Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1966-12-09

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Vol.44. No. 50
' FRIpAY. DECEMBER 9. 1966 — 26 KISLEV 5727
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Local Leaders Head For UJA Conference
EDIXOB'S NOXB: The Colnmbm Commnnlty will probably bftve one ot ttB latgeat aitendancoa at tne ITnlted Jowlah Appeal Conference as reported  by Herman M Kate,
8resident ot VfBO, and Marvin I,. rlasBman, the 1907 Qeneral Cam- paiirn chairman. ( Those who will be present are Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Olasaman, Mr. and Mra. Sidney Blatt, Mr. and Mrs. Uerberlt H. Schlff, Mr. and Mra. .Millard Omnmlns, Mr. and Mrs. Herman M. Katz, Samnel M. Mel¬ ton, Mr, and Mra. Morrey Ii. Matt- ]in,.Mr. and Mrs. Everett Mattlln, Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Schottenstein, Mr. and Mrs. .Jerome Schottenstein, Mr. and Mrs, Noimaa Moisllsb, VFach S. Besler, Mr. and Mra. Gor¬ don Zaoha, Mr. and Mra. Barry Zacks,-Mrs, Aaron/Zacbs and Ben M. Mandelkom.
Leaders of Jewish communi¬ ties ta Europe and South Amer¬ ica have accepted tavitations to participate ta the United Jewish Appeal's; 29th- Annual National' Conference to be ¦ held at the New Xork Hilton Hotel on De¬ cember 9, 10 and 11, it was an¬ nounced by Max ONi. Fisher of Detroit, UJA General Chairman. The th^e-day sessions ta New York: will be attended by 2,500 Jewish leadiers, represehttag Jewish communities throughout the nation.
THDE PARraoiPAMNO rep¬ resentatives of the overseas Jew¬ ish ieominuriitles will taclude Sir Isaac Wolf soil of England, Pres¬ ident of the United Synagogue of Great Britain;.Baron Edmond dfe ;R6tiisclilld* of France,' Vice-
' pi-^siderit-'bf tiie^AUiwee^tsrael- ite Unlverseile; Max Maziti of Spain, President of the Jewish
, Community of Mladrld; Gunnar
¦ Josephson of Sweden, President of the Je\vish Community of Stockholm; Dr. Moyses Kauff- njan of Brazil, President of the Cdnfereracao Israelite, and Wer-
1 ner Naohman, representtag the Central Council of Jews ta West Germany,
Higlilight of the Conference will be the traditional Saturday night Banquet Session on De¬ cember 10, to be addressed by Vice President of ^e United States Hubert H. Humphrey; Foreign Minister of Israel Abba S, Eban, and Louis A. Ptacus, .ChaliTnan of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
THE CONFERENCE WiU cel¬ ebrate the 18th Anniversary of the State of Israel and will set the plans for the UJA's 1967 nationwide campaign. ^In setttag the United Jewish
' - Appealfa naitionwide fundraistag 'objectives for the coming year, tiie Corrference delegates will be guided by the report of the 200- taan 12th UJA Overseas Study iA^sion wliich recently complet¬ ed its on-the-spot survey of UJA- ' supported programs In Israel, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as by the budgetary presentations of the beneficiary agencies which Car¬ ry but these programs. The UJA agencies are:
1) TTie United Israel Appeal, Ine., which transmits funds to the, Jewish Agency for Israel ta Jerusalem, to transport, receive, settie and absorb immigrants coming to Israel; ,,2) The Jotat Distribution Com¬ mitter, which aids Jews ta 30 countries .including Israel where, it conducts a special wel- faife program for aged, chronic¬ ally ill'and handfcapped immi- gj^&itsi
3) The New York Association for" New Americans, which as¬ sists Jewish refugees to the Uni¬ ted States. ,
ipaB ' UNITED Hias Service, which provides for the resettle¬ ment of Jewish refugees to coun¬ tries other than Israel, and ORT, the Jewish global organization which provides vocational and technical tralntag for immigrants in Israel and needy youths ta I other countries, also benefit from the UJA campaign.
DISPMYS COMMEMORATE BOOK MONTH
"A Home Without Books Is like a Hbom Without Wip- dows' has beeii chosen ds the Columbus theme for the Annual Commemoration of Jewish Book Month which Is celebrated throughout the country. Viewing the display cur¬ rently exhibiting at the Downtown Columbus public Library are> left to right: Mrs. Stanley Skilken, chairman ol the Jewish Center Science League; Mrs. Gretchen DeWitt, chief reference librarian of the Columbus Public Library and consultant to the Jewish Center Library Committee; Mrs. Hal Tahe'nbaum, chairman of Jewish Book Month Plan¬ ning Committee; and Galvy E. Gordon, director of Public Information, Columbus Public Library. The Whitehall and Livingston Avenue branches will also have similar exhibits, as well as the Bexley Library. The Columbus Public Library has. also printed a special book list of boohs of Jevrtsh Interest.
Compiled from JTA and WUP Reports
JERVSAIiEM, (JTA) — The Israel Cabinet heard a report from Foreign Minister Abba Eban on developments in neighboring Jordan. Mr Eban reported that the situation in Jordan has now been stabilized, following the recent demonstrations there against King Hussein The Cabinet decided to take no action at this time on a pi:oposal made by United Nations Secretary-General U Thant for enlarging the role of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organiza¬ tion by adding a helicopter and a speedboat on Lake Tiber¬ ias to the UNTSO facilities;
ROMSi, (JTA) — Pope Paul VI, troubled by the growing tension th the Middle East, issued a special personal appeal for peace between Arabs and Jews, It was reported- in Vatican ckcles here. They said the appeal was slmilw, to previous messages pertaining to the Viet Nam situation. They said the message Indicated the gravity of, the develop¬ ing Middle East problem as seen by 1 ihe Pontiff, on the basis of private Information available to him In addition to published reports.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A bill guaranteeing religious freedom to the Jew's of Spain and to other noh-Cathollcs In that country, has been drafted for Introduction Into the Cortes (Parliament), it was reported Sunday from Madrid In a dispatch to The New York Times
.WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Rabbi Maurice N. Eisen- drath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Con¬ gregations, denounced a "growing element" among Jews who he said were part of the "white backlash" against Negroes. Addressing the opening session of the UAHC's board of tiustees here. Dr. Eisendrath told representatives of the Reform Synagogues that "we Jews are becoming victims of the wave of reaction against the Negro that is sweeping the nation." He cited the recenf Civilian Review Board question on which he estimated New York Jews voted 3 to 1 against the Board that would protect Negro rights.
NEW YORK, (WUP) — The Zionist Information Ser¬ vice reported this week that, on the basis of data received from Tunis, sonje ,150,000 Jews still remain in Arab coun¬ tries, with a large part of them living in poverty and fefar. The Moroccan Jewish communities list a population of 80,000. There,are 5,000 Jews In Egypt; Jn Lebanon^ 6,000, 3,000 of whom are refugees from Syria; 25,000 in Tunisia, and 5,000 In Syria.
LONG BEACH, NY., (JTA) — The 57th annual conven¬ tion of the Religious Zionists of Anierioa concluded here with! the adoptldriiof resolutions calling upon the Soviet feovernment^'tO'grftnt opportunities for.free and xmqUaJl- fled relIgious-,fre^om to Its 3,000,000 Jewish Inhabitants" and appealing; t{^' tl)e West German Government I'to adopt severe peasureSiito stamp out all vestiges of Nazism where- |verfouiid." Rabbi Herschel Schacter, of New York, was elected as,the national president of the organization for the coming year.
Zionist Head Keynote Speaker At Community Rally Sunday
iRabbl Herschel .Schacter,'president of the Religious Zionists of America,'will be the keynote speaker this Sunday, December 11, when;the Jewish community of Columbus joins in fi rally to Protest AntliSemitism ta the Soviet Union.
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•laie rally, sponsored by the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Fund, and Council, will be held at Congregation Tif¬ ereth Jsrael, 1354 E. Broad St., commenctag at 8 p.pi.
THlE PROTEST nieettag, which will be duplicated in a large number of the major cities of the United States and Can¬ ada, ^\vs;.ouit of the tacreaising alahn ¦ With which Jewish. cbi^^^ munitied , throughout ithe world view ttie siieht, vicious and efr fective wai^ In which Jewish life, Secular, communal and religious, is f)etag throttled; ta the Soviet Union, to'the point that the fu¬ ture existence of a Jewish cul¬ ture ta that land is in great peril.
Cotaddent with tile rally. Gov¬ ernor James A. Rhodes of Ohio; is issuing. a Proclamation which will 'state the concern of the Government and the people of this state over the disastrous sit¬ uation faced! by the Jewish peo¬ ple of Russia,
RiUBBI SOHAdl^ who has
been the spiritual leader of Mos- holu Jewish Center, Bronx, liTew
Mrs. Carl Mellman is chair¬ man of the Program committee and, Mrs. Bernard Yenkin of the Arrangements comniittee.
Rabbi  Herschel  Schacter
York, stace 1946, is currently the chahman of the Presidium ot the Religious Zionists of Ajner- ica, Mizrachl Hapoel Hamizrachl.
• 'He has visited Israel many thnes, !and has travelled to many ]>emote Jewish^.communities m tihie J'ar East,.'Australia,: India and-..the Irori Curtain; Nations, He recently visited the SateUite Countries and the Soviet Union, and is particularly well qualified to speak, at first hand, of the plight, of Russian Jewry,
.A ^PROMINENT leader ta the Anierican Orijhodox rabbinate^ he is a former president of the Rabbinic Assembly of Yeshiva University, a promtaent niem. ber of the Executive Committee of the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the National Jew¬ ish Welfare Board, and of the Rabbtalcai Council of America, as well as of various other reli- giovs, educational and Zionist orgardzations.
Rabbi Stdiaeter gained w le fame' tmd recognition for is historic achievements as an Army chaplain ta combat during World War U, and was the first Jewish chaplain to aid the vic¬ tims of barbarism' inthe: notor¬ ious Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
THE FROOBAM wiU also fea¬ ture an tavocation by,Rabbi Na¬ than Zelizer of Cohgregation Tifereth Israel and, a benediction by Rabbi Bennett Hermann of Temple Beth "nkvah. Cantor Phillip Gellmah of Agudas Achim Congregation will light the Men¬ orah; the Tifereth Israel choh:, directed by Saul Wachs, will offer several selections, and UJFC Vice-President,. Edward Schleztager, will extend greet¬ ings on behalf of the United Jew¬ ish Fimd and Council.
Lawrence SChaffer has' been named chairman of the Protest Demonstration; Hersh Adler stein, Associate Director of the Community. Rielations C6mmi)> tee of the UJFC, Is staff coordi¬ nator for the demonstration, and may be contacted at 221-5417 for further Information.
Irvtag Howe
Dr, Howe To Open Series
Mrs, H^irold Tanenbaum, chab:- man pf the Je\yish Book Month l^iahhing -Committee, an* Dr, - Martta D. Keller, Jewish Center Lecture Series Planning Com¬ mittee Chairman, announced that the opentag event of the Gordon Cultural Series will fea¬ ture the principle presentation by Dr. Irvtagi' Howe "Portreiit of a World," a mld-20th centiwy view of the literary figures of the eastern European Jewish center.
Irvtag Howe is a professor, Department of English at Hun¬ ter College, New York City. He was formerly chairmhn of the English Department at Brandeis University and has taught also at Stanford, Indiana, Washing¬ ton and Wayne Stt^te.
AS A NATIONALLY recog¬ nized literary, figure, and a man of letters. Dr. Howe was award¬ ed the Bolltagen Fellowship for
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CHARITY NEWSIES DRIVE TOMORROW
These members of the Charity Newsleis will be spreai throughout the Eastern section of the city, Saturday, Deeem' ber 10, selling newspapers and asking fpr your cohtributlons that will be used "100 percent" tb purchase clothing for needy school-age children In Columbus and Franklin County. Seated, left to right, are Adam Maurer, Walter Grelle, Donald Boljle, Robert Bauer, and Chester Sherman. Standing, left to right; Eugene Scholz, Alan Clark, Jerry O'Shaughnessy, Lovils Draudt, George Monroe, Marvin Glass- man, John Schumlck;, Ray MoFayden, Thomas Beck and ¦John Klenle.; Last year alone, 7821 boys and girls were out¬ fitted froni 2426 families, In the Newsies, Headquarters ''st9re," 7i^ .S.Wgh. St,
College Students Denied Some Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C—"Some University administrations rec¬ ognize the power of their stu¬ dents and so the colleges deny rights to the youths to avoid risking the results of student power."
Dr. Abraham Kaplan, a pro¬ fessor of philosophy at the Uni¬ versity of MChigan, told the an¬ nual meeting of the B'nal B'rith Youth Commission here that pro¬ tests by college students against^ the class ranktag system of the Draft and against the high min¬ imum voting age of 21 are "at¬ tempts to obtain reasonable ta- dividual rights which are now denied to them."
'"iRdNlOAlxv," Dr, Kaplan continued, "some high sdiool student councils exercise more power ta administrative dec!- * sions ,than do some college stu¬ dents because high school stu¬ dents are not so widely feared by school administrators,"
Dr. Kaplan received the Sam Beber Disttagulshed Alumnus' Award of the p'nai B'rith Youth Organization,' world's largest Jewish youth' organization. He was a member of the organiza¬ tion in Duluth, Minnesota ' 35 years ago.' Time Magaztae re-' cently described him as one of the top ten university professors ta the United States.