be thus designated as the align¬ ment's candidate for Prime Minister, and if Mapai would formally ask hini to head its list. He made that statement to a meeting of the Mapai minority which is opposing Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Moshe Blltan, the recenUy ap- poinlod head of the Israel Foreign Ministry's American di¬ vision, completed his meetings with top State Department officials here. During his four-day visit in Washington, Mr. Blltan conferred with Presidential Special Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, with Assistant Secretary ot State for the Near East, Phillips Tallxitt, and other high-ranking American officials.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A call for continued, organized protests against the fate of the Jewish minority in the Soviet Union was issued by Label A. Katz, national president of B'nai B'rith, as the fraternal organization opened its triennial convention here in Jerusalem's Convention Hall.
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (,lTA)_There is a new era in the relationships with the Christian world and the Jews must be prepared for it, Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg, presi¬ dent of the Rabbinical Assembly told the fiSth annual con¬ vention ofi'the organization ot Conservative rabbis at the opening session. He criticized denigrators of inter-religious dialogue.
give us a means ot taking action
A telegram was read from Sena¬ tor Stephen Young, who was sorry that he could not be there, but ex¬ pressed his concern for the cause and pledged lo do all in his power to see that the situation was allevi¬ ated.
Mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner read a proclamation expressing the con¬ cern ot the Columbus community. "What the world needs," he said, "is not a gigantic leap into space, but a gigantic leap into brother¬ hood."
The Right Rev. Msgr. Fracnis J. Schwendman. representing Bishop John J. Carberry and 170,000 Catholics, stated that he was in complete agreement with the seven point petition.
The Rev. W. Donald Pendell, di¬ rector of communication of the Ohio Council of Churches, said that we must guard against the danger of hypocrisy. We must not only con¬ demn Soviet anti-semitism, but condemn it in our own country, state   and  town.
Dr. John H. Rosemond of the Columbus Civil Rights Council said that without rneetings like this one, many important issues pass un¬ noticed. He staled that as member of the Negro communily, he has compassion for the plight 6f the Jew.
Rabbi Jerome Folkman of Tem¬ ple Israel delivered a prayer of intercession. Following that Harold , Eisenstein, the Center's Director of Cultural Arts, made a dramatic reading of a Russian poem. "Babi
Yar." a town in which were buried thousands ot Jews who were mur¬ dered  during Nazi  occupation.
The Honorable James A. Rhodes. Governor ot Ohio, pledged lo intro¬ duce a resolution to the Ohio Legis¬ lature condemning Soviet ahit- semitism. No counrty has made more of a pretense of abolishing anti-semitism than Russia. Rhodes staled that we have a sacred ob¬ ligation to the brotherhood ot man.
Cantor Stanley Burstein chanted "Ana Vcchoach."
The featured speaker of the after¬ noon was Monroe R. Sheinberg, National Director of the Jewish War Veterans. Sheinberg was thrilled by the ybuth involvement in the cause. He feels that the Rus¬ sians are sensitive lo public opinion in this country, and saw that tact as a justification ot this protest and others .„like il throughout the country.
"It's a part ot us that dies with them," he said, referring to our brother Jews. Unless we in this country do something, the Russian Jew faces extinction in 10 lo 15 years.
Dr. Louis Nemzer. with the help of Irene Cohen and Stanlis'^ Cohen, read the list of resolutions, the official protests. Rabbi David Stavsky gave the benediction.
Previous lo the Rally, 175 teen¬ agers marched in silence from the Jewish Center to the Synagogue lo show the youth, of the Soviet Union that the youth of this country care about them.
Janoff as president, the association elected Leo Frisch, of the American Jewish World ot Minneapoiis.St. Paul., as honorary vice-president, citing him as "one ot the chief pioneers of American Jewijh jour-^ nalism."
Other ofticers chosen were: Mr. Rosenberg as first vice-president; Albert Golomb, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle and Mrs. Lee Neusner, Conneelcul Jewish Ledger, Hart- ford, vice-presidents; Eli R, Jacobs,. Buffalo Jewish Review, treasurer; Jimmy Wisch, Texas Post, secretary.
Elected lo the executive board were, Martin Korik. Jewish Record, Atlantic City; Conrad Isenberg, Jewish Civil Leader, Worcester; a;id Milton Pinsky, Ohio Jewish Chronicle, Columbus.
PROFESSOR MARVIN FOX WILL SPEAK AT COLUMBUS HEBREW SCHOOL GRADUATION
Pictured above at the Atlanta convention are, left to right: MUlun Pinsky, the Ohio Jewish Chronicle; Sam Massell, Jewish Vice Mayor of Atlanta, who gave the feature speech on "The Jew In Politics;" and Adolph l^osenberg, Southern Israelite.
The graduation exercises of the Columbus Hberew School will lake place Thursday. June 3, 8 p.m. al the Jewish Center Auditorium. . Bruce Allen. Lange and Renee Carol Rosen will be awarded dip¬ lomas from the high school depart¬ ment. They have completed the prescribed tour year course ot study.
The toUowing five students will be graduating from the elementary departi^enl, having completed a six years course ot study: Wayne Richard Clayman. Claudia Hara, Marshall Schecter. Marvin David Sigal and Ronald Jay Solomon.
The program for the graduailon i: as follows: National Anthem, Audinece—led by Mrs. Allan Schul¬ man; Welcome, Daniel Harrison- Principal; Greetings, Abe I. Yen¬ kin, prseidenl, United .Jewish Fund and Council; Hebrew songs, by Choral Group — dirceted .by J. Davidovich; Address — Renee C. Rosen>. Address—Bruce A.  Lange.
Elementary department Hebrew Valedictorian—Wayne R. Clayman, English Valedictorian—Marvin D. Sigal.
Commencement address. Prof. Marvin Fox; Hebrew songs, by Choral Group — directed by J. Davidovich; Award of diplomas. Arthur Kalz—president. Columbus Hebrew School; Presentation lo graduates. Mrs. D. Waitzman - president.  Hebrew School  P.T.A.
Mrs. Sam Grossman, chairmar^ of the Betty Covel Scholarship Awards, will make presentations lo: Renee C. Rosen for outstanding scholarship in the High^ school de¬ partment and Wayne C. Clayman for outstanding scholarship in the elementary department.
Prof. Marv Fox. depai'tmcnt ot Plylosophy. Ohio Stale University, will be the guest speaker.
He Received his B.A. and M'.A'. al Ihe Northwestern University. Ph.D al University of Chicago and Rabbi ot the Hebrew Theological College ot Chicago.
Prof. Fox taught al Northwestern University and since 1948 has been associated with OSU. He was Act- ting" Chairman, Depar_lment of Philosophy, Ohio State Universiiy, 1963-(i4.
¦ The singing of Halikvah by the audience and led by Mrs. Allan Schulman^ will conclude the pro¬ gram.
Immediately following the gradu¬ ation exercises, a reception will be given by the parents in honor ot the graduates. Relatives of' the gradu¬ ates, friends of the Hebrew School and Jewish education are invited.
Above are rr),embers of the planning committee of Women's American ORT for the showing of the Cantor Meisels production of "Broadway By The. Score." Standing, left lu right: Mrs. Ralph Kehr and Mrs. Albert Blank. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Marvin Frank, Mrs. Leon Schottenstein, and Mrs. Jerome Nakrin.
Women's American O.R.Ta Brings ^^Show Singers"
Dr. Marvin Fox
Women's American ORT will present Cantor Saul Meisels and his group of Show Singers in "Broad¬ way By The Score" on Saturday evening, June 12, 9 p.m. al Bexley High School.
, Mrs. Marvin Frank, president of ORT. has appointed the following women to serve on the committee for this performance: Mrs. Leon .Schollenstein and Mrs. Leon Sil¬ verstein. ticket chairmen; Mrs. Jerome Nakrin in charge of the program; Mrs. Albert Blank, pub¬ licity; and Mrs. Izadore Cabakoff in charge of usherettes.
A reception will be held back¬ stage after the performance honor¬ ing the cast. Mrs. Ralph Kehr will be in charge of the cast party and those   assisting  her  will   be  Mrs.
Robert Aronson, Mrs. Guillcrmo Acosta, Mrs. R. B. Chessin. Mrs. Stanford Glick. Mrs. David Glick¬ man. Mrs. Leon Gross, and Mrs. Meyer Weisman.
"Broadway By The Score" will be a performance of great show tunes and will include selections from  "Fiddler On The Roof."
Attendance for the show will be by reserved seats al $3.00 per ticket. A block of 50 tickets may be purchased  al  $2.75  each.
Members of the general com¬ munity are urged lo obtain tickets as soon as possible to insure choice location of seats. Reservations may be calling Mrs. Schottenstein. CL. 8-2383. or Mrs. Silverman, BE. 1-5174.